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From: tnixon@hayes.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Conventions for file name "extensions"
Date: 27 Aug 92 12:19:06 EDT
Organization: Hayes Microcomputer Products, Norcross, GA

I'm not a Unix expert, but since I do sort of know how to use 
netnews I was asked to post this question by someone else here in 
the company.  Any help you can provide would be most appreciated!

Is there a document or file available which lists "all" of the 
filename extension conventions used on Unix systems?  I know, for 
example, that on MS-DOS systems that ".EXE", ".COM", ".BAT", etc., 
imply certain characteristics for a file, and that major
applications have their own conventions as well.  Has anyone
collected a list of similar conventions for major Unix applications
and for Unix itself? 

If you could send the list to me via email I would appreciate it
very much, as I have access to ftp only with some difficulty. 

Thanks! 

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: dtb@otto.bf.rmit.oz.au (David Bath)
Subject: Re: Fixing Corrupted Tar files?
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia.
Date:  3 Sep 92 07:03:09 GMT
Keywords: tar,corrupt

jtillema@lpl.arizona.edu (John Tillema) writes:

>Is there any way to do this? (fix corrupted tar files?)  Are
>there any utilties that will do this?

Try tarx from comp.sources.unix early volumes
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: joel@mot.com (Joel Nahum)
Subject: telnet vs. rlogin
Reply-To: joel@mcil.comm.mot.com
Organization: Motorola Communications Israel Ltd., Tel Aviv
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 08:13:52 GMT
Keywords: telnet

Is there any different between telnet and rlogin?



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From: rebibo%cesar@crbca1.sinet.slb.com (NICOLAS REBIBO)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: emulating a vt100 terminal under Openwindows 2.0
Date: 4 Sep 92 15:59:06 GMT

I am working on a Sun with SunOS 4.1.1 and Openwindows 2.0. I have tried
to emulate a vt100 in a window with the command: xterm -tn vt100

It looks like a terminal window but it does not emulate the the function
keys. Am I missing another option ?

Thanks for your help,

Nicolas Rebibo
Internet: rebibo@crbca1.sinet.slb.com
Xref: sparky comp.unix.questions:10379 biz.sco.general:3019
From: kgermann@zeos.com
Newsgroups: sanet.list.sco,comp.unix.questions,biz.sco.general
Subject: Packet and Window Size.
Date: 25 Aug 92 12:11:09 GMT
Distribution: sanet
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
X-Conv: Automatic mail-->news conversion at olsa99


I tried adb and fst patches to change the pkttime and size of the windows on
UUCICO under SCO without any luck. I get a symbol not found error. I did
a strings on the file and I see the window and pktime there. But for some
reason it doesn't let me change it. Any ideas on this would be appreciated.


Send mail or post.
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From: mikea@cdsac.uucp (Michael Axford)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Raw Partition V/S File for Database  Opinions Please.
Keywords: Informix on IBM RS6000
Date: 27 Aug 92 17:47:54 GMT
Organization: CableData (U.S. Computer Services), Sacramento, CA
NntpPostingHost: cdsac

In article <Aug.17.15.26.10.1992.6170@gauss.rutgers.edu> 
manmetha@gauss.rutgers.edu (Rajesh Malhotra) writes:

>	Is it advantageous to have a raw partition for a database or
>should a file system be used as a database chunk? I would like to hear
>pros and cons on this matter.
>
>	Any advantages of one method above the other?

While we are using Oracle instead of Informix, some points are common.  

1.  There is usually a performance increase when using raw partitions
instead of the file system.  Usually the RDMS can do a better job of 
getting to the data than a general purpose file system.

2.  Many of the normal UNIX tools break with raw partitions.  Since 
it is not a true file system the tools can't access the data to give
directory listings, file sizes or do backups, etc.

3.  If your application requires mirroring of the drives, LVM will 
not be able to help you.  You are at the mercy of your RDMS vendor.
In our case, this is a compelling reason to NOT use raw partitions.

