HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: hwpwh@usho92.hou281.chevron.com (Pat Whitnel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Please email me on how to print Bookreader files
Date: 3 Sep 92 12:28:40 GMT
Organization: Chevron

In article <1992Sep3.001209.17287@massey.ac.nz>, K.Spagnolo@massey.ac.nz (Ken Spagnolo) writes:
|> Of course, I didn't pay attention when the discussion was going on
|> and now I need to do it.  I'd appreciate if someone would email a
|> summary if there is one.
|> 
|> Cheers,
|> -- 
|> Ken Spagnolo - Ph: +64-6-350-5160
|> Systems Programmer, Network Support, Usenet Admin, etc.

So would I... thanks in advance....
-- 
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Chevron Information Technology Company  COD/Worksystems *These are MY opinions;*
2811 Hayes Road  Houston, TX 77082-2642 V: 713-596-3190 *however, I suffer from*
P. O. Box 42832  Houston, TX 77242-2832 F: 713-596-3041 * split personalities. *
From: fredv@abba.acs.uci.edu (Fred Velijanian)
Subject: E-Mail system recommendations needed
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 27 Aug 92 15:48:19 GMT

I am looking for an email package for about 200 people on an Ultrix
system. I know of the public domain systems (MH and ELM) but we need
something with more features, especially since most users are
used to cc:Mail on MSDOS. If you know of any packages (commercial or 
otherwise), please let me know. 

Thanks

Fred Velijanian
University of California, Irvine
fredv@uci.edu
From: cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: E-Mail system recommendations needed
Date: 2 Sep 92 11:23:01 GMT
Organization: Integrated International Systems Corp. One Longfellow Place, Suite 3309, Boston, Ma.

howells@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (John Howells) writes:

>buck@pool.info.sunyit.edu (Jesse Buckley) writes:

><In article <2A9CF942.29269@orion.oac.uci.edu> fredv@abba.acs.uci.edu (Fred Velijanian) writes:
><>I am looking for an email package for about 200 people on an Ultrix
><>system. I know of the public domain systems (MH and ELM) but we need
><>something with more features, especially since most users are
><>used to cc:Mail on MSDOS. If you know of any packages (commercial or 
><>otherwise), please let me know. 

><Take a look as MUSH, it's highly programable.  If it's not enough go and
><buy Z-mail.  I *WISH* I could but, there is the budget thing in my way.

>I second that. I won't use anything else!

>--
>                                        John Howells
>                                        howells@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov 
>                                        howells@earth.arc.nasa.gov



Take a look at PINE 3.0. 


Charlie
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*****************************************************************************
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*  cmr@world.std.com	(Temporary) cmr@chiechan.mro4.dec.com		    *
*  Specializing in UNIX, X, Image Processing, and Communications.           *
From: przemek@rrdstrad.nist.gov (Przemek Klosowski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: FAL acces _from_ Ultrix (accessing VMS files over DECnet)
Date: 28 Aug 92 19:21:43 GMT
Organization: U. of Maryland/NIST
In-reply-to: przemek@rrdstrad.nist.gov's message of 20 Aug 92 18:14:53 GMT


In article <PRZEMEK.92Aug20141453@rrdstrad.nist.gov> I wrote:
   [ We don't have VMS/ultrix connection on our VMS hosts, and yet] I
   would like to be able to open/read [VMS] files directly from my program.

Well, since noone came forward with information on how to do it, I shall post
a solution I use now; it uses the popen() calls to link VMS files to a FILE 
pointer via a pipe---works fine, but does not provide error messages that
can be intercepted by the program.

BTW, DEC support (for which we are paying literally tens of thousands
of dollars a year) wasn't very helpful in my original query; they said
that DECnet programming is completely unsupported, and if we want any
help on DECnet other than how to call dls/dcat/dcp programs from
Ultrix, we have to pay their consulting fees. So much for the "openness":
it made me swear to avoid DECnet whenever I can.

			przemek klosowski (przemek@rrdstrad.nist.gov)
			Reactor Division (bldg. 235), E111
			National Institute of Standards and Technology
			Gaithersburg, MD 20899,      USA

			(301) 975 6249



/* Copyright (c) 1992 by P. Klosowski at NIST.  All Rights Reserved */

/***
   NAME
     decnet
   PURPOSE
     Access files on VAX/VMS using decnet 
   NOTES
     library: cc -c decnet.c; ar cv libdecnet.a decnet.o (or just #include this file)
   HISTORY
     przemek - Jan 24, 1992: Created.
     $Id: decnet.c,v 1.2 1992/08/21 13:59:05 przemek Exp przemek $
***/

