rose@galtee.cs.wisc.edu (Scott M. Rose) (03/11/91)
Coherent Digest Vol. 91.1, No. 18 Sat Mar 9 20:24:45 CST 1991 Today's Topics: Terminal woes... terminal woes for MWC Future Domain SCSI driver? SUCCESS!! select() functionality for Coherent? re: SUCCESS!! Misc questions & comments Are you running a 6Mhz AT? UUCP problem 6mhz AT/Joel Baldwin Administrivia: The Coherent Digest is a forum for discussion of the MWC Coherent 3.x operating system. Send submissions to "coherent@cs.wisc.edu" and administrivia to "coherent-reqeust@cs.wisc.edu". Previous issues are archived for anonymous FTP access on piggy.ucsb.edu in the directory "pub/coherent/mail-list". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 7 Mar 91 20:06:24 -0500 From: jwall@hub.cs.JMU.EDU (jay wall) To: coherent Subject: Terminal woes... Like Samy, I have had problems using editors on remote machines. When I log- in (using mterm), I tell the remote machine that I am an ansipc type terminal, but strange things happen in the shell and editor. I can't seem to find a common middle-ground. I don't want to have to declare myself something entirely different locally (like vt-100), everytime I want to login to the remote machine (a VAX 11/785). Anybody else have experience with this problem, and if so, what is your workaround solution? Thanks for the help. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Mar 91 08:25:24 CST From: G-SKER@vm1.spcs.umn.edu To: coherent Subject: terminal woes Subject: terminal woes >From: jwall@hub.cs.JMU.EDU (jay wall) >Like Samy, I have had problems using editors on remote machines. When I log- >in (using mterm), I tell the remote machine that I am an ansipc type terminal, >but strange things happen in the shell and editor. I can't seem to find a >common middle-ground. I don't want to have to declare myself something >entirely different locally (like vt-100), everytime I want to login to the >remote machine (a VAX 11/785). Anybody else have experience with this >problem, and if so, what is your workaround solution? Thanks for the help. Why are you declaring yourself something locally when it's the remote declaration you care about? Besides I thought that ansipc was a construct invented by Mark Williams to define the console? Leave your local definition as ansipc and make your remote definition vt100 because that's what the terminal program is behaving like anyway. Gerry Gerald Skerbitz University of Minnesota 612/626-5379 g-sker@vm1.spcs.umn.edu g-sker.uminn1.bitnet ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Mar 91 10:18:03 EST From: Chet Creider <creider@csd.uwo.ca> To: coherent Subject: for MWC Would MWC mind if someone either put the new version of the curses library in the ftp site at piggy.uscb.edu or mailed it to me uuencoded? I don't know if it sunspots or what, but I've been having terrible trouble with my modem connections for the last couple of weeks and can't even connect with my university system less than a mile away let alone a BBS which is about 1000 miles away. Many thanks, Chet Creider <creider@csd.uwo.ca> ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Mar 91 10:36:28 -0600 From: lark@greylock.tivoli.com (Lar Kaufman) To: coherent Subject: Future Domain SCSI driver? My brother has Coherent 3.1 (and the device driver toolkit) and is running it on a 386 system. He has a Syquest removable hard disk controlled by a Future Domain SCSI controller. Has anyone already done a device driver for this controller, or is he on his own? - -lar ------------------------------ Date: 08 Mar 91 16:07:53 EST From: Stephane Doucet <73207.1247@CompuServe.COM> To: <coherent> Subject: SUCCESS!! HI again, Good news first: I finally found what was giving panic traps on my system other than a faulty memory chip...the serial board had jumpers set for TWO serial ports 1 & 2 even though it only had one EXTERNAL connector. There was a 10-pin header on the card itself. I set it to disable the internal one, made the external COM2, made my MNP modem COM1 and killed the bad memory chip and installed Coherent 3.1 without problems. Defined COM2 as a local port and connected with a 9-pin null-modem cable to my laptop. That went fine! Then configured the modem to S001=001 and numeric result codes, no echo, follow carrier, etc. (I can send the exact settings out to anyone who wants them - Pred: yours are on the way). I then told the modem to save that as a default. All is fine. Works great! :) Now for some questions: UUCP: if my COM1 (modem) is enabled for dial-ins...what does UUCP do when it needs to dial-out? I know when I want to dial out all I do is DISABLE COM1R and then Kermit works fine...? LOGGING OUT: I know that to drop the line or whatever I just type LOGIN at any prompt and that does it....I would like to type something like LOGOFF. Any ideas? - -Stephane ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Mar 91 14:03:31 CST From: rosevax.rosemount.com!grante%rutgers.UUCP@spool.cs.wisc.edu (Grant B. Edwards) To: coherent@spool.cs.wisc.edu Cc: support@mwc.com Subject: select() functionality for Coherent? Does Coherent have anything analogous to the BSD select() system call? It allows a process to block until data can be read from any one of a