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From: ron@rivm.nl (Ron Roozendaal)
Subject: A/UX and Apple 1 scanner
Reply-To: ron@rivm.nl
Organization: RIVM
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:12:23 GMT

Hi all!

I recently acquired an Apple 1 scanner with Omnipage. No luck: the scanner init
(driver) that Apple produced does not want to work under A/UX. Anyone having
tried this before and succeeded? 


Ron

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: fullmer@is.rice.edu (Robert Fullmer)
Subject: Re: A/UX Problems
Organization: The Bavarian Illuminati
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:11:50 GMT
Return-Receipt-To: fullmer@rice.edu

In article <mumble> calvinc@hawking.berkeley.edu (Calvin Cheng) writes:

] The CommandShell only respond to a keyboard event only after another
] input event has been sent (like another key press or a mouse click).
] So if I type the character 'a', it doesn't show up until I've pressed
] a second key or click on the mouse.  Output to the window is also
] similarly affected: output comes out a few lines at a time and then
] mysteriously pauses until I click the mouse or press a key.

] I have Super Boomerang and SuperClock running on a Mac IIci w/8MB RAM
] in addition to QuickTime.

I have heard that QuickKeys and Super Boomerang both cause this problem.
When it happened to me, the culprit was AutoIdle. Perhaps at some point
there will be a comprehensive list of programs that cause this problem.

] Calvin Cheng

Rob Fullmer    :    celine@athena.mit.edu    :    celine@rice.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: nzimman@icaen.uiowa.edu (Nicholas R. Zimmerman)
Subject: Re: A/UX Problems
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 23:37:50 GMT
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
X-Newsreader: NN version 6.4.19
Keywords: CommandShell, serial port

calvinc@hawking.berkeley.edu (Calvin Cheng) writes:

>I have just installed A/UX 3.0 on my Mac and have the following problems
>with the CommandShell and serial port.

>The CommandShell only respond to a keyboard event only after another
>input event has been sent (like another key press or a mouse click).
>So if I type the character 'a', it doesn't show up until I've pressed
>a second key or click on the mouse.  Output to the window is also
>similarly affected: output comes out a few lines at a time and then
>mysteriously pauses until I click the mouse or press a key.

This sounds like a you have your tty set for cbreak mode and/or echo off.
Assuming that you are using csh, type stty -cbreak echo....this should 
set it to cooked mode and give echo your input.....I think that you are 
probably just in echo off mode....so stty echo would work too. 

>I have Super Boomerang and SuperClock running on a Mac IIci w/8MB RAM
>in addition to QuickTime.

>The next problem: I get a kernel trap error (type = 4 or 5 I think) whenever
>I try to use the serial port.  It doesn't matter if the MacOS is running
>(it happens with X or MacOS alike, running something like Unix kermit or
>a MacOS comm program like Microphone II) and it takes place after I have
>successfully started the session for a while (like as much as 15 minutes
>after successfully using the serial port).

Can't help you with this one...sounds like it could be a problem with the 
port or the config....hard to say...as I am not very versed with serial 
port stuff and AUX...

>Since I have only just installed A/UX, I didn't really do any tweaking of
>the system.


>-----------
>Calvin Cheng
>calvinc@mascot.berkeley.edu

Hope this helped a little....

-Nick

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From: pbrande1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Philip Brandenberger)
Subject: NFS mounting of A/UX 3.0
Followup-To: comp.unix.aux
Organization: Swarthmore College Geometry Forum
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 20:35:18 GMT

I can't find a direct answer to the following question: is it possible to
boot A/UX without a local A/UX disk providing you have A/UX exported via
NFS?  That is, there is a switch in A/UX startup which will allow reading of
the kernel from the MacPartition, and I wonder if it would be possible to
get all the rest via NFS.  Alternatively, what is the MINIMUM set of files I
need to bootstrap A/UX to the point where it can continue via NFS?  

Thanks,
Phil

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From: levan%eagle@EKU (Jerry LeVan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: How to test simms
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 22:22:51 -0500
Organization: Listserv to Netnews Gateway at pucc.Princeton.EDU

Hello,
Perhaps somebody could enlighten me. I recently obtained a FDHD rom/floppy
upgrade for my MAC II. As part of the installation the 4 meg simms got moved
to bank A from bank B. Almost immediately the system became extremly unstable.

The system would boot (most of the time) and the system would soon fail with
a bewildering assortment of errors. Running A/UX became an exercise in terror.

We pulled the Accelerator and the system seemed to stabilize. AHA, in went the
gofast board to the vendor, No sooner than I delivered it to UPS the
System became unstable again ( and clobbered 80 megs of Mac Partition).

Getting desperate I replaced the 4 meg simms by my old 1 meg simms and everythin
   g
started working again. Popped the 4 meggers back in and found out that the
system could not do a cold start -- I get a blank screen and what sounds like
four chimes. However the system could boot if the reset switch was hit after
the chimes.

My current working hypothesis is that I had at least one defective 4 meg simm an
   d
have returned all to the vendor.

Question: Why did I not have this problem when the simms were in bank b?
(maybe I never "reached" that far; A/UX only saw eight megs.)

Question: Does the Mac boot code only check the first eight meg of memory?
(this could be the reason that I was able to boot cleanly with the 4 meggers
in bank b, and boot and die with the 4 meg simms in bank a, assumming that
the third or fourth simm might be the baddy. When we did the experimenting
perhaps we ultimately moved a defective simm to one of slots that is tested.

Question: Given 4 4 meg simms with one bad simm is it possible to detect the
defective one?

Question: Given a failed cold start, why does the warm restart do better?
(Seems like I have read somewhere that fewer diagnostics are run on a
warm restart.)

Of course there could be a problem with the FDHD roms or the system board
but everything seems to be working just fine with eight one meg simms
                (15HZ + 8 meg + A/UX 3.0 = SUCKS!)


Jerry LeVan ( levan%eagle@eku.bitnet or matlevan@eku.bitnet )
From: kismet@trantor.cc.umb.edu (Ted Corning)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: A/UX 3.0 on a Quadra 950
Date: 17 Dec 92 16:18:50 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

Hi,

   I'm trying to find out if A/UX 3.0 will work on a Quadra 950? I've heard
(I forget where) that it won't work without a patch. Can anyone verify this,
or confirm that it will work? 

   Thanks,
      Ted
--
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UMass/Boston
Computing Services
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Subject: Re: ftp problem
Keywords: A/UX, FTP, access denied
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 11:16:17 GMT

leonid@netcom.com (Leonid Crossman) writes:

>I am having a problem with ftp session from A/UX on Quadra 900.
>FTP from this host to another TCP host ( SCO UNIX, DOS, SUN) works fine.
>When I try the opposit direction ( From SCO station to MACINTOSH), FTP
>brings " User root: access denied". The same picture for ftp session
>from MAC to itself (ftp loopback). Ping, telnet and rlogin work OK.
>Any clues/suggestions? Thanks in advance,   L.Grossman
>.

The file '/etc/ftpusers' list users that may _not_ ftp onto your Mac
(in.ftpd refuses login attempts for these users)...

So you can either remove 'root' (which isn't really a Good Idea) or
login as someone else...
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From: dsoulele@dsfvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Dean Souleles)
Subject: CPU stats and other things
Originator: dsoulele@uccs
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:59:17 GMT

Ok kids, here's one for you.....



If you had a requirment to report CPU utilization, memory utilization, and
file system statistics every 30 seconds on A/UX, how would you do it?

On a BSD based system I have take code out of the publicly available "top"
program to get the CPU and memory info, but I can't find any equivalent 
example for A/UX. The frequency of the update precludes using a shell script
with ps, pstat, df, etc.


Any suggestions or ideas would be appreciated.

Please post responses or e-mail to dsouleles@dsfvax.jpl.nasa.gov

Thanks.

-- 
Dean Souleles			dsoulele@uccs.jpl.nasa.gov
				dsoulele@dsfvax.jpl.nasa.gov

Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: tody@noao.edu (Doug Tody)
Subject: Re: SLIP help requested
Keywords: MacTCP slip
Reply-To: tody@noao.edu
Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 05:36:48 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.182430.26013@tvnews.tv.tek.com>, jasons@snoboy.tv.tek.com (Jason Scheck) writes:
> I recently purchased a fast modem, and have been using slip under A/UX
> 3.0 to connect to our network at work.  Everything works fine under
> native Unix; I can telnet, rcp, ftp, etc.  I don't have an Ethernet card.
> 
> However, all MacTCP clients can only connect through the loopback
> address; I can't get at any other hosts on the network (the clients
> sit spinning until they eventually time out).  Should I expect this to
> work?  Does MacTCP need to be configured separately?  The manuals that
> come with A/UX don't seem to have anything to say about MacTCP.
> 
> Jason Scheck
> jasons@tv.tv.tek.com

This sounds like a problem I ran into myself a while back.  Networking via
SLIP would work fine under A/UX but the connects would time out under the
finder.  The fix turned out to be to bring up "network" in the control
panel, and select EtherTalk instead of AppleTalk.  Unfortunately, this
disables the Appletalk network so my laser printer is unusable when I do
this, but it does enable use of MacTCP.

-- 
Doug Tody	National Optical Astronomy Observatories
tody@noao.edu   P.O. Box 26732, Tucson, Arizona, 85726
From: coolidge@sirius.aux.apple.com (John L. Coolidge)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: A/UX Problems
Keywords: CommandShell, serial port
Date: 14 Dec 92 17:41:18 GMT
Reply-To: coolidge@apple.com
Organization: Open Systems Development, Porting&I/O Group, Apple Computer, Inc.,Summary:

calvinc@hawking.berkeley.edu (Calvin Cheng) writes:
>I have just installed A/UX 3.0 on my Mac and have the following problems
>with the CommandShell and serial port.

>The CommandShell only respond to a keyboard event only after another
>input event has been sent (like another key press or a mouse click).
>So if I type the character 'a', it doesn't show up until I've pressed
>a second key or click on the mouse.  Output to the window is also
>similarly affected: output comes out a few lines at a time and then
>mysteriously pauses until I click the mouse or press a key.

>I have Super Boomerang and SuperClock running on a Mac IIci w/8MB RAM
>in addition to QuickTime.

This is an FAQ, I think. This is often caused by the Wild Magic
extension; if you have it, turn it off and see if the problems go
away. Also, I believe that an older version of CEToolbox did this, but
the current version works just fine.

--John

       I think it is a little premature to attribute the failures
        of American foreign policy to Carl Kadie.
                --Mike Godwin (found in soc.feminism)

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Copying allowed only if attributed, and if all copies may be further copied.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Subject: Re: How to find out swap size?
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 11:22:19 GMT

jhb@maths.su.oz.au (John Brownie) writes:

>Running A/UX 2.0.1, how can I find out how much swap space is
>available?  pstat -m gives me info on physical memory.  I want to know
>how much is available to a process, so that I can set an appropriate
>size for a workspace.  If the answer works for A/UX 3.0 as well, so
>much the better.

'/etc/swap -l' will do it for both.
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    Greenbelt, MD 20771         |            - Ren
From: N.R.Ellis@newcastle.ac.uk (Nigel R. Ellis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Problems with sendmail..
Date: 14 Dec 92 22:12:50 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Hi,

Me here again!  I'm having real problems with sendmail -- outgoing mail is
delivered ok, but locally sent and incoming mail seems to disappear!  When
I mail myself say, I can see the mail message in the queue ok, but it never
appears on the spool directory.  I realise I haven't given much technical
info, but does anyone have any ideas where the problem might be?

Thanks,

Nigel.

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From: stump1+@pitt.edu (Robert E Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: fonts & stuff
Date: 17 Dec 92 20:06:36 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Originator: stump1@unixd2.cis.pitt.edu


	How does one go about changing the default fonts in MacX.         
Specifically xterm.  I don't care for the rather large font that they 
default to, and I'd like something a little smaller and more managable.
(ie: I want to ruin my eyes).  I'm not sure which file to hack. xfontsel
did nothing but show me the exact font I WANTED... but how do I get it
to xterm (or the Mac X environment in general).  Thanks.  I know...
AMATURE!!!!, but at least I'm trying....

later...


				Stump
From: fred@ivhs.mot.com (Fred Brunner)
Subject: Re: A/UX 3.0 on a Quadra 950
Organization: Motorola IVHS Group - Northbrook IL
Date: 17 Dec 92 20:16:32 GMT

kismet@trantor.cc.umb.edu (Ted Corning) writes:

>Hi,

>   I'm trying to find out if A/UX 3.0 will work on a Quadra 950? I've heard
>(I forget where) that it won't work without a patch. Can anyone verify this,
>or confirm that it will work? 

>   Thanks,
>      Ted

Works fine. Except for a couple of annoying problems with the native X11
server.

-FB
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: reissell@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Juhani Reissell)
Subject: Re: gcc 2.3.1 install problems
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 04:52:15 GMT

In <1gj8n9INNsvf@bowen.rick.cs.ubc.ca> w1y092@rick.cs.ubc.ca (Steven David Gribble) writes:

>I've been trying to install the binaries for gcc 2.3.1, but haven't had much
>luck.  Firstly, after having downloaded the archive from either wuarchive
>or jagubox, my system will successfully uncompress it, but will claim that
>the tar archive is corrupt.  To remedy this, I uncompressed and untar'ed the
>archive on a different UNIX system, and then painfully downloaded these
>extracted files one by one.

>Now, when I try to follow the instructions in the INSTALL.aux file, I get some
>serious problems when I try to follow step 5 ("run fixcrts").  Using the
>command 'sh fixcrts' yields the following results:

>Usage: cp f1 f2; or cp [ -r ] f1 ... fn d2
>fixcrts: 506 Memory fault - core dumped
>cmp: cannot open /usr/local/Gnu/lib/gcc/aux/2.1/crt0.o
>Fixed crt0.o
>fixcrts: 516 Memory fault - core dumped
>cmp: cannot open /usr/local/Gnu/lib/gcc/aux/2.1/crt1.o
>Fixed crt1.o
>fixcrts: 526 Memory fault - core dumped
>cmp: cannot open /usr/local/Gnu/lib/gcc/aux/2.1/crt2.o
>etc..

>However, even if this fixcrts doesn't work, gcc should still be somewhat
>functional.  Trying to compile anything again results in a core dump.

I experienced similar problems with the binaries at first. I did the
downloading and everrything in binary as supposed and uncompressed
the archive in the MacPartition using macCompress. The problem in my
case seemed to be the dragging of the tape archive to the unix
filesystem. The archive untar'ed fine, but the binbaries were unusable.

The problem went away when I copied the *.Z archive instead from the
MacPartition, and did the uncompressing etc on the unix side.

Also you might check you're target directories, as Jim Jagielski pointed out.

jussi
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: kingtut@world.std.com (Donald E Eastlake IV)
Subject: AUX 3.0 on a Plus
Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 04:11:59 GMT

Could one run A/UX 3.0 on a plus with a 030 accelorator?


Just wondering,
Kingtut@world.std.com

Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
From: gpb@gpb-mac (greg berryman )
Subject: Re: Compiling source intended for Think C under A/UX compiler(s)
Organization: SPS
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 22:02:23 GMT

timmbake@mcl.ucsb.edu (Bake Timmons) writes:
: Do I need to buy Think C or are the differences minor compared to cc or gcc
: under A/UX 3.0?  Has anyone done any such porting out there?  Specifically,
: the new release of MacGambit (1.9.1) includes sources for a R4RS scheme
: compiler (yummy!).  Thanks for any help on this.
: 

I'm no expert on C, but have written some code.  Since cc doesn't tell
you much when you have errors I would debug with Think C then compile 
with cc.
So I would try it with cc first.

The above free advice is worth what you paid for it.

Good luck,
Greg.

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From: dent@cwis.unomaha.edu (David B. Caplinger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Dead A/UX box...
Date: 12 Dec 92 06:46:56 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha

Hi all,

I just managed to kill my A/UX box and was wondering if anyone had
any suggestions to help me recover it before I do something rash
(accidentally or otherwise) and wind up having to install from scratch. :-)

My system is a Mac II, upgraded with the "FDHD Upgrade" kit (so it has
IIx ROMs in essence), a DayStar Digital PowerCard 030 (33MHz), 8 MB of RAM,
an Apple (i.e. Quantum) 80MB internal at SCSI 0 that boots System 7.01, and
an external 300MB CDC Wren-IV at SCSI 6 that has a 40MB Mac partition,
the "normal" A/UX 3.0 partitions, and an "A/UX-Free" partition that is
the /users filesystem when the system is running.

Considering that this is kind of a Frankenstein-esque monster built from
the parts of several other machines, I suppose I should have been content
that it worked at all, but naturally I decided to add another 80MB (older
Apple/Quantum 1/2-height).  I managed to get the new 80 to work fine as
an all-Mac drive at SCSI 1 (and it fits inside the II case with the other 80
too), so then I decided to reformat it and make it available for A/UX.

I didn't have the Apple formatter handy (I forget what it's called) but
I have FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit, so I decided to use that.  I reformatted
the drive, and put all of the free space in what HDT called "A/UX random fs"
partition.  (I assumed that this was the equiv. of an "extra" partition,
not Eschatology or swap or whatever).  After that, I rebooted System 7
again and launched the A/UX Startup...  the normal startup progress box
appeared and right at the point where the dialog disappears, then reappears
saying "Launching..." instead of "Checking..." (is this before the button
changes to "Messages"?), it disappeared and never came back.  I gave it
about 5 minutes before I started to panic.  I rebooted and tried again with
the same results.

I rebooted again, launched A/UX Startup again, and clicked "Cancel" so I
could get into the standalone mode.  "ls" reveals that the filesystem
is still out there (thank goodness), but at this point I have no idea
what to do to try to figure out what happened and how to fix it.  Can anyone
that's more A/UX-experienced offer any advice?  I'm tempted to try to force
it to recover from the Eschatology partition, but I had a bad experience
a while back where that destroyed my entire file system.  (It did /boot/
however, so I guess the recovery did what it thought it was supposed to do..)

Based on that bad experience, I'm hesitant to go any further without some
insight into what to look for, what to try, etc.

Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to provide!

- Dave Caplinger
  dent@loria.omahug.org (A/UX -- or at least I hope so)
  dent@cwis.unomaha.edu
From: brett@gallifrey.ucs.uoknor.edu (Brett Morrow)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: make
Date: 12 Dec 92 17:39:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: constell.Bz5qDL.M0L
Distribution: usa
Organization: Gallifrey - Home of the Timelords
Originator: usenet@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu

Does anyone know of a different version of make for AUX?  I have 
tried to compile the GNUmake, but the executable always give me
"Memory fault core dumped"
messages.  I am trying to compile xarchie and the doc said if I get 
the message I am getting (do not remember what it was) to get a 
new version of make.

Any help appretiated.

 -Brett

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From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Subject: Re: A/UX 3.0 on a Quadra 950
Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:56:25 GMT

kismet@trantor.cc.umb.edu (Ted Corning) writes:

>Hi,

>   I'm trying to find out if A/UX 3.0 will work on a Quadra 950? I've heard
>(I forget where) that it won't work without a patch. Can anyone verify this,
>or confirm that it will work? 

A/UX 3.0 works just fine and dandy on a Q950... jagubox is living proof!
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    NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4       |
    Greenbelt, MD 20771         |            - Ren
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