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From: marbun@envmsa.eas.asu.edu (Marbun,Leo P)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Help: *.tar.Z
Date: 4 Sep 92 21:14:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: envmsa.4SEP199214143882
Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1

Hi,

I was trying to get some programs from anonymous ftp sites, and found out
that most files for unix are under *.tar.Z name. Please let me know how
to make the files executable? Do I need a tar.Z archiver? I can't seem to
find it in the ftp site. Let me know where I could get the proper archiver
(Unix that I run is Ultrix version).

Thanks.

Leo.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,alt.religion.computers
From: fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: The need for an assembler (was: Favorite CPU)
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 16:26:27 GMT

sflinter@cs.tcd.ie (Stephen Flinter) writes:

>In article <1992Aug28.035239.21736@wariat.org> sjsobol@wariat.org (Steven J. Sobol) writes:
>>
>>Real programmers would realize that 'copy con program.exe' is impossible
>>because DOS wouldn't let you enter all values 0-255 from the keyboard 
>>(at least not using ASCII...)
>
>Sorry, not true!  By typing ALT-xxx, where xxx is the ASCII
>code of the character required, on a PC's number keypad you
>can access all 256 characters.  Admittedly not the most
>intuitive interface ever conceived, but it is possible.

Sorry, not true!
Try entering ALT-0, ALT-3, or ALT-26.
They don't interact with "copy con ..." very well at all.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,alt.religion.computers
From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON)
Subject: Re: The need for an assembler (was: Favorite CPU)
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 03:50:22 GMT

bri@pegasus.mit.edu (Brian D. Carlstrom) writes:

>>Real programmers would realize that 'copy con program.exe' is impossible
>>because DOS wouldn't let you enter all values 0-255 from the keyboard 
>>(at least not using ASCII...)
>
>Real programmer would realize that you can enter any charater 0-255
>in dos with an alt-keypad combination...

Look, we've already said this TWICE!
I'll say it again...

"copy con program.exe" and alt-keypad DON'T work for ALT-0, ALT-3, or ALT-26.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: news@unlinfo.unl.edu
Subject: ex editor in script program
Keywords: ex edit in scripts
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Distribution: g
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 14:59:06 GMT

This article was probably generated by a buggy news reader.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: mjn@pseudo.uucp (Murray Nesbitt)
Subject: Re: mac to unix xmodem transfer
Organization: Private system in Toronto, ON
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 08:05:13 GMT
	<JDELL.92Aug21105304@nefertiti.mit.edu> <78300@ut-emx.uucp>


vax@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Vax) writes:

>    Now, besides uucico and ckermit, what else is there?  I compiled both
>rz/sz on both machines, but it seems to want to talk to the tty and not the
>modem; is there an easy way for me to use rz/sz?  And, my school has nicely
>removed uucico from all their machines, so if I want to use it, I have to
>upload and recompile (sigh).  Or something.  Can somebody tell me relative
>efficiencies, or tell me how to speed up ckermit and/or uucico to realistic
>speeds?

On more recent versions of C-Kermit, you can adjust the send and
receive packet lengths to values as high as 2K.  And C-Kermit 5A
(which is still in beta) has sliding windows, which can be useful if
your connection has long delays.

Since you are interested in unix-to-unix copying, you should probably
look at uucp (not uucico).

-- 
Murray
From: kermits@pasifae.cc.uch.gr (Aggelos Keromyths)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: SLIP
Date: 2 Sep 92 12:19:01 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Crete HELLAS
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

Does anyone know about a program used on cisco boxes like TACACS
which allows dialups on the cisco run SLIP and get into the Net?
Sorry if this is a FAQ or not the correct newsgroup....
Aggelos
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From: mark@alsvid.une.edu.au (Mark Garrett Internet: mark@arvak.une.edu.au Phone: +61 66 20 3859)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,alt.religion.computers
Subject: Re: The need for an assembler (was: Favorite CPU)
Date: 25 Aug 92 09:27:12 GMT
Organization: University of New England - Northern Rivers (Lismore)

From article <1992Aug18.153559.9595@wheaton.wheaton.edu>, by gmribeir@david.wheaton.edu (Glauber):
> 
> REAL programmers do:
> 
> 	copy con program.exe

Real programmers recognize this as MS-DOS and avoid it. Real Programmers
aren't afraid to code in HEX but will only when there is no other way.

	Since real programmers are very lazy and will always look for the easiest
way to do anything (even if it takes twice as long :) )


	Mark :)
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: mskucher@math.uwaterloo.ca (Murray S. Kucherawy [MFCF])
Subject: Newsgroup for IRIX
Organization: Math Faculty Computing Facility, University of Waterloo, Canada
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 16:55:10 GMT

Is there not a newsgroup for discussing the IRIX brand of UNIX?  If not,
where are IRIX issues discussed?

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From: sat@thomson.UUCP (Scott Thomson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Reading 60MB tapes on a 150MB drive?
Keywords: Cartridge, Tape
Date: 3 Sep 92 02:47:59 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Thomson Software Services, Inc.

I have a Wangtek 5150 cartridge tape drive.  It can read and write
150MB and 250MB tapes.  I was wondering if it can read 60MB tapes?
I know it will not write 60MB tapes, but will it read them?

Specifically, I would like to get the tape upgrade kit for SCO ODT 2.0
but I don't know what tape format it is sent on.  I am assuming 60MB tape
and that most 1/4 inch cartridge tape drives can read 60MB tapes.  However,
I just don't know for sure.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Scott
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From: aryeh@cash.ucsc.edu (Aryeh Friedman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: How I find comm params on my tty?
Date: 4 Sep 92 09:49:29 GMT
Organization: Marsnet
NNTP-Posting-Host: cash.ucsc.edu

I need to know the numbe of data bits, stop bits, and parity of my tty as
UNIX sees them.  Stty seems not to provide it.
From: luigi@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Luigi Semenzato)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.cray
Subject: Re: getting value of B02 from C
Date: 27 Aug 92 17:53:58 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: paris.cs.berkeley.edu

Thanks to jjd@teak.cray.com, and others, for the following simple
solution:

         IDENT     GETB02
         ENTRY     GETB02

         SECTION   CODE

GETB02   ENTER     NP=0,MODE=BASELVL
         A5        B02
         S1        A5
         EXIT      MODE=BASELVL

         END

This routine can never cause a stack overflow (it never uses
the stack at all), so my fears where unfounded.  --Luigi
Newsgroups: comp.unix.cray
From: vtn@spica.chpc.utexas.edu (Vinod Nair)
Subject: about mmap() under Unicos
Organization: University of Texas - CHPC
Date: 29 Aug 92 17:33:20


I'm trying to locate the system call "mmap()", or a Cray equivalent
under Unicos. Does such a beast exist ?

Also, does anybody have sample code that they are willing to share,
for high speed (network/disk) io under Unicos, using large data sets ?
I'm primarily interested in the kind of tuning one can do to maximize
the transfer rate.

Will summarize responses, if this is of general interest.


Vinod.

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From: towen@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Thomas F. Owen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.cray
Subject: Bulletin Board Availability
Date: 27 Aug 92 11:59:34 GMT
Organization: Code E402, Naval Surface Warfare Center

Does anyone have a working Bulletin Board system for UNICOS 6.1.6?  We are
interested in putting a bulleting board service on our system and do not
want to reinvent the wheel.  We are running MLS, but expect this 
service to be limited ot level 0 access.  Any pointers, lessons learns, 
pitfalls, etc.,would be greatly appreciated.  I will summarize and post the 
responses at alater date.

Thanks in advance,
Tom Owen
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From: rz63633@stewball.d50.lilly.com (Gregg A. Mantock)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.cray
Subject: DMF and Clustered File Systems
Date: 4 Sep 92 18:16:56 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: Eli Lilly and Company

Does anyone know if a file can span accross multiple devices
in a clustered file system?  Say that a file is created on a
particular device in a clustered file system.  As the file
continues to grow it fills the device that it was created on.
Will the remainder of the file be written to one of the other
devices in the cluster, or will the process writing to the 
file abend?

This becomes an interesting situation when the Data Migration
Facility and File System Monitoring are running on the
clustered file system.  Fsmon shows %used based on the whole
cluster of devices, but df shows the %free on each device.
Can I assume that fsmon knows what it is doing and that the
clustered file system need not be migrated until the entire
cluster hits the warning/critical threshold?

Thanks,
Gregg
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From: kcables@k30b.nswc.navy.mil (k30b)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.cray,comp.sys.super
Subject: Executing 'segldr' with object files of different types
Date: 27 Aug 92 17:28:53 GMT
Organization: NSWC, Dahlgren, VA


	We have a Cray Y-MP running Unicos 6.0, CF77 version 5.0, and
Cray Standard C release 3.0.  I have a C driver that calls a FORTRAN
subroutine with common data between the two (i.e., a C struct defined
outside the main, and a corresponding FORTRAN common block).  What I'm
trying to do is execute 'segldr' with the -f option set to '-indef', so
that any unitialized common variables are supposed to be 10605054(octal).
When I execute 'segldr' with the two .o files, however, and print out
the common variables in the C program before calling the FORTRAN
subroutine, they are coming out 0.  If I take out the call to the FORTRAN
routine, recompile and segldr again, they come out negative indefinite --
the same is true if I make the FORTRAN routine a standalone program.

Is there something special that must be done with segldr to get it to
work with object files generated by different types of compilers, or
am I completely missing something?

Here's the C code:
-----------------------------------
#include <stdio.h>
struct {
	int a;
	float b;
}
CB;
main()
{
	printf("in main, before WRITDAT, a= %o b= %o\n",CB.a,CB.b);
	WRITDAT();
}

And the FORTRAN code:
-------------------------------------
	SUBROUTINE WRITDAT
	COMMON /CB/ A, B
	INTEGER A
	REAL B
 100	FORMAT(O64)
	PRINT *, 'IN WRITDAT:'
	WRITE (*,100) A
	WRITE (*,100) B
	RETURN
	END

Then to compile and load:

cc -c dum.c
cft77 writdat.f
segldr -f -indef -o xxx dum.o writdat.o

Thanks,
Kathryn Cables
Naval Surface Warfare Center
kcables@relay.nswc.navy.mil
From: luigi@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Luigi Semenzato)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.cray
Subject: getting value of B02 from C
Date: 27 Aug 1992 00:32:50 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: paris.cs.berkeley.edu

Easy question:

What's the easiest way of getting the address of the
current stack frame from a C procedure?

One rather unreliable way is the following:

	f()
	{
	    int x[1];
	    int *frame = x - 12;
	    ...
	}

The 12 could be a different number and needs to be
hand-tuned every time the body of f changes.  Bleah.

It would be nice to do it with a call to an assembly
language routine.  But it's not trivial, because there
could be a call to the stack overflow handler between
f and the assembly language routine.

Can it be done using inline assembly with `asm'? 
And if yes, how?

My eternal gratitude in advance.  --Luigi
From: rawn@manduca..neurobio.arizona.edu (Rawn Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How do i find out the address of the addtional ehternet card
Date: 29 Aug 92 03:04:14 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona UNIX Users Group

From article <1992Aug27.213655.668@hyphen.com>, by dwight@hyphen.com (Dwight Ernest):
> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
> 
>>In article <BtJrzr.8J8@acsu.buffalo.edu> chen-m@acsu.buffalo.edu (Mingteh Michael Chen) writes:
>>>     Is there a way to find out the ethernet address of an additional
>>>ethernet card on my sun 4/60 on line?
> 
>>Sun sets the addresses of all its ethernet interfaces to that of the first
>>one.
> 
> Yes, but they may have been changed.  Use 'ifconfig le1', for instance,
> to see the Ethernet address for the second Lance Ethernet controller.
> 

    There is also 'ie1' for the Intel controller cards. If your bus recognizes
the card in the first place, the system should try and set it up when you boot.
Look for it while rebooting.

Rawn Shah
rawn@neurobio.arizona.edu
From: ash@omega.uucp (Andrew Hardie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: logname: no login name problem, part 2
Date: 2 Sep 92 09:58:30 GMT


Problem: "logname" returns no login name, but who gives right answer,
         problem with utmp/wtmp suspected.
System: SCO R4.1, after upgrade applied.
Tried: deleting utmp and wtmp, no change.

I posted about this earlier. Some more info ...
Problem only arose after upgrading from R4 to R4.1.
Problem only affects userids that existed before the upgrade, new ones
added after the upgrade do not have the problem.
Problem only affects the first login by a userid; subsequent simultaneous
logins by same user (e.g. on console multiscreen) do not have the problem
and logname returns correct answer.

Any suggestions???
Thanks

Andrew
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From: fazc016@hq.dla.mil (Don Costello)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: how come : ! out of vi always uses sh instead of $SHELL ???
Date: 27 Aug 92 14:32:17 GMT
Organization: HQ Defense Logistics Agency/DASC, Cameron Station, VA
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fish@daacdev1.stx.com writes:
: whenever i :! out of vi it uses /bin/sh instead of $SHELL
: so all of my aliases are lost, etc and makes it very limited
: 
: i'm just beginning to see just how powerful vi really is but
: this one is screwing me up royally  
: 
  On my BSD4.3 machine I get the following:

  :!
  Incomplete shell escape command.  Use 'shell' to get a shell

  :shell

  shell-prompt: echo $SHELL
  /etc/zsh

  If you're VI doesn't have "shell" you could explicitly execute it
  (:! /bin/csh for example)

  What type/version of VI are you using?

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: dxs@evolving.com (Dan Stanger)
Subject: signal handling
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 23:14:14 GMT
Organization: Evolving Systems, Inc.

i want to write a program with the following structure

linked_list

handler()
{
   put structure on linked list indicating signal
}

main()
{
   loop
      disable signals
      check linked list to see if a signal occured
      enable signals
      /* location 1 */
      wait on message queue until message is sent
      disable signals
      check linked list to see if a signal occured
      enable signals
      process either message or signal
   end loop
}

since the wait on the message queue will be terminated if a signal
occurs the signal will be handled quickly.  however if the signal
occurs while the program is at location 1 then the signal will not
be handled until a message comes in.

is there a way around this?
thanks
dan stanger
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.lang.pascal,alt.cobol,comp.unix.bsd
From: jsaker@cwis.unomaha.edu (James R. Saker Jr.)
Subject: BSD pascal and cobol compilers?
Keywords: bsd,cobol,pascal,compile,386bds,linux
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 02:00:42 GMT

As I'm a long distance call away from my school's dialups and am
taking both Cobol and Pascal this semester, I'm looking for compilers
for both which could operate under a BSD environment (I'm aware of
commercial solutions for the SCO SVR4 environment but haven't seen
anything on the net for BSD).

I'm running both 386BSD 0.1 and Linux at home on a 486/33 and would be quite
appreciative of any information about compilers available.


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From: karell@cs.Helsinki.FI (Esa Karell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: awk with columns
Date: 3 Sep 92 06:30:46 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki, Finland

Could someone tell me what would be the easisest
way to accomplish this with awk.

Input:

X    Y  T        P I
1    2  3        4 5
.    .  .        . .

I'd need to swap the values of Y & T so output should look:

X    Y  T        P I
1    3  2        4 5
.    .  .        . .

All the blanks between the columns should remain the same.
Thx,

Esa
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: dtb@otto.bf.rmit.oz.au (David Bath)
Subject: Re: Help: RCS from Purdue U?
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia.
Date:  3 Sep 92 07:01:13 GMT

obi@gumby.ocs.com (Kuryan "Obi" Thomas) writes:

>In article <92244.161444JORDAN@auvm.american.edu>,
><JORDAN@auvm.american.edu> writes:
>> Can anyone tell me about a configuration management program for UNIX called RCS
>> (Revision Control System).  I've heard that it is a shareware product that
>> recently got an upgrade to V5.7.  Please respond.

YEP - beats SCCS hands down for ease of use.
I've only seen 5.6
Look at symbolic version numbers !
Note : CVS sits on top of RCS - you may want that as well !
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
From: ashish@tfs.com (Ashish Mukharji)
Subject: csh variable distribution
Organization: TRW Financial Systems
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 23:41:11 GMT


Is there a way to do "text substitution" in csh under BSD?
Here's what I'd like to be able to do:

----------------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/csh  -f

if ( machine is fast ) then
        set compression = "| /usr/ucb/compress -f"
else
        set compression = " "
endif

 . . .

dump $compression | dd

----------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for your suggestions!

-ashish

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From: cjross@bbn.com (chris ross)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: awk problems
Date: 30 Aug 1992 04:19:41 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

CHUCK@bkmain.poly-east-london.ac.uk (Chuck Foster) writes:

>Is there any way to convert a string to lowercase/uppercase in awk scripts?

gawk has toupper() and tolower().  In nawk and awk you're forced to do
something supremely inelegant.  (And in awk, you can't even define
separate functions.)

BEGIN {
    lowers = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
    uppers = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
}

function toupper (s) {
    new_s = "";
    len = length(s);
    for ( i = 1; i <= len; i++ )
    {
	c = substr(s, i, 1);
	if ((idx = index(lowers, c)) != 0)
	    new_s = new_s substr(uppers, idx, 1);
	else
	    new_s = new_s c;
    }
    return(new_s);
}

function tolower (s) {
    new_s = "";
    len = length(s);
    for ( i = 1; i <= len; i++ )
    {
	c = substr(s, i, 1);
	if ((idx = index(uppers, c)) != 0)
	    new_s = new_s substr(lowers, idx, 1);
	else
	    new_s = new_s c;
    }
    return(new_s);
}


>I've tried   x = strupr($1);  but this just seems to return a string as is.

Not surprising.  Since strupr isn't defined as a function, awk reads
this as two adjacent expressions and performs string concatenation.
If strupr isn't set, this yields $1.

>Also, is it possible to find the offset of a token in the whole string? The
>file I am operating upon is in fixed format, and a user's full name occurs
>after column 68.

Try substr($0, 69).  With two args, substr reads from the specified
offset (1-based) to the end of the string.

>Forgive my ignorance; I've only just begun to experiment with this
>interesting command ... :-)

When you're about to tear your hair out, learn perl.  :-)


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