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comp.sys.hp.hpux FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

Subject: 1. INTRODUCTION

This article contains the answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
seen in the Internet newsgroup comp.sys.hp.hpux. Discussion in this document
centers around Hewlett-Packard computer systems running  the HP-UX operating
system; the focus tends to be on the series 700  workstations, although topics
are also applicable to series 800 machines, and to a lesser degree, series 300
and 400 machines. It is posted ~biweekly, on the 15th and the last day of the
month.

This article is Copyright 1994 by Greg Cagle.  It may be freely redistributed
in its entirety provided that this copyright notice is not removed.  It may
not be sold for profit or incorporated in commercial documents without the
written permission of the copyright holder.  Permission is expressly granted
for this document to be made available for file transfer from installations
offering unrestricted anonymous file transfer on the Internet. This article is
provided as is without any express or implied warranty. The content of this
article is the sole responsibility of the author and contributors, and does
not necessarily represent their employers, Mentor Graphics, or Hewlett-Packard.

Refer to question 3.l for details on where to get this FAQ.

This FAQ is written in "minimal digest format". You can skip from one
section to the next by pressing ^G in many newsreaders, such as rn, trn
and strn.

Questions marked with a "+" are new to this issue, and questions with changes
since the last issue are marked by a "!".

Submissions, corrections, comments, input, complaints, attaboys, large amounts
of money, etc., should be directed to Greg Cagle <[e-mail]>.

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Subject: 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
3. FINDING INFORMATION
3.1! Where can I get a copy of this FAQ file?
3.2  Courses on HP-UX
3.3  Interex, The International Association of HP Computer Users
3.4  InterWorks, The International HP Workstation Users Group
3.5  Interex HP Users Conferences 1994
3.6  InterWorks Conference 1994
3.7  HP/Works
3.8  HP/Works Conferences
3.9  HP-UX publicly available software from InterWorks.
3.10  Anonymous FTP Sites for HP-UX, and UNIX related software.
3.11  Where can I get a demo CD with software for HP-UX?
3.12! HP-UX patch information and mailing list.
3.13  How can I send mail to an "hpdesk" address?
3.14  What are the known issues with porting BSD-based programs to HP-UX?
3.15  What periodicals are available that focus on HP-UX?
3.16  Books on HP-UX
4. THIRD PARTY VENDORS
4.1  Third party vendors for RAM.
4.2  Third party vendors for peripherals
5. UTILITIES
5.1  ASCII to Postscript converter.
5.2  How do I make perl on HP-UX?
5.3  What is the status of the various gnu items on HP-UX?
6. X WINDOW SYSTEM, MOTIF, AND HP-VUE
6.1  X11 libraries (Athena, etc.) and utilities (imake, etc.).
6.2  How can I display an image on the root window with HP-VUE?
6.3  How do I get a scroll bar on hpterms?
6.4  How can I put a title in my hpterm titlebar?
6.5  How come my hpterms keep going away by themselves?
6.6  How come my HP X/Motif clients take a LONG time to display on a Sun?
6.7  How can I get my login stuff to work under HP-VUE?
6.8  How can I get console messages to go to an hpterm?
6.9  What happened to the vuewm key accelerators at VUE 3.0?
6.10  How come I can no longer disable the caps lock key with xmodmap?
6.11  How come vi behaves strangely in xterms at 9.01?
6.12  How do I disable HP-VUE?
6.13  What's a good termcap entry for hpterm?
6.14  My screen is wedged. What should I do?
6.15  How can I get an X client to come up in an alternate workspace?
6.16  Where did xline go at 9.x?
6.17  How can I get HP-VUE to not override colors?
6.18  How can I override the system default printer in vuepad?
6.19  How can I get the VUE 2.01 man page help index back?
7. OPERATING SYSTEM
7.1  Can I have filenames longer than 14 chars?
7.2  How can I tell what filesets have been loaded on my system?
7.3  How do I safely remove software from my system?
7.4  What's the scoop on HP-UX 9.03/9.04?
7.5  How come HP-UX doesn't support NFS root access?
7.6! How can I change the order of hostname resolution?
7.7! How come the LOGnnnn files in /usr/adm keep growing and growing?
7.8  How come I can't lock mail or other files on a Sun?
7.9  Why are mail files in /usr/mail are owned by daemon instead of the recipient?
7.10  How can I tell if I need more than a 2-user license?
7.11  How can I tell what patches are in the kernel?
7.12  How come I have to hit return after control-d in the Korn shell?
7.13  How do I boot into single user mode?
7.14  How come my Korn shell login hangs?
7.15  How can I avoid those annoying copyright notices on login?
7.16  How can I turn off quota checking?
7.17  What are the issues with HP-UX 9.01?
7.18  Why does chown behave differently at 9.x?
7.19  How can I track log files and core files?
7.20  How much memory can a process use?
7.21  How come there's little discussion of DCE?
7.22  How can I make a ramdisk?
7.23  Where can I get SLIP for HP-UX?
7.24  How come I can't lock files across NFS after upgrading to 9.01?
7.25  What's a good strategy for clearing /tmp?
7.26  How can I change the timezone?
7.27  Is there an equivalent for getrusage()?
7.28! How can I look at what my system is doing?
7.29  How can I partition HP-UX disks?
7.30  How can I print man pages successfully?
7.31  How can I limit core files?
7.32  Can I put more than one backup on DDS with fbackup?
7.33  How can I load multiple patches on a machine at the same time?
7.34  How can I set up an HP-UX workstation as an X terminal?
7.35! What causes "Unable to initialize MI" when running Glance?
7.36  Where can I get pcnfsd on HP-UX?
7.37  Where can I get ppp for HP-UX?
8. COMPILERS AND LINKERS
8.1  What's a P-FIXUP error?
8.2  Where is regcmp on HP-UX?
8.3  How come the default C compiler is brain-dead?
8.4  How do I deal with "too many defines"?
8.5  How come I get "_builtin_va_start" undefined when I build with gcc?
8.6  How can I tell if something was built debuggable?
8.7  Is there some kind of problem with using FLT_MIN in ANSI mode?
8.8  What's the deal with _INCLUDE_xxxx_SOURCE?
9. HARDWARE AND PERIPHERALS
9.1  Are alternate keyboards available for HP workstations?
9.2  How can I play audio CDs on an HP workstation?
9.3  How can I enable the LAN interface on a 700?
9.4  How can I get an Exabyte to work on an HP?
9.5  Is there a "node ID" on 700s?
9.6  How can I get a stuck DDS tape out of the drive?
9.7  How can I use dump with a DDS tape?
9.8  What is the correct major number for DDS drives on 9.01?
9.9  How can I set up /dev/audio to point to the external jack on a 700?
9.10  How can I configure the parallel port handshake on a 700?
9.11  What are the specs of the audio hardware on the 700 series?
9.12  What are the various revisions of PA-RISC?
9.13  How do I read an SGI-written tar format DDS tape?
9.14  Is there a trackball for the 700?



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Subject: 3. FINDING INFORMATION

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Subject: 3.1! Where can I get a copy of this FAQ file?

Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the Internet
FAQ archive site:

  ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/hp-faq

This FAQ is also archived on the Interworks archive machine:

  ftp://iworks.ecn.uiowa.edu/comp.hp

An HTML version of this document is available as:

  http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/hp-faq/faq.html

You can also get it by e-mail from [e-mail]; send the
text "send usenet/news.answers/hp-faq".

The FAQ is also included with the InterWorks software CD-ROM, the Interex CSL,
and the Walnut Creek Internet CD-ROM. Note that these versions were current
when the respective distributions were frozen.

If all else fails, contact the maintainer ([e-mail]).

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Subject: 3.2  Courses on HP-UX

Call the following numbers for information or the latest HP Education Catalog.
U.S.:    1-800-HPCLASS {1-800-472-5277}
Canada:  [phone]

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Subject: 3.3  Interex, The International Association of HP Computer Users

Interex is the International Association of HP Computer Users and the largest HP
user group in the world.  The organization is more than 19 years old with
thousands of members worldwide.  It represents HP users of all kinds including
HP9000, HP3000, HP1000, and Vectra PC's with annual conferences attracting
vendors from all over the world.  Interex publishes "Interact" for the HP3000
and Vectra PC user, "hp-ux/usr" for the HP9000 user and a realtime operating
system newsletter for the HP1000 users.

There are many regional users groups, many holding annual or semiannual
conferences, and Interex has a collection of software (with sources)  covering
MPE, HP-UX and RTE called the Contributed Software Library.

To contact Interex:
   (800) INT-EREX  or [phone]
   or:  [phone]
   fax: [phone]
   email: [e-mail]   .. editor of hp-ux/usr magazine
          [e-mail]       .. Circulation/advertising
          [e-mail] .. membership inquiries
          [e-mail]    .. contributed software library (hp-ux)
   Compuserve:  76376,1222
   Address:  Interex                   Interex  (for US mail)
             1192 Borregas Avenue.     P.O. Box 3439
             Sunnyvale, CA 94088       Sunnyvale, CA  94088-3439

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Subject: 3.4  InterWorks, The International HP Workstation Users Group

InterWorks, formerly the Apollo Domain User's Society (ADUS), was formed to
provide a users group specifically for HP _workstation_ users. The group
publishes a quarterly newsletter, "The Works", holds an annual conference (see
below), and maintains a library of HP-UX (and DOMAIN) software (see below).
Membership is free; please contact Carol Relph for more information:

Carol Relph
Manager, Member Services
InterWorks, Inc.
c/o Hewlett-Packard Company
Workstation Business Unit
300 Apollo Drive, Mailstop IWORKS
Chelmsford, MA  01824-3623
[phone]
E-Mail:  [e-mail]

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Subject: 3.5  Interex HP Users Conferences 1994

For more information, please contact the INTEREX Conference Department
at the above address.

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Subject: 3.6  InterWorks Conference 1994

The next InterWorks conference is to be held 5/15/94 -  5/18/94 at the Buena
Vista Palace in Walt Disney World Village, Buena Vista,  Florida.

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Subject: 3.7  HP/Works

HP/Works is basically the UK equivalent of InterWorks - catering for users
of HP workstations running both HP-UX and Domain/OS. Full membership
details are avaiable from:-

    Helen Grainger,
    PO Box 47,
    Bicester,
    United Kingdom [phone]

or by e-mail to [e-mail]

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Subject: 3.8  HP/Works Conferences

The next conference (Spring) is 3/23 - 3/24 in Durham, England.

The conference is a two-day event as follows:

DAY  ONE is a half day workshop/clinic with hands on tutorial sessions
covering HP-UX  and  associated  HP  software  products.  Topics  will
include  the  use  of  GLANCE  (including GPM, the new X-windows based
interface), using  NETDIST  to  update  a  group  of  workstations,  a
demonstration  of  the  ATRIA  software  products  and  accessing HP's
Bristol Supportline.

DAY TWO is the main conference/AGM day and will include an  update  on
the  very  latest  information from HP, presentations on Management of
Distributed Computer Systems & High Speed Networking -  plus  an  Open
Forum  -  your  chance to ask senior HP representatives the things you
really need to know

Further details about the conference can be obtain from either Helen
Grainger or by e-mail via [e-mail].

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Subject: 3.9  HP-UX publicly available software from InterWorks.

Dave Shaw maintains a library of publicly available HP-UX related software on
behalf of the InterWorks User Group. He can be reached at [phone],
or via e-mail at <[e-mail]>. The following text
is provided by Dave. See the README mentioned below for details.

There is an archive of UX-related software on the InterWorks library node
(iworks.ecn.uiowa.edu--128.255.18.10). Note that everything is available  via
anonymous ftp in the comp.hp directory (ftp://iworks.ecn.uiowa.edu/comp.hp). The
README there contains a complete  list of the available software. Nearly all of
it is also available on a CD for $75.00 ($85.00 outside the U.S.). For ordering
information contact  Carol Relph.

All of the archive is suitable for the 700 series machines, and I have started
to verify that. Executables are included in some packages. If you take a package
and find that you must build an executable (or do some porting) for your machine
and/or OS level, I would appreciate hearing about your work and receiving a copy
of the executable you built.

Note that I have had very little involvement in the writing or packaging  of any
of the items on the list-- they are the result of the work of many  other
people. In particular, note that the available binaries have not been compiled
by me. If you are concerned about running binaries compiled by someone else,
build them yourself with the available source. Also note  that individual
authors may include text regarding the rights of others to use and distribute
their code.

Thanks to all the contributors.

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Subject: 3.10  Anonymous FTP Sites for HP-UX, and UNIX related software.

Site:      ftp://iworks.ecn.uiowa.edu/comp.hp
Address:   128.255.18.10
Contents:  The InterWorks HP-UX Library in the directory "comp.hp" as
           described above. The iworks node also keeps the last 4-6
           months of comp.sys.hp.hpux online (via an InterWorks member logon
           (see question 3.4 above). An archive going back to June 1990
           is available-- contact the InterWorks librarian for details.
           Additionally, a large (~1300 line) "HP-UX Troubleshooting
           Guide" is available under the InterWorks member logon.

Name:      ftp.csc.liv.ac.uk
Address:   138.253.42.172
Contents:  Large number of packages ported to HP-UX 8.07 and 9.01

Here is an overview of ftp.csc.liv.ac.uk as of Sun 10 Apr 1994:
(The 2 most recently installed packages in each category are in brackets)

 54 packages in /hpux9/X11R5/Graphics   (ImageMagick-2.3.7 xpm-3.4a)
 43 packages in /hpux9/Games            (xpilot-3.1.1 xpilot_sounds-3.1.0)
 42 packages in /hpux9/X11R5/Misc       (fvwm-1.21z xmailbox++-1.2)
 32 packages in /hpux9/Networking       (wuftpd-2.3 inn-1.4sec)
 27 packages in /hpux8/Maths/Misc       (octave-1.0 fudgit-2.34)
 25 packages in /hpux8/X11R4/Misc       (xsky-2.01 xvertext-5.0)
 24 packages in /hpux9/Gnu              (bulletin-01.94 indent-1.9.1)
 23 packages in /hpux9/X11R5/Demos      (xlockmore-1.2 xmountains-1.2)
 21 packages in /hpux8/Games            (xblockbuster-1.03 xyahtzee-1.01)
 19 packages in /hpux9/X11R5/Networking (freeWAIS-0.3 xbrowser-1.2)
 18 packages in /hpux8/Networking       (netperf-1.7.1 tftpd-1.0)
 17 packages in /hpux9/X11R5/Toolkits   (libsx-1.0 wxLib-1.50)
 16 packages in /hpux9/Text             (ispell-3.1.04 dvips-5.55)
 16 packages in /hpux9/Sysadmin         (expect-5.6.3 lsof-2.32)
 16 packages in /hpux8/X11R4/Demos      (xball-3.0 xspringies-1.1)
 15 packages in /hpux9/X11R5/Core       (imake-5.03 imake-5.02)
 15 packages in /hpux9/Misc             (screen-3.5.4alpha pcomm-2.0.1)
 15 packages in /hpux8/X11R4/XView3     (workman-1.2.1 workman-1.2)
 14 packages in /hpux8/X11R4/Toolkits   (andrew-5.1.part04 Wcl-2.5)
 13 packages in /hpux9/Editors          (nedit-3.0 xcoral-2.1)
 13 packages in /hpux8/Maths/LinAlgebra (rlab.all-0.97d rlab-0.97d)
 11 packages in /hpux8/Misc             (gaps-5.11 csound-2.00b)
 10 packages in /hpux9/Languages        (swi-1.8.9 sgmls-1.1)
  9 packages in /hpux9/Users            (less-178.magic.2 pine-3.89)
  8 packages in /hpux8/X11R4/Graphics   (xv-2.21 xscribble-a6)
  8 packages in /hpux8/X11R4/Core       (MITlib-4.00 appres-1.5)
  8 packages in /hpux8/Sysadmin         (rpasd-2.0 pltools-2.0.2)
  8 packages in /hpux8/Physics          (asa-2.27 asa-2.15)
  8 packages in /hpux8/Languages        (gofer-2.28b scheme-7.1.3)
  7 packages in /hpux8/X11R5            (XR5src-5.23.part01 XR5built-5.23)
  7 packages in /hpux8/X11R4/Networking (adcmail-0.9 collage-1.0b)
  7 packages in /hpux8/Text             (tr2latex-2.2a TeX-3.14)
  6 packages in /hpux8/NeuralNets       (am-6.0 GAucsd-1.4)
  5 packages in /hpux8/Users            (xmodem-3.9 es-0.84)
  4 packages in /hpux9/NeuralNets       (snns-3.1 atree-2.0)
=======================================
584 packages in total

The Liverpool archive supports a gopher server at gopher.csc.liv.ac.uk
(138.253.42.174) and also a mail server at [e-mail] for
users without access to anonymous FTP.

Name:      hpux.ask.uni-karlsruhe.de
Address:   129.13.200.57
Contents:  The official German mirror site of ftp.csc.liv.ac.uk

Name:      ftp.cae.wisc.edu
Address:   144.92.4.15
Contents:  The official US mirror site of ftp.csc.liv.ac.uk

Name:      hpux.cict.fr
Address:   192.70.79.53
Contents:  The official French mirror site of ftp.csc.liv.ac.uk


The Interworks and Liverpool sites are now cooperating as follows:

1) The Liverpool archive will carry packages originating from and submitted to
   the Interworks site.  These packages will  be integrated into the  existing
   structure of the archive.

2) Interworks will provide binaries for each of the  packages on the Liverpool
   archive.  These  packages  will be  organized into  a  directory  structure
   matching  that of  the Liverpool  site. *** Note:  This is  not immediately
   available but should be up and running soon ***

3) Interworks will continue to provide complete packages (source+binaries) for
   the HP and user-contributed software in its library.

Site:      ftp://ftp.prz.tu-berlin.de
Address:   130.149.62.68
Contents:  Much of the Liverpool archive.

Site:      ftp://export.lcs.mit.edu
Address:   18.24.0.12
Contents:  The X Window System and contributed clients.

Site:      ftp://hpcvaaz.cv.hp.com
Address:   15.255.72.15
Contents:  X Window System libraries and utilities.
           ftp://hpcvaaz.cv.hp.com/pub/700RX/released/b0502
           contains the latest version of the 700RX software.  There are
           subdirectories for HP-UX hosts, Solaris and SunOS.

Site:      ftp://ftpboi.external.hp.com
Address:   192.6.71.2
Contents:  Drivers for HP printers.

Site:      ftp://lut.fi/pub/hpux
           ftp://lut.fi/pub/unix/hp-ux
Address:   157.24.10.8
Contents:  Various

Site:      ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/unix/arch/hpux
Address:   128.214.6.100
Contents:  Various

Site:      ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu
Address:   18.71.0.38
Contents:  The Free Software Foundation's GNU utilities, etc.

Site:      ftp://hybrid.irfu.se/pub
Address:   130.238.30.23
Contents:  X11 archive and shared libraries, full imake support,
           and all missing .h files for both X11R4 and R5, dvi2pcl.

Site:      ftp://geod.emr.ca
Address:   ?
Contents:  GNU stuff ported to HP-UX 9.x by Pierre Mathieu.

Site:      ftp://jazz.gsfc.nasa.gov
Address:   ?
Contents:  bathymetry, FFT, graph, pgplot, triangulation, sortroutine

Site:      ftp://jaguar.cs.utah.edu/dist
Address:   ?
Contents:  FSF compiler/assembler/debugger tools. Code usually
           has PA specific bugfixes/enhancements not yet in the
           official FSF releases.  Source and binaries available.
           hpux-symtab.h has symbolic debug format documentation.
           hpgdb.patch has a gdb patch for HP compilers.

           Currently available in the "dist" directory:

           GDB 4.11.u2     - Last update 12/04/93
           HPGDB 4.11.u2   - Last update 12/04/93
           GAS 2.2.u2      - Last update 12/04/93
           GCC 2.5.6.u4    - Last update 12/04/93
           LIBG++ 2.5.2.u2 - Last update 12/04/93

           Yes, you see gas-2.2; the first cut at a BFD based SOM assembler
           for the PA is ready for external use.  Release notes are in
           README.gas.

           The prebuilt binaries can be retrieved all at once from
           hpuxbin.tar.Z, or in pieces from the hpuxbin directory.

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Subject: 3.11  Where can I get a demo CD with software for HP-UX?

See your friendly local HP sales rep to get a copy of the "Power On II" CD.
Be sure and check out the Drive demo.

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Subject: 3.12! HP-UX patch information and mailing list.

To determine what patches are installed:

The standard patch installation will leave a directory in /system
that is is name of the patch.  For example, PHSS_3259 creates

/system/PHSS_3259

$lsf /system/PHSS_3259
CDFinfo     copyright   customize*  index       new/        orig/

The orig directory contains the modules that were replaced by the  patch and the
new directory will contain any modules that were not installed for whatever
reason.

This can take up a lot of space, so you may want to archive  this directory and
remove the new and orig sub-directories.  You may want to leave the customize
file because it has a list of the modules replaced. To see the list do:

   grep Patch customize | grep -v \#

Another place to look is in /etc/filesets:

$ls /etc/filesets/PHSS*
/etc/filesets/PHSS_1644  /etc/filesets/PHSS_2695  /etc/filesets/PHSS_3060
...
/etc/filesets/PHSS_2686  /etc/filesets/PHSS_3032  /etc/filesets/PHSS_3328

If someone has removed the /system/PHSS* directories and the PHSS*
entries in /etc/filesets, there is no easy way to tell what patches
are installed.  You can tell if a given patch has been installed by
comparing what(1) and sum(1) outputs with those given in the
PHSS_nnnn.text file. Refer to question 7.11 about kernel patches.

How to get patches:

There are three ways to get patches.

If you have a support contract you can call the Response Center (800-633-3600)
and have the patches sent to you on magnetic media.

If you have Basic support or Response Center support you can access the Support
Line (support.mayfield.hp.com,192.6.148.19) and down load patches via ftp,
uucp, or kermit. The access can be modem or internet.

Regardless of the support you have, you can get patches via e-mail via the
SupportLine mail service. To get the user guide, send e-mail to
<[e-mail]>, with "send guide" in the text portion of the
message. No subject is required. The result is nroff-formatted; to get the plain
ASCII version, use "send guide.txt". In addition to patches, you can also access
online problem solving information, subscribe to mailing lists, and get
documents.

John Morris of the Atlanta Response Center posts a weekly list of  new patches
to comp.sys.hp.hpux on Mondays.  It tells what's  new and what patches are
replaced by the new patches, along with sizes.

Additionally, there is an HP-UX patch mailing list, run by Bart Muyzer
<[e-mail]>. To SUBSCRIBE, send e-mail to: <[e-mail]>
There is a discussion underway to change the focus of this list from
patches to sysadmin; stay tuned for further developments.

For reference, the latest patches for critical parts of 9.01 are:

PHKL_2449 :  s700 9.01 limit dynamic buffer cache allocation
PHKL_3075 :  s700 9.01 Fix for select() panic and memory leak
PHKL_3985 :  s700 9.01 kernel megapatch
PHNE_3604 :  s700_800 9.X fix for multiple rpc.lockd problems
PHNE_3701 :  s700_800 9.X automount(1M) patch including map entry fix
PHNE_3424 :  s700_800 9.X fix for multiple rpc.statd problems
PHSS_3812 :  s700 9.X /bin/ld fixes
PHSS_3773 :  s700 9.X ANSI C compiler patch revision A.09.63
PHSS_3779 :  s700 9.X X11R5 Xserver March 1994 Periodic Patch

Similar patches for 9.03 are:

PHKL_2755 :  s700 9.03 fix for dynamic buffer cache performance problem
PHKL_3076 :  s700 9.03 Fix for select() panic
PHKL_3570 :  s700 9.03 data segmentation fault when calling vfork()
PHKL_3621 :  s700 9.03 patch for NFS/symbolic links/fsync
PHNE_3388 :  s700_800 9.X corrects rpc.mountd problems
PHNE_3424 :  s700_800 9.X fix for multiple rpc.statd problems
PHNE_3573 :  s700 9.03 fixes multiple ARPA Transport defects
PHNE_3604 :  s700_800 9.X fix for multiple rpc.lockd problems
PHSS_3773 :  s700 9.X ANSI C compiler patch revision A.09.63
PHKL_3975 :  s700 9.03 kernel megapatch with NFS readdir/seekdir fix
PHSS_3812 :  s700_800 9.X ld(1) patch
PHSS_3779 :  s700 9.X X11R5 Xserver March 1994 Periodic Patch

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Subject: 3.13  How can I send mail to an "hpdesk" address?

For a person whose DESK address is:
  JANE DOE /HP1234/XY

Ignore the subentity (XY) and use the form:
  [e-mail]

Send them a test message and tell them to make a note of the return address,
as forming internet addresses on DESK is a little more complicated.  If
there is an X.400 system between you and the DESK person, what you get back
may look like a very strange internet address, but it generally works.

Notice the underscore between names.  Names can be first_last or last_first, but
first_last is easier to remember and get correct, especially if they have
initials in their name as in [e-mail].  Be sure that the
DESK address they give you is exactly what is reported by DESK when they send a
message to themselves or look at the distribution list on a piece of mail the
recipient already has to verify the address.

(Thanks to Bob Niland and Bill Hassell)

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Subject: 3.14  What are the known issues with porting BSD-based programs to HP-UX?

Mike Peterson <[e-mail]> periodically posts
his list of BSD-HP tricks to comp.sys.hp.hpux. It is also archived on the
iworks FTP site (mentioned above) as "hptricks".

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Subject: 3.15  What periodicals are available that focus on HP-UX?

o Interworks publishes The Works, a user group newsletter for Interworks
  members.

o Interex publishes hp-ux/usr, an HP-UX focused newsletter.

o HP Professional (The Magazine for Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Computing)

  This magazine covers MPE, HP-UX, PCs, peripherals and Networking for
  HP users.  Its focus is on both commercial as well as technical
  computing. It is published by:
          Cardinal Business Media, Inc.
          101 Witmer Road
          Horsham, PA 19044
          [phone]     FAX: [phone]
   email: [e-mail] (editor-in-chief)

o The HP Chronicle (The Independent Newspaper for HP Computer Users)

  This tabloid-sized newspaper contains news from HP and other vendors
  of compatible hardware, software and peripherals. Published by:
               Publications and Communications, Inc
               12416 Hymeadow Drive
               Austin, TX  8750-1896
               [phone]    Fax: [phone]
               email: {cs.utexas.edu, execu, texbell}!pcinews!wks
               Compuserve: 76011,307
               MCI mail: PCI
               EasyLink: 62755060

o HP/Apollo Workstation

  A magazine that focuses specifically on HP/Apollo workstations.
  Published by PCI (same as HP Chronicle).

o Open Systems Today (general Unix and other "open systems" weekly)
  has a regular "HP Focus" section.

o Unix Review covers general Unix topics monthly.

(Thanks to Bill Hassell, HP, for most of this)

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Subject: 3.16  Books on HP-UX

A recently published book on HP-UX system administration:

  'The HP-UX System Administrator's "How To" Book'
   by Marty Poniatowski
     Prentice-Hall
     ISBN 0-13-099821-4

If you're serious about adminstering HP-UX workstations, get this book.
Unfortunately, it fails to mention the Internet or this FAQ as
alternate resources, but it does discuss Interworks and Interex.

(Thanks to Mike Taylor, HP)

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Subject: 4. THIRD PARTY VENDORS

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Subject: 4.1  Third party vendors for RAM.

The following vendors are listed in alphabetical order. No guarantees
are made regarding compatibility or relative merit of the vendors.

Camintonn                          Clearpoint Research Corporation
22 Morgan                          1000 E. Woodfield Road, Suite 102
Irvine, CA 92718                   Schaumburg, IL 60173
[phone]                     [phone]
[phone]

Concorde Technologies              Dataram
7966 Arjons Dr. B-201              PO Box 7528
San Diego, CA 92126                Princeton, NJ 08543-7528
[phone]                     (800) DATARAM
[phone]                     [phone]

Digitial Micronics                 Eventide
2075 Corte Del Nogal               1 Alsan Way
Unit N                             Little Ferry, NJ 07643
Carlsbad, CA 92009                 [phone]

Helios Systems                     Herstal Automation
1996 Lundy Ave                     3171 West Twelve Mile Rd.
San Jose, CA 95131                 Berkley, MI 48072
[phone]                     [phone]
[phone]

IEM                                Infotek Systems
P.O. Box 1889                      625 South Lincoln
Fort Collins, CO 80522             Suite 204
[phone]                     Steamboat Springs, CO 80487
[phone]                     [phone]

Intelligent Interfaces             ISA Ltd
P.O. Box 1486                      1-1-5 Sekiguchi
Stone Mountain, GA 30086-1486      Bunkyo-Ku
[phone]                     Tokyo 112 Japan
                                   81-3 (5261) 1160
                                   US Office (Texas)
                                   [phone]

Kelly Computer Systems             Kingston Technology Corporation
1101 San Antonio Rd.               17600 Newhope Street
Mountain View, CA 94043            Fountain Valley, CA 92708
[phone]                     [phone]

Martech                            Merida Systems
1151 W. Valley Blvd.               [phone]
Alhambra, CA 91803-2493
[phone]
[phone]

MDL Corporation
15301 NE 90th St.
Redmond, WA 98052
FAX [phone]
[phone]
[phone]

Newport Digital                    R Squared
14731 Franklin Avenue              11211 E. Arapahoe Rd., Suite 200
Suite A                            Englewood, CO 80112
Tustin, CA 92680                   [phone]
[phone]                     [phone]

(Thanks to Roy McMorran <[e-mail]>)

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Subject: 4.2  Third party vendors for peripherals

Vendor              Products
------              --------
MDL Corporation     Disk, tape, optical, jukebox, EISA expansion, RAID, others.
15301 NE 90th St.
Redmond, WA 98052
FAX [phone]
[phone]
[phone]

Modular Industrial  MICHIL PS2 to HP-HIL converter. Allows standard PC keyboards
Computers           and mice to be connected to HP workstations.
615-499-0700
Joe Malley

ITAC Systems, Inc.  Supports Mouse-trak trackball for HP-HIL
3113 Benton St.
Garland, Tx 75042
800-533-4822
[e-mail]

(Thanks to Mike Lampi, MDL, Jeff Dwork, AMD, and Walter Underwood, HP)

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Subject: 5. UTILITIES

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Subject: 5.1  ASCII to Postscript converter.

You can get an ASCII to Postscript converter from:

ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume10/a2ps3.Z

Additionally, nenscript is available from various FTP sites.

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Subject: 5.2  How do I make perl on HP-UX?

   Reply like this to Configure:

   1. When it asks for optimization flags answer
        +O1 if you have HP-UX 7.05 or less
        -O  if you have HP-UX 8.0 or later.
   2. When it asks for additional flags to cc answer
        -DJMPCLOBBER
   3. When it asks for additional libraries answer
    -lndbm -lm    (ignore the other libraries Configure finds).
      You can also safely add -lBSD if you wan't BSD signal semantics.
   4. When it asks if you wan't to use perl's malloc answer
    y
      If you have HP-UX 8.07 or later you may choose to answer no to this since
      that malloc is OK.
   5. When perl asks on which boundarie a double must be aligned answer
    8    if you are on a 9000/800 or 9000/700 series machine (HP-PA
         architecture).
    2    otherwise (Motorola 68k architecture)

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Subject: 5.3  What is the status of the various gnu items on HP-UX?

Pierre Mathieu <[e-mail]> periodically posts a list to
comp.sys.hp.hpux; the last revision is 2.3. Jeff Law of the University of Utah
maintains an archive on jaguar.cs.utah.edu of the latest PA-RISC ported compiler
tools; see question 3.10 above for details.

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Subject: 6. X WINDOW SYSTEM, MOTIF, AND HP-VUE

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Subject: 6.1  X11 libraries (Athena, etc.) and utilities (imake, etc.).

As you may have noticed, HP does not ship a "full" set of X11 libraries and
include files, and does not provide imake or associated tools. There is a HP
maintained, but UNSUPPORTED, set of X11R4 libraries and utilities for the HP
9000 Series 300, 400, 700, and 800.  You can get the libraries, include files,
and config files (imake) via anonymous FTP from

ftp://hpcvaaz.cv.hp.com/pub/MitX11R4/libs.s*00.tar.Z.

This is also archived on the iworks node as mentioned above. HP has also
submitted X11R5 sources to the iworks node as mentioned above. And, Bo Thide has
X11R4 and R5 support available via anon. FTP as mentioned above.

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Subject: 6.2  How can I display an image on the root window with HP-VUE?

Set Vuewm*backdrop*image:   none. Note that there is an explicit pick for this
in the Style Manager with HP-VUE 3.0. When the backdrop is clear, you can use
xloadimage, xsetroot, xv, or the like to display the image of your choice.

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Subject: 6.3  How do I get a scroll bar on hpterms?

Set the following resources:

HPterm*scrollBar:    TRUE
HPterm*saveLines:    1024

or some other other arbitrarily large number.  To do this interactively, use
"hpterm -sb -sl 1024". You can also set these in an app-default file
(/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/HPterm). You can also set saveLines to something
like "4s", which indicates four screens.

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Subject: 6.4  How can I put a title in my hpterm titlebar?

Here is a two line program that you might find useful:

/* Quick and dirty program to put argv[1] in the title bar of an hpterm
   Tom Arons March 1992
*/
#include <string.h>
main(argc,argv)
        int argc; char **argv;
{
        printf("\033&f0k%dD%s", strlen(argv[1]), argv[1]);
        printf("\033&f-1k%dD%s", strlen(argv[1]), argv[1]);
}

An alternative is:

#!/bin/sh
LENGTH=`strlen $1`
echo "&f0k${LENGTH}D$1\c"

In case in gets mangled, that's ESC between the first quote and the f0k.

strlen, in case you don't have it, comes from:

#include <stdio.h>

main(argc, argv)
   int argc;
   int *argv[];
{
   if (argc != 2)
      exit(0);
   printf("%d\n", strlen(argv[1]));
}

(Thanks to Tom Arons <[e-mail]> and John T. Beck, HP.)

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Subject: 6.5  How come my hpterms keep going away by themselves?

You are probably using the C Shell (/bin/csh) and have autologout set (it is
set to 60 minutes by default).  Put an "unset autologout" in your ".cshrc".

If you are using the korn shell it is probably due to the value set for
the shell variable TMOUT.  Set it to 0 (infinite timeout).

(Thanks to Jim Sharpe <[e-mail]> for the Korn Shell information.)

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Subject: 6.6  How come my HP X/Motif clients take a LONG time to display on a Sun?

The problem is with the OW3 server.  You can request OW3 patch 100444-35 (or
whatever is the current replacement) from Sun to fix the problem. Supposedly
this has been rolled into OW 3.0.1. A workaround is to set the X resource
*useColorObj: False on the Sun.

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Subject: 6.7  How can I get my login stuff to work under HP-VUE?

When you login  via VUE, VUE  sources  ~/.vueprofile  *INSTEAD  OF* your .login
(csh),  .profile  (sh/ksh),  and other  startup  files.  Whatever actions  are
taken in  ~/.vueprofile  are  persistent  across any  children started  by VUE.
Meaning that if you  symbolic  link  ~/.vueprofile  to your ~/.profile,  then
VUE will source your  ~/.profile  before  starting the window system, and all
children  (hpterms/xterms  and their  interactive shells) will inherit this
environment (prompt variables et al).

Documentation indicates your ~/.vueprofile should contain either csh, or sh/ksh
syntax, depending upon what your login shell is.

When csh is my login shell, I set my  ~/.vueprofile  to contain only two
lines:

    if ( -f /etc/csh.login ) source /etc/csh.login
    if ( -f ~/.cshrc ) source ~/.cshrc

When sh/ksh is my login shell, I set my ~/.vueprofile to contain only two
lines:

    test -f /etc/profile && . /etc/profile
    test -f ${HOME}/.profile && . ${HOME}/.profile

So, before  starting the window  manager and any clients, VUE makes sure that
all my shell startup files are sourced and all the variables I want in my shell
environment are already there and waiting for me.

(Thanks to Steve Jumonville, HP)

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Subject: 6.8  How can I get console messages to go to an hpterm?

You can avoid console messages writing to your graphics planes and trashing your
VUE session by starting an hpterm and designating it to receive console
messages, and to de-iconify, when console messages are received.  Put something
like this in your "vue.session" file in ~/.vue/sessions/home. (line wrapped
for readability):

# Start up the  Terminal  Console as iconic,  and raise it if any output

vuesmcmd -cmd "hpterm -C -iconic -ls -sb -sl 256 -name Console -T Console
-xrm *mapOnOutputDelay:\ 30 -xrm *mapOnOutput:\ True
-xrm Console*clientFunctions:\ -close -xrm *workspaceList:\ all"

(Thanks to Steve Jumonville, HP)

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Subject: 6.9  What happened to the vuewm key accelerators at VUE 3.0?

Well, we don't really know. Here's how to set them, though.
Add an entry like this (you can, of course, customize it to your
liking) to your $HOME/.vue/vuewmrc file:

Menu VueWindowMenu
{
    "Restore"          _R        Alt<Key>F5         f.normalize
    "Move"             _M        Alt<Key>F7         f.move
    "Size"             _S        Alt<Key>F8         f.resize
    "Minimize"         _n        Alt<Key>F9         f.minimize
    "Maximize"         _x        Alt<Key>F10        f.maximize
    "Lower"            _L        Alt<Key>F3         f.lower
     no-label                                       f.separator
    "Occupy..."        _O        Alt<Key>O          f.workspace_presence
    "Occupy all"       _a        Alt Shift<Key>O    f.occupy_all
     no-label                                       f.separator
    "Remove from WS"   _e        Alt Shift <Key>F4  f.remove
    "Close"            _C        Alt<Key>F4         f.kill
}

And then add this resource:

Vuewm*windowMenu:       VueWindowMenu

And restart the window manager.

(Thanks to Bill Bennett, HP)

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Subject: 6.10  How come I can no longer disable the caps lock key with xmodmap?

A common activity in the past has been to disable the, shall we say, "placement
challenged" caps lock key on the ITF keyboard using a simple xmodmap script.
This no longer works consistently at X11R5/VUE 3.0; the best solution so far:

In file ~/.vue/sessions/lite/vue.session:

/usr/bin/X11/xmodmap - << EOF
        clear lock
        keycode 55 = Control_L
        keycode 86 = Caps_Lock
        keycode 39 = grave asciitilde guillemotleft guillemotright
        keycode 71 = Escape
        add Lock = Caps_Lock
        add Control = Control_L
EOF

This works until logout/login, when Caps Lock toggles the control feature, even
though 'xmodmap -pm' shows that Lock has no assignments. You have to restart the
server to reset completely, which can be automated by setting the value

Vuelogin*terminateServer:   True

in the file /usr/vue/config/Xconfig.

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Subject: 6.11  How come vi behaves strangely in xterms at 9.01?

Apparantly initial invocation of xterm under csh does not set LINES/COLUMNS
correctly, and vi doesn't handle that real well. One workaround is to put the
following in .cshrc:

if ( $?WINDOWID ) then
   set noglob;eval `/usr/bin/X11/resize`;unset noglob
endif

PHSS_2753 addresses this problem.

(Thanks to Raymond Nijssen for the workaround.)

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Subject: 6.12  How do I disable HP-VUE?

There have been several recommendations on this base thread. Here is one that is
documented for X terminals (it works for workstations too). This takes advantage
of the fact that Vue sets several environment variables for the session, one of
which is USER.

Modify the /usr/lib/X11/vue/Vuelogin/Xsession (pre-9.0 HPUX) or the
/usr/vue/config/Xsession (9.0 HPUX and later) file:

    1) Go to the portion that contains the coment "Determine the startup
       if the user didn't specify one." -- approximately line 295 in an
       unaltered version of the file.

    2) Add a following case statement to fit your needs. It should look
       something like:

                   case $USER in
                      martha | joe) startup=${HOME}/.x11start''
                   esac

You can add as much or little intelligence to this as you like. The above
assumes that the users' have a .x11start script in their home directory, that
its permissions are correct, etc. You can build in a fallback machanism. For
example, the script will check to see if the user has a .x11start script and if
not, to fallback to /usr/lib/X11/sys.x11start. To see an example of this logic,
do a more(1) on /usr/bin/x11start.

The above case statement is documented in Ch 2 of the "HP 700/RX System
Administrators Guide".

(Thanks to Bill Morrison, HP)

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Subject: 6.13  What's a good termcap entry for hpterm?

Although it is not supported for hpterm use, the 262x entry in
/etc/newconfig/termcap will work.

(Thanks to Frank Slootweg, HP)

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Subject: 6.14  My screen is wedged. What should I do?

One thing you can try is to unplug the keyboard for ~5 seconds. Note that
you will have to rerun xset -r to get autorepeat to work after doing this.

(Thanks to Paul Liebert, HP.)

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Subject: 6.15  How can I get an X client to come up in an alternate workspace?

You can try:

client -xrm "*workspaceList: <name>"

(Thanks to <[e-mail]>)

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Subject: 6.16  Where did xline go at 9.x?

We don't know. The 9.03 Motif version of Glance Plus has what xline had
(and more).

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Subject: 6.17  How can I get HP-VUE to not override colors?

The Motif library on HP-UX has extra code added to make the default colors
follow the color schemes that the user selects with the vuestyle controls.  This
extra code makes trouble for some applications which don't want this unique and
unexpected behavior.

You can prevent the entire color scheme mechanism from being used in an
application by setting "*useColorObj: False" for the application before creating
the first widget.  This can be done by adding the resource to the application
defaults, the fallback resources, or as an extra "-xrm" "*useColorObj: False"
args pair in the argv and argc parameters passed to XtAppInitialize.  If you set
the resource in xrdb it would be best to set it for only specific applications
like "MyApp*useColorObj: False".

Setting the useColorObj resource could make programs core dump on some 8.0*
systems.  There is a patch that corrects the core dump.

You can use the vue colors and prevent the specific difference between dialog
colors vs.  non-dialog colors by setting a resource that specifies the behavoir
of the color scheme mechanism.  To force the dialogs to use the same colors as
the other windows set the following resources in your app_defaults file or
fallback settings-

*primaryColorSetId: 3
*secondaryColorSetId: 3

This sets the dialog or "secondary" colors to the same set as the primary
colors.  This is discussed in the "HP VUE 3.0 User's Guide" in chapter 26.

(Thanks to Mike Stroyan, HP.)

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Subject: 6.18  How can I override the system default printer in vuepad?

cp /usr/vue/types/vuepad.vf $HOME/.vue/types

Edit the file and change the ACTION PRINT_PR_VPAD to:

# The PRINT_PR_VPAD action paginates its arguments using pr(1) and prints
# them with lp(1).  It uses arg 2 for a title.  It then removes the temp
# file.  This action is used by the client vuepad.
ACTION PRINT_PR_VPAD
        TYPE            COMMAND
        WINDOW-TYPE     NO-STDIO
        EXEC-HOST       %LocalHost%
        EXEC-STRING     /bin/sh -c "pr -h %Arg_2% %(File)Arg_1% | \
                                lp -d%"Printer:"%; rm %(File)Arg_1%"
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
END

This will cause a dialog box to appear to prompt you for a printer name.
However,  if you set LPDEST in your .vueprofile,  then lp will use that
value instead of the system default.

(Thanks, Dan Mercer, <[e-mail]>)
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Subject: 6.19  How can I get the VUE 2.01 man page help index back?

The man pages will show up in the index if you copy over pre-9.X copies
of the files "/usr/lib/X11/vue/help/C/manpage.cat", and
"/usr/lib/X11/vue/help/C/manpage/*".

(Thanks, Mike Stroyan, HP)

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Subject: 7. OPERATING SYSTEM

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Subject: 7.1  Can I have filenames longer than 14 chars?

Yes, change to long filenames using /etc/convertfs. You can't go back, though.
Here's how to check if an existing filesystem has long filenames enabled:

# tunefs -v /dev/rdsk/XXX | grep magic
magic   95014   clean   FS_OK   time    Tue Mar 23 14:13:01 1993
       \__ if = 95014 then long filenames
        \__ if = 11954 then short filenames

(Thanks to Ken Burke.)

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Subject: 7.2  How can I tell what filesets have been loaded on my system?

Check the /etc/filesets directory. There is a file there for each fileset that
has been loaded that summarizes the files in that fileset.  This directory is
used by the /etc/update, /etc/updist, /etc/netdistd, and /etc/rmfn utilities
for loading and unloading software.

------------------------------

Subject: 7.3  How do I safely remove software from my system?

The _only_ safe way to remove HP software is to use /etc/rmfn.

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Subject: 7.4  What's the scoop on HP-UX 9.03/9.04?

HP-UX 9.03 and 9.04 have now been officially released from HP and are
available on request from your software support coordinator. Support
is included for the 712 workstations, and many patches are included.

------------------------------

Subject: 7.5  How come HP-UX doesn't support NFS root access?

HP-UX versions previous to 9.X do not support NFS root access to mounted
file systems. This because they are at an old revision of NFS. You *can* hack
your kernel to provide it, but it's dangerous, unsupported, and a security
hole. 9.X supports full NFS 4.1 functionality, including NFS root.

------------------------------

Subject: 7.6! How can I change the order of hostname resolution?

Patches PHCO_3990 and PHNE_3686 allow configuration of the order of
hostname resolution. For more detail, see the docs in PHNE_3686; the
bottom line is that it's like Solaris 2.x.

------------------------------

Subject: 7.7! How come the LOGnnnn files in /usr/adm keep growing and growing?

The LOGnnnn files in /usr/adm (8.x except 8.02) or /usr/adm/diag (8.02 and 9.0)
are the diagnostic event log files. Most likely the files are growing for
one of two reasons: either the diagnostics system was improperly installed,
or there is an actual hardware problem on the system.

(Thanks to Wayne Krone of HP)

------------------------------

Subject: 7.8  How come I can't lock mail or other files on a Sun?

Believe it or not, Sun's lockd is broken at 4.1.x. The proper Sun patch
number is Patch-ID# 100075-09, called the "lockd jumbo patch".

------------------------------

Subject: 7.9  Why are mail files in /usr/mail are owned by daemon instead of the recipient?

The mail delivery agent /bin/rmail needs to be able to chown(2) these files.
It cannot do so if you have removed the privilege CHOWN (see setprivgrp(1m);
removing CHOWN is recommended to prevent cheating on disk quotas).  To get
around this, noting that /bin/rmail runs setgid to group mail, you can grant
privilege CHOWN to group mail only by inserting the line "mail CHOWN" in
/etc/privgroup. The change takes effect on the next reboot, or immediately
if you execute the command "setprivgrp -f /etc/privgroup".

(Thanks to Jim Richardson <[e-mail]>)

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Subject: 7.10  How can I tell if I need more than a 2-user license?

    There are several fundamental things to remember about HP-UX licensing:

    o Series 700 and Series 800 users are now counted the same way
    o Display console counts as one user
    o Each ASCII terminal counts as a user, regardless of how it is
          connected
    o The LAN connection counts as one user

    Ascii Terminals

    The simple rule to remember is any ASCII terminal that is logged in counts
    as a user.

    ASCII terminal connections can come in several different forms:

    o Direct-connected via a serial terminal multiplexer
    o Connected via Data Terminal Concentrators (DTCs) or via
          terminal servers
    o Personal Computers (PCs) acting in terminal emulation mode,
          whether connected via serial line or via Local Area Network (LAN)

    X-terminals and workstations

    When a customer buys an X-terminal or workstation from HP or from
    another vendor, HP acknowledges that the customer has also bought a
    single Unix license-to-use.

    Therefore, the customer has the right to an unlimited number of logins and
    terminal windows _over_the_LAN_ to a Series 700 or Series 800 from either
    X-terminals or workstations. These logins can be via X terminal windows
    (_hpterm_ and _xterm_), _telnet_, _rlogin_, or other means.

    PC's that use X-terminal emulation software such as XView each count the
    same as an X terminal. This is because the PC essentially becomes an
    X-terminal when it is running the X server software. Therefore, when a PC
    is running an X-terminal emulator, the PC has the right to an unlimited
    number of logins to an HP-UX system.

    Exceptions

    The policy of counting DTC users is new for the Series 700. Customers who
    purchased Series 700 systems prior to HP-UX 9.0 shipments (late calendar
    1992) and use them as host systems for multiple DTC- connected terminals,
    may continue to use those configurations without buying a license upgrade.
    An update to HP-UX 9.0 will not lock out these configurations.

(Thanks to Tony Hart, HP)

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Subject: 7.11  How can I tell what patches are in the kernel?

"what /hp-ux" will present you with patch strings, which you can compare with
the strings called out in the patch text file. A typical patch string is:

PATCH_8.07 nfs_vnops.c 1.15.61.4 92/01/10 PHKL_0736 PHKL_0942

which shows that PHKL_0942 has been applied to the kernel.

------------------------------

Subject: 7.12  How come I have to hit return after control-d in the Korn shell?

You need to set the "viraw" option.

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Subject: 7.13  How do I boot into single user mode?

Press ESC to stop the auto-boot.
When the list of boot devices is presented:

b PX ISL    (where X is your root disc)

And at the ISL> prompt:

ISL>  hpux -iS disc(;0)/hp-ux

The '-iS' are the flags to init which says come up single user.  The rest of
the command is what the bootprocess does automatically.

(Thanks to Stuart Jarriel <[e-mail]>.)

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Subject: 7.14  How come my Korn shell login hangs?

This can happen if the user's home directory is across an NFS mount point; you
can workaround the problem by completely unprotecting (chmod 777) .sh_history,
or by pointing HISTFILE to somewhere local.

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Subject: 7.15  How can I avoid those annoying copyright notices on login?

The following code in /etc/profile prints the copyright notice the first
time each user logs in:

    NUMLOGINS=`/etc/last | grep $LOGNAME | wc -l`
    if [ $NUMLOGINS -lt 2 ]
    then
        cat /etc/copyright
    fi

And, for /etc/csh.login:

set NUMLOGINS=`/etc/last | grep $LOGNAME | wc -l`
if ( $NUMLOGINS<2 ) cat /etc/copyright

(Actually, each user will get the copyright on their first login after each
time the /etc/wtmp file is pruned, but that needn't be often.)

(Thanks to Paul Gootherts, <[e-mail]> and Steve Dum,
<[e-mail]>)

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Subject: 7.16  How can I turn off quota checking?

The safe way is to use /etc/rmfn to remove the QUOTA fileset.

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Subject: 7.17  What are the issues with HP-UX 9.01?

Some of the things that people have seen with HP-UX 9.01:

rmfn of the NW-7XX fileset leaves behind an empty directory (/etc/conf/netware)
and subsequent kernel builds (for patch install) fails until this directory is
removed by hand.

When the length of a macro expansion exceeds an unspecified size, cpp.ansi
leaves some macros unexpanded in the output. Patched by PHSS_2199.

The linker does not traverse shared library search paths itself. Patched
by PHSS_3537.

Various X11 problems have been reported including drawing problems
and memory leaks. Get the latest X server (currently PHSS_3235).

Various serious C compiler problems have been fixed with PHSS_3707.

Memory leaks can occur and lock up a system; patch PHKL_3075 may fix it.

catman will core dump; patch PHCO_2183 fixes it.

There has been some controversy over the implementation of the dynamic buffer
cache at 9.01; people have been seeing situations where the cache has grown
quite large and the syncer takes over the system swapping it out. You can limit
the growth of the buffer cache to physical memory (default) with patch
PHKL_2449, or you can disable it altogether with the "bufpages" kernel
parameter; set bufpages to 10% of your physical memory, e.g. if you have an
S700 with 16M of memory, set bufpages to:

bufpages = 16,000 K physical ram / 4 K per page / 10 (percent ) = 400

(Thanks to various people, too numerous to mention.)

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Subject: 7.18  Why does chown behave differently at 9.x?

chown(2) on symbolic links now chown's the file which the link is pointing to
instead of the link itself. If you want to go back to the olf behavior, you
can set the 'hpux_aes_override' parameter to '1'.  This can be done by
modify /etc/master ('hpux_aes_override AES_OVERRIDE      1') and changing
the dfile 'hpux_aes_override  1'.  Or by adb'ing the kernel;
adb -w /hp-ux /dev/kmem
hpux_aes_override?W 1       # For the /hp-ux
hpux_aes_override/W 1       # For the current kernel
$q

(Thanks to Trond Haugen, HP)

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Subject: 7.19  How can I track log files and core files?

At 9.x, SAM allows you to track all standard log files and trim them if
desired. It will also find all core files on a file system and allow you
to get rid of them.

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Subject: 7.20  How much memory can a process use?

The first limiter is probably swap space.  The combined virtual data space
of all running processes can't exceed swap size. Run /etc/swapinfo -t and
look at the total line.  That's all you have left.

For FORTRAN programs:
--------------------
1) Increase the kernel's stack limit (maxssiz).  You can do this with
   sam (Kernel Configuration-> Modify Operating System Parameters->
   Process Parameters).  The practical limit for user stacks is around
   80 Mbytes.  Your system probably has an 8 Mbyte limit.  Try 16 Mbytes
   or 32 Mbytes depending on your expected use.  Give sam a number that
   is a multiple of the 4096-byte pagesize.

2) Change your array allocation.  HP FORTRAN allocates non-common,
   non-SAVE'd arrays on the process stack.  Common blocks and SAVE'd
   variables are allocated in the process data segment (with much larger
   size limits).  If your arrays are declared in the main program and
   passed to subroutines, you can just SAVE the big ones in the main
   program, or put them in a common block in the main program, or
   recompile with -K since -K puts all local variables in the data
   segment.  (-K is a sledgehammer approach, but it gives you a quick
   indication that stack size is the issue.)

3)  Make sure you have enough swap space.
-------------------

(Thanks to Bob Montgomery, HP)

------------------------------

Subject: 7.21  How come there's little discussion of DCE?

DCE (Distributed Computing Environment) is an OSF-based product. HP now
ships a DCE product. Most of the discussion concerning DCE takes place
in comp.unix.osf.misc.

------------------------------

Subject: 7.22  How can I make a ramdisk?

THIS IS UNSUPPORTED. Make sure 'ram' is configured into your kernel, and then
make device files with major 9 (both blcok and char), minor 0xVSSSSS, where V is
the volume number, SSSSS is the number of sectors in the ram disk, and a sector
is 256 bytes. For example,

    mknod /dev/ram1m c 9 0x101000

makes a 1 meg ram disk. Of course, you have to make a file system on it and
mount it to make it useful.

(Thanks to Rob Gardner, HP)

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Subject: 7.23  Where can I get SLIP for HP-UX?

On HP workstations, SLIP is called ppl and is a part of the LAN/9000  Link
product (Thin coax hardware interface + Ethernet/802.3 driver +  TCP/IP
transport).  Although conceptually a separate "product", the  LAN/9000 Link is
shipped as part of every HP workstation.

(Thanks to Mike Taylor, HP)

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Subject: 7.24  How come I can't lock files across NFS after upgrading to 9.01?

You may need to replace your /etc/group with the 9.01 version:

Upgraded 9.01/  Installed
8.07 version    9.01 version

root::0:        root::0:root
other::1:       other::1:root,hpdb
bin::2:         bin::2:root,bin
sys::3:         sys::3:root,uucp
adm::4:         adm::4:root,adm
daemon::5:      daemon::5:root,daemon
mail::6:        mail::6:root
lp::7:          lp::7:root,lp
users::20:      users::20:root
                nogroup:*:-2:

(Thanks to Robin Strong <[e-mail]>)

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Subject: 7.25  What's a good strategy for clearing /tmp?

Two suggestions (to be run from cron) are:

find /tmp -depth -hidden -fsonly hfs -atime +1 -exec rm -rf {} \;

The -depth option ensures no directory is removed before its contents,
-fsonly hfs is because occasionally I've NFS-mounted stuff there and
it's better to do the clearing in the machine where it's local,
and -hidden is in case CDF's appear there for some reason.

(Thanks to Tapani Tarvainen)

for i in /tmp /usr/tmp
do
  find $i -type f -atime +3 -print -exec rm -f {} \;
  find $i -type d -atime +3 -print -exec rmdir {} \;
done

(Thanks to Rich Jennings, HP)

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Subject: 7.26  How can I change the timezone?

Edit the entry in /etc/src.sh and /etc/src.csh, and reboot.

------------------------------

Subject: 7.27  Is there an equivalent for getrusage()?

From the BSD porting tricks document (thanks, Mike):

#ifdef hpux
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#define getrusage(a, b)  syscall(SYS_GETRUSAGE, a, b)
#endif /* hpux */

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Subject: 7.28! How can I look at what my system is doing?

The best tool for monitoring your system is HP GlancePlus.  In the U.S. call
[phone] for a trial version.  Outside the U.S. contact your HP sales
representative.  HP sells other performance tools as well including HP
Performance Collection Software, HP PerfRX (for long-term performance
analysis of a single system), and HP PerfView which runs under OpenView
(for simultaneous monitoring of a network of systems including HP-UX, Sun
Sparc, and IBM AIX).  You can also use /usr/contrib/bin/monitor if it
exists on your system.

(thanks to Doug Grumman <[e-mail]>)

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Subject: 7.29  How can I partition HP-UX disks?

Here is a sample file which lists the sdsadmin commands to partition a disk
into 2 partitions. Note that this is specific to the M2654SA disk;
your mileage may vary. The mediainit is probably not required if the vendor
has formatted/verified the disk. It is not "supported" to partition
the boot disk, and you have to go through some contortions to do it.

#
# SDS configuration file for this node.
#
# To rebuild the /u1 and /news Fujitsu M2654SA disk partitions, do:
#    mediainit -v /dev/rdsk/c201d5s0
#    sdsadmin -m -C /usr/local/etc/sdsadmin.config.u1news /dev/dsk/c201d5s0
#    newfs -L -n -v -m 2 -i 16384 /dev/rdsk/c201d5s1 HP_M2654Su1x1-2
#    newfs -L -n -v -m 2 -i  2048 /dev/rdsk/c201d5s2 HP_M2654Su1x1-2
#
# Disk partitions:
#
# 1   /u1     145xxxx 1K blocks (/dev/dsk/c201d5s1, /dev/rdsk/c201d5s1)
# 2   /news    55xxxx 1K blocks (/dev/dsk/c201d5s2, /dev/rdsk/c201d5s2)
# -   -----   -------
#             2006016 1K blocks
#

type    M2654Su1x1-2
label   u1_news

partition 1
   size 1450000K

partition 2
   size      max

(Thanks to Mike Petersen)

------------------------------

Subject: 7.30  How can I print man pages successfully?

To get the italic and bold fonts from the man file on a Laserjet:

zcat manfile.1 | nroff -man -Tlj | lpr ...

On a PostScript printer ( you need the GNU groff):

zcat manfile.1 | groff -man -Tps | lpr ...

If your man file is a complex one including tables, pipe it through tbl.

Some man pages like ioctl may need the HP macros:

zcat manfile.1 | groff -t -e -C -M/usr/lib/tmac -man -Tps | lp ...

(Thanks to Poul Moller, Markus Gyger)

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Subject: 7.31  How can I limit core files?

HP-UX has no built in function to limit core file generation from the standard
shells; one way to limit core file generation is to create a directory called
"core" with 000 permissions in the directory in which you expect a core dump to
occur. Additionally, two programs are available (nocore and corelimit) that
can be used as wrappers around other programs that you may expect to dump.
And, some publicly available shells (tcsh, for example) allow core file
limits.

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Subject: 7.32  Can I put more than one backup on DDS with fbackup?

No. fbackup always rewinds the tape. Possible alternatives:

(1) Stick with dump.
(2) Use a pipe: instead of telling fbackup where the DAT is,
    let it send its output to stdout (-f -) and pipe it
    (thru remsh from the other machine) to the DAT, using
    no-rewind device.  You'll lose fast search ability, though.
(3) Turn your machines into a cluster served by the one with the DAT
    and do all backups there.  Unfortunately clusters are
    not supported at hp-ux 10.0, so this is not a long-term solution.
(4) Use NFS and mount the disks of the machine without DAT to the other
    and back them both up there.  You'll have to mount 'em with root
    permissions and restoring a completely destroyed root disk will be messy.
(5) Scream at HP until they fix fbackup. :-)

(Thanks to Tapani Tarvainen, [e-mail])

------------------------------

Subject: 7.33  How can I load multiple patches on a machine at the same time?

The easiest way to do it is to set up a netdist server by using /etc/updist
to load all the patches you want into a netdist area, and then starting
/etc/netdistd.

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Subject: 7.34  How can I set up an HP-UX workstation as an X terminal?

Install minimum OS with network and X11 (without motif or vue).
Edit /etc/inittab, change the following lines

init:2:initdefault:
vue :34:respawn:/etc/vuerc    # VUE validation and invocation

to

init:3:initdefault:
vue :34:respawn:/usr/bin/X11/X -query HOSTNAME    # X server startup

Replace HOSTNAME by the name of the host running xdm, vuelogin or whatever.

(thanks to Kay Marquardt, <[e-mail]>)

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Subject: 7.35! What causes "Unable to initialize MI" when running Glance?

This error can occur for many different reasons but it indicates that the
glance program had trouble starting the midaemon process.  Further details
are available in ~/glance.err and/or /usr/perf/log/`hostname`/midaemon.err.
See man midaemon(1).

Older revisions of HP GlancePlus (prior to B.09.00 for series 700/800
systems and prior to A.09.07 for series 300/400 systems) had a Known
Problem in which it was occasionally necessary to issue the following
command when the above error occurred:

rm /usr/perf/databases/`hostname`/*.data

Do NOT remove other files in the directory /usr/perf/databases/`hostname`/
because they may be required for other performance tools such as HP PerfRX
or HP PerfView.

This problem has been fixed in the current release of HP GlancePlus (versions
B.09.00 or greater for s700/800).

Please contact your HP Support Representative when you experience problems
with HP software products.  Your HP support contact will know how to obtain
additional information to characterize your specific problem.  Please
note the product version (ie: "what /usr/perf/bin/glance") when reporting
problems.

(thanks to Doug Grumman <[e-mail]>)

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Subject: 7.36  Where can I get pcnfsd on HP-UX?

It's part of the standard NFS distribution.

------------------------------

Subject: 7.37  Where can I get ppp for HP-UX?

Morningstar has a commercial implementation available. See
ftp://ftp.morningstar.com for more details.

(thanks to Cricket Liu, <[e-mail]>)

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Subject: 8. COMPILERS AND LINKERS

------------------------------

Subject: 8.1  What's a P-FIXUP error?

Several questions on comp.sys.hp.hpux have involved the Gnu C compiler
and the linker message below :

        gcc  test_h.o -o test_h ../libg++.a -lm
ld: R_DATA_ONE_SYMBOL fixup in file ../libg++.a(streambuf.o) for code unsat
symbol "abort" - use P' fixup
collect: /bin/ld returned 1 exit status

   This is caused by the code generator emitting assembly code in a data
subspace to initialize a function pointer, equivalent to :

    .word    foo

where (in this case) foo() is an extern, and shared libraries are referenced
by the executable being built (usually libc.sl).

NOTE:

This problem has been fixed in gcc-2.4.5.u5; if people are still running
into this error, then:

  1) They've got an old version of gas (pa-gas-1.36.u8 I belive is the
  first one do handle this correctly).

  2) They're linking with a library built with some old combination of
  gcc and gas.

The solution is to make sure gcc and gas are up-to-date and any libraries
have been built with the latest gcc/gas combination.  For a temporary
workaround the option "-static" to gcc will suppress dynamic linking and
thus avoids the error.

(thanks to Carl Burch, HP for the original, and Jeff Law
 <[e-mail]> for the followup)

------------------------------

Subject: 8.2  Where is regcmp on HP-UX?

RTFM - from man regcmp:

      regcmp and regex are kept in /lib/libPW.a, and are linked by using the
      -lc and -lPW options to the ld or cc command.  See WARNINGS below.

(thanks to Andre Srinivasan, <[e-mail]>)

------------------------------

Subject: 8.3  How come the default C compiler is brain-dead?

The C compiler shipped with HP-UX is intended only to rebuild the kernel
with, not for program development. To get a "real" C compiler, you must
buy the ANSI C program development bundle.

------------------------------

Subject: 8.4  How do I deal with "too many defines"?

Use the "-Wp,-Hxxxxxxx" where xxxxxxxx is the number of bytes to add to cpp's
table size.

There is no equivalent in lint or cflow to the cc driver's -W flag to
pass options to subprocesses like cpp.  However, both lint and cflow
invoke cpp via the cc driver, so you can achieve the same effect by
setting the CCOPTS environment variable.  For example,

    CCOPTS="-Wp,-H500000"
    export CCOPTS
    lint large_file.c


------------------------------

Subject: 8.5  How come I get "_builtin_va_start" undefined when I build with gcc?

The <varargs.h> and <stdarg.h> include files define va_start in terms of
this function, which is built-in on the HP C compiler.

If you're using GCC you should be picking up include files
from the gcc library directory.  These include files do the right
thing for both GCC and HP C.

More often than not these files were never installed, or someone has
placed a copy of varargs.h/stdarg.h into /usr/local/include (gcc searches
there *first*).

When all else fails, you can replace the definition of va_start as follows,
depending on whether you are using varargs or stdarg (K&R or ANSI,
respectively).

    #include <varargs.h>
    #ifdef __hppa
    #undef va_start
    #define va_start(a) ((a)=(char *)&va_alist+4)
    #endif

    #include <stdarg.h>
    #ifdef __hppa
    #undef va_start
    #define va_start(a,b) ((a)=(va_list)&(b))
    #endif

For <varargs.h>, this replacement should always work.

For <stdarg.h>, this replacement will work unless the last fixed
parameter ("b" in the call to va_start) is a structure larger
than 8 bytes.  Large structures are passed by reference, with the
callee responsible for copying the structure to a temporary area
if it will be modified.  In this case, "&b" will take the address
of that temporary area instead of the position in the argument
list, and va_next won't work.  That's why HP uses a compiler
built-in.

(Thanks to Cary Coutant, HP for the original and Jeff Law
  <[e-mail]> for the followup)

------------------------------

Subject: 8.6  How can I tell if something was built debuggable?

If the output of "/usr/contrib/bin/odump -spaces file.o" shows a space
named $DEBUG$, then it was compiled with -g.

(Thanks to Fran Litterio <[e-mail]>)

------------------------------

Subject: 8.7  Is there some kind of problem with using FLT_MIN in ANSI mode?

The C compiler dislikes this construct in ANSI mode:

x = FLT_MIN;    /* <---- warning here */

The problem is that the ANSI mode (_PROTOTYPES) version of FLT_MIN/FLT_MAX in
<float.h> end their constants with an F, which seems to upset the compiler.

The workaround ? Temporarily undef _PROTOTYPES around the <float.h> inclusion:

#ifdef _PROTOTYPES
#undef _PROTOTYPES
#include <float.h>
#define _PROTOTYPES
#else
#include <float.h>
#endif

(Thanks to Richard Lloyd of the Liverpool archive.)

------------------------------

Subject: 8.8  What's the deal with _INCLUDE_xxxx_SOURCE?

The ANSI standard clearly states what identifiers it reserves, and says the rest
are available to you, the programmer.  Many "important things" like "ulong" are
*not* specified by ANSI, so ANSI header files are not allowed by the standard to
define them.  Each standard supported by HP-UX (POSIX1, POSIX2, XPG2, XPG3,
XPG4, AES, etc) has its own set of reserved identifiers and header files, and
the convention is to require "-D_POSIX_SOURCE" (et al) to enabled their
respective namespaces.  Since HP could not predict what future standards would
come along and claim more header files and identifiers, it proved much simpler
to make the namespace as restrictive as possible unless "-D_HPUX_SOURCE" is
specified.  While this has turned into one the most frequently asked of FAQ's
about HP-UX, at least once you learn this, you don't have to deal with
inconsistencies again.  Whereas, had we allowed all non-standard headers to
define all non-standard symbols, you'd find identifiers randomly "disappearing"
from headers over time as they were claimed by various standards.

Also check the man page for "cc -Ae"; it enables the the HPUX_SOURCE namespace.

(Thanks to Marc Sabatella)

------------------------------

Subject: 9. HARDWARE AND PERIPHERALS

------------------------------

Subject: 9.1  Are alternate keyboards available for HP workstations?

Yes, HP has two keyboards available for their workstations and X Terminals.

A1099B - Workstation style keyboard (Default on workstations.)
A2205A - PC-101 style keyboard (Default on X Terminals.)

The 712 supports any PC-type keyboard and mouse.
------------------------------

Subject: 9.2  How can I play audio CDs on an HP workstation?

A contributed application ("xcd") exists that presents a X-window CD player
front panel.  xcd runs on HP-UX 7.0 and 8.0, on Series 300, 400 and 700, with
either SCSI or HP-IB CD-ROM drives. The SCSI drives must be HP-supplied or
Toshiba XM-3201B or XM-3301B. xcd does not yet officially work on HP-UX 9.0,
but I've tried it and it seems to work just fine. Note that xcd plays only
through the CD player's headphone jack and not through the workstation's
speaker.

xcd is available from the InterWorks workstation user group (see above),
on their ftp site, CD-ROM, and via DDS tape.

Note that source is not available.

Additionally, two new programs that provide similar functionality have
recently appeared, called xdp and xmcd.

(Thanks to Bob Niland and others)

------------------------------

Subject: 9.3  How can I enable the LAN interface on a 700?

This can be problem when the LAN isn't connected at boot time. To
resolve the problem, use the "reset" command in "landiag".

------------------------------

Subject: 9.4  How can I get an Exabyte to work on an HP?

People have under HP-UX 8.07 used device files with major number 54,
minor numbers 0x201202 and 0x201203 for /dev/rmt/2m and /dev/rmt/2mn,
respectively, for low density. Other people had used 0x201242 and 0x201243.

Note that with HP-UX 9.01, low density means 8200 format in 8500 drives.
Major #54, minor numbers 0x201202 and 0x201203 are low density handles.
With 8200 drives the density does not matter. Software compression
control with 8505 drives will require a patch to HP-UX 9.01.

Caveats: some Exabyte drives will not support a "dump" blocking factor
greater than 64 from the HP.  Others are apparently limited in the commands
they will accept (e.g. TTI noted that their 8501 tape drive will not properly
interface with the HP under all conditions; however, the TTI 8510 does
interface correctly). TTI had a firmware problem which should be
corrected in recent 8510s.

Note that 8500 drives act as SCSI-2, while 8200s are SCSI-1. People appear
to have been more successful with getting the 8500s to work with 9.01.

Experience has also shown that you may need PHKL_2898.

(Thanks to Mike Peterson for much of this.)

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Subject: 9.5  Is there a "node ID" on 700s?

Yes. Most licensing systems (FlexLM and NetLS, for example), are driven from
the LLA, available from /etc/lanscan or /usr/etc/netls/ls_targetid. There is
also a CPU ID number that HP uses for /etc/update; it may be a transformation
of the LLA, but this is not guaranteed to remain the case, and may be disturbed
by replacement of the LAN board. Additionally, the LLA can be reset by a
CE using the proper secret magic program.

------------------------------

Subject: 9.6  How can I get a stuck DDS tape out of the drive?

1)  Power down your machine (remember shutdown!!! ;-))
2)  Open it up (you'll prob. need Torx screwdrivers).
3)  on the side of the drive, you should see a small rectangular piece
    of plastic.  gently pry it off... it should come off quite easily.
4)  the aforementioned piece of plastic covers a hole, which houses a
    small dial.  spinning this dial ejects the tape.
5)  replace plastic piece, close machine... and bob's your uncle.

p.s.  the dial has very little torque (ie. the tape comes out quite slowly,
but you can see it move.   It'll take about 2-3 minutes of spinning before
the tape comes out.

(Thanks to Edlin Seebick.)

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Subject: 9.7  How can I use dump with a DDS tape?

dump was written to assume 9-track tapes, so some fudging has
to be done for DDS tapes.  The following has the info you need
along with several alternatives for dump parameters.

Approximate capacity of 60m DDS tape = 1.3G bytes
Approximate DDS tape density = (1.3G bytes) / (60 m) = (550K bytes/in)

dump assumes an inter-record gap (IRG) of 0.3 in for density = 6250,
0.7 in otherwise.

dump uses a default blocking factor of 10 for density < 6250,
32 otherwise.
================
density = 550000
blocking factor = 32 (default)
assumed IRG = 0.7 in

Block length = (32K bytes/block) / (550K bytes/in) + (0.7 in) = (0.76 in)

Effective tape length =
    (1.3G bytes) / (32K bytes/block) * (0.76 in/block) = (2511 ft)
================
density = 6250
blocking factor = 32 (default)
assumed IRG = 0.3 in

Block length = (32K bytes/block) / (6250 bytes/in) + (0.3 in) = (5.54 in)

Effective tape length =
    (1.3G bytes) / (32K bytes/block) * (5.54 in/block) = (18325 ft)
===============
density = 1600
blocking factor = 10 (default)
assumed IRG = 0.7 in

Block length = (10K bytes/block) / (1600 bytes/in) + (0.7 in) = (7.10 in)

Effective tape length =
    (1.3G bytes) / (10K bytes/block) * (7.10 in/block) = (75113 ft)
===============
density = 1600
blocking factor = 32
assumed IRG = 0.7 in

Block length = (32K bytes/block) / (1600 bytes/in) + (0.7 in) = (21.18 in)

Effective tape length =
    (1.3G bytes) / (32K bytes/block) * (21.18 in/block) = (70022 ft)

(Thanks to Cary Coutant, HP.)

------------------------------

Subject: 9.8  What is the correct major number for DDS drives on 9.01?

For reasons too detailed to go into here, the major number for DDS drives
has changed to 121 (from 54) at 9.01.

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Subject: 9.9  How can I set up /dev/audio to point to the external jack on a 700?

Alter the /dev/audio device file as follows:

crw-rw-rw-   1 root     sys       57 0x208011  /dev/audio  ; external jack
crw-rw-rw-   1 root     sys       57 0x208000  /dev/audio  ; internal speaker

The commands are:
  mknod /dev/audio c 57 0x2080??   <- replace ?? with 00 or 11 as shown above.

(Thanks to Lou Kvitek.)

------------------------------

Subject: 9.10  How can I configure the parallel port handshake on a 700?

From "man cent":

     The Series 700 cent driver supports six different handshake modes for
     data transfer.  The last four bits of the minor number of the device
     special file specify which mode is used.  The format of the device
     minor number is:

          0xSEF00A

     where each letter represents a single hexadecimal digit as follows:

     0x   Preamble to a hexadecimal number.
     S    Specifies the system bus module number ( 2 for core I/O).
     E    Specifies the EISA slot number: ( always 0 for core I/O).
     F    Specifies the function number.  Always 6 for the Core I/O
          parallel interface.
     00   Always 0.
     A    Specifies the handshake mode.  The handshake modes are:

               mode 1    Automatic handshaking using both nACK and BUSY.
                         Minor number format: 0xSEF001.

               mode 2    Automatic handshaking using only BUSY.  Minor
                         number format: 0xSEF002.

               mode 3    Bidirectional read/write used for ScanJet.  Minor
                         number format: 0xSEF003.

               mode 4    Stream mode.  Data is essentially transmitted to
                         the peripheral without any handshaking protocol.
                         Minor number format: 0xSEF004.

               mode 5    Pulsed mode using both ACK and BUSY for automatic
                         handshaking.  Similar to mode 1 except that the
                         data strobe line, nSTROBE is pulsed for a fixed
                         amount of time by the sender, then released.
                         Minor number format: 0xSEF005.

               mode 6    Pulsed mode, using only BUSY for automatic
                         handshaking.  Similar to mode 1 except that the
                         data strobe line, nSTROBE is pulsed for a fixed
                         amount of time by the sender, then released.
                         Minor number format: 0xSEF005.

          Modes 1 and 2 support most printers belonging to the *Jet series
          (LaserJet, DeskJet, QuietJet, etc.).

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Subject: 9.11  What are the specs of the audio hardware on the 700 series?

This is a summary of the audio features supported by the models 715, 725, 735,
and 755 workstations.  The 705 and 710 also have audio, but the specs are
not available. The 720, 730, and 750 models DO NOT have audio.

Audio features  Programmable sample rates (kHz): 8, 11.025, 16,
                    22.05,32, 44.1, 48
                Programmable output attenuation: 0 to -96 dB in 1.5 dB steps
                Programmable input gain: 0 to 22.5 dB in 1.5 dB steps
                Input monitoring
                Coding formats: 16-bit linear, 8-bit mulaw, or A-law

Audio inputs        Line in
(not on all models) Mono microphone with 1.5V phantom power

(Editorial comment - a Sun microphone appears to work just fine.)

Audio outputs       Line out
(not on all models)    Headphone
                    Mono speaker jacks
                    Built-in mono speaker

Audio CODEC         Crystal CS4215

Typical specifications measured on a stock 715.  Values will differ only
slightly on other models.

Frequency response    25 - 20,000 Hz

Input Sensitivity/Impedance
            Line In        2.0 V(pk) / 47 kohms
            Microphone  22 mV(pk) / 1 kohm

Output Impedance (nominal)
            Line out    619 ohms
            Headphone   118 ohms
            Speaker (ext)  11 ohms

Max Output Level/Impedance
            Line Out    2.8 V (p-p) / 47 kohms
            Headphone   2.75 V (p-p) / 50 ohms
            Speaker (ext)  5.88 V (p-p) / 48 ohms

Signal to Noise
            Line In     61 dB
            Line Out    65 dB
            Microphone  57 dB
            Headphone   61 dB
            Speaker (ext)  63 dB

THD (at nominal load)
            Line In     -75 dB
            Line Out    -73 dB
            Microphone  -73 dB
            Headphone   -70 dB
            Speaker (ext)   -68 dB

(Thanks to Rocky Craig, HP)

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Subject: 9.12  What are the various revisions of PA-RISC?

PA-RISC 1.1 is an extension to the PA-RISC 1.0 architecture, and is
fully backwards-compatible (i.e., *all* PA-RISC 1.0 programs will
execute without change on PA-RISC 1.1 machines).  The biggest difference
is that PA-RISC 1.1 added 16 more floating-point registers, the ability
to address each double-precision floating-point register as two
single-precision registers, and a few new floating-point operations, so
the floating-point performance is greatly improved.  There were a few
changes on the integer side, but nothing major.

The first machines to be shipped with PA-RISC 1.1 CPUs were the first
Series 700 machines (the "Snakes" series).  Shortly after that, however,
the "Nova" series of Series 800 (8x7) machines was introduced using the
same PA-RISC 1.1 CPU.  Since then, every new PA-RISC machine that HP has
produced is based on the PA-RISC 1.1 architecture.

Thus, all Series 700 machines are PA-RISC 1.1, and the newer Series 800
machines are PA-RISC 1.1.  If you compile a program on a Series 700
machine, the compiler will generate PA-RISC 1.1 code by default, but if
you compile a program on a Series 800 machine (even a newer 1.1
machine), the compiler will generate PA-RISC 1.0 code to ensure that the
program will run within the entire 800 family.

To force the compiler to generate PA-RISC 1.0 code, you use the +DA 1.0
compiler option.  This is all you need to do, as long as you are careful
not to link your code with any libraries that were compiled for PA-RISC
1.1.  If *any* object module in your program is compiled for PA-RISC
1.1, your entire program will be marked as a PA-RISC 1.1 program.  The
"file" command will tell you which architecture is required to execute
your program.  Most system archive libraries that HP ships are compiled
for PA-RISC 1.0; an exception is the math library, which is shipped in
both forms (a PA-RISC 1.1 version is in /lib/pa1.1), although the 1.1
version contains a few entry points that are not available in the 1.0
version.

The scheduling option, +DS xxx, does not affect the compatibility of the
object code.  It affects only how the optimizer schedules instructions
that have long latencies, so it is usually to your advantage to schedule
the code for the fastest machine currently shipping, even if you are
generating 1.0 code.

When compiling code on one platform for another platform, the thing
you do have to worry about is the operating system release.  In general
you can compile a program on a Series 700 machine with +DA 1.0, and it
will run correctly as long as the program will execute on the same or
a later release of the OS as the one on which it was compiled.  Thus,
you cannot expect a program compiled on a 700 running 9.0 to run on
an 800 running 8.0.

(Thanks to Cary Coutant, HP)

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Subject: 9.13  How do I read an SGI-written tar format DDS tape?

The secret (at least in this case) is to byte-swap the tape before
passing it to tar:

    dd if=/dev/rmt/0m conv=swab | tar -xvf -

Byte swapping is believed to only be necessary if the SGI machine that made
the tape is running Irix 4.0 and under, and that if it's running Irix 5.0x
and above, a large (512k) block size is used:

    dd if=/dev/rmt/0m ibs=512k obs=10k| tar -xvf -

(thanks to Paul Booth <[e-mail]>)

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Subject: 9.14  Is there a trackball for the 700?

ITAC Systems supports a Mouse-trak trackball for HP-HIL (all 700s but
the 712). The 712, of course, can use any PC-style trackball.

(thanks to Jeff Dwork, AMD)




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