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- Subject: comp.unix.ultrix DEC OSF/1 Frequently Asked Questions
- Message-ID: <osf-faq_744523519@crl.dec.com>
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- Summary: This posting contains a list of Frequently Asked Questions
- (and their answers) about the OSF/1 operating system from
- Digital Equipment Corporation.
- Sender: treese@crl.dec.com (Win Treese)
- Supersedes: <osf-faq_741586895@crl.dec.com>
- Organization: DEC Cambridge Research Lab
- Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1993 04:05:32 GMT
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- Archive-name: dec-faq/osf1
- Last-modified: Thu Jul 01 22:58:25 EDT 1993
- Version: 1.2
-
- This is part 3 of the Frequently Asked Questions posting for
- comp.unix.ultrix, with answers about the OSF/1 operating system from
- Digital. It is also posted on comp.sys.dec and comp.unix.osf.osf1,
- but it is not a full FAQ for those groups. Companion postings have
- answers that apply to both ULTRIX and OSF/1 and answers that apply to
- ULTRIX alone.
-
- A separate FAQ describes how to get information about Digital products
- and interacting with Digital.
-
- This FAQ is available in the following archive sites, in the directory
- /pub/DEC/dec-faq:
-
- gatekeeper.dec.com
- crl.dec.com
- decuac.dec.com
-
- It can also be obtained by sending mail to ftpmail@pa.dec.com with the
- following lines:
- connect
- get /pub/DEC/dec-faq/osf1
-
- Many FAQs, including this one, are available on the archive site
- rtfm.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers. The name under
- which a FAQ is archived appears in the Archive-name line at the top of
- the article. This FAQ is archived in the directory dec-faq.
-
- To receive this posting by mail, send a note to ultrix-faq-request@crl.dec.com.
-
- If the location of a file in an archive is not specifically mentioned
- below, it is in /pub/DEC on the above machines.
-
- To make suggestions for changes or additions to this Frequently Asked
- Questions list, send mail to ultrix-faq@crl.dec.com. Answers are
- especially appreciated.
-
- An archive of recent postings to comp.unix.ultrix can be found via
- anonymous FTP on ftp.cc.rochester.edu in /pub/usenet/comp.unix.ultrix.
- Thanks to folks at the University of Rochester for providing this
- service.
-
- Some general notes:
-
- When used alone, the word "DECstation" is used to mean any of the
- DECstations or DECsystems that use MIPS RISC processors. Similarly,
- "Alpha" refers to any DEC systems that use the Alpha AXP processor.
-
- Unless otherwise specified, these answers refer to ULTRIX 4.3, which is
- the current release of ULTRIX.
-
- Many people have contributed to this list, directly or indirectly. In
- some cases, an answer has been adapted from one or more postings on the
- comp.unix.ultrix newsgroup. Our thanks to all of those who post answers.
- The name (or names) at the end of an entry indicate that the information
- was taken from postings by those individuals; the text may have been
- edited for this FAQ. These citations are only given to acknowledge the
- contribution.
-
- Although the editor of this FAQ is an employee of Digital Equipment
- Corporation, this posting is not an official statement from Digital
- Equipment Corporation.
-
- Alpha
- =====================================================
- A1. Where can I find software that has been ported to Alpha?
- A2. What does the "AXP" in "DEC 3000 Model 400 AXP Workstation" mean?
- A3. Where can I get Emacs and Epoch for Alpha OSF/1?
- A4. Where can I get technical information about Alpha?
-
- Software
- ======================================================
- S1. What (free) tools are there for looking at system behavior? **NEW**
-
- Programming
- ======================================================
- P1. Why can't I run dbx? **NEW**
-
- Graphics
- ======================================================
- G1. How can I make the graphics go faster? **NEW**
- G2. Where can I get an xv that works on Alpha OSF/1? **NEW**
-
- Network
- ======================================================
- N1. Why doesn't FTP work to an XYZ system? **NEW**
-
- Miscellaneous
- ======================================================
- M1. Where else is DEC OSF/1 discussed? **NEW**
- M2. How do I add a new terminal definition? **NEW**
-
- ******************** Alpha ***************************************
-
- =====================================================
- A1. Where can I find software that has been ported to Alpha?
-
- The "Alpha AXP Freeware CD," which is shipped with the DEC OSF/1
- software distribution, has many popular programs in both source and
- binary form. The current Alpha Freeware CD-ROM can also be ordered
- from DECdirect, order number QA-0PSAA-H8.
-
- gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/DEC/Alpha/apps has several free programs that
- have been ported to Alpha. Alpha support is also appearing in many
- kits from the originators.
-
- Many programs are also available in ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu:/DEC_Alpha.
