grandi@noao.arizona.edu (Steve Grandi) (05/24/88)
We support a large astronomical software package called IRAF (Image
Reduction and Analysis Facility) that is in use at 150+ sites around the
world on machines running many varieties of Unix, VMS and a Data General
OS whose name escapes me. Several universites have asked us for a port to
the Mac II running A/UX and since we have some NASA money to port IRAF to
new systems, we are planning to acquire a Mac II of our own with A/UX so we
can do the initial port and keep it going over further IRAF releases.
I have two initial questions: How do we get A/UX? The local Computerland
will be glad to sell us the Mac II with all the trimmings, but they can't
sell us A/UX. The University of Arizona is not an Apple Consortium member
(in any case, we aren't officialy a part of the U of A). So how can we get
A/UX?
What is the state of the A/UX Fortran compiler? IRAF is mostly Fortran and
compiler quality is the limiting factor in all our ports (even the best of
compilers have optimizer bugs on a few of our modules). Any third party
compilers?
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Steve Grandi, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson AZ, 602-325-9228
UUCP: {arizona,decvax,ncar,ihnp4}!noao!grandi or uunet!noao.arizona.edu!grandi
Internet: grandi@noao.arizona.edu SPAN/HEPNET: 5355::GRANDI or NOAO::GRANDIsysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) (05/26/88)
in article <690@noao.UUCP>, grandi@noao.arizona.edu (Steve Grandi) says: > > > What is the state of the A/UX Fortran compiler? IRAF is mostly Fortran and > compiler quality is the limiting factor in all our ports (even the best of > compilers have optimizer bugs on a few of our modules). Any third party > compilers? > -- A FORTRAN compiler is available from UniSoft (6121 Hollis St., Suite 100, Emeryville, CA 94608. 415-420-6400). Jan Harrington, sysop Scholastech Telecommunications UUCP: ihnp4!husc6!amcad!stech!sysop or allegra!stech!sysop BITNET: JHARRY@BENTLEY ******************************************************************************** Miscellaneous profundity: "No matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Banzai ********************************************************************************
jeffc@leda (Jeff Currier) (01/26/89)
We just got our MacIIx with A/UX and I have a few questions that some of
you great guys and gals out there could answer.
1) Why are my ethernet connections so slow? Is 3-minutes normal to
connect to a machine next door?
2) Are there any other window Manegers besides "term"? Term is O.K. but
I was spoiled bye "suntools" and term seems primitive.
3) Are there any Screen blanking routines or screen locks available?
4) Are there any graphics emulation routines for say Tek 4014 emulation?
Thanks a bunch. I know these quesations are simple for
some of you. But I am just getting started and I am lost.
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Jeff Currier (602)621-4948
Computational Fluid Mechanics Lab
University of Arizona
Internet: jeffc@jupiter.ame.arizona.edu
UUCP: {allegra,cmcl2,hao!noao}!arizona!amethyst!jupiter!jeffc
----------------------------------------------------------mckenzie@june.cs.washington.edu (Neil McKenzie) (01/26/89)
(line eater) (line eater) (line eater) (line eater) (line eater) (line eater) (line eater) (line eater) (line eater) (line eater) In article <879@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu> jeffc@jupiter.ame.arizona.edu (Jeff Currier) writes: >We just got our MacIIx with A/UX and I have a few questions that some of >you great guys and gals out there could answer. > >1) Why are my ethernet connections so slow? Is 3-minutes normal to >connect to a machine next door? Sounds like the same problem I had with the loopback interface. When the system boots, you need a command something like "ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1" to enable the loop interface. > >2) Are there any other window Manegers besides "term"? Term is O.K. but >I was spoiled bye "suntools" and term seems primitive. >3) Are there any Screen blanking routines or screen locks available? > >4) Are there any graphics emulation routines for say Tek 4014 emulation? > There's the X11 windowing package from MIT that has all this and more. See if there is a fileserver in your domain that has source code. Checking with the Computer Science department at your university is a good bet. > > Thanks a bunch. I know these quesations are simple for >some of you. But I am just getting started and I am lost. >---------------------------------------------------------- >Jeff Currier (602)621-4948 >Computational Fluid Mechanics Lab >University of Arizona >Internet: jeffc@jupiter.ame.arizona.edu >UUCP: {allegra,cmcl2,hao!noao}!arizona!amethyst!jupiter!jeffc >---------------------------------------------------------- --Neil McKenzie (mckenzie@cs.washington.edu) "Where am I?" "You can't get there from here." --Firesign Theatre
kucharsk@uts.amdahl.com (William Kucharski) (01/26/89)
In article <879@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu>, jeffc@leda (Jeff Currier) writes: > 1) Why are my ethernet connections so slow? Is 3-minutes normal to > connect to a machine next door? It's not really "normal," but then again it's not really bad, either. Depending upon your Ethernet card and the traffic on your network it may indeed be "normal." Also, if you're using Apple's EtherTalk card, you may have quite a few problems with Ethernet overflows if you're running A/UX 1.0 and have a busy network. > > 2) Are there any other window Manegers besides "term"? Term is O.K. but > I was spoiled bye "suntools" and term seems primitive. Term isn't really a window manager, just a program which displays multiple terminals on-screen. The window manager is more-or-less standard Apple toolbox, to the extent supported by A/UX 1.0. > 3) Are there any Screen blanking routines or screen locks available? I'm sure there are some, but I don't know too much about this one... > 4) Are there any graphics emulation routines for say Tek 4014 emulation? Depending upon what's out there, the above question as well as 2,3 and 4 can be easily answered by telling you to run the X Window System. X11r3 is available as source from MIT (ask around for more info) or sometime soon now from Apple as a supported product (with a faster server than you get with the standard core distribution). By running X you could: * Use the window manager of your choice (uwm, twm, awm) * Get auto screen blanking, and I know there are X screen locking programs out there * Get Tektronix emulation via xterm > > Thanks a bunch. I know these quesations are simple for > some of you. But I am just getting started and I am lost. > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Jeff Currier (602)621-4948 > Computational Fluid Mechanics Lab > University of Arizona > Internet: jeffc@jupiter.ame.arizona.edu > UUCP: {allegra,cmcl2,hao!noao}!arizona!amethyst!jupiter!jeffc I am assuming you mean new to A/UX and not new to UNIX; if that's not the case I'm sorry if I lost you somewhere above... -- William Kucharski ARPA: kucharsk@uts.amdahl.com UUCP: ...!{ames,decwrl,sun,uunet}!amdahl!kucharsk Disclaimer: The opinions expressed above are my own, and may not agree with those of any other sentient being, not to mention those of my employer. So there.
