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From: jrb@jrb.larc.nasa.gov (James R. Burley II)
Subject: telecommunications via serial port
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA  USA
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 17:38:47 GMT

Is there a PD or freely distributed telecommunications program
for the Iris which I can use with my Hayes modem?

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From: dkozak@cray.com (Darryn Kozak)
Subject: indigo & emacs
Organization: /home/dione3/dkozak/.organization
Date: 13 Apr 92 13:43:02 CDT


Anyone have function key bindings for gnu emacs when used from an
Indigo?

dk

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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Documentation for Audio Device on Indigo
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 23:33:40 GMT

In <1992Apr14.200727.2044@cs.yale.edu> barnes@weedeater.math.yale.edu (Craig Barnes) writes:


| I am interested in programing the DSP chip on the Indigo, however,
| I cannot find any documentation for it. What I want to do is to
| write routines for the DSP. So any pointers
| to documentation or some example code would be apprecitated,

You can't program the DSP (we provide no way to do so).

We do provide a reasonably full library for writing audio
software.  Try 'apropos audio', or start with 'man alopenport'
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From: simon@lia.di.epfl.ch (Simon Leinen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Virtual WM's???
Date: 30 Mar 92 08:15:23 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.sgi
Organization: DI-LIA -- Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
In-reply-to: jwest@amelia.nas.nasa.gov's message of 27 Mar 92 22:59:49 GMT
X-Md4-Signature: 33bda480a813462e3e78ff64909b7654

In article <JWEST.92Mar27165949@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>
jwest@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (John T. West) writes:

   Does anybody out there have a stable version of vtwm (virtual tab
   (tom's) window manager) (or a virtual 4Dwm) for the sgi?

John,

  I am running tvtwm (Tom's Virtual Desktop TWM) on an Indigo under
4.0.2 right now.  This works fine for X applications, but apparently
does not always handle colormaps correctly for GL apps, i.e. sometimes
the labels in buttons are invisible.  Compilation was no problem.

A virtual desktop version of 4Dwm would certainly be nice... (probably
it would have "soft" panning :-)
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From: macleod@vissgi.cvrti.utah.edu (Rob MacLeod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Break-in through lp, nuucp accounts
Date: 4 Apr 92 19:23:17 GMT


This morning we had a break in to our 4D/210 via a hole in the passwd file.
The intruder came in via the lp and then later via the nuucp accounts,
neither of which had a password (ooops!). I don't honestly know why those
accounts are delivered this way or if we need them (we don't use lp
or UUCP) but I have added a password to each.

The intruder came in under the names: 

	root@gsi.u-strasbg.fr
	kamel@gemme.u-strasbg.fr

which I assume are the same person, or perhaps two people sharing the same
info. I have tried to send mail to both addresses but it bounces back. Does
anyone know people at the University of Strasbourg who can be informed of
what sort of things their systems are being used for?

The only reason I noticed the intrusion was that I happened to check who
was on the system and found the weird username within minutes of their
entry. I haven't found any damage so far but will be doing some looking.

So plug your unused accounts and keep an eye out for strangers...

Rob.


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From: lombardo@TAURUS.CS.NPS.NAVY.MIL (charles lombardo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: mysterious ld errors: regcmp, regex -- help!
Date: 7 Apr 92 19:23:41 GMT

Hi,
  Upon compiling my application on any of our Iris' I get the following
error:

Undefined:
regcmp
regex
*** Error code 1
`all' not remade because of errors

I've looked all over trying to figure our where this is coming from with
no luck.  This exact application will compile and run just fine on our Sun
type machines.  Any ideas?  Suggestions?

Specifics:  C++ code
            Lots of Motif and Xt calls
    	    No rendering

Thanks in advance for any help,
Chuck


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From: shenkin@avogadro.barnard.columbia.edu (Peter S. Shenkin)
Subject: Another Indigo Query
Organization: Dept. of Chem, Barnard College, Columbia U, New York
Originator: shenkin@avogadro.barnard.columbia.edu
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 22:48:10 GMT

Thanks to all who made good suggestions on configuring an Indigo.  Someone
wrote and said to make sure I get Showcase.... and this recent thread
about Showcase as a word processor reminded me of this.  So now I've
got to ask:  is Showcase still a bundled product under 4.0.x, or do
I have to order it separately?

