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From: jhp@photon.uucp (Jim Patterson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Keymap problem with 4.0.5
Date: 26 Aug 92 19:33:20 GMT
Reply-To: jhp@photon.com
Organization: Photon Research Associates, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

I upgraded one of my Indigos from 4.0.1 to 4.0.5 and I am having a very
strange problem with the keymaps.  A number of the non alphabet keys
have been changed from their keyboard symbols.  For example :

		/ has become -
		? has become _
		- has become +
		etc

This makes the machine pretty much unusable.  I called the problem
into the TAC yesterday, but I haven't heard anything yet.  I also
checked the contents of /usr/lib/X11 against an Indigo successfully
running 4.0.5 and I didn't see any significant differences.

Has anyone else had this problem?  If so what did you do to fix it.

Thanks,

Jim


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.periphs.printers
From: fine@sofine.detroit.sgi.com (Steve Fine)
Subject: Re: Need Help in Selecting a COLOR PRINTER for SGI machines
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 17:18:30 GMT

In article <BtyHxt.Lrv@acsu.buffalo.edu>, ingle@acsu.buffalo.edu (Nitin Ingle) writes:
|> We have recently purchased a few SGI machines. According to the SGI people
|> we will have to get the color printers from a third party as they do not
|> supply them. Could anyone give us information as to what types of common
|> paper color printers are available and how much they cost? Also, any 
|> comments regarding the quality of prints will be appreciated. The printer
|> should be able to handle PostScript files apart from all the formats available
|> on SGI machines like RGB files.

SGI sells both the Tektronix Phaser II and Phaser III printers, 
and driver software.  


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: lacey@dsea.com (Dan Lacey )
Subject: cpio 4.0.5D
Keywords: cpio 4.0.5D
Organization: Dainippon Screen Engineering of America, Inc.
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 07:42:32 GMT

Anybody else having trouble with cpio on 4.0.5D ????

I am trying to use it with cpio -oc files from an Indigo with 4.0.4.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: pff@pablo.b11.ingr.com (Pablo Fernicola)
Subject: Where is the RFV for the Open GL newsgroup?
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 22:32:52 GMT

Has the RFV already been posted?

If it has, could somebody mail me a copy?

Thanks,

-Pablo
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From: CMSWALTERS@karl.iit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: graphics file formats
Date: 2 Sep 92 16:11:17 GMT

SGI Gurus,

I apologize for sending what is undoubtedly a FAQ, but here goes.
I want to capture graphics off my SGI screen (still running v3.3.2
of irix), e.g., with the snapshot utility, then convert the
resulting .rgb file into a format which a Macintosh can send
to a color printer (I have a Mac connected to my SGI, and someone
in another department has a color printer connected to his Mac).
Is there a FAQ file where I can find this kind of info?  Or can
someone tell me what utility(ies) I need and where to get them?

Thanks in advance,

Eric Walters

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From: beyer@bflsgu.fl.bs.dlr.de (R. Beyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: batch, at and rc=1
Date: 27 Aug 92 15:11:27 GMT


Hi,

first of all I thank Dave Olson, pjf@osiris and David Hinds for their
advice on how to submit a job to 'at' or 'batch'..

However, further studies on an Indigo running IRIX 4.0.1 have shown
the following curiosity: If identical scripts exist to be submitted
to 'at' or 'batch' whereby one script is named 'test' and the other
is named 'test.xyz' the latter is executed as expected while the script
named 'test' is not executed and gets a tag "rc=1" in the cron logfile.
I include a session log. Does anybody have an explanation for this
behaviour ?

Thank you in advance and best regards.

Ralf Beyer

Session log:

sgu %ls -l
-rwxr--r--   1 beyer    user          79 Aug 27 15:32 test
-rwxr--r--   1 beyer    user          79 Aug 27 15:33 test.xyz

sgu %more test
#! /bin/csh -f

set N=0

while ($N < 3)
        echo "Hello world"
        @ N = $N + 1
end

sgu %more test.xyz
#! /bin/csh -f

set N=0

while ($N < 3)
        echo "Hello world"
        @ N = $N + 1
end

sgu %batch
test
warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
job 714922702.b at Thu Aug 27 15:38:22 1992
sgu %Mail
No mail for beyer
sgu %batch
test.xyz
warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
job 714922713.b at Thu Aug 27 15:38:33 1992
sgu %Mail
Mail version 5.2 6/21/85.  Type ? for help.
"/usr/mail/beyer": 1 message 1 new
>N  1 beyer               Thu Aug 27 15:38  17/467  
& 
Message  1:
From beyer  Thu Aug 27 15:38:41 1992
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 15:38:41 MDT
From: beyer (R. Beyer)
Apparently-To: beyer

Hello world
Hello world
Hello world


*************************************************
Cron: The previous message is the standard output
      and standard error of one of your cron commands.

