HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: van@teal.csn.org (Claude W. Van Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: mail / news program??
Date: 20 Dec 92 17:02:45 GMT
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Are there any easily installable mail / news reader programs for the 3B1
out there?  or do I need the developers kit to compile one.  I looked
in the STORE, but did not see anything I recognised -- not really a 
programmer myself, so am not up on all it would take to install something
that has not been pre-digested  |-)

Van!!
:d
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: crigler@cs.ucf.edu (James Crigler)
Subject: Re: HDB & Voice/Data Modes
Organization: University of Central Florida
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 17:20:30 GMT

afc@shibaya.lonestar.org (Augustine Cano) writes:
[...]
>  The modem will only talk to ph1.

Not quite true.  The modem will talk to ph0 perfectly well
IF ph0 is the only phone enabled.

Jim Crigler
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From: motteler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Howard E. Motteler)
Subject: Need tin disk shield
Summary: Just the can
Organization: Univ. of MD, Baltimore County
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 04:16:34 GMT

I need a full-height tin disk shield from a 3b1.  I'm setting up
a second machine with a PRIAM 519; I have a spare hump top case,
but no shield.  Anyone have one to sell or trade?  (I have a lot
of msc 3b1 parts.)

The 519 seems to work fine inside the 3b1 (1 1/2 years with no
HD errors) if (and only if) it is shielded.  I tried running it
inside the machine last year without the shield and got a ton of
HDERRs, appearently due to inductive coupling with the PS
transformer or possibly the CRT yoke.

-- 
Howard E. Motteler,  motteler@umbc4.umbc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: frank@halcyon.com (Frank Higgins)
Subject: For Sale NEW Starlan Boards
Keywords: For Sale Starlan
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 07:54:30 GMT

Two brand new Starlan boards complete with manuals, cable, software. One
box of manuals has been opened but otherwise all of the shrink wrap is
there and neither have been used. $150.00 OBO.

Frank        

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From: Chris Navarrete <chrisn@water.ca.gov>
Subject: Unix PC Software
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A757954AD7018055@outerlimits.water.ca.gov>
X-Xxdate: Fri, 18 Dec 92 22:48:42 GMT
Organization: Calif. Dept. of Water Resources
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 22:47:11 GMT

Due to a disk failure, I had to replace my hard disk.  Unfortunately, my
backups were old and did not contain much of the software ICd acquired
over the past several years.  Would someone e-mail or let me know where
I can find the following:
  mahjong
  fasttype (or was is ltypefast)
  maze or amaze

Thanks in advance...
  BTW, I replaced my miniscribe with a mitusbishi (disk not car) and it
seems to be running pretty good.  Not bad for a $100 disk.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: pcg2@ra.msstate.edu (Patrick C Greer)
Subject: Packdisk
Organization: Mississippi State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 07:18:21 GMT

I ftp'd a copy of Packdisk from Ohio-State, and I can't seem to
get it to run on my 3b1.  I have sucessfully crasshed it twice and
I don't want to even try it again until I asked for some help.
I am home on Christmas break and I am trying to help a friend
who is running out of HD space.  I have tried it on my Miniscribe 40MB
and it crashed.  It completely filled up the disk and after it was through
running, it seemed like all my files were trashed.  commands like ls -l
caused the machine to stall until I hit a control \.  rm gave me a memory
error and fsck did the same as the ls.  The information that came with
it is kinda vauge, and I was hoping for a little help.  I am running
UNIX 3.51.  I have a nagging feeling that I missed something when I
compiled it.  Any help would be greatly appriciated!!

					Thanks,
					Chris
From: rhg@cpsolv.CPS.COM (Richard H. Gumpertz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: stock UUCP at 19,200?
Date: 18 Dec 92 03:20:10 GMT
Organization: Computer Problem Solving, Leawood, Kansas, USA

Can the stock (i.e., non-HDB) uucp (under 3.51) on the UnixPC be made to run
at 19,200 baud?

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From: motteler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Howard E. Motteler)
Subject: dead expansion box
Summary: so clean, new, and shiny; so non-functional
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 04:04:23 GMT

A while back I picked up a no-warranties 3b1 expansion box.  I
finally got around to setting it up, and sure enough, it doesn't
work.  The 3b1 gets a fine hatching on the screen with the box
attached, and fails to boot.  When the box is attached but
powered down, there is no hatching, but the the machine hangs
while loading the boot disk.  (The usual sequence is box on
before 3b1, but I thought I'd try booting with the box attached
but powered down.)

It looks like the expansion box is NOS, i.e., has never beed
used, or maybe was powered up once and carefully repackaged.
Supply voltages are ok, and simple things like reseating
connectors did not help.

I know this is a long shot, but has this happened to anybody
before?  Assuming the box worked when it left the factory, the
connector seems a likely culprit, but without a spare box to
swap parts with (or a pair of spare 50 pin cables) there's no
easy way to check things.

-- 
Howard E. Motteler,  motteler@umbc4.umbc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1,comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.elm
From: wdp@gagme.chi.il.us (Bill Pfeiffer)
Subject: Mail getting stuck on my 7300, not leaving site. 
Originator: wdp@gagme
Organization: Gagme Public Access UNIX, Chicago, Illinois.
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 10:06:27 GMT

I own a UNIX 7300 running elm 2.3 and (I believe) Smail 3.1.

I have a strange problem.   At times when I send a letter, it seems
like it is doing everything right, then I realize that the mail got
stuck in /usr/spool/smail/input, under a long alpha-numeric code
number.  There is also a lockfile with the same number in
/usr/spool/smail/lock.  

Sometimes if I take the mail file and re-mail it through elm, it will make
it to the outbound queue in /usr/spool/uucp/mailserver, and sometimes
it won't.  In fact it is a toss up as to whether or not mail will get
off-site or not.  Sometimes everything works fine for a month or more
then it starts getting stuck again. There does not seem to be any
pattern to this behavior.  

Occasionally (but very rarely) an incoming mail file will get stuck in
/usr/spool/smail/input as well.  However the problem is with outgoing
mainly.  What can anyone tell me about this problem which is annoying
to say the least.

For the record, I operate a AT&T PC7300, system V 3.51, Honey Dan Ber
uucp, and as I said, elm as a mailer.  I don't have mailx or procmail.


Sincerely

William Pfeiffer
wdp@gagme.chi.il.us 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: motteler@umbc4.umbc.edu (Howard E. Motteler)
Subject: Re: Need tin disk shield
Organization: Univ. of MD, Baltimore County
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:15:55 GMT

Bob Kupiec writes:
> motteler@umbc4.umbc.edu writes:
>>The 519 seems to work fine inside the 3b1 (1 1/2 years with no
>>HD errors) if (and only if) it is shielded.  I tried running it
>>inside the machine last year without the shield and got a ton of
>>HDERRs, appearently due to inductive coupling with the PS
>>transformer or possibly the CRT yoke.
>
>The Seagate ST251-1 doesn't need a shield at all, as well as many other
>drives.  I run my 3b1 without a shield and everything works just fine.  No
>HDERRS.  Did Priam make poorly shielded (grounded) drives or what?

I've run both a segate 4096 and Miniscribe 6085 for years
without the shield, but the Priam seems to need it.  It has an
unshielded circuit board that sits right next to the power
supply. 

Aside from that, and being a bit more noisy, it is a very
reliable drive.  The fast disk driver will speed up the step
rate a bit, and the P5.1 upgrade plus a 2010 let you talk to the
whole 190 megs.



-- 
Howard E. Motteler,  motteler@umbc4.umbc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: res@colnet.cmhnet.org (Rob Stampfli)
Subject: Re: HDB & Voice/Data Modes
Organization: Little to None
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 15:18:49 GMT

>>	Also, how do I set up my UnixPC so that it is in DATA mode on
>>both PH0 & PH1??
>
>I don't think you can.  The modem will only talk to ph1.

