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From: paul@openage.COM (Paul A. Fischer, Sr UNIX Sys Consultant)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Intermittent overwriting of data on block-r
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:24:41 GMT
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
Resent-From: mmdf@xenitec.on.ca
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>We use the block-device /dev/raw1 for our applications.
>Last week we installed a FUJITSU M2266SA / 1 Gbyte SCSI-drive on an
>Adaptec AHA 1542-B SCSI-Controller. Since then the raw-device was
>intermittent overwritten three times !
>We are quite sure, that none of our applications did this.
>After the last overwrite during "init 0" the kernel did a memory dump.

>We would be glad, if someone could help solving this problem !
>Thanks in advance
>Horst
>--

Some questions...

1)      What does your divvy table look like?

2)      Do you have the 10-byte SCSI EFS installed?

3)      What OS version?

4)      What has changed?

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Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Again: QIC-36 tape drives?? Can they be used?
From: a_millsbs@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
Date: 5 Oct 92 20:08:25 CST
Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University

>> Can you use QIC-36 format tape drives with SCO Unix??
>> 
>> If so has anyone out there done it??
>> 
>> They are not listed in the manuals as being supported so I will assume that
>> if it is possible to use them I will require some additional drivers.
>
>QIC-36 drives and controllers are available from many vendors, and they
>all differ enough to require driver differences.  Many of them are
>supported by the standard cartridge tape driver in SCO UNIX.  But you
>need to tell people exactly what brand and model of tape drive and
>controller; then you'll find out whether that particular pair is
>supported.
>
>Bela Lubkin<  Support engineer, The Santa Cruz Operation


OK lets see.  The drive itself is a Caliper (read Sankyo) model CP-60B.  They
still sell the drive.  The controller card that I have is a SMC controller card
in fact the drive also says SMC on it right beside Caliper so I assume that
this is a Caliper drive that SMC remarketed with their cards.  This drive and
card cost me nothing so if I can get it working GREAT  if not......

Any help will be GREATLY appreciated.

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B. Scott Mills                            (409) 568-1134
Computer Center -- Technical Support,     Stephen F. Austin State University
a_millsbs@ccsvax.sfasu.edu                P.O. Box 13012 SFA Station
root@calvin.sfasu.edu                     Nacogdoches, TX  75962
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Newsgroups: biz.sco.general,comp.unix.sysv386
From: keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith)
Subject: Re: How to connect a modem to one of the ports on Digiboard?
Organization: Keith's Computer, Hope Mills, NC
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 03:54:30 GMT
Keywords: RJ-45 standards quality support

In article <Bv3yG5.15F@world.std.com> apl@world.std.com (Anthony P Lawrence) writes:
>In article <Bv2x0L.4uw@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
>>Unfortunately, his attitude is that anyone who is using ^S and ^Q for
>>flow-control is using a broken terminal,
>
>I guess somebody should tell SCO that their default gettydefs are
>setup to work with broken terminals...
>
>:-)
>

Ho,
Wait,

I have IXON in *ALL* my gettydefs entries in SCO.  This has nothing to
do with flow control for my HARDWARE.  This is for Keith got more than
he really wanted flow control, ie.  so I can stall a long listing or
something that 'grepped' a bit more text than I thought when I'm on a
command line, and it's whizzing past.  EMACS TURNS OFF IXON when it
executes.  VP/ix does too. 

-- 
Keith Smith          uunet!ksmith!keith            5719 Archer Rd.
Digital Designs      BBS 1-919-423-4216            Hope Mills, NC 28348-2201
Somewhere in the Styx of North Carolina ...
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: apl@world.std.com (Anthony P Lawrence)
Subject: Re: How to connect a modem to one of the ports on Digiboard?
Keywords: RJ-45 standards quality support
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 11:07:59 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.035430.1552@ksmith.uucp> keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith) writes:
>
>Ho,
>Wait,
>
>I have IXON in *ALL* my gettydefs entries in SCO.  This has nothing to
>do with flow control for my HARDWARE.  This is for Keith got more than
>he really wanted flow control, ie.  so I can stall a long listing or
>something that 'grepped' a bit more text than I thought when I'm on a
>command line, and it's whizzing past.  EMACS TURNS OFF IXON when it
>executes.  VP/ix does too. 
>
It has everything to do with it in the sense that unless you set for
hardware flow somewhere else, XON/XOFF is what you get.



