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From: lim@cs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: SGI + video equipment
Date: 26 Sep 92 22:42:28 GMT
Reply-To: lim@cs.umass.edu ()
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst


My lab is looking to set up our 340GTX w/VideoCreator for video recordings and
I'd like to get some comments about the other hardware we may need to
purchase, such as VLAN receivers, VCRs, and video disk players. We may also be
getting Wavefront's Personal Visualizer and Video Composer to handle our
animation.  I'd appreciate it if anyone who has experience with this setup
could provide me with information on the cost and capabilities of the
hardware/software. Thanks.


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             Jonathan Lim          Computer Vision Research Group
           lim@cs.umass.edu    University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: story@sgi.com (David (Duis) Story)
Subject: Re: Advise on a paintjet printer
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 92 01:52:17 GMT

In article <1992Sep30.140216.20977@odin.corp.sgi.com> neafie@maxum.dallas.sgi.com (Terry Neafie) writes:
>Can anybody recommend a Paintjet printer for an Indigo?

With SGI's new Impressario print software, you can drive an HP DeskJet
500C in full (well, 3-bit :) color with PostScript, SGI Image files,
and ISO text.  

David Story                        	        Silicon Graphics, Inc.
story@bent.wpd.sgi.com				Mountain View, California

I've changed my name, so duis@sgi.com may bounce, please use story@sgi.com.
From: mcgraw@fermat.gte.com (Stuart McGraw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Using the Indigo centronics port
Date: 2 Oct 92 12:37:56 GMT
Organization: GTE Labs, Waltam MA USA

Hope I'm not beating a dead horse here but....

In article <qift7es@zuni.esd.sgi.com> Dave Olson writes:
| In <2568@ceylon.gte.com> mcgraw@fermat.gte.com (Stuart McGraw) writes:
| | 	I have some questions about using the centronics printer port 
| | on an Indigo.  What I want to do is use the centronics port as a general 
| | parallel i/o port, i.e read (and possibly later write) 8 bits of data 
| | from an external device of my own contruction.
| 
| Can't do it.  The logic isn't there in the chip.
 
Not even if I supply the strobe/ack signals etc?  I quite willing to
make my device look as much like a printer as neccessary.  (I shouldn't 
have used the word "general" in my posting.)

| | So to this end, can anyone tell me (or point me to) a description of 
| | the centronics protocol?  
| 
| Unfortunately, there isn't really one, since it isn't an official
| standard of any kind.  That is why so many implementations are
| incompatible in one way or another.

I'd be happy with just a description of what sort of control signals 
are neccessary to get the Indigo one to read or write.
 
| | The man plp manpage gives the signal assignments for pins 1-31.  If
| | the DB25 is the printer port, then how are the 31 pins mapped to the 
| | DB25 pins?  
| 
| The 'NC' pins at the end are the ones not on the DB25.

What DB25 pin is the reset (pin 31 in the manpage) signal line on?

And thanks again...
							-- Stu
-- 
--
Stuart McGraw           sjm0@gte.com
GTE Labs, Waltham MA    mcgraw@hilbert.gte.com
(617) 466-2525          {hsuc6,harvard}!bunny!hilbert.gte.com!mcgraw
"Just because a program gives the right answers, doesn't mean it's right."
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: bug in SCSI tape driver or tps man page ?
Date: 3 Oct 92 02:19:04 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <3007@contex.contex.com> jeff@hobbes.contex.com (Jeff Carey) writes:
| Is there, in fact, a comprehensive document describing expected behavior?

No.  Just the jag and tpsc man pages.  Jeremy and I discussed this, and he
thinks I was the one who argued for keeping the 4.0.5 behavior (which
is quite possible, I just don't remember it; I can't think now why I
would have done so...).  A work around is to do your WEOF, then an MTBSF
(followed by another MTFSF, if you want to be at the original tape
position).  That will prevent the extra FM's from being written;
an explict MTREW will also prevent it.

What we *tried* to implement was for the driver to match as closely
as possible what almost all tape hardware does in terms of
behavior at FM's, etc., with some limited exceptions for compatibility
with our older driver.

| For example, here is another unexpected...
| 
| If I have an ANSI-type tape with:
| 
| seven 80-byte blocks,
| a filemark,
| ten 16K-byte blocks,
| a filemark,
| six 80-byte blocks,
| and two ending filemarks,
| 
| where should I expect for the tape to end up if I, from the BOT,
| read seven 80 byte blocks, then forward space three (3) filemarks.

If you really read exactly 7 80 byte blocks (and no more), then after
the read, you should be on the BOT side of the FM.  If you *tried*
to read an 8th block, you would then be on the EOT side of the FM,
because that is how tape drive hardware works.

Anyway, assuming you did exactly what you said, then you should,
in fact, be between the two final filemarks.

| Logically, it seems I would end up between the last two ending filemarks.
| But, in practice it seems I am after the last of both filemarks.
| Does this make sense...?
| 
| On another note, does SGI support any Cipher-made half inch, 9 track tape
| drives?

No.  It is possible that by adding an entry to /usr/sysgen/master.d/tpsc,
modeled on the Kennedy entry, you could make it work.  I seem to remember
hearing that some customers had gotten that to work.
--
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
From: tjh@world.std.com (Tim Hall)
Subject: cord/ftoc
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 20:59:36 GMT

I've been trying to get cord to work.  All I've been able to get it to
do is dump core.  I followed the cord man page of: 1) compile program,
2) pixie program, 3) run pixied program, 4) profile pixied program with
-feedbak, 5) recompile original program with -cord -feedbak etc. etc.
I've also tried to run cord by hand using ftoc.  Still dumps.

The ftoc man page gives a different sequence on how to create a cord-ed
file.  However, using the given flags, the pixied file dumps core.
Not suprising since the binary from cc is not marked as executable.

I've tried various combinations I could get from the man pages.  Tried
with/without shared libraries.  Any ideas?


-- 
-Tim Hall
I felt the water coming up to my chin, up to my nose.  When I woke up
my body was all greasy from the holy oil.  I remember being disappointed
I was still alive.  -Harry Call
From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Showcase and Text Templates
Date: 6 Oct 92 23:04:59 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA


In article <1992Oct5.083714.27818@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>, P.County@latrobe.edu.au writes:
> A quick question for showcase experts ..
> 
> I want to create a text template, similar to the supplied
> "document" template and then flow between the text objects
> where the objects are split over a number of pages ... eg:
> page 1 has text block, page 2 has a graphic diagram (another
> template type) and page 3 has another text object.  I would
> then like to flow text from page 1 to page 3.
> If the template is created to try and automatically create
> a new page with text object and then flow it grumbles because
> page 2 already has an object ... if you create a text
> template without any flow characteristics and then, after
> applying that template to page 1 and page 3, you try and
> flow between them showcase grumbles about not being able
> to modify a template. Ummm ... seems like a simple thing to
> do .... what is the solution.  I want to use a template as
> I can then apply a common size of text object to the pages.


This does look like a problem.

One way you can approach this problem is to do the following:

	1.  Using the template gizmo, create the text
	    template for your document, with an arrangement
	    in the template which links each new text
	    block with the previous page.

	2.  Choose your template, click "Apply to page" and
	    edit the text portion of your document.

	3.  When done editing your text, choose "New Page",
	    click "Clear from page" in the Template Gizmo,
	    answer the pop up saying you wish to clear the
	    template from this page only.

	4.  Edit your full-page artwork.

	5.  Choose Rearrange Pages from the Page menu.
	    Drag the page with artwork to the place where
	    it should appear, and release.  It will be
	    inserted between the pages of text, and the
	    text should flow properly across the artwork
	    page.

There's probably an easier way to do this, but this one ought
to work.  Hope this info helps.

--
Michael Portuesi   Silicon Graphics, Inc.   portuesi@sgi.com
From: beyer@bflsgu.fl.bs.dlr.de (R. Beyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  blanktime
Date: 30 Sep 92 09:46:28 GMT


	I just observed that blanktime 0 is being ignored
	if I am not logged into console (with pandora up).

Use setenv DIPSPLAY :0 before giving the blanktime command.

Regards


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From: weissman@pianoforte.esd.sgi.com (Terry Weissman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: xmh on indigo
Date: 2 Oct 92 23:50:59 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA


In article <32752@adm.brl.mil>, richard@iris26.biosym.com writes:
> 
> I am using an Indigo running 4.02 and more recently 4.05 IRIX.
> My problem is with the mail handler xmh....
> 
> I have a problem with xmh that no one here can explain.
> Xmh worked great for about 3 weeks, both receiving and
> sending mail.  Then suddenly it stopped sending mail.
> Now I read mail in xmh, and use the xmh Reply and Compose
> command like normal.  However, when I hit Send, no mail
> gets sent.

Try sending a message to yourself using the mh "comp" command.  (Just
type "comp" at the shell, fill in the message, and type "send" to the
"What now?" prompt.)  If it doesn't work, it may give you an error
message that will give a hint as to why xmh isn't working.

- Terry
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: senseman@ricky.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman)
Subject: Network Problem
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 03:52:35 GMT

Last Friday, some bozos worked on the campus network and now
we have an interesting problem (grrrrr..)

Previously, the campus name server (utsa86) was on "this side" of the
gateway (utsa2) now its on the "other side". In order to reach this
machine I had to add the following lines to "/etc/init.d/network.local":

case "$1" in
        'start' )
                /usr/etc/route add net default 129.115.3.253 1
                /usr/etc/route add utsa86 utsa2 1           

As I understand it, since the University has a class B network, 
the router simply assumes that since utsa86 and my machine had
the same pre-fix (129.115.*.*) that they were both "local" machines
and the packets from my machine for utsa86 were not being passed 
through the gateway. (Does that make any sense to anyone?)

Whatever is going on, adding the line "route add utsa86 utsa2 1"
now gets me to the name server fine -- BUT -- now my machine takes A LONG
TIME to bring up because it can't find the name server when it
reads "/usr/etc/resolv.conf" :

nameserver 129.115.1.245
hostresorder   bind  local
domain lab                 

(The IP address of utsa86 is 129.115.1.245). At least that's what I
think is the problem because if you remove the nameserver line
the machine boots normally.

I quickly looked through the network script in "/etc/init.d/network"
and I didn't see any obvious mention of "resolver" or "resolv.conf".
Where in the start-up script does the file "/etc/resolv.conf" get
read -- (assuming it does)?

So I'm guessing that the machine (Indigo running 4.0.5) is trying
to look for its name server BEFORE I can manually enter it's
route and that's while it takes so long to boot. Is this a reasonable
hypothesis? If it is, what's the best thing to do short of making
my machine a name server ;)

Thanks.
-- 
David M. Senseman, Ph.D.      |   A man who has never gone to school may steal 
(senseman@lonestar.utsa.edu)  |   from a freight car; but if he has a university
Division of Life Sciences     |   education, he may steal the whole railroad.
UT San Antonio                |             Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: CD playback control program for SGI
Date: 5 Oct 92 05:28:47 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <37264@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> gmt@mosquito.cis.ufl.edu (Gary McTaggart) writes:
| Does anyone know of a program for the SGIs which will control the playback
| of musical CDs on the CD-ROM drive?

cdplayer shipped in 4.0.1.  cdman in 4.0.5[DEF] for Indigo (and 4D/30,35)
systems also.  cdplayer sounds closer to what you want.
--
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: johnu@syma.sussex.ac.uk (John E. Upham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Missing `ADD' buttons as root ?
Keywords: system manager
Date: 1 Oct 92 11:38:09 GMT
Organization: University of Sussex

I'm having problems installing a new INDIGO/R4000 system into our
existing network. When using system manger as root I can't see the
`add' button on the disk and file option. Any ideas ?

Secondly the hostid is showing as 0 rather than some hex string. Help !


 john upham


-- 
John Upham, School of Chemistry, University of Reading, Berks., RG6 2AD, UK.
Email: scsupham%susssys1.rdg.ac.uk@uk.ac (BITnet), scsupham@rdg.susssys1 (Janet)
Voice:   +44 734 875123 x7441 (day), Fax: +44 734 311610
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Multiple ethernets & serial ports on indigi ??
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 03:41:43 GMT

In <3015@contex.contex.com> frank@marvin.contex.com (Frank Perdicaro) writes:

| In article <BvHzwt.Ayz@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> mark@cita.toronto.edu writes:
| >[ Len Zaifman ]
| >
| >|     A colleague at a nearby university is buying a Sparc server because
| >| he needs two ethernet connections  and up to 8 serial connections. He
| >| claims this cannot be done cost effectively, if at all, on an Indigo. Is
| >| this correct?? How much would an extra ethernet board and a port serial
| >| I/O board be for an indigo?? Are they even available ??
| >
| >Dunno about how to deal with the need for a second ethernet, but there are
| >a couple companies around which make multiport serial devices that live on
| >the SCSI bus.  However, I've heard strongly conflicting reports about how
| >well these things work.  Caveat emptor.
| >
| This may be ugly, but...
| 
| The Bit3 company makes a GIO to VME suite of products.  There are
| plenty of VME Ethernet cards; in fact SGI sells some.  Given enough
| time, you could have all the Ethernet controllers you could want.

Of course, few, if any, existing VME drivers are going to just work.
Most of them will require some re-writing, some may require major
rewrites (because the board only gives you a sliding 2 Mbyte window
in the address space; I don't remember just what it is going to do
for cards that are VME masters doing DMA).

| The UNINET company makes a SCSI to GPIP & RS232 card.  They claim it
| works very well.

National Instruments also makes a SCSI to GPIB product, with driver,
which you can purchase through them and also (I think) SGI's Hardware
Express phone sales.

| My search has lead me to believe there are no useful Centronics to SCSI 
| devices on the market.

I've always been rather dubious of those; at best, they are going
to be pretty slow; for all that, they do seem two work on PC's,
at least, some of them.
--
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: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Dual Monitors
Date: 1 Oct 92 04:58:52 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <LAU.92Sep30173228@avila.ai.sri.com> lau@avila.ai.sri.com (Stephen Lau) writes:
| Is it possible to have one grayscale and one color
| monitor on an SGI machine both running a windowing system
| at the same time? In other words, can I have two 
| monitors set up so I can move the mouse off of one 
| monitor and onto the other and vice versa? Some people
| around here are used to the Sun set up they have where
| all of their text editing is done on the grayscale
| monitor and all the displaying is on the color one.

No.  We don't support grayscale/monochrome.  You *can*
have dual head systems with starter graphics on the Indigo
(and probably on the crimson), but we don't support it
for most other graphics types (skywriter at the high end
is a notable exception).
--
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
From: jst@nrcsp1.iar.nrc.ca (Jean-Sebastien Theriault)
Subject: Bash with Irix 4.0.5
Originator: jst@nrcsp1.iar.nrc.ca
Organization: National Research Council
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 13:11:51 GMT

Hi there,
is anyone using bash-1.12 with Irix 4.0.5? I can't get the Ctrl-Z
key to work (it _does_ suspend jobs properly with csh).

What's wrong?

-- 
Jean-Sebastien Theriault                    "This is my signature quote"
jst@nrcsp1.iar.nrc.ca                                          -me
From: dittrich@milton.u.washington.edu (Dave Dittrich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Zip problems (?) with IRIX 4.0.5
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:53:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: milton.dittrich.717789183
Organization: University of Washington

Has anyone tried running zip with IRIX 4.0.5?  I just upgraded my lab
machines to 4.0.5 and zip no longer works.  All I get is an X/GL window
with no menus.  If minmized, and then maximized, the window is not even
drawn proerly - it appears as if transparent.  I can't even get the
window to close/exit - I have to kill the process.

Is this a known problem with 4.0.5?  Just a zip problem?  Should I
expect this with other third party programs?  Could someone at
sgi.sgi.com re-compile zip under 4.0.5 or something to get this working
again.  My users are pretty addicted to zip at this point.
From: azueta@xp.psych.nyu.edu (Steve Azueta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: comp.sys.sgi?
Date: 2 Oct 92 17:24:50 GMT

What is comp.sys.sgi?  How does one access a comp.sys.* list, or whatever it
is?

TIA

Steve Azueta	azueta@xp.psych.nyu.edu
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Missing `ADD' buttons as root ?
Keywords: system manager
Date: 2 Oct 92 02:40:24 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Oct1.113809.17350@syma.sussex.ac.uk> johnu@syma.sussex.ac.uk (John E. Upham) writes:
| I'm having problems installing a new INDIGO/R4000 system into our
| existing network. When using system manger as root I can't see the
| `add' button on the disk and file option. Any ideas ?

Hmm.  Are you sure you are actually *running* as root, and not
as another user?

| Secondly the hostid is showing as 0 rather than some hex string. Help !

Sounds like networking never got successfully set up.  Check to
be sure that the host name in /etc/sys_id can be found in /etc/hosts,
with exact spelling and punctuation (case doesn't matter).
--
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: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: login/pandora/indigo problems
Date: 3 Oct 92 03:23:28 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <6476@libra.cs.nps.navy.mil> adaptive@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (zyda res acct) writes:

| After shutting down the power on an Indigo several times due to
| electrical work, I am unable to login. When I attempt to login through
| pandora, the screen turns grey for a second and then returns me to the
| login icons. The Indigo is connected to a network but all of my files
| are local. Any ideas?

Try using the failsafe login (type ' failsafe' (without apostrophes)
after your account name.  That suppresses starting the window manager,
among other things, and may let you find the problem.  Look at the
end of /usr/adm/SYSLOG and /usr/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors for messages
that might indicate the problem.

If you can't do a failsafe login, (and can't login over a network),
try resetting the system, and stop in the PROM monitor, and type
'single' to bring the system up single user.  Then 'mount -c /usr; rehash',
and look in the same places I suggested above.  You will probably also
have to do a 'echo 1.7000 > /etc/config/system.glGammaVal' since that
file often gets trashed in pre 4.0.5 systems if you have to reset
the system after a failed login attempt.

| Also, is there an SGI rep in Equador, and if so, what is his number?

We have a Brazilian office (or representative, I'm not sure which),
but I don't think we have one in Ecuador).
--
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 (R. Beyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: socket.h, uio.h
Date: 30 Sep 92 10:30:25 GMT


Hello SGI,

socket.h makes reference to structure uio without defining this structure.
lint complains that the structure is referenced but that it was never
defined. The structure uio is defined in uio.h. How about including uio.h
in socket.h ?

Regards

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Flight Guidance, Flughafen, D-3300 Braunschweig, Fed. Rep. of Germany
	  Phone: 0049-531-395-2530  Fax: 0049-531-395-2550
Internet: beyer@bflsgu.fl.bs.dlr.de (EARN/BITNET: fl17@dlrvmbs.bitnet) 
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