& d
& q
sgu %


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From: heiko@Harpo.Chemie.FU-Berlin.DE (Heiko Schlichting)
Subject: IRIX and (not) ISO 8859-1
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Dept. of Chemistry
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 04:13:53 GMT

Found in IRIX Release Notes 4.0.5:

[...]
       12.  Fonts
[...]
          o The character set in several Screen fonts was extended
            from the ASCII character set to the ISO 8859-1
            character set.
[...]

Really? I can't find them - all useable fonts doesn't have the ISO 8859-1
character set, even if the name contains "-iso8859-1":
e.g: -schumacher-clean-bold-r-normal--15-150-75-75-c-90-iso8859-1

Other important fonts does not have the ISO 8859-1 character set too:
e.g: -sgi-screen-bold-r-normal--14-140-72-72-m-80--ascii

Anyone knows a source for -sgi-screen-bold-* fonts with ISO 8859-1 
characters?

Heiko
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heiko@groucho.chemie.fu-berlin.de     | Institut fuer Kristallographie
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Installation overwrites inittab - why?
Date: 31 Aug 92 22:09:40 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Aug31.132413.11453@biome.bio.ns.ca> silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca (Bill Silvert) writes:

| After upgrading to IRIX 4.0.5 I discovered that the installation
| overwrote /etc/inittab, thereby turning off our dialin ports.

A correction, it does *not* overwrite it.  It moves the old one
to inittab.O.

| I ran into this while working through the changed versions, but I can't
| see any justification for this, since none of the other lines are
| changed.  I suggest that an inittab.N file be installed rather than
| replacing inittab as a default.  Does anybody see any logic to the
| current practice?

Yes.  There were significant changes in inittab between 3.3 and 4.0.X,
and people upgrading from 3.3 would have a non-functional system if we
did it your way.  Unfortunately inst doesn't have a way to choose the
.O vs .N mechanism based on the previous installed vs currently installing
release.
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because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: linton@marktwain.rad.sgi.com (Mark Linton)
Subject: Re: Interviews 3.0.1 bug?
Keywords: hmmm...
Reply-To: linton@marktwain.rad.sgi.com (Mark Linton)
Organization: sgi
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 17:33:49 GMT

In article <acas.714790976@godzilla.cgl.citri.edu.au>, acas@cgl.citri.edu.au (Andrew Cassin) writes:
|> I grabbed 3.0.1.tar.Z from sgi.com:/graphics/interviews and followed the
|> instructions in the README file, namely:
|> 	setenv CPU `make World`
|> 	make World
|> 
|> However, part way through the build, CC complains about an inline function
|> call when compiling iv/src/lib/IV-2_6/xpainter.c. Making this function
|> (AllocPts) non-inline fixes the compile errors.
|> 
|> Is the a known cfront bug? Or am I configuring InterViews incorrectly? 
|> (see below)
|> 
|> We are using IRIX 4.0.1, IDO and C++ 2.1.1 on a 340VGX. 

The bug is in SGI C++ on IRIX 4.0.1.  The bug has been fixed in later releases, and
newer versions of InterViews (currently at 3.1-beta) have the non-inline changes
to avoid the bug.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: johnb@physun.physics.mcmaster.ca (John Benjamins)
Subject: Re: Maximum number of concurrent users under IRIX 4.0.x
Organization: Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, McMaster University
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 17:43:53 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.185037.29637@aristo.tau.ac.il> yaron@ARISTO.TAU.AC.IL (Yaron Zabary) writes:
>
>  If you think of supporting mail users only/mainly, I would advise you to investigate
>the POP/POP3 IMAP options, as they will take user-interface overhead down from the
>SGI to the PC running the POP client.
>
>-- Yaron.

Yes, that's what we want to do.  However, all the PC's here (well
almost all of them) use the Beame&Whiteside drivers, telnet, ftp, etc.
Unfortunately, all the pop clients I've seen (for the PC) will not
work unless you have a specific packet driver installed on the PC (I
recall reference to the Clarkson packet driver, but I could be wrong).
The B&W packet driver is not compatible with POP.

What upsets the management around here is that we were told that the
4D/340 would handle 300 concurrent users.  That does not appear to be
the case.  I have one reply on this question from slf@cs.mu.OZ.AU
(Stewart Forster - Computer Science, University Of Melbourne,
Australia) who says they have trouble with getting to 190 users.
However, we will not have people doing compiles, running
calculations/simulations, etc., just e-mail.  In any case, it looks
like some sales person is going to get yelled at in the not too
distant future:-(

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Subject: Re: Help with an indigo configuration
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:53:17 GMT

In article <17vun8INN2eo@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, steve@pitacat.lerc.nasa.gov (Steven H. Izen) writes:
> In article <p95h5ik@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com> vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes:
> 
> >I think the Intel 14.4EX is broken.  The Telebit T3000 is ok, but has
> 
> Out of curiosity, why do you think the 14.4EX is broken?  I've been
> using two of them for a slip connection between my 4d/35 and a 386
> running interactive tcpip 1.3 for a while now and have not experienced
> any problems.  Maybe I'm lucky enough not to be squicking the bugs you
> refer to.


When I tested a pair of Intel 14.4EX modems with `ping -s ZZZZ`,
they could not keep up past ZZZZ=1800.  Other modems go as fast
as ZZZZ=3600.  Notice that is >3600 Bytes/sec both input and output
for a total of > 7200B/s.  The lights on the Intel modem suggested they
were unable to to simultaneously transmit and receive.  That is implausible,
but it fits my observations.

If I'm right, they would still be servicable modems, but less than
the best.


Vernon Schryver,  vjs@sgi.com
From: williams@agomoda.asd.sgi.com (Eric Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: batch, at and rc=1
Date: 27 Aug 92 19:43:41 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <32240@adm.brl.mil> beyer@bflsgu.fl.bs.dlr.de (R. Beyer) writes:
>
>However, further studies on an Indigo running IRIX 4.0.1 have shown
>the following curiosity: If identical scripts exist to be submitted
>to 'at' or 'batch' whereby one script is named 'test' and the other
>is named 'test.xyz' the latter is executed as expected while the script
>named 'test' is not executed and gets a tag "rc=1" in the cron logfile.
>I include a session log. Does anybody have an explanation for this
>behaviour ?

The name 'test' has special significance to the Bourne shell (/bin/sh).
From the sh(1) man page:

     test
          Evaluate conditional expressions. See test(1) for usage and
          description.

You can see for yourself that it would fail if you try the following:

% /bin/csh
% cat > test
#!/bin/csh -f
echo "Hello, World"
^D
% chmod +x test
% test
Hello, World
% /bin/sh -c test
% echo $status
1
%

The csh status variable is set to the return code of the /bin/sh execution.
From the sh(1) man page:

EXIT STATUS
     Errors detected by the shell, such as syntax errors, cause the shell to
     return a non-zero exit status.  If the shell is being used non-
     interactively execution of the shell file is abandoned.  Otherwise, the
     shell returns the exit status of the last command executed (see also the
     exit command above).


One workaround is to use a different name, as you discovered.  Another workaround
is to use a path name for the script.  This is probably better anyway, since the
current method assumes that you have '.' in your path, which not everyone does.
If you do '/bin/sh -c ./test' or '/bin/sh -c /full/path/to/command/test' it works.

Cheers,
Eric Williams
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: paul@baroque.Stanford.EDU (Paul Ning)
Subject: Problem with gamcal
Organization: Stanford University
Date: 30 Aug 92 16:40:22


Using gamcal to calibrate my monitor, I got a screen that looked
too washed out.  Putting up a gray scale ramp (0 to 255 in equal
steps) confirmed that the (perceived) brightness steps were far 
from linear.

After a bit of experimenting, I discovered that alternating B&W
*vertical* lines were darker than gamcal's *horizontal* lines.
I'm not sure why this happens (perhaps it has something to do with the
geometry of the triads) but calibrating according to the vertical
lines produced a more linear ramp of brightnesses as well as a more
pleasant screen appearance.   I also tried calibrating to a B&W 
checkerboard pattern and results were consistent with those for
vertical lines.

Has anyone else run into this problem?  Any explanations for why
horizontal lines don't work well?

- paul

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Wanted: User-Friendly tool for DAT tape drive
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 06:31:58 GMT

In <24045@oasys.dt.navy.mil> paraska@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Pete Paraska) writes:

| I have a 4D/30 PI with the SGI DAT tape drive.  I'm looking for a tool
| (shell script, or whatever) that will make USERS (not hacks or sysadmins)
| feel comfortable with putting their precious data on DAT tapes.  Past
| bad experiences with "mt" and "tar" with overwriting previously stored
| data on the 1/4" drive tapes has these users scared of tapes.  I'm hoping
| someone has a tool (graphical, tied to the workspace) which will make
| the users sure that they will:
|   1) not overwrite previously stored data on the tape, and

tar 'r' (or 'u'), while somewhat slow (and gets slower the more that is
written) is about as foolproof as you can get in appending data to
tapes (and works fine on DAT).  Make sure you always specify the same
blocking factor, and if you expect to read the tape on other systems,
such as Sun's; that have brain dead DMA that can't handle blocks
greater than 64K - 2 bytes, make it a smaller than the SGI default
blocking factor.
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because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: hshamans@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Harry T Shamansky)
Subject: Looking to read old VMS backups on my Indigo
Keywords: vms backups, indigo
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: comp.sys.sgi
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 14:27:23 GMT

  Hello...

  I am woefully looking to read some old VMS backups onto my Indigo.
  Another user asks for the ability to take a 4mm DAT tape written on 
  a vaxstation under vms backup, and hope to extract the files in that
  saveset.

  I know that there are some commercial packages which can do all sorts
  of vms-like stuff, but all I want to do is extract the pertinent data
  in a backup saveset. Does anyone know of some c-code which would help?

  Any thoughts will be appreciated...

  thanks
  Harry Shamansky
  hts@hertz.eng.ohio-state.edu


Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: williams@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Gus Williams)
Subject: RE: Printing to a Paintjet
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 14:56:28 GMT



In response to several queries recently involving printing to
a paintjet I thought I would summarize how I do it.  We use three
different methods depending on what we start with and what we want.
All three can be written into simple shell scripts to simply print
whatever file it is you want printed.

I'll list the options in the order I find most useful.

1)  Use the pbmplus utilities for raster images.

	filetoppm <> | ppmdither -red 2 -green 2 -blue 2 | ppmtopj | lp -

	Using the dither does a much better job than going straight to
	the paintjet.  You will probably also want to add a pnmgamma
	to adjust the color (I like about a 1.7 on most images) and
	a pnmscale -xysize 1440 1980 to always get as large as image
	as can fit on the page.  Both these should go before the
	ppmdither command.

2)  Use Ghostscript 
	
	gs -sDEVICE=paintjet <>

	Has a good driver for the paintjet and paintjetXL.  Nice for
	postscript files or images you have annotated in Showcase.

3)  Use xpr (it's part of the standard X distribution just make sure you
		installed it)

	xpr has drivers for both the paintjet and the PaintjetXL.  It
	lets you include all sorts of options, such as internal paintjetXL
	dither algorithms etc.

	xpr prints xwd (X-window dump) files.  You can use either xwd to
	dump an X-window or use your favorite image program to convert.
	Again I like pbmplus with the ppmdither command to do this one.

Hope this helps.

As I said it is easy to put any of these solutions into a simple shell script
to print images.

One thing to be aware of though.  All these options produce raw paintjet
files, use the -oraw option to make sure no processing is done by the
lp filter.
From: geller@rwja.umdnj.edu (Herbert M Geller PhD)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: PI Monitor trouble
Date: 25 Aug 92 18:22:37 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway NJ

My 3-year-old Personal Iris is equipped with a Hitachi 20" monitor.
The monitor is now making noise, which goes away when the G (sync)
input is disconnected.  The sync clearly is off, as the picture 
jiggles.  This machine is not on service contract.  I would like
some advice & information:

1) What is best - replace or repair?

2) If repair, who is best to repair it?  SGI probably contracts it out
& it seems that any local Hitachi repair place should be able to handle 
it.

3) If replace, I need to know the specs.  Mainly, it seems as if the
refresh rate is critical, as I have a NEC multisync with RGB inputs
that can't sync to the PI output.  Knowing the specs would also help
me price a new one.  I also could opt for a smaller monitor, since 
it would save some $ and also space in my lab.  Anyone who can provide
this information will be in my debt. 

4) Anyone else have this experience?

Thanks for your help.

Herb Geller
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: huober_r@hal.rz.uni-ulm.de (Reiner Huober)
Subject: Re: Hardware Ethernet adress ?
Keywords: ethernet 
Organization: Universitaet Ulm
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:08:56 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.140211.3659@news.uni-stuttgart.de>,
Florian Wohlgemuth writes:

> How do I get the hardware ethernet adress on a Personal Iris 4D/25 (IP6) ?
> nvram works only on IP12 (Indigo) Systems ...

netstat -ia does not work in IRIX3.x, neither nvram, but this works on
nearly all our machines:

    Log in to another machine and type:
      $ ping <sgi's hostname>
      <sgi's hostname> is alive
      $ arp -a

The address resolution table now shows the correct hardware ethernet address.

Reiner Huober
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