Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 14:49:58 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V7 #34 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Mon, 17 Oct 94 Volume 7 : Issue 34 Today's Topics: cheap printers Dusplicating boot tapes free PPP with PSI's Interramp? Kermit problem SUN 3/60 configuration problems SunOS tape duplication X11R6 +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @harbor.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 23:27:34 -0700 (PDT) From: David Di Gioia Subject: cheap printers To: suns_at_home > **** - CALCOMP CCL400R PERSONAL PRINTER INVENTORY REDUCTION SALE: The ideal > personal printer for your SPARCstation is Sun-Ready, so you're up > and running right out of the box. At 400 dpi resolution, and 4 pages- > per-minute, perfect for desktop publishing, word processing, business > and financial applications, and graphic arts. A SCSI interface connects > directly to your SPARCstation with no SBus adapters. A Canon engine > for reliability, NeWSPrint software and drivers for Solaris 1.x and 2.x. > NOW AT THE INCREDIBLE PRICE OF ONLY $495. Hurry, supplies are limited. I called SunExpress about this printer (it's color, BTW); it's still available at this price, but the sales rep said the SCSI bus adapter on the SS1 and SS1+ (and, I assume the SLC and ELC) will not support the CalComp driver. Also, although I like NeWSPrint, I think it runs fairly slowly on anything slower than a SS2/IPX. ...David Di Gioia | wu2@cts.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 14:34:48 -0400 (EDT) From: bet@std.sbi.com (Bennett Todd) Subject: Dusplicating boot tapes To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu For many years, I duplicated boot tapes successfully by simply using cat(1), once per file. I'd read the files onto disk with a loop something like: TAPE=/dev/nrst0; export TAPE i=1 cat $TAPE >$i while test -s $i;do i=`expr $i + 1` cat $TAPE >$i done rm $i mt rewind Then I'd write 'em back out to a new tape with i=1 while test -s $i;do cat $i >$TAPE i=`expr $i + 1` done This depended on the fact that QIC tapes always had 512-byte fixed length blocks, so there wasn't any complication of having to preserve funky blocksizes. That may still be true for boot tapes. I'd try the above approach and see if it works. If it doesn't, then you'll probably need something like tcopy(1) (standard with SunOS). If you don't have two tape drives, you'll need to get copytape(1) or some other such utility. I don't know where to find such, but archie will probably know. -Bennett bet@sbi.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Oct 1994 15:29:08 -0400 From: adstone@husc.harvard.edu Subject: free PPP with PSI's Interramp? To: suns-at-home@ecn.purdue.edu I tried posting this to comp.protocols.ppp, but apparently no one reads that. Maybe someone here can help. Here's the question: I have a Sun 3/60 and I'm thinking of hooking up to PSI's new Interramp service. Unfortunately the only software they "certify" is Morning Star's package, which is (a) commercial (a bit irritating) and (b) sold only on CD (a real problem, since I have no CD drive). They offer no support for "uncertified" packages (nor do they guarantee that it will work at all). Does anyone have any experience using this service with freely available software, and/or any insight into how difficult it would be to set things up without their support? --Abe Stone adstone@husc.harvard.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Oct 94 11:12:56 EDT From: shankha@compass-da.com (Shankha Mitra) Subject: Kermit problem To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu Hello there. I have a problem with kermit. Here are the symptoms: My home machine is an ELC running 4.1.3_U1. My office is a 4/110 running 4.1.2. If I'm at home, I can kermit files back and forth fine to and from my office. However, if I'm at work I can't kermit a file from home to work. (I can log in fine, do work, etc.) My office kermit has the foll. characteristics: C-Kermit>show comm Communications Parameters: Line: /dev/cua0, speed: 19200, mode: local, modem: direct Terminal bits: 8, parity: none, duplex: full, flow: rts/cts, handshake: none Carrier: auto, lockfile: /var/spool/locks/LCK..cua0 Escape character: 28 (^\) Dial hangup: on, dial timeout: auto Dial kermit-spoof: off, dial display: off Dial init-string: none Dial speed-changing: on, redial number: none Carrier Detect (CD): Off Dataset Ready (DSR): Off Clear To Send (CTS): On Ring Indicator (RI): Off Data Terminal Ready (DTR): On Request to Send (RTS): On My home machine has the foll: C-Kermit>show comm Communications Parameters: Line: /dev/tty, speed: 19200, mode: remote, modem: direct Parity: none, duplex: full, flow: rts/cts, handshake: none Dial hangup: on, dial timeout: auto Dial kermit-spoof: off, dial display: off Dial init-string: none Dial speed-changing: on, redial number: none Carrier Detect (CD): On Dataset Ready (DSR): Off Clear To Send (CTS): On Ring Indicator (RI): Off Data Terminal Ready (DTR): On Request to Send (RTS): On ------------------------------- Here's the dialog for sending from home to office: C-Kermit(home)>send junk.tgz Escape back to your local Kermit and give a RECEIVE command... [Back at Local System] C-Kermit(office)>receive TNTNTNTNTNTNTNSTNTNTNTNTNTNTNTNTNTNTNTE C-Kermit - Sent too many NAKs. C-Kermit(office)> ------------------------------- Here's the dialog for sending from home to office: C-Kermit(home)>receive Escape back to your local Kermit and give a SEND command... [Back at Local System] C-Kermit(office)>send junk ST%T%T%T%T%T%T%T%T%T%T%TE C-Kermit - Too many retries. C-Kermit> ----------------------------- Any ideas greatly appreciated. Thanks. Shankha ------------------------------ Date: 11 Oct 1994 11:36:08 -0500 (EST) From: FAIRMANR@NCCCOT.AGR.CA Subject: SUN 3/60 configuration problems To: suns-at-home@ecn.purdue.edu I have a SUN 3/60 system at home. The original 150 Meg ESDI drive has died and I have a Seagate ST3655N 545 Meg SCSI drive to hopefully replace the original. The problem which I am faced with is the inability of the system to acknowledge the new drive. I try to install the drive partitions and I get continual errors concerning overlapping partitions. Does anybody have the knowledge to tell me how to have the system recognize the drive. The format procedure does not have the 'c' partition recognizing any cylinders etc... HELP !!!!!!!! PLEASE REPLY TO FAIRMANR@NCCCOT.AGR.CA THANK YOU P.S. I don't have access to any USENET facilities.. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Oct 94 22:24:41 PDT From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) Subject: SunOS tape duplication To: rdd@access.digex.net > Date: Sat, 8 Oct 1994 15:41:44 -0400 (EDT) > From: "Robert D. Davis" > > Can anyone here explain how to duplicate the OS distributation tapes > for a Sun 3/60? dd works fine, but you need to determine the correct output blocksize for each file on the tape. The first few files all have different small blocking factors; once you hit a 126 everything else will be of that same size. One sneaky but effective method of measuring blocking factors is to ask restore(8) to read each file; at SunOS 4.1.1 and above (and perhaps at 4.0 -- if I knew I've forgotten) restore will report the blocking factor before complaining that it is not a dump tape. > Is it absolutely necessary to have two tape drives > in order to do this, or can the image of a tape just be saved to disk? Two drives are certainly convenient, but it is possible to copy each tape file to a separate disk file and then use a succession of dd executions (each specifying the correct blocksize for the particular file) to copy those disk files to the (non-rewinding) tape. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 10:35:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Matthew G Newcomb Subject: X11R6 To: Suns-at-Home@ecn.purdue.edu G'day, Anybody out there have X11R6 running on a sun3? I thought I might as well as before I try to compile it and also to see if anyone has any info that may help. Thanks, Matthew Newcomb ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************