-
- =====================================================
- A2. What does the "AXP" in "DEC 3000 Model 400 AXP Workstation" mean?
-
- Nothing. It is part of the trademark.
-
- =====================================================
- A3. Where can I get Emacs and Epoch for Alpha OSF/1?
-
- Both a binary and sources for GNU Emacs are included on the base
- system CD-ROM. Epoch is available on the Alpha OSF/1 Freeware CD-ROM
- (see answer A1 for more information). Epoch can also be copied from
- ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu:/DEC_Alpha.
- [Pete Kaiser, kaiser@uniriv.vbo.dec.com]
- [Rob McCool, robm@snail.ncsa.uiuc.edu]
- =====================================================
- A4. Where can I get technical information about Alpha?
-
- Sites, R.L., Ed., Alpha Architecture Reference Manual (600 page book,
- 1992) from Digital Press (EY-L520E-DP) or Prentice-Hall 9ISBN
- 0-13-033663-7). Also at most technical bookstores, including
- Quantum(Cambridge) and Stacey's (Palo Alto)
-
- Communications of the ACM, February 1993 issue (4 Alpha articles)
-
- Digital Technical Journal, Winter 1992 (200 pages of Alpha articles,
- including 4 above with fewer typos). Order info: dtj@crl.dec.com
-
- Jim Montanaro "The Design of the Alpha 21064 CPU Chip" (42 minutes)
- Dick Sites and Dirk Meyer, "Alpha Architecture" (73 minutes)
- University Video Communications P.O. BOx 5129 Stanford CA 94309 USA
- (415) 813-0506
- [Dick Sites, sites@tallis.enet.dec.com]
-
- ******************** Software ***************************************
-
- ======================================================
- S1. What (free) tools are there for looking at system behavior? **NEW**
-
- syd, a utility like top, is on the Alpha OSF/1 Freeware disk. It is also
- available for anonymous FTP from many sites.
- [Dave Sill, de5@ornl.gov]
-
- ******************** Programming ***************************************
- ======================================================
- P1. Why can't I run dbx?
-
- With DEC OSF/1 V1.2 the development environment is a separate layered
- product beyond the base OS. Although it is included on the DEC OSF/1
- consolidated CD-ROM, the license must be purchased separately to use
- any portion of the Developer's kit. Within the DEC OSF/1 Developer's
- Kit the license just happens to be enforced by a check in dbx.
-
- For more information, look in the /pub/DEC/DECinfo/DECnews-UNIX directory
- or gatekeeper.dec.com for:
-
- 0104.txt DEC OSF/1 Developer's Extensions V1.2 article, 11/17/92
- 0603.txt DEC OSF/1 Developer's Toolkit V1.2 article, 03/23/93
- 0806.txt C Compiler for DEC OSF/1 Operating System article, 05/13/93
- [Russ Jones, rjones@pa.dec.com]
-
- ******************** Graphics ***************************************
- ======================================================
- G1. How can I make the graphics go faster? **NEW**
-
- If your application is sending lots of data (using, say, PutImage
- requests), try setting DISPLAY to local:0, which uses a shared memory
- transport between the client and the X server.
- [Gail Grant, grant@pa.dec.com]
- ======================================================
- G2. Where can I get an xv that works on Alpha OSF/1? **NEW**
-
- ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu:/DEC_Alpha. Make sure that LONG and U_LONG in
- xvtiffwr.c are defined to be int and unsigned int.
- [Mike Iglesias, iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu]
-
- ******************** Network ***************************************
- ======================================================
- N1. Why doesn't FTP work to an XYZ system? **NEW**
-
- DEC OSF/1 uses the IP type-of-service option (TOS) by default. This
- confuses some systems (reportedly Macintoshes). To turn off the
- option for ftp, create a file /etc/iptos with the following entries:
-
- ftp-control tcp 0x0
- ftp-data tcp 0x0
-
- Reboot the Alpha system.
-
- ******************** Miscellaneous ***************************************
- ======================================================
- M1. Where else is DEC OSF/1 discussed? **NEW**
-
- You can join the mailing list alpha-osf-managers@ornl.gov. Send a message
- with
- subscribe alpha-osf-managers
- in the body to Majordomo@ornl.gov. Archives of the list are available
- for FTP from ftp.kpc.com:/pub/list/alpha-osf-managers.
- [Dave Sill, de5@ornl.gov]
-
- ======================================================
- M2. How do I add a new terminal definition? **NEW**
-
- Some applications on OSF/1 use termcap; others use terminfo. tic(1)
- compiles a termcap definition for terminfo. It is best to add a
- new terminal definition both ways.
- [Jeffrey Heller, jeffreyh@kpc.com]
-