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- SGI misc Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
-
- This is one of the Silicon Graphics FAQ series, which consists of:
-
- SGI admin FAQ - IRIX system administration
- SGI apps FAQ - Applications and miscellaneous programming
- SGI audio FAQ - Audio applications and programming
- SGI diffs FAQ - Changes to the other FAQs since the last posting
- SGI graphics FAQ - Graphics and user environment customization
- SGI hardware FAQ - Hardware
- SGI impressario FAQ - IRIS Impressario
- SGI inventor FAQ - IRIS Inventor
- SGI misc FAQ - Introduction & miscellaneous information
- SGI movie FAQ - Movies
- SGI performer FAQ - IRIS Performer
- SGI pointer FAQ - Pointer to the other FAQs
- SGI security FAQ - IRIX security
-
- Read the misc FAQ for information about the FAQs themselves. Each FAQ is
- posted to comp.sys.sgi.misc and to the news.answers and comp.answers
- newsgroups (whose purpose is to store FAQs) twice per month. If you
- can't find one of the FAQs with your news program, you can get it from
-
- ftp://viz.tamu.edu/pub/sgi/faq/
- ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/sgi/faq/
-
- (rtfm.mit.edu is home to many other FAQs and informational documents,
- and is a good place to look if you can't find an answer here.) The FAQs
- are on the World Wide Web at
-
- http://www-viz.tamu.edu/~sgi-faq/
-
- If you can't use FTP or WWW, send mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with
- the word 'help' on a line by itself in the text, and it will send you a
- document describing how to get files from rtfm.mit.edu by mail. Send the
- command 'send usenet/news.answers/sgi/faq/misc' to get the SGI misc FAQ,
- and similarly for the other FAQs. Send the command 'send
- usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email' to get the
- "Accessing the Internet by E-Mail FAQ".
-
- You may distribute the SGI FAQs freely and we encourage you to do so.
- However, you must keep them intact, including headers and this notice,
- and you must not charge for or profit from them. Contact us for other
- arrangements. We can't be responsible for copies of the SGI FAQs at
- sites which we do not control, and copies published on paper or CD-ROM
- are certain to be out of date. The contents are accurate as far as we
- know, but the usual disclaimers apply. Send additions and changes to
- sgi-faq@viz.tamu.edu.
-
- Topics covered in this FAQ:
- ---------------------------
- -1- How can I quickly find the information I want in the SGI FAQs?
- -2- What about the SGI FAQs and the World Wide Web?
- -3- With what version(s) of IRIX do the SGI FAQs deal?
- -4- What about material which doesn't fit in the FAQs?
- -5- What are the comp.sys.sgi.* newsgroups?
- -6- What about comp.sys.sgi.marketplace?
- -7- Are the SGI newsgroups archived?
- -8- What are some related newsgroups?
- -9- What are the info-iris-* mailing lists?
- -10- What are some related mailing lists?
- -11- What are some related WWW pages?
- -12- What are some related network-accessible documents?
- -13- What number do I call for information about SGI products?
- -14- What number do I call for technical support from SGI?
- -15- What about SGI-related publications?
- -16- What is the current release of ...
- -17- What is the current release of IRIX for my machine?
- -18- When will the next release(s) of IRIX be out?
- -19- How can I get lists of known bugs, lists of patches, and/or the
- patches themselves?
- -20- What's the best newsgroup in which to complain to SGI?
- -21- Wouldn't Nextstep be great on SGIs?
- -22- Can I run Windows NT on my Indigo or Indy?
- -23- Credits
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Subject: -1- How can I quickly find the information I want in the SGI
- FAQs?
- Date: 11 Feb 1995 00:00:01 EST
-
- - The FAQs follow the RFC1153 recommendations for message digests and
- thus can be viewed easily with newsreaders that understand message
- digests.
-
- - Each question has a Subject: line, so you can easily step through
- the answers with rn's ^G command.
-
- - Each question is marked with a "dash number dash" so that you can
- find any answer with a simple search pattern.
-
- - Questions marked with a '+' in the subject line are new this
- posting; those marked with a '!' have significant new content since
- the last posting. Similarly, '+' and '!' in the left margin mark
- added or changed text. Questions marked with a '-' in the subject
- line will be removed in the next edition or so unless someone
- convinces us otherwise.
-
- - Don't forget about text searching! There's an excellent chance the
- information you want is in the FAQs, but not obvious from the table
- of contents. Every file viewer, editor and WWW browser has a way of
- finding arbitrary text in a file.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: -2- What about the SGI FAQs and the World Wide Web?
- Date: 04 May 1996 00:00:01 EST
-
- The SGI FAQs are on the World Wide Web in hypertext form at
- http://www-viz.tamu.edu/~sgi-faq/. The hypertext version (as well as
- the plain text) may be FTPed from ftp://viz.tamu.edu/pub/sgi/faq/ for
- offline reading. You can also get the FAQ source from the same place
- and build the hypertext yourself.
-
- There are several archives of FAQs from news.answers converted to
- hypertext, including the SGI FAQs, listed at
- http://www.jazzie.com/ii/internet/faqs.html, and some mirrors of
- just the SGI FAQs:
-
- http://reality.sgi.com/employees/jm/sgi-faq.html/
- http://www.sgi.com/Archive/FAQs/ (and at www.sgi.com's mirrors)
-
- Anyone is welcome to set up their own mirror, public or not. Please
- note that the SGI FAQ group does not administer any of these sites, so
- we can't guarantee that any of them are complete or up-to-date.
-
- You can read the hypertext SGI FAQs with any WWW browser, e.g. Mosaic
- (which you can get from ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/Mosaic/), Netscape
- (ftp://ftp.netscape.com/netscape/unix/ for the generic version or
- http://www.sgi.com/Products/Evaluation/netscape/page1.html for the
- custom SGI version) or, for text terminals, Lynx
- (ftp://ftp2.cc.ukans.edu/pub/WWW/lynx/). A Mosaic binary for IRIX
- 4.0.x, including WAIS support, is in IBD's SGI collection; see below
- under "WWW pages".
-
- Some types of references in the SGI FAQs are formatted so that our
- hypertext conversion software (and perhaps others') recognizes them
- and turns them into links:
-
- - References to Internet services are written as URLs.
- ('protocol://site/path/file'). If you're reading the SGI FAQs as
- plain text, you can paste URLs into your browser. If you're not
- using a WWW browser and you want to access an FTP URL
- ('ftp://site/path/file'), just do 'ftp site', 'cd /path' and 'get
- file' as usual to get a file. References to directories end with
- slashes so you know what you're getting into. Some FTP servers are
- incompatible with some WWW browsers; use 'ftp' or another browser.
- At this writing viz.tamu.edu does not accept FTP connections from
- Netscape; use 'ftp', Mosaic or lynx.
-
- - Manpages are written 'foo(1)' in the traditional Unix manner and
- linked to the "uman" database of IRIX manpages at
- http://reality.sgi.com/cgi-bin/uman.
-
- - Internet RFCs ("Requests for Comment") are written 'RFC####' and
- linked to the collection of RFCs at http://ds.internic.net/rfc/.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: -3- With what version(s) of IRIX do the SGI FAQs deal?
- Date: 13 Jul 1996 00:00:01 EST
-
- Unless otherwise specified, the FAQs discuss IRIX 5.2 or later. A few
- entries deal with IRIX 3.x and 4.x, and they should all say so.
- Versions of IRIX 5 before 5.2 are rarely discussed because everyone
- should have upgraded by now. IRIX 6.x is not covered as well as it
- should be, but since 6.0.1 is based on 5.2 and 6.1 is based on 5.3,
- discussions of problems with 5.2 and 5.3 are often relevant to 6.0.1
- and 6.1 respectively.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: -4- What about material which doesn't fit in the FAQs?
- Date: 13 Feb 1995 00:00:01 EST
-
- Entries in the FAQs should be relatively short and genuinely
- "frequently asked". Some material which is of less general interest
- or which is too long is archived at ftp://viz.tamu.edu/pub/sgi/. If
- information you're looking for isn't in the FAQs, look there. The
- FAQs may direct you there as well. You can submit material to that
- archive just as you can an FAQ: mail it to sgi-faq@viz.tamu.edu, or
- put it in ftp://viz.tamu.edu/incoming/ and let us know by mail. If
- you have a lot, perhaps it should be its own FAQ. If you like we can
- post your SGI-related FAQ for you.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: -5- What are the comp.sys.sgi.* newsgroups?
- Date: 04 May 1996 00:00:01 EST
-
- The active SGI newsgroups are
-
- comp.sys.sgi.announce Announcements for the SGI community.
- (Moderated)
- comp.sys.sgi.admin System administration on Silicon
- Graphics' Irises.
- comp.sys.sgi.apps Applications which run on the Iris.
- comp.sys.sgi.audio Audio on SGI systems.
- comp.sys.sgi.bugs Bugs found in the IRIX operating system.
- comp.sys.sgi.graphics Graphics packages and issues on SGI
- machines.
- comp.sys.sgi.hardware Base systems and peripherals for Iris
- computers.
- comp.sys.sgi.marketplace SGI-specific for sale, wanted and jobs.
- comp.sys.sgi.misc General discussion about SGI's machines.
-
- The original comp.sys.sgi newsgroup is obsolete. Please don't post to
- it, so the rest of us won't miss anything.
