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From: mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills)
Subject: Re: Help! Problem with Postscript printer
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 02:11:20 GMT

In <17grpsINN3t8@sixgun.East.Sun.COM> matthew@sun.com (Matthew Stier - Sun NC Development Center) writes:

>In article 20143@usenet.ins.cwru.edu, ramesh@veda (Ramesh Doddamani) writes:
>> Is there a way to overcome this? Has anybody come across this problem? If we  
>> have a filter that changes "%!" to "%!PS-Adobe3.0" will it work? I would  
>> appreciate if anybody has a solution for this.
>> 

>Here is some pseudo-code.

>first_line = 1;
>while ( read_input != eof ) {
>	if (first_line) {
>		write "%!PS-Adobe3.0"
>		first_line = 0;
>	}
>	write input_line
>}

Here is some shell:

#!/bin/sh
echo "%!PS-Adobe3.0"; cat
-- 
-Gary Mills-         -Networking Group-          -U of M Computer Services-
From: rhaar@albert.cs.gmr.com (Bob Haar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: How to play an audio CD...
Date: 28 Aug 92 19:57:08 GMT
Reply-To: rhaar@albert.cs.gmr.com
Organization: G.M. Research Labs

In article 26564@unixg.ubc.ca, george@unixg.ubc.ca (George Chow) writes:
|>Howdy,
|>  I've got a SPARCstation IPC with a Sun CD-ROM drive and was
|>wondering if there's a program available that let's me play audio CD in
|>the CD-ROM drive. That is, something that will let me turn the CD-ROM
|>drive into a CD player of some form. I'm running OW2, if that matters.
|>Thanks.

There is an X windows program called xcdplayer that does this. Ftp
it from export.lcs.mit.edu .


---
	Robert Haar               InterNet : rhaar@gmr.com 
	Computer Science Dept., G.M. Research Laboratories
DISCLAIMER: Unless indicated otherwise, everything in this note is
personal opinion, not an official statement of General Motors Corp.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: rudy@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (avram.r.vener)
Subject: Seeking Light Pen vendors for Sun IPX workstation.
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 12:50:48 GMT
Followup-To: poster


The subject line says it all.

Thanks.

--
Rudy Vener uucp: att!mtqua!rudy  internet: rudy@mtqua.att.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: haseka@aix.rpi.edu (Atilla A Hasekioglu)
Subject: Re:multimedia
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 20:50:50 GMT

I wrote before:

I am looking for a multimedia software that compresses images and has mailing 
options. This should be in Xwindows. I have images in many formats.
I would like to be able to change their formats and have printouts. I also
would like to be able to view them. The software I am looking for should
have all these options. I also would like to have the option to decompress and
view the image from where it is sent by mail, so this will be a two sided
software that can be used both by the sender and receiver  side.
  If anybody can help me,I will very much appreciate it.



I found the multimedia software I was looking for from a colleague, if
anybody is interested.It is very useful. It is for SUN and performs the
compression in JPEG. It has file conversion facilities in GIF, PPM,PGM,
TIFF, SUN raster, XBM, XWD, FAX G3 formats. It has also an option to
change from these formats to PS format and you can later print it.
It also mails the compressed image by email. At the other end the receiver
can make necessary format changes and view the image. My colleague says
he is very happy with this product, and it is indeed very useful.
For the interested you can find this software from :
IBS
1223 Peoples Ave.
Troy, NY 12180
Tel : 518 276 4770
Fax: 518 276 6380

 The name of the software is MultiMailv1.0.
From: stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil (Ron Stanonik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: rpc.solved: RPC: Unknown host
Date: 3 Sep 92 16:25:35 GMT
Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center

In article <36421@arctic.nprdc.navy.mil> stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil (Ron Stanonik) writes:
>We just did a minimum installation of sunsolve (the quarterly
>cd of suns' obd, patch descriptions, solutions to common problems,
>etc).  We can browse the documents using the docviewer, but
>the searchtool always fails with "server not responding".
>Coincidently, rpc.solved complains with "RPC: Unknown host".
>Sound familiar?
>

Apparently an rpc.solved bug.  It's trying to lookup a name composed
from the hostname with part of the yp domainname.  Add that
bogus name to your host table/map/dns information, or since this
only seems to be a problem for yp domainnames consisting of more than
one token (eg, x.y.z), you could also change your yp domainname to
one token.

From: vqh@dwrock.att.com
    a popular bug, I had a different problem, my sun support contact
    hasn't resolved it but sent me this note about the problem you saw:
    
    If searches in the SunSolve 1.0 SearchTool result in
    "rpc.solved: RPC: Unknown host" messages (usually on the
    console), try adding the host name that SunSolve expects
    to see to the hosts NIS map (or /etc/hosts, as appropriate).$
    $
    The host names that need to be added are constructed
    as follows: Say that domainname(1) returns "x.y.z", and
    hostname(1) says "h", then add an alias of the type "h.y.z"
    for each machine that will run the SunSolve GUI; you
    may also need an alias for the SunSolve server.$



From: rfj@ultra.com (Ray Jackson)
    Here's the bug:
    
    Bug Id:     1096993
    Category:  oss
    Subcategory:  other
    Release summary: 1.0
    Synopsis:  SunSolve 1.0 search fails with: "rpc.solved: RPC: unknown host"
    Integrated in releases:  
    Patch id:  
    Summary:
    
    If searches in the SunSolve 1.0 SearchTool result in
    "rpc.solved: RPC: Unknown host" messages (usually on the console),
    try adding the host name that SunSolve expects to see to the hosts
    NIS map (or /etc/hosts, as appropriate).
    
    The host names that need to be added are constructed as follows: Say that
    domainname(1) returns "x.y.z", and hostname(1) says "h", then add an alias
    of the type "h.y.z" for each machine that will run the SunSolve GUI; you
    may also need an alias for the SunSolve server.
-- 
Ron Stanonik
stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil
ucsd!nprdc!stanonik
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.windows.x.intrinsics
From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
Subject: Re: no keylogin when I rlogin
Keywords: secure RPC keylogin rlogin
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 09:05:10 GMT

etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon) writes:

>Hello
>    I am trying to use SUN-DES-1 user authorization for X11 r5 and I
>largely have it working except for one thing, when I rlogin my key
>isn't set as it is when I login. If I rlogin and then keylogin all is
>OK. My question is, have I missed something and if not is there a work
>around.

Do you rlogin by way of a .rhosts file? In that case this behaviour
is expected. SUN-DES-1 authorisation works with a publickey and a
secretkey. The secretkey is decoded with your password when you
login (with your password) or keylogin. This secretkey is needed in
secure RPC transactions such as SUN-DES-1 authorisation.
On the upside, the superuser cannot fake your identity over the net,
unless he knows your password. On the downside, you'll have to type
your password at least once on each machine you use.

Casper
-- 
						|	Casper H.S. Dik
						|	casper@fwi.uva.nl
From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: ethernet/etherd question
Date: 3 Sep 1992 21:40:15 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: telecaster.think.com

In article <1992Sep3.172614.21211@iitmax.iit.edu> feldner@iitmax.iit.edu (Patrick J. Feldner) writes:
>     Does anyone know how to read ALL ethernet packets from the
>     device or if it is possible to retrieve the information from
>     the "rpc.etherd" process running on the system.

The way to do this for packets accessible to the local machine is with the
NIT device; see nit(4).

>     The monitor would need to reference the
>     source address, destination address, protocol type, packet
>     size, etc.

If you need to see individual packets, I don't think etherd will suffice.
It only provides statistics, not details.  See /usr/include/rpcsvc/ether.x
for the description of the etherd protocol.

>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>Patrick J. Feldner                            INET:    feldner@iitmax.iit.edu
>Senoir DEC Networks/Systems Analyst           BITNET:  SYSPAT@IITVAX
>Chicago Title & Trust                         Ma Bell: (312) 630-3396

"Senoir"?
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.lang.c
From:  Leonid A. Broukhis <leo@ipmce.su>
Subject: Strange error in C compiler
Keywords: dynamic linking C compilation constant pointer
Reply-To: leo@ipmce.su
Organization: unknown
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:42:27 +0400

	Hello all!

Consider the following code:

/*
	_DYNAMIC is linker-defined and may be either 0 or non-zero,
	depending on link mode.
*/

extern _DYNAMIC[];

main() {
	if (_DYNAMIC)
		puts("Dynamic");
	else
		puts("Static");
}

	The above code doesn't work, but with if-statement rewritten
	as follows does:

	if (_DYNAMIC != (int*) 0)

	Could anyone explain why?

	Note: in the first case compiler treats else-clause as dead
	code, but in the second one everything is compiled as
	expected.

	Regards,
-- 
	Leonid A. Broukhis


Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: maniac@taj.cs.unlv.edu (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
Subject:  Latest MTools?
Reply-To: maniac@taj.cs.unlv.edu (Eric J. Schwertfeger)
Organization: UNLV Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 19:38:35 GMT

could someone point me to an FTP site with the latest version of
MTools (the stuff that lets sparcs read/write MSDos on the floppy)?
I've been told there was an update sometime in the last two years,
and I've just been handed the jub of bringing ours up to date.


-- 
Eric J. Schwertfeger, maniac@jimi.cs.unlv.edu
From: bharat@ccvax.ucd.ie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: compare socket based and RPC based..
Date: 25 Aug 92 14:04:01 GMT
Organization: University College Dublin

Hi Net Gurus,
 
could any one tell me the advantages of "Socket Based interprocess
communication" over "Remote Procedure Call based interprocess communication"?

My application program runs on the top of the packet layer. It communicates 
with a X.25 switch. The communication between switch and application programm
is based on 'BSD Socket based communication'.

I summarize it in the following steps- 

1. I open a socket in X.25 domain (i am using SunNet X.25 software).

2. Pass the address of remote switch to the socket.

3. send some data (e.g. 'stat' command for the switch which gives all the 
statstical information from the switch). 

4. receive the output (e.g. output of 'stat' command which is parameter values 
from the switch).

             ----------------------------------------------------------

My questions are: 

1.why and when the socket based communication is used?

2.Why always RPC based communication is prefered over socket based 
communication is prefered?

3. Is it possible to implement a 'Client-Server' model using  sockets? if yes,
can i call 'My-application-program=X.25-switch' (as given in steps 1-4) as
a 'cleint=server' model?


Any pointers/hints..? Thanks very much for reading this. I will welcome any
concern information.

Please ..send your answers by email to me.

- Bharat

(bharat@ccvax.ucd.ie)
From: bradshaw@ccvax.ucd.ie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Installing Exabyte 8200 on Sun SPARCStation IPC
Date: 3 Sep 92 14:12:14 GMT
Organization: University College Dublin

I am in the process of purchasing an Exabyte 8200 for our Sun 
SPARCStation IPC and hope to chain it via a SCSI connection to
an external SCSI hard disk. I was wondering if anyone reading this
could tell me what is required to install and mount an Exabyte
on the SPARCStation. Do I need a special device driver? Do I
need to reconfigure the kernel? Are there special mount options?
What files need to be modified? Any and all replies appreciated..
Thanks in advance... My E-Mail addresses are below.
                                      Chris Bradshaw

My E-Mail addresses:

      CBRADH89@IRLEARN.UCD.IE
      BRADSHAW@CCVAX.UCD.IE
From: henrich@crs.cl.msu.edu (Chuck Henrich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Sun Keyboard Type 5 Path required
Date: 27 Aug 92 19:36:28 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Michigan State University

Does anyone know wher I can obtain the neccesary patches to allow
the Sun Type 5 keyboards to work properly?

-Crh
--
                          
Charles Henrich      Michigan State University      henrich@crs.cl.msu.edu
     
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.misc:4089 comp.sys.sun.admin:6138
From: tuttle@deshaw.com (MacKenzie Tuttle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Unique Job Opportunity
Date: 3 Sep 92 19:30:24 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: D. E. Shaw & Co.
Originator: tuttle@sun21

WANTED:

SUN GURU TO HEAD OUR SUPERSTAR SYSTEMS TEAM
                  

D. E. Shaw & Co. is a small, young, highly capitalized, extremely
successful Wall Street firm specializing in quantitative finance and
computational trading.  We are looking to hire Systems Programmers to
join a select team of software engineers involved in building
state-of-the-art computer systems that trade billions of dollars worth
of securities.

NOTE: We are _not_ a typical financial firm.  We are a group of
financial hackers out to beat the market.  We do not wear suits and
ties.

Potential six-figure salary for Head of Systems.  Extremely well
compensated junior positions are available as well.

The successful candidate will have strong knowledge of SunOS, UNIX, C, and
various distributed and networked environments.  Four or more years
experience in systems programming or administration, and an
undergraduate or graduate degree in Computer Science or a related
field, is required.

Responsibilities, depending on the position, include building
distributed real-time applications and designing, supporting, and
enhancing our networked computing environment.  It is our practice to
compensate unusually gifted individuals at a level exceeding that of
the market. Applicants are encouraged to forward their resumes in
confidence to:

				  MacKenzie Tuttle
				  D. E. Shaw & Co.
				  Tower 45, 39th Floor
				  120 West 45th Street
				  New York, NY  10036

				  email: recruiting@deshaw.com
				  Fax: (212) 478-0101

-- 
Mackenzie Tuttle		D. E. Shaw & Co., New York, NY
tuttle@deshaw.com		(212)478-0000
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: ninja@halcyon.com (Jonathan Roy)
Subject: SunSpot ascii magazine?
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 01:48:29 GMT

I was browseing the GEnie UNIX RT tonight, and found a series
of electronic newletters called SunSpot that deal with Sun computers...
Does anyone know about this newletter/magazine? Is it still active? 
Are there any FTP sites? Archie wasn't a help locating a source...

Thanks.

-- 
  |||  Jonathan Roy -- GEnie:  J.ROY18 -- Internet: ninja@halcyon.com
  |||  -- BBS: Darkest Realm - (Down for now) - Public UUCP/Usenet --
 / | \ "...make him want to change his name,take him to the cleaners,
 devastate him, wipe him out, humiliate him." -CHESS      Lynx me up!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: haseka@aix.rpi.edu (Atilla A Hasekioglu)
Subject: multimedia
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 18:03:24 GMT

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: multimedia
Summary: 
Followup-To: 
Distribution: world
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
Keywords: 

I am looking for a multimedia software that compresses images and has mailing 
options. This should be in Xwindows. I have images in many formats.
I would like to be able to change their formats and have printouts. I also
would like to be able to view them. The software I am looking for should
have all these options. I also would like to have the option to decompress and
view the image from where it is sent by mail, so this will be a two sided
software that can be used both by the sender and receiver  side.
  If anybody can help me,I will very much appreciate it.
From: harlick@prototype.uucp (Ryan Harlicker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Swap partitions smaller than physical memory.
Summary: It can be done.
Date: 28 Aug 92 06:08:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: prototyp.1992Aug28.060857.15242
Organization: None is Needed or Wanted

On the subject of: 

>1. An off the cuff remark made in a thread on tuning swap (saying that your
>   primary swap partition should be at least as large as physical memory)
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This is something that used to bug me about unix but I hacked a solution
that might be useful to some.  Here is my situation:

	I have a sun 3/110 with a limited amount of diskspace and 28 meg of 
ram.  I didn't want to waste 28meg of disk space simply mirroring my 
physical memory.  This is what I did.

1.) Reduced my swap partition to the minimal bootable size.  Mine turned out
    to be 1 megabyte.

2.) Boot to single user mode.

3.) Create an empty swapfile of the correct size using the mkfile -n command.
    (mine was mkfile -n 27M)

4.) change the permissions to read only for root

5.) add a swapon command for your empty swapfile in you rc.boot/rc.local file.

6.) enjoy your extra diskspace.


	This seems to work most of the time, but over time I find that the
swapfile slowly gets filled.  At that time I simply redo the hack.


Comments?,

Ryan Scott Harlicker
harlick@plains.nodak.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: knelson@milli.cs.umn.edu (Kenneth Nelson)
Subject: Re: New to Sun env. - info requested
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:34:35 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.151348.5735@news2.cis.umn.edu> knelson@milli.cs.umn.edu (Kenneth Nelson) writes:
>
>Hello,
>
>I am new to the Sun environment and have a few questions.  I am running
>OpenWindows 3.0 on a SpracStation IPC.
>
>o  What are the major archive sites of public domain Sun software?
>
>o  What is the default/popular image file format?  Is an image viewer available
>	for viewing multiple image file formats?  How do I change my desktop
>	background from a plain color to an image?
>
>o  What is the format of an audio file?  Can Sun/NeXT audio/sound files be shared?

Oops.  I forgot to add:

o  Where's the FAQ?

>
>
>Please email.  Thanks,
>
>
>Ken


Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: rcor@ihspb.ih.att.com (45261-Cornejo)
Subject: SUN vmstat/de field
Reply-To: r.cornejo@att.com
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 20:01:15 GMT
Originator: rcor@ihspb




 According to the man page for vmstat the "de" field stands for 
 "anticipated short term memory shortfall in Kbytes".
 
 Mike Loukides writes in "System Performance Tuning" that a
 nonzero "de" number indicates "... an extremely severe memory 
 shortage. The system is certainly performing desperation swapping."
 
 A typical output of "vmstat -S 5" for a SUN 670 - 2 CPU, 128 MB - ,
 that follows consistently shows a non zero "de" field and
 yet w (swapped out processes), so ( swap-outs) and po (page-outs)
 are always zero. Any experience with this or how "de" is determined?
 
  procs     memory              page               disk       faults     cpu
  r b w   avm   fre  si so  pi  po  fr  de  sr d0 d1 d2 d3  in  sy  cs us sy id
  0 0 0     0  3284  10  0   0   0   0  16   0  0  0  0  0 205 360 133  1  3 96
  0 0 0     0  2860  35  0   0   0   0   0   0  1  1  0  0 270 285 211  4  4 93
  0 0 0     0  2628  35  0   0   0   0  32   0  0  0  0  0 259 338 270  2  4 94
  0 0 0     0  2760  30  0   8   0   0   0   0  0  1  0  0 247 330 225  2  3 96
  0 0 0     0  2788  35  0   0   0   0   0   0  0  0  0  0 180 275 201  1  1 98
  3 0 0     0  2900  15  0   0   0   0  32   0  0  0  0  0 183 280 172  1  3 96
  0 0 0     0  2936  20  0   0   0   0   0   0  0  0  0  0 231 379 168  2  2 97
  0 1 0     0  2932  15  0   0   0   0   0   0  0  0  0  0 176 320 129  1  2 97
  9 0 0     0  2920  30  0   0   0   0  16   0  0  1  0  0 276 353 192  4  6 90
  0 0 0     0  2768  20  0   0   0   0   0   0  0  0  0  0 4231823 247  4 20 76
  0 1 0     0  2800  50  0   8   0   0  16   0  0  0  0  0 250 893 164  1  4 95
  0 0 0     0  2604  35  0   8   0   0  16   0  0  0  0  0 179 623 120  2  3 94
  0 0 0     0  2316  15  0   4   0   0  32   0  1  0  0  0 285 511 218  5  5 90
  0 0 0     0  2132  30  0   0   0  12   0   3  0  0  0  0 195 503 136  1  4 95
  0 1 0     0  2576  20  0   0   0   4   0   0  1  1  0  0 207 302 131  2  2 97
  0 0 0     0  3776  20  0   0   0   0   0   0  1  0  0  0 149 216  92  1  2 97
  0 0 0     0  4164  25  0   0   0   0   0   0  0  0  0  0 150 232 122  0  2 98
  0 0 0     0  4272  15  0   0   0   0  16   0  0  0  0  0 166 327 127  1  4 95
  1 0 0     0  4288  55  0   0   0   0   0   0  0  0  0  0 501 763 296  3  7 91
  0 0 0     0  4228  25  0   0   0   0   0   0  0  0  0  0 575 940 339  3  7 89
  0 0 0     0  4140  40  0   0   0   0   0   0  0  0  0  0 3001342 194  3  9 88
  1 1 0     0  4040  30  0   0   0   0  16   0  2  1  0  0 6041058 313  5 13 82
  0 1 0     0  3944  40  0  52   0   0  16   0  4  0  0  0 396 792 216  4  7 89
  0 0 0     0  3564  65  0  24   0   0  48   0  0  0  0  0 266 581 147  2  8 90
  0 0 0     0  3240  20  0   8   0   0   0   0  0  0  0  0 255 690 130  3 17 80
 

r.cornejo@att.com
From: fitz@frc.ri.cmu.edu (Kerien Fitzpatrick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Options other than Solaris 2.0
Date: 26 Aug 92 19:21:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.BtLv38.D4B.2
Reply-To: fitz@frc.ri.cmu.edu
Organization: Field Robotics Center, Carnegie Mellon University

I was wondering if any clone manufacturers are considering staying with 
SunOS 4.1.X instead of going to Solaris 2.0?  The crap that our group 
would have to go through to port to Solaris 2.0 is immense.  We have 
roughly 60 SPARCs and no $$ support for porting old software.  We are
cutting back new purchases until we figure out what to do on this front.

It would be nice if a clone manufacturer would consider purchasing source
to SunOS 4.1.3 and market the OS plus their machines.  We would probably
stop purchasing from Sun and go with the clone vendor.  Just a thought.



---
Kerien Fitzpatrick			Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Field Robotics Center			(412)268-6564
The Robotics Institute			Internet: fitz@frc.ri.cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: templ@inf.ethz.ch (Josef Templ)
Subject: stack overflow on a sparc?
Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 16:35:19 GMT

Has anybody ever installed a signal handler to catch
stack overflow (SIG 11 with nonempty window buffer) on a sparc?
I have the problem that sometimes some functions don't work 
any more after a stack overflow occured.
"sometimes" depends on the size of involved stack frames,
"some functions" means e.g. system, dlopen, dlsym.
The interrupted process, however, works perfectly after
using a longjmp to recover from the trap.
Any comments are welcome.

- Josef Templ
templ@inf.ethz.ch

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc