wross@caen.engin.umich.edu (Wendy Ross) (10/02/89)
I have four questions, but first ... The Background: I have a PS/2 on an ethernet running AIX v1.1 (hopefully this is soon to change to 2.2!). Most of the other machines around here run BSD4.3, so that's where the expertise lies. The Questions: 1. X Windows: I have successfully loaded and am running X. How do I make the system login prompt run in an X Window? 2. DOS Merge & X: Is there any way to specify full screen DOS mode from X? I can start a DOS Merge window, or type "dos" at a c-shell prompt and get DOS in that window. Is the only way to get full-screen DOS to exit X first? 3. Remote Printing: Is it possible to remote print to a machine running Berkley printing (without manually ftping the file first)? 4. Backups: What is the best way to perform backups over the network since "dump" isn't available? Any help or suggestions would be appreciated! Wendy Ross wross@caen.engin.umich.edu <insert amusing quip here>
webb@bass.tcspa.ibm.com (Bill Webb) (10/05/89)
>... > 2. DOS Merge & X: Is there any way to specify full screen > DOS mode from X? I can start a DOS Merge window, or type > "dos" at a c-shell prompt and get DOS in that window. Is the > only way to get full-screen DOS to exit X first? >... > Wendy Ross > wross@caen.engin.umich.edu What you'd like to be able to do is "open dos" but that didn't work from an X window even when I tried to subvert stdin etc. (sigh), so I suggest that you hot-key to the console and type "open dos" from there. Then when you want to go back to X you can hot-key there and back again. If you're not starting X in a separate HFT session then you might think about doing so or doing "open dos" before you start up X. > 4. Backups: what is the best way to perform backups over the > network since "dump" isn't available? I'd suggest using tar for the epoch dump, and touch a file at the start, and then use tar cvf - `find ... -newer stamp ! -type d -print` | rsh ... for the incrementals. If you run out of argument list room then its probably time for a new epoch dump or switch to backup or cpio instead of tar. You can also use the "backup" command, e.g. find ... -print | backup -f - -i | rsh ... but I found that you can't backup a disk or filesystem (the above command is by name) unless you unmount it first (sigh). You could also use cpio, but I'm not much of a cpio fan as it isn't a BSD 4.3 command. The main advantage of using tar is that you can read the tarfile on other machines, which is often an advantage if worst comes to worst and you need to use the backup. ---------------------------------------------------------------- The above views are my own, not necessarily those of my employer. Bill Webb (IBM AWD Palo Alto), (415) 855-4457). UUCP: ...!uunet!ibmsupt!webb
jeff@steamer.tcspa.ibm.com (Jeff Weinstein) (10/05/89)
>... > 2. DOS Merge & X: Is there any way to specify full screen > DOS mode from X? I can start a DOS Merge window, or type > "dos" at a c-shell prompt and get DOS in that window. Is the > only way to get full-screen DOS to exit X first? You should try 'xopen dos'. Xopen is like open, but it works from within an aixterm window. It also makes an X icon that you can click on, which will automatically switch you to that virtual terminal. Jeff Weinstein IBM - Advanced Workstation Division Palo Alto Development Center uunet!ibmsupt!jeff
garnett@rpp386.cactus.org (John Garnett) (10/06/89)
In article <2440@ibmpa.UUCP> webb@bass.tcspa.ibm.com (Bill Webb) writes: >>... >> 2. DOS Merge & X: Is there any way to specify full screen >> DOS mode from X? I can start a DOS Merge window, or type >> "dos" at a c-shell prompt and get DOS in that window. Is the >> only way to get full-screen DOS to exit X first? >>... >> Wendy Ross > >What you'd like to be able to do is "open dos" but that didn't work >from an X window even when I tried to subvert stdin etc. (sigh), so I >suggest that you hot-key to the console and type "open dos" from there. Have you tried using: XMERGE=TRUE export XMERGE xopen dos from inside an aixterm (xterm) window? This should create a new virtual session containing a full screen DOS session. Use Alt-Action (Alt-Control on unmodified PS/2 keyboards) to switch back to the X-Windows session. You will find that the "xopen" command has created an Icon entitled "dos". Clicking on this icon will switch to the full screen DOS Merge session. Xopen will work with any executable program (even another invocation of the X-Server if you have enough system resources). It might be useful to you to include the three commands suggested above into a shell script named "fsdos" for example. You could then type "xopen fsdos" as long as fsdos was in your PATH. -- +---------------------------------------------+--------------------------+ | Namenet: John Garnett | Base 1.9 | | Internet: garnett@rpp386.cactus.org | | | Uucpnet: {bigtex|texbell}!rpp386!garnett | "It's almost binary." |