HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Subject: Re: Setting date/time in 4.0.1
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 19:56:58 GMT

In article <Btwx7D.tz@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, cgibas@rel11.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Cynthia J. Gibas) writes:
> 
> I've been having an annoying problem getting the date and time set
> correctly on my
> IRIS.  When I use date to set it, I end up with the time set correctly in the 
> shell windows, but the time the x-applications see (like xclock,
> mailbox, etc.)
> is ca. 5 hours off.  When I use datetime under sysadm to set the time the x
> applications and the mailer have the correct time, but the time
> called by date in
> the shell windows is ca. 5 hours off in the opposite direction.
> 
> I have had some success by setting the time using both date and
> sysadm--now the
> correct time appears everywhere, EXCEPT IN THE MAILER!  So all
> messages are sent
> at an apparent time 5 hours behind the actual time they are sent.
> Unfortunately,
> to get to this situation, I had to set the time both ways 5 hours
> earlier than the
> actual time, power off the machine, and restart.
> 
> I'm in the CST/CDT time zone.  If anyone can figure out this story problem and
> help me fix it I will be very grateful.


It is likely that /etc/TIMEZONE does not contain:

TZ=CST6CDT

If so, fix it, reboot the system, correct the time, and reboot the
system.  (There are short cuts, but let's not confuse someone who
is already confused.)


Another likely cause is that somehow you are trashing the TZ environment
variable, whether in an shell start up script or otherwise.



Vernon Schryver,  vjs@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.sys.sun.admin
From: tres@roke.rap.ucar.edu (Tres Hofmeister)
Subject: SUMMARY: iris-ansi termcap/terminfo Entries for Sun
Organization: National Center for Atmospheric Research / RAP
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 00:03:30 GMT

	Thanks to all those who replied.

	The method I used to solve this problem was to copy the SGI
files /usr/lib/terminfo/i/iris* to /usr/lib/terminfo/i on the Sun,
then run '/usr/5bin/infocmp -Cr' on each of these to create termcap
descriptions for /etc/termcap.  This appears to work just fine.

	Another suggestion was to generate the termcap description
files on the SGI, convert them to terminfo descriptions on the Sun
using captoinfo, then compile the resulting terminfo descriptions
using tic.  As file(1) reports that the binary files from the SGI are
of the type "Compiled Terminfo Entry", this seemed unnecessary.

--
Tres Hofmeister
tres@ncar.ucar.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: stanj@ferrari.corp.sgi.com (Stan Jensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: graphics file formats
Date: 3 Sep 92 16:56:10 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <32324@adm.brl.mil>, CMSWALTERS@karl.iit.edu writes:
|> SGI Gurus,
|> 
|> I apologize for sending what is undoubtedly a FAQ, but here goes.
|> I want to capture graphics off my SGI screen (still running v3.3.2
|> of irix), e.g., with the snapshot utility, then convert the
|> resulting .rgb file into a format which a Macintosh can send
|> to a color printer (I have a Mac connected to my SGI, and someone
|> in another department has a color printer connected to his Mac).
|> Is there a FAQ file where I can find this kind of info?  Or can
|> someone tell me what utility(ies) I need and where to get them?
|> 
Look at the "tomac" and "topict" utilities in /usr/sbin
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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: gamma w
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 20:52:05 GMT

In <1992Aug30.153510.92@gems.vcu.edu> jscarsdale@gems.vcu.edu writes:

| We're having an interesting and annoying problem with our iris 4d/35, 
| irix 4.04.  Twice in the past week system.glgammaval in the /etc/config
| directory has become corrupted with the result that no one can log
| into the console (user logs in, but gets bumped out before any windows
| come up, no info in the /usr/adm/SYSLOG file), and that pandora doesn't
| come up, but instead we get the login screen that one gets when one
| sets noiconlogin to TRUE.  Both times this has happened, a user has
| been doing some development work involving BIOSYM's open interface
| and INSIGHTII software packages; this of course is quite a large
| image for our 16 Meg 4d/35G system, but the application running
| may simply be coincidental and have nothing to do with the problem.
| 
| So, the question is--have any other users experienced similar 
| problems on their SGI systems, what caused the problem and is
| there a workaround; I thought I'd check the collective net.wisdom
| before we logged a call to the TAC.

Far and away the most common cause of this is somebody logging
out (as opposed to shutting down), and then turning the power off,
or hitting the reset button.  In 4.0.5 both the X login scripts,
and the gamma program have been beefed up to make this more 
unlikely to happen.  I'd check to see if somebody isn't shutting
the system down properly...

Change the gamma lines in /usr/lib/X11/xdm/{Xlogin,Xstartup}
and /usr/bin/X11/X to look like this to help the situation some:

	glGammaFile=/etc/config/system.glGammaVal
	glGammaDefault="1.7"
	if [ -r $glGammaFile -a -s $glGammaFile ];  then
			glGammaVal=`cat $glGammaFile`
	else
			glGammaVal=$glGammaDefault
	fi
--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
From: lear@yeager.corp.sgi.com (Eliot Lear)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Elm mailer return path
Date: 28 Aug 92 00:36:10 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

joffe%rtsmv1.decnet@edwards-vax.af.mil writes:

>	This is a question about the the Elm mailer program.  Is there a way to
>specify your return path as something other than what it really is?  The
>address of my local machine is joffe@gts01, but in order for it to get to me
>from a remote site it has to go through a machine called gts.elan.af.mil. My
>address would therefore have to be specified as joffe@gts01@gts.elan.af.mil.

I'm not an ELM expert, but I do a lot of things with mail at SGI.
Even if you pass mail through another site, it should not cause your
mail to have two at-signs in it.  On the Internet, there are a number
of ways that mail can be transformed.  Through the use of MX records,
your address doesn't need to be changed at all (with the possible
exception that it may need to be fully qualified).  Rather, the other
side, when sending, will look up your MX record and discover that they
have to send your mail to gts.elan.af.mil.  This may require some
coordination with the administrator of gts.elan.af.mil if they do not
already have direct connectivity to you through TCP-IP (it sounds like
they do).

Let me point one other thing.  What you want to set is your `reply-to'
header.  This tells people where to reply to you.  Without an MX
record, you might try something like joffe%gts01@gts.elan.af.mil.  A
% is an unofficial/unsupported way to route around the Internet.  It's
best to use MX records.  Again, I don't know how to do this in ELM.

See Chapter 3 of the IRIX Network Administration Guide for more
information about MX records.
--
Eliot Lear
[lear@sgi.com]
From: vulture@carrion.cc.ic.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Downloading to PC using wildcards
Date: 27 Aug 92 09:19:07 GMT
Reply-To: cmaae47@cc.ic.ac.uk
Organization: Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

In article <BtJJMv.3x8@knot.ccs.queensu.ca>, tarun@psyclops.psyc.queensu.ca (Tarun Kripalani) writes:
 -- am done. Does anyone know if there are any programs 
 -- available that will allow me to specify wildcards instead
 -- of specific filenames (for both the PC and IRIS)?

Try Kermit, the SGI version comes in the 4Dgifts tree, you have to move
it into place. For the PC you get Kermit "virtually everywhere".

Or you can try to get NCSA telnet and run that over slip or ethernet
to the Iris. This may take longer to set up, but will be more satisfying
to use (particularly over ethernet).

                                    Thomas

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Xref: sparky comp.sys.sgi:12884 comp.unix.questions:10376
From: slix@svcs1.UUCP (Bill Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: does anyone have the "dd" source code or good mtio examples???
Summary: tape drivers, qic-80/mountain (for linux or 386bsd)?
Date: 26 Aug 92 02:00:16 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Silicon Valley Computer Society, Sunnyvale, CA

In article <1992Aug24.201022.21067@cis.ohio-state.edu>, fontana@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark Fontana) writes:
> 
> I've written my own tape software using the mtio library, and it wasn't
> hard at all.  (Other than a few specific tape functions, you basically
> use read() and write() anyway).
> 
> The specific program I created writes Archive FasTape format QIC-24
> cartridge tapes under UNIX; the resulting tapes may be read directly
> by the Archive software on MSDOS machines.  The capability to READ
> Archive tapes will be implemented after finals.  :)

I have a question based on your experience with such things (or other
people's experience in general).  I'm coming from years of experience
with MS-DOS, but am relatively new to unix.  I'm considering switching
over to either of 386bsd or Linux.  I have a mountain filesafe tape
backup unit.  I can read/write qic-80 with it, although I'd prefer to
use Mountain's proprietary TD-101 format as I can achieve more bytes
on the tape - at least for internal stuff.
 
From your experience, how _hard_ is it to write such driver software? I
haven't the foggiest idea of how you go about it.  If you can r/w QIC-24
then can it be adaptable to QIC-80, or is it totally different?

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: makarewy@rft31.nas.nasa.gov (Alex Makarewycz)
Subject: Iris 4D Software for sale
Keywords: software for sale
Organization: NAS Program, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 23:11:39 GMT

September 4, 1992
I have the following Software for sale:
	

Product				Part Number
-------------------------------------------------
NFS 3.3				801-0002-013A
S4-VISTOOLS-1.0			801-0059-001A
Fortran 3.3			801-0003-011A
Developer System 3.3		801-0025-005A
Execution only Tape 1		801-0023-005B
Execution only Tape 2		801-0024-005B
4D1-3.3.1			801-0087-001C

*No manuals are included

Price: Best Offer

leave message for Alex at 415-348-6920
From: stein-c@acsu.buffalo.edu (Craig Steinberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Dog, Arena, Battlezone, and Networks
Date: 4 Sep 92 16:07:29 GMT
Organization: SUNY at Buffalo CFD Lab


In article <lade95INN4tr@bovina.cs.utexas.edu> ted@cs.utexas.edu (Ted Woodward) writes:
>
>Is bz in general distribution?  I would rather not say where I got my copy.
>

Well, I can say where I got mine. Binaries are available for ftp on sgi.com.

Unfortunately, we are poor, and can only afford one machine. When one
of the other departments here get some Irisi, I hope to start a war or
two, but until then we've got to blow hell out of the robots. Unless of 
course there's a way to set up games across the Internet........

-Craig

P.S. Chris Fouts, thanks! it's a hell of a game!!!!!
-- 
Craig Steinberger                               stein-c@eng.buffalo.edu
              SUNY at Buffalo, Computational Fluid Dynamics Lab
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: ib@ivan.esd.sgi.com (Ivan Bach)
Subject: Re: IRIX and (not) ISO 8859-1
Followup-To: <4BK612G@math.fu-berlin.de> 
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:24:32 GMT

In <4BK612G@math.fu-berlin.de>, heiko@Harpo.Chemie.FU-Berlin.DE (Heiko 
Schlichting) writes:
>           o The character set in several Screen fonts was extended
>           from the ASCII character set to the ISO 8859-1
>           character set. 
>
> Really? I can't find them ...
The following Screen fonts were extended from the ASCII to the ISO 8859-1
character set:

    -sgi-screen-medium-r-normal--13-130-72-72-m-70-iso8859-1
    -sgi-screen-medium-r-normal--15-150-72-72-m-80-iso8859-1
    -sgi-screen-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-m-80-iso8859-1
    -sgi-screen-medium-r-normal--18-180-72-72-m-90-iso8859-1

You can use the following font name aliases for these fonts:  
    
    screen13 -*-screen-medium-r-normal--*-130-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
    screen15 -*-screen-medium-r-normal--*-150-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
    screen16 -*-screen-medium-r-normal--*-160-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
    screen18 -*-screen-medium-r-normal--*-180-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1

These aliases are defined in the file /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias.

If you enter commands such as:

    xfd -fn -sgi-screen-medium-r-normal--18-180-72-72-m-90-iso8859-1
    xfd -fn screen15

you will see all characters in the specified font.

> all useable fonts doesn't have the ISO 8859-1 character set, even if the
> name contains "-iso8859-1":
> e.g: -schumacher-clean-bold-r-normal--15-150-75-75-c-90-iso8859-1
I don't know why Dale Schumacher (dal@syntel.mn.org) puts "iso8859-1" in
the names of fonts which do not contain all characters from the ISO 8859-1 
character set.  I think that some people interpret the character encoding 
specification "iso8859-1" as meaning that those characters which are provided 
have been assigned the codes specified in the ISO standard.  

I think that all those text fonts distributed by the X Consortium whose names
contain "iso8859-1" should be extended to the full ISO 8859-1 character set by 
the people who designed those fonts.  I sent that suggestion to the X 
Consortium about a year ago.  Dale Schumacher's fonts are copyrighted.  Only 
Dale Schumacher can extend those fonts, or give somebody a written permission 
to extend them.  It takes a skilled font designer to extend an existing font.  

> Anyone knows a source for -sgi-screen-bold-* fonts with ISO 8859-1 characters
They are SGI fonts.  We will extend them to the ISO 8859-1 character set as
soon as we can.

Ivan Bach, ib@sgi.com
From: scotth@hoshi.corp.sgi.com (Scott Henry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Downloading to PC using wildcards
Date: 25 Aug 92 15:57:30 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc, Mountain View, CA


>>>>> In article <BtJJMv.3x8@knot.ccs.queensu.ca>, tarun@psyclops.psyc.queensu.ca (Tarun Kripalani) writes:

tarun> I am currently using xmodem to download my data from the 
tarun> IRIS to a PC. I have a helluva lot of files to transfer
tarun> and I will probably be chewing on my gums by the time I
tarun> am done. Does anyone know if there are any programs 
tarun> available that will allow me to specify wildcards instead
tarun> of specific filenames (for both the PC and IRIS)?

I see two options:

1) Use y- or z-modem, both of which pass the filename in the
   protocol, and the versions I've used on the IRIS take a list of
   filenames, and the shell expands wildcards for you. The PD versions
   I've seen have x-, y-, and z-modem in the same package.

2) Put the files into an archive on the IRIS, transfer the archive,
   then un-archive on the PC. You will need to have the same archiver
   on both machines. I just saw a UN*X version of ZIP go by recently
   on comp.sources.misc. ZIP is a very popular archiver on the PC. I
   haven't yet tried compiling this version, but earlier releases have
   compiled easily on the IRIS.

=-=-=-=
--
 Scott Henry <scotth@sgi.com> / Traveller on Dragon Wings
 Networking Services,        / Help! My disclaimer is missing!
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From: steve@maths.warwick.ac.uk (Steve Rumsby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: gcc2.2.2 on Iris Crimson (HELP!)
Date: 27 Aug 92 13:12:03 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Geometry Group, Maths Institute, Warwick University, UK.

In article <TOTSUKA.92Aug27145458@avaia.av.crl.sony.co.jp>, totsuka@av.crl.sony.co.jp (Takashi Totsuka) writes:
> 
> 	Is there anyone who has successfully installed GCC(G++)2.2.2 and
> 	libg++2.2.2 on IRIS Crimson ?
> 
> 	I am having a strange problem with one of the test program
> 	(tComplex.cc).  The sqrt() method of Complex class returns
> 	different value each time it is called with the same constant
> 	arguments...  Specifying -mcpu=r4000 didn't help.
> 
> 	I appreciate any suggestions. Thanks in advance.
>
Same things happens on a R3000 Indigo too. I finally trace the problem
to the hypot function in the C library (SGI's library, not glibc) which
was returning bizarre results, but only after printing a double on cout!
I couldn't see any way that these two functions could interfere with
each other, so I gave up at that point. If anybody has any ideas about
what might be going on, I'd love to hear them.

As above, this is all compiling libg++-2.2.2 with gcc-2.2.2.

Steve.
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From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Subject: Re: vnews
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 15:48:52 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.233114.27594@odin.corp.sgi.com>, lear@yeager.corp.sgi.com (Eliot Lear) writes:
> 
> Which vnews are you talking about?  There's the one that was
> distributed with B-News and there's the one that Rutgers uses,
> whacked by Ken Almquist.


I've been using vnews from 2.11B for several years.  I'm using it
to type this on a 4D/25 running IRIX 4.0.5.  That hacks needed to
make it work were trivial.


Vernon Schryver,  vjs@sgi.com
From: ib@ivan.esd.sgi.com (Ivan Bach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Font Manager
Date: 3 Sep 92 18:42:49 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA

In <1992Sep3.164523.929@nas.nasa.gov> choi@wk59.nas.nasa.gov (Diana Choi)
writes:
> Is there a way to find out which pointsizes of a specific font are on hand?
There are actually two font managers in the IRIX operating system.  The one
in the X Window System is used by the X and Display PostScript programs.  The
IRIS Font Manager is used for GL and mixed-model programs.

You can easily find out which point sizes of a specific font are available
in the X Window System by entering a command such as:

    xlsfonts | grep pala

In 14-part X font names, the size of a font is specified in pixels and 
decipoints (tenths of a point).  In the font name:

    -adobe-palatino-bold-r-normal--33-240-100-100-p-180-iso8859-1

33 is the font size in pixels, while 240 is the font size in decipoints.  
This is a 24-point font that was designed for the resolution of 100 dpi.  
If the resolution of your video monitor is higher than 100 dpi, this font
will be smaller than 24 points, and vice versa.  Only if the resolution of
your video monitor is about 100 dpi (e.g., 96 dpi), this font will have
approximately the size of 24 points. 

Alternatively, you can use the program xfontsel, or select the option 
"Font..." in a pop-up menu that is displayed when you press the right mouse
button in a winterm or xwsh window.   winterm is just a script that calls
xwsh.  By default, the xwsh font browser displays only monospaced fonts,
because those are the types of fonts people usually use in a shell window.  
You can click on the button "Show proportional-width fonts" to get a list of 
proportionally spaced fonts.  You can also click on the button "Show size in
points."

The programming interface for the IRIS Font Manager is based on a page 
description language called PostScript.   PostScript is a device-independent 
page description language.  In that language, you are not supposed to know 
or care about the resolution of a target device.  You may not even know on 
which device the image described in PostScript will be rendered.  Once a 
PostScript file is sent to a particular device, the PostScript interpreter 
for that device tries to interpret the code in that file the best it can. 
The advantage of this approach is that an image always has approximately the 
same size, regardless of what is the resolution of a target device.  You can 
send the same code to devices which have different resolutions.

The IRIS Font Manager in IRIX 4.0.5 and higher can use outline fonts.  An 
outline font can be scaled to any desired point size, so there is really no 
list of available point sizes.  The X11R5 version of the X Window System can 
also use outline fonts.  It lists an outline font with the point size set to 0.

Ivan Bach, ib@sgi.com
From: jdh@bu-pub.bu.edu (Jason Heirtzler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: RV1 graphics boards on GTX machines
Keywords: RV1
Date: 1 Sep 92 00:03:56 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Information Technology

In the 4.0.5 release notes, this item caught my eye:

  On the G and GT/GTX systems with RV1 board sets, logical
  pixel operations are slow except for the replace logical
  operation.  To find out whether you have a G system or a
  GT/GTX with RV1 board sets, use /usr/gfx/gfxinfo or the
  getgdescr(GD_LOGICOP) call in the graphics library.

What does the "1" in RV1 refer to?  Does it mean I have a
RV board at hardware rev 1 (which I could expect to get the
field engineer to swap as part of the regular maintaince $$)
or does it mean I have a RV1 board at hardware rev X (which
I would be stuck with, for as long as I have the machine.)

More importantly, is the performance problem anything to
worry about?  Maybe there's a snippet of code that someone
has that would demonstrate the problem?


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From: foulser@homebrew.asd.sgi.com (David Foulser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Explorer users on IRIS wanted!
Date: 4 Sep 92 17:34:57 GMT
Reply-To: foulser@homebrew.asd.sgi.com (David Foulser)
Organization: sgi

I'm the SGI guy who can tell you about the Shape language. The new LatFunction module
on the ftp site (LatFunction2) fixes a major bug in the shipped module. That is, the
shipped module won't work if you launch it from the librarian. You have to launch it,
then type the filename you want, then duplicate the module. The new one will work.

Also, there are some bugs with how LatFunction parses its program. It sometimes
declares an error when it shouldn't. You can usually get around this by reparsing,
that is, typing <CR> in the Program File typein. 

However, LatFunction is not space dependent. "a+b" == "a + b" == "a+ b", etc.

If you have other specific questions or suggestions, I'll try to address them.

Dave

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