wangjw@cs.purdue.EDU (Jingwen Wang) (06/16/91)
I have been using the Sun stations, but now I switched to Dec station. Can I ask the following questions: 1) The troff software does not work. I tried on the Dec stations of several Universities, but the response is just "Typesetter busy". Can anyone tell me how to print troff documents on this machine. 2) On sun, we can use "bintype" to found out the hosttype, but on Dec stations, I cann't find such a command. Any information is appreciated. Jingwen wang wangjw@cs.purdue.edu
grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) (06/18/91)
In article <15028@ector.cs.purdue.edu> wangjw@brandon.cs.purdue.edu () writes: > > I have been using the Sun stations, but now I switched to Dec station. > Can I ask the following questions: > > 1) The troff software does not work. I tried on the Dec stations of several > Universities, but the response is just "Typesetter busy". Can anyone tell > me how to print troff documents on this machine. Ultrix is shipped with standard "CAT" troff. This version is all but useless except that it can be used with some CAT to xyz conversion programs. Several companies offer products based on pwb troff (ditroff) which will produce postscript or printer specific output formats. See the Ultrix software guide or any copy of Unix Review or unix/world. > 2) On sun, we can use "bintype" to found out the hosttype, but on Dec > stations, I cann't find such a command. You can create one: /bin/arch (vax): #! /bin/sh - /bin/echo vax /bin/mips (mips): #! /bin/sh - /bin/echo mips -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing: domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com Commodore, Engineering Department phone: 215-431-9349 (only by moonlite)
moss@cs.umass.edu (Eliot Moss) (06/18/91)
Another troff-like program suite you can get for free is groff from the Free Software Foundation. You can get it via anonymous ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu. The file in question is pub/gnu/groff-1.02.tar.Z, a compressed tar file (retrieve in binary mode, uncompress, tar xvf to extract, and then start figuring out the rest of the installation). I think it requires g++, available from the same machine and directory ... -- J. Eliot B. Moss, Assistant Professor Department of Computer and Information Science Lederle Graduate Research Center University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 (413) 545-4206, 545-1249 (fax); Moss@cs.umass.edu
mellon@nigiri.pa.dec.com (Ted Lemon) (06/19/91)
I'm not sure what the "bintype" command does under SunOS (it wasn't there last time I used SunOS), but under Ultrix version 3.1 and higher, /bin/machine will print out the machine type, and on 4.0 and higher, the uname command will print the machine type, the operating system name and version, and a few other goodies. I suspect that uname may also work on SunOS these days, since it's supposed to be SVR4-compatible. _MelloN_
hudgens@sun13.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Hudgens) (06/21/91)
In article <MOSS.91Jun18090839@ibis.cs.umass.edu> moss@cs.umass.edu writes: >[[ groff-1.02 discussed ]] >I think it requires g++, available from the same machine and directory ... >-- > > J. Eliot B. Moss, Assistant Professor > Department of Computer and Information Science > Lederle Graduate Research Center > University of Massachusetts > Amherst, MA 01003 > (413) 545-4206, 545-1249 (fax); Moss@cs.umass.edu I've tried to get g++ running on a ds5000. I can get it to compile, but it fails to link at the very last step (using gcc-1.39 and g++-1.39) with some undefines. Exact same source tree works fine on a VAX ultrix 4.1 and sun4/sunos4.1. Anyone have the magic incantations needed to get g++ running on ds5000/Ultrix 4.1???? JHH -- Jim Hudgens Supercomputer Computations Research Institute hudgens@sun13.scri.fsu.edu "Nothing's for sure except DEC and VAXe .. er, death and taxes"