#include <stdio.h>

FILE * dopen(char * filename, char * mode);
void dclose(FILE * vfp);

FILE * dopen(char * filename, char * mode){
  char line[255];

  switch (*mode){
  case 'r': sprintf(line, "dcp %s -", filename); break;
  case 'w': sprintf(line, "dcp - %s", filename); break;
  default : return NULL;		/* unknown mode */
  }
  return popen(line,mode);
}
  
void dclose(FILE * vfp){
  pclose(vfp);
}


   
--
			przemek klosowski (przemek@rrdstrad.nist.gov)
			Reactor Division (bldg. 235), E111
			National Institute of Standards and Technology
			Gaithersburg, MD 20899,      USA

			(301) 975 6249
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie)
Subject: Re: Anyone using a DECstation 5000/200 as a news server?
Organization: DEC Network Software Lab
	<1992Sep1.032948.18113@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
Date: 1 Sep 92 10:35:57

> I have INN compiled and ready to go but so far I haven't heard much
> from folks who are using it.  I have been impressed with other projects
> that Rich $alz has been envolved with and I have great expectations for
> INN.  Just reasure me that jumping in is the right thing!

Do it.  Do it now.  Every minute you delay subtracts unneccessarily from
the life expectancy of your disk arms as well as wasting many millions of
CPU cycles that could be doing something that helps humanity in some way.

There are *NO* problems with INN.  It works, it works well, it works fast.
It installs easily.  It is manageable.  It can push netnews through your
system like s**t through a goose.  Get it.  Install it.  Use it.  "rm -rf"
all your B-News, C-News and NNTP sources.

Prepare to be impressed.
--
Paul Vixie, DEC Network Systems Lab	
Palo Alto, California, USA         	"Don't be a rebel, or a conformist;
<vixie@pa.dec.com> decwrl!vixie		they're the same thing, anyway.  Find
<paul@vix.com>     vixie!paul		your own path, and stay on it."  -me
From: epeisach@athena.mit.edu (Ezra Peisach)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: BOOTP/TFTP
Date: 30 Aug 92 14:37:17 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Yes you can use bootp/tftp. 

From the rom, on a DS3100:

boot tftp()

On a DS5XXX/XX

boot slot/tftp

The server side should send over a kernel.

This setup is convenient and works for bootp forwarding. The only
problem I've seen is that on congested networks, the tftp often times
out. I suspect that either a) the interface board is put in promiscuous
mode and is losing packets b) Timeouts are screwy c) Collisions are not
recognized proberly and do not cause a resend. 

	Ezra
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: tab@cco.caltech.edu (Tab A. Stephens)
Subject: magneto-optic drive on DECstation 3100
Keywords: magneto-optic
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 01:48:55 GMT


I would like to place a magneto-optic drive (probably a 128 Meg 3.5 format)
on a DECstation 3100 running Ultrix 3.1.  I'm new to this, and would
appreciate comments on which drive to buy (inexpensive ones preferred),
best controlling software, etc.  If this information is already compiled
somewhere, I would appreciate someone kindly pointing it out to me.

Thanks,
Tab
tab@cco.caltech.edu
 


Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
Subject: Re: Changing DECwrite default style set
Organization: Integrated International Systems Corp. One Longfellow Place, Suite 3309, Boston, Ma.
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:45:48 GMT

torstein@itek.norut.no (Torstein Meyer) writes:

>Does anyone know how to  change the default style set in decwrite (RISC)
>to include our customized and nationalized styles ?
>Torstein Meyer	SystemConsultant at FORUT IT as, Tromsoe, Norway
>torstein.meyer@itek.norut.no	+47 83 80 150 (fax:82420)

In options , set the full menus; then in utilities go to define style.
This should get you going , if you are using DECWrite 2.0.


Charlie

-- 
*****************************************************************************
*  Charles Richmond 	Integrated International Systems Corporation        *
*  cmr@world.std.com	(Temporary) cmr@chiechan.mro4.dec.com		    *
*  Specializing in UNIX, X, Image Processing, and Communications.           *
From: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: VAX Ultrix 4.3 ?
Date: 31 Aug 92 18:15:53 GMT
Reply-To: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <1992Aug30.142134.11683@ircam.fr>, fingerhu@ircam.fr (Michel Fingerhut) writes:
>
>Alan Rollow writes about 4.3 (Ultrix, not BSD):
>>   New device support...
>
>When will ultrix support DEC's RWZ01, the rewritable, removable, optical disk
>as a removable device, i.e., with ability to lock, unlock (physically), eject
>etc...?

I haven't seen anything in the release notes to indicate a change
in status of the support for this device.  I know very little about
it and have never even seen one.
--
Alan Rollow				alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: passwd/group file entries
From: mccalld@vax.sonoma.edu
Date: 26 Aug 92 15:31:05 -0800
Organization: Sonoma State University

Greeings:
    I hope this isn't a novice question, but here goes.....I'd like 
to make certain staff members available to access several group id's/
How does this entry look in the passwd file....ie

john:qhcif09872hf:100:10,15:J. C. User (at large):/usr/users/john:/bin/csh
?????????????????????????????????????????????????
thanks
mac

Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai)
Subject: Re: FTP batch style ?
Organization: Information Services, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 22:52:39 GMT

mccalld@vax.sonoma.edu writes:
>   I'm trying to come up with a script file which FTP's an empty file
> to another host (local) which is non-UNIX/ULTRIX

It's not clear whether you're putting a file or getting a file.  In any
case, something like this with modifications will probably work:

#!/bin/sh
( echo 'open HOSTNAME';
  echo 'user USERNAME PASSWORD';
  echo 'put FILENAME';
  echo 'quit' ) | /usr/ucb/ftp -n

--
Eiji Hirai <hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu>    :     :    :   :  : :: ::: :::: :::::
Unix Hacker for Swarthmore College      :     :    :   :  : :: ::: :::: :::::
Information Services, Swarthmore, PA, USA.      Copyright 1992 by Eiji Hirai.
I don't speak for Swarthmore College.                    All Rights Reserved.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
Subject: Re: routing through a DECstation 5000/125
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 14:08:35 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.123033.23973@alf.uib.no> iversen@vsfys1.fi.uib.no writes:
>Somewhat later rc.local routed is started:
>
>[ -f /etc/routed ] && {
>        /etc/routed -q & echo 'routed'                          >/dev/console
>}

	If you're running a gateway router you shouldn't run routed with
the '-q' option. Examining the manual page will indicate that '-q' tells
routed not to advertise routes. For a gateway, you presumably want to
advertise RIP.

mjr.
From: ajc@pa.dec.com (AJ Casamento)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Disk sizes under 4.2a
Date: 1 Sep 92 15:44:17 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation



In article <92245.104159JGROVER@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> JGROVER@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (John
Grover) writes:



>> We are (finally) upgrading to 4.2a and I am trying to confirm some
>> rumors concerning disk sizes. It is my understanding that 4.2 will
>> recognize a rz57 as 1 gig and a rz58 as 1.3, but these numbers potentially
>> double when going to 4.2a. Is this so? And how is it done? Are there more
>> sectors, or more bytes per sector? BTW, this is on a DECsystem 5500.

>> John Grover               "On a cloud of sound I drift in the night,
>> Computing Center           Any place it goes is right"
>> University of Maine                                  -- Steppenwolf


John,

  I think that what you're discussing is that in Ultrix v4.2 the SCSI driver
used a 6 byte addressing scheme (SCSI 1 standard) which only allows the driver
to address disk partitions of 1 GB formatted data. Hence, the RZ57 (a 1.2GB
disk raw) when formatted at 1GB is supported under Ultrix v4.2 with no problem.
However, any disk larger than that can cause you problems and if you're not
careful you can wrap-around and overwrite your data.

  Ultrix v4.2a uses the standard SCSI 2 addressing scheme of 10bytes. This 
means you don't have to worry about disk sizes for a couple of years ;-) .
In any case, I'm not aware of anything that "doubles" the size of an RZ58.

I hope that this helps.

				Thanx,
				  AJ


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From: nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: 'less' as man pager
Date: 1 Sep 92 16:45:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: reed.1992Sep1.164539.12232
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR

In article <1992Sep1.151046.1@vxdesy.desy.de> sys_sprute@vxdesy.desy.de (Lars Sprute) writes:
>I would like to use 'less' as the pager for the man pages. (default
>is 'more').  I tried to define the environment variable PAGER, but it
>doesn't work, 'more' is still used.

I think, but I'm not positive, that Ultrix's man supports the
"MANPAGER" environment variable. Yay, Ultrix!

You'll be much happier if you trash the Ultrix man entirely and build
a different one. I recommend man-1.1, which you can find via archie
easily enough. It's nicely implemented and supports all sorts of
modern features, especially the MANPATH variable.

I should try to keep track of how many Ultrix binaries I run these
days. Not many. I use all the GNU fileutils, shellutils, the GNU
compilers, the GNU debugger, and lots of other freely available
software. At least most of it compiles ok under Ultrix.
-- 
                __
nelson@reed.edu \/                  Where do you conceal the gun in a bikini?
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai)
Subject: Re: Serial Port device names on a DECstation 5000/120
Organization: Information Services, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 23:04:19 GMT

tb@ece.arizona.edu (Tom Bortone) writes:
> Could someone please tell me which device name goes with which serial
> port?

/dev/tty00 and /dev/tty01 work for me.

--
Eiji Hirai <hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu>    :     :    :   :  : :: ::: :::: :::::
Unix Hacker for Swarthmore College      :     :    :   :  : :: ::: :::: :::::
Information Services, Swarthmore, PA, USA.      Copyright 1992 by Eiji Hirai.
I don't speak for Swarthmore College.                    All Rights Reserved.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai)
Subject: Re: /etc/fstab entries nodev-nosuid ?
Organization: Swarthmore College Computing Center, Swarthmore, PA, USA
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:46:37 GMT

mccalld@vax.sonoma.edu writes:
> use nodev & nosuid options in this file for certain
> mounts....but I'm not able to find those examples anywhere....

Look in the manpage for fstab(5) and mount(8). Here's an example of an
/etc/fstab entry:

/dev/rz1c:/some/directory:rw:1:9:ufs:nodev,nosuid:

--
Eiji Hirai <hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu>    :     :    :   :  : :: ::: :::: :::::
Unix Hacker for Swarthmore College      :     :    :   :  : :: ::: :::: :::::
Computing Center, Swarthmore, PA, USA.  Copyright 1992 by Eiji Hirai.
I don't speak for Swarthmore College.   All Rights Reserved.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: charette@nntpd.lkg.dec.com (Mark Charette)
Subject: Re: reading/writing DOS floppies on DECstation
Reply-To: charette@cheetah.det.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 18:48:49 GMT

Daniel L Grillo (grio@postscript.cs.psu.edu) wrote:
: 
: Does anyone have suggestions for reading and writing MS-DOS
: floppies on Personal DECstations?  Has anyone gotten mtools to work?
: 

mtools works for us (except for formatting - haven't tried to get that
to work). Use the rzxxx devices for the Personal, the rfdxx devices
on the 1xx series.

--
Mark Charette                |Save plants and animals. Eat a vegetarian 
Fisher Engineering Systems   |today.
charette@cheetah.det.dec.com |
(313) 280-0703               |
From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: dump(8) under ultrix
Date: 28 Aug 92 21:01:06 GMT
Organization: CS

In article <1992Aug28.183256.28032@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com> cunning@arthur (Dave Cunningham) writes:
>I'm trying to integrate an ultrix (4.2) system into a network backup
>scheme.  The other systems involved allow anyone to run /etc/dump, and
>use permissions on the device special files for security.  This allows
>dump to be run from an account other than root, which is in a group
>that has read permissions on the raw devices.  This doesn't work under
>ultrix since only root (or opser?) can run dump.

Seems to me I recall that mjr has made a port of BSD dump/restore to
Ultrix and I think it's available on decuac.dec.com...  Don't quote me.
This should solve your "gotta be root" problem...

You might want to look at DEC's NSR product, I and others have posted
comments on it recently.  It's an OK backup product...
-- 
 Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager                (406) 994-4780
 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science
 Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717	osyjm@cs.montana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.windows.x.motif
From: avolio@dco.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
Subject: Re: Motif text resource name vs DECwindows
Reply-To: avolio@dco.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 19:00:11 GMT


In article <troyer.714776461@piglet.mmwb.ucsf.edu>, troyer@cgl.ucsf.edu writes:
>In my .Xdefaults, I have the following keybindings.
>! DECtoolkit text bindings !
>*DwtText.translations:       ...etc.
>
>What is the corresponding text keybinding resource name for the current dxmail? 


For Motif....

! START Motif toolkit text bindings
*XmText.translations: 		...etc.



Fred
From: goldstei@cgi.com ("Morris Goldstein")
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Reading files used by dxcalendar?
Date: 25 Aug 92 17:03:45 GMT

Does anyone have any experience with reading the database files used
by dxcalendar?