Actually, it is possible to select either ph0 or ph1 as the DATA line, but
not both concurrently.

The on board modem's parameters can be controlled by the program /etc/phupd.
It is not very user friendly, and may require a "stty sane ^J" if the args
are not typed in exactly or if run from a non-console terminal.

The form of the command, which must be executed by root and apparently also
from the console (or it drops a core), is:

/etc/phupd PHx MODE TT KS MS

where:
	PHx is the /dev entry, either ph0 or ph1
	MODE is either DATA or VOICE
	TT means touch-tone (as opposed to dial-pulse): YES or NO
	KS is YES or NO
	MS is YES or NO

Don't ask me what the last two arguments do.  I leave them NO.

I execute /etc/phupd to set up the modem during the /etc/rc initialization
phase at boot time and have never found a need to touch it after that.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1,misc.forsale.computers.other
From: scott@sdc.com (Scott Dunbar)
Subject: 3b1 system for sale
Originator: scott@minnie
Organization: sdc
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:03:07 GMT


AT&T 3b1 for sale
	67M hard drive
	2M RAM
	OS version 3.5
	Full AT&T development system (v3.51)
	Original disks and manuals
	Low mileage

Price is negotiable.  Make me a reasonable offer for it if you're interested.
Would be shipped COD from Chicago area.

Call or email for more details...

scott@sdc.com
(312) 739 1111 voice during the day (except 12/16)

thanks,
	scott Dunbar
 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: hybl@umbc4.umbc.edu (Dr. Albert Hybl (UMAB-BIOPHYS))
Subject:  Need help with a sick STARLAN card
Organization: Univ. of MD, Baltimore County
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 18:33:31 GMT

I have a STARLAN card that fails its self test.  This was the
first time I used the card which I purchased used.  It is installed
in a 3b1 with 2M RAM on the mother board along with a 1/2 M expansion
memory card plus a DOS-73 expansion board.  The test was
run without the external cables connected to the card.  The
diagnostic tests were run about a dozen times with the following
results:
   ERROR: No interrupt.  Status not updated.
   ERROR: NAU board reset failed.
The board PASSED the self test only once but then failed giving
   ERROR: 48 packets lost on internal loopback.

I have a copy of the AT&T UNIXPC Reference Manual containing a
good description of how the 3b1 and several of the expansion
boards work.  A section devoted to the STARLAN card is not included.
Does anyone know if and where I can obtain a reference like description
for the STARLAN board?

Can someone provide some clues as to what I can do to repair it?
Where can I get it repaired?  Any help would be helpful.

Thank you,
Albert Hybl (hybl@umbc3.umbc.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: res@colnet.cmhnet.org (Rob Stampfli)
Subject: Re: Question about Expert Diagnostic Mode
Organization: Little to None
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 04:00:28 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.193426.9189@rock.concert.net> toddwall@rock.concert.net (R. Todd Wall -- Catholic Diocese of Raleigh -- Computer Services) writes:
>
>	In the Expert Diagnostics mode when I do 6,6 which is the 
>Non-Distructive HD test it says.  Start=48, num of block=39312, Increment=8
>
>	Does Increment=8 mean that it checks every 8th block?  If so, how
>do I set the Increment to 1 so that it'll check every block?

No, the Increment=8 means that the program reads/writes in chunks of 8
logical blocks (8K bytes) at a time, or, in other words, it checks one
track per operation.  I don't know if this program actually checks the
one spare physical block per track or not.
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From: kupiec@hp800.lasalle.edu (Bob Kupiec)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Need tin disk shield
Date: 17 Dec 92 16:20:58 GMT
Organization: LaSalle University, Philadelphia, PA

In <1992Dec16.041634.7202@umbc3.umbc.edu>, motteler@umbc4.umbc.edu writes:
>The 519 seems to work fine inside the 3b1 (1 1/2 years with no
>HD errors) if (and only if) it is shielded.  I tried running it
>inside the machine last year without the shield and got a ton of
>HDERRs, appearently due to inductive coupling with the PS
>transformer or possibly the CRT yoke.

