HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: kipp@warp.asd.sgi.com (Kipp Hickman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.apps,comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: strange problem with command execution at xwsh startup
Date: 5 Jan 93 21:37:11 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: warp.asd.sgi.com


In article <1ictqqINNk4a@tamsun.tamu.edu>, vamsee@abgen.tamu.edu writes:
> %xwsh -e rlogin <any-host>
> 
> The above command works on this SGI (Indigo 4.0.5A). But,
> 
> %xwsh -e /bin/ls
This will work, it just exit's immediately after finishing.  Try adding
the "-hold" option if you want wsh to hang around after finishing monitoring
the subprocess.
> %xwsh -e cd /usr/people/vamsee/junk
> %xwsh -e chdir /usr/people/vamsee/junk
> %xwsh -e cd /usr/people/vamsee/junk; vi <somefile>
These will never work because there is no such program called "cd".  When
you give xwsh the "-e" option you are changing its notion of the shell to
use to a specific program.  The arguments you give are just exec'd, not
run through another shell.

					kipp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Clock rates in MH?
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 07:05:10 GMT

In <C0GEKI.3HI@news.cso.uiuc.edu> dweber@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Daniel Weber) writes:
| Is there a simple way of determining the clock rate in MH on an arbitrary
| SGI platform?  I want to use pixie and prof to profile code that I've 
| written, but need to use the "-clock MH" option in order to get the summaries
| in seconds instead of cycles (according to the "Compiler Guide").  Any
| info would be appreciated.  Thanks!

Use hinv, since you don't seem to need it programmatically.
See 'man getinvent' if you do need it in a program, and 
/usr/include/sys/invent.h
--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
From: beyer@bflsgu.fl.bs.dlr.de (Ralf Beyer DLR)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Re:  Problems with blink()  (Help!)
Date: 7 Jan 93 10:41:12 GMT


	I've been having problems making blink() work on a Crimson running IRIX
	Release 4.0.5 System V.  The problem is that blinking works, but it
	blinks the color in the colormap with BLACK always, independently of
	the red, green, blue, entries in:  blink(rate,index,red,green,blue).
	
This is a known bug in IRIX 4.0.5. Someone promised it will be fixed
in IRIX 4.0.6. Others said "wait for IRIX 5.0".

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Ralf Beyer
German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR), Institute for Flight
Guidance, Flughafen, D-3300 Braunschweig, Fed. Rep. of Germany
Internet: beyer@bflsgu.fl.bs.dlr.de (EARN/BITNET: fl17@dlrvmbs.bitnet) 
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From: HERBER@fnal.fnal.gov (Randolph J. Herber, CD/DCD/SPG, x2966)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: RE: lp unable to access files
Date: 7 Jan 93 23:02:30 GMT

+From: Jeffrey Scott Traigle <ce095@cleveland.freenet.edu>
+Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
+Subject: lp unable to access files
+Date: 7 Jan 93 19:31:56 GMT

+This printing stuff is really causing me problems. :) This one
+should be easier to answer (hopefully) than my previously mentioned
+one.

+For some reason, lp can only access (and hence print) files that are
+world readable. How can this be remedied?

Use input redirection ( < ).

`lp' is another uid.  It should only be able to read world readable files.
It can spool stdin.

Randolph J. Herber, herber@fnalf.fnal.gov, +1 708 840 2966
(Speaking for myself and not for US, US DOE, FNAL nor URA.)
(Product, trade, or service marks herein belong to their respective owners.)
From: zsd@axe.drea.dnd.ca (Jim Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: X and/or powerflip and/or Elan (and/or user?) brain damage
Date: 11 Jan 93 22:20:44 GMT

With an Indigo R3000 Elan running 4.0.5F:

I've had problems when using the powerflip / SGI logo combination as the
screen saver.  Occasionally, this program hangs and I have to reset
the graphics system.  After describing my woes to the hot line (sorry,
I guess that's an old name?), I've gotten two new graphics boards and
one new CPU board.

Since the new CPU board (most recent change), it has not yet hung the
graphics system, but it only happened sporadically anyway.

