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Info-3b2 Digest, Number 17 Thursday, September 22nd 1988 Today's Topics: Re: 3B20 Re: Parts is Parts(RESENT) Re: mailx Re: 3B20 (was Parts is Parts(RESENT)) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: 3B20 Date: 20 Sep 88 20:21:47 GMT From: anumb!adh! < On another note, the question about 3b5, 3b15's and 3b20's. [] < the 3b20 is < used with 5ESS Digital switch, I don't think it's used for anything < else, but I'm sure it could be. [] < dewey coffman < austin, texas the 3b20 was sold as a standalone computer, both as single and dual-processor machines. we have just removed two from our computer center. -- Andrew Hay +------------------------------------------------------+ Holistic Specialist | I was reading my name on the glass of my office door | AT&T-BL Ward Hill MA | and listening to the staccato of rain on my desktop- | mvuxq.att.com!adh +------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Sep 88 10:58:39 BST Subject: Re: Parts is Parts(RESENT) From: hoptoad!quaduk!graham (Graham Glen) -- > -->Was wondering if anyone could point me toward some cheap hard disks -- > -->for a 3B2/300. I've been told by my VAR that a 72 meg replacement -- > -->for my 30 meg drive would cost $1500, while I see drives in the -- > -->magazines with the ESDI interface for 150 megs at this price. Any way -- > -->to get a 60 or 70 meg ESDI drive to replace my internal one for -- > -->about $600-$700? -- > --> -- > -->Thanks, -- > -->Ewan Grantham If you can get hold of a DEVTOOLS diskette (or whatever has now replaced it), you should be able to plug in almost any ST506 drive. The limitation on size seems to be a restriction on 1024 cylinders. I have just replaced the 72 meg drives in one of my 400's with a pair of 190 meg maxtor drives - for a cost of about (does a quick currency calculation) $3600. Because these drives have 1224 cylinders, I get about 140/142 meg per drive, coupled with much faster seek times. Graham ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Sep 88 23:17:15 edt From: astro.as.utexas.edu!sooner!dewey@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: mailx -->From: lll-tis!ames!rutgers!princeton.princeton.edu!mccc!pjh -->Date: Mon, 19 Sep 88 22:57:11 EDT -->Subject: Mailx problem --> -->I just restored SysV R3.1.2 and now no longer get notified when there's -->mail for me. This sounds more like the MAILCHECK variable in the shell, either Bourne/C/or Korn shell should handle it. It's possible that the value changed between releases. To fix the problem, put the following line in your .profile (for Bourne or Korn Shell) MAILCHECK=600; export MAILCHECK and the shell will check for the existence of new mail every 600 seconds, or 10 minutes. export the value if you expect to be doing a lot of subshell'ing, ie out of vi or su'ing, and the check will continue for your LOGNAME even in the subshells. If you change the value from 600 to 0, the shell checks between every command run, or for that matter, every time you hit return. --> What's worse is that mailx doesn't use a pager any more, -->despite the fact that I have --> PAGER=/usr/local/bin/less -->in my environment! Should I put it into .mailrc as well? This was already answered, but along the same lines, I'm often suprised how many people don't know the full power of the .mailrc options. The .mailrc has the potential to customize mailx to be very specific on a per user basis. Such as these: set prompt="mailx> " askcc hold crt=22 toplines=100 set sign="\tMy Name\n\tMy address\n" set Sign="\tMy Fullname\n\tMy Very Long address\n\tUUCP: sooner!dewey\n" set AKA="\tAnother name or path commonly used\n" Note the options can be set multiple per line. set prompt="mailx> " change the prompt to something a little better than '?' or '&' askcc Ask after cntrl-D for a carbon copy address. I sometimes want to mail the message to myself on another machine. hold Let the message in /usr/mail/LOGNAME until I put them somewhere, normally if you look at a message, it goes in $HOME/mbox automatically. crt=22 This kinda goes with the PAGER setting, I like to keep the crt less than actual length in case the terminal I'm on can't handle wrapped lines properly. toplines=100 I think toplines is normally 10 or so, and this doesn't get past some headers when you do a 'top' and normally you want to see the 'top' of the contents, not just the header. set sign="\tMy Name\n\tMy address\n" This goes with the ~a escape, and the line is "printf'ed" in your message, it's like a quick .signature set Sign="\tMy Fullname\n\tMy Very Long address\n\tUUCP: sooner!dewey\n" Use ~A and this one is used instead. set AKA="\tAnother name or path commonly used\n" Use ~i AKA (or others )and you can multiple addresses defined. There's other such as "meto", "keep" etc not to mention aliases or mail folders, but I've already digressed enough. I'm sure there's others that I've never used, but would love to hear about. Again, sorry if this was way off the subject or too long winded, but I thought Pete (the orignal poster) might want to know some of the other stuff that can go into the .mailrc. Dewey Coffman Austin, Texas. UUCP: cs.utexas.edu!juniper!dewey, sooner!dewey ------------------------------ Subject: Re: 3B20 (was Parts is Parts(RESENT)) From: netsys!vsi!friedl > The 3B20's have seen some time in the Federal Arena; but as a commercial > offering, AT&T has made available only the lower end of the line. 3B2, 3B5, > 3B15 and now the 3B4000. All of commercial offering uses the WE320XX line of > mpu. I believe Informix Software has [had?] a 3B20, and I've heard of a few other commercial sites with them. A customer was trying to get info on a 3B20, though, and getting info from an AT&T account executive was an exercise in futility -- lead times of almost a year. Clearly they don't want to sell them to the rest of the world, but they will if they have to. --- Steve Friedl V-Systems, Inc. +1 714 545 6442 3B2-kind-of-guy friedl@vsi.com {backbones}!vsi.com!friedl attmail!vsi!friedl ------[I'm on vacation in Ohio from 26-Sep to 10-Oct 1988]---------- ------------------------------------- To join this group or have your thoughts in the next issue, please send electronic mail to Ken Davis at the following address; {pacbell,netsys,hoptoad,well}!lamc!info-3b2-request The views expressed in Info-3b2 Digest are those of the individual authors only. ********************* End of Info-3b2 Digest *********************