user specified set of file descriptors. This means that a process can have three file descriptors open for reading, and instead of constantly polling the three fd's to see if there is data, you do a select() system call, and you get blocked until one or more of the fd's has data to be read. Grant Edwards Rosemount Inc, CB7 He who dies with 12001 Technology Drive grante@hydro.rosemount.com the most manuals Eden Prairie, MN 55344 uunet!rosevax!hydro!grante wins. ------------------------------ Date: 8 Mar 91 21:07:43 From: therat!mike@apple.com (Mike Sherwood) To: COHERENT@apple.com Subject: re: SUCCESS!! well, as for the logging out, I created files named logoff and logout which simply contain the line "stty 0" do a man on stty to look at the details on the command, but the general idea is that the "0" parameter means to hang up.. now as far as the uucp goes, the modemcap entry for the modem that you are using should give your modem the right commands for setting it up and it should take care of the disable/enable for the com line, but you have to make sure that the parameters for the modem are set back to what they were before when it's over.. i myself have two modems, one in and one out, so I dont do that swapping myself.. any of this help? - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- uucp: ...!apple!therat!mike internet: mike@therat.uucp - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Mar 91 01:26:09 -0600 From: "Predrag S. Bundalo" <pred@iitmax.iit.edu> To: coherent Subject: Misc questions & comments ::: Questions and Comments follow ::: 1) To Stephanie Doucet: You can use ^D to logout instead of "login". 2) Sometimes my system goes crazy on me (5 minutes ago). I think it might have something to do with "screen", a program I run to change colors on the console. I have a 386-20 with a VGA card. The problem is that random characters are not echoed as I type on the console. The \n character is especially prone to this kind of problem when it happens. Anyway, I have to reboot when it happens to fix the problem. This last time, I had to reboot twice in a row for it to go away. Has anyone else had this problem? Comments from MWC? 3) Is MWC still out there? I haven't seen a post from them in a long time. 4) I'm planning to buy a 486-33 in the not too distant future. Is someone in the net.consiousness running Coherent on one of these? I'll be getting a 200Mb 15ms IDE drive with that. I hope Coh supports IDE drives. I think it would be a good idea if someone maintained a list of all PC's and hard drives Coherent has been tested on with results. I know MWC has something like this, but I don't know how well it's being maintained and I'd hate to bug them everytime I wanted to check to see if Coh will run on machine X with HD Y--I'm sure they've got better things to do with their time (like work on Coherent 386 ;) 5) Is anyone using a multiplexer with Coh? If so, are you pleased with it? How many terminals does it support (10?)? How much was it? What is the vender's name, address, and number? Thank ya much, -Pred ------------------------------ Date: 9 Mar 91 12:00:42 From: citrus!root@csusac.ecs.csus.edu (Joel M. Baldwin) To: coherent@csusac.ecs.csus.edu Cc: root@csusac.ecs.csus.edu Subject: Are you running a 6Mhz AT? If you are running coherent on a 6Mhz AT and using uucp to transfer more than small files, please get in touch with me. I'm having some uucp problems and would like to compare notes with you. ADVthaAnksNCE Joel M. Baldwin H ( 916 ) 383-9470 N6NPL W " 452-1481 uunet!csusac.ecs.csus.edu!citrus!root Sacramento CA. /\??/\ ------------------------------ Date: 9 Mar 91 12:11:17 From: therat!mike@apple.com (Mike Sherwood) To: COHERENT@apple.com Subject: UUCP problem I am running UUCP under coherent on my system, and for some reason, if I get a call and it's another uucp site calling mine, it will connect fine and all, but the next caller wont get anything - it acts like it's disabled, but it's not.. and the next call is just fine.. anyone have any idea what would cause something like this?? or more importantly how to fix it.. it's not a serious problem since it will eventually be reset, but I would like to fix it. thanks. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- uucp: ...!apple!therat!mike internet: mike@therat.uucp - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 9 Mar 91 13:22:12 From: therat!mike@apple.com (Mike Sherwood) To: COHERENT@apple.com Subject: 6mhz AT/Joel Baldwin I'm running coherent on an ibm 286 @ 6mhz.. I have transferred files of up to a megabyte with uucp and up to 80k or so through mail.. what kinds of problems do you have with large files?? feel free to just e-mail me if you want to continue this privately, the address should appear below.. I'm not sure everyone would care about individual little problems.. maybe they would.. I have excellent crash test facilities if you want to try individual problems.. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- uucp: ...!apple!therat!mike internet: mike@therat.uucp - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of Coherent Digest Vol. 91.1, No. 18 **************************************** -- Scott Rose rose@cs.wisc.edu (608) 238-3801