For what its worth.  Of course the opinions are my own, blah blah blah

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From: lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: need script to rename uppercase filenames
Keywords: script,tar,msdos
Date: 4 Sep 92 16:20:44 GMT
Organization: NetLabs, Inc.

In article <1992Sep03.151245.11128@Celestial.COM> bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell) writes:
:         s/\s+$//;   # strip all trailing whitespace including ^M

Unfortunately, that also deletes the ^J.  Since the script unlinks the
DOS file, you've just thrown away information that's not easily
reconstructable.  (In fact, the files won't even be editable unless you
use GNU emacs.)  It would be safer to move the DOS file to a temporary
subdirectory until you're sure the translation works right.

I don't want to discourage anyone from helping people, but help is not
what booby traps are generally construed as...  :-)

Larry Wall
lwall@netlabs.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: bohrer@mcc.com (Bill Bohrer)
Subject: Re: A question on ls
Organization: MCC, Austin, TX
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 23:54:25 GMT

In article <1992Aug29.233534.27967@umbc3.umbc.edu> rouben@math9.math.umbc.edu (Rouben Rostamian) writes:
>In article <6786@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> naren@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Naren Bala) writes:
>>If I type
>>% ls *.Z 
>>All files with .Z extension are displayed.
>>
>>What command would I type to display all files that do not have a .Z 
>>extension ?
>
>The wildcards are expanded by the shell, so the answer is: it depends on
>the shell you are using.  In tcsh, you type:
>% ls ^*.Z
>In sh and csh you are out of luck.  In other shells, I don't know.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Not true, this should work in ALL shells:

ls | grep -v '.Z'


Bill Bohrer
bohrer@mcc.com

Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation
(MCC ... the "T" didn't conform to the industry-wide
three-initial-standard..)
3500 West Balcones Center Drive
Austin,  TX  78759-6509
(512)343-0978





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From: nelson@desktop.nsc.com (Taed Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: @ Re: Technical dictionary
Date: 3 Sep 92 15:55:51 GMT
Organization: Applications Technology, National Semiconductor (Santa Clara, CA)

In article <BtyEnK.LsL@wpi.WPI.EDU>, mugsy@winton.uucp (Michael G. Bruce) writes:
> Does anyone know of a quality CS dictionary?  While I have a working knowledge
> of terms such as MIPS, FLOPS, IPC, etc,  I have occasion to need a proper,
> concise definition.

Although not "concise", I would highly recommend _The Encyclopedia of Computer
  Science_.  It's about 2000 pages, and has 1/2 - 4 page articles on
  everything about CS that you would ever want to know.  Particularly
  interesting is the history and details of the "classic" machines.  I don't
  know who publishes/ed it, but it goes for about $50 used.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: djr48312@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (X X)
Subject: SLIP, KA9Q, what next to get to xterm?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 06:26:06 GMT

Well a few weeks ago I asked how to run an Xterminal via modem.  Everyone
told me I must get a SLIP connection.  Well I have the SLIP connection.
Also that I would need something like KA9Q or NET.  Got those.  Here is
the problems and questions.  The readme file that came with KA9Q is not
very helpful in installing and I would appreciate if someone gave me a
brief overview on what I must do to install.  Suppose I did get this
KA9Q working, I could not just establish the connection and then type
"xterm" and expect to start an xwindow session could I.  Do I need a
x program for the pc?  What do you recommend if a program is needed?
Is there a public domain program that does this?  

Anyhelp will be appreciated.
From: josef@alcor.concordia.ca ( JOSEF STOKLAS )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Looking for info about unix-dbase-software (OFFICE) ?
Date: 4 Sep 92 19:26:33 GMT
Distribution: ca
Organization: Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
Originator: josef@alcor

Serais interesse a avoir des informations sur un prologiciel de
base de donnees "Office" pour systeme UNIX. 
Le nom, adresse ou telephone de la compagnie qui produit le
logiciel serais apprecie.
***********
Would appreciate receiving information about a data base software
for UNIX called "Office".
The name, address or phone number of the company producing the
software would be appreciated.
Merci, Thanks
 
Mike
From: flynn@nematic.kent.edu (Mark Flynn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Going nuts over tar X option
Date: 28 Aug 92 21:18:42 GMT

I'm trying to backup our system using tar. This is on a Sun SparcStation II
running SunOS4.1.2. The tape drive is on another machine, so I have a litle
script:

echo "Performing backup on $* to Scorpio..."
echo "Rewinding tape..."
rsh scorpio mt -f/dev/rmt0 rewind
echo "Now to work..."
tar -cvfX - /etc/local/xclude.tar $* | rsh scorpio dd of=/dev/rmt0 bs=1024b
conv\
=block

So, executing this with argument "/" will dump the whole lot.

Now, the problem. The X option is there because we have AnswerBook
installed. There's some funky file in the /usr/AnswerBook directory which
claims (with ls -l) to have a size of some 400Meg. It doesn't, cause the
partition isn't that big. My guess is that it's some sort of hook into the
cd-resident data. Anyways, dd on the remote machine croaks with the message:

a //usr/AnswerBook/OLSPEC.pag 863706 blocks
dd: 0511-065 Requested a write of 524288 bytes, but wrote only 230912.
dd: 0+642838 records in.
dd: 2240+0 records out.

and the thing stops. OK, I say, I'll use the X option on tar. So I have a
file (xclude.tar) which contains one line:

/usr/AnswerBook

But this didn't exclude anything! After R-ingTFM more carefully, I saw that
I had to be careful to not leave any whitespace after the directory name.
Alas, the result was the same. The odd thing is that if I execute the script
with arguement /usr or /usr/AnswerBook, it is excluded. But when I pass the
arguement /, it seems to ignore the exclude file. Is there some known bug?
Is there a problem with spanning partitions? Any suggestions?

Mark Flynn
Liquid Crystal Institute
Kent State University
flynn@nematic.kent.edu
Newsgroups: sanet.list.sco,comp.unix.questions,biz.sco.general
From: gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews)
Subject: Re: Packet and Window Size.
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 00:49:01 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Summary: Use windows, not _windows
Distribution: sanet

In article <9096@olsa99.UUCP> kgermann@zeos.com writes:
>
>I tried adb and fst patches to change the pkttime and size of the windows on
>UUCICO under SCO without any luck. I get a symbol not found error. I did
>a strings on the file and I see the window and pktime there. But for some
>reason it doesn't let me change it. Any ideas on this would be appreciated.
>

Yeah, that happened to me, too.  After a while, I decided that the
"symbol not found" error was happening because the symbol's name
had been changed in 3.2.4.

I told adb to look for the string "windows" instead of "_windows",
and it worked.  Give that a try...


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: dbrenner@shag.UUCP (Don Brenner)
Subject: awk help
Organization: Genasys UK Ltd.
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 21:27:17 GMT


I am opening several ouput files while in a awk command.  I 
keep getting an error message telling me I have opened 
too many files.  Is there anyway I can get around 
this?

the error message is 
	awk: too many output files 10
	record number 344

any help or infomation please email me at dbrenner@slug.ssc.gov

thanks in advance.

	donald brenner
From: skutvik@sleepy.UUCP ( ECMS TEST)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: xbtoa
Summary: xbtoa, can you send it here too pleeeeze
Keywords: xbtoa
Date: 26 Aug 92 01:11:20 GMT
Organization: Boeing Computer Services, Seattle

I too am interested in getting the xbtoa package.  I just got a copy of
CMU CL it's all in xbtoa, and I don't have any way to unpack it...
any help would be appreciated....
From: fish@daacdev1.stx.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: how come : ! out of vi always uses sh instead of $SHELL ???
Date: 26 Aug 92 18:30:51 GMT
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center

whenever i :! out of vi it uses /bin/sh instead of $SHELL
so all of my aliases are lost, etc and makes it very limited

i'm just beginning to see just how powerful vi really is but
this one is screwing me up royally  

	thanx,
		fish
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
From: lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Subject: Re: IP address from remote telnet
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 03:33:18 GMT

dymm@cards.com (David Dymm) writes:


>I would like to figure out how to determine an individual's IP address
>when they are telneting into my system from a remote machine.
>The scenario is that a user is on machine A (anywhere in the world),
>and telnets into my system, and then runs a program on my system that
>I provide to them.  The program that is running on my system must be
>able to determine the IP address of machine A.

Get the log_tcp (tcp wrapper) package.  I believe it's on
ftp.win.tue.nl and cert.sei.cmu.edu in the tools directory.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: dbsuthe@pbhya.PacBell.COM (Daniel B. Suthers)
Subject: Re: I want a program that prints out base gid's of any user
Reply-To: dbsuthe@PacBell.COM (Daniel B. Suthers)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 23:17:03 GMT

In article <15360003@hprpcd.rose.hp.com> tmilner@hprpcd.rose.hp.com (Tom Milner) writes:
>In comp.unix.questions, bzg52408@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Benjamin Z. Goldsteen) writes:
>
>
>|       I have been trying to write a program that prints out the
>|    base gid of a user (given on the command line).  I have tried
>|    using awk and perl, but I can not get anything decent.

The following shell script should work in a resonably portable and robust way:
GRPNO=`grep "^$1:" /etc/passwd | cut -f4 -d:` &&
sed -n "s/^\(.*\):.*:$GRPNO:.*/\1/"p /etc/group

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: mfugazzo@resdgs1.er.usgs.gov (Mark Fugazzotto)
Subject: help with script
Originator: mfugazzo@resdgs1.er.usgs.gov
Organization: United States Geological Survey
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:03:11 GMT

 A while ago I had asked for help with posting the
motd on the server to all remote workstations. I got
a big response back. Thanks to everyone that responded.
 Some suggetions were to use rdist(unsupported on this
version of Unix), use rcp (would have worked but a
security hazard to make root equivilent on from the 
server to all workstations). The one I went with was
a script on the server to ftp  via anonymous the motd 
to all workstations. then have a cron job on each
workstation copy the motd into the etc directory. 
 This works well except for one flaw with cron I can't
seem to overcome. Cron simply executes a script on each
workstation at the specified times, and it does. Only it
does not echo to the screen the line in the script which
tells the user that an updated motd has arrived. Where is
this output being sent to? If I execute the script manually
it works fine. What can I do to get cron to echo the line to
the screen? 
 Also while I'm here, Is there something I can put into my 
script that will check first for a logon, if one is found then
echo to the screen, if one is not found, do nothing??

                          thanks in advance

                                             Mark...
Xref: sparky comp.unix.questions:10392 comp.lang.pascal:5061 alt.cobol:391 comp.unix.bsd:4726
From: khera@cs.duke.edu (Vivek Khera)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.lang.pascal,alt.cobol,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: BSD pascal and cobol compilers?
Date: 26 Aug 92 13:53:58 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.questions
Organization: Duke University CS Dept., Durham, NC
In-reply-to: jsaker@cwis.unomaha.edu's message of 26 Aug 92 02:00:42 GMT
X-Md4-Signature: 9f1d72c0200112737df7ce510f8a1e4b

In article <jsaker.714794442@cwis> jsaker@cwis.unomaha.edu (James R. Saker Jr.) writes:

   As I'm a long distance call away from my school's dialups and am
   taking both Cobol and Pascal this semester, I'm looking for compilers
   for both which could operate under a BSD environment (I'm aware of
   commercial solutions for the SCO SVR4 environment but haven't seen
   anything on the net for BSD).

you could pick up Dave Gillespie's p2c pascal to C converter.  it
supposedly does a good job at translating pascal and then compiling
it.  it should be available on csvax.cs.caltech.edu among other
places. i have never personally used this package.  i don't know what
you can do about Cobol, though.

good luck with your classes.
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From: dsg@impmh.uucp (Dave Gordon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Shared memory baby question on ultrix 4.2
Summary: shared memory permissions
Keywords: shared memory permissions
Date: 1 Sep 92 15:56:24 GMT
Organization: Integrated Micro Products Ltd

In comp.unix.questions deano@piglet.otago.ac.nz writes:

> Help Help Help
>
> I don't understand shared memory.  Sorry, but all I can find in the
> documentation for our DECstations is the man pages which tell me what to use
> and what to pass but not HOW to use ?!?!?!?!?!?
>
> at the moment I do this :
>
> key = ftok("/tmp", 'a');
> shmid = shmget(key, 64, IPC_CREAT | IPC_EXCL);
> s = shmat(shmid, 0, SHM_R | SHM_W);
>
> *s = 1; /* BARF BARF BARF, kernel acces since s == -1 */
>
> help help help



deano's problem is in the parameters to the shmget(2) call ...
the third parameter should include the permissions (modes) for
the new segment; the manual page on our system reads:

	  The low-order 9 bits of shm_perm.mode are set equal to the
		    low-order 9 bits of shmflg.

The shared-memory segment is created with no permissions for
anybody, so the shmat(2) call fails (returns -1).

The permissions are just like those used for files, except that
there is no 'execute' mode.  So the third parameter could be
	    (IPC_CREAT|IPC_EXCL|0666)
which gives read/write permission to everybody, or some other modes,
according to what is wanted.

ipcs(1) will display the status of shared memory segments including
permissions.


PS:
deano: I tried to mail this to deano@piglet.otago.ac.nz, but it
bounced at uknet.ac.uk; are you sure about your mail address??
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: venkatar@doowop.jpl.nasa.gov (Subramanian Venkataraman (TV))
Subject: Dumb Question
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 18:56:42 GMT

Hello.

I have two dumb questions.

(i) I am given to understand that there exists a public domain
version of the BSD386 system (net2?). How do I get hold of the
source code?

(ii) Is there a SUN version of net2?

Please note that I am note a system guru, or even a system expert!
Just a novice trying to get hold of info that may be useful for a
project I am involved in.

Thanks a lot.

S.T. Venkataraman.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
venkatar@robotics.jpl.nasa.gov




Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.lang.c
From: henders@infonode.ingr.com (Greg Henderson)
Subject: 'system' call uses 'sh'... Can I change this??
Summary: Want to change system call from using sh to something else.
Keywords: system sh
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 20:39:36 GMT


Hopefully someone has run across a way to work around this...  

Take this simple program -->

main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	char str[100];
	printf ("enter shell command:");
	gets (str);
	system (str);
}

and I call it g.c and do this ->

$ make g
        acc  -O  g.c -o g
$ g
enter shell command:sleep 100


and on another window I check my process listing -->

    greg 26973 26970  0 08:06:57 ttyp0    0:03 -ksh
    greg 27786 26973  0 15:27:26 ttyp0    0:00 g
    greg 27787 27786  0 15:27:31 ttyp0    0:00 sh -c sleep 100
    greg 27788 27787  0 15:27:31 ttyp0    0:00 sleep 100


Does anyone know a way to get the system call to use  a different shell
than 'sh'?  like maybe 'ksh'...


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: hashmi@cse.uta.edu (Atiqullah Hashmi)
Subject: How and where to search old postings of a newsgoup??
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, Univ. of Texas at Arlington
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 00:37:29 GMT

Hi netters,

I want to search some postings on the newsgroup 'misc.jobs.offered'.
(or any other newsgroup for that matter).
Can any kind soul tell me 'how' and 'where' to get the postings of 
last few months.

Thanks.

hashmi
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