The Seagate ST251-1 doesn't need a shield at all, as well as many other
drives.  I run my 3b1 without a shield and everything works just fine.  No
HDERRS.  Did Priam make poorly shielded (grounded) drives or what?

Also: *MY* Seagate doesn't have stiction problems either after years of
      on/off cycles and continuous use.  I wouldn't have bought it if I
      knew beforehand, but I must've lucked out. ;-)
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From: willyb@Elmer.hsc.ucalgary.ca (Bill Beaton)
Subject: Can someone help me, please?
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 14:13:55 GMT
Organization: Neuroscience Division, U of Calgary School of Medicine, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Hi, all you helpful netters ... I'd really appreciate a little bit of help.
A short while ago, I lost a hard-drive, and part of several files that are
fairly important software (at least for what I do):

1. About a year ago, some kind soul posted some simple source for vprintf()
and vfprintf() functions ... could someone PLEASE repost it.

2. When I was doing my recovery, I got a permanent I/O error on one of my
DOS-73 diskettes ... would someone please be kind enough to tar/uuencode
MOUSE.COM (everything else is ok) and post or email it to me?

Many thanks,

Bill Beaton

Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
From: digbyt@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Digby Russell Simon Tarvin)
Subject: Wanted: drivers for 3b1 ethernet card
Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 09:17:14 GMT

I have recently obtained a 3b1 ethernet card , but it did
not come with the necessary drivers or networking utilities.

Could anyone who would be able to supply or suggest where I
might obtain this software please send me a note.

Thanks,
Digby Tarvin.
(digbyt@extro.ucc.su.oz.au)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1,misc.forsale.computers
From: k2ph@dxis.att.com (Bob Schreibmaier)
Subject: PC7300 and such for sale
Organization: QRM Central, Kresgeville, PA
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:11:17 GMT

After all these years, I'm leaving the wonderful world
of AT&T 3B1/PC7300 and going to an Intel-based UNIX(r).
So... I have the following for sale:

One PC7300 with 1 Meg RAM and 20 Meg Miniscribe drive.
Comes with the 3.51 system software and documentation.
New battery installed.

One PC7300 with 1 Meg RAM and 40 Meg Seagate drive.
Comes with the 3.5 system software and documentation.
Has the hump case.

Both have lots of software installed, including:

3.51m Operating System
3.51 Development Set
HoneyDanBer UUCP
NROFF/TROFF and such
PCOMM 1.2.10
ZMODEM 3.11
MTOOLS 2.0.5
SC 6.17
Less 177
Vspell
Advanced Rogue 7.7
Mailx 2.14

Well, you get the idea.  They even have:
"Space the final frontier..."  :-)

Asking $250 OBO for the 20 Meg unit and $300 OBO for the 40 Meg unit.

One tape drive and controller card, with software, and copy of
the tape backup unit manual.  Asking $250 OBO.

One combo card with 1.5 Meg of RAM installed.  Would like to
get $200 OBO for this.

I also have a WD2010 chip (was going to put a big drive in my
PC7300, then changed my mind).  Make me an offer.  I also have
a couple of working WD1010s around, in case anyone needs them.
I also have 1 Meg worth of 41256 RAMs here (was going to upgrade
the 1 Meg motherboard, then changed my mind).  Make me an offer
and this too can be yours.

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From: forrie@morwyn.uucp (Forrest Aldrich)
Subject: WUSER program
Organization: Vision Graphics
			  Dover, NH
			  USA
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:12:56 GMT

I just had an idea which might be applied to/from the loadavgd program...
and it's along the lines of the wuser program (somewhat).  The idea is
to use one of the unused lines on the bottom of the screen to show the
current working directory for the given window.  I really don't know
how this would be implemented, and surely it would require some type
of daemon... it would need to detect the current active window in the
system and the length (obviously) would need to be managed.  Just an idea
I thought I would toss to the net.

