Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 12:00:39 EST From: Dwight D. McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V5 #42 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Mon, 16 Nov 92 Volume 5 : Issue 42 Today's Topics: Bug in compress command Connecting a zoom on a 3/60 Need advice on SPARC Classic Suns-at-Home Digest V5 #41 sun sparc 1 + hp deskjet 500 Zoom fax modem +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 14:57:22 PST From: wolf!angel@waynar.calcomp.com Subject: Bug in compress command To: suns@teamnet.cts.com I've had that same problem. I've got a couple of software that might help, compress and something called myuud. It works. Let me know if you want it. angel ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 14:41:14 +0100 From: picard@vercors.imag.fr (Jean Yves Picard) Subject: Connecting a zoom on a 3/60 To: suns-at-home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Hi sunners, I recently bought a zoom v32bis, to connect my 3/60 to work computer, so far I've been unable to call anything. hardware: sun 3/60 16Meg 4.1, zoom v32bis (see below ati4) connected by a 25-wires flat ribon (sp?) cable (e.g. pin 1 to pin 1, etc ) what i've done: RTFM: System & Network Admin Manual (p335) edit ttytab: # console "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" sun on local secure ttya "/usr/etc/getty std.19200" ansi off local secure ttyb "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" ansi on local secure tty00 "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" dialup off remote cua0 "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" unknow off remote [...] ** note that tty00 is off (because using tip i get a `all port busy') edit remote: cua0:dv=/dev/cua0:br#9600 [...] now using tip i can talk to the modem, asking a dial, result in a pulse dial, search for the the number, and the modem is unable to detect carrier. as i live in France i suspect the phone system to be different, nevertheless i request a V21CCIT to connect to the public transport system (transpac) at 300 bauds after forcing this speed (at&q6s37=1n0d3600) still no carrier ... well may be french carrier a different so i call US (a compuserve number in Boston) but i couldn't connect either. two last things: 1) self test repport error, 2) once in a while turning the modem on will reboot the machine, while having modem on while machine reboot will generate Nov 13 13:07:28 kadath vmunix: zs0: parity error went up Nov 13 13:07:29 kadath last message repeated 7 times Nov 13 13:07:29 kadath vmunix: zs0: ring buffer overflow Nov 13 13:07:29 kadath vmunix: zs0: parity error went up Nov 13 13:07:29 kadath last message repeated 2 times Nov 13 13:07:29 kadath vmunix: zs0: ring buffer overflow Nov 13 13:07:29 kadath vmunix: zs0: parity error went up Nov 13 13:07:29 kadath vmunix: zs0: parity error went up Nov 13 13:07:29 kadath vmunix: zs0: ring buffer overflow Nov 13 13:07:29 kadath last message repeated 2 times Nov 13 13:07:29 kadath vmunix: zs0: parity error went up Nov 13 13:07:29 kadath vmunix: zs0: ring buffer overflow Nov 13 13:07:29 kadath vmunix: zs0: ring buffer overflow Nov 13 13:07:29 kadath vmunix: zs0: parity error went up Nov 13 13:07:29 kadath last message repeated 3 times Nov 13 13:07:29 kadath vmunix: zs0: parity error went up<3>zs0: parity error went up Nov 13 13:07:29 kadath vmunix: Nov 13 13:07:29 kadath vmunix: zs0: parity error went up Nov 13 13:09:03 kadath last message repeated 195 times Question: what did i miss ? i haven't had opportunity to test the beast (modem) on a pc (after all that what it is for), do i need to cut somme wire from the cable ? is my modem realy broken (I'd like to avoid flying it back twice over the pond (smiley)) Any help appreciated. reply to me directly, i'll post a summary. email is picard@ecrins.imag.fr ANNEX: zoom v32bis (14.4 Kb, V42, V42bis). ati4 a007050C08484402F bC60000000 r16E5111151012000 r3000111170000000 OK ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:13:16 -0500 (EST) From: "Russell E. Hoffman, II" Subject: Need advice on SPARC Classic To: Suns-at-Home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Does anyone have any experience with the Sun SPARC Classic? I just saw one today at a trade show, and I'm thinking about getting one. I want a machine that I can use at home with no network connection save for UUCP and USENET, that I can easily grab software from FTP sites and the like to compiler and use. Specifically, I'd be interested in TeX, gnu-emacs, lots of X toys (like xtank, xfig, acm, xgraph, etc), the PBM toolkit, the Utah raster toolkit, Csound, xv, xview, xdvi, gcc, gdb, and all the other fun similar unix toys. What I'm wondering is if 660 MB is enough (the base unit plus the 424 MB external drive), and if it's really feasable to use one of the machines as a standalone. please email replies to rh2y+@andrew.cmu.edu Thanks! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Nov 92 21:15:17 UTC From: unixsys@ssg.com (Rick Emerson) Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V5 #41 To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu writes: > Date: Tue, 03 Nov 92 05:35:00 UTC > From: rick@ssg.com (Rick Emerson) > Subject: 16550AFN for 386i? > > Is there any hope of replacing the UART driving the primary serial port with > a 16550AFN instead of whatever chip is in there? While 4.0.2 recognizes > 19.2kb (hurray!), the buffer overruns are embarassing. I could, I suppose, > put an AT serial board on the bus and stuff a 16550AFN in their but I'd > rather not. > Well, neither Sun-386i or Sun-managers offered a solution for dropping in a 16550AFN. SunOS4.0.2 does have a serial driver as a loadable module (ats.o). There's a bug in modload which requires that the script be included in rc.local instead of using ats_script. The results, however, are mixed; I still can't run at 19.2 but 9600 seems pretty useful. > Date: Mon, 02 Nov 92 22:03:34 UTC > From: unixsys@ssg.com (Rick Emerson) > Subject: Running DOS apps from SunOS > > When I run a MS-DOS program that requires a window (e.g., a storm tracking > program), after it completes I get something like "[Press any key to > continue]." That's a real pain in the neck because a) the window won't close > until the requested keystroke is received and b) the script won't continue > until the keystroke is received (in this particular case following the dos > command with an "&" can't be used because the rest of the script has to wait > until the program is finished). Question: Is there any way to suppress > this message and the associated wait for a keystroke? > > This message occurs with other programs, too, not just the tracking program. > This rules out some effect from just one program. > Oops - brain fade! The way around this is to invoke the program via a .bat file which ends with "quit" and *no* trailing blank lines. For example: dos -c qmodem.bat & where qmodem.bat is: cd \usr\local\msdos\qmodem qmodem quit Rick ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 15:09:01 PST From: ead%cs@hub.ucsb.edu (Eric De Mund) Subject: sun sparc 1 + hp deskjet 500 To: Suns-at-Home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu suns-at-home people, i've got a sparc 1 and am thinking about getting an hp deskjet 500. does anyone have recommendations for or against the 500? does it have a serial connection? (_pc magazine_ says no, but a friend with a 500C says yes). how about public domain {ps,dvi,ascii,ppm}-->lj converters? i've got gnu ghostscript, tex, latex, and the pbmplus package installed, so i don't expect to have too much trouble with the conversions, but i'd like to hear it from people who've gone through this before. thank you, eric de mund ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 19:10:39 PST From: starnet!bass!lakin@apple.com (Fred Lakin) Subject: Zoom fax modem To: suns-at-home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu There was a query a while back about modems. This is the modem I use with my sparc 1+. Very happy with it, dunno how it compares with the Telebit. Modem = ZOOMfaxMODEM VFX v.32bis, 14,400bps v.32bis send/receive fax/data modem with v.42bix/MNP. Same size as my old 2400, apparently one of the first to use the new chip set [16550A enhanced UART chip w/ buffering said sales guy], FAX: fully implements fax standards V.29, V.27ter, V.17, and V.21 channel 2. Will operate with either Class 1 or Class 2 software. For more info on Class 2, see Electronic Industries Association and Telecommucations Industry Association TIA Project Number 2388, Asynchronous Facsimile DCE Control Standard, Service Class 2, TR-29.2 Committee Letter Ballot. Around $325 at Egghead. There is also now available gnuFAX software [see below] which I assume will work with the Zoom modem, altho I dont know for sure. -f ;;;********* MIT AI Lab Fax Sending and Spooling System ------------------------------------------ (c) Copyright 1991 by Henry Minsky and David M. Siegel. All rights reserved. This file is part of Netfax. This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. No author or distributor accepts responsibility to anyone for the consequences of using it or for whether it serves any particular purpose or works at all, unless he says so in writing. Refer to the General Public License for full details, in the file LICENSE in this directory. Everyone is granted permission to copy, modify and redistribute Netfax, but only under the conditions described in the Netfax General Public License. A copy of this license is supposed to have been given to you along with Netfax so you can know your rights and responsibilities. It should be in a file named COPYING. Among other things, the copyright notice and this notice must be preserved on all copies. Overview -------- This is version 3.2 of Netfax (Completely rewritten by Dave Siegel). Please send comments, bug reports, and fixes to: bug-fax@ai.mit.edu. Faxes to 1-617-253-5060. This is a set of software which provides Group 3 fax tranmission and recptions services for a networked unix system. It requires a faxmodem which conforms to the new EIA-592 Asynchronous Facsimile DCE Control Standard, Service Clas 2, such as the model " Everfax 24/96 D" -- (model EV-968-51). The list price is $499. The model number is 968-51, and the product name is Everfax 24/96D. The "D" seems to indicate that it's the latest one, but John Dyer-Bennet told me to be sure to specify the model number also. Everex's main number is 1-415-491-1111 for support(?). The sales number is 1-800-821-0806. The system works by running a queue manager (faxspooler) on the host machine with the faxmodem installed. This program scans a queue directory for entries from user programs. Users can post faxes using the fax program directly, or, with the proper entry in the mail aliases file, send email to post a fax. The user can post files in ASCII text, postscript, or TeX DVI format. They are all converted to postscript and queued to be sent. Incoming telephone calls to the modem are answered, and incoming faxes are deposited in the spooler's incoming fax directory. Nothing else is done with the received faxes, they just sit there until someone looks at them. For sending documents, a spooler process accepts incoming g3 document jobs and queues them. A process scans the queue and attempts to send queued jobs. Received faxes are currently stored in the /com/fax/incoming (or wherever you set the INCOMING directory in the conf.h file) as g3 format files. You could use Sam Leffler's fax2tiff program to create class F tiff files from these directly, if you wish. ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************