	Thanks,
	-P.
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From: dhinds@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds)
Subject: Re: Exploding Automount
Keywords: help
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 22:39:26 GMT

In article <wayne.702916040@mathematik.uni-Bremen.de> wayne@mathematik.uni-Bremen.de (wayne tvedt) writes:
>
>Has anyone encountered a snowballing automount daemon before?  The process
>size slowly increases with time.  After about a week of normal system use
>on a small network, the total size might increase to two or three hundred
>pages.  When we try a system backup through the mount points, it just
>explodes, to one or two thousand pages, which is more than the window system
>itself takes, and everything hangs and we have to reboot the machine.
>Sometimes we cannot complete the backup because of this.  

Well, it's funny that you should mention this... it happened to us a few
weeks ago, and then I forgot about it.  I did a network backup yesterday,
through automounted directories, and now I see on our server:

cb-iris> ps -eal | grep auto

30 S    0   142     1 40  26 20 * 2908:2880 801506e0 ?        85:47 automoun

The system hasn't hung, and the automounter still seems to be handling new
mounts correctly.  I think it is still possible to shut the automounter
down cleanly and start a new one.  So, are there any suggestions from SGI
about this?  Should I go ahead and kill it?  Or would a core dump be of
any use?  (hmmm, I don't think I can get it to core dump without mucking
up the system)  Oh - the server is a 4D-240, running Irix 4.0.1, with the
automount program available from sgi.com that fixes the problem with NFS
servers being temporarily unavailable.  We have four Indigos that also
use automount; their copies are around 100..150 pages now.

        - David Hinds
          dhinds@allegro.stanford.edu

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From: torda@igc.ethz.ch (Andrew Torda)
Subject: Re: Questions about Explorer...
Organization: Computational Chemistry, ETH, Zuerich
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 12:58:00 GMT

In article <92102.105436SSHALER@MTUS5.BITNET> <SSHALER@MTUS5.BITNET> writes:
[... AVS and explorer ...]
>"Both of these systems are remarkably similar in functionality and
>their designs occupy the visualization high ground."

A question which has always intrigued me about these products:
Is there a good *technical* reason why files and protocols are
incompatible between AVS and explorer ?

-Andrew
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From: blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov (Brent L. Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Saving Screen Lay Out
Date: 17 Apr 92 15:48:50 GMT


   Now that we are using X (or in the process of changing to X) how does one
do the equivalent of Sun's savescreenlayout, only under X?!!!!
   Sun's command will save in a .file the current positions of ALL windows,
tools, etc., AND their icons.  When you log back onto the system, everything
that was on your screen at the moment you executed savescreenlayout starts
running again in the same place, INCLUDING icon positions.
   SURELY, this can be done on SGI's superior machines, can't it?!

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From: beyer@bflsgu.fl.bs.dlr.de (R. Beyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: X fonts, variable size
Date: 15 Apr 92 13:13:42 GMT


Hi,

I need to write very large text under X on an Indigo running 4.0.1.
Does X provide extra large or a variable size text font ? The 'xlsfonts'
command reveals that there is a font named 'variable' but I have no idea
how to use it.

Thanks for any hints and best regards.

Ralf Beyer

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From: peter@ml.csiro.au (Peter Campbell)
Subject: log function bug
Organization: CSIRO Marine Labs, Hobart TAS, Australia
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 11:06:55 GMT

I reported this bug in July last year and waited with bated to see it fixed
in 4.0.1.  Sadly it wasn't.  I found it when I got different answers running
the same program on a Sun.  The problem is that the identify log(x)=-log(1/x)
breaks down when x is near the maximum floating point number e.g. the output
from the program:

	x = 1.5 * (2.**126.)
	type *, log(x), -log(1./x)
	end
is:
	87.74201       87.51887    

The first number is correct (according to the Sun).

Peter Campbell       peter@ml.csiro.au
CSIRO Marine Labs, Hobart, Australia
From: lhdsy1!fred.lahabra.chevron.com!shc@uunet.uu.net (Steve Couturie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: cron bug in 4.0.[1234]
Date: 6 Apr 92 23:29:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: adm.29933

Re: Mail from Chris Wagner --
> 
> In article <1992Apr3.201635.2234@robcad.uucp>, mosh@apollo.uucp ( Moshe Shemesh) writes:
> |> In article <92Apr1.164323est.8336@orasis.vis.toronto.edu> gene@vis.toronto.edu (Gene Amdur) writes:
> |> >You may recall a message I posted a while back showing that
> |> >cron's environment gets screwed up after it has run for a while.
> |> >This is a bug in cron which is suposed to be fixed in IRIX 4.0.5.
> |> >The work around is to kill an restart cron once a week (atleast
> |> >that works for us).
> |> >
> |> >--gene
> |> 
> |> Anther work around I'm using is to use IRIX 3.3 cron.  I'm tired of being
> |> flooded with mail messages from cron every once in a while.
> 
> -- 
> Actually the problem just occurs each time cron performs an internal
> re-initialization - after a few of these, it overwrites part of its memory.
> It has been there for a while, but now there are additional cases where
> cron re-initializes:
> 
> 1) when you send it a SIGHUP to get it to re-read the crontabs
> 2) whenever time goes backwards (this is new in 4.0 and is most often
> 	caused by an errant timed master/slave)
> 3) time goes forward by more than 7 seconds.
> 
> Most of these cases really only happen when there is something wrong with
> network time maintenance. If time is going backwards, cron will print
> that it discovered this in its log (/usr/lib/cron/log) - if you
> see a bunch of these, then you will need to restart cron.

** Well, it happens a lot here.  I have to check the damn crons on all
   SGI's here multiple times a day.  What a pain.  The 3.3.x cron doesn't
   help (or at least, I do recall trying it and having it not help; 
   maybe I'll try again -- I still have one machine here at 3.3.x.).

   It's not all the network time maintenance that's at fault.  It also
   happens that some of the SGI boxes just don't keep time well, so the
   timed or timeslave process just has to keep adjusting the time, and
   sometimes (often?) that adjustment is backward.  (Our 240GTX is
   particularly bad.)
   
   I had been using timeslave, since it is smaller and simpler, etc.,
   referencing our master time machine (not a very good reference, BTW,
   but it *is* our central server, and all the other machines use it,
   so....), but that machine occasionally went down and all hell broke
   loose... Converting to timed at least makes things a bit more
   robust.  But cron still just stops sometimes....

   Is a fixed version of cron available anywhere?  sgi.com???  Please?????

Steve

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: l-he@nwu.edu
Subject: Re: How About a Word Processor with IRIX 4.0.X?
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 18:36:39 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.014441.19285@odin.corp.sgi.com>  
ciemo@bananapc.csd.sgi.com (Dave Ciemiewicz) writes:
> Why not use IRIS Showcase?  I've used it regularly for years to do basic
> document processing.  It's WYSIWYG. It has a spell checker.  It has the
> ability to produce drawings, incorporate images and 3D objects.  The best way
> to do general multipage documents is to use the templates and linked-text-
> blocks mechanism.  I've written modest 25 page design documents using it.
> I've also used it for UI design and producing slide presentations.

Showcase does not support multiple windows. It is difficult to copy and
paste between files. Does anyone know if there is a better screen editor
than jot?

Liang
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: pwolfe@kai.com (Patrick Wolfe)
Subject: Re: QIC-150 reliability
Organization: Kuck and Associates, Champaign IL
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 18:11:24 GMT

arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>We have always had a lot of trouble with the reliability of backups
>made using our QIC drive.  Very often we find that a tape is unreadable
>when we go back and try to restore a file.

I have not had the same experience.  Properly stored, data on 1/4" tapes lasts
for many years.  I've gone back two years (that's how long I've had my qic-150
drive at home), and been able to read everything I needed, no problem.

If you only have the one tape drive, then that could be the problem, but it's
also possible you aren't handling or storing your tapes properly.  Keep in
mind that motors, lights, power lines, speakers, and lots of other things
generate magnetic fields which can destroy a magnetic recording.  Direct
sunlight or excessive heat can also damage recordings.  Since you've had
universal problems, I'd review your tape storage areas and handling technique.
-- 

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        System Manager, Kuck & Associates
From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: /etc/savecore wish list...
Summary: good idea
Keywords: savecore memory disk
Date: 10 Apr 92 21:43:10 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In article <acas.702887846@godzilla>, acas@ (Andrew Cassin) writes:
> Why cant savecore write large core files in a "compressed" format. We have
> a 64meg VGX with no available filesystem with that much space. It would
> be great if it could compress core files in such a way so that
> we have a chance of passing useful files onto sgi...
> 
> ACAS


This is a very good idea.  Like the best ideas, it is both obvious and 
trivial once it's pointed out to you.


Vernon Schryver,   vjs@sgi.com
From: sd@chem.ucsd.edu (Steve Dempsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  xpsview?
Date: 9 Apr 1992 19:45:56 GMT
Organization: University of California San Diego, Chemistry
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In article <29976@adm.brl.mil> blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov (Brent L. Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB) writes:
>
>  DPS execution environment may not be on the media you were sent.  We have
>two machines in my branch with IDENTICAL FULL support contract on both.
>A box that came for one machine had DPS execution on the CD, while the box
>for the other machine did NOT have it, but it did have the DPS development.
>So between the two sets of CD's, I THINK we have all the software we are
>SUPPOSE to have.  Why did SGI have to make things soooo complicated?!
>(I think it was the marketing folks fault, NOT the engineers falt.  We all
> know how great the engineers are. ;-))
>
>  Brent L. Bates				Phone:(804) 864-2854
>  NASA-Langley Research Center			  FAX:(804) 864-8469
>  M.S. 361
>  Hampton, Virginia  23665-5225
>  E-mail: blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero8.larc.nasa.gov

Consider yourself lucky, Brent.  Now, could someone at SGI please explain 
why some existing customers received DPS execution with their 4.0.1 upgrade,
and others have to pay extra for it?  I have a dream...

	"Dear Valued Customer,
	"
	"As a valued Silicon Graphics customer with a support contract,
	"one of the benefits you receive is updates of the latest
	"operating system.  We're sorry we screwed you with the 4.0.1
	"update, but to make up for it we have a limited time offer.
	"Just fill out the enclosed card, return it by June 1, 1992,
	"and we will send you an IRIS Indigo Elan, free of charge.
	"Since this is a new machine, you will receive all of the software
	"that was missing from your 4.0.1 update.

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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Indigo Parallel Printer Port speed
Date: 10 Apr 92 04:24:09 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <5286@prles2.prl.philips.nl> marcg@prl.philips.nl (Groenewegen ME) writes:
| Can someone tell me what speed I can achieve in using the parallel
| printer port on an Iris Indigo? I don't want to use it for printing,
| but only as a means of fast data output without having to write
| a device driver.

Default rate is about 200Kbytes/sec.  This can be bumped up
to at least 400, and perhaps higher by changing the strobe
length, assuming the other side can handshake fast enough.
See 'man plp'.
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From: gordonc@epcc.ed.ac.uk (Gordon Cameron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Explorer FAQ
Date: 13 Apr 92 16:11:40 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre

In article <31531@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk>, gordonc@epcc.ed.ac.uk (Gordon Cameron) writes:
> Regular-ish posting :
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Errrmmmm - make that `LAST posting of entire FAQ - summary every couple of
months or so'

This'll mean slightly less bandwidth #:-}
From: blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov (Brent L. Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: How do I tell my PI I ain't got YP?
Date: 17 Apr 92 16:59:25 GMT


   That still doesn't answer his question.
Why is yp being checked when we don't have it running or installed?

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From: edwin@cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Indigo: Security hole in xdm login session
Date: 10 Apr 92 08:09:31 GMT
Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science

In <1992Apr9.201207.5021@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de>
rainer@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de (Rainer Kleinrensing) writes:

   | I simply log on to, let's say, out Convex and type:
   | 
   |    xprop -display indi1:0 -root -remove _SGI_SESSION_PROPERTY
   | 
   | and the session on indi1 is terminated,
Wow, fancy... :-)

   | Simply denying access to the X display from our Convex won't work, because
   | the users need that (for displaying Convex X applications).
You could configure XDM to use the authorization scheme e.g. tell XDM to
start the X server with '-auth' flag. If you do so, display protection
will be done by the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 protocol; access to the display
will only be granted to X client processes that know the display's
magic-key.

For details see xauth(1) and xdm(1). In short however: the -auth flag
will create the file $HOME/.Xauthority containing the magic-key needed
to access the display. Every X client that can read this file will be
able to access your display. So, if your $HOME is shared over NFS on
the Indigo and the Convex, you're set. If not, you can propagate the
contents of the .Xauthority file to your $HOME on the Convex (note: you
have to do this at the start of every XDM session, because every time
XDM starts the X-server it will generate a new magic-key) e.g. by
adding this to your $HOME/.sgisession file:

	xauth extract - :0 | rsh the_convex_host xauth merge -


Again, check out xdm(1) on how to configure the authorization scheme.


Hope this helps...

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