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From: lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: How to Change the TimeZone in a Sparc
Date: 22 Nov 92 23:00:01 GMT
Organization: cic

rice@ttd.teradyne.com writes:

>   Does anyone know how I can go about changing the TimeZone on a SPARC, 
>without re-loading from scratch ? We're moving a machine from Chicago to
>Tampa and it seems silly to have to re-load the O.S. just to change the
>timezone.

>   I spent a couple of hours with the Docs and couldn't find it. 

No wonder, it's not there.

Do this:

	cd /usr/lib/zoneinfo
	ls -i localtime
This gives you the inode number for localtime. That file is just a hard link.
	ls -id * */* | grep <inode>
Gives you the other names of that file (just to see what is currently set).
	rm localtime
	ln US/Eastern localtime
(Or whatever you want.)

If you repeat the procedure of looking for the inode number, you will
find US/Eastern linked with EST5EDT, Jamaica, and posixrules.
Why posixrules? I can't guess. Maybe POSIX is only valid on the
east coast?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: devs@netcom.com (DSC)
Subject: Software development contracts for Devsoft
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 01:55:26 GMT


Devsoft Corporation is looking for software contracts in the following
areas:

1. Device drivers for Solaris 2.X and HP-UX platforms.
2. X-Windows/MOTIF/Open Windows GUI for applications.
3. Software projects in document imaging area.


Devsoft is presently porting device device drivers from SunOS4.X to
Solaris 2.1 for a major Sun VAR. Devsoft has more bandwidth to take up
other software development contracts in the areas listed above.

Devsoft Corporation is a value-added reseller of Sun Microsystems and
Hewlett-Packard. Devsoft has its own image scanning product called
XpertScan. Devsoft has also developed device drivers for optical disk
drivers and tape drives.

Here are the particulars about Devsoft:

        Devsoft Corporation
        1010 West Fremont Avenue
        Sunnyvale, CA 94087

        Phone: (408) 736-7650
        Fax  : (408) 736-7696
        Email: devs@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: hocking@rtsg.mot.com (Richard Hocking)
Subject: Sending data to a window (TTY) as though from keyboard
Reply-To: uunet!motcid!hocking
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:01:13 GMT

Is there an easy way to send data to a TTY window created with
"window_create(frame, TTY, ...)" as though the data came from
the keyboard ?

When the TTY is created it starts a shell.  I need help finding a
means of sending data, say "ls" to the window such that the shell then
executes the "ls" as though it was typed in.

Help anyone ?


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.org.sug
From: dan@BofA.COM (Dan Brockman)
Subject: NSE findings
Organization: Bank of America, Capital Products, RMTG #5906
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 00:49:21 GMT

My thanks to all of you who responded to my request for
advice on NSE.

Here is what I have found out.


1.  Sun is end-of-lifing (killing) NSE
2.  Official release of successor product is real soon,
    sunfolk say "a couple of weeks" or "a couple of
    days".
3.  Successor product is code-named "Aviary"
4.  Sunfolk act uncomfortable when you ask them if 
    "TeamWare" is the name of the new product.  
    As though you and they are not supposed to know
    that yet.
5.  There is upgrade path from NSE to Aviary.
6.  Aviary is cheaper than NSE, sunfolk say.
7.  The sunpitch:  Aviary relies on a simpler model
    than NSE, hence is much easier and much more
    robust.

8.  Users report NSE very difficult to administer,
    buggy, requires emergency attention from 
    Sun from time to time, requires much disk
    space, a net loss for less than 4 programmers,
    problematical when you have to restore.
    
9.  My appeal for favorable critiques of NSE generated
    zero responses.
    
10. Competitors.  One respondent has tried ClearCase
    by Atria and gives it a strong favorable review.
    For info:  uunet!viewpnt!support or support@atria.com
    
11. More info on Sun's successor to NSE...
    Check with the Sun "CASE Ambassador" via your
    local Sun rep.
    
===
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: "David Herron" <david@twg.com>
Subject: Re: What is a 386i???
Sensitivity: Personal
Encoding:  19 TEXT , 4 TEXT 
Conversion: Prohibited
Organization: The Wollongong Group, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
Conversion-With-Loss: Prohibited
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:56:40 GMT


> It was also pretty much of a flop.  Like I told one person:
> "imagine IBM deciding to build a PC based on the 68030  and make it
> compatible with MS-DOS."

Now you've gone and done it again.  You've hurt my poor workstation's feelings!

