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- From: pcg2@ra.msstate.edu (Patrick C Greer)
- Subject: Miscellaneous Questions
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.060338.29958@ra.msstate.edu>
- Organization: Mississippi State University
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:03:38 GMT
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- Ok, now that I'm back at school, I can ask some of the questions I have wanted
- ask about general stuff.
-
- 1) I have my extrenal modem working in Hayes mode, but my 3B1 occasionally
- sends a getty and then a login prompt to my modem. I'm a little confused
- why it does this, and it causes my computer to almost halt completely. I can't
- type very well when this happens. Sometimes, it just goes away but I have no
- why. Also, did anyone else have to change their gettydefs file in order to
- use a hayes modem? The AT int AT\&T was causing problems.
-
-
- 2) A lot of small gas dealers (propane suppliers) bought 3B1's because they
- were being offered by a company (I forgot the name) along with some accounting
- and business software designed for the propane business. I have a friend who
- has one of these machines for his business but he is rapidly running out of
- space on his hard drive. Is there anything I might be able to suggest to him
- that he could do to solve this problem that would not nullify his service
- contract with NCR? He still needs that support. The company that wrote
- the software does remote upgrades, but they are very sloppy about it.
- The company he bought the whole package from is offering him an upgrade
- for $800.00 where he can send off his 3B1 and they will convert it into
- a DOS machine. They will remove all the unix system files and change the
- system completely! (What a waste!) I advised him not to do this, but
- he needs some kind of solution for his problem. Any suggestions?
-
- 3) I have the man package off Ohio-State, and I was considering an
- idea while I was home this last month. What would be the big differences
- in the man pages for a 3B2 running UNIX 3.2? Would the basic commands
- be the same. I am considering trying to port these man pages to my 3B1
- and see what happens. Anyone tried to do this? How different are the two
- versions of UNIX?
-
- 4) Finally: Is there a way to configure the stock uucp to use an
- external hayes modem, or do I need to break down and get HDB or Taylor?
-
- 5) P.S. I need some help installing some of the libraries on Ohio-State's
- archives like dirent.cpio.Z. Anyone else who has done this, please let me know.
-
-
-
- Thanks,
- Chris
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-