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From: pat@berry.Cary.NC.US (Pat Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.pcgeos
Subject: Re: List of files I've uploaded so far
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 19:44:51 EDT
Organization: Berry Communications

dtaylor@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Douglas A Taylor) writes:

> source, but it's in German.  My German is pretty rusty; anybody
> willing to undertake a translation?

My B.A. in German is a bit rusty, too, but I'll take a swing at it.

-- 
Pat Berry - Cary, North Carolina, USA   | Dave Barry for President
pat@berry.Cary.NC.US                    |  "He Probably Won't Use
**** Happy user of OS/2 2.0 ****        |     Nuclear Weapons"
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.pcgeos
From: tgc54@cas.org ()
Subject: Re: Launchmaker/Parameter-passing
Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 23:26:29 GMT

In article <Aug.28.14.19.35.1992.19165@pilot.njin.net> birchall@pilot.njin.net (Shag) writes:
>tgc54@cas.org writes:
>
>>I think Shag's problem is that apparently Launcher Maker will not pass on
>>parameters on starting a program.
>
>That really shouldn't be an issue in this case, as I'm just calling the batch
>file, and the batch file defines the parameters which are passed to DSZ.com.
>No filenames need to be passed, since I'm only downloading, and Zmodem gets
>the filenames from the sending side automatically.
>
>-Shag
>--
>
>     Freedom belongs to only those without video screens for eyes and mouth.
>               - Queensryche

The problem I'v had involves passing switches, etc. to an executable file
from WITHIN the .BAT program.  In the listing of the .BAT program you are using
I thought that you had some parameters after DSZ.  Sorry, could be wrong ...

Tom
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Wednesday, 26 Aug 1992 16:27:38 CDT
From: tom mckibben 2 <U51773@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.pcgeos
Subject: Re: GeoComm VT100?
 <92239.001755U51773@uicvm.uic.edu>

My other post has been lost so here it goes again. This is an excerpt from a
script that seems to work with the Vax.

;The Vax will query the terminal type with ESC Z so we look for the Z

:termquery
MATCH "Z" GOTO answer
PROMPT 600
PRINT "TIMEOUT ON TERMINAL QUERY",CR
GOTO done

;Tell the VAX we are a VT102 terminal

:answer
PAUSE 16
SEND ^[
SEND "[?6c"
PRINT "TERMINAL TYPE VT102 SENT",CR
GOTO done

For a vt100 send "[?1c". The ^[ is the ESC character. All of this info is in
the book, "Using MS-DOS Kermit" by Christine M. Gianone in Appendix II. So far
I haven't had any luck getting the editor to work once I'm on the Vax.

tom
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.pcgeos
From: jeff@eng.umd.edu (Jeffrey Frey)
Subject: XModem:binary or text?
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 12:19:13 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park

I've been trying to transfer some program files using Xmodem.  When sending
a file, how does Xmodem know whether the file is binary or a text file?  When
receiving, you have to specify.  Is there something in the beginning of the file
itself?

Jeff
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.pcgeos
From: tgc54@cas.org ()
Subject: Re: Launchmaker problems... solved.
Keywords: Works, now. :)
Organization: Chemical Abstracts Service, Columbus, Ohio
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 23:41:47 GMT

In article <Aug.28.14.52.50.1992.22992@pilot.njin.net> birchall@pilot.njin.net (Shag) writes:
>
>       Well, I blipped off and snagged a batch-to-executable program
>[wuarchive.wustl.edu, /mirrors/msdos/batutl/bat2ex15.zip] and ran my
>zdload.bat through it, getting zdload.com out.  Remade the launcher, and
>it works flawlessly.  [yippee!]
>

OK, I admit it, I was wrong:-).  However, I'v make quite a few launchers using
.BAT files as well as using .COM or .EXE files, and except for those where I
try to pass switches to the executable program they've all worked fine.  And I
have tried converting the .BAT programs that gave me problems to .COM files
using BAT2EXEC.  Mine still don't want to work correctly.

Glad you've solved your problem.  I also agree with you that it would be nice
to return to GeoWorks automatically without being asked.  Launchers are great;
I hated having to go to the DOS screen, back to the opening screen, then to
the World screen, then back to the DOS screen, etc., etc., etc.

- Tom -






















>       The only thing I'd like to see that it doesn't do is an option
>when you're making the launcher, something along the lines of:
>
>Prompt before returning to GEOS? (y/n) _
>
>       In the case of a Zmodem transfer, I can't really think of a situation
>where I'd want to drop out to DOS instead of popping back into GeoComm  [Of
>course, I've got VPIC and Unzip on the dosAssociations list, and Notepad and
>GeoWrite can handle text].
>
>       In other cases, I could see the prompt at the end being pretty useful.
>Just not really in this case.  [Yeah, I want to go ride my bike or something
>while it downloads, and come back to my GEOS screen. ;)]
>
>       -Shag
>--
>
>     Freedom belongs to only those without video screens for eyes and mouth.
>               - Queensryche


Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.pcgeos
From: dtaylor@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Douglas A Taylor)
Subject: Yay!  I got the "goodies" disk from Rudi!
Reply-To: doug-taylor+@osu.edu
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:20:44 GMT

I got the disk from Rudi containing the German GeoWorks tools today.
The disk also includes the US tool Launch Maker.  Since there has been
such an outcry for LM, I decided to put it up at the
mir.eco.utexas.edu site without thoroughly testing it.  It's there now
in the /inbasket directory.  (C'mon, folks, please let's not flood
Tony's site with anonymous ftp sessions, OK?)  It's in the ARJ format
instead of the ZIP format that we're used to using, but you can get
the ARJ program from Simtel20 or one of its mirrors.  I got it from
wuarchive.wustl.edu this morning.

I'd like to test the other stuff before I upload it to make sure it
works OK.  I hope to upload the rest tomorrow morning to the utexas
site.  (Gak, I may be in for a long night!)  I'm also planning on
uploading the stuff to Simtel20 as soon as I find out how.  Again,
please don't flood the utexas site with anonymous ftp sessions.
Anonymous ftp hours for that site are 6pm to 8am CST.

Everything Rudi's sent is in ARJ format, and he's asked me not to
re-package at least two of the files.  I guess that means I can
re-archive the others into the ZIP format that Simtel20 seems to
prefer.  (Is that OK, Rudi?)

The files on the disk are as follows (with descriptions if I have them):

US tools
--------
LMKR11.ARJ   - Launch Maker
GDIR.ARJ
DICTOR.ARJ
ROOMMATE.ARJ

Stuff by Rudi
-------------
EXPRSO10.ARJ - A utility to sort the Express menu alphabetically
GET9FO11.ARJ - An update of Get9Font.  I'm not clear on what it does
               yet, but he says it handles script files :-).
FONTCHK.ARJ
TOKENVM.ARJ

Stuff by Marcus Groeber
-----------------------
GEOSOS2.ARJ  - Patches to let GEOS run under OS/2
BKGD2PCX.ARJ
DESCGEWI.ARJ
FINTID.ARJ
GEOANAL2.ARJ
ICONMAKE.ARJ

Stuff by Thomas (?)
-------------------
ICNEE04B.ARJ

I think we owe Rudi a round of thanks for mailing this package at his
own expense.  (How much does it cost to send a 3-1/2" disk from
Cologne (Koln) to Columbus, anyway? :-)

-- 
   Doug Taylor                         |   Nothing real can be threatened.
   The Ohio State University           |   Nothing unreal exists.
   doug-taylor+@osu.edu                |            - A Course in Miracles
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Wednesday, 26 Aug 1992 10:30:46 CDT
From: tom mckibben 2 <U51773@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.pcgeos
Subject: Re: GeoComm VT100?

Hmm. Apparently my post of a fix hasn't made it here yet. Anyway I'll just note
that while GeoComm has problems dealing with Vaxes with regard to terminal ID,
it has worked pretty well talking to the UIC IBM mainframe which requires that
the user manually identify the terminal (which I've done in a script).

The fix I use involves writing a script that looks for the Z in the ^Z that the
Vax sends out to ask what kind of terminal you are. Then the script sends the
proper escape sequences to identify itself as a vt100. I found these sequences
in the Kermit v2.32a documentation that discusses a script that might be used t
o log onto a Vax.

This will get you past the terminal ID phase, but GeoComm just cannot handle th
e EVE editor. And I don't think that fiddling with the termcaps will fix that,
but if anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them!

If the sample script I tried to post doesn't make it, then I'll try again. Oh,
it might also help to put SET TERM/VT100 in your Vax login.com file near the to
p.

thomas mckibben 2   university of illinois at chicago dept. of physics
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
BITNET: MCKIBBEN@UICPHY or U51773@UICVM
Internet: u51773@uicvm.uic.edu or tommck@aol.com
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From: smb@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Steve M. Burinsky)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vxworks
Subject: Force CPU-40 real-time clock support
Date: 26 Aug 92 05:21:27 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond

I've look through the Force VxWorks distribution and the archive, and have
found nothing even remotely looking like support for the CPU-40 on-board
real-time (time-of-day) clock.  The chip is the Seiko-Epson RTC-72421 or
RTC-72421.  Has anyone developed support for this device?

Thanks,
-- 

Steve M. Burinsky
smb@afterlife.ncsc.mil
From: Roeber <fjr@ssd.ray.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.vxworks
Subject: re:  Bus error Handler problem...
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 08:06:38 -0400
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.112.16
Originator: daemon@vxw.ee.lbl.gov


Graham Heyes writes:
>  code running on a 68020. Events like, new data,
>  end of transfer etc are signaled by interrupts.
>  So far so good but under certain conditions the
>  sequencer can hang and must be restarted. An error
>  condition is detected by the VxWorks system as a
>  bus error the next time the 68020 tries to trigger
>  the sequencer. 
>  	In a normal task context we would use 
>  sigVec to trap the bus error signal and recover in
>  as gracefull a manner as possible. The problem is
>  what to do in the case when the bus error occurs
>  in an interrupt handler, for example end of transfer.
>  We cannot get any useful information out of the 
>  VxWorks manual on this subject. What does happen
>  when a bus error occurs in an interrupt handler?

Sounds like you should be using the vxMemProbe function to access the
controller.  It will take care of trapping any bus errors that occur
and return you status.  Its a lot more controlled than counting on the
signalling mechanism.  Also, it works just fine from interrupt handlers.
There is some extra overhead compared to just reading/writing the controller
directly but thats life.  Check the vx manual page.  Good luck.   Fred

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From: 75570.2443@compuserve.com (Larry Ciummo/ ESC Corp)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vxworks
Subject: Booting 5 Boards under VxWorks
Date: 26 Aug 92 20:14:56 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.112.16
Originator: daemon@vxw.ee.lbl.gov

We're trying to boot 1 MV147 and 4 MV143's using VxWorks to execute a VOX
file generated by Verdix VADSWorks.

In most cases, all boards seem to download the Vxworks and .sym files 
successfully but fail at random when they try to download the Ada runtime
or the startup shell script.  The problem occurs most when >2 boards are 
downloaded simultaneously.

Ada-generated .Vox files then fail to run on these boards.

We download Vxworks via FTP (with a passwd in the config params).

We have installed the SunOS inetd patch that allows a greater number of
connections per second.  It doesn't seem to help. Host is a SS2 running SunOS 
4.1.1.

Any help would be appreciated!


Larry Ciummo
ESC Corp
Middletown, RI  02840
(401)849-1490
75570.2443@compuserve.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.vxworks
From: kjell@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Kjell Saeten)
Subject: C Library Functions
Originator: kjell@Xenon.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Distribution: ca
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 11:18:19 GMT

Hello, Netters!!

Does anyone know if I can find C routuines like 'qsort' in public domain ?


kjell@neon.stanford.edu
From: pdw@sunbar.mc.duke.edu (Patrick D. Wolf)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vxworks
Subject: NFS file server for vxWorks SCSI Disks
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 10:06:25 -0400
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.112.16
Originator: daemon@vxw.ee.lbl.gov


Has anybody written a file server for a vxWorks SCSI Disk. I realize there
are problems mixing real time and NFS Server functions but I would settle
for read only. So, what I am looking for is a way to NFS mount for reading,
disks that are located on my vxWorks target from my Sun host. Any
suggestions or code would be welcome.

Patrick Wolf
pdw@sunbar.mc.duke.edu
919-660-5114
Duke University Medical Center


Newsgroups: comp.os.vxworks
From: heyes@dadev.cebaf.gov (Graham Heyes)
Subject: Bus error Handler problem...
Organization: Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility
Distribution: comp.os.vxworks
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 20:24:30 GMT

We have an embedded controler for a data
acquisition system onto which we have ported the
VxWorks operating system. The controller consists
of a hard-wired sequencer which pipelines data 
from a high speed instrumentation bus. 
	The sequencer is controlled by the VxWorks
code running on a 68020. Events like, new data,
end of transfer etc are signaled by interrupts.
So far so good but under certain conditions the
sequencer can hang and must be restarted. An error
condition is detected by the VxWorks system as a
bus error the next time the 68020 tries to trigger
the sequencer. 
	In a normal task context we would use 
sigVec to trap the bus error signal and recover in
as gracefull a manner as possible. The problem is
what to do in the case when the bus error occurs
in an interrupt handler, for example end of transfer.
We cannot get any useful information out of the 
VxWorks manual on this subject. What does happen
when a bus error occurs in an interrupt handler?
who gets the signal?
	Any help would be useful. We have considered
writing our own handler, hopefully in gnu C. 
If anyone already has some sample code on bus error
handling that would be a great help.

	Many thanks,
			Graham Heyes

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Newsgroups: comp.os.vxworks
From: singer@ll.mit.edu (Matthew R. Singer)
Subject: RAID!
Reply-To: singer@ll.mit.edu (Matthew R. Singer)
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 12:54:10 GMT


--

Anyone have experience using any VxWorks system running a RAID setup?  What
kind of thru-put can be expected?

My CPU would probably be a Heurikon HK68/V4f with its SCSI, but I am certainly
open to adding a seperate SCSI-2 adapter.


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(617) 981-3771                                       244 Wood Street
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Newsgroups: comp.os.vxworks
From: chuck@westford.ccur.com (Chuck Palmer)
Subject: Seeking vxWorks pricing structure
Organization: Concurrent Computer Corp. Westford MA.
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:12:12 GMT

I have used vxWorks in the past as part of a client's project.
I now find myself examining its use for another project which
I am costing out. A while back, I saw the pricing as part of
a Heurikon processor. I was reasonably confused by it all.

Could someone explain how the licensing works. The product
would be for resale, and would (hopefully) involve selling
multiple "units". There would be multiple people developing
for the end product on multiple workstations.

The benefit of your experience is greatly appreciated.


			chuck palmer
			chuck@westford.ccur.com

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Newsgroups: comp.os.vxworks
Subject: Re: RARP for vxworks
From: els@icf.hrb.com (Eric L. Schott)
Date: 3 Sep 92 15:52:58 EST
Distribution: comp.os.vxworks
Organization: HRB Systems, Inc.

In article <27jn4#j.dbander@netcom.com>, dbander@netcom.com (David B. Andersen) writes:
> Many is the time I have wished that vxWorks supported RARP.  When I ship
> a product it is a real pain to make sure that some piece of non-volatile
> memory has the proper inet address.  It is also difficult to have to 
> describe to a customer how to change a product's inet address.

RARP would be nice.  However, RARP does not address the issue
of board swaps.  That is, when a board fails, the bootparams file
would need updated.  It would be nice if the application could have
control of the address broadcast.  For example, I could use a value
from the printer port to uniquely identify a board.
-- 

Eric L. Schott,    HRB Systems, Inc.    814/238-4311     els@icf.hrb.com
  "As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible
   but more mysterious."                  Albert Schweitzer, "Paris Notes"
From: shaffer@stef.crd.ge.com (Phil Shaffer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vxworks
Subject: MK48T08 TIme-of-Day Chip Interface Code
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 14:59:04 EDT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.112.16
Originator: daemon@vxw.ee.lbl.gov

Has anyone written interface code for the MK48T08 (or MK48T02 or MK48T12)
Timekeeper RAM chip? This chip provides time-of-day (seconds through
year) as well as non-volatile RAM, and is widely used on processor
cards.  In particular, I would be interested in C functions to:
 - set or display the time and date, e.g. as in the Unix date command;
 - read the time, e.g. as in the Unix time() or ftime() functions;
 - a version of calendarHostInit() to start the Ada calendar from the
   MK48Txx, rather than from a Unix host (for VADSworks).

I would think this code would be of wide interest because of the
frequency of use of this chip. I didn't seen anything that looked likely
in the vxWorks archive.

Thanks in advance for any help.

     Phillip L. Shaffer                  shaffer_phillip@ae.ge.com
     GE Aircraft Engines, MS A320
     1 Neumann Way
     Cincinnati, OH 45215
From: jclesius@bbn.com (Jeff Clesius)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vxworks
Subject: Wanted: sample DMA routines
Keywords: MVME167, DMA
Date: 2 Sep 92 16:34:31 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com


Does anyone know of any sample routines available for DMA transfer
using the VMEchip2 on a Motorola MVME167?  I am conducting an evaluation
of the board and it would be nice to check out the performance of the
on-board DMA.


Thanks (in advance),
Jeff Clesius  (jclesius@bbn.com)
BBN Systems and Technologies
50 Enterprise Center, Suite 200
Middletown, RI 02840-5202
(401) 849-2543 (voice)
(401) 849-8611 (fax)
From: Mike Trest <trest@visicom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.vxworks
Subject: re:  Booting 5 Boards under VxWorks
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 18:30:21 PDT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.112.16
Originator: daemon@vxw.ee.lbl.gov

Larry writes:

>>We're trying to boot 1 MV147 and 4 MV143's using VxWorks to execute a VOX
>file generated by Verdix VADSWorks.
...
>...  The problem occurs most when >2 boards are downloaded simultaneously.

We have built systems for our customers which do a mixed VxWorks and
VADSWorks load for 12 to 30 processor boards.  The various card cages
are sometimes powered up simultaneously.

My "vetrans" advice is to modify your bootConfig.c in the ROM to apply
some technique to delay the 2nd, 3rd, 4th ... booting activity.  I have
found that flooding the output network queue of the boot host is more 
deadly than the multiple connection problem.

Techniques?  We have done the simplest approach by puting random delay 
in the bootConfig.c based on the Vx/VADSworks processor number.  The
ultimate solution for us  was creating a "BOOT REQUEST MANAGER" on the hosts 
and a "BOOT PERMISSION REQUESTOR" into the bootConfig.c.  Now each board
periodically broadcasts a request to boot.  The host manager tracks all of 
these requests and responds to each with not only an appropriately timed
permission to boot but also gives the boot parameters which that board
should use for its bootline.  (If you think this sounds like BOOTP, you
are correct! However, it effectively holds each request until its 
predecessor has had a few seconds to begin or complete its booting
activity.)  The result is will reduce an impossible loading problem
which previously took 5 or 10 minutes and some manual intervention 
to get all the boards booted.  Now it takes less than 120 seconds to
get all boards booted.

..mike..


====================================================
Mike Trest                      trest@visicom.com
Senior Engineer                 Voice: 619 457 2111
Technology Group                Fax:   619 457 0888
VisiCom Laboratories            San Diego, CA 
====================================================
From: lauren@wrs.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.vxworks
Subject: MOT 335 driver
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 17:08:02 PDT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.112.16
Originator: daemon@vxw.ee.lbl.gov

Does anyone have a driver for the Motorola 335 board?  If you do please
respond to lauren@wrs.com.

thanks
From: junel@bilbo.heurikon.com (June Liesch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vxworks
Subject: vxWorks for the R3000
Date: 2 Sep 92 13:52:45 GMT
Reply-To: junel@heurikon.heurikon.com (June Liesch)
Organization: Heurikon Corporation, Madison, WI



>Where would I find a sample VxWorks port to the MIPS R3000?
>
>Thanks,
>Scott Denton

You could get a demo (or purchase) vxWorks 5.0.5-beta2 for the
R3000 from Heurikon Corporation (1-800-327-1251). 

June

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