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From: valente@sissa.it
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Screen background
Date: 2 Sep 92 07:45:00 GMT
Organization: Intnl School for Adv Studies

Is there a simple way to have whatever picture I like as a screen background
on my IRIS 4D? Should I perhaps add something to my user.ps or startup.ps?
Thanx,

Ricky (valente@sgi-4d.sissa.it)

International School for Advanced Studies
Trieste, ITALY
From: beers@acsu.buffalo.edu (Andrew Beers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: picking and gselecting...
Date: 2 Sep 92 01:15:19 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo/Comp Sci


Does picking or selecting mode work with non-orthographic viewing
transformations?  If so, I am having a terrible time getting it to work.  I
have experimented for a while, read example programs (all of which use
ortho2), and RTFM.

This is what I'm trying to do:

I'm drawing a cube (or most of a cube) on the screen and would like to pick a
corner of it by clicking it with the mouse.  I issue some viewing
transformations:

    mmode(MPROJECTION);
    window(-150,150,-150,150,-600,500);
    mmode(MVIEWING);
    lookat(0,0,-750,0,0,0,0);  

then draw the figure to see it on the screen.

	drawit(1);

Following the example programs and the documentation, I then re-issue my
transformations and enter gselect mode:

	picksize(50,50);
	mmode(MPROJECTION);
	window(-150,150,-150,150,-500,500);
	mmode(MVIEWING);
	lookat(0,0,-750,0,0,0,0);
	gselect(buffer, BUFSIZE);

redraw the figure (loading and pushing names on the name stack) , and end
selecting mode:

	drawit(0);	/* no actual drawing takes place */
	hits = endselect(buffer);

Now I find that hits is always zero.

Can anyone shed light on this problem?  I have gldebug'ed the program, and it
runs clean (ie. no GL errors or warnings).

The setup:  Iris 4D/GT, IRIX 4.0.5

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Andrew C. Beers                    abeers%iris%mfb@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
Medical Foundation of Buffalo      beers@cs.buffalo.edu
From: john@sg25.aud.temple.edu (John W. Schwegler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: xview on SGI?
Date: 26 Aug 92 18:14:09 GMT


In message <9208261517.AA02731@gdstech.grumman.com> ,
 Dave Englund <englund@gdstech.grumman.com> writes:
> Yet another question for those in the know:
> 
> Is there anything out there that will let me run an application on an
> SGI machine whose interface is in xview for a Sun ? 
> ...

I don't quite claim to be 'in the know' ;) but there was a response before in
this group to the effect that the 'fullscreendebug' flag should allow Xview
applications to work for now.

I believe this may be specified on the command line as -fullscreendebug
( -Wfsdb for sunview compatibility mode). The resource name is
Fullscreen.Debug, which is boolean. This could be set in an application
defaults file so it doesn't need to be done on the command line every time:

*Fullscreen.Debug: true

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   but stupidity is not thus            | Temple U. Auditory Research Dept.
   handicapped."                        | john@sg25.aud.temple.edu
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From: fouts@exacto.dallas.sgi.com (Christopher Fouts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Dog, Arena, Battlezone, and Networks
Date: 2 Sep 92 20:06:05 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics (Dallas, TX)

In article <32325@adm.brl.mil>, blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov (Brent L. Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB) writes:
|> 
|>      Dog used to flood the network with broadcast messages, making it very
|> network unfriendly.  I believe that has been corrected in IRIX > 3.3.  Arena
|> seems to also flood the network in IRIX 3.3.2.  Has this been corrected in
|> IRIX > 4.0?  What about this `battlezone', or what ever it is called, has it
|> been made more network friendly too?  Thanks.

Bz uses multicast packets and is throttled to send a maxium of 15 update
packets a second.  Each packet is around 60 or so bytes long, so the
overall bandwidth used is relatively small.  Your opinion of whether or
not this is flooding the network may differ.  :^)

-- 

Chris Fouts				Email:  fouts@dallas.sgi.com
Systems Engineer			Phone:  (214)-788-4122
Silicon Graphics Computer Systems	Vmail:	8714
Dallas, TX

        "I'm as much of a non-conformist as everybody else."
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: IRIX 4.0.4 include bugs
Date: 4 Sep 92 18:32:58 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <Bu24E8.5H9@math.uwaterloo.ca> mskucher@math.uwaterloo.ca (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF]) writes:

| olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
| >mskucher@math.uwaterloo.ca (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF]) writes:
| >
| >| This program:
| >| 
| >| #include <pwd.h>
| >| main()
| >| {
| >| }
| >| 
| >| ...produces three compilation warnings while it's reading the file
| >| "/usr/include/pwd.h".
| >
| >I don't have 4.0.4, but it works fine for me under 4.0.5.  What
| >warnings do you get, and what compiler flags are you using?

pwd.h was changed 3/30/92.  I think that means it was fixed for 4.0.5;
I'm a bit hazy on just when we froze the tree for 4.0.4, but I'm pretty
sure it was before that.
--
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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: williams@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Gus Williams)
Subject: Printer to an Ethernet Printer on a Novel Network
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 15:04:03 GMT

We have a Novel ethernet network with several printers attached to
novel ethernet ports.  Is it possible to print directly to these
without buying the NFS option for Novel?

Thanks for any help.
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: DAT dumping
Date: 2 Sep 92 02:31:55 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <BtwwJK.E4s@accelr8.com> jim@accelr8.com (Jim Reiss) writes:

| I believe this was recently asked and answered, but I clumsily didn't save
| the thread.  Can anyone please tell me the size, etc. parameters to the dump
| command for a 4mm DAT drive on an SGI system?  Thanks.

Depends on whether you have 60 meter (120 minute) or 90 meter (180 minute)
tapes.  I just start from the exabyte numbers, and divide capacities
appropriately (60 meter holds 1.3 Gb, 90 meter holds 2.0 Gb, and
'standard' (112 meter) 8mm holds 2.3 Gb, to round numbers.

So, 'man dump' shows this for 8mm:
	 use a density of 54000 and length of 6000 feet while using 8mm

So I would use a density of 54000 (its all bogus anyway) for DAT, and
a length of 6000/(2.3/1.3) for 60m DAT, or 3391 feet (I'd probably
round it down to 3350 to give you a margin of safety).
--
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: bob@caw2.4950tw.wpafb.af.mil (Bob Plested)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: totiff.c dource
Date: 26 Aug 92 03:35:17 GMT

Does anyone know where to find the source code (or even an executable)
for the rgb to tiff conversion? I think it used to exist on sgi.com,
but I can't find it on any of the usual ftp sites.

Bob
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From: hshamans@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Harry T Shamansky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Ssanf gobbles source string ??
Keywords: sscanf
Date: 3 Sep 92 15:34:19 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.sgi
Organization: The Ohio State University


  Hello...

  I'm wondering if the sscanf should *ever* modify the string from which
  it is scanning. Here is a short code example of my question:
  (I'm on an Indigo running 4.0.2, with the Ansi C 1.1 loaded)

****************************** cut here *****************************
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
  char test1[64],test2[64];
  int i;

  /* This segment of code alters the source string test1 */
  strcpy(test1,"2dfft 0");
  printf("Before %s\n",test1);
  sscanf(test1,"%s %i",test2,&i);
  printf("After %s\n",test1);
  printf(" values test2=%s , i= %l\n",test2,i);

  /* This segment of code does not alter the source string test1 */
  strcpy(test1,"2dfft 0 end");
  printf("Before %s\n",test1);
  sscanf(test1,"%s %i",test2,&i);
  printf("After %s\n",test1);
  printf(" values test2=%s , i= %i\n",test2,i);

  /* This segment of code does not alter the source string test1 */
  strcpy(test1,"2dfft 0");
  printf("Before %s\n",test1);
  sscanf(test1,"%s %l",test2,&i);
  printf("After %s\n",test1);
  printf(" values test2=%s , i= %i\n",test2,i);

  return;
}
****************************** cut here *****************************

  The result of this code is:

176 bchan@coulomb:~> zz
Before 2dfft 0
After 2dfft 
 values test2=2dfft , i=
Before 2dfft 0 end
After 2dfft 0 end
 values test2=2dfft , i= 0
Before 2dfft 0
After 2dfft 0
 values test2=2dfft , i= 0

  note that for the first case, the After result has been mangled, but
  the other cases seem O.K.  Is this my stupidity, or is a bug lurking ?
  (the ^? was a funny double umlaut over the character y, if anyone cares)

  Thanks for any thoughts....

  Harry Shamansky  ..  hts@hertz.eng.ohio-state.edu
  Ben Chan  ..  bchan@coulomb.eng.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: using dump between 2 SGI workstations (without being root)
Keywords: dump, rcmd
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 06:37:26 GMT

In <ivan.714758979@stat> ivan@ph.albany.edu (Ivan Auger) writes:


| I am currently using dump as a normal user on an sgi to a local tape
| driver with no problem.  (as Dave Olson suggested, I just changed the
| group ownership of /dev/rsdsk/* to "operator" - where "operator" is a
| group of people allowed to do backups).
| 
| However, when trying to dump to a remote tape drive (between 2 sgi's),
| it fails. The message is:
| rcmd: socket: Permission denied
|   DUMP: Couldn't execute /etc/rmt on violet
| 
| Since I do not have this problem when using dump on a sun to a remote
| tape drive on an SGI - the SGI dump uses a different mechanism to
| communicate with another system.  That is rcmd which requires you
| to be superuser.
| One solution is to do the "dump" as root, and have an ".rhosts" file
| on sgi with the tape drive.  I clearly do not want that.
| 
| Any suggestions ?

Yes, this is sort of a misfeature.  About all I can suggest doing is
to use '-' to write the dump to stdout, and then use the old
	| rsh user@host dd of=/dev/tape obs=xxk
hack
--
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: rck@fangio.asd.sgi.com (Robert Keller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: sysadmin
Date: 1 Sep 92 17:21:25 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA

cheekin@flash.swl.spec.ptg.sony.co.jp (Tang Chee Kin) writes:
>  hi.. I got files under dir /debug which keeps increasing and I could not
>  clear it off. Anyone knows what are those files for ? 

check out the dbg(4) man page.  Here's a portion of it that answers most 
of your questions:

    The debug file system, normally mounted under /debug, provides an
    interface to running processes that may be used by debuggers such as dbx.
    The "files" of this file system are of the form /debug/<pid>, where <pid>
    is the process id of a running process.  These files actually consume no
    disk space, and are only convenient handles by which a debugger can
    attach to a process.

...robert
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sgi:12939 comp.sys.sun.admin:5865
From: fred@poly2.nist.gov (Frederick R. Phelan Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Xterm program
Date: 2 Sep 92 15:36:36 GMT

Thomas, sorry to post this here, but the messages sent to you
personally bounced ...

---------  Received message begins Here  ---------

|From info-iris-request@vmb.brl.mil  Tue Sep  1 15:59:12 1992
|From: Thomas Sippel - Dau <vulture@carrion.cc.ic.ac.uk>
|Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
|Subject: Re: Xterm program
|Date: 27 Aug 92 09:33:50 GMT
|Nntp-Posting-Host: cscgc
|To: info-iris@vmb.brl.mil
|
|In article <32197@adm.brl.mil>, fred@poly2.nist.gov (Frederick R. Phelan Jr.) writes:
| -- 
| -- When I run xterm from the iris to an x terminal,
| -- the .login file is not processed. 
|
|Two ways to approach it:
|
|1.  use 'xterm -ls ... ' - will help in your case
|

When I do this, then the .cshrc is not processed!
This is worse!

|2.  Incorporate the .login into the .cshrc file and make a test early in
|    there. This will work for all user admission agents, not just xterm.
|    The actual tests you have to do can be rather complex, but csh lore
|    recommends: ' if ( 0 == $?prompt ) exit 0 ' in .cshrc
|

Hmmm, I am not sure I understand what I am testing for.  Are you
suggesting adding the statement

source ~/.login

to the .cshrc, but wrapped in a conditional?  That's a pretty good
idea.


|                                   Thomas

Thanks for your tips!

Fred

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fred@poly2.nist.gov
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From: russo@rudedog.nrl.navy.mil (Kevin Russo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Telnet a trademark of NCSA???
Keywords: telnet, ncsa
Date: 2 Sep 92 01:12:15 GMT
Organization: Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC

I was just reading in the IRIX Network Computing System
Administration Guide (date 11/91 p. ii & 2-6) that Telnet is a
trademark (not registered, though) of the National Center for
Supercomputing at U Ill Urbana.

Didn't the name "telnet" originate in the old days of ARPAnet,
well before NCSA and their pc/mac implementation.  If the name
belongs to anyone, it should be "the government."

Did an SGI tech writer become confused or is NCSA trying to
reach too far back into the past?

Can any networking old-timers clear this up?


--
Kevin Russo                  russo@orion.nrl.navy.mil
SFA / US Naval Research Lab  Washington, DC
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: garbett@utkvx2.utk.edu (Garbett, Shawn)
Subject: 4-d modeling
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 01:50:00 GMT

I've just been offered a research project working on a sgi workstation and
I would like to know what a good package to do 4-d modeling. Or WOould it be
better to write it in C++? The project consists of animating particle beam
tracks. So basically billard balls flying through fields.
Shawn
Garbett@utkvx.utk.edu
From: mott@sgi.com (David Mott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: GLRenderCaching (Inventor)
Date: 4 Sep 92 18:18:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: fido.pedrj4g
Distribution: comp
Organization: Silicon Graphics

In article <MATUMOT.92Sep4190519@calypso.elec.nkk.co.jp> matumot@elec.nkk.co.jp (Masayuki Matsumoto) writes:
>Hello,
>
>My question is on GL render caching of Inventor.
>
>I am developing a application of which feature is
>geometry changes dynamicaly depending on time step.
>
>In this case, having GL render caching turned _OFF_  significantly
>improved rendering performance, contrary to the manual page.
>Is this reasonable ?
>
>In only case of static geometry application, does GL render caching
>accelerate rendering speed ?



The key here is that your geometry *changes dynamically*. If you
build a cache for the geometry, then change it, the cache is blown,
and has to be rebuilt. Building the cache is more expensive than
simply rendering the geometry.

However, once the cache is built, as long as the data in the cache
is not changing, rendering the cache is significantly faster than
rendering the initial data. (Changing data is more than geometry -
it is anything in the scene graph which is changing.)

The thing to remember here is that you should turn GL render caching
ON for a separator if the scene graph under that separator is not changing.
Turn caching OFF for a separator if anything in the scene graph IS
changing. 

Section 9.4.1 in the IRIS Inventor Programming Guide discusses caching,
including some of the tradeoffs involved which help you decide whether
render caching is appropriate for a specific situation or not.

David
From: flatau@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Piotr Flatau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: micro Emacs. Where ?
Date: 2 Sep 92 14:53:45 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

I would like to get a copy of microEmacs for SGI box. Binaries
would be fine, or working sources.


Peter
From: kuechenm@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Help with Undefined Functions
Date: 25 Aug 92 20:25:09 GMT
Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA

While compiling and linking some code, I recieved the following error message for some supposedly undefined functions:
Undefined:
iopen
getrow
putrow
iclose
*** Error code 1
The correct libraries are installed in the 4.01 version of the operating system as far as I know. Any help with these functions or what might be causing the system to balk at using them would be appreciated.
Please reply via email rather than posts
Thanks,
Dave K.
David R. Kuechenmeister                    kuechenm@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil
US Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey,CA 93943 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: fish@daacdev1.stx.com
Subject: anyone have any caveats/hints for installing HPljIII on a 4D/35???
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:12:55 GMT

i was just wondering if anybody had run into any problems - we have
the extra laser printer support - i haven't tried installing it yet
but thought i'ld put out a feeler for folks with prev experience

			thanx,
					fish
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NASA/GSFC                         VOX: 301-513-1683                
Hughes/STX Corporation            FAX: 301-513-1608
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From: buck@ra.nrl.navy.mil (Loren Buchanan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Why won't my IRIS read this CD?
Summary: The CD has problems, not your reader
Keywords: ISO9660 CDROM Brookhaven
Date: 31 Aug 92 20:37:51 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.sgi
Organization: Naval Research Labratory, Washington, DC

In article <32257@adm.brl.mil> andersen@marvin.ama.ttu.edu (Kim Andersen) writes:
>This is a 4D/35, with cdrom, running 4.0.1.

We were reading our copy of the Brookhaven PDB 92 CD on a 4D/25 running
4.0.4 (that may be another part of the problem but read on).

>root# ls -al /CDROM/pdb92cd
>/CDROM/pdb92cd
[[[ Not a directory messages deleted ]]]
>total 8
>dr-xr-xr-x   1 root     sys         2048 Jul 10 17:28 .
>dr-xr-xr-x   1 root     sys         2048 Jul  9 20:08 ..
>
>All of the above (asn_1, dataprtp, docs, etc.) ARE directories.
>
>Any clues? Hints? RTFMs?

Did you try to cd into any of these directories?  We were able to but in
one directory there was a corrupted ".." file and was not able to cd back
to the parent directory.  This CD is flakey.  We have not had problems with
other ISO-9660 format CDs.

B Cing U

Buck

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From: george@efe.frk.cdc.com (G. Ioannidis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  Screen background
Date: 4 Sep 92 08:28:48 GMT
Reply-To: george@efe.frk.cdc.com (G. Ioannidis)

In article <32333@adm.brl.mil>, fred@poly2.nist.gov (Frederick R. Phelan Jr.) writes:
|> See the man pages on xsetroot, and bgpaste ... enclosed is
|> a script someone gave me that is kind of neat ... it will
|> give you some ideas.
|> 
|> 
|> Fred Phelan
|> ---
|> Fred Phelan
|> fred@poly2.nist.gov
|> /*___________________________________________________
|>    ____ __  ___  __    ___       ___        ___ 
|>   /__  /_/ /__  / /   /__/ /__/ /__   /    /__/ /\  /  
|>  /    / ( /__  /_/   /    /  / /___  /___ /  / /  \/
|> ___________________________________________________*/
|> 
|> ---------  weather  ---------
|> #!/bin/csh -f

...stuff deleted

|> get CVIS.GIF $gif_file
-----^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I tried it and it looks fine. 

But there is a  problem with us Europeans: We would like to have the  weather
map of Europe instead.  And besides that,  due to the time diference, we get a night
picture of the USA,  while it is early morning here.

Do you know of any actual European weather map name?

Regards,
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From: john@sg25.aud.temple.edu (John W. Schwegler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: MacDump, CAP, AUFS, SGI
Date: 30 Aug 92 05:03:53 GMT


In message <1992Aug25.204307.29309@news2.cis.umn.edu>,
"Bob Milius (BMEC" <milius@proton.med.umn.edu> writes:
> I am trying to make MacDump for my SGI PI 30TG. I get an error message
> saying that /sys/timeb.h isn't found. Is there a workaround for this?
> Has anyone gotten this to work for SGI? what is the most recent version?

This means that macdump is using some time-related calls and structures
not supported on IRIX. They're bsd-based, I believe. It is possible to
rewrite these using IRIX-related calls. Take a look in the CAP 6.0
contrib/AufsTools/stuffit directory, I think. Both System V and BSD
date methods are available in the sit.c file. I also intend to do this
for our use, if you're willing to wait a little bit ;-)

> Also, CAP is working pretty slick for us except that once we switched
> to System 7.0.1 (Tuner 1.1.1) on the Mac, we can no longer delete 
> folders on the AUFS volume by dropping them into the trash. We are
> running cap60pl100.

The current patch level is 126. We have patch level 126 running (with
a patch to allow statfs() volume stats under IRIX), and haven't
encountered any problems with file/folder trashing. Of course, we've
only had pl126 running about two days ...

> any suggestions would be appreciated.

> thanks,
> bob
______________________________________________________________________________
"Genius may have its limitations,       | John Schwegler
   but stupidity is not thus            | Temple U. Auditory Research Dept.
   handicapped."                        | john@sg25.aud.temple.edu
         - Elbert Hubbard               | (215) 221-3687 FAX 221-7523
From: lear@yeager.corp.sgi.com (Eliot Lear)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: news on Indigo
Date: 3 Sep 92 19:10:25 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

We run C-News here, with msgidd by Paul Vixie, and nntp 1.5.  Will
you be receiving your news via an internet connection or UUCP?  If
you don't use the internet, then you don't need msgidd or nntp.  All
this software is available from UUNET.  There is also a new version
of news that shows lots of promise, called INN (by Rich Salz).
--
Eliot Lear
[lear@sgi.com]