I would like to be able to read my calendar database when away from
my X-terminal.

	-Morris
(goldstein@cgi.com)
From: jag@decvax.DEC.COM (John A. Gallant UEG)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: 2Gig Rule??
Date: 1 Sep 92 12:31:46 GMT
Reply-To: jag@zk3.dec.com
Organization: OSF Engineering, Digital Equipment Corp.

In article <1992Aug31.182440.3845@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>, alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.) writes:
>
>In article <1992Aug30.055157.1084@crc.ricoh.com>, shahryar@crc.ricoh.com (Shahryar G. Hashemi) writes:
>>
>> [ The customer asks for details about support of the Exabyte 8500. ]

>Solution?  The SCSI CAM driver available with V4.2 has a way of
>presenting a suitable lie to the file layer about the byte offset
>for large tapes.  ...............................................

    The "lie" is in the V4.2c release.  The V4.2c release contains the CAM
subset for the V4.2a Ultrix product.

-- 
John A. Gallant                                jag@zk3.dec.com
Software Engineer - OSF Engineering Group
Digital Equipment Corp. (603) 881-2472

        In the common people there is no wisdom, no penetration, no
        power of judgment.
    Marcus Cicero
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: howells@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (John Howells)
Subject: Re: E-Mail system recommendations needed
Organization: NASA Ames Res. Ctr. Mtn Vw CA 94035
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 15:05:06 GMT

cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond) writes:

<howells@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (John Howells) writes:

<>buck@pool.info.sunyit.edu (Jesse Buckley) writes:

<><In article <2A9CF942.29269@orion.oac.uci.edu> fredv@abba.acs.uci.edu (Fred Velijanian) writes:
<><>I am looking for an email package for about 200 people on an Ultrix
<><>system. I know of the public domain systems (MH and ELM) but we need
<><>something with more features, especially since most users are
<><>used to cc:Mail on MSDOS. If you know of any packages (commercial or 
<><>otherwise), please let me know. 

<><Take a look as MUSH, it's highly programable.  If it's not enough go and
<><buy Z-mail.  I *WISH* I could but, there is the budget thing in my way.

<>I second that. I won't use anything else!

<>--
<>                                        John Howells
<>                                        howells@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov 
<>                                        howells@earth.arc.nasa.gov



<Take a look at PINE 3.0. 

I have. Mush is still better!

--
                                        John Howells
                                        howells@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov 
                                        howells@earth.arc.nasa.gov
From: mcba@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au (Michael C. B. Ashley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: dxsession causes swapping
Date: 29 Aug 92 08:58:39 GMT
Organization: University of New South Wales

Here is a strange problem for you:

The act of exiting "dxsession" on my system (DECstation 5000, ULTRIX
4.2A) causes the virtual memory usage (as reported by "vmstat 5") to
roughly double, often resulting in lots of swapping. For example, if
active vitual memory (the "avm" field from "vmstat") is running at
80 Mbytes, then one person exiting "dxsession" can result in "avm"
shooting up to 160 Mbytes, this is on a machine with 120 Mbyte of
memory.

In an attempt to find the problem I ran the public domain program
"sps" (a better version of "ps"), in a mode which continually typed out
the currently running processes ("sps -B -r 0 > junk"). Every time
that a "dxsession" exited I saw lots of errors like these:

sps - Can't read user block numer of process 177
sps - Can't read user block numer of process 22341
sps - Can't read user block numer of process 9842

Has anyone seen this problem before? Or can anyone shed any light on how
a program can double "avm" when exiting?

Thanks for any advice,
Michael Ashley mcba@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au
From: maj@ashby.cl.cam.ac.uk (Martyn Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: 2Gig Rule??
Date: 1 Sep 92 08:42:49 GMT
Reply-To: maj@ashby.cl.cam.ac.uk (Martyn Johnson)
Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK

> How can you take advantage of a 8500
> when DEC won't even write up to half of the tape.

Well I'm quite happy with mine, thank you. Surely the most common
use of these beasts is for backups. Although it is possible that somebody
would want a single dump > 2Gb, at the moment I would guess that that
was a little unusual. More common must be to dump multiple partitions
one after another to the tape, separated by filemarks. There is no
problem making use of the whole tape that way.

Martyn Johnson      maj@cl.cam.ac.uk
University of Cambridge Computer Lab
Cambridge UK
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix