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- comp.sys.hp.hpux FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
-
- Subject: 1. INTRODUCTION
-
- This article contains the answers to some Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) often
- seen in the USENET 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 or about the 1st and the 15th.
-
- Many FAQs, including this one, are available via FTP on the archive site
- rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which
- this FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-nameline above (hp-faq).
-
- 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, etc., should be
- directed to Greg Cagle <greg_cagle@mentorg.com>.
-
- The content of this article is the sole responsibility of the author and
- contributors, and does not necessarily represent their employers or
- Hewlett-Packard.
-
- 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-UX publicly available software from InterWorks.
- 3.8! Anonymous FTP Sites for HP-UX, and UNIX related software.
- 3.9 Where can I get a "Demo CD" with software for HP-UX?
- 3.10 HP-UX patch information and mailing list.
- 3.11 How can I send mail to an "hpdesk" address?
- 3.12 What are the known issues with porting BSD-based programs to HP-UX?
- 3.13 Who is this George Carter and how do I get rid of his posts?
- 3.14+ What periodicals are available that focus 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 9.01?
- 6.17 How can I get HP-VUE to not override colors?
- 6.18 How can I override the system default printer in vuepad?
- 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 9.0/9.01?
- 7.5 How come HP-UX doesn't support NFS root access?
- 7.6 Can I get HP-UX to try DNS ahead of NIS?
- 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 What are the known issues with HP-UX 8.07?
- 7.10 Why are mail files in /usr/mail are owned by daemon instead of the recipient?
- 7.11 How can I tell if I need more than a 2-user license?
- 7.12 How can I tell what patches are in the kernel?
- 7.13 How come I have to hit return after control-d in the Korn shell?
- 7.14 How do I boot into single user mode?
- 7.15 How come my Korn shell login hangs?
- 7.16 How can I avoid those annoying copyright notices on login?
- 7.17 How can I turn off quota checking?
- 7.18! What are the issues with HP-UX 9.01?
- 7.19 Why does chown behave differently at 9.01?
- 7.20 How can I track log files and core files?
- 7.21 How much memory can a process use?
- 7.22 How come there's little discussion of DCE?
- 7.23 How can I make a ramdisk?
- 7.24 Where can I get SLIP for HP-UX?
- 7.25 How come I can't lock files across NFS after upgrading to 9.01?
- 7.26 How can I have the resolver look in /etc/hosts before querying DNS?
- 7.27 What's a good strategy for clearing /tmp?
- 7.28 How can I change the timezone?
- 7.29 Is there an equivalent for getrusage()?
- 7.30+ How can I look at what my system is doing?
- 7.31+ How can I partition HP-UX disks?
- 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?
- 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?
-
- Subject: 3. FINDING INFORMATION
-
- Subject: 3.1 Where can I get a copy of this FAQ file?
-
- The comp.sys.hp FAQ file is posted approximately monthly to the comp.sys.hp,
- news.answers, and comp.answers newsgroups. It is archived on rtfm.mit.edu in the
- pub/usenet directory, and also on the InterWorks archive machine (see below),
- in the comp.hp directory.
-
- 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: (416)678-9430
-
- 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 (800) 468-3739
- or: (408) 747-0227
- fax: (408) 747-0947
- email: ehrhardt@interex.org .. editor of hp-ux/usr magazine
- pubs@interex.org .. Circulation/advertising
- membership@interex.org .. membership inquiries
- cslhpux@interex.org .. 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
-
- 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
- (508)256-6600
- E-Mail: relph_c@apollo.hp.com
-
- Subject: 3.5! Interex HP Users Conferences 1994
-
- For more information, please contact the INTEREX Conference Department
- at the above address.
-
- 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.
-
- Subject: 3.7 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. Dave Shaw can be reached at (303)443-9413,
- or via E-Mail at <librarian@iworks.ecn.uiowa.edu>. The following is provided by
- Dave Shaw, the InterWorks Librarian. 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 "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.
-
- Subject: 3.8! Anonymous FTP Sites for HP-UX, and UNIX related software.
-
- Name: iworks.ecn.uiowa.edu
- 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 online (via an InterWorks member logon
- (see question #5 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 Fri 10 Dec 1993:
- (The 2 most recently installed packages in each category are in brackets)
-
- 41 packages in /hpux9/X11R5/Graphics (xmgf-1.9.1 xmgf-1.9)
- 31 packages in /hpux8/Games (xblockbuster-1.03 xyahtzee-1.01)
- 30 packages in /hpux9/Gnu (flex-2.4.3 flex-2.4.1)
- 30 packages in /hpux8/X11R4/Misc (xsky-2.01 hman-1.00)
- 29 packages in /hpux8/Networking (c_news-2.May.92 mm-2.5)
- 28 packages in /hpux9/X11R5/Misc (xpostit-3.3.1 xephem-2.5X)
- 28 packages in /hpux9/Games (netmaze-0.62 xrisk-2.15)
- 20 packages in /hpux8/Maths/Gap (gap.doc-3.3 gap.etc-3.3)
- 19 packages in /hpux9/Networking (cap-60p182 gopher-2.010)
- 19 packages in /hpux8/X11R4/Demos (xball-3.0 xspringies-1.1)
- 16 packages in /hpux8/X11R4/Toolkits (andrew-5.1.part04 xf-2.2)
- 16 packages in /hpux8/X11R4/Graphics (xv-2.21 toybox-pre1.3)
- 16 packages in /hpux8/Maths/Misc (stplan-4.0 kaleido-3.10)
- 15 packages in /hpux9/X11R5/Demos (xsnow-1.02 xsnow-1.01)
- 15 packages in /hpux8/Maths/LinAlgebra (crep-4.Nov.93 rnlib-1.0)
- 14 packages in /hpux9/X11R5/Core (xstdcmap-1.6 xmag-5.00)
- 14 packages in /hpux8/X11R4/XView3 (ftptool-4.6b3 workman-1.0.2)
- 13 packages in /hpux9/X11R5/Toolkits (fwf-3.57 XgPlot-4.2)
- 13 packages in /hpux9/Sysadmin (top-3.3beta expect-5.2.0)
- 13 packages in /hpux9/Misc (rplay-3.1.1beta cbar_vi-1.0)
- 13 packages in /hpux8/Misc (pvm-3.1 gaps-5.11)
- 12 packages in /hpux9/X11R5/Networking (x3270-3.0.1.3 xrn-6.17)
- 11 packages in /hpux9/Editors (nedit-2.0 ted-2.00)
- 10 packages in /hpux9/Users (pine-3.88 remind-3.0.11)
- 10 packages in /hpux8/X11R4/Networking (adcmail-0.9 wais-8b4)
- 10 packages in /hpux8/Text (tr2latex-2.2a transfig-2.1.7)
- 10 packages in /hpux8/Sysadmin (rpasd-2.0 expect-4.7.1)
- 10 packages in /hpux8/Languages (gofer-2.28b scheme-7.1.3)
- 9 packages in /hpux9/Languages (ucblogo-3.0.1 swi-1.8.4)
- 8 packages in /hpux9/Text (lgrind-Oct91 dvips-5.521)
- 8 packages in /hpux8/X11R4/Core (MITlib-4.00 appres-1.5)
- 8 packages in /hpux8/Users (xmodem-3.9 es-0.84)
- 7 packages in /hpux8/X11R5 (XR5src-5.23.part01 XR5built-5.23)
- 7 packages in /hpux8/Physics (asa-1.56 fudgit-2.33)
- 7 packages in /hpux8/NeuralNets (snns-2.0 am-6.0)
- 4 packages in /hpux9/NeuralNets (snns-3.1 atree-2.0)
- =======================================
- 564 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 mail-server@csc.liv.ac.uk 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 in a few weeks time ***
-
- 3) Interworks will continue to provide complete packages (source+binaries) for
- the HP and user-contributed software in its library.
-
- Name: ftp.prz.tu-berlin.de
- Address: 130.149.62.68
- Contents: Much of the Liverpool archive.
-
- Name: export.lcs.mit.edu
- Address: 18.24.0.12
- Contents: The X Window System and contributed clients.
-
- Name: hpcvaaz.cv.hp.com
- Address: 15.255.72.15
- Contents: X Window System libraries and utilities.
- The /pub/700RX/released/b0502 contains the latest version
- of the 700RX software. There are subdirectories
- for HP-UX hosts, Solaris and SunOS.
-
- Name: lut.fi
- Address: 157.24.10.8
- Contents: Various in /pub/hpux and /pub/unix/hp-ux
-
- Name: nic.funet.fi
- Address: 128.214.6.100
- Contents: Various in /pub/unix/arch/hpux
-
- Name: prep.ai.mit.edu
- Address: 18.71.0.38
- Contents: The Free Software Foundation's GNU utilities, etc.
-
- Name: hybrid.irfu.se
- 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 in /pub.
-
- Name: geod.emr.ca
- Address: ?
- Contents: GNU stuff ported to HP-UX 9.x by Pierre Mathieu.
-
- Name: jazz.gsfc.nasa.gov
- Address: ?
- Contents: bathymetry, FFT, graph, pgplot, triangulation, sortroutine
-
- Name: jaguar.cs.utah.edu
- 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.
- /dist/hpux-symtab.h has symbolic debug format documentation.
- /dist/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.
-
- Subject: 3.9 Where can I get a "Demo CD" with software for HP-UX?
-
- HP is putting together a new version of LaserPro, which will be
- available shortly.
-
- Subject: 3.10 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 5.12 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.
- For instructions and a one line description of the current patches
- send e-mail to <hprc_patch@hprc.atl.hp.com> with a subject of
- p-list <system handle or organization name>
-
- John Morris of the Atlanta Response Center posts a weekly list of new patches
- on Mondays. It tells what's new and what patches are replaced by the new
- patches.
-
- Additionally, there is an HP-UX patch mailing list. Here is the announcement
- from Bart Muyzer <bartm@cv.ruu.nl>:
-
- This is the official announcement of the "HP Patch Descriptions Mailing
- List". In short, the purpose of the mailing list is this:
-
- 1. If somebody receives a patch from HP, he/she can post the *description* of
- that patch to the mailing list.
- 2. Other members now know that a patch exists and can ask HP for "patch xxxx"
- if they think they have a problem .
- 3. The patches itself are *never* posted!!!!!!!!
- 4. This list only exists as long as HP itself doesn't supply a list of
- available patches.
-
- To reach ALL MEMBERS of the list, send e-mail to: <hpux-patch@cv.ruu.nl>
- This is what you might want to do if you receive a new patch :-)
-
- To SUBSCRIBE, send e-mail to: <hpux-patch-request@cv.ruu.nl>
- PLEASE! Include your e-mail address in the message. Not all mailers generate
- proper return addresses.
-
- Problems, questions, suggestions and the like should go to this address too.
- To ease searching for a patch to a specific problem, I've started to write a
- set of tools which I loosely call "pltools". Currently, there's one script
- (written in PERL) called plfind, that searches through an unofficial list of
- patch descriptions according to user supplied queries. Updates to this list
- and to the tools are posted on a semi-regular base. Also, each new member of
- the list receives the current distribution upon subscription.
-
- The pltools-distribution is also available through anonymus FTP from
- ftp.csc.liv.ac.uk [138.253.42.172], directory /hpux/Sysadmin, file
- pltools-2.0.0.tar.Z.
-
- Subject: 3.11 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:
- jane_doe@hp1234.desk.hp.com
-
- 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.
-
- (Thanks to Bob Niland)
-
- Subject: 3.12 What are the known issues with porting BSD-based programs to HP-UX?
-
- Mike Peterson <system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> periodically posts
- his list of BSD-HP tricks to comp.sys.hp. It is also archived on the
- iworks FTP site (mentioned above) as "hptricks".
-
- Subject: 3.13 Who is this George Carter and how do I get rid of his posts?
-
- George Carter is an ex-HP employee who makes frequent postings to comp.sys.hp
- concerning HP business practices. If you wish to remove his posts and most of
- the related followups and if you are running rn or xrn, put the following
- commands in your kill file:
-
- /George Carter/a:j
- /gcarter@infoserv.com/a:j
-
- Subject: 3.14+ 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
- (215) 957-1500 FAX: (215) 957-1050
- email: simpson@cardinal.com (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
- (512) 250-9023 Fax: (512) 231-3900
- 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)
-
- Subject: 4. THIRD PARTY VENDORS
-
- 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
- (800) 843-8336 (708) 619-9227
- (714) 454-6500
-
- Concorde Technologies Dataram
- 7966 Arjons Dr. B-201 PO Box 7528
- San Diego, CA 92126 Princeton, NJ 08543-7528
- (800) 359-0282 (800) DATARAM
- (619) 578-3188 (800) 799-0071
-
- Digitial Micronics Eventide
- 2075 Corte Del Nogal 1 Alsan Way
- Unit N Little Ferry, NJ 07643
- Carlsbad, CA 92009 (201) 641-1200
-
- Helios Systems Herstal Automation
- 1996 Lundy Ave 3171 West Twelve Mile Rd.
- San Jose, CA 95131 Berkley, MI 48072
- (408) 432-0292 (313) 548-2001
- (800) 366-0283
-
- IEM Infotek Systems
- P.O. Box 1889 625 South Lincoln
- Fort Collins, CO 80522 Suite 204
- (800) 321-4671 Steamboat Springs, CO 80487
- (303) 221-3005 (800) 767-1084
-
- Intelligent Interfaces ISA Ltd
- P.O. Box 1486 1-1-5 Sekiguchi
- Stone Mountain, GA 30086-1486 Bunkyo-Ku
- (800) 842-0888 Tokyo 112 Japan
- 81-3 (5261) 1160
- US Office (Texas)
- (713) 493-9925
-
- Kelly Computer Systems Kingston Technology Corporation
- 1101 San Antonio Rd. 17600 Newhope Street
- Mountain View, CA 94043 Fountain Valley, CA 92708
- (415) 960-1010 (714) 435-2600
-
- Martech Merida Systems
- 1151 W. Valley Blvd. (617) 933-6790
- Alhambra, CA 91803-2493
- (800) 582-3555
- (818) 281-3555
-
- MDL Corporation
- 15301 NE 90th St.
- Redmond, WA 98052
- FAX (206)861-6767
- (800)800-3766
- (206)861-6700
-
- Newport Digital R Squared
- 14731 Franklin Avenue 11211 E. Arapahoe Rd., Suite 200
- Suite A Englewood, CO 80112
- Tustin, CA 92680 (303) 799-9292
- (714) 730-3644 (800) 777-3478
-
- (Thanks to Roy McMorran <mcmorran@ll.mit.edu>)
-
- 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 (206)861-6767
- (800)800-3766
- (206)861-6700
-
- Subject: 5. UTILITIES
-
- Subject: 5.1 ASCII to Postscript converter.
-
- You can get an ASCII to Postscript converter from ftp.uu.net in the file
- /usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume10/a2ps3.Z. Additionally, nenscript is available
- from various FTP sites.
-
- 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)
-
- Subject: 5.3! What is the status of the various gnu items on HP-UX?
-
- Pierre Mathieu <mathieu@geod.emr.ca> periodically posts a list to comp.sys.hp;
- 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 3.8 above for details.
-
- Subject: 6. X WINDOW SYSTEM, MOTIF, AND HP-VUE
-
- 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 hpcvaaz.cv.hp.com (15.255.72.15)
- in the directory 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 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 <arons@ash.eecs.ucdavis.edu> and John T. Beck, HP.)
-
- 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 <jms@spatial.com> for the Korn Shell information.)
-
- 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.
-
- 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)
-
- 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 under your ~/.vue directory (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)
-
- 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)
-
- 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.
-
- 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.)
-
- 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)
-
- 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)
-
- 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.)
-
- 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 <finger@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>)
-
- Subject: 6.16 Where did xline go at 9.01?
-
- Well, we don't know where it went, but it's gone, and you can't use the
- 8.07 version.
-
- 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.)
-
- 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, <damercer@mmm.com>)
-
- Subject: 7. OPERATING SYSTEM
-
- 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.)
-
- 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.
-
- Subject: 7.4 What's the scoop on HP-UX 9.0/9.01?
-
- HP-UX 9.0 and 9.01 have now officially released from HP. 9.0 for 700s was a
- transition release intended to support early shipments of 715 hardware. The 9.01
- Release Notes state that 9.0 and 9.01 have the same API and ABI. They also state
- that 9.01 is required for the 725, 735/755, 747i w/VME, 745i w/EISA, 742rt and
- 742i, PA-RISC upgrades for 425s and t, 1G, 2G, and 525M add-on disks, and CRX48Z
- graphics. 9.01 also includes a software workaround for a low-probability bug in
- the PA7100 processor, support fast/wide SCSI, has a new version of IOMAP, and a
- new version of Imageview.
-
- Subject: 7.5 How come HP-UX doesn't support NFS root access?
-
- HP-UX versions previous to 9.0/9.01 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. 9.0/9.01 supports full NFS 4.1 functionality, including NFS root.
-
- Subject: 7.6 Can I get HP-UX to try DNS ahead of NIS?
-
- if the address is the local node's IP add., then NIS or /etc/hosts
- is used because the IP is reachable and named is not running.
- if the address is the name server's IP add.,
- if the address is reachable but named is not running, then
- NIS or /etc/hosts is used (the same reason)
- if the address is not reachable (eg the node is down) then
- at 7.0 NIS or /etc/hosts is used;
- at 8.0 resolution fails
- at 9.x resolution fails.
-
- It is not clear why "resolution fails" at 8.x and 9.x.
-
- If there are more than one IP address in resolv.conf, no NIS or /etc/hosts
- fallback will be used after all addresses are tried and failed.
-
- As for additional configuration ... the answer is NO, you can't get it
- to try NIS before DNS.
-
- (Thanks to Jim O'Shea, HP, and James Thomas, nmsu.edu for additional 9.x info.)
-
- 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. Kernel drivers send data to the diagnostic
- system when certain events, usually hw/sw problems, occur. The diagnostic
- daemons (DIAGMON, DEMLOG, MEMLOGP, DIAGINIT) log the data to these files. There
- is also a MEMLOG file in the same directories to which MEMLOGP logs memory
- errors. HP Support uses the logged data to diagnose problems and to predict
- hardware failure.
-
- If the LOGnnnn files are growing (other than creating a new 40 byte file
- each time the system reboots) then something is wrong with the system.
- Often what is wrong is that the diagnostics system was improperly
- installed. Check that the following files exist for each node:
-
- /etc/mknod /dev/config c 69 0x000000
- /etc/mknod /dev/dmem c 27 0x000000
-
- There are a number of other device files (see /system/CORE-DIAG/customize) but I
- don't believe they are needed for the logging aspect of diagnostics.
-
- If you examine the contents of the log files that may give a clue as to what's
- wrong. However, the output is intended for HP Support and factory consumption
- and may not be very intelligible to customers. To examine a log file:
-
- $ sysdiag
- DUI> logtool
- LOGTOOL> list log=nnnn
- LOGTOOL> exit
- DUI> exit
-
- where nnnn is the numeric part of the /usr/adm/diag/LOGnnnn file name. The
- utility logtool is safe to use as far as I know but don't run any other
- utilities at the DUI prompt--you could easily adversely affect your system. If
- you have a support contract I recommend you get them to review your log files.
- There is an extensive help command within sysdiag and logtool.
-
- If you want to turn off diagnostic logging just remove execution permission for
- the file /usr/diag/bin/DIAGINIT. Note that if you do this and your system has a
- problem later, not having the records logged to diagnostics by the kernel will
- hamper resolution of the problem.
-
- Existing log files can be deleted at the cost of losing the data they contain.
- The highest numbered log file is the active log file and should not be deleted.
-
- There is a sysdiag(1M) man page. As of 9.0 there is a diaginit(1M) man page
- which documents the various daemons.
-
- (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 What are the known issues with HP-UX 8.07?
-
- abs() is defined in two places for C++, stdlib.h and math.h.
- the IDL includes do not support C++ (fixed with patch PHNE_0974).
- PostScript printing from Datebook (week or month) fails.
- Datebook "View Year" display font is goofy looking and doesn't line up.
- statd can hang when accessing Apollo objects (fixed with PHNE_0690).
- automounter crashes when -hosts is specified (fixed with PHNE_0936).
- virtual memory performance problems (fixed with PHKL_1065).
-
- Subject: 7.10 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 <jimr@maths.su.oz.au>)
-
- Subject: 7.11 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)
-
- Subject: 7.12 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: 7.13 How come I have to hit return after control-d in the Korn shell?
-
- You need to set the "viraw" option.
-
- Subject: 7.14 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 <stuart@TIVOLI.COM>.)
-
- Subject: 7.15 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.
-
- Subject: 7.16 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, <pdg@cup.hp.com> and Steve Dum,
- <steve_dum@mentorg.com>)
-
- Subject: 7.17 How can I turn off quota checking?
-
- You can disable the quota binary from executing:
-
- chmod -x /usr/bin/quota
-
- This disables quotas for 8.x systems; for 9.x systems you need to also
- disable edquota:
-
- chmod -x /etc/edquota
-
- (Thanks to Eric Hamilton, <hamilton@cup.hp.com>)
-
- Subject: 7.18! 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_3011.
-
- 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_3015.
-
- Memory leaks can occur and lock up a system; patch PHKL_2348 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.)
-
- Subject: 7.19 Why does chown behave differently at 9.01?
-
- 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)
-
- Subject: 7.20 How can I track log files and core files?
-
- At 9.01, 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.
-
- Subject: 7.21 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: 7.22 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: 7.23 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)
-
- Subject: 7.24 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)
-
- Subject: 7.25 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 <gandalf@austin.lockheed.com>)
-
- Subject: 7.26 How can I have the resolver look in /etc/hosts before querying DNS?
-
- The resolver will never look in /etc/hosts before it queries the DNS. But
- YOU can run a named locally that knows only the names/addresses of the
- machines you have in your /etc/hosts file and then pass all others off to
- your site's name server. This means that you can always know the names of
- machines on your local network, even if the router to the real name server
- is down.
-
- What you do is this:
- 1. make your machine a nameserver.
- 2. make sure the resolver points to your machine. (/etc/resolv.conf)
- 3. put your own /etc/hosts information in a "primary" file
-
- Because YOU know that the NOC will never change the names/addresses of your
- machines without telling you, you can know that the cache will be correct.
- [ Think about it -- the NOC can't re-use my name or address because first
- _my_ machine has to stop using it. ]
-
- Here is /etc/named.boot - named reads it to find out what to do:
-
- directory /etc/named.dir ; running directory for named
- primary 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA db.127.0.0
- primary . local
- cache . db.cache
-
- In /etc/named.dir/local, list the machines that you have in /etc/hosts. For
- example:
-
- roissy.umd.edu IN A 128.8.92.23
- smoo.umd.edu IN A 128.8.92.24
-
- note: ^^^name here ^^^IP number here
-
- derf.umd.edu IN A 128.8.92.9
- bear.umd.edu IN A 128.8.92.8
- girlie.umd.edu IN A 128.8.92.29
- toady.umd.edu IN A 128.8.92.30
-
- elea.umd.edu CNAME roissy.umd.edu ; elea is another name for roissy
-
- ** Warning: By doing this, you take responsibility for keeping your local
- ** file in sync with the real name server. This is equivalent to keeping
- ** /etc/hosts up to date.
-
- To check it, run your named in debugging mode, and use nslookup to look up
- names that are in your /etc/named.dir/local file. Also look up names that
- are in your domain, but not known locally. Then read the debugging output
- from named. It should have answered directly for locally known names and
- passed the query on to another nameserver for unknown names.
-
- (Thanks to Mark Sienkiewicz <mark@roissy.umd.edu>)
-
- Subject: 7.27 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)
-
- Subject: 7.28 How can I change the timezone?
-
- Edit the entry in /etc/src.sh and /etc/src/csh, and reboot.
-
- Subject: 7.29 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 */
-
- Subject: 7.30+ How can I look at what my system is doing?
-
- The best tool for monitoring your system is Glance Plus. Call (800) 237-3990
- for a trial version.
-
- Subject: 7.31+ 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: 8. COMPILERS AND LINKERS
-
- Subject: 8.1 What's a P-FIXUP error?
-
- Several questions on comp.sys.hp lately 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
- <law@snake.cs.utah.edu> 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.
- ...
-
- WARNINGS
- regcmp and regex are kept in /lib/libPW.a. Unfortunately,
- /lib/libPW.a also contains some functions that have the same names as
- functions contained in the default C library, /lib/libc.a. To prevent
- unexpected results due to these name conflicts, always search libc
- before searching libPW. This is done with the ld (or cc) command line
- option sequence -lc -lPW which satisifies all standard C functions
- from libc then searches libPW for the regcmp and regex functions
- (there is also an implied -lc following the explicit -lPW to satisfy
- any additional C functions required by regcmp and regex).
-
- User programs that use regcmp might run out of memory if regcmp is
- called iteratively without freeing vectors that are no longer
- required.
-
- (thanks to Andre Srinivasan, <andre@cs.pitt.edu>)
-
- 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
- <law@snake.cs.utah.edu> 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 <franl@centerline.com>)
-
- 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.)
- -
- 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.
-
- Experience has also shown that you may need PHKL_2898.
-
- 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.)
-
- 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.
-
- 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.).
-
- 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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