-
- To submit an article for posting in comp.sys.sgi.announce, post it as
- you would to any newsgroup. If you absolutely can't post, send mail to
- sgi-announce@ornl.gov. Related business (anything other than an actual
- post) goes to sgi-announce-request@ornl.gov. The addresses
- comp-sys-sgi-announce@uunet.uu.net and
- comp-sys-sgi-announce-request@uunet.uu.net may also work. A
- not-guaranteed-to-be-up-to-date copy of the moderation policy is at
- ftp://viz.tamu.edu/pub/sgi/misc/announce-policy.
-
- Each of these newsgroups is also a mailing list; see below.
-
- Historians may find the newsgroup charters, which are archived in
- ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/comp/, of interest.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: -6- What about comp.sys.sgi.marketplace?
- Date: 06 Apr 1996 00:00:01 EST
-
- comp.sys.sgi.marketplace is an unmoderated group for "for sale",
- "wanted to buy" and jobs offered/sought postings specific to Silicon
- Graphics computers. Commercial and/or continuing advertising, and
- postings about non-SGI-specific equipment, services and jobs, are not
- welcome.
-
- The Usenet Marketplace FAQ (at
- ftp://ftp.phoenix.net/pub/USERS/lildan/FAQ/ and
- http://www.phoenix.net/~lildan/FAQ/) discusses the misc.forsale.* and
- biz.marketplace.* newsgroups, and has plenty of good advice which
- applies equally well to comp.sys.sgi.marketplace. Here's some of the
- most important:
-
- - Like misc.forsale.*, comp.sys.sgi.marketplace is restricted to
- individual (one-time) transactions.
-
- - Use key words in your subject lines to clearly mark for sale ("FS",
- "FORSALE" or "FORSALE"), wanted ("WTB" or "WANTED") and jobs
- offered ("JOB") postings.
-
- - Limit your post's distribution to areas in which it will be of
- interest by putting a distribution keyword (e.g. "usa" for the
- United States) in your Distribution: header.
-
- - Cancel your post when it has accomplished its purpose to save
- yourself many wasted replies.
-
- - You're welcome to crosspost to both comp.sys.sgi.marketplace and the
- appropriate misc.forsale.* or misc.jobs.* group. However, be sure
- that you crosspost (specify the groups to which you're posting on
- the Newsgroups: line of a single post) rather than posting
- separately to each group.
-
- - Do NOT post or crosspost marketplace posts to comp.sys.sgi.hardware!
-
- There is not yet an info-iris-marketplace mailing list.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: -7- Are the SGI newsgroups archived?
- Date: Wed Sep 22 16:31:25 CDT 1999
-
- Archives of the info-iris mailing list (see below) from 1986 to 1990
- are at ftp://ftp.brl.mil/info-iris/.
-
- Archives of the SGI newsgroups from 1988 (when there was only
- comp.sys.sgi) to the present are at ftp://ftp.sgi.com/comp.sys.sgi/.
- Archives of comp.sys.mips from 1993 to the present are nearby in
- ftp://ftp.sgi.com/comp.sys.mips/.
-
- Archives of the SGI newsgroups, from 1988 to the present,
- comp.sys.mips and several other groups are at
- http://hornet.mmg.uci.edu/~hjm/projects/sgi.wais.html. They may be
- SEARCHED with any WWW client (no built-in WAIS support or WAIS proxy
- needed) or native WAIS client.
-
- Archives of the SGI newsgroups from 1988 to the present are at
- http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?QRY=comp.sys.sgi&DBS=2&maxhits=25
- They may be SEARCHED with any WWW client.
-
- Thanks to these services, just posting something goes a long way
- toward making it available to everyone, even after it expires. Always
- post a summary of the answers to a question you ask!
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: -8- What are some related newsgroups?
- Date: 02 Mar 1996 00:00:01 EST
-
- comp.graphics.*, particularly
-
- comp.graphics.api.inventor
- Object-oriented 3D graphics in Inventor.
- comp.graphics.api.opengl
- The OpenGL 3D application programming interface.
- comp.graphics.apps.*
-
- comp.mail.zmail
- The various Z-Mail products and their configurability.
- comp.sys.mips
- Systems based on MIPS chips.
- comp.windows.x.*
- comp.unix.*
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: -9- What are the info-iris-* mailing lists?
- Date: 18 Mar 1996 00:00:01 EST
-
- The info-iris mailing list began in 1986. It was originally hosted at
- Stanford and moved to the Ballistic Research Laboratory (now the Army
- Research Laboratory) in 1987. It was gated to the Usenet newsgroup
- comp.sys.sgi in 1988. It split in parallel with comp.sys.sgi in 1992.
