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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 01:38:24 -0500 
From: Tod McQuillin <tm8t+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: SOLVED: AOS and quotas

Walter Wong <wcw+@CMU.EDU> kindly reminded me of the patch at
bikini.ufl.edu which fixes some bugs in the quota utilities.  The
patch is V1.4, if anyone's interested.

However, the quotacheck program is still buggy even after the patch is
applied.  Here is a patch to the patched quotacheck.c.  After I made
these changes, everything is working fine!

*** quotacheck.ibm.c	Thu Jan 21 00:41:38 1993
--- quotacheck.c	Thu Jan 21 00:42:28 1993
***************
*** 626,634 ****
  			exit(8);
  		}
  		while (mntp = getmntent(mtab)) {
! 			if (((strcmp(mntp->mnt_type, MNTTYPE_42) != 0) &&
! 				(strcmp(mntp->mnt_type, MNTTYPE_43) != 0) &&
! 				(strcmp(mntp->mnt_type, MNTTYPE_UFS) != 0)) &&
  			    !hasmntopt(mntp, MNTOPT_RO) &&
  			    (oneof(mntp->mnt_fsname, listp, listcnt) ||
  			     oneof(mntp->mnt_dir, listp, listcnt)) ) {
--- 626,634 ----
  			exit(8);
  		}
  		while (mntp = getmntent(mtab)) {
! 			if (((strcmp(mntp->mnt_type, MNTTYPE_42) == 0) ||
! 				(strcmp(mntp->mnt_type, MNTTYPE_43) == 0) ||
! 				(strcmp(mntp->mnt_type, MNTTYPE_UFS) == 0)) &&
  			    !hasmntopt(mntp, MNTOPT_RO) &&
  			    (oneof(mntp->mnt_fsname, listp, listcnt) ||
  			     oneof(mntp->mnt_dir, listp, listcnt)) ) {
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
From: mjp@austin.ibm.com  (Michael J. Phelps)
Subject: Re: Booting Maint. Diskette
Originator: mjp@bwa.kgn.ibm.com
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 16:59:57 GMT
Reply-To: mjp@vnet.ibm.com (Michael J. Phelps)
Organization: IBM Kingston NY


In article <1993Jan27.081250.26310@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, brecht@white.toronto.edu (Tim Brecht) writes:
|> 
|> I've got an IBM PC RT running AIX 2.2.1.
|> 
|> I know that this has been asked here before but it hasn't been
|> a problem for me until now. Sorry.
|> 
|> Can someone please tell me how to boot from a diskette in
|> the floppy drive?
|> 
|> I've done this hundreds of times before without any problem but
|> now for some reason I'm not able to boot from the floppy drive
|> that contains the Install/Maintenance diskette nor the Diagnostics
|> Diskette. When I CTRL - ALT - PAUSE the floppy spins for a bit 
|> then stops and eventually the system starts booting from the hard drive.
|> 
|> tim
|> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
|> Tim Brecht     Dept. of Computer Science     University of Toronto
|> brecht@cs.toronto.edu

I had an RT that was very fussy about booting from the floppy drive.  Usually i'd
try reseating the floppy (i.e. take it out, put it in) .. usually it'd eventually
work.  I eventually decided that the floppy drives would get dirty (there is a
fan nearby to cool the drives, at least on the tower version).  The fact that it
boots from the hard drive means that it doesn't see a bootable floppy in the
drive.  

Hope this is of some help..
-- 
Michael Phelps, (external) mjp@vnet.ibm.com ..
                (internal) mjp@bwa.kgn.ibm.com .. mjp at kgnvmy         
 (and last but not least a disclaimer)  These opinions are mine..
From: censjg@caledonias3.caledonia.hw.ac.uk (Simon Greaves)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Help logging into an RT for which the password has been lost
Date: 21 Jan 93 15:41:29 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

I've done this, when I got my RT the same had happened. The way I did
it was to use the 'maintenance/install' diskette, get a single-user
shell, mount the root filesystem and edit the /etc/passwd file to 
remove the passwd entry for root.

My RT was running AIX 2.1.2 also. I only had a 2.2.1 install/maint disk
but this worked fine. Basically if you can get hold of the floppy you
should have no real problems.