		Tony

Lawrence & Clark, Inc		(617) 762-0707	(206) 323-2864
Xenix/Unix support,etc 	 	 Boston		 Seattle


Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: mknewman@blkbox (Marc Kraker Newman)
Subject: talk command and talkd
Organization: The Black Box BBS (713) 480-2686 V32/V42bis/HST
Distribution: biz
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 11:42:56 GMT
Summary: Talk doesn't work under ODT 1.1 Update G
Keywords: talk unix sco opendesktop

I am using ODT 1.1 Update G, and the talk command is documented online, but
I seem to be unable to get it to work.  I get the message 'you don't exist.  Go
away.' when I run talk, so I have tried starting talkd, but there was no
change.  Am I missing something?  I checked SOS, but there was nothing on it
at all.

Marc



-- 
Marc K. Newman (N5SLG)			Is UNIX pronounced 
mknewman@blkbox.com or			"UNIQUES" or
blkbox!mknewman				"EUNICHS"?
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: QIC-36 tape drives?? Can they be used?
From: a_millsbs@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
Date: 5 Oct 92 19:09:43 CST
Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University

Can you use QIC-36 format tape drives with SCO Unix??

If so has anyone out there done it??

They are not listed in the manuals as being supported so I will assume that
if it is possible to use them I will require some additional drivers.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

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Computer Center -- Technical Support,     Stephen F. Austin State University
a_millsbs@ccsvax.sfasu.edu                P.O. Box 13012 SFA Station
root@calvin.sfasu.edu                     Nacogdoches, TX  75962
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Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: martin@faber.faps.uni-erlangen.de (Martin Koch)
Subject: tool for development of knowledge based systems
Organization: Institute for Manufacturing Automation, Erlangen, Germany
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 14:59:41 GMT


Hi folks,

I am looking for a tool to develop object-oriented programs and knowledge
based systems under SCO-Unix. Something similar to Prokappa from intellicorp.
Are there any suggestions?

Thanks Martin!


Martin Koch 
internet:martin@faps.uni-erlangen.de

Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: sgw@netcom.com (Steven Warner)
Subject: Re: MMDF and bounced mail
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 05:17:28 GMT

I said:
> Is there a way to get MMDF to 'cc:' a copy of any bounced incoming
> mail to postmaster [or whomever]?

Thanks for all who took the time to reply to this.  I want the bounced
mail so that I can chase down problems my users are having with mail.

Although 'why' really isn't all that relevent.

Someone suggested:
>mkdev sendmail-init

Thanks for your help too.  :(

Anyone know why CC:[external machine] fails when the to: is to the
local machine?
----
Steven Warner
sgw@boy.com
From: root%admiral.UUCP@CS.YALE.EDU (Superuser)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Please remove "brad@admiral.uucp"
Date: 4 Oct 92 07:39:19 GMT
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
Resent-From: mmdf@xenitec.on.ca
Submit-To: scogen@xenitec.on.ca
Precedence: bulk

I'm sorry, but the amount of mail he has been receiving is over
the system quota. Could you please remove him from your mailing
list?

Thank you,

Doug FIelds
Admiral System Administrator
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: "Paul A. Fischer, Sr UNIX Sys Consultant" <paul@openage.COM>
Subject: Rendition III and the AGA EFS? does it work
Resent-From: mmdf@xenitec.on.ca
Submit-To: scogen@xenitec.on.ca
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 17:36:15 GMT
Precedence: bulk

>Possible problem areas:
>1: The EFS doc describes the rendition iii card with 2MB of VRAM and
>1MB of DRAM in the 'model' column  but does not say it is the minimum.
>In the section just above, it does say that the rendition ii card must
>have 1MB VRAM and 0.5 MB DRAM minimum.   Is this just a typo for
>the iii card and do i have to have 1MB of DRAM?
>My iii card has 2MB VRAM and 0 DRAM.

