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From: cmumford@iat.holonet.net (Chris Mumford)
Subject: Backplane and anti-aliasing
Organization: HoloNet (BBS: 510-704-1058)
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 15:29:10 GMT

I'm trying to write a program that places a photo-realistic image in the
backplane on a 310VGX and draw objects on top of the backplane.  I don't
think this is a problem, but I want those objects to be anti-aliased, and
I think that they will be anti-aliased with what is in the frame buffer,
not the underlay plane.  Any suggestions?

Chris

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: davea@quasar.mti.sgi.com (David B.Anderson)
Subject: Re: Bug in SGI ansi compliance (or are the others wrong ?)
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:19:32 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.225422.2888@bernina.ethz.ch> hoesel@igc.ethz.ch (Frans van Hoesel) writes:
>In article <s5c02sg@sgi.sgi.com> davea@quasar.mti.sgi.com (David B.Anderson) writes:
>>In article <1992Nov9.140450.591@bernina.ethz.ch> torda@igc.ethz.ch (Andrew Torda) writes:
>>>The following two lines of code don't compile with the -ansi option to
>>>the sgi cc compiler (version 3.10)
>>>
>>>---------- begin code ----------
>>>#include <stdio.h>
>>>FILE *fp = stdout;
>>>---------- end code   ----------
>>>
>>>% cc -c -ansi z.c
>>>accom: Error: z.c, line 2: integer constant expected
>>>       FILE *fp =       (__stdout) ;
>>>       ----------------------------^
>>
>>This (normally minor)annoyance was introduced with -ansi because
>[removed]

>You might find it a '(normally minor)annoyance' but lex produces code
>that does *NOT* compile using -ansi, exactly because of the above reason!!
>(you can check that easely by creating a file with two lines of '%%' 
>(a minimal lex program) run lex with it, and try to compile with -ansi)

The problem with lex had been reported already...  I was wrong to call the
problem 'minor' since it would break -ansi compilations of lex output
files. At the time we made the decison to create __stdout we were not aware
of the unfortunate interaction with lex.

Anyone using -xansi would not have the problem.

In the next major release the problem has been fixed 'properly'.

Sorry about the inconvenience.
[ David B. Anderson             (415)390-4263             davea@sgi.com ]
From: rconway@vax1.tcd.ie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: upgrade please answer
Date: 6 Nov 92 15:14:55 GMT
Organization: Trinity College Dublin


I have just recieved from SGI my upgrade from 3.3 to 4.01 !!!!

Please answer any of the following questions, the manuals are not very helpful

1	I have two PIs (20,25GT) with 12Mb RAM any problems.    

2	How do I connect the cdrom and install in general terms ?

3	Can I use the CD player to list to music, preferably offline

These questions I sure where asked a long time along but I did get the upgrade
and there are problems with ftp to sgi.com.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: mas@everest.esd.sgi.com (Michael Schulman)
Subject: Re: need help on distributed processing
Reply-To: mas@sgi.com
Organization: Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 17:08:48 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.134835.9737@wl.com>, agrafiot@wl.com (Dimitris Agrafiotis) writes:
|> 
|> Is it possible to use fork (or something equivalent) to spawn a process
|> from my application and have it run on another SGI workstation across the
|> net? From the little I know, RPC's are just too messy. Is there something
|> as simple as fork?
|> 
|> 

I know we are working with some software vendors to port and test their
distributed software.  You might want to call

Sudy Bharadwaj
Scientific Computing Associates
203-777-7442

They are the owners of LINDA.



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mas@sgi.com
From: fred@poly2.nist.gov (Frederick R. Phelan Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Looking for a X based mail reader for IRIX
Date: 6 Nov 92 15:35:12 GMT
Distribution: usa


In article <24101@alice.att.com>, keshav@alice.att.com (Srinivasan Keshav) writes:
|> Hi,
|> 	I am looking for a X based mail reader to use on my IRIX
|> machine (running 4.0.5). I tried to port XMail (rewrote their pty
|> allocator) but did not succeed. If anyone has successfully ported
|> XMail or knows of public domain or commercial software for reading
|> mail, please let me know.
|> 
|> thanks
|> 
|> keshav
|> 
|> PS- If you want to complete the job of porting XMail, I can send you
|> my hacks.

I highly recommend xmailtool ... It has functionality as nice or better
than xmh, but it works with the bsd mail system that you get with IRIX.
Builds very easily, just do xmkmf -> make -> put XMailTool.ad in 
/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults as XMailTool -> put xmailtool.help in /usr/lib/X11
-> put xmailtool.man in /usr/catman/local/man1/ as xmailtool.1  ...

Cheers!

Fred
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: ertas@athena.mit.edu (Mehmet D Ertas)
Subject: Re: Increased Prices for Memory
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:08:13 GMT

In article <1992Nov8.133738.1@alien.gici.com>, laut@alien.gici.com (Bill Laut) writes:
|> In article <1992Nov5.195012.5289@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>, senseman@ricky.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman) writes:
|> > Now my two favorite things, French white wine and Koran RAM,
|> > are going to be out of my price range :-(
|> At the risk of being called a "lout" (:-), I would suggest a change to good
|> German white wines, such as a Reisling Auslese, or a Kabinett.  Now, with

I agree on the unique chills of German Wine, but since Germany is also an EC
member, same price hikes there as well :-(

Deniz Ertas
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: dave@doctor.chem.yale.edu (David Maxwell)
Subject: Re: How to access to the DSP in the SGI Iris?
Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 06:45:52 GMT

While we are on the subject of the audio hardware for the Indigo,
are there any free or low cost programs which allow you to play
music by selecting the tone, pitch, etc.  A graphical version
of entering notes would also be nice.  Alternatively, is there
a library available for doing this.   I would like to include
some simple music in a program.

Dave Maxwell (dave@doctor.chem.yale.edu)
From: shah@fnsony.fnal.gov (Hemant Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: FAQ How to obtain my ethernet address?
Date: 12 Nov 92 18:58:09 GMT
Reply-To: shah@fnalb.fnal.gov
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL
NNTP-Posting-Host: fnsony.fnal.gov

In article <34037@adm.brl.mil>, HACK@fcrfv2.ncifcrf.gov writes:
|> I know it's been recently asked but I can't find my notes . . .
|> 
|> What is the command to obtain my Ethernet address?
|> 
|> Thanks.
|> 
|> Dallas C. Hack
|> hack@fcrfv1.ncifcrf.gov

Here's a little shell script I use:
---------------- 8< ------- Begin shell script ---------- 8< -------------
#!/bin/sh
   # On SGI systems, sysinfo command gives 2 different outputs depending on
   # the model. It display 4 rows of numbers. On some systems it give last 4
   # bytes of the ethernet address and rest of the fields are "00", in that
   # case prepend "08:00" which identifies this system as SGI.
   # On other systems it displays 4 rows of numbers (not all are "00")
   # in this case first alternate 6 set of numbers give full ethernet address
   # of the system.
   ether_addr=`sysinfo | nawk 'BEGIN{getline}
                              {
                                for( i=5; i<=NF; i++)
                                  if( $i != "00")
                                  {
                                    temp_flag = 1
                                    i = NF
                                  }
                                if( temp_flag > 0 )
                                {
                                  printf("%s",$1)
                                  for( i=3; i <= 12; i=i+2)
                                    printf(":%s",$i)
                                }
                                else
                                    printf("08:00:%s:%s:%s:%s",$1,$2,$3,$4)
                              exit}'`

echo $ether_addr

---------------- 8< ------- end shell script ---------- 8< -------------

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From: paquin@kahua.esd.sgi.com (Tom Paquin)
Subject: Re: Direct login failure
Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 04:45:19 GMT

In article <96800@netnews.upenn.edu>, weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
|> I have a user who cannot log in directly to one of our Iris 4Ds
|> running 4.0.1.  He tries, the screen blanks for a moment, and then
|> he's back at the login menu.  (Even with no password, he fails.)
|> All other logins, on that machine or by that user, succeed.  He
|> has a pretty boring .login and .cshrc.  Any clues?

He may have a bad .sgisession or .xsession.  The easy test
is to login  with "failsafe" appended; this will bring up
a single terminal emulator and nothing else.  Then you can
try stepping through the above files.  See the man pages for
xdm etc.

Eg: login: paquin failsafe
    passwd: ******

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: edik@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Ed Sternin)
Subject: Re: R3000 -> R4000 Upgrade Questions
Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:03:38 GMT

Just on a related subject:  as part of an upgrade from
a 4d/35 to a R4000 Indigo, we needed to move the existing
operating system from an internal disk to an external
disk that would become the boot disk of the new Indigo.

I had performed a similar task on a R3000 Indigo very
recently, with no problems.  It nicely booted from 
an external disk configured as SCSI 5.  Well, what do you
know!   **flame on** in an unabashed attempt to make 
installing system software on non-SGI disks more difficult,
SGI has changed their installation procedure to ONLY allow
to install the system to SCSI units 0 and 1.  There is no 
mention of it anywhere (Oh, you did not buy the system
preconfigured?  Well, we recommended that you did... ---
at a 50% SGI surcharge), and the error message says:
"..not a root partition.  Available devices are:
dsk0 dsk1"  Once you know what this means, it is pretty
obvious, but we wasted a lot of time.  **flame off**

Anyhow, just thought I'd save some pain for those who
are installing their own system software and booting off
of non-SGI disks:  use SCSI 0 or 1 only!

Cheers.

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From: S.H.Kinder@daresbury.ac.uk (Steve Kinder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Exabytes on Indigos
Date: 10 Nov 92 13:09:17 GMT
Reply-To: shk@gserv1.dl.ac.uk
Organization: Daresbury Laboratory, UK


Has anyone attached Exabytes to Indigos successfully? Are there any problems to
be aware of? I tried attaching one some while ago, which crashed my system resulting
in a corrupt system disk. As a result I am unwilling to try again. It seems there
isn't such an option in the Silicon Graphics price list, can someone from SG confirm
that for me please?

Steve.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: haynes@obiwan.nrl.navy.mil (John Haynes)
Subject: help with logical volumes on Crimson
Organization: Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:58:00 GMT


I would like to make a logical volume consisting of two 2 gigabyte disks.  Since I am doing this on a Crimson, I have the option of putting each disk on a separate SCSI channel.  Is the performance of the logical volume better if the disks are striped across controllers, or will striped disks on the same controller provide similar performance?

Thanks for any suggestions.

-- 
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SFA, Inc. 
Naval Research Laboratory                              
haynes@obiwan.nrl.navy.mil              


Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: "alan kennedy" <alan.kennedy@canrem.com>
Subject: ip4 serial port - how fas
Reply-To: "alan kennedy" <alan.kennedy@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 5 Nov 92 00:50:44 EST

to: jrh@de.deere.com

->I have a Telebit WorldBlazer I am installing on an old SGI 4D/70.  This
->a twin tower IP4 machine.  Anyway, I believe I should set the port spee
->57600 to allow the maximum throughput on a V.32bis, V.42, V.42bis
->connection.
->
->Is this possible?  Can the port run at 57600?

John:

I had the same question several months ago when we were writing code to 
run our video tape machines. We needed to communicate with them at 38,400.
The 4D70 that we had would not go past 9600. I think we did get it into 
19.2 at one point, but we had problems, and it still was not fast enough.

You can edit your inittab and gettydefs files to 57600, but it just wont 
go that high. HOWEVER!!! We tried another machine, a CS12 which is also 
called a 4D60, which is just a 4D70 without graphics. And it worked! I 
don't know if it supposed to or not, but we have two ports running at 
38,400, and they work great. SGI was no help in this matter, so don't 
bother calling them. 

If I can be of any more help, feel free to write back.

Alan Kennedy 
Senior Animator
The Image Group Canada Ltd.
Toronto, Ontario
alan.kennedy@canrem.com

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: chk@alias.com (C. Harald Koch)
Subject: Re: How to get own ethernet address? (fwd)
Organization: Alias Research, Inc., Toronto ON Canada
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:50:18 GMT

In <rq05abg@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com> vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes:

>Why would you need to supply a MAC address to "to get this machine on
>the Internet"?   Unless you have some kind of fancy firewall, that
>seems strange and perhaps wrong.

One possibility: the new 3Com LAN Security Architechture needs to know your
machines Ethernet ID. LSA hubs (secure 10BaseT repeaters) can be programmed
so that, for each port, if data comes from any Ethernet addr other than the
one "registered" on that port, the port is shut down. This is to prevent
non-registered hosts from connecting to your network.

The LSA also filters on Ethernet address, so that when two machines talk to
each other only those two see the actual data; the rest see the same length
packets but with the data replaced by noise. This is to prevent people from
monitoring the network to bypass security systems.

To connect a host to an LSA repeater or bridge, you need to program in the
hosts Ethernet address.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: beck@enterprise.den.mmc.com (Fred R. Beck)
Subject: More malloc() questions.
Keywords: malloc, WorkShop
Organization: Martin Marietta
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 21:25:16 GMT

I have been following the discussion on malloc() with some
earnest.  I too have a large, highly parallel software tool
which has been operating just fine on a 4D/310 running IRIX
3.3.3 & then later 4.0.1.  Since my last compile, I upgraded
to a 4D/420 with IRIX 4.0.5[a].  Now, my code dies after
doing "some" (about 50) malloc() calls.  Via CaseVision/Workshop,
I have been able to determine where.  In trying to determine
"why", I linked the code with -lmalloc_cv so that I could use
all of the tools available in Workshop.

Boy was I astounded when all of a sudden, everything worked
just fine.  So, I thought, what the heck, I'll through caution
to the wind and try -O2 with no -lmalloc_cv.  No joy...

Since reading the malloc() discourse, I have been purusing my
"volumes" on information both on-line and paper, but can not
find any but f77 or X11 malloc relating info.

So, I have been wondering, what is, or where can I find the 
difference between the malloc()'s in:

	/usr/lib/libX11.a:256:malloc.o 264:usmalloc.o
	/usr/lib/libX11_s.a:260:malloc.o 268:usmalloc.o
	/usr/lib/libc.a:278:malloc.o
	/usr/lib/libc_G0.a:265:malloc.o
	/usr/lib/libc_s.a:308:malloc.o
	/usr/lib/libgen.a:78:zmalloc.o
	/usr/lib/libgen_G0.a:78:zmalloc.o
	/usr/lib/libmalloc.a:1:malloc.o
	/usr/lib/libmalloc_G0.a:1:malloc.o
	/usr/lib/libmalloc_cv.a:1:malloc.o
	/usr/lib/libmalloc_d.a:1:malloc.o
	/usr/lib/libmpc.a:33:malloc.o 68:usmalloc.o
	/usr/lib/libmpc_G0.a:33:malloc.o 68:usmalloc.o

I understand that the lib[*]_s.a are "shared" libraries.  I
understand that the lib[*]_G0.a are graphics related routines.
I am confused on what the lib[*]_d.a is.  Also, though I expect
the libmpc[*].a to be MP libraries, where can I find info on the
various mallocs() and thier differences?

If I am just being "brain dead" here, someone please just shoot
me to put me out of everyones misery.  But if not...  just shoot
anyway.

I do dislike the idea of having to link to -lmalloc_cv to get my
code to work.  Especially when I was planning to eventually use
Power C to optimize.

thanx to one and all...

-ferd  (It's friday...)
From: HACK@fcrfv2.ncifcrf.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: FAQ How to obtain my ethernet address?
Date: 12 Nov 92 01:49:44 GMT

I know it's been recently asked but I can't find my notes . . .

What is the command to obtain my Ethernet address?

Thanks.

Dallas C. Hack
hack@fcrfv1.ncifcrf.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
From: knobi@knobi.munich.sgi.com (Martin Knoblauch)
Subject: Re: FORTRAN UNFORMATTED File Structure
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:16:29 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.153645.12090@erenj.com>, srfergu@rufus.erenj.com
(Scott Ferguson) writes:
|> Hi folks, sorry if this is an old question, I'm new to the sgi and
|> the newsgroup.
|> 
|> When an unformatted file is created with FORTRAN on the SGI, is it
|> unstructured (like a plain old binary file, no record markers), or
|> does it have some goofy record structure?
|> 
|> Essentially, I'm hoping to read a binary data file with Dscribe from
|> Explorer, and the file was created with SGI fortran. Having trouble,
|> and it said something funny about markers, or structure, I can't
|> quite
|> remember.
|> 
|> Thanks a lot.
|> 
|> -- 
|>
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|> Scott Ferguson                        Exxon Research & Engineering
|> Co.
|> Project Engineer                      New Jersey
|>
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|> "Always bark at a dog."


  If the fortran file was created "unformatted, sequential", there
is a 4 byte length field before AND after each record. So there is some
"structure" in this case. I don't know what explorer is complaining
about.

  If the fortran file was written "unformatted, direct", there is
no additional information in the file. All records have fixed length.
Be aware that in this case the RECL of the fortran OPEN statement is
measured in 4byte units instead of bytes.

Hope this helps
Martin
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From: foulser@homebrew.asd.sgi.com (David Foulser)
Subject: Re: FORTRAN UNFORMATTED File Structure
Reply-To: foulser@homebrew.asd.sgi.com (David Foulser)
Organization: sgi
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:36:46 GMT

Dscribe is written to handle Fortran unformatted records, and it knows
about the record markers. If you still have trouble, send another msg
or post to comp.graphics.explorer.

Dave

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From: clk@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Christopher Kranz)
Subject: telnetd[2280]: ttloop:  peer died
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 20:37:31 GMT

Dear People,

I have been getting the following error messages several times a minute for
the last couple of days:

telnetd[2280]: ttloop:  peer died

Has anyone seen this error before?  What is causing it and how do I "fix"
it?  I have gone through the man page for telnetd but there is no explanation
of this error message.  This machine has been crashing about every other day
and these are the only error messages that are unusual in the SYSLOG.

The machine I have been getting these messages on is an 4D/320 running Irix
4.0.1, has 128 MB of memory, two SCSI controllers, four ethernet connections,
and about 2.5 GB of disk space on three drives.

Any and all information would be greatly appreciated.

	Christopher Kranz
	clk@princeton.edu

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