Along other issues, I'm curious... how many people out there presently use
the MGR environment?  Which of you have the actual (extinct?) VIDPAL and
which use the vidpal-em?

There was some talk a while ago about creating more VIDPALS (someone was
actually working on it) but I guess that person (those people) lost
interest.  Anyone out there capable of creating one?  It seems that there
are at least a few of us in need of this thing...

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From: toddwall@rock.concert.net (R. Todd Wall -- Catholic Diocese of Raleigh -- Computer Services)
Subject: Thanks to all 8-)
Organization: CONCERT-CONNECT -- Public Access UNIX
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:53:11 GMT


	I would like to take this time to thank everyone who has helped
me in my quest to re-install my UnixPC.  ALL of the information you've
given me has really helped my a great deal.  I now have elm, bnews, smail,
HDB (polling correctly my smart-host - Yeeaah!), and rn (I hope - still 
testing that one).  

	Thanks again to everyone.  8-)

o o ______           _     _____  _  _ o o  "But the fruit of the Spirit is
' '   /       /   / ' )   /      // // ' '   love, joy, peace, patience,
     / ______/ __/   / / / __.  // //        kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
   _/ (_) (_/_(_/_  (_(_/ (_/|_</_</         gentleness and self-control."
toddwall@rock.concert.net & todd@beretta.bacchus.org ^- Galatians 5:22-23 -^
				^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
				  Ye ol' UnixPC
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From: boone@a.cs.okstate.edu (Barry E. Boone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: Re: GK files
Date: 20 Dec 92 17:35:18 GMT
Organization: Oklahoma State University

From article <5Zk3VB1w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>, by andy-w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Andrew webster):
> Gram Kracker files, or CSave files will only run with a Gram device. But 
> isn't there software out there that can take GK dumped cart files and 
> convert them to E/A opt 5 files to run as any image file? There should 
> be! But I've never come across any. But we all have carts on disk that 
> run as a standard image files. How was this done? 

If you have seen the ones that have 13-14 sector files as the first file in
the list of EA 5 files, those were the ones I either did by hand, or someone
used my file (or some variant of it) to do this... I never automated the
process.

> Its a funny thing about the software in the TI community. So much of it 
> but so little of it in the areas that it is needed. You would think that 
> throughout the years someone would of come up with a converter for GK 
> files.

Yeah... announcing, NEW for the TI, YADM! (Yet Another Disk Manager) :-)

> Take graphics stuff, it seems the streem goes only 1 way. Example: You 
> can convert form GIF to Myart but not the other way (on a TI). Why?
> Why not go from low res Myart back to TI-Artist? 

I had considered adding this feature to Gif Mania, but the demand for
GIF Mania was not exactly very motivating.

-- 
Barry Boone -- boone@a.cs.okstate.edu

Gravity: It's not just a good idea, it's the law.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
From: olsone@aix.rpi.edu (Erik G. Olson)
Subject: FAQ project 
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Distribution: net
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 04:48:55 GMT

A couple of weeks ago I wrote that we should create a FAQ for this group.
One person asked if there were any archives for this group. Since then
I have been archiving comp.sys.ti the hard way with an eye toward
procuring some ftp space. (Feel free to send me any and all old messages
you happen to have laying about!)

Regarding the FAQ, I fully expected that making the suggestion meant
volunteering to edit it, so I am looking out for that. Unfortunately, 
I am in a position to need an FAQ for my own information, being rather 
cut off from the TI world. Over Christmas, though, I should see some 
TI'ers in Colorado with all the latest stuff (as well as all of MY
old stuff from the 80's) and I'm looking forward to that.

So I will post what I can put together, plus whatever anyone volunteers
to contribute, and call it version 1 in early January.

Hear that? Anyone who wants to contribute to the FAQ, speak up. Oh:
I'm counting on cutting and pasting from some recent posts. Anyone
subjected to this gratis immortality will be sent the FAQ before it
appears here. 

Then comes version 2, or whatever.

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