If stuck, email me at address below.

Simon
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From: markw@antimatr.hou.tx.us (Mark Whetzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Anonymous ftp on an RT
Summary: Logging is turned on by the -i option
Date: 27 Jan 93 12:17:29 GMT
Organization: StarTrek and Lionel trains fan, Missouri City, TX

In article <1993Jan26.132008.19373@comp.lancs.ac.uk>, gbs@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Gareth B Smith) writes:
> I used the shell script to create an anonymous ftp account on my RT.
> Is there any way I can keep track on this account, such as
> when someone logged in, where from, what did they give as the password,
> etc. anything at all really.

According to the RT TCP/IP book SC23-2005-1, the -i option to the
ftpd command turns on logging.  All logging of ftp traffic.

Edit the /etc/inetd.conf file, and alter the line that reads:
ftp	    stream	tcp	nowait	root	/usr/lpp/tcpip/etc/ftpd	ftpd

to read:
ftp	    stream	tcp	nowait	root	/usr/lpp/tcpip/etc/ftpd	ftpd -i

and issue a kill -HUP to the inetd process. to re-read the config file.

Logging is performed via the syslog function call, and the /etc/syslog.conf
file will have to be altered to actually save the logged data.
Unfortunately, the book does not indicate the facility and error level
that ftpd uses to perform it's logging, so a litte experimentation will
have to be performed.

-- 
M. Whetzel 
Home: markw@antimatr.hou.tx.us        | IBM RT/125 running AIX 2.2.1 
UUCP ..!uhnix1!lobster!antimatr!markw
From: markw@airgun.wg.waii.com (Mark Whetzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: NFS problem
Summary: Make sure your /etc/hosts or DNS or YP is setup to resolve names
Keywords: RT, NFS 1.2
Date: 26 Jan 93 15:31:48 GMT
Organization: Western Geophysical, Div. of Western Atlas Int'l, Houston, TX

In article <krz.728034495@scorpion.ac.cowan.edu.au>, krz@cowan.edu.au (K.WOZNIAK) writes:
> 
> The "AIX Communication Handbook" (red book) proclaimes that:
> (page 260)
> "NFS system servers are easy. Basically [...] when new client hosts are added
> to the network, update the /etc/exports to allow those clients to 
> access the file systems on the NFS server"  
> 
> It simply does not work. New entries are ignored. 
> Am I forgetting about something?
 
How about running the '/usr/etc/exportfs -a' command to resync the
/etc/exports file with the /etc/xtab file.

Additional flags on the /usr/etc/exportfs command are:
   -a   All.  Exports all directories listed in the /etc/exports file.
   -v   Verbose.  Prints the name of each directory as it is exported or 
        unexported.
   -u   Unexports the directories you specify.  If used with -a, unexports
        all directories.
   -i   Ignore /etc/exports file and exports the directory specified
        on the command line.
   -o   options for the exported directory.

Possible problems on NON-WORLD exported file systems could be:

Check that the 'host' command can resolve system names correctly. 
Enter 'host hostname' and check that it show IP address correctly.
THEN.. try 'host ip.addr' using that hosts IP address and make sure that
the hostname for that IP addresses is correct.  This is VITAL for any
filesystem that is NOT exported WORLD.  Insure that multihomed (more than
one network interface card) machines have ALL IP addresses for that host 
resolve correctly back to the SAME hostname that was specified in the
/etc/exports file.  If running YP or DNS, you might need to specify the
fully qualified hostname in the /etc/exports file.

> It may be that my problem is trivial, but I can not figure out
> what is happening. In addition it seems that there is no manual 
> for NFS on our continent. 

Wipping out my RT NFS manual and looking on the cover I see:

IBM AIX/RT  Network FIle System   Version 1.2
AIX/RT Network FIle System Reference Guide
First Edition (March 1990)

Manual number is: SC23-2321

IBMLINK online PUBS lookup indicates that the manual has been obsoleted 
as of 05/92.  (It cost $22.00 U.S. Dollars originally).

It may not be available for purchase anywhere other than on a asis stock basis.

Later,
markw
-- 
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Western Geophysical - A division of Western Atlas International,
A Litton/Dresser Company           DOMAIN addr: markw@airgun.wg.waii.com
VOICE: (713) 963-2544		   UUNET address:  uunet!airgun!markw
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
From: schludermann@sscvx1.ssc.gov
Subject: RFI:RT memory SIMMS in EISA PC??
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:55:39 GMT

Can RT 72 pin simms be used in pc type computers. I was informed that these
Guys are 2 meg 80ns and use an error correction bit in addition to parity.
These look like they will fit into my open simm sockets.

Thanxs

Kris
From: krz@cowan.edu.au (K.WOZNIAK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: NFS problem
Date: 26 Jan 93 07:48:15 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: scorpion.ac.cowan.edu.au
Keywords: RT, NFS 1.2


The "AIX Communication Handbook" (red book) proclaimes that:
(page 260)
"NFS system servers are easy. Basically [...] when new client hosts are added
to the network, update the /etc/exports to allow those clients to 
access the file systems on the NFS server"  

It simply does not work. New entries are ignored. 
Am I forgetting about something?

It may be that my problem is trivial, but I can not figure out
what is happening. In addition it seems that there is no manual 
for NFS on our continent. 

Help will be greatly appreciated,
--
Mr Krzysztof Wozniak        ,-_|\      E-mail: K.WOZNIAK@cowan.edu.au
Edith Cowan University     /     \      Phone: 61-9-370 6366 
Mt.Lawley WA, 6050         $_,-._/        Fax: 61-9-370 2910 
Australia                       o
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
From: rhofmann@dopey.helios.nd.edu (robert hofmann)
Subject: RT and AT cards
Reply-To: rhofmann@dopey.helios.nd.edu (robert hofmann)
Organization: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:59:02 GMT

I recently acquired an old IBM RT-6051 tower which has number of 
cards using the AT-bus configuration.  I own a 386-DX and was wondering
which of these cards would be usable with my 386, particularly the
Extended ESDI drive interface, the Token Ring Adapter, the Ethernet
adapter, and the video card.  I have managed to get the ESDI card's
floppy drive controller to work in my 386, but the part I want to use, 
the hard drives, would not be recognized.  Does anyone out there know
why this might be and also what "type" drive the full-heights that came
with the RT would be considered by an AT bios
I would appreciate your help and information.
Responses could be posted or mailed.
-- 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
From: brecht@white.toronto.edu (Tim Brecht)
Subject: Booting Maint. Diskette
Organization: University of Toronto
Date: 27 Jan 93 13:12:50 GMT


I've got an IBM PC RT running AIX 2.2.1.

I know that this has been asked here before but it hasn't been
a problem for me until now. Sorry.

Can someone please tell me how to boot from a diskette in
the floppy drive?

I've done this hundreds of times before without any problem but
now for some reason I'm not able to boot from the floppy drive
that contains the Install/Maintenance diskette nor the Diagnostics
Diskette. When I CTRL - ALT - PAUSE the floppy spins for a bit 
then stops and eventually the system starts booting from the hard drive.

tim
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Tim Brecht     Dept. of Computer Science     University of Toronto
brecht@cs.toronto.edu
From: brucek@Ingres.COM (Bruce Kleinman)
Subject: Re: PRODIGY New and improved STILL SUCKS, HORRIBLE as before
Organization: Ingres, an ASK Company, Alameda CA 94501
Date: 28 Jan 93 22:12:40 GMT

In article <1993Jan28.210536.9532@adobe.com> sherwood@adobe.com (Geoffrey Sherwood) writes:
>
>While I do enjoy the boards on Prodigy, they have one major failing that makes
>them incredibly frustrating to use.  To wit, the only thing they remember as
>a criteria for reading news is your last logon time...

>       ...Something like a .newsrc would be a major boon.  I know there are
>interface packages sold for Prodigy -- do any of them at least ameliorate
>this problem (I think any real solution would have to come from P itself)?

The package Pro-Util (I think you jump to Royston or some such name)
has a macro facility which will automatically fill in bulletin board
timestamps to whatever time you last invoked the macro.  So you set up
a macro for each board that you frequent, and you can pick up pretty
much where you left off.  You can still get messed up if the line drops
while you're in the middle of a heap of postings, but it's a real
improvement, and I recommmend the product.  It also has a very useful
print-to-disk function and a screen-grabber which outputs to PCX files.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: Demo Group?
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 05:47:31 GMT

"Tim Triemstra" <empath@ais.org> writes:
>My personal belief is that the demos group should be a derivitive of some
>programming base.  Not language specific, more like something from 
>comp.os.msdos.programmer.demos  This is because, if it is just left as an
>altxxx group, more than likely it WILL turn into a demos of Ultima and stuff
>like that, which already has enough room to talk on.

Well, definitely the main group would be a comp.xxxxxx group... if
not, there's no reason to go through all the formality of creating the
group.  I was just wondering if an alt.binaries group for the demo
code would be useful.  It's easy to create later if it turns out to be
usefull, I guess.

I REALLY like your suggestion of putting it under programmer.demos.  This
should make the content more clear.


>I don't personally think we need a suplement to the current FTP sites 
>(one of which is WASP.ENG.UFL.EDU) with a type of .binaries group.  This
>would be too much for some sites to deal with (imagine if you were like me
>and you get newfeeds via modem and the UNREAL would be UUENCODED by some
>nimrod!)

That's why such a group should be put under one of the binaries
hierarchy if that's all it's going to be - they're set up for such a
thing.  The amount of GIFs posted in a day there would make anything
we could do pale in comparison :).


>I do believe there would be a good use for a newsgroup for talking about how
>the various groups are coding there demos.  I know Joshua Jensen and other
>members of Renaissance have been helpful to other prospective demo makers,
>and it would be nice if that info could be controled, not spewed all over
>the soundcard newgroups.

That's what I was thinking of... getting together, talking about
demos, rating them, talking about upcoming stuff, there should be a
lot to talk about.

A big part of it, of course, is how many members of the demo groups
would be able to read/post.
-- 
To function efficiently, any group of people or employees must have
faith in their leader.  -- Capt. Bligh
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard,alt.cd-rom
From: ketil@edb.tih.no (Ketil Albertsen,TIH)
Subject: Re: Multimedia not need Soundcard
Organization: T I H / T I S I P 
Posting-Front-End: Winix Conference v 92.05.15  1.20 (running under MS-Windows)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:04:24 GMT

In article <C1G8Gw.9uo@news.iastate.edu>, wity@iastate.edu (Senopati Pamungkas) 
writes:

>Get real!  CD-ROM is for read only, and it is damned sloow!
>The fastest CD-ROM drive is about 200 ms, but it is about 10 ms for hard-disk!

Although your main point is correct, don't make it worse than it is.
There are several CD-ROM players in the market with a below-100ms access
time (I believe the fast ones are in the 70-80 ms range). And although
10 ms hard disks are available, typical speed is rather in the 14-20 ms
range. So the speed factor is in the 4-5 range, not 20!

Another point to be considered is that CD-ROM is read only. So the
manufacturer may optimize the layout of information with respect to
the usage pattern, with no danger of it becoming messed up by fragmentation
and reallocation. To read n Mbytes from a file on a CD-ROM usually
requires a single seek, while on a Unix system, one seek per, say,
2 Kbytes might be required. The advantage of faster seeks is easily eaten 
up by the *number* of seeks required.
(Obviously, in order to optimize, the manufacturer must have some idea
of the usage pattern. But as info is read-only, in many cases the
usage can be pretty well predicted.)

For certain MM applications, the *transfer rate* might be a problem, which
is less for CD than for harddisk. (Please do not confuse seek time
with transfer rate - even though both are lower for CDs.) But we have
already seen double-speed CD-ROM players, moving into the speed range
where an ISA bus PC might have a bus capacity problems anyway, and you
are in the range of PC hard disks of only a few years ago.

So, as long as the read-only property is acceptable/desirable, don't
discount the CD-ROM as an MM medium.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: harrison@lclark.edu (Mark Harrison)
Subject: Re: GUS v1.22
Organization: Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:39:55 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.203040.4468@lclark.edu> harrison@lclark.edu (Mark Harrison) writes:
>In article <1993Jan21.013610.19783@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c60c-2lu@web-2a.berkeley.edu () writes:
>>I just saw the GUS install disks v1.22 uploaded to epas.  I used the v1.21
>>install disks...my question is, is there any advantage to getting the newer
>>install disks and installing them?

Sorry about that last one.  The text got lost somewhere along the line. 
Anyway, I tried the new disks out to see if there was any difference. 
There really wasn't much that I could see.  Some things had newer dates,
some older (the readme file is dated from October???), but mostly
everything was the same.  If you have v1.21 and all the update files, I
can't see any reason to load these. 

-- 
=============================================================================
Mark Harrison           |  "We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx
harrison@sun.lclark.edu |   Our great computers fill the hallowed halls."
              -- Me     |                                    -- Rush
From: dcole@ua.d.umn.edu (david cole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: Re: ASL Cyber Audio Card - So
Date: 26 Jan 1993 21:28:52 -0600
Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth
NNTP-Posting-Host: ua.d.umn.edu

In article <1993Jan26.051739.25502@cc.umontreal.ca> dionf@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Francois Dion) writes:
>In article <gate.84kRXB1w165w@sytex.com> mbenson@sytex.com (Michael Benson) writes:
>>JL>        - Wave Table synthesis
>>  >        - 1 MB on board ROM with 128 sampled instruments
>>
>>In the next month or two you will see MANY MANY new brands of sound
>>cards because of propagation of sound chips.
>
>But only the GUS has 1 Meg ram and not ROM. You can put around 40-50 GUS
>patches in 1 Meg, so 128 sampled instruments in 1 Meg ROM is a really
>bad idea. Not counting that 128 instruments is only the voice part of
>GM, the other beeing percussions. If some of you dont understand what
>i'm implying, here's the deal:
>
>If you put more patches in the same area, you have lower quality samples.
>To hold all the standard GUS patches you need 4 Meg.
>

This assumes that the samples in ROM are not compressed.  But there is no
basis for that assumption.  When I have seen descriptions of synths that use
ROM for waves, they often mention that the waves are compressed.  Since the
hardware is dedicated and the format is proprietary, there is absolutely no
reason NOT to use compressed samples.  Since sound is highly redundant, the
compression must be considerable.

>Another advantage of RAM is that it allows MOD players of 1 meg mod files
>without using a dos extender, and using only 64K main ram.
>
>A third advantage is the fact that you need RAM to use FOCAL POINT 3D audio
>technology to preprocess your samples. (which is exclusive to the GUS on the
>IBM platform for 1 year, with option for 4 more years)
>
There is other 3D audio technology around.  I believe Roland has demoed it.
I would be surprised if it requires samples to be in RAM, since anything in
RAM can be in ROM.

>A fourth advantage is that you can use any sound and sample it and put it on
>the card (be it a Juno-106, a TR909, a pan flute, a chainsaw etc...)
>

This is undeniably the major advantage of using RAM.  Seems to me the best
card would use both ROM and RAM, like high end synths do.  If there is a
point to putting stuff in RAM, it is to avoid loading from a disk and to make
sure there is a reliable standard set of samples available -- the Gen Midi
set for example.  I don't see any point in having the Gen Midi set in RAM.
It just makes the process slow and unreliable.  Save RAM for custom sounds
and upgraded sounds.  4 meg ROM and 4 meg RAM seems like a reasonable size
for a quality card -- and onboard reverb of course!


Cheers,

Dave

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
From: mtichy@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Tichy)
Subject: Re: Gusmod
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 02:56:55 GMT

DC> I have sometimes noticed that after I run GUSMOD that I
DC> cannot load Windows without the system freezing up.  And
DC> then I usually have to power down and up again to get things
DC> working again.  (a reboot usually won't do it.)  If you
DC> haven't released the new GUSMOD yet, could you please look
DC> into this?
 
I think the same thing happens to me.  I can't remember if it
was 669 or the Gusmod but I sometimes get this message to
shut off a non maskable interrupt.
 
weird.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard