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From: barrie@calvin.demon.co.uk (Barrie Spence)
Subject: Re: Emacs and tcsh on SCO 3.2.2
Organization: DataCAD Ltd, Hamilton, Scotland
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 07:15:08 GMT
Keywords: emacs tcsh sco

In article <1992Oct6.105940.22128@supernet.dallas.haus.com> ctaylor@supernet.dallas.haus.com (Carl Taylor) writes:
>
>Dear All,
>
>Being new to the world of SCO unix, having spent plenty of time using
>Interactive Unix, I have had problems trying to bring up Emacs and Tcsh
>to operate correctly with Job Control.
>
>From my investigations it appears that the problem is in the "curses" library.
>
>When you issue Ctrl-Z within Emacs or Vi, tcsh displays the "Suspended"
>"prompt"a immediatly after the cursor location.  When the "fg" command is
>issued the application does not redraw the screen.  After several hours of
>testing I found an application that does not use curses and that works as
>I would expect.
>
>Has anyone else come across this problem, and is there a known solution ?

I had to hack the signal handling bits of emacs 18.57 to work under
3.2v2 ... with 18.58, tell emacs to use POSIX signals (it works for
me).

You can get a fix for vi as a SCO SLS - unx279.

Barrie


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,alt.bbs.unixbbs,comp.unix.sys5.r4,unix-pc.sources
Subject: Fido Frontdoor Mailer Under unix
From: mark@onyx.kiwi.gen.nz (Mark Goldie)
Date: 8 Oct 92 05:35:57 GMT
Reply-To: mark@onyx.kiwi.gen.nz (Mark Goldie)
Organization: Household UNIX, Auckland, New Zealand
Keywords: frontdoor , fidonet

Hi ... This question may have been posted to the net beforehand.
But i am a member of quite a few fido-type news networks.
3:772/701 199:340/80 etc... anyways .. I was wondering if it is possible 
to have a mailer system to call other Fidonet systems and download mail
packets ..THEN (asking a bit much?) convert them into news and/or E-mail

I've crossposted this to a few newsgroups hoping to get someone who knows
something about it, if there is such a program allready existing .. please
don't mail me any FTP sites as i don't have Internet access only USENET

If this question has already been raised then sorry , please mail replys
as my system does not pick up these newsgroups yet. (not yet added to my sys file)

Thanks
    Mark


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.i386,comp.sources.wanted
From: root@kilowatt.uucp (Kilowatt admin)
Subject: SLIP or PPP for SVR4
Organization: Kilowatt Computing
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 13:07:59 GMT

	Hello all... sorry if this is a FAQ (if it is, I haven't seen it in
the 3 months I've been getting news feed).
	Does anyone know of a source for SLIP or PPP (point to point protocol)
for SVR4? Public Domain of course. I have Consensys SVR4 (no flames please)
and while it has facilties for it, there is no driver. I've tried to use the
slip-4.0 provided by various archives, but they all want SunOS, and instead
of hacking it up to work, I decided to finally seek help.
	I can get ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com to answer and send me things, so
I have FTP access. I will also call anywhere in the contiguous US for it!
Email or a posting will be sufficient. I'm sure there are other people
wondering the same thing. Thanks!!!


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: andy@awds.imsd.contel.com (Andy Moskoff)
Subject: ISC 3.0 Shared Libs
Organization: GTE Federal Systems, Westlake Village, CA
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 22:35:02 GMT

Hi:

Does anyone know what is in the directory /shlib ? I called SunSoft today
and asked what libX11_s is. They say it is a remnant from some X11 release.
They also claim that they don't support shared X11 libraries. Why? Can I get
a shared X11 lib on my machine? Any information would be appreciated?


-Andy
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Subject: Re: Wangtek or Archive?? (and 60 MB tapes)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 10:25:46 GMT

olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:

>Archive has told us (me personally) that they qualified the 6250
>tapes on all of their 2150S (qic150 SCSI drives), and are aware of
>no such problems.  This rumor/story has floated around the net, but
>I've never heard a drive vendor confirm it.

If 3M thought it was enough of a problem to put a written warning on
each and every tape that they sell, I would say that the problem is much
more than a "rumor".

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From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Subject: Re: Announcing the availability of XFree86 1.1
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 18:01:40 GMT
Organization: TC Telemanagement, Clearwater, FL
Followup-To: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.sys5.r3,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit

According to jerry@connection.prospect.com (Jerry Shekhel):
>Try porting GNU and PD software to SCO.