Today, I wanted to let it run overnight by starting it from
my toolchest.  The line in the toolchest is

    "SGI Logo"          f.checkexpr "test -x /usr/sbin/haven -a -x /usr/demos/bin/powerflip -a -r /usr/demos/data/yaodl/logo.ydl" "/usr/sbin/haven /usr/demos/bin/powerflip -z /usr/demos/data/yaodl/logo.ydl"

But instead of the logo appearing for a moment (right after I choose
that entry from the toolchest) and then going away, a window occupying
about 95% of the screen stays there.  (This window, except for not
occupying the whole screen, looks like what one expects to see when
this screen saver is in operation.)  In /usr/adm/SYSLOG I find

Jan 11 16:52:55 axe Xsession: zsd: X Error of failed request:  BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
Jan 11 16:52:55 axe Xsession: zsd:   Major opcode of failed request:  20 (X_GetProperty)
Jan 11 16:52:55 axe Xsession: zsd:   Resource id in failed request:  0x34
Jan 11 16:52:55 axe Xsession: zsd:   Serial number of failed request:  160
Jan 11 16:52:55 axe Xsession: zsd:   Current serial number in output stream:  160

Can anyone shed some light on why this is happening?  In previous
cases, logging out and in again fixes (temporarily) this problem.
But what is causing this problem?  Should I ask for a new backplane?
Maybe a new power supply?  ("Collect the whole set.")

Thanks.

			Jim Diamond
			zsd@axe.drea.dnd.ca
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Re: problem with sysmeter on an Indigo
Date: 6 Jan 93 21:58:11 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <8951@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com> shc@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com (S.H. Couturie) writes:
| >It is a bug in 405F that shows up (mostly on systems with Elan graphics)
| >on some configurations.  It will probably not be fixed before the
| >next major release (it still hasn't been tracked down).
| 
| It also occurs on our several R4000 Indigos with Entry graphics, at least when
| I "rup" them.  Same error.
| 
| While not a critical problem for this purpose, I suppose that rstatd
| being broken might break something else, or be part of a larger
| problem....  I'd like to see a fix for this sooner than "the next major
| release" (I've been seeing that as the time for fixes for years now
| :-)).

Nope, it is confined to rpc.rstatd; sar -d (which has very
similar code) works fine on the failing systems.  It affects
sysmeter, and rup, and probably a few local apps here and there,
but they are all in the nature of things that are sort of nice
to have, but not criticl.

| BTW: When IS "the next major release"?

The announced IRIX 5.0 is 'sometime in calendar 93', and nothing
more concrete than that, as far as I know.
--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
From: ercolessi@uimrl3.mrl.uiuc.edu (furio ercolessi)
Subject: Re: any update on plans for {fortran,C} support of 128-bit floats?
Reply-To: ercolessi@uimrl3.mrl.uiuc.edu (furio ercolessi)
Organization: MRL - UIUC
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 02:58:03 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.005916.800@odin.corp.sgi.com>, mash@mash.wpd.sgi.com (John R. Mashey) writes:
|>In article <3236@contex.contex.com>, frank@marvin.contex.com (Frank Perdicaro) writes:
|>|> In article <1992Dec20.004150.14551@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> penev@venezia.rockefeller.edu writes:
|>|> >Mark Bartelt (sysmark@helios.physics.utoronto.ca) wrote:
|>|> >: Nearly a year ago I groused a bit about the fact that neither C nor
|>|> >: fortran (under IRIX 4.0.x) support 128-bit floats, and that (worse!)
|> 
|> [discussion on tradeoffs to pay to have 128-bit FP on the processor]

I would also answer 'Faster 64-bit' rather than '128-bit'.
But if i remember correctly the original post (there is a bit of it above), the
question was "can we have 128-bit float support in your compilers" ?

I believe that having software support would still be very useful for
development of numerical algorithms.  sometimes you need a 'reference run'
to check the stability of differential equation solvers or whatever.
you may not care if this reference run is slow.  

so i would say, thanks hardware guys, don't worry about that,
and perhaps it's now the time for compiler folks to jump on this thread :-)

--
Furio Ercolessi
Materials Research Laboratory           |   Intl School for Advanced Studies
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign   |   Trieste, Italy
furio@uiuc.edu                          |   furio@sissa.it
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
From: eng10312@nusunix1.nus.sg (NEO LIN CHEN)
Subject: Re: motif and pipes
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 05:41:44 GMT

just trying
From: kermit@BRL.MIL ( Chuck Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: [Reinhard Doelz:  Re: help]
Date: 11 Jan 93 06:04:45 GMT


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Subject: Re:  help
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Hello, 

sorry to inquire again but I have a customer here who cannot access 
copp.sys.sgi and would like to get it from mailing lists. He seems to 
remember that info-iris@brl.mil was mentioned once. From the help reply 
I cannot conclude whether the list is still active at brl.mil. 

Thanks 
Reinhard 

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From: englund@gdstech.grumman.com (Dave Englund)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: 4Dgifts: Shared Memory example
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:19:49 GMT

I'm looking at the sample codes in the
/usr/people/4Dgifts/examples/unix  directory. The one problem I'm
having is with the "shmem1" and "shmem2" example. This does nothing. I
looked at the code and see that something is supposed to print
somewhere, but that's not what happens. I'm running under 4.0.4 on a
Crimson XS24. 
All of the other samples in this directory seem to work fine. Any
words of wisdom? Thanks in advance...

			Dave Englund | #include <stdio.h>
	 englund@gdstech.grumman.com | main() 
		       Grumman Corp. | {
	   Corporate Research Center | 	  printf("hello, world\n");
			Bethpage, NY | }
From: beyer@bflsgu.fl.bs.dlr.de (Ralf Beyer DLR)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Re:  Help needed(2): Xlib
Date: 7 Jan 93 11:47:53 GMT


	
	I tried this with various other applications (all XLib-based) with
	the very same crash at the same point. In each case, XLoadFont() goes
	through allright. XQueryFont() does not. XLoadQueryFont() does not.
	
The following code taken from one of my programs which runs on SGI with
the display being the same SGI, on SGI with the display being another
SGI and on SGI with the display being a SUN. SGI OS is 4.0.5, SUN OS
is 4.1.1 (Open Windows). May be this is of any help.

Regards

Ralf Beyer

----------------------------------------------------------------------
typedef struct
	{
	short	number;
	short	input;				/* input channel */
	Widget	parent;
	int	xrel;
	int	yrel;
	short	fontindx;
	short	foreground;
	short	background;
	char	string[20];
	Widget	widget;
	short	fontsizeclass;
	} LAbel;
	
char	*fontname[NO_OF_FONTS] = {
		"*courier-bold-o-*-80-*",
		"*courier-bold-o-*-100-*",
		"*courier-bold-o-*-120-*",
		"*courier-bold-o-*-140-*",
		"*courier-bold-o-*-180-*",
		"*courier-bold-o-*-240-*",
		"*courier-bold-r-*-80-*",
		"*courier-bold-r-*-100-*",
		"*courier-bold-r-*-120-*",
		"*courier-bold-r-*-140-*",
		"*courier-bold-r-*-180-*",
		"*courier-bold-r-*-240-*"};

void CreateLabel(llabel)

LAbel	*llabel;

	{
	XmString	label_string;
	XmFontList	fontlist = NULL;
	XFontStruct	*lfont = NULL;
	XmStringCharSet	charset = (XmStringCharSet) XmSTRING_DEFAULT_CHARSET;
	Arg		args[10];
	Cardinal	n;

	/* Return if this widget is disabled by dummy parent (app_shell) */

	if (llabel->parent == app_shell)
		{
		if (debug > 0)
			printf("CreateLabel: dummy parent\n");
		return;
		}

	/* Return if the widget has no parent (error) */

	if (llabel->parent == NULL)
		{
		if (debug > 0)
			printf("CreateLabel: no parent\n");
		return;
		}

	lfont = XLoadQueryFont(XtDisplay(app_shell),fontname[llabel->fontindx]);
	if (!lfont)
		printf("CreateLabel: unable to load font %s\n",
			fontname[llabel->fontindx]);
		else
		fontlist = XmFontListCreate(lfont,charset);

	label_string = XmStringCreateLtoR(llabel->string,charset);

	n = 0;
	XtSetArg(args[n],XmNfontList,fontlist); n++;
	XtSetArg(args[n],XmNleftAttachment,XmATTACH_POSITION); n++;
	XtSetArg(args[n],XmNbottomAttachment, XmATTACH_POSITION); n++;
	XtSetArg(args[n],XmNleftPosition,llabel->xrel); n++;
	XtSetArg(args[n],XmNbottomPosition,llabel->yrel); n++;
	XtSetArg(args[n],XmNlabelString,label_string); n++;
	llabel->widget = XmCreateLabel(llabel->parent,llabel->string,args,n);
	StoreWidgetColors(llabel->widget,llabel->foreground,llabel->background,0);
	XtManageChild(llabel->widget);

	ichan[llabel->input] = llabel->widget;

	if (label_string) XmStringFree(label_string);
	if (fontlist) XmFontListFree(fontlist);
	return;
	}

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Ralf Beyer
German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR), Institute for Flight
Guidance, Flughafen, D-3300 Braunschweig, Fed. Rep. of Germany
Internet: beyer@bflsgu.fl.bs.dlr.de (EARN/BITNET: fl17@dlrvmbs.bitnet) 
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From: mtoy@mycool.asd.sgi.com (Michael Toy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Re: X and/or powerflip and/or Elan (and/or user?) brain damage
Summary: known bug, not fixed until 5.X
Date: 12 Jan 93 01:03:57 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: mycool.asd.sgi.com

In article <34956@adm.brl.mil> zsd@axe.drea.dnd.ca (Jim Diamond) writes:
>... /usr/adm/SYSLOG I find
>Jan 11 16:52:55 axe Xsession: zsd: X Error of failed request:  BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
>Jan 11 16:52:55 axe Xsession: zsd:   Major opcode of failed request:  20 (X_GetProperty)
>Jan 11 16:52:55 axe Xsession: zsd:   Resource id in failed request:  0x34
>Jan 11 16:52:55 axe Xsession: zsd:   Serial number of failed request:  160
>Jan 11 16:52:55 axe Xsession: zsd:   Current serial number in output stream:  160
>
>Can anyone shed some light on why this is happening?  In previous
>cases, logging out and in again fixes (temporarily) this problem.
>But what is causing this problem?  Should I ask for a new backplane?
>Maybe a new power supply?  ("Collect the whole set.")

This is a bug in the X server.  When it gets in this mode, the only
solution is to kill the X server and the new one will come up
in the non-buggy state.  I am not responsible for the X server,
so I am not sure about this, but I believe this is not fixed in 4.anything.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
From: crg@stat.psu.edu (Colin R Goodall)
Subject: clock(3F)
Organization: Statistics Department, Penn State University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 05:30:32 GMT

Can someone tell me please how to get millisecond resolution
system clock times from a Fortran call?   The Fortran library
libU77.a includes only an integer-second resolution function,
time (3F).

Thanks, Colin Goodall
crg@stat.psu.edu
From: doelz@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Reinhard Doelz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Status of mailing lists?
Date: 7 Jan 93 06:50:12 GMT


IN the CFV there is a mentioning on 
the fact that this mail address will return 
a reply which mentiones all the comp.sys.sgi subgroups. 
Lets see... 

Regards 
Reinhard 

(Posting for a friend without NEWS access). 

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From: ben@rex.uokhsc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Re: How can I rlogin with the DISPLAY envar propagated?
Date: 8 Jan 93 03:05:44 GMT
Organization: Health Sciences Center, University of Oklahoma

penev@venezia (Penio Penev) writes:

>Hi sgi netters,

>I work on a X terminal, connected to a network of Indigos (4.0.1) and a
>Crimson(4.0.4). Usually I connect to a certain host and start Xsgi and 4Dwm
>from it. As long as I work on the same host, My DISPLAY points
>correctly to my Xterminal. When I wont to do computations on a
>different machine though, I have to rlogin there and start and monitor
>the job. The problem is that I no longer have my DISPLAY properly
>pointed at and certain X features (for example the -keymap option of
>xwsh) do not work.

       Why not use the xon(1) script found on many archives --
it starts up a remote xterm pretty nicely. 
	xon remotehost xterm -ls
would fire an xterm back to your Xterminal.
-- 
Benjamin Z. Goldsteen
From: englund@gdstech.grumman.com (Dave Englund)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: PVM and XDR routines
Date: 6 Jan 93 14:42:36 GMT

I'm running on a Crimson under 4.0.4. (I usually forget to say that)

Has anyone had any success using the PVM library on SGI machines.
Getting the pvmd demon running was no problem, but the example
applications included with the distribution use the XDR library
routines from Sun. Are these libraries public domain? If so, how can I
get them? If not, what do I do now? Thanks for any help you can give me!

			Dave Englund | #include <stdio.h>
	 englund@gdstech.grumman.com | main() 
		       Grumman Corp. | {
	   Corporate Research Center | 	  printf("hello, world\n");
			Bethpage, NY | }
From: gml4410@ggr.co.uk (Lack Mr G M)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Does an Indigo make read-only text segments?
Date: 12 Jan 93 02:41:57 GMT


     Perhaps  someone  can answer this for me.  If I write the following
(note that I *wouldn't* write it except to highlight a problem!)  in  cc
on an Indigo it will actually *execute* without raising an error! 

>   strcpy("read-only", "zz01");

The assembler output from the compiler shows that the "read-only" string
is placed in the .rdata section (ie. it should be read-only data). 
However, I am allowed to gaily write over it.  

     Why is the read-only attribute ignored????

     This is on an Indigo at Irix 4.0.1.


-------------------------- Gordon Lack ----------------------------------
The contents of this message *may* reflect my personal opinion.  They are
*not* intended to reflect those of my employer, or anyone else.
From: tohanson@gonzo.lerc.nasa.gov (Jeff Hanson)
Subject: Re: making inst distributions (was: Re: ghostscript)
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:04:00 GMT

I agree 100% with Thomas and would like to suggest an addition to inst,
while were on the subject.  It would be nice if administrators could add
files to the list that inst has of configuration files.  This way we can
use inst to control our configurations as well as those SGI supports.
-- 
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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 Sverdrup Technology, NASA Lewis Research Center Group
 NASA Lewis Research Center, MS 86-4, Cleveland, Ohio 44135
 Telephone - (216) 433-2284  Fax - (216) 433-2182
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.mail.misc
From: eng10312@nusunix1.nus.sg (NEO LIN CHEN)
Subject: Re: Zmailer-2.2:  does it work w/IRIX4.0.*?
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 05:35:48 GMT

Just trying out!

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
From: syscrc@pickle.gsu.edu (Randy Carpenter)
Subject: imgsnap problems with monitor refresh rate
Organization: Georgia State University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:26:34 GMT

We've noticed gaps in our screen snaps (of molecules which are mostly
vertical from the top of the screen to bottom) when using imgsnap.  When
using the old snapshot program the screen snaps come out fine.  Our guess is
there's a problem with syncing up with the monitor refresh rate.  Has anyone
else noticed this problem?

-- 
===========================================================================
Randy Carpenter                    rcarpent@gsu.edu          % Got a light?
Georgia State University           (404) 651-2648            No match.
Wells Computer Center                                        %
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc,comp.graphics,rec.video
From: dave@imax.imax.com (Dave Martindale)
Subject: Looking for software to control LVR-3000 / LVR-5000 / LVR-6000
Organization: Imax Corporation, Mississauga Canada
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:04:06 GMT

We just received a Sony LVR-3000N WORM videodisc.  It has an RS-232
port specifically intended for computer control of its functions.
We also have the manual describing the serial protocol used to
control it.  However, before writing software to do this from scratch,
I thought I'd ask if anyone out in Usenet-land already had software
to control the unit, and would be willing to give it to me.

The LVR-3000 is a new single-box recorder that provides most of the
functions of the older two-box LVR-5000 (or 6000, the PAL version).
So software to control either of the older units should be usable on
the 3000 as well.

So, if you have control software for this recorder, and are willing
to give it to others, please send me mail.

(For those who are curious, the Sony LVR family is a time-compression
component video recorder, great for single-frame recording without
the wear of shuttling tape back and forth.  It accepts composite,
S-video, component (Y, R-Y, B-Y) and RGB as input, generating any of
those as output too.)

	Dave, dave@imax.com
From: karron@karron.med.nyu.edu (Dan Karron (karron@nyu.edu))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Re:  Problems with blink()  (Help!)
Date: 8 Jan 93 03:58:19 GMT

Well, that is High Tech for you... Blink and you loose~!

| karron@nyu.edu (e-mail alias )         Dan Karron, Ph.D.,Research Associate|
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