beard@ux5.lbl.gov (Patrick C Beard) (08/16/90)
Here are some questions for those of you who have been using A/UX 2.0 a little longer than I. o How does one adjust the amount of virtual memory the system uses? o How do I get MPW 3.1 to work? It hangs my system. o How do I keep command lines that I edit with backspace keep from erasing the prompt? I know line discipline is the issue here, how do I turn it on? o Can I refer to a file on mac file system disks from within Unix? Can the mac volume appear to be under the / volume? Thanks. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Patrick Beard, Macintosh Programmer (beard@lbl.gov) - - Berkeley Systems, Inc. ".......<dead air>.......Good day!" - Paul Harvey - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ron@afsg.apple.com (Ron Flax) (08/16/90)
In article <6509@helios.ee.lbl.gov> beard@ux5.lbl.gov (Patrick C Beard) writes: >o How does one adjust the amount of virtual memory the system uses? put a line like: setenv TBMEMORY 10m in your .login file... the 10m means 10meg. You can go up to 16meg > >o How do I get MPW 3.1 to work? It hangs my system. MPW 3.1 doesn't work under A/UX 2.0 yet, 3.2 will work though.. in the meantime you can make 3.1 work by breaking into MacsBug when it's hung, and entering pc=pc+2;g. > >o How do I keep command lines that I edit with backspace keep from erasing >the prompt? I know line discipline is the issue here, how do I turn it >on? Actually it's a function of the tty driver. The BSD tty driver (which A/UX doesn't use) handles this, the SysV tty driver does not. What you can do is run a shell such as tcsh (available from ohio state) which internally keeps track of keys typed, and where the prompt string is, etc. > >o Can I refer to a file on mac file system disks from within Unix? Can the >mac volume appear to be under the / volume? Nope. That's not supported. -- Ron Flax UUCP: ..!uunet!afsg!ron Ineternet: ron@afsg.apple.com Apple Federal Systems Group, Complex Systems
justin@Apple.COM (Justin Walker) (08/16/90)
In article <6509@helios.ee.lbl.gov> beard@ux5.lbl.gov (Patrick C Beard) writes: >o How does one adjust the amount of virtual memory the system uses? In /mac/bin/mac32 (or mac24), add to the "startmac" line the flag "-mxm" (for example, "-m16m"), to get a virtual RAM size of "x" MB. Note that a variety of reasons, "x" can be at most 16 (or 8 in 24-bit mode). You can also set the environment variable TBMEMORY=xm, x as above. >o How do I get MPW 3.1 to work? It hangs my system. You can't do it directly; MPW 3.1 is not A/UX compatible. Apple's DTS may be able to help you with work-arounds for some incompatibilities (to get past the hang, for example). >o How do I keep command lines that I edit with backspace keep from erasing >the prompt? I know line discipline is the issue here, how do I turn it >on? You can't. We don't support the appropriate line discipline. >o Can I refer to a file on mac file system disks from within Unix? Can the >mac volume appear to be under the / volume? Another "no can do". The "A/UX finder world" is the only way to access both file systems. You could write a "hybrid app" that attached to the finder world, but you can't access HFS volumes from the A/UX kernel directly. In a similar vein, you can't "mount" an HFS volume on an A/UX inode. >Thanks. >- Patrick Beard, Macintosh Programmer (beard@lbl.gov) - Regards, Justin Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large * A/UX Group | Apple Computer, Inc. | When meetings are outlawed, 10440 Bubb Rd, | Only outlaws will have meetings Cupertino, CA 95014 * -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large (justin@apple.com) * A/UX Group *------------------| Apple Computer, Inc. | When meetings are outlawed, 10440 Bubb Rd, | Only outlaws will have meetings Cupertino, CA 95014 *
glenn@gla-aux.uucp (Glenn L. Austin) (05/02/91)
Besides the two problems I'm having with A/UX (StyleWriter 57.6Kbaud and AppleTalk never getting turned off), I am curious as to whether I can ditch the install.d and uninstall.d folders in /etc. I don't see any reason beyond reconfiguring the kernel to keep them, so I would like to ditch as much as possible so that I can have 40MB free for news. Anybody know for sure as to whether I can ditch the /etc/*.d folders? Anybody know why the TrueType init causes Commando to hang? How about what to patch for the AppleTalk and 57.6Kbaud problems? adv<THANKS>ance -- =============================================================================== | Glenn L. Austin - Mac Wizard and Auto Racing Driver | | Usenet: glenn@gla-aux.uucp | | "Turn too soon, run out of room. Turn too late, much better fate." |
lantz@Apple.COM (Bob Lantz) (05/04/91)
glenn@gla-aux.uucp (Glenn L. Austin) writes: >Anybody know why >the TrueType init causes Commando to hang? Yes. I believe it is fixed in 2.0.1. >adv<THANKS>ance >| Glenn L. Austin - Mac Wizard and Auto Racing Driver Bob Lantz A/UX Commando Team