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From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 15:56:13 GMT

In article <C08JnK.H6z@gator.use.com> larry@gator.use.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
> >You got a usable boot floppy with a comercial UNIX? I haven't seen one
> >in a shipped commercial system since Microsoft Xenix. You generally have to

> Well you haven't seen Dell SVR4 2.2 (release 4.0).  One can boot off the boot
> disk, switch to the system disk when prompted, then exit to the shell and 
> mount your hard disk drives and modify (and execute) your applications 
> to you hearts content.

Well, that's certainly a good first step, getting back to where Xenix was in
'85. What is on the system disk? (mount, umount, cat, fsck, cpio, mkfs, dd,
echo, ls, df, ...?) How well is this documented? Can you remove the system
disk, insert another floppy, and mount it?

(AmigaOS and MacOS have a nice solution to this: floppy file systems are
 identified primarily by volume label, rather than drive. If you access a
 floppy that is not physically installed, you are prompted to insert the
 appropriate volume. This is the sort of capability I would expect from a
 fully ruggedised UNIX).
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From: sturm@sun490.fdu.edu (Neal Sturm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4,alt.cd-rom
Subject: Esix Svr4 & CD-Rom
Date: 11 Jan 93 13:07:54 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Fairleigh Dickinson University

I am running Esix SVR4.0.4 with an Adaptec 1542 controller and a Sony
CDU-541 cd-rom. Esix tells me they do not support that cd-rom. Does
anyone know if there are any third-party or public domain drivers
to make Esix svr4.0.4 use a Sony cdu541.


Thanks
Neal Sturm
sturm@fdu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4
From: jeff@samantha.chi.il.us (Jeffrey K. Johnson)
Subject: Re: Multi boot
Reply-To: jeff@samantha.chi.il.us
Organization: JBC Associates
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 07:42:09 GMT

In <1993Jan4.015620.16920@sun490.fdu.edu> sturm@sun490.fdu.edu (Neal Sturm) writes:

: 1. Has anyone had any luck with BOOTMENU by Gordon W. Ross. Actually,
: the bootmenu program works fine, it's the PFDISK program that I have
: been having trouble with. There seems to be a bug in it when the
: partition size is greater then 99 Meg.

I am using BOOTMENU on ISC SVR4.0.3.  I had to hack PFDISK to use the
ioctl to do absolute sector reads and writes since the SCSI disk device
driver doesn't provide access to sector 0 without creating a slice using
edvtoc(1M).  I don't have the 99M problem you described.  Here are my
partition tables:  (I have an Adaptec 1542B so 1 cylinder = 1 Meg)

	# pfdisk version 1.3 by Gordon W. Ross  Oct. 1990
	For help, enter: '?'
	pfdisk> l
	# Partition table on device: /dev/rdsk/0s0
	geometry 496 64 32 (cyls heads sectors)
	#  ID  First(cyl)  Last(cyl)  Name     # start, length (sectors)
	1   6      0         79       MS-DOS   # 32, 163808
	2  99     80        495       SVR4     # 163840, 851968
	3   0      0          0                # 0, 0
	4   0      0          0                # 0, 0
	active: 2  
	pfdisk> 

	# Partition table on device: /dev/rdsk/1s0
	geometry 80 64 32 (cyls heads sectors)
	#  ID  First(cyl)  Last(cyl)  Name     # start, length (sectors)
	1   0      0          0       # (empty)  # 0, 0
	2   0      0          0       # (empty)  # 0, 0
	3   6      0         77       # DOS-big  # 32, 159712
	4  99     78         79       # UNIX     # 159744, 4096
	active: 4  
	pfdisk> 

Is there a later version of BOOTMENU than 1.3?

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From: larry@news.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Subject: Re: Where did /usr/bin/truss originate?
Organization: Gator Communications - Feeds-R-Us 219-289-3745 
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 21:35:14 GMT

shite@sinkhole.unf.edu (Stephen Hite) writes:


>system.  Does anyone know the origin of the truss utility (i.e., is

FYI truss came with our SVR4 release 4.0 (2.2 from Dell) release

-- 
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keeper of the Gator                                   uucp: uunet!gator!larry
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From: debra@wsinis07.info.win.tue.nl (Paul De Bra)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: uucp woes
Keywords: uucp esix worldblazer sas
Date: 4 Jan 93 09:30:00 GMT
Reply-To: debra@info.win.tue.nl
Followup-To: comp.unix.sys5.r4
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands

In article <1993Jan4.081829.17615@netcom.com> gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews) writes:
>
>Jeff, what other conclusion can be drawn?  Your analyzer trace showed
>the bytes that the WorldBlazer and your ESIX system exchanged.  It logged
>everything the WB sent to the computer.  That trace showed a perfect
>transfer up to the failure point.  Suddenly, the ESIX uucico started 
>rejecting a packet from the WB.  Examination of that packet shows:
>...

This happened to me before, with different versions of Unix (different
vendors, different hardware, etc), but all running some variety of HDB
uucp as with sVr3.2 and sVr4.

I normally have no problem with uucp transfers (using hardwired lines locked
at 38.4k or with a T2500 at 19.2k), but once in a while i find a file that
won't transmit *ever*. No matter what i do, like even slowing down to a
crawling 300baud, the file will never be accepted by uucp.
I have tried retransmissions after some other files, but no go.
The only way to transfer such a problem file is to change it (like uuencode).
I would say there is a hidden bug somewhere in HDB uucp (not having source
code i can't say for sure of course) that consistently refuses some
bit-pattern.

Since i have encountered this problem a few times (happens about once
every two years or so over the last 5 or six years) maybe others have too.

Paul.
(debra@win.tue.nl)
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From: larry@news.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
Organization: Gator Communications - Feeds-R-Us 219-289-3745 
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:57:14 GMT

shane@cs.sunysb.edu (Shane Bouslough) writes:

>: What happens is that mount, find, etc is copied to ram disks and executed
>: from there.  You can execute the tools from the ram disks to mount the hard
>: drives [...]

>One annoying thing is that 'ls' isn't included, you have to remember to
>keep typing 'echo *'.

I guess if I had the time -- I would create a floppy or two of the most
needed tools and copy them to another ram disk --

-- 
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keeper of the Gator                                  uucp: uunet!gator!larry
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4
From: tma@encore.com (Thanh Ma)
Subject: Re: What Ever Happened to SAS 2.0?
Organization: Encore Computer Corporation
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:17:24 GMT
Keywords: serial, SAS, streams

jmcook@larel.LAMRSCH.COM (Joel M. Cook) writes:

>I've been away for a while and missed quite a few postings.
>I wondered whatever happened to the 2.0 version of SAS?  I have
>the 1.25 (I think it is) release, but it doesn't support VP/ix as
>FAS did and that's a most-useful feature for me.  Will 2.0 (or
>perhaps it's "does") support VP/ix?  Does it exist?  Where might
>it be?  Thanks for any pointers.
>-- 

I would like to know too.

--
Thanh
tma@encore.com
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From: karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger)
Subject: Re: Netblazer
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 04:34:51 GMT
Organization: MCSNet, Chicago, IL

In article <C0JL58.HqK@news.rn.com> larry@news.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
>Would VJ compression with SLIP be benificial even if you
>have hardware compression (v.42bis?).  If so, how much?
>
>Just wondering --

Yes.  Without VJ compression interactive sessions on SLIP or PPP connections
at dial speeds are painfully slow, even with V.42bis on the modems.

They are quite complimentary.

--
Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, <well-connected>!ddsw1!karl)
Data Line: [+1 312 248-0900]

Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4
From: jerryk@shearson.com (Jerry Keselman)
Subject: Re: Access Control Lists on SVR4.2 ???
Keywords: acl
Organization: Lehman Brothers, NY
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:42:26 GMT

In article <ovhe.726586282@sw2020> ovhe@ki.icl.se (Ove Hedin) writes:
>I there anyone out there that knows the status of Access Control Lists in
>future/current releases of SVR4 ??? 
>
>
>
>-- * All opinions and questions are my own -----------------------------------
>Ove Hedin  Phone +46 (0)31499376 , DOMAIN Address : ovhe@ki.icl.se
>X400: I=O ; S=Hedin ; OU1=SWE4701 ; O=ICL Data ; P=ICL ; A=TEDE ; C=SE
>--

I guess I could wait for A) someone from USL to answer, or B) someone
who already has Destiny (SVR4.2) in their grubby little hands to answer, but
I won't.  SVR4.2 includes (many? most? all?) the security features
available in SVR4.1, aka SVR4ES (Enhanced Security).  ACL's are available
in these releases on "SFS" file systems.  "SFS" is simply a modified version
of the Berkeley FFS (aka UFS on Suns).  In the version of SVR4.2 I previewed
at UnixExpo in September in NYC, SFS was available.  My assumption is that
that is the way the product is/was shipped.

					Jerry

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From: am815@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joel Peter Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.misc
Subject: LPD available for SysVr4?
Date: 6 Jan 1993 15:03:43 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: am815@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joel Peter Anderson)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu



I am working on a project which will involve developing an LPD feature
in an existing SysVr4 product - I have begun to look at the Berkely LPD code,
however, are there any existing SysVr4 LPD's out on the net that conform to 
RFC1179?  Thanks.

		Joel.

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From: mik@hpbbi4.BBN.HP.COM (#Michele Isernia)
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 11:42:19 GMT
Subject: BSD and SVR4 file system comparison..
Organization: Hewlett-Packard GmbH
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4

Does anyone has a list of problems that a sysadmin person is
going to find going froma BSD style file system to a SVR4
file system ?
I'm trying to understand what are the problems in an etherog.
environment...
Different NFS implementations may be a problem too...

Any info will be really appreciated...

Pls. reply directly by e-mail: mik@hpbbn.bbn.hp.com

Thanks.

Mik
From: jmcook@larel.LAMRSCH.COM (Joel M. Cook)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4
Subject: What Ever Happened to SAS 2.0?
Keywords: serial, SAS, streams
Date: 7 Jan 93 18:19:06 GMT

I've been away for a while and missed quite a few postings.
I wondered whatever happened to the 2.0 version of SAS?  I have
the 1.25 (I think it is) release, but it doesn't support VP/ix as
FAS did and that's a most-useful feature for me.  Will 2.0 (or
perhaps it's "does") support VP/ix?  Does it exist?  Where might
it be?  Thanks for any pointers.
-- 
Joel M. Cook
Lam Research Corp.
(510) 659-6784
jmcook@larel.lamrsch.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.sysv386
From: mikepb@lupus.dell.com (Michael P. Brininstool)
Subject: Re: Will Dell load off a Wangdat DAT?
Reply-To: mikepb@lupus.dell.com
Organization: Dell UNIX Support
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:31:23 GMT

In article <VAGARWAL.93Jan11142916@dis9002.shearson.com>, vagarwal@dis9002.shearson.com (Virendra Agarwal) writes:
>>   
>> 	DELL Unix :
>> 	----------
>> 	Does DELL sell Unix as a package or packaged with its HARDWARE ?

Yes!

Factory installed:       SKU#
        	2-user:  450-1035
        unlimited user:  450-1036

Customer kits:           SKU#
        	2-user:  450-1032
        unlimited user:  450-1033

Order by SKU#.

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From: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters)
Subject: Re: nameserver
Organization: Computing Center, Mississippi State University
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 17:51:37 GMT

In article <4341@wzv.win.tue.nl> rob@wzv.win.tue.nl (Rob J. Nauta) says:
: 
: If you use SUNs and DNS via NIS, remember that gethostbyname/uid
: first use NIS, and if that fails, they use DNS. So put the neccesary
: names in your NIS hosts file for quick lookups. /etc/hosts on
: workstations doesn't work since it isn't used anymore when NIS/YP
: is up and running.

Under SunOS 5.1 you can edit /etc/nsswitch.conf and tell the system to
search DNS, /etc/hosts and NIS+ in any order you like jut by changing
the order of entries in the "hosts:" line.
--
Frank Peters  -  UNIX Systems Programmer  -  Mississippi State University
Internet: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu  -  Phone: (601)325-7030  -  FAX: (601)325-8921
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.sysv386
From: hoyt@isus.UUCP (Hoyt A. Stearns jr.)
Subject: Re: /bin/mailx -- what's Error 11???
Followup-To: comp.unix.sys5.r4
Summary: address too long
Organization: International Society of Unified Science
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:52:56 GMT

In article <1279@kommu.UUCP> georg@norisc.erls01.siemens.de (Georg Biehler) writes:
>bob myers (bmyers@shyguy.lonestar.org) wrote:
>
>You also get EAGAIN if some fork()/exec() fails due to lack of memory.
>Check your available virtual memory (maybe your swap space is configured
>to small).
>

This always happens to me when the mail address is too long (>~60 chars).
I don't know why, but have asked here before.

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From: aland@informix.com (Colonel Panic)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4
Subject: Re: Solaris as a server
Date: 12 Jan 93 08:16:21 GMT
Organization: Helen Keller Bondurant's Performance Driving School for the Blind

In article <16307@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>>One of
>>the principle reasons for the transition from BSD in Solaris 1.0.1 to SYSVR4
>>in Solaris 2.x is to support multiprocessor server-class machines.
>
>Presumably you don't mean by the above that the change was to add MP
>support to the kernel, 'cuz that *wasn't* one of the reasons - huge
>chunks of the Solaris 1.x kernel don't particularly look like the BSD
>kernel (including the MP support in 1.0.1 and 1.1), and, from what
>people I know at SunSoft say, huge chunks of the Solaris 2.x kernel
>don't particularly look like the SVR4 kernel (I don't think their MP
>support is the same as the USL MP support).

I had heard that SunSoft essentially rewrote the MP-affected areas of the
kernel, and that all resulting code changes were to be sent back to USL to be
re-integrated into SVR4 (SVR4.3)?  Can anyone confirm?


--
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  Smith and Wesson: the Ultimate Point-and-Click User Interface.
From: troy@centerline (Troy Runkel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4
Subject: Public Domain SLIP/PPP on SVR4.
Date: 6 Jan 1993 15:03:55 GMT
Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 140.239.1.27
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

Greetings,
  I am currently setting up an NCR486 machine running System V.4.
Unfortunately the system doesn't seem to come with SLIP so I was
wondering if anybody out there knew of a publicly available version 
of SLIP, Compressed SLIP, or PPP that would work under System V.4
streams.  Thanks in advance.

--Troy Runkel			troy@centerline.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4
From: hak@alf.cooper.edu (Jeff Hakner)
Subject: Re: Where did /usr/bin/truss originate?
Organization: The Cooper Union ( NY, NY )
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 00:16:28 GMT

in article <C0Lvyq.BnE@news.rn.com>, larry@news.rn.com (Larry Snyder) says:
> 
> shite@sinkhole.unf.edu (Stephen Hite) writes:
> 
> 
>>system.  Does anyone know the origin of the truss utility (i.e., is
> 
> FYI truss came with our SVR4 release 4.0 (2.2 from Dell) release
> 
> -- 
> Larry Snyder                                    internet: larry@gator.use.com
> keeper of the Gator                                   uucp: uunet!gator!larry

truss came out of the AT&T/Sun collaboration in 1988-1990, and is
very similar to trace on SunOS.  truss was released in AT&T/USL's SVR4.0
on at least 386 and 3B2 platforms, though I'm not sure if it was supported
on all platforms at that point.

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From: rhealey@rogue.digibd.com (Rob Healey)
Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
Organization: DigiBoard Incorporated, Eden Prairie, MN
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 23:54:02 GMT

In article <C08JnK.H6z@gator.use.com>, larry@gator.use.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
|> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
|> >You got a usable boot floppy with a comercial UNIX? I haven't seen one
|> >in a shipped commercial system since Microsoft Xenix. You generally have to
|> 
|> Well you haven't seen Dell SVR4 2.2 (release 4.0).  One can boot off the boot
|> disk, switch to the system disk when prompted, then exit to the shell and 
|> mount your hard disk drives and modify (and execute) your applications 
|> to you hearts content.
|> 
	He hasn't seen AmigaUNIX 2.1 either, it also allows you to escape
	after the kernel is loaded, it even gives you a menu option to
	do so.

		-Rob
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds)
Subject: Re: 386 device drivers: machine-independent I/O timing?
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:01:24 GMT

In article <LILJEBER.93Jan11190510@hydra.Helsinki.FI> liljeber@hydra.Helsinki.FI (Mika Liljeberg) writes:
>In article <1993Jan11.120230.1322@smoke.marlboro.vt.us> jhood@smoke.marlboro.vt.us (Lord Yertle) wrote:
>> 
>> Sometime in the deep murky mists of time (within the last two years,
>> anyway) somebody from Compaq or Dell posted an article about I/O
>> delays in (I think) Unix device drivers.  He suggested reading or
>> writing some I/O port on the motherboard I/O bus to get ~ 1 us delays
>> for I/O access timing, but I can't find the article (which I thought I
>> saved) or remember what exactly he was suggesting.
>
>I didn't see the article, but Linux uses outb on port 0x80 for I/O
>delays. It seems to work very well.

The outb to port 0x80 seems to be one of the better solutions (and
thanks to James van Artsdalen for the tip..), although I have one report
that says it leads to problems (but that's still a lot less than all the
other solutions I've tried). 

Other possibilities:

 + inb from port 0x61 is reported to work well
   - I tried it with one release of linux, but there were problems on
     some hardware.  Also, this naturally messes up %al, which makes the
     code look uglier (I usually want to take a look at the generated
     assembler...)

 + no delay at all
   - works on a lot of harware, and is likely to be the fastest solution
     as long as it doesn't lead to other problems.  If it's something
     meant to work only on your hardware, try it out.  I've found that
     my machine is happy with just about anything I feed it, but not
     everybody is as lucky.. 

 + short jumps
   - doesn't work too well on 486's, and you might as well use no delay
     at all.  Besides, it's hardware-dependent, and becomes less useful
     just when the timings are getting more critical.

 + timing loops.  You might try to time your hardware, and use a
   variable number loop. 
   - probably isn't worth it for small delays, and gets confused if you
     play around with a turbo button..

I've been happy with the "outb 0x80" trick: it works fine, and using
four of them as a delay between IO instructions for critical things
seems to be enough for almost everything (anything less has resulted in
problems with the harddisk driver under linux). 

		Linus
From: raymond@es.ele.tue.nl (Raymond Nijssen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4
Subject: Re: SVR4 Mail Help
Date: 5 Jan 93 17:31:41 GMT
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
In-reply-to: talleyt@ka9qpg.demon.co.uk's message of 5 Jan 93 12:05:35 GMT

In article <726235535snz@ka9qpg.demon.co.uk> talleyt@ka9qpg.demon.co.uk (Thomas Talley) writes:

>   I have just recently been able to attach to the internet (SLIP)
>   and am trying to get the mail system to work (rcv/xmit).

[...]

>   Any help would be greatly appreciated (i.e. being able to see a 
>   working sendmail.cf file, etc).

Have a look at ftp.win.tue.nl:/pub/unix/domain1.54.sh.Z

This shell script, which was written by Wietse Venema (wswietse@win.tue.nl),
asks you some simple questions, and generates a fairly good sendmail.cf for you.

I also had to change /etc/mail/mailx.rc to 'set sendmail=/usr/ucblib/sendmail'

Finally, in /bin,, lmail and rmail are hard-linked to one another, and the
same is true for mail and mailx. With this, change the M entries in
sendmail.cf to read:

Mlocal, P=/bin/rmail, F=lsDFMmnP, S=10, R=20, A=rmail $u
Mprog,  P=/bin/sh,   F=lsDFMeuP,   S=10, R=20, A=sh -c $u

If you want, I can mail you my sendmail.cf file.

Hope this helps,

-Raymond
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