-
- The info-iris-* mailing lists are still available for those who can't
- get news (or who just prefer mail). To subscribe or unsubscribe, send
- mail to info-iris-request@arl.mil (Chuck Kennedy, aka
- <kermit@arl.mil>). Chuck is a human, not an automated mail server, so
- be patient. To post an article, mail it to one or more of the
- following addresses:
-
- info-iris-admin@arl.mil
- info-iris-announce@arl.mil
- info-iris-apps@arl.mil
- info-iris-audio@arl.mil
- info-iris-bugs@arl.mil
- info-iris-graphics@arl.mil
- info-iris-hardware@arl.mil
- info-iris-misc@arl.mil
-
- There is not yet an info-iris-marketplace mailing list.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: -10- What are some related mailing lists?
- Date: 24 Aug 1996 00:00:01 EST
-
- "Contact" addresses are humans. If a list has instructions on how "To
- subscribe", please use them instead of bothering the human.
-
- IRIS On-Line
- SGI's monthly news magazine
- To subscribe, send mail to majordomo@sgigate.sgi.com containing only
- the line 'subscribe iris-on-line' in the body
- See also below under "SGI-related publications"
-
- SGI large users discussion list
- For discussion of SGI systems with 1000 or more users
- Contact Philip Smith <owner-sgilarge@uwindsor.ca>; please state the
- type of system you are using and the approximate number of users.
-
- Indigo home users mailing list
- For people who use Indigos, Indys, etc. at home
- Contact indigo-home-request@world.std.com or Tim Hall
- <tjh@world.std.com>
-
- Performer mailing list
- Contact info-performer-request@sgi.com
-
- Iris 2000 & 3000 systems list (for old SGI models, not MIPS chips)
- Contact Jonathan Levine <jonathan@canuck.com>.
- See also below under "network-accessible documents".
-
- Biosym/Insight mailing list
- For users of Biosym Technologies software [many of whom use SGIs].
- Contact dibug-request@comp.bioz.unibas.ch (Reinhard Doelz)
-
- HylaFAX (formerly FlexFAX) mailing lists
- For users of the free HylaFAX fax software
- To subscribe, send mail to flexfax-request@sgi.com or
- flexfax-announce-request@engr.sgi.com containing only the line
- 'subscribe' in the body
- Contact Sam Leffler <sam@engr.sgi.com>
- FTP back issues from ftp://ftp.sgi.com/sgi/fax/archives/
- See also below under "What are some related WWW pages?".
-
- ImageVision Library users' group mailing list
- To subscribe, send mail to mail ilug-request@sgi.com containing only
- the line 'subscribe' in the body
- Contact SGI's TAC by phone, 1-800-800-4744
-
- Alias software users' group mailing list
- To subscribe, send mail to LISTSERV@uga.cc.uga.edu containing only
- the line 'subscribe alias-l' in the body.
- Contact Steve Follin <sfollin@VISEF.UCNS.UGA.EDU>
-
- ElectroGIG users' mailing list
- To subscribe, send mail to majordomo@phxmedia.com containing only the
- line 'subscribe gig-l [you@yourhost.yourdomain]' in the body.
- Contact Jay Vaughan <jay@phxmedia.com>
-
- ViewKit mailing list
- To subscribe, send mail to viewkit-talk-request@ics.com containing
- only the word 'subscribe' in the body.
- Contact Aub Harden <harden@ics.com>
-
- sgi-all mailing list
- For UK SGI users
- To subscribe, send mail to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk containing only
- the line 'Join sgi-all firstname(s) lastname' in the body.
- See http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists-p-t/sgi-all/
-
- sgi-systems mailing list
- For UK SGI administrators
- To subscribe, send mail to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk containing only
- the line 'Join sgi-systems firstname(s) lastname' in the body.
- See http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists-p-t/sgi-systems/
-
- Interactive Effects (Amazon) software users' mailing list
- To subscribe, send mail to Majordomo@irc.umbc.edu containing only
- the line 'subscribe amazon' in the body.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: -11- What are some related WWW pages?
- Date: Fri May 26 14:56:48 CDT 2000
-
- SGI and subsidiaries:
-
- Silicon Surf (SGI's WWW servers)
- http://www.sgi.com/
- http://www.sgi.com/Misc/world-sites.html lists Silicon Surf's
- international mirrors and support sites
- http://www.sgi.de/
- http://techpubs.sgi.com/
- Alias/Wavefront
- http://www.aliaswavefront.com/
- InterActive Digital Solutions
- http://www.ids.sgi.com/
- MIPS Technologies, Inc. Home Page
- http://www.mips.com/
- Reality (SGI's employee home page server)
- http://reality.sgi.com/
- Silicon Studio Inc.
- http://www.studio.sgi.com/
- Cray Research
- http://www.cray.com/
-
- Companies and organizations:
-
- Center for Landscape Research (including image editing and
- processing software for SGIs)
- http://www.clr.toronto.edu:1080/
- Center for Visual Creation (an SGI International Training Center)
- http://www.msstate.edu/Dept/CAS/cvcinfo.html
- Easy Software Products ("2D & 3D software" for SGIs)
- http://www.easysw.com/
- ELECTROGIG
- http://www.gig.nl/
- Engineering Animation, Inc.
- http://www.eai.com/
- Globalprint (a graphics arts information clearinghouse)
- http://www.globalprint.nl/
- GLOBEtrotter (developers of FLEXlm)
- http://www.globetrotter.com/
- Impediment (third-party memory and peripherals vendor)
- http://www.impediment.com/
- Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc. (ViewKit)
- http://www.ics.com/
- Interactive Effects Inc.
- http://www.webcom.com/~ie/
- IRIS Explorer Center
- http://www.nag.co.uk/Welcome_IEC.html
- Kaleidoscope Animations Inc.
- http://www.kascope.com/
- NATPIX software demos
- http://www.rahul.net/natpix/
- Paradigm Simulations Inc.
- http://www.paradigmsim.com/
- Template Graphics Software, Inc.
- http://www.sd.tgs.com/~template
- Vision Images
- http://www.visionimages.com/
- NetManage (makers of Z-Mail/MediaMail)
- http://www.netmanage.com/
-
- Miscellany:
-
- Anonymous FTP site list
- http://reality.sgi.com/employees/billh_hampton/anonftp/
- See also below under "network-accessible documents"
- Audio Applications for SGIs
- http://reality.sgi.com/employees/cook/audio.apps/
- Blip (a script for dynamic SLIP addressing)
- http://www.ifokr.org/bri/blip/
- Buying Old SGI Systems FAQ
- http://cgi.amazing.com/internet/old-sgi-faq.html
- CAP for SGIs
- http://www.proximity.com.au/~tom/cap.html
- Configuring and Debugging SLIP and PPP
- http://reality.sgi.com/employees/scotth/dialup_support.html
- Enhance image enhancement software
- http://enhance.sgi.com/cgi-bin/enhance.cgi
- FaceIt video face recognition system
- http://venezia.rockefeller.edu/faceit/
- Grafica Obscura (Paul Haeberli's graphics notebook)
- http://www.sgi.com/grafica/
- HylaFAX (formerly FlexFAX) Home Page
- http://www.vix.com/hylafax/
- i3D three-dimensional scene viewer
- http://www.crs4.it/~3diadm/
- IBD's SGI Collection (including IRIX 5.2, 5.3 and 6.x patch lists)
- http://www.ibd.nrc.ca/~sgi/
- See also below under "network-accessible documents"
- Indy Technical Hardware Page (Greg Douglas)
- http://www.reputable.com/indytech.html
- IRIX share trees
- http://www-viz.tamu.edu/~sgi-faq/archive/share_trees/
- Ivy (a Scheme binding for Open Inventor)
- http://www-white.media.mit.edu/~kbrussel/Ivy/
- JAVA resources for SGI users
- http://reality.sgi.com/grafica/javahack.html
- Scientific Visualization Software Packages
- http://www.msi.umn.edu/user_support/scivis/scivis-list.html
- SGI Advice and Technical Data (Ian Mapleson's detailed info)
- http://www.futuretech.vuurwerk.nl/sgi.html
- SGI Alternatif (une meta-page SGI en Francais)
- http://www.cenatls.cena.dgac.fr/~boubaker/Francais/SGI.html
- SGI Alternative (an SGI meta-page in English)
- http://www.cenatls.cena.dgac.fr/~boubaker/English/SGI.html
- SGI DOOM FAQ
- http://www.cmpharm.ucsf.edu/~troyer/sgidoomfaq.html
- SGI Meta-Page (collected SGI Internet resources)
- http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Faculty/Randy.Carpenter/sgimeta.html
- SGI Periodic Table (system performance comparison table)
- http://www.sgi.com/Technology/dev-resources2.html#periodic
- SGI Web Install Site (precompiled, instable software)
- http://mat075207.student.utwente.nl/pub/SGI/
- http://www.pk.edu.pl/pub/sgi/
- SGI-Usergroup Deutschland (auf Deutsch)
- http://sgiug.uni-paderborn.de/
- Silicon Graphics Info at BNL
- http://www.ccd.bnl.gov/sgi/
- Silicon Graphics Information (collected SGI Internet resources)
- http://www.star.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sgi-info.html
- Silicon Graphics User Groups
- http://www.cc.gatech.edu/services/sgiusers.html
- See also below under "network-accessible documents".
- Strange Software (Tom Benoist's free software)
- http://www.webcom.com/ie/benoist/
- Swirly screen saver
- http://os.sri.com/~nat/swirly.html
- Third-party supplier of hardware for SGIs
- http://www.vigyan.com/~blbates/hardware/
- This Old SGI (A. J. Corda's 4D series information)
- http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/2258/4dfaq.html
- TURN (Tiny UI Read News) newsreader
- http://reality.sgi.com/turn/
- uman IRIX manpage database
- http://reality.sgi.com/cgi-bin/uman
- US Army Research Laboratory (ARL, formerly BRL) FTP site
- http://ftp.arl.mil/
- Vince Liggio's SGI software collection
- http://www.madness.net/sgi.html
- WAIS archives of the comp.sys.sgi.* newsgroups
- http://hornet.mmg.uci.edu/~hjm/projects/sgi.wais.html
- XFS filesystem demonstration
- http://everest.ee.umn.edu/~cattelan/XFS/
-
- Bill Henderson's FTP site list also lists some WWW pages.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: -12- What are some related network-accessible documents?
- Date: 06 Feb 1997 00:00:01 EST
-
- Silicon Graphics-specific documents:
-
- SGI Anonymous FTP and WWW archives
- Posted monthly to comp.sys.sgi, news.answers
- FTP from ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/sgi/anonftp/
- Contact Bill Henderson <billh@hampton.sgi.com>
- See also above under "WWW pages".
-
- Known SGI User Groups (SUMMARY)
- Posted monthly to comp.sys.sgi.misc
- FTP from ftp://ftp.cc.gatech.edu/pub/people/randy/sgiusers.txt
- Contact Randy Carpenter <randy@cc.gatech.edu>
- See also above under "WWW pages".
-
- Iris 2000 & 3000 systems FAQ (for old SGI models, not MIPS chips)
- Contact Jonathan Levine <jonathan@canuck.com>.
- See also above under "mailing lists".
-
- Explorer FAQ
- Posted ??? to comp.graphics.apps.iris-explorer
- FTP from ftp://swedishchef.lerc.nasa.gov/explorer/FAQ
- Contact explorer-request@castle.ed.ac.uk
-
- Third-party hardware vendor lists
- Contacts are given in the lists
- See also above under "WWW pages".
-
- SGI's Periodic Table of the Irises
- For the latest version, see above under "WWW pages."
- FTP old versions from ftp://viz.tamu.edu/pub/sgi/hardware/periodic-tables/
-
- IRIX 5.2, 5.3 and 6.x patch lists
- Posted ??? to comp.sys.sgi.admin
- Contact Walter Roberson <roberson@ibd.nrc.ca>
- See also above under "WWW pages".
-
- Other documents of particular interest to SGI users:
-
- OpenGL FAQ
- Posted semiweekly to comp.graphics.api.opengl, comp.answers,
- news.answers
- Contact Paul Ho <pho@dilow.asd.sgi.com>
-
- comp.graphics Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Posted monthly to comp.graphics, news.answers
- Contact grieggs@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (John T. Grieggs)
-
- comp.windows.x Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Posted monthly to comp.windows.x,news.answers,alt.answers,
- comp.answers
- Contact faq%craft@uunet.uu.net (X FAQ maintenance address)
-
- comp.windows.x: Getting more performance out of X FAQ
- Posted monthly to comp.windows.x, news.answers
- Contact art@cs.ualberta.ca (Art Mulder)
-
- Motif FAQ
- Posted monthly to comp.windows.x.motif,news.answers
- Contact jan@ise.canberra.edu.au (Jan Newmarch)
-
- Unix - Frequently Asked Questions
- Posted monthly to comp.unix.questions, comp.unix.shell,
- news.answers
- Contact tmatimar@empress.com (Ted M A Timar)
-
- SCSI FAQ
- Posted ??? to comp.periphs.scsi
- Contact Gary Field <garyf@wiis.wang.com>
-
- Uninterruptable Power Source (UPS) FAQ
- Posted monthly to comp.sys.sgi.hardware, among others
- FTP from ftp://navigator.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/doc/faq/
- Contact Nick Christenson <npc@minotaur.jpl.nasa.gov>
-
- Dave's List of Free Audio Goodies
- FTP from ftp://ftp.york.ac.uk/pub/users/elec10/voice/audio_goodies.txt
- Contact Dave Rossiter <dpr@ohm.york.ac.uk>
-
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) lists can be FTPed from
- ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/, and HTML versions of some are under
- http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: -13- What number do I call for information about SGI
- products?
- Date: 22 Jan 1994 00:00:01 EST
-
- For product information, call SGI Direct at
-
- US & Canada: 1-800-800-SGI1 (1-800-800-7441)
- France: 05 244 244
- Germany: 0130 811 011
- U.K.: 0800 440 440
-
- or your local SGI sales office.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: -14- What number do I call for technical support from SGI?
- Date: 20 Dec 1996 00:00:01 EST
-
- To reach SGI's Technical Assistance Center (TAC) in North America,
- call 1-800-800-4SGI (1-800-800-4744). Customers with a Varsity support
- contract should call 1-800-915-8277. Elsewhere, call your local sales
- office (see the previous question).
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: -15- What about SGI-related publications?
- Date: Mon May 22 17:03:46 CDT 2000
-
- SGI publishes several periodicals:
-
- - i on Visual Computing (http://www.ion.sgi.com/), an online magazine
- about visualization technology and personalities
- - IRIS On-line, a subscription-only electronic newsletter which
- primarily reprints press releases and 'net announcements
- - IRIS Universe, a glossy, general-interest magazine
- - Pipeline, a very useful technical newsletter
- (http://support.sgi.com/search/?cmd=topic&node=pipeline&coll=0650)
-
- See http://techpubs.sgi.com/ for subscription information, back issues,
- etc. Registered developers get another set of publications; see
- http://www.sgi.com/developers/ or ask devprogram@sgi.com for info.
-
- There is one independent SGI-related publication, Silicon Graphics
- World. Contact
-
- PCI Publishing
- 12416 Hymeadow Drive
- Austin, TX 78750-1896 USA
- 512-250-9023 (voice)
- 512-331-3900 (fax)
- sgi@pcinews.lonestar.org
-
- Subscription rates are $45/year in the US and $75 elsewhere. SG
- World is a monthly tabloid. It has articles, product reviews and lots
- of SGI-specific advertising. It isn't a technical publication.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: -16- What is the current release of ...
- Date: 07 May 1993 00:00:01 EST
-
- This changes quite often. The best way to get up-to-date information
- about SGI products is to call SGI Direct; see above.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: -17- What is the current release of IRIX for my machine?
- Date: 20 Dec 1996 00:00:01 EST
-
- Ping Huang <pshuang@sgi.com> writes:
-
- If you don't know what release of IRIX you are currently running,
- the SGI admin FAQ explains how to find out.
-
- IRIX 5.3 is the current release on systems with the R2000 and R3000
- CPU's and the Crimson with GTX graphics; it is the last release
- which will support these systems. IRIX 5.3 was first released in
- early 1995.
-
- IRIX 6.2 is the current release on Crimson with non-GTX graphics,
- Indigo R4000, Indy, {Indigo2,Onyx,CHALLENGE}, POWER
- {Indigo2,Onyx,CHALLENGE}, and {Indigo2,Onyx,CHALLENGE} R10000
- systems; note that this list includes most of the installed base.
- IRIX 6.2 was first released in March 1996.
-
- IRIX 6.3 is the current release on O2 systems. IRIX 6.3 was first
- released in September 1996.
-
- IRIX 6.4 is the current release on the Origin 200 and 2000 and the
- Onyx2 systems. IRIX 6.4 was first released in late 1996.
-
- (The reason the phrase "was first released" is used is that SGI
- often re-releases a version of IRIX without renumbering, to make
- changes to add support for new hardware models. For example, the
- latest re-release of IRIX 6.2 as of December 1996 is "IRIX 6.2 with
- Indigo2 IMPACT 10000", released June 1996.)
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: -18- When will the next release(s) of IRIX be out?
- Date: 20 Dec 1996 00:00:01 EST
-
- Ping Huang <pshuang@sgi.com> writes:
-
- Another all-platforms release is being planned. (An all-platforms
- release, on the date it is released, can be installed on all
- available SGI systems which are not considered obsoleted. Previous
- all-platforms releases include IRIX 5.3 and IRIX 6.2.) At the
- current time (late 1996), we cannot provide a firm date for when
- such a release would be available; *perhaps* sometime in 1997.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: -19- How can I get lists of known bugs, lists of patches,
- and/or the patches themselves?
- Date: 4 Nov 1998 00:00:01 EST
-
- Bugs: Known bugs are documented in Product Release Notes. The Support
- Advantage package (sent regularly to all customers on support)
- includes a Software Change Requests binder. SupportFolio Online
- (previously Advantage Online) (http://support.sgi.com/)
- also lists SCRs.
-
- Patches: a) Customers on support can get patches from the TAC. The TAC
- will tell you about a patch only if you report a bug which the patch
- fixes, but will give you a patch if you ask for it by number. b)
- Support Advantage periodically includes a patch CD. c) SupportFolio
- Online (http://support.sgi.com/) has lists of
- patches and the patches themselves. SupportFolio Online is not as
- complete or current as the TAC, but is updated regularly. d) Some
- patches (primarily for severe security problems) are in
- ftp://sgigate.sgi.com/Patches/. This is the only way in which you can
- legally get patches without being on support. Patches sometimes appear
- on sgigate before Advantage Online. e) Walter Roberson
- <roberson@hamer.ibd.nrc.ca> maintains his own lists of patches for
- several versions of IRIX, which he posts regularly to
- comp.sys.sgi.admin (see above under "network-accessible documents")
- and makes available via WWW (see above under "WWW pages").
-
- See also the article on patches in the Jul/Aug 1995 Pipeline, but
- note that it doesn't mention Advantage Online.
-
- Finally, the SGI FAQs mention many patches. Be aware that patches are
- superceded regularly. If you ask the TAC for a superceded patch,
- you'll be told about the patch which superceded it. SupportFolio Online
- has lists of superceded patches and the patches which superceded them.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: -20- What's the best newsgroup in which to complain to SGI?
- Date: Wed Sep 22 13:36:05 CDT 1999
-
- It depends on what you're complaining about. Most of the SGI
- employees who read the SGI newsgroups are engineers and similar
- useful people, not evil marketing policy-setters. If you feel, for
- example, that NFS or Documenter's Workbench should be a standard part
- of IRIX, don't post; call your sales rep and yell at them.
-
- However, software bugs are better newsgroup material: an SGI person
- may well see your message and fix the bug then and there.
- Nonetheless, don't depend on it. Call the TAC and tell them too.
-
- There's also a website that provides an interface for people to
- publicly address complaints about various companies. It currently
- doesn't have any complaints about SGI...
- http://www.complainusa.com/servlets/CompanyListing?companyId=61
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: -21- Wouldn't Nextstep be great on SGIs?
- Date: 20 Dec 1996 00:00:01 EST
-
- Possibly. If Next ported Nextstep to IRIX (and several SGI employees
- have made it clear that it is up to Next, not SGI, to do so) the
- question might be worth discussing. That nonwithstanding, Next
- zealots have flogged Nextstep around the SGI newsgroups many times.
- They haven't convinced the command-line diehards that the Next way is
- better or vice versa. Please don't try it yourself.
-
- However, if you are primarily interested in the "look and feel" of
- the Nextstep user interface, you may be interested in the AfterStep
- window manager, available from
- http://mango.sfasu.edu/~frank/afterstep/.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: -22- Can I run Windows NT on my Indigo or Indy?
- Date: 18 Jan 1994 00:00:01 EST
-
- No. SGI can, but only on Indigos with special hardware and software
- modifications and only for demos and porting. There are no known
- plans to provide NT on SGI workstations. Also, note that most
- comp.sys.sgi.* readers will answer this question "Why would you want
- to?".
-
- MTI, aka MIPS, an SGI subsidiary, does make NT-compatible machines.
- Try comp.sys.mips.
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: -23- Credits
- Date: Mon Mar 19 16:08:47 CST 2001
-
- The comp.sys.sgi FAQs are the joint effort of the SGI FAQ group
-
- Kevin Glueck kglueck@viz.tamu.edu
- James Hayasaka jamesh@2tone.org
-
- and its alumni
-
- Gavin Bell gavin@sgi.com SGI inventor FAQ
- Kevin Brokaw kevinb@sgi.com SGI impressario FAQ
- Dale Chayes dale@ldeo.columbia.edu
- Bryan James bryanj@spiff.esd.sgi.com SGI audio FAQ
- Larry McDonough lardog@thepound.asd.sgi.com SGI inventor FAQ
- Michael Portuesi portuesi@sgi.com SGI movie FAQ
- Steve Rikli sr@sgi.com
- Allan Schaffer aschaffe@sgi.com
- Dave Schweisguth dcs@proton.chem.yale.edu
- Dave Story story@sgi.com SGI impressario FAQ
- Paul Walmsley ccshag@cclabs.missouri.edu
-
- Special thanks are due to
-
- Tom Davis Author of the 'zip' editor (now 'jot')
- Craig Hammack Viz Lab webmaster emeritus
- Mark Kirk Viz Lab sysadmin emeritus
- Harry Mangalam Maintainer of the comp.sys.sgi.* WAIS database
- Dave Olson comp.sys.sgi.*'s one-man TAC
- Steve Rikli Viz Lab sysadmin emeritus
- Dave Sills Moderator of comp.sys.sgi.announce
- Dave Walvoord Viz Lab sysadmin emeritus
- Matt Wicks Moderator of comp.sys.sgi.announce emeritus
-
- Finally, much thanks to all of the SGI employees on Usenet, who have
- provided gigabytes of helpful information.
-
- Credits for individual contributions are given in the answers.
-
- ------------------------------
-
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