Since the driver is downloaded to the ren iii board, I think you need DRAM!

>2: Only other board in the machine to have memory mapped I/O address(bios?)
>is the Adaptec 1542b card.  I checked and it is mapped at hexDC000
>I setup the rendition iii at C0000 so that the 32KB it needs does not
>conflict with the Adaptec.  Only other cards in the system are: bus mouse,
>serial/parallel card and a floppy controller, and a ESDI hard drive
>controller. To my knowledge, none of these map in to any memory.  (This
>is probably more of a hope rather than thoroughly researched detail.

The ESDI board probably had a BIOS chip on it that is mapped into memory.

>ANYONE done this yet?  Do I need 1MB DRAM? ????? HELP!!!!!!.

Probably yes.

>Any tips, past experiences, suggestions or pointer to rtfm's will be
>greatly appreciated.

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From: sgw@netcom.com (Steven Warner)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: MMDF and bounced mail
Date: 1 Oct 92 15:23:24 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

Right now, whenever MMDF encounters incoming mail for a non-existant
user on the system, it simply 'bounces' it back to the sender, but
leaves no local indication of the problem.

Is there a way to get MMDF to 'cc:' a copy of any bounced incoming
mail to postmaster [or whomever]?

Thanx
----
Steven Warner
 sgw@boy.com
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
Subject: Re: Follow up to Everex Cube followup
Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 05:52:26 GMT

In <9210031505.aa12500@openage.COM> "Paul A. Fischer, Sr UNIX Sys Consultant" <paul@openage.COM> writes:

:Hi All,

:Those pesky Everex Cubes are back in the news.

:It seems that the Racal-Interlan ES-3210 EISA Ethernet card is still causing 
:the machines to panic and die.

:My customer is throwing them out the door as soon as possible.

Note.  Last posting should have been ethernet cards not modems :-).

Bill
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             uunet!camco!bill   Mercer Island, WA 98040; (206) 947-5591
SPEED COSTS MONEY -- HOW FAST DO YOU WANT TO GO?
From: sfrazier@eng.norstan.com
Subject: V.25bis Modems
Resent-From: mmdf@xenitec.on.ca
Submit-To: scogen@xenitec.on.ca
Reply-To: Steven E Frazier <sfrazier@norstan.com>
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 15:01:38 GMT
Precedence: bulk

Could someone give me a MFG/model number of a V.25bis modem?

Thanks in advance.

Steve


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From: vances@xenitec.on.ca (Vance Shipley)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Re:  How to connect a modem to one of the ports on Digiboard?
Date: 29 Sep 92 14:18:10 GMT
Organization: SwitchView Inc., Waterloo, Ontario

In article <Bv7132.1z4@world.std.com> apl@world.std.com (Anthony P Lawrence) writes:
>
>So, you have an application that breaks the standard.  If one of my
>clients were running that application, I'd have to rewire.  
>

My application doesn't BREAK standards.  What we do is push things, that is
quite kosher.  We work with communications, a large installation might have 
six terminals and twelve modems.  You do mundane things like word processing
which do not require much out of the system.  This is why I am intimately
familiar with some of these issues.

The point of my response is that locked speed modems are NOT the answer.  You
may have some customers who are happy with this arrangement but they also may
not be doing data transfers.  A locked interface speed could work if there was
bidirectional out of band flow control.  As has been stated here SCO's RTS/CTS
was half duplex.

-- 
Vance Shipley 
vances@xenitec.on.ca   vances@ltg.uucp   ..uunet.ca!xenitec!vances
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Re:  How to connect a modem to one of the ports on Digiboard?
Date: 29 Sep 92 15:04:57 GMT
Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL

In article <Bv7132.1z4@world.std.com> apl@world.std.com (Anthony P Lawrence) writes:
>In article <1992Sep26.135211.21404@xenitec.on.ca> vances@xenitec.on.ca (Vance Shipley) writes:
>>In article <Bv6oIL.E60@world.std.com> apl@world.std.com (Anthony P Lawrence) writes:

>>>Good modems of recent vintage negotiate whatever speed is required 
>>>between them while maintaining a fixed baud rate to the computer.
...

>>Tell us Tony do you use XON/XOFF flow control between the modem and host?
>>Do you use IXANY here?  Do you ever try to transfer binary data?  Or do
>>you use RTS/CTS flow control?  

>Gee, guy: this was meant to be helpful: modems that can hold a fixed
>baud rate to the host are much easier to use.  That has nothing to do
>with our previous bantering on flow control and wiring.  But, since
>you bring it up, of course I don't set up the modem for XON/XOFF.

[stuff deleted here - wjv]

>But, over the past 10 years, I've seen more than a couple of handfuls
>of SCO Xenix/Unix running on all kinds of hardware with all kinds of
>multiport cards, but usually running Wyse 50/60 terminals and always,
>always, ALWAYS setup for Xon/Xoff flow control.
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>The stock SCO gettydef includes IXANY, but I think I remember a time
                                 ^^^^^
>when it didn't and users *would* hit Ctrl-S and freeze.

>So , here we have several hundred installations that I have seen, and
>I'm sure many more thousands across the country, all running XON/XOFF.
                                                              ^^^^^^^^

>But I don't get calls.  And it isn't standard.

>So, you have an application that breaks the standard.  If one of my
>clients were running that application, I'd have to rewire.  

>But none of them are.

It seems that the discussion is floating back and forth here.  One
place you say ixany, another xon/xoff.  They aren't the same and one
part of the thread was really questioning the use of ixany instead
instead of ixoff.  

I personally don't like the ixany either, prefering xon/xoff the way it
was originally setup.  But then I was always resitant to change :-)

-- 
Bill Vermillion - bill@bilver.oau.org  bill.vermillion@oau.org
                - bill@bilver.uucp 
                - ..!{peora|ge-dab|tous|tarpit}!bilver!bill
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: apl@world.std.com (Anthony P Lawrence)
Subject: Re:  How to connect a modem to one of the ports on Digiboard?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 11:42:20 GMT

In article <1992Sep25.223048.29419@xenitec.on.ca> vances@xenitec.on.ca (Vance Shipley) writes:

>                                             The whole process of sending
>BREAKs to cycle baud rates is ridiculous.  I have had problems where the 
>garbage that results from the login: being sent at 9600 when connecting at
>1200 (or whatever) looks like valid terminal control strings to my system
>and screws it up royally.

Good modems of recent vintage negotiate whatever speed is required 
between them while maintaining a fixed baud rate to the computer.
Therefore, getty need never see anything but a single baud rate, and
all that garbage and trouble is eliminated.


		Tony

Lawrence & Clark, Inc		(617) 762-0707	(206) 323-2864
Xenix/Unix support,etc 	 	 Boston		 Seattle
From: belal@sco.COM (Bela Lubkin)
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
Subject: Re: MMDF and bounced mail
Date: 2 Oct 92 04:02:21 GMT
Organization: [resent by] The SCOGEN gateway and Propagation Society
Resent-From: mmdf@xenitec.on.ca
Submit-To: scogen@xenitec.on.ca
Precedence: bulk

Steven Warner asked:

> Is there a way to get MMDF to 'cc:' a copy of any bounced incoming
> mail to postmaster [or whomever]?

David J. Fiander responded:

> No, there isn't unfortunately, but there _is_ a "local
> indication" left behind.  [technical details deleted]

It seems to me that this information is about as much as a system
administrator *should* be collecting automatically (or, at least, which
the system should collect *by default*).  If the system automatically
drops bounces into your mailbox, you may read something you shouldn't.
The laws are in their infancy but one can forsee that you might
eventually be liable for invasion of privacy, or, alternatively, if you
read of illegal activities, you might become responsible to report them,
whereas if you never saw the mail you might not be responsible (such are
the vagaries of the US legal system).  In fact, I imagine that if you
obtained business secrets from mail bounced to you as administrator of a
system, and used the information to your advantage, the legal system
would already hold you guilty of some sort of crime.

In any case, if you really want to do this I suspect there's a way.  I
just don't know what it is.  But I know that my housemate's been playing
with various twisted delivery schemes; hopefully he'll chime in with
more details...

>Bela<  [Not by any means a SCO opinion...]
Newsgroups: biz.sco.general
From: doc@magna.com (Matthew J. D'Errico)
Subject: Re: boot partition
Organization: Magna Software Corporation
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 14:24:52 GMT

In article <9209260946.aa16606@dlpco.dlpco.COM> lee@dlpco.dlpco.COM (Lee Penn) writes:
>>From uunet.uucp!xenitec.on.ca!news Sat Sep 26 06:15:17 1992
>
>>I have need of the information on modifying the SCO Xenix r2.3.2 & r2.3.4
>
>UNIX 3.2.4 support DOS partitions greater than 32 Meg with no 
>problem.  UNIX 3.2.2 is still locked at 32 Meg max limit for DOS. 
>If you are on 3.2.2, upgrade to 3.2.4.  If you are on 3.2.4 
>already, backup well (use ctar :-)! ) then repartition and 
>restore.

The question was about SCO Xenix, not UNIX...

Unfotunately, I can't help with Xenix either, but I can correct a point
in Lee's reply...

Not all of us can get our hands on 3.2.4 yet, Lee...  We were stupid enough,
(or our companies were, at any rate), to buy SCO from our hardware vendor,
such as Bull, Olivetti, etc...

At 3.2.2, you *can indeed* boot into DOS partitions larger than 32 MB !!

Using something like Norton's DiskEdit, change the DOS partition table's
partition type from "BIGDOS" to "DOS-16"...  This will have absolutely
no negative effects on the DOS side, and will allow the SCO boot program
to "see" the partition...  Once you boot into DOS, then SCO's out of the
picture, and it's up to DOS to deal with the partition size...

Now, if we're not talking boot, and we're taling Locus Merge, or SCO PCI,
then indeed you are correct, you need SCO 3.2.4 so "see" the whole partition
from a DOS session under SCO...  Using the above method, you can still only
see the first 32MB from SCO.

Regards --

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From: nikki@trmphrst.demon.co.uk (Nikki Locke)
ReplyTo: nikki@trmphrst.demon.co.uk
Subject: Re: Front end menu system
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.18 $
Organization: Trumphurst Ltd.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 19:53:02 +0000


In article <717735460snx@trmphrst.demon.co.uk> nikki@trmphrst.demon.co.uk (Nikki Locke) writes:

> I asked in biz.sco.general some time ago for front end menu systems for 
> Unix. I received a number of replies, and some people sent me menu systems
> they had written, or were using.
> 
> None of these systems really took my fancy, so I spent today writing one 
> of my own !
> 
> It handles a number of nested menus and submenus, and allows all the 
> different types of command one might expect. It uses curses, with boxes 
> round the menus etc.
> 
> I will be making it available for public ftp as
> 
> ftp.demon.co.uk:pub/trumphurst/unixmenu.tar.Z
> 
> if anyone is interested. 
> 
> Source, binary and a sample menu are all included in the tar file. 
Many people have asked me to mail them the sources, as they don't have ftp
access. Unfortunately, I connect to the Internet via a long-distance phone
call, so it is kind of expensive for me to send out multple copies of the 
source.

If you don't have ftp access, how about using one of the ftp-mail servers
(like decwrl). Please don't ask me to send stuff out.

Thanks.
---
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