Works for me.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura)
Subject: Re: Intel/ISC 4.0.3: can you 'pack' a filesystem?
Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 23:51:58 GMT

In <1992Oct12.193624.28689@crd.ge.com> davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
>  Usually not. What fragmentation does fsck show on your partition? I
>just checked my news partition on a server and it was only 0.4%. If news
>doesn't fragment a filesystem, I don't believe it can be done ;-)

The UFS fsck doesn't report on the fragmentation of the files, it
reports on the number of block fragments allocated to files (as
opposed to full blocks).
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From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Unix: Cacheing EISA SCSI vs. Non-cacheing EISA SCSI Controllers
Date: 15 Oct 92 20:08:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: mksol.1992Oct15.200829.1722
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc

In <1992Oct10.095013.27560@cbnews.cb.att.com> memanuel@cbnews.cb.att.com (mark.emanuele) writes:

>In article <Bvuqrw.AG@gator.rn.com> larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
>>ed@maxed.amg.com (Ed Whittemore) writes:
>>
>>>Get a BusTek BT 747S or 742A or Adaptec 174(x). Realistically, you can
>>>almost always add RAM to the motherboard.
>>
>>How about if your MB is an ISA and you currently have 16megs of RAM
>>on it?  
>>

>Am I missing something here? What about the ONBOARD CPU on the caching 
>controller? Does it not releive the system CPU from the duties of managing 
>the disk drives, leaving it free to do other work ?

Sounds to me like you're confusing bus-mastering with caching.  I've
got an AHA-1740 at home; no cache but it most certainly will take over
and let the CPU go back to doing other things.

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From: ddewolfe@dragon.acadiau.ca (Dave DeWolfe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: vpix on x11r5
Keywords: vpix x11r5
Date: 16 Oct 92 13:47:02 GMT
Organization: Acadia University


I need some help with running VP/ix on x11r5.

My version of X is: Xfree86 1.1 on ESIX 4.0.4

The VP/ix is called AT&T Simultask 2.0 (VPIX 1.00.02)

Installing the VP/ix (meant for SVR3.2) was a bit of a hack, but it works
great as long as I run it on a virtual terminal.  However, by attempting to
run it as an X client causes the following message to appear:

An attempt was made to use an AT&T XWIN Graphical Windowing System function,
but the AT&T XWIN Graphical Windowing System is not loaded.


This message comes from /usr/X/lib/libX11_s, which is part of the vpix
package. file shows: 

libX11_s:       iAPX 386 executable not stripped
 
Does anyone have any suggestions?  Thanks.



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From: bob@obiwan.uucp (Bob Willcox)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Does/Will FAS support the BocaBoard 16-port card?
Date: 4 Oct 92 08:39:39 GMT
Organization: Bob's Place, Austin TX

The 16-port BocaBoard card (BB2016, I believe) looks like it could be
pretty interesting (appears to have full modem and hardware flow control
for all 16 ports) but, does or will FAS support it?  I'm considering
buying one but really need FAS to support it.

Thanks,
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: lls@kings.demon.co.uk (Lady Lodge Systems)
Subject: Re: DX2 Upgrades: Anyone try it?
Organization: Lady Lodge Systems
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 12:02:12 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.220317.21183@mole-end.matawan.nj.us> mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us writes:
>Has anyone upgraded an existing UNIX with a clock-doubled chip?  Did
>it `plug-and-play' or were there problems?

Yes, a few days ago, I ripped the standard 25MHz 486 out of our Altos
5000 (the 5000 does not have a clock doubler socket) and stuffed in one
of the new 'direct replacement' clock doubled 25/50 Mhz 486's (these
'direct replacement' chips were launched by Intel a few weeks ago).

Seems to be working very well and has provided a nice little performance
boost to our 5000.  On compiling a large chunk of C code (32,000 lines)
it changed the CPU usage from 80% down to 60%, decreased the System and
User times by around 20-30% and decreased the elapsed time by around
15%. Not mind-blowing but useful for a system that would otherwise cost
lots of dosh to upgrade.

Anyone want to buy a spare 25Mhz 486 Chip? :-)


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
Subject: Re: Announcing the availability of XFree86 1.1
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 13:51:43 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.194931.16296@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>| This, by the way, is a perfect example of why SVR4 is better than SCO.
>| We have a single binary kit, ~20MB compressed, that works on SVR4 from 7 
>| different vendors.  
>This may come as a shock, but V.3 worked that way, too, and Xenix/386
>binaries will run on virtually anything. 

	Bill, I have an idea that this refers to the fact that most
	(if not all) r4s are pretty standard, specially in the networking
	code.  Believe me, a networking program like X is NOT compatible
	with all svr3's.  Back then, everyone did their network interface
	different than everyone else.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: dold@unislc.uucp (Clarence Dold)
Subject: Everex DOS "evtape" reader?
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 18:34:35 GMT

Does anyone know of a utility under SCO UNIX that would read a backup made
under DOS, using the evtape utility that Everex supplies with their tape
drives?
I tried tar4dos on the DOS side, but there doesn't appear to be a driver
associated with the evtape utility, just the utility itself.
I can read the tape with dd, and I have examined it a little with hd, so it
is retrievable, but I don't know the layout.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: ed@maxed.amg.com (Ed Whittemore)
Subject: Re: ISC update: v3.1?
Organization: American Micro Group, Ft. Lee  NJ
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 16:20:49 GMT

In article <1992Oct10.122345.1518@dlpinc00.rn.com> dlparker@dlpinc00.rn.com (David L. Parker) writes:
>In article <1992Oct9.154317.25261@xyzoom.info.com> rob@xyzoom.info.com (Rob Lingelbach) writes:
>>I heard recently that SunSoft plans to release an update to ISC
>>version 3.0 (SVR3.2) this fall that will include symbolic links, long
>>filenames, and the Korn Shell.  I was surprised to hear this because I
>>thought SunSoft's upgrade path for ISC users was going to be to
>>Solaris 2.0.  
>>
>>Can anyone confirm or deny the information? 
>>
>
>I believe it's already out, and that it's version 3.01.  I believe that
>VP/ix and X11R5 were also updated.  The policy on upgrades as various 
>SunSoft people have expressed it to me is that SVR3 will continue to be
>a supported product, with periodic upgrades, for some time.  Meaning  
>(at least to me) that as long as people are interested in buying it, 
>they'll keep selling it.
>-- 
>Dave Parker
>Automated Data Management Services, Pleasant Hill, MO 64080-1331
>(816) 987-5167/5218 voice/fax

What came out in August was 3.01. It does not have symbolic links, long
filenames.

The included Korn Shell does not have job control.

The stated policy of SunSoft is to support the two different product 
lines indefinitely. 

Solaris 2.0 is not replacing Interactive.

SunSoft say they are considering releasing a series of technical and
functional updates (not new releases) which may include such things
as job control for the ksh, full DOS 5.0 support for VP/ix, symlinks
and other things.


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: jeff@samantha.chi.il.us (Jeffrey K. Johnson)
Subject: Re: ISC update: v3.1?
Reply-To: jeff@samantha.chi.il.us
Organization: JBC Associates
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 12:55:26 GMT

In <1992Oct13.014001.27571@tous.oau.org> rbt@tous.oau.org (Robert B. Tate) writes:

: >I believe it's already out, and that it's version 3.01.  I believe that
: >VP/ix and X11R5 were also updated.  The policy on upgrades as various 
: >SunSoft people have expressed it to me is that SVR3 will continue to be
: >a supported product, with periodic upgrades, for some time.  Meaning  
: >(at least to me) that as long as people are interested in buying it, 
: >they'll keep selling it.
: 
: BUT, does anyone _know_ if it includes symbolic links, long filenames,
: Korn shell, etc.? I don't want to start my waiting on hold and begging to
: the person that _finelly_ (maybe) answers the phone to let me buy it
: unless it is really worth it.

3.01 is out.  It does not include symlinks, long file names or DOS 5.0
support in VP/ix.  What is does it make some fixes from the previous fix
disks and official release.

I don't have the release notes here, but these are the main things:

DOS 5.0 partitions are supported and can be mounted.

Ksh is ksh86a (ANCIENT and BROKEN!) No job control even thought the
kernel supports it!  Someone should get ksh88 from the AT&T ToolChest
and compile it on 3.0, it provides job control just fine.

Some minor X windows fixes and support for VESA protected mode support.
They include a couple of VESA config files, but not for any ET4000.

Fixes for CD-ROMs.

VP/ix support for DOS 5.0, symlinks and long filenames is supposed to
appear in 3.1.  Who knows if they'll ever ship a real ksh.

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From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Wangtek or Archive??
Date: 13 Oct 92 14:55:27 GMT
Organization: Somewhere just far enough out of Toronto

>> - Sankyo
>
>If their tape drives are anything like their hifi I'd avoid it.

I don't think *Sankyo* (tape drives) is the same company as *Sanyo* (HiFi).
I could be wrong, however.

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From: baos@caip.rutgers.edu (Bancroft Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Emacs and tcsh on SCO 3.2.2
Keywords: emacs tcsh sco
Date: 16 Oct 92 01:03:40 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

ctaylor@supernet.dallas.haus.com (Carl Taylor) writes:

>When you issue Ctrl-Z within Emacs or Vi, tcsh displays the "Suspended" 
>"prompt"a immediatly after the cursor location.  When the "fg" command is
>issued the application does not redraw the screen.  After several hours of
>testing I found an application that does not use curses and that works as
>I would expect.

>Has anyone else come across this problem, and is there a known solution ?

I have the same problem.  After much discussion with SCO tech support 
I did the following which is a somewhat satisfactory workaround -
add to either ~/.emacs or the default.el file in your emacs/lisp directory
the following:

;; define an alternate suspend key
(global-set-key "\C-xz" 'suspend-emacs)

This does the trick.  The problem that I still have is that every one in
a while my fingers forget that they are on SCO and press ctrl-Z.  At this
point the only thing that works is to type ESC-x save-buffers-kill-emacs
and get back into emacs.

Bancroft Scott
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: ledford@networx.com (Don Ledford)
Subject: 486, Local Bus, S3 upgrade
Summary: Upgrade hardware recommendations
Keywords: 486, Local Bus, S3 
Organization: NetWorx
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 23:27:42 GMT

I'm currently running ESIX 4.0 with SGCS X11R5 on a 386-25 with an awful
VGA card.  I'm considering the following upgrade:

    486DX-50 256K cache, ISA, local bus     Orchid
    Local Bus S3 card                       Orchid (Fahrenheit 1280)
    16 Meg RAM (4 4x9 60ns simms)
    17" monitor (non interlace)             NEC-5FG or ??
    ~200 Meg additional HD                  Maxtor 213

I'll upgrade my 1542 SCSI controller to a local bus SCSI later.

Any counter-recommendations or suggested alternatives?

don ledford     ledford@networx.com

Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: jhpb@sarto.budd-lake.nj.us (Joseph H. Buehler)
Subject: g++ 2.2.2 & libg++ 2.2 under ESIX SVR4.0.3A?
Organization: none
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 03:45:57 GMT

I just installed GCC 2.2.2 on my ESIX SVR4.0.3A box.  The GCC part
seems pretty stable, but the G++ compiler has problems, it seems.  It
will not compile the libg++ 2.2 library correctly:

- I had to compile it without optimization to even get it to build
properly.

- a simple "hello world" C++ program using the iostream functionality
aborts with a memory allocation error.

Does anyone have a good g++ 2.2.2/libg++ 2.2 combination running on
ESIX SVR4?
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: gwr@mc.com (Gordon W. Ross)
Subject: Re: I want *YOUR* SCSI tape backup command!! (making it stream)
Reply-To: gwr@mc.com
Organization: Mercury Computer Systems, Lowell MA 01854
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 19:49:57 GMT

Stephen M. Youndt <steve@hacker.uucp> asks:
>	I'm sure this is a FAQ, but I didn't pay attention because I
>didn't have a SCSI tape drive until yesterday.  If somebody out there
>has a backup command (tar, cpio, etc, I don't care) that makes their
>SCSI tape drive go fast, I'd love to see it. If you like, you can

There is a jumper on the Wangtek which makes it default to
"buffered mode" operation.  This will make it stream on writes.
Order the manual from Wangtek to learn about this jumper.

Alternatively, ask your UNIX vendor to add the appropriate
"mode select" command to put the tape in buffered mode in open.
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From: jerry@incc.com (Jerry Rocteur)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,alt.cd-rom
Subject: CD ROM
Date: 8 Oct 92 22:48:07 GMT
Followup-To: alt.cd-rom
Organization: InCC.com Perwez Belgium


I've just ordered a new 50 MHZ system from Continental to run ODT 2.0
and I was toying with the idea of putting a CD ROM drive on it, I am 
not sure whether to do that or not, I have dos PCs in my office and it i
s about time I bought a CD ROM drive, but is it worth it installing one 
on an ODT 2.0 machine ??

I know that ODT comes on CD ROM but apart from that, will I be able to
read all those great CD ROMs I see advertised, is there software like
MSCDEX for UNIX that I can use to read CD ROMs.

Am I better off buying one and sticking in in a DOS machine with
Soundblaser ??????

Confused (again :-)
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