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- From: welch@news.cis.ohio-state.edu (Arun Welch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.xerox
- Subject: Re: Does _your_ system need rpc.rstatd? (free one available!)
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 15:10:43 -0500
- Organization: Info-1100 Mailing List
- Lines: 76
- Sender: welch@cis.ohio-state.edu
- Message-ID: <9301272010.AA03251@nervous.cis.ohio-state.edu>
- References: <s5q3pr-@rpi.edu>
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- >
- > Hi I'm crossposting to some sys groups, once, to find out which systems
- > do _not_ have rpc.rstatd
- >
-
- Maybe some screening on which sys groups woulda helped, but you asked here
- so we'll be happy to help you.
-
- >
- > Part of the program reads the kernel, and is therefore highly
- > system-dependent, so I would not expect my code to compile right away
- > on any other systems, without porting.
-
- Hmm, I'm not exactly sure by what you mean by 'kernel' on my machine.
-
- > 1. Does your system have rstatd? (In /usr/etc or /etc, possibly
- > rpc.rstatd or rstatd.)
-
- Nope, no rstatd. No /usr/etc nor /etc either, for that matter. I do have a
- {dsk}<lispfiles> if that might help you.
-
- >
- > 2. Does your system have the rpc library? (In /lib or/usr/lib,
- > possibly libsun.a, librpc.a, or in libc.a
-
- Yup, we've got an rpc library. It lives in the LispUsers directory,
- generally. Those people who've got the NFS option probably have
- RPC in {dsk}<lispfiles>nfs>, though it could also live on a file server
- somewhere. In our case it lives in {caspian:lair:ohio-state}<medley-1.2>nfs>.
-
- > Try:
- > nm LIB | egrep 'xdr|clnt|svc'
- >
-
- I assume you meant to do this in an Interlisp exec, since that's where
- all the OS-related functions generally live. I get an error, 'nm is an
- undefined function', and I assume you really meant to balance the |'s.
-
- >
- > 3. What is the manufacturer and name of your operating system and
- > computer?
- >
-
- Xerox made the computer, it's model 1186. The operating system is called
- Medley, it's sold by a company called Venue. I tried this under release
- Medley 1.2, but if you'd like I can try it under Lyric and Koto too. I can
- also try the stuff on an 1108 or an 1109, but doubt it'll make any
- difference since they're binary-compatible.
-
- > 4. Would you like to receive my sources to rpc.rstatd?
-
- Unless they're in Interlisp-D or Common Lisp I don't see that they would
- be very usefull for us. If you'd like you can send them to me anyway and
- I'll send you back all the errors loading or compiling them generates. Just
- tell me which hardware/OSversion you'd like me to test them out on.
-
- >
- > Followup-to e-mail.
- >
-
- Ah, here we see the problem. You've violated two of the cardinal rules of
- posting, namely
- 1) posting to a newsgroup that you know nothing about
- 2) telling folks to reply by email since you don't monitor the newsgroup.
-
- Thanks for the amusement though, this group has been kinda quiet of late.
-
- ...arun
- Info-1100-request/comp.sys.xerox gatekeeper.
-
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- Arun Welch
- Lisp Systems Programmer, Lab for AI Research, Ohio State University
- welch@cis.ohio-state.edu
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