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From: hurf@boa.graphics.cornell.edu (Hurf Sheldon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP110 Laptop
Date: 5 Jan 1993 21:17:08 GMT
Organization: Cornell University Program of Computer Graphics
Distribution: world
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	There was/may still be Personalized Software which carried
	hardware and software for htese and the potable plus. There
	was a little company somewhere in Pennsylvania that had
	a lot of stuff but I can't find their flyer. You can 
	interface thes with a PC if you have an hil card for the
	pc but later dos disk structures made this unworkable
	as near as I could figure.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: rjohns@brtph46.BNR.CA (Richard Johns P205)
Subject: Re: Bad escape codes on 9000/720?
Reply-To: rjohns@brtph46.BNR.CA (Richard Johns P205)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:46:01 GMT


In article <1993Jan5.170026.16862@brtph560.bnr.ca>,
rjohns@brtph46.BNR.CA (Richard Johns P205) writes:
|> I'm using HP Pascal on a 9000/720 under HP-UX 8.07.  It seems that the
|> escapecode function isn't returning the correct values for runtime
errors.  For
|> example, resetting a file with permissions of 000 should raise an escapecode
|> of 692 (FILE OPEN ERROR), but instead it's a huge number -- garbage. 
Raising
|> a escape code myself works, though.
|> 

Ok, some more investigation and I find that there's a Pascal include file,
/usr/include/pasesc.ph, that maps these "huge numbers" to reasonable numbers.
For example, escape code 39321792 maps to error PasErr_600, which means I can 
look up error 600 in /usr/lib/paserrs.  SO, NOW:

1.  What's with these funny escape codes?  What good are they?

2.  What's the recommended way of translating the constant PasErr_600 (which is
    39321792) to 600 so I can look it up in the error message file?  Do I have 
    to write a giant case statement?

3.  Is there anything useful I can do with the error message catalog,
    /usr/lib/nls/$LANG/pc_msgs.cat?

4.  Why isn't any of this explained in the 700 series HP Pascal Reference or 
    HP Pascal Programmer's guide?  One would think it'd be mentioned with the 
    escape code stuff, at least.  Or under "Error Messages", or something.

Cheers,
  Rick Johns
  BNR
  rjohns@bnr.ca

Disclaimer: I said it, BNR didn't.
From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:05:45 GMT
Subject: Re: sar -v   text-sz header:  What is it???
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

rlyle@nl.oracle.com (Rob Lyle  Wizard of Ozje) writes:

> HP hungry people,
> 
> 	HP-UX 8.07  HP 9000/827S

  I hope you are running 8.02! :-)

> In the sar -v output, the first heading listed is "text-sz".
> I'd like to know exactly what that is and which kernel parameter(s) affect it.

  As sar(1) says, it is the size of the text table. The relevant kernel
parameter is ntext. See the SA Tasks manual for details on ntext and the SA
Concepts manual for details on (shared) text (code).

Frank Slootweg, HP, Dutch Customer Response Center
From: adiwan@bbn.com (Arif Diwan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP-UX usleep equivalent?
Date: 11 Jan 93 20:13:52 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Bolt, Beranek & Newman
NNTP-Posting-Host: blowtorch.bbn.com

In article <C0I4J3.r9y@austin.ibm.com>, will@austin.ibm.com (Will Fiveash) writes:
W.Fiveash|>      Does HP UX have an equivalent system call to usleep which accepts an
W.Fiveash|>      argument with microsecond granularity? The closest system call I could
W.Fiveash|>      find was sleep (whole second granularity) which is too coarse for my
W.Fiveash|>      purposes.

You could use select() or poll() to get microsecond granularity.

-- 

				-- Arif Diwan (adiwan@bbn.com)
						617/873-6274
From: sean+@andrew.cmu.edu (Sean McLinden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: TCPdump-like utility for HP
Date: 4 Jan 93 23:50:53 GMT
	<C0B228.7FC@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
Distribution: na
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

>  Not that nettl isn't useful, but then it isn't tcpdump(8) either.
>There is a lot of value in having tcpdump(8) ported over to HPUX.
>Ignoring the fact that there is an installed base of folks familiar
>with tcpdump(8) who don't want to learn a new utility, nettl(1m) and
>tcpdump(8) don't quite do the same things.

Not to mention the fact that having a raw Ethernet interface would also
allow a port of CAP 6.0 to HP that support Native EtherTalk. In fact it
has always interested me that HP, which is reknowned for its network
monitoring devices, doesn't supply an HP-UX kernel with a raw ethernet
device driver as part of the standard distribution. Something of the kind
must be available as part of the network management packages.

And while I'm on the subject, how about another plug for HP to support
the MIT X11R5 distribution as released by the consortium. I'm tired of
hearing all the reasons why it shouldn't be done. If the customers want
it they should be able to get it.

Sean McLinden
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: pld@fc.hp.com (Paul_Dineen)
Subject: Re: How to play sun audio (.au) files on a HP700 ?
Organization: HP CLO/CoLL, Fort Collins, CO
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]
Distribution: comp.sys.hp
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:18:40 GMT

: The subject says all... Is it possible to play audio files on a HP 700
: as on a Sparcstation ?

  Run /usr/audio/bin/make_audio_device to set up the device files.
  Then cat the .au file to /dev/audio.
From: system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Batchjob que for hp700
Date: 5 Jan 93 20:37:04 GMT
Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department

In article <1ickjuINNl1f@transfer.stratus.com> dean@nassau.hw.stratus.com (Dean Markarian) writes:
>Has anyone out there installed MDQS, QBATCH, or any batch job que on a 
>700 series HP.  If so could you tell me what software you used and
>where you got it? thank you

I am been running:

batch (ftp.cs.utoronto.ca in /pub/batch.tar.Z) - works on Sun, SGI,
   Ultrix, Apollo Domain/OS, Stardent, MIPS. This is the one I use.
   Does not work across a network. Users can get mail when job finishes.
   Starts/suspends jobs based on load average, time of day, etc.
   I have disabled the job time limits since it causes the daemon
   to hang/die, but otherwise it works fine.
   This is also available from iworks.ecn.uiowa.edu, or I will
   post my version with the time limits disabled if there is enough
   demand.

I have heard about these, but never used them:

nqs (pemrac.space.swri.edu in /public/convexug/nqs.tar.Z) - works on
   Convex and Sun (and probably on other BSD systems). I don't know
   what relation this version of NQS has to the Cray/SGI version(s).
   NQS is available from SGI for SGI systems (quite cheaply for
   universities as far as I know).

mqds (uxc.cso.uiuc.edu in ~ftp/services/mdqs.tar.Z) - no info.
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From: glovercj@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: HP550C Driver for the Amiga
Date: 5 Jan 93 20:26:04 GMT
Organization: Drexel University

Does HP intend to write a HP550c driver for the Amiga, or is one already
written and I can't find it?

                        Chad J Glover
           glovercj@duvm.ocs.drexel.edu      
       Drexel University Software Testing Lab
   If a man hasn't found something he will die for, he
                        isn't fit to live. --MLK
From: mbdtsmc@uts.mcc.ac.uk (M.D.Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: The pstat library call
Date: 8 Jan 93 10:08:58 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre, Manchester, England, M13 9PL.
Originator: netnews@uts.mcc.ac.uk


Can anyone supply me with some information about the (undocumented) call
`pstat'. I understand that this call can be used to obtain information
about a process and it's resource usage but there is no documentation about
this call in any of the man pages supplied with the operating system on or HP's.

If anyone can supply me with some information about this call or point me to a
convenient source then I chall be extremely gratefull.

Thanks in advance,

Matt Cooper


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From: matcsp@nuscc.nus.sg (Chan Shih-Ping)
Subject: Known problem with rpc.yppasswdd?
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 03:14:55 GMT

Are these known problems with rpc.yppasswdd?
(Version: Revision 12.7 Date: 90/12/10 on HP-UX 8.00 on a 9000/425t)

1. When it modifies a line in /etc/passwd it replaces the end-of-line
character with the two characters '\' 'n' thus concatenating
two password entries. I guess in the C code it should have been "\n"
but it somehow got replaced by "\\n" . Weird, no?

2. If I use the -m option for it to spawn a ypmake I get at least
three more child processes (one more rpc.yppasswdd and at least two
ypmakes). None of these child processes seems to terminate and
the system starts thrashing after a while.

I can remove problem 1 by hex editing the file and replacing the
characters '\' 'n' by a 0x0A 0x00. But I don't know why the
the spawning of ypmake doesn't seem to work.

BTW the daemon is started thus
/usr/etc/rpc.yppasswdd /etc/passwd -l /usr/adm/yppasswd.log -m 

Thanks for any help you can give.
P.S. I sure hope 9.0 has a better NIS implementation than this!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: a722756@roper.mc.ti.com (W. Donald Rolph)
Subject: Re: HP-VUE attitude towards X resources
Originator: a722756@roper.mc.ti.com
Organization: Texas Instruments / Attleboro Mass / USA
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:27:28 GMT


In article <1993Jan5.234245.18765@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>, pjs@euclid.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter J. Scott) writes:
|> Numerous problems with GUI applications here can be traced to the
|> resources that HP-VUE sets in the resource manager property on the
|> root window.  Here's a partial listing:
|> 
|> 	*Font:  -*-prestige-medium-r-normal-*-160-72-*
|> 	*FontList:      -*-swiss*742-medium-r-normal-*-140-*-p-110-*
|> 	*XmText*FontList:       -*-prestige-medium-r-normal-*-160-72-*
|> 	*XmTextField*FontList:  -*-prestige-medium-r-normal-*-160-72-*
|> 	*background:    #7848A075D500
|> 	*foreground:    #FFFFFFFFFFFF
|> 	*systemFont:    -*-swiss*742-medium-r-normal-*-140-*-p-110-*
|> 	*ttyModes:      erase ^H intr ^C kill ^U start ^Q stop ^S swtch ^@
|> 	*userFont:      -*-prestige-medium-r-normal-*-160-72-*
|> 	Vuestyle.globalFont:    2
|> 	Vuestyle.timeoutScale:  10
|> 	Vuewm*HighResHighColor*Five*title:      five
|>         ...etc...
|> 	hpterm*backgroundIsSelect:      True
|> 	hpterm*makeColors:      shadow
|> 
|> This cavalier overriding of background, foreground, and font resources
|> among others plays havoc with many applications.  I get calls about why
|> such-and-such a program is behaving weirdly, and yet it looks fine when
|> I run it on the same machine and display it on the Sun.  Eventually I
|> trace it down to this problem.  Personally I don't see the need for it; I
|> haven't set resources this way on the Sun since X11R3.
|> 
|> I'm about to recommend that everyone put "xrdb -remove" in their
|> startup scripts, unless someone can come up with a way of doing the
|> same thing on a per-application basis (*without* remaking the application)?
|> 
|> -- 
|> This is news.  This is your       |    Peter Scott, NASA/JPL/Caltech
|> brain on news.  Any questions?    |    (pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov)

I am having similar problems with HP-Vue.  I have had less than satisfactory
response form HP on this issue.  This severly impact interoperability of the HP
machines.

Doesn't HP like their machines and want to sell more of them?
-- 

Regards.
 
Don Rolph  a722756@pan.mc.ti.com WD3 MS10-13 (508)-699-1263
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From: rtb@hp-osf1.cern.ch (Rainer Toebbicke)
Subject: Re: PCL to PostScript translator
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 10:52:59 GMT

In <FURNISH.93Jan7002216@dino.ph.utexas.edu> furnish@dino.ph.utexas.edu (Geoffrey Furnish) writes:


>   According to the Response Center, LaserROM will only send output in
>   PCL format (LaserJet et. al.)  This means we cannot print formatted
>   output from the LaserROM to our printers.  We do not have a
>   LaserJet available, and the LaserWriters are dedicated to
>   PostScript and thus cannot be set to PCL mode.

>   We are looking for a filter that will convert PCL formating to
>   postscript, or even to "dumb" printer formatting (overstrike and
>   backspace).  If anyone knows of a solution, I would be most
>   grateful to hear from you.

...

>At my site, we do have a printer which can do PCL, but it is not
>possible to configure lp to automatically kick it into PCL mode (don't
>ask--you don't really want to know...).  If I could only get LaseROM
>or LROM to write the PCL formatted stuff to a _file_ instead of only
>to a printer, I could do what I need.  

In principle at least the LaserWriter II NTX (and probably other models
except the older ones) can emulate an HP LaserJet. This is documented to work
when the printer is connected via a serial line and the corresponding switch
set.

We print to LaserWriters connected to AppleTalk using the CAP software. 
What I use is a PostScript header which turns HPLJ emulation on and append the PCL file.
Getting the PCL file should not be so complicated despite what has been said:
just write a trivial printer model which writes to a file instead of a printer.
Or modify the PostScript printer model you use to send the header first.

The header I use is:

%!
serverdict /exechplj known not
{ (Error: no LaserWriter emulation available on this printer) = flush crash } if
serverdict begin statusdict begin LaserJetEmuDict begin exechplj
^[&k3G

(where the ^[ is of course an escape, x'1b')
I have tried this only on a LaserWriter NTX and only connected to AppleTalk.
It prints HPLJ graphics produced by a few PC programs I tested, although some
of these programs cause problems when they invert the CRLF sequence.
I could print LRom pages, including pages with graphics, but had problems
on some which I did not investigate much further: I vaguely remember that a
particular escape sequence was not understood, resulting in a PostScript error.
Removing that sequence cleared the problem.
Since my method does not seem to be an officially supported one I did
not insist. 
--
Rainer Toebbicke   -   rtb@dxcern.cern.ch    -    rtb@cernvm.bitnet
European Laboratory for Particle Physics - CERN
Geneva, Switzerland
From: drs@pigpen.hi.com (David Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Ethernet interface for HP LJ4
Date: 12 Jan 1993 11:09:03 -0000
Organization: Hitachi Computer Products, OSSD division
NNTP-Posting-Host: pigpen.hi.com


Well I am looking at a tape labeled:

Network Peripheral Interface for HPUX 7.x/8.x
Host Software
P/N C2850-12601 Rev A.01.01

Anybody have any idea how to install it?  I have no FM so I cant RTFM. :(

This was purchased to "feed" a ethernet driven IIIsi that was purchased about 6months prior to my starting work.  The manual dissapeared.

David Smith

(PS HP can't seem to find the manual either :( )

Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: Steinar.Haug@delab.sintef.no (Steinar Haug)
Subject: Re: Cluster performance
Organization: SINTEF DELAB, Trondheim, Norway.
	<43379@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:08:28 GMT

Tony Burzio writes:
> NFS traffic between our HP730 and SunSSII workstation seems to be
> transmitted at 2 Mbits/second.  I remember reading a long time ago
> that Sun had a trick to "take over" the ethernet in a non-friendly
> way to speed up ethernet transfers at the expense of other clients.
> This was why Sun NFS server performance was always better than HP's
> for a long time.  Perhaps this trick has migrated to the HP now as
> well?  Some vendors said that this was because the NFS service was
> part of the kernel on the Sun, and that HP had only recently put the
> NFS portion in the kernel to get the speed improvement.  Since
> Ethernet tops out at about 1.5 Mbits per second because of timing
> constraints, I find this hard to believe...

Hmmm... sounds like another variant of the old rumor that Suns send Ethernet
packets with *less* than the minimum delay according to the Ethernet spec. This
has been claimed by several people, and always been refuted. Van Jacobson, who
probably knows more about Sun Ethernet performance than most people, says he
has *never* seen this happen. Also note that with most Ethernet controllers,
the packet delay is fixed by the controller and *cannot* be changed.

On the other hand, it *is* true that Suns will send an 8 kByte NFS block of
data as 6 Ethernet packets with minimum delay (9.6 us), and there are some
other vendors' systems (DEC has been mentioned several times) that do not
handle this very well.

Note that with modern workstations it's easy to get more than 1 Megabyte per
second between two workstations on an otherwise quiet Ethernet. I have seen
(measured) this several times myself, using ttcp between Sparcstation IPCs.
You should be able to get close to this with NFS reads, but don't expect to
get close to it with writes (since NFS writes are synchronous on the server).

Steinar Haug, system/networks administrator
SINTEF DELAB, University of Trondheim, NORWAY
Email: Steinar.Haug@delab.sintef.no, 
	sthaug@idt.unit.no, steinar@tosca.er.sintef.no
From: davidb@hpuadla.aus.hp.com (David Booth)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:49:44 GMT
Subject: Re: Ethernet interface for HP LJ4
Organization: Adelaide, Australia, Smallest HP DownUnder
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1.3 PL5

Per Steinar Iversen (iversen@dsfys1.fi.uib.no) wrote:
: 
: 
: Does anybody know anything about the HP Ethernet card for the HP LJ4? My local 
: HP office claims it needs an HP workstation to work. Is this true - what kind of 
: print protocols does this card use? Is it some kind of HP-only protocol or 
: what?
: 
: -psi
: 
There are, as someone else pointed out, several "flavours" of this card - 
3Com, Novell, and TCP/IP (I don't think this is exhaustive). You need to get
the right kind of card for the host system you have "feeding" the printer.

I have installed / configured the TCP/IP card with an HPUX host system.
The data transfer program opens a socket connection to the printer, and
basically pours the data down the socket to the printer. Voila!
And does it go fast, or does it go fast.
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From: weisfeld@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.lang.c
Subject: capturing a keystroke
Date: 7 Jan 93 14:59:46 EST

Hi,

I am attempting to capture one keystroke at a time, using C, from various 
UNIX systems, at the moment a Hewlett-Packard 9000 (Apollo) Series 700 
running HP-UX. I am follwing the instructions given in the TTY section
of the manuals (like clearing ICANON and setting MIN and TIME). 

Everything is working fine, except for the arrow keys. When I enter a
single character (say an 'R'), I get the expected character code. However,
when I enter an arrow key, the cursor simply moves on the screen and no
character code is returned. The HP manual states that in LOCAL MODE
the system displays control codes but does not execute them. It states that,
if you press the left arrow key, the terminal displays an escape character
on the screen but does not perform the cursor left function. I put the 
machine in LOCAL MODE and the cursor still moves.

I also tried using the XmitFnctc() escape sequence which states that it 
controls the sequences generated by keys such as the arrow keys.

I know that I could use curses, but I am curious as to why I cannot
capture the arrow keys.

I am also interested in capturing other non-alphanumeric keys.

Thanks,


Matt
From: kzyx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Hook-up:650 MO drive to HP9000/730
Date: 12 Jan 93 23:43:01 EST
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University

Howdy,

I am trying to hook up a 650 magnetooptical disk drive to 
a hp9000/730 system.


It turns out that the manual for the 650 drive has been
misplaced.

Can anyone tell me the steps to make the system aware
of the new drive (mount it)? I also would like to learn
which comand is used to initialize the optical disk.

Any help to get the file system in the mo drive up
and running is very much appreciated.

Thank you for your time.

Edval
esantos@ee.cornell.edu
From: Pierre infelta
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: maximum file size
Date: 12 Jan 93 14:02:42 GMT
Reply-To: infelta icphp1.epfl.ch
Followup-To: maximum file size
Organization: icp - EPFL

I would like to be able to create a single file that could grow to 
5 GIGABytes.
On a system 735 with a number of 2GB disks , does any one know out there if
this is possible?  
From: kev@hpcpbla.bri.hp.com (Kevin Jones)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 08:34:01 GMT
Subject: Re: compressed-mode with DAT-Streamer
Organization: HP Computer Peripherals Bristol, UK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

Assuming you are using HP-UX, create device files for compressed and 
uncompressed drives. Bits 6 and 7 of the minor number control compression:

mknod /dev/rmt/0mn c 54 0x0e0103   # Uncompressed
mknod /dev/rmt/0mnc c 54 0x0e01c3  # Compressed

For umcompressed use the "0mn" device file, for compressed the "0mnc" file.


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From: perry@hpfcmgw.FC.HP.COM (Perry Scott)
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:05:46 GMT
Subject: Re: clusters, etc.
Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO