Sun-Spots Digest, v6n67
William LeFebvre
Sun-Spots-Request at RICE.EDU
Tue May 3 06:08:32 AEST 1988
SUN-SPOTS DIGEST Monday, 2 May 1988 Volume 6 : Issue 67
Today's Topics:
Re: Reading TAR and CPIO format SUN cartridges on a PC
Re: screen dumping
Re: Sun-4 status
fig to (vector based) postscript (SOURCE)
rastool: display a rasterfile in a sun window
Swapping a Micropolis 1558 for a Micropolis 1355
Nest 2.5 problems
decnet and suns?
Where is the Fig or rasterfile to LaTeX filter??
XWindow Interface for Sun Common Lisp ?
Where is the autocall program
Looking For SCSI or RS-232 Magtape
Looking for ypchfn
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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 88 16:59:35 EDT
From: "William R. Pearson" <wrp at biochsn.acc.virginia.edu>
Subject: Re: Reading TAR and CPIO format SUN cartridges on a PC
Reference: v6n56
"Robert Cape"@ncrlnk.dayton.ncr.com asks how to read sun tapes on an
IBM-PC AT clone with a QIC-60 Wangtek tape drive and controller. I
believe that this is relatively easy using Xenix, but one can never be
certain whether the hardware/software will run until you try.
I recently purchased an Everex 60 Mbyte tape drive with QIC02 controller.
I was informed at the time of purchase that this controller tape
configuration would work with SCO Xenix 2.2.1 out of the box. This proved
to not be the case, although apparently other people have gotten other
everex controllers to work with Xenix. I then purchased some device
driver software for Xenix from Everex, and everything worked fine. I am
now able to write tar tapes from Xenix and read them on my Sun using the
/dev/rst8 device (this apparently specifies QIC-24 format, which is what
is written by my tape drive, /dev/rst0 uses QIC-11 format, which is older
and less available on PC's.) I have not tested reading Sun tapes on the
PC, but it seems likely that it will work.
Xenix is relatively easy if Xenix supports your tape/controller
combination, and it is likely that it does, as they support Wangtek drives
and controllers. Under DOS, it seems like it should be possible also, and
I recall a public domain tar package that runs under DOS, but I do not
remember when it was posted or where to get it. I suspect that additional
software will be required to start the tape drive and transfer the tar
files under DOS.
Bill Pearson
wrp at virginia
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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 88 19:38:28 PDT
From: tekbspa!joe at uunet.uu.net Tue Apr 19 21:49:47 1988
Subject: Re: screen dumping
:>We have a Sun 3 and we are doing some "interactive" plotting. At the end
:>of the plot program we just go ...
:>Most of the time this works but if someone else is logged in from another
:>terminal somethings get all confused. Sometimes it tells me that "valloc"
:>failed. ...
IF I REMEMBER PROPERLY, "valloc failed" is a good indication that some of
your kernel tables aren't large enough. Try setting MAXUSER=12 in your
kernel config file (/usr/sys/conf/NAME) then rebuild your kernel via the
commands:
# cd /usr/sys/conf
# vi KERNEL_NAME (change MAXUSER= ....)
# config KERNEL_NAME
# cd ../KERNEL_NAME
# make
# mv /vmunix /vmunix.old
# mv vmunix /vmunix
# cd /dev
# MAKEDEV win0 win1 win2 win3
# repeat 500 sync
# reboot
BTW: If you are running SunOS 3.4 (*maybe* releases below 3.4), you can't
set MAXUSER over 12 due to a bcopy/bzero bug; if you did/do set
MAXUSER>12, then your new kernel will die during boot. Contact sun!hotline
and they'll send you a fix. This problem was fixed in 3.5.
Joe Angelo -- Senior Systems Engineer/Systems Manager
at Teknekron Software Systems, Palo Alto 415-325-1025
uunet!tekbspa!joe -OR- tekbspa!joe at uunet.uu.net
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Date: 20 Apr 88 16:49:18 GMT
From: woods at handies.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
Subject: Re: Sun-4 status
I thought it would be worth mentioning here that handies.ucar.edu (alias
ncar.ucar.edu and ncar.uucp) is a Sun-4. It is also a USENET backbone site
and major mail forwarder. I have a resolver, nslookup, MX-sendmail, NNTP,
news 2.11.14 and all that other good stuff running. I am not using Sun's
uucp, but rather one I got from Rick Adams quite a while back (which is
basically the 4.3 version with subdirectories with a couple of patches for
efficiency). I junked the SunOS4-3.2 sendmail in favor of an MX-compatible
sendmail 5.58 hacked to work on the Suns which I FTP'ed from somewhere
(thanks!). Other than initially locating and bringing up this version of
sendmail, I have had no major problems operating a backbone site on a
Sun-4. A few minor problems (which I am not sure whether they are due to
incorrect configuration or problems in Sun's resolver which does come with
SunOS4-3.2) are that nslookup cannot look up local hosts unless I fully
qualify them (i.e. "nslookup ncar" fails but "nslookup ncar.ucar.edu"
finds the CNAME record just fine and returns the address of "handies"). A
related problem is that the $[ $] syntax in sendmail does not resolve
properly. For example I can do "nslookup oddjob" which properly returns
the address for oddjob.uchicago.edu (I have a CNAME record for it in my
local named files) but mail to user at oddjob does not properly get expanded
to user at oddjob.uchicago.edu despite the fact that it passes through a rule
that should have changed oddjob to $[oddjob$]. The identical sendmail.cf
file, when run on an Integrated Solutions V24 running their 4.3 Rev D
operating system, resolves this correctly. Just thought you all might
like to know that there is at least one Sun-4 in major production use as a
news/mail server.
--Greg (woods at ncar.ucar.edu)
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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 88 14:53:01 BST
From: everson%COMPSCI.BRISTOL.AC.UK at cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: fig to (vector based) postscript (SOURCE)
A while back a posted a request to sun-spots for a fig to postscript
filter than worked by interpreting the fig codes for lines etc to produce
vector based postscript rather than the bitmap programs that already exist
in the sun-spots archive. (As good as they are they produce *huge* output
files which take ages to transmit.)
I never saw my message on sun-spots, but perhaps I missed it. I did
however get hold of a copy of the fig to ps filter I wanted and I enclose
a copy. It is very useful!
SNAIL: Phill Everson, Comp. Sci. Dept., U of Bristol, Bristol, BS8, UK
UUCP: ...mcvax!ukc!csisles!everson
JANET: everson at uk.ac.bristol.cs
ARPANET: everson%cs.bristol.ac.uk at nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk
BITNET: everson%cs.bristol.ac.uk at uk.ac
[[ Placed in the archives as "sun-source/fig2ps.shar". It can be
retrieved via anonymous FTP from the host "titan.rice.edu" or via the
archive server with the request "send sun-source fig2ps.shar". For more
information about the archive server, send a mail message containing the
word "help" to the address "archive-server at rice.edu". --wnl ]]
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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 88 22:22:18 EDT
From: flynn%boopsie at cpswh.cps.msu.edu (Pat Flynn)
Subject: rastool: display a rasterfile in a sun window
Didya ever want to read a rasterfile into a window under Suntools? I
recently did, and a quick pass through the examples in the pixrect manual
produced no source code for this task. So, I wrote a teeny program which
does nothing but read in the rasterfile and throw it up in a window. I've
tested this program with both 8-bit and 1-bit-deep rasterfiles. The
loading is fairly quick, too. I used the standard pixrect library calls
for I/O.
If the code to do this is in some Sun manual I didn't look at, oops. I
apologize for any nasty coding habits I might have. Feel free to hack
around with this as much as you want. Maybe somebody will build it into a
8-bit-deep pixel-based rasterfile editor (a la MacPaint).
I doubt it, though.
Cheers,
Patrick J. Flynn, Dept. of Computer Sci., Michigan State U.
flynn at cpsvax.cps.msu.edu, FLYNN at MSUEGR.BITNET
/*
* rastool: display a rasterfile in a sun window
* written by Pat Flynn (flynn at cpsvax.cps.msu.edu)
*
* Compile with: cc -o rastool rastool.c -lsuntool -lsunwindow -lpixrect
*
* Usage: cat rasterfile | rastool
*
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <pixrect/pixrect.h>
#include <pixrect/pr_io.h>
#include <suntool/sunview.h>
#include <suntool/canvas.h>
main(argc,argv)
int argc;
char *argv[];
{
Frame base_frame;
Canvas canvas;
Pixwin *canpixwin;
colormap_t colormap;
struct pixrect *img;
struct rasterfile rh;
FILE *fp = stdin;
char colormapname[256];
if (pr_load_header(fp,&rh)) {
perror("rastool: pr_load_header");
exit(-1);
};
if (pr_load_colormap(stdin,&rh,&colormap)) {
perror("rastool: pr_load_colormap");
exit(-1);
};
if (!(img=pr_load_image(stdin,&rh,&colormap))) {
perror("rastool: pr_load_image");
exit(-1);
};
base_frame=window_create(NULL,FRAME,FRAME_LABEL,"rastool",
WIN_WIDTH,9+rh.ras_width,
WIN_HEIGHT,22+rh.ras_height,
FRAME_ARGS,argc,argv,0);
canvas=window_create(base_frame,CANVAS,
CANVAS_WIDTH,rh.ras_width,
CANVAS_HEIGHT,rh.ras_height,
CANVAS_DEPTH,rh.ras_depth,0);
canpixwin=canvas_pixwin(canvas);
sprintf(colormapname,"rastool%d",getpid());
pw_setcmsname(canpixwin,colormapname);
pw_putcolormap(canpixwin,0,rh.ras_maplength/3,colormap.map[0],
colormap.map[1],colormap.map[2]);
pw_rop(canpixwin,0,0,rh.ras_width,rh.ras_height,PIX_SRC,img,0,0);
window_main_loop(base_frame);
}
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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 88 23:57:20 EST
From: ron at vsedev.vse.com (Ron Flax)
Subject: Swapping a Micropolis 1558 for a Micropolis 1355
Has anyone else tried swapping the 1558 (380MB ESDI) disk for the 1355
(170MB ESDI) disk? I would think that the two would be interchangeable in
the shoebox with an Emulex SCSI/ESDI controller..
The 1355 is a raw 170MB disk that formats to about 141MB, and is the
standard ESDI shoebox offering to go with a 3/60. The 1558 is a 380MB
disk that I happen to have available for use.
Now for the details... The 1558 has an entry in /stand/diag as does the
default 1355, in fact the description does match the physical
characteristics of the disk. Any operation on the disk (in diag) fails.
Verify... read failure. Label... write failure. Format... write
failure. The disk works in another machine!!! (not a Sun...) The drive
select is the same for the 1558 as is for the 1355. During access
attempts, the drive active led is illuminated.
If anyone has any insight into what I could be doing wrong, or any
suggestions as to what I might try, please let me know.
Thanks.
ron at vsedev.vse.com (Ron Flax)
uucp: ..!uunet!vsedev!ron
inet: ron%vsedev.vse.com at uunet.uu.net
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Date: TUE APR 19, 1988 17.23.45 EST
From: "Nick Iliev" <NI00 at LEHIGH.BITNET>
Subject: Nest 2.5 problems
Has anyone managed to install the Nest 2.5 distributed system simulator
on a Sun-3/160 C ? We attempted to run the user interface program and
simulator on the same machine but could not run the demo programs.
Any ideas ?
Nick
ARPA - INTERNET : CE460XX at VAX1.CC.LEHIGH.EDU
BITNET : NI00 at LEHIGH
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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 88 19:07:37 EDT
From: a.e. mossberg <aem at miavax.miami.edu>
Subject: decnet and suns?
We're getting our first Sun 3/60 here in August and the rest of the
machines in this building are running decnet. Does anybody have a driver
that will allow us to connect to the sun through our decservers? Almost
all of the terminals on campus are connected to decservers, and I'd hate
for people to have to sign on to one of the other systems, then rlogin or
telnet to the sun...
Thanks in adv..
aem
--
a.e.mossberg
Internet: aem at mthvax.miami.edu
Bitnet: aem at miavax.miami.edu@cunyvm
uucp: ...!uunet!miavax!aem
SPAN: mthvax::aem (3.91)
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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 88 18:50:19 EDT
From: formtek!pen at idis.UUCP (Philip E. Nickerson, Jr.)
Subject: Where is the Fig or rasterfile to LaTeX filter??
You mentioned a Fig to LaTeX filter. Where might one find it?? Better
yet, where might one find a Sun rasterfile to LaTeX filter???
Philip E. Nickerson,Jr.
(412)937-4900|(800)FORMTEK
UUCP {pitt,psuvax1}!idis!formtek!pen
decvax!formtek!pen
Snail Formative Technologies, Inc., Foster Plaza VII
661 Andersen Dr., Pittsburgh PA 15220
[[ Sun RASTERFILE to LaTeX? That would be quite a feat! It would be
easier to build a font from the rasterfile and produce the TeX to use the
font in the correct manner. --wnl ]]
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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 88 9:21:22 MET DST
From: rader at Madrid.ira.uka.de (Klaus Radermacher)
Subject: XWindow Interface for Sun Common Lisp ?
Hi there,
I would like to know whether there exists an interface to the
XWindow-System from Sun Common Lisp. I know there is an excellent
interface from Sun Common Lisp to SunWindows which belongs to the language
and offers many useful functions. However, if there is something similar
to that using XWindows I would like to know about it, whether it's PD or
not and where I could get it from.
Please mail all answers to: rader at ira.uka.de
Thanks a lot in advance.
Klaus Radermacher
Institut fuer Programmstrukturen
und Datenorganisation
University of Karlsruhe
Fed. Rep. of Germany
e-mail: rader at ira.uka.de
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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 88 18:54:44 EDT
From: formtek!pen at idis.UUCP (Philip E. Nickerson, Jr.)
Subject: Where is the autocall program
I sent a message through rn a few days ago, but I'm not sure it properly
handled the posting to a moderated group as it said it did, so here is my
question again....
The monthtool man page mentions a program called autocall which properly
handles the .monthtool file format for sending mail to alert users of
monthtool about impending events. We do not have such a beast (autocall)
here and I was wondering where I might get one. Thanx!!
-Phil
Philip E. Nickerson,Jr.
(412)937-4900|(800)FORMTEK
UUCP {pitt,psuvax1}!idis!formtek!pen
decvax!formtek!pen
Snail Formative Technologies, Inc., Foster Plaza VII
661 Andersen Dr., Pittsburgh PA 15220
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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 88 10:23:23 EST
From: umix!lokkur!scs at rutgers.edu (Steve Simmons)
Subject: Looking For SCSI or RS-232 Magtape
We have a client who's bought some 3/X0 units from us, and want's to
interchange files that are presently on magtape. Does anyone know of a
magtape drive that will run on the SCSI port on a 3/[56]0? Also, a few
years back I saw a magtape that ran off of a 9600baud RS-232 connection on
UNIX systems, but darned if I know the name. Since he only wants it for
data interchange, that might be acceptable. Anybody?
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Date: 19 Apr 1988 2004-EST (Tuesday)
From: Eric S. Johnson <esj at beach.cis.ufl.edu>
Subject: Looking for ypchfn
In highest hopes of not re-inventing the wheel: has anyone implemented a
ypchfn server/client?
Any pointers would be appreciated.
Eric Johnson
CIS dept.
Univ. of Florida
(esj at ufl.edu)
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