;-) ;-)

Seriously ..

All I run local on this guy is an X server (X11R5 pl17), an Emacs and a
couple of xterm's.  It runs the display fast enough.. XmText widgets scroll
at full speed over the network for instance.  But if I try doing anything major
local the screen slows down tremendously unless the X server is reniced
to something like -15.  It was way slow when X was X11R3 ...

The worst part is the weirdo things they did to the system administration
on it.

<- David Herron <david@twg.com> (work) <david@davids.mmdf.com> (home)
<-
<- During the '80s Usenet's mantra was: "Not all the world's a VAX".
<- During the '90s I hope it becomes:   "Not all the world's DOS (ick)".
From: tony@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM (Tony Reeves)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: 8500 tapes...
Date: 18 Nov 92 17:27:24 GMT
Reply-To: tony@hacgate.UUCP (Tony Reeves)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, CA

Can anyone tell me the best setting for Blocking, density, and size for the
sun 8500 8mm tapes? I want to be sure to get 5 gig out of it, 

thanks

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---- The opitions expressed here are mine and have nothing to do with Hughes
Aircraft Co. -- So there! tony@hacgate.hac.com
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 12:25:09 EST
From: <YXL100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Qestion on Sunview

Hi,

Does anyone know how to run a command by default every time one enters sunview
or opens a new window?

Thanks in advance!

--Yong
From: mesm@netcom.com (Mary E. S. Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: How to Change the TimeZone in a Sparc
Date: 22 Nov 92 22:09:55 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

rice@ttd.teradyne.com writes:
: 
:    Does anyone know how I can go about changing the TimeZone on a SPARC, 
: without re-loading from scratch ? We're moving a machine from Chicago to
: Tampa and it seems silly to have to re-load the O.S. just to change the
: timezone.
: 
:    I spent a couple of hours with the Docs and couldn't find it. 
: 
: 
The command is called zic. Check your local man pages for details.
: 

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mesm@netcom.COM      |  in will, then in reality. -- Galivan Burwell
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From: lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Serial Device Driver Info Needed
Keywords: Serial Port, SPARCstation 1+
Date: 22 Nov 92 11:14:02 GMT
Organization: cic

dave@pce2.fu.hac.com (Dave Fandel) writes:

>I need information on how to access one of the RS-232 ports on
>a SUN SPARCstation 1+.  Pointers to books, articles, or sources
>greatly appreciated.

>Detail Info on the Problem:
>We are writing an ADA program that needs to communicate via a
>9600 baud RS-232 link to a radio's Communication Module (ie RS-232
>driver/controller/interface).  

>As I see it I need to code some sort of device driver to handle the
>input and output streams and act as an interface to the main ADA
>code.  This device driver can be written in C and linked in with
>the main code.  I have written IBM PC serial device drivers, so I
>have some knowledge of what needs to be done, but I can't seem to
>track down how to do the same thing on the SUN.

Start by doing "man termio". You will need to assemble the
parameters for your device and stuff them into the device
driver and the STREAMS modules. Then you can just read and
write the file descriptor.

If you happen to have a device with a protocol that has
realtime constraints, you might have to write a STREAMS module
yourself. Read the Sun manual about STREAMS modules for
that, it's pretty good.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: peterj@uwa.oz.au (Peter E. Jones)
Subject: Re: Sparc classic -- there *is* edu pricing
Organization: Elec Eng, Univ of Western Australia
Date: 18 Nov 92 08:41:23 GMT

ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:

>Here is the data I got:

>EDUCATION PRICING
> 
>SPARCclassic
>============
>                                 List        End User  
>                                =====        ======== 
> 
>15" color, 16MB, 207MB          $4,295       $3,356        

Down under in OZ the "discount" for educational users makes this machine
AUD$8,500 - which gives an exchange rate of about AUD$1==USA$.39
instead of about .69!  (At this rate Oz price should be $4,900 + ship'g)

Anyone know who is getting all those extra dollars?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Subject: Re: Hung Console
Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 20:14:09 GMT

In article <1992Nov18.132551.27374@linus.mitre.org> jfjr@mbunix.mitre.org (Freedman) writes:
>	Sometimes when adjusting screen savers, playing with X windows
>etc I manage to hang the console - I get a background pattern, perhaps
>a mouse cursor but it is totally unresponsive. I can log in from
>another terminal but the console is hung. What can I do short of
>rebooting?

I and other people here have seen this quite a number of times in the past
month or so. It can be "caused" by any number of applications as they start
up: textedit, Frame, xload, xterm, and SAOimage have all been "culprits".

Usually you can get it back by logging in from another terminal and killing
either the offending process (if you know what you asked for just before it
hung) or all the windows-related processes. Once, though, a system hung
totally and *had* to be rebooted with L1-A.

We run 4.1.2, OW3.0, olwm (in all cases that I'm aware of), various patches 
but none that were applied shortly before this problem became noticeable.

I also would appreciate any information. It is a *real* pain.
-- 
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Computing Division Head      rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: ctrbdo@iapa.uucp%mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu (bryan d oakley)
Subject: Re: What is a 386i???
Organization: FAA / Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 21:00:06 GMT

>     I have a friend interested in buying a used Sun 386i but either
> of use have any idea what exactly it is.  I assume that it really a
> ibm pc clone with sold buy Sun which happens to come with a Sun os
> installed.  Right???
> 
> Ke-Wei
>> It has Sun-style frame buffers, and Sun-style serial port chips, and a
>> Sun-style network interface; I think other peripherals are also
>> Sun-style peripherals.
>>
>>> It was also pretty much of a flop.  Like I told one person:
>>> "imagine IBM deciding to build a PC based on the 68030  and make it
>>> compatible with MS-DOS."
>>>
>>> -Pete

... but it is somewhat useful.  You can get X11R5, gcc and most other
GNU stuff up and running on it.  And I believe you can pick them up
for a song these days.  I'm using one at work and, though I can't wait
until it gets replaced, it works well all things considered.  

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: courtney@podunk.cps.msu.edu (Jonathan Courtney)
Subject: Re: Sun5PCOW keyboard remapping
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan State University
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 15:30:46 GMT


In article <15476@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
|> >  unfortunately, this only works with the Sun5PC (MIT layout) keyboard
|> 
|> "MIT layout"?  Eh?
|> 
|> >OpenWindows seems to use Sun5PCOW (OpenWindows layout) instead.
|> 
|> "OpenWindows layout"?  Eh?
|> 
|> I'm not aware of any naming schemes for Sun Type 5 keyboard hardware
|> that refers to things that sound like the sources of X11 releases, such
|> as "MIT" and "OpenWindows".

   I believe that I got these names from a keyboard modification utiliity
called "xkeycaps".  The impression is that if the keyboard layout is modified
(with what? loadkeys?) that a name string is associated with the keyboard.
For all I know, the naming is arbitrary.

|> 
|> See if you can get Sun to let you swap your PC-layout keyboard for a
|> UNIX-layout one.

  Happily, an easier solution was put forth by Alain Brossard in article
<1992Nov15.220237.siisun.epfl.ch>.  His suggestion of modifying the default
keytable used by OpenWindows to disable latching on the Caps_Lock key worked.
In addition, I was able to add latching to the Control key so that both
keys behaved normally once xmodmap was run.

						Jon Courtney
From: btaylor@mcl.bdm.com (Brent Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Emulating vt100 under sunview
Date: 23 Nov 92 18:46:58 GMT
Organization: BDM International, Inc.

I am using sunview and would like to emulate a vt100 terminal. I am using
both cmdtools and shelltools. Is there any way to have them use vt100
settings instead of the sun-cmd settings. Appreciate any help, thanks.
From: jfjr@mbunix.mitre.org (Freedman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Hung Console
Date: 18 Nov 92 13:25:51 GMT
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA


	Sometimes when adjusting screen savers, playing with X windows
etc I manage to hang the console - I get a background pattern, perhaps
a mouse cursor but it is totally unresponsive. I can log in from
another terminal but the console is hung. What can I do short of
rebooting?

                                  Jerry Freedman,Jr
From: toomajia@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Mark Toomajian)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:18:51 GMT
Subject: Sun CDROM on HP 750
Organization: the HP Corporate notes server
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc


Does anyone know if a Sun CDROM will work on an HP 750 workstation? 
Are all CDROMs alike?
Will it work with a standard HP CDROM driver?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: bwp@engin.umich.edu (Bruce Wayne Patton)
Subject: Sun clones info neede
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 12:46:49 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Distribution: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc
 Could someone please post a list of clone manufacturers for Sun workstations. A mailing address
 or e-mail address for each would be most helpful. Also, if you have any experience or prices on the  types of machines offered, it would be most useful.  Thanks...Bruce


Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: wtm@uhura.neoucom.edu (Bill Mayhew)
Subject: Re: Novell sucks!
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
Distribution: comp.sys.sun.misc, misc.forsale.computers.d
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 17:51:11 GMT

Agreed, Novell is irritating.  I've found that our VARs often have
problems answering questions, even if they supposedly have staff
with "CNE" training.  You can pose questions on Compuserve, if you
don't want to pay for phone support, are willing to pay for
Compu$erve.  There, of course, is a Novell news group here on the
internet too; we've had some success getting questions answered by
people who read that group.

