rds95@leah.Albany.Edu (Robert Seals) (08/08/90)
Hello, Well, I'm the reasonably proud owner of a model 320. Since our funding status ($$$) required us to make tradeoffs in the hardware configuration, I got 16 meg memory, hi-perf 3d graphics, but only 2 internal 120m drives... So the thing got delivered with a bunch of stuff still packed up in /usr/sys/preload (I don't know whether this is normal or not), and after sifting through most of it, I think I've unpacked most of what I want/need. 1) Can somebody either tell me or point to a place in info that will reveal whether or not the info databases can be put on a remote (non-AIX, non-NFS, but Unix and on the local net) machine? If I could get back that 60-70 megs, I'd be happy for a while... 2) As far as the graphics goes, are the gl libraries already someplace on the disk, or are they mushed up with the X stuff? And are there some groovy demo-type things that show what gl can do? Is gl totally bound up with X, or is it separately programmable, and where is the documentation for it? 3) The machine came with a floppy that had some optional software on it that turned out to be microcode for the hi-perf 3d boards. I installed it. What is it? Should I have installed it? What's it do? 4) The machine also came with another unmarked floppy that I haven't yet found anything on. Any guesses? Thanks, more later, I'm sure. rob -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Unix has its weak points, but its file system is not one of them." -Chris Torek rob rob@asrcmv.albany.edu or rds95@leah.albany.edu I have no idea what the uucp path to me is.
marc@neon.paloalto.ibm.com (Marc Pawliger) (08/09/90)
In article <3490@leah.Albany.Edu>, rds95@leah.Albany.Edu (Robert Seals) writes: |> 1) |> Can somebody either tell me or point to a place in info that |> will reveal whether or not the info databases can be put |> on a remote (non-AIX, non-NFS, but Unix and on the local net) |> machine? If I could get back that 60-70 megs, I'd be happy for |> a while... They are just files - we NFS-mount them here and info works just fine. Assuming that $LANG is set to En_US (USA/English setup), copy the directory tree rooted at /usr/lpp/info/En_US onto your remote system. Then delete the files on the '6000 (after backing them up, of course). If you mount the files at /usr/lpp/info/En_US on the '6000, info won't know the difference. How do you propose to "put the database" on a remote, NON-NFS machine? |> |> 2) |> As far as the graphics goes, are the gl libraries already someplace |> on the disk, or are they mushed up with the X stuff? And are there |> some groovy demo-type things that show what gl can do? Is gl |> totally bound up with X, or is it separately programmable, and |> where is the documentation for it? /lib/libgl.a is the GL library. /usr/include/gl has the include files. I speak for myself, not IBM. +---Marc Pawliger---IBM Advanced Workstations Division---Palo Alto, CA---+ | Internet: marc%ibmsupt@uunet.uu.net VNET: MARCP at AUSVM6 | | UUCP: uunet!ibmsupt!ibmpa!marc Phone: (415) 855-3493 | +------IBMnet: marc@ibmpa.paloalto.ibm.com---IBM T/L: 465-3493--------+