DOS users that work in Winodws might want to take a look at
Chameleon by Netmanage.  There are several flavors available.
There is a TCP/IP pacakge, an IPX package and an NFS package.
I've got the TCP/IP version on my computer here in the office.  It
uses a core of Microsoft LAN Magager, and has NDIS drivers to
allow multiple protocol stacks.  The TCP/IP version has an SL/IP
driver, which is what I'm using because my office is too far away
from co-ax for a real network connection.  Telnet, FTP, TFTP, SMTP
mail agent, ping and SNMP responder are included.  The best part of
the package is that the bulk of the support code is in a Windows
dynamic link library that doesn't take up that 640K partition.
Chameleon can also do routing if you have SL/IP and/or one or
more network cards.


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From: bud@mtek.com (Bud Hovell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: "sc" makes lines under cmdtool
Date: 20 Nov 92 23:59:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: mtek.1992Nov20.235957.25273
Reply-To: bud@mtek.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: MTEK International, Inc.

Can anyone tell me why the cursor on the spreadsheet program, sc,
traces a line when it's moved up and down when running under Open-
Windows -- but not when invoked from the command-line?

I thought I'd made an error in setting up the Makefile, but now
I find that a binary copy that runs fine for other Suns has the
same problem as the copy I compiled for a Sun4/260 running 4.1.1
SunOS.

Thanks for any help you may be able to provide.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: fgreco@cfdev1026.shearson.com (Frank Greco)
Subject: Re: SONY NEWS WORKSTATION
Organization: Lehman Brothers
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:44:04 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.041906.13663@afterlife.ncsc.mil> svfenge@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Steven Fenger) writes:
>I do know that a trade mark violation with Sony News was the reason Sun
>spelled NeWS like they did.  I also don't know if Sony News is like Sun
>NeWS.

	This is totally incorrect.  Sony News (Network Workstation) is
	a piece of hardware based originally on the 68K, now MIPS.
	Sun's NeWS is software.  NeWS was originally called SunDew (Sun
	Distributed extensible Window system), but was changed to NeWS
	so as be able to market this software to non-Sun platforms.  At
	the time it was thought (perhaps correctly) that IBM or DEC
	would not license or resell something with "Sun" in the label.

	Frank G.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: fgreco@shearson.com (Frank Greco)
Subject: rsh timing out?
Organization: Lehman Brothers
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:54:07 GMT

I have a job that I've rsh-ed out.  It takes about 2-3 hours to run.  My
error log file occasionally shows failed jobs with entries like:

	myapp: Connection timed out

Does rsh (or anything "below" rsh) have an inherent timeout value that
perhaps I am exceeding?  If so, what should I change to increase it?

Thanks all,

Frank G.
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From: barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Soft Porn in SunExpert!?  :-)
Date: 17 Nov 92 15:43:15 GMT
Organization: Penn State Population Research Institute


	Hmm.. look at the picture in the upper left corner of page 58
of the November 92 issue.

Yeah, sure the caption says it's descripting a subway accident, but
I wonder why they picked that particular frame?   :-)

--Dave
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From: schneck@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Bernhard Schneck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: ?libresolv (DNS client mode) in 4.1.3
Keywords: libresolv,4.1.3
Date: 17 Nov 92 00:46:52 GMT
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)

mike@starburst.umd.edu (Michael F. Santangelo) writes:


>I may want to upgrade some Sun SPARCs soon to 4.1.3.  Last upgrade
>to 4.1.2 was painful mostly due to libresolv not being completely
>turned on (not at all turned on operationally) and a rather

Havn't tried it on 4.1.3 yet (we didn't get the CD, and the preinstalled
machines don't have the `customize shared library' fileset loaded), but
on 4.1.2 using the resolv+-2.1 archive it goes smooth as can be!  Just run
	make libc.so
and after a few minutes you have a new shared library, which can use
DNS, NIS and/or /etc/hosts in any combination you want.

\Bernhard.
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