#: 20182 S1/General Interest 05-Aug-94 22:40:48 Sb: Old Monk, New Toy Fm: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142 To: ALL Dear friends: Once again from the depths of the obscure equipment and unknown hardware bin, I have managed to obtain an interesting piece of practical peripherality. (Hold on it will probably get worse.) I picked up an AVAL PKW 1000. Now what is an AVAL PKW 1000, you may ask? Go ahead, I'll wait while you ask. Funny you should ask, it is a self-contained EPROM programmer. It has a hex keyboard 0-F, and 8 commands keys: LOD RST ERS JOB PRG - CMP SET on a control panel about the size of a calculator. It is labeled a Pecker 10 Intelligent Programmer. To the right of the control panel is a socket adapter, about 3x5 inches labeled FX-1. It has a zero insertion force socket and will take either 24 or 28 pin eproms. It lists that it can program 2716 up to 27C256 eproms. The socket adapter is removable and other types of eproms could be used with the appropriate adapter. There is a Parallel I/O port connector and an RS-232 jack on the back. Overall, the unit is about one foot square and about 2-3 inches deep. It plugs into a standard outlet. Unfortunately, it did not come with any instructions. Has any one ever heard of the company? If so does any one know of where I might get an instruction manual? This is a real nice looking unit and the preliminary test that I have performed suggest that it is in working order. Now as much as I have never been one to let facts stand in the way of my making a decision, I would like to have at least a vague idea of how to use this piece of equipment. With all best wishes, Brother Jeremy, CSJW OS9 Users Group Treasurer #: 20175 S5/OS9 Users Group 04-Aug-94 15:00:30 Sb: #alm_delete bug Fm: Peter J. Neutelings 100024,171 To: all /* I have been searching the os-9 forum libraries for a problem which must be known for a couple of years yet, but without result. We are facing problems with a OS-9 2.4 bug, where processes may delete each others alarms. 1. A process sets an alarm (e.g. using alm_set()) and stores the ID for being able to delete the alarm later, using alm_delete(). (For implementing time-outs) 2. The alarm expires 3. Another process starts the alarm, which may get the same ID the the previously expired alarm from the other process 4. If the first process tries to delete its alarm, it will delete the 2nd process's alarm! Of course, a work-around would be to use flags which keep the state of the alarm (already expired or not) and never try to delete an alarm which has expired already. But how can we ever be sure other applications we use (like 3rd party printer spoolers) are not killing our alarms? Does anyone know of a rock-solid work-around? Peter Neutelings, email 100024.171@compuserve.com Demo alm_delete problem, start as follows: al &; sleep -s 5; al */ #include int icpthand( sig ) short sig; { return sig; } void main() { int id1, id2; intercept(icpthand); id1 = alm_set(200, 300); id2 = alm_set(200, 600); printf("set 1:%d\nset 2:%d\n", id1, id2); sleep(0); printf("alarm\n"); sleep(0); printf("alarm\n"); printf("delete 1:%d\n", id1); alm_delete(id1); return; } There is 1 Reply. #: 20176 S5/OS9 Users Group 04-Aug-94 23:01:01 Sb: #20175-#alm_delete bug Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 To: Peter J. Neutelings 100024,171 (X) According to "The OS9 Guru", page 176: Only the creator of an alarm (same process ID) or the super user process (group zeor) can delete an alarm. So, you should be safe??? There is 1 Reply. #: 20181 S5/OS9 Users Group 05-Aug-94 12:40:37 Sb: #20176-alm_delete bug Fm: Peter J. Neutelings 100024,171 To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X) >According to "The OS9 Guru", page 176: > > Only the creator of an alarm (same process ID) or the super user process > (group zeor) can delete an alarm. > >So, you should be safe??? Yes I should.. "The OS9 Guru" errata of 30th june 1993 however asks us to correct the text with: Only the creator of an alarm (same process ID in OS-9 version 2.2, but same group number and user ID in later versions)... We use a OS-9 system to control a production machine. Our application is started from the startup file. I prefer the operators not having to know they're dealing with OS-9. So all processes get the same group number and user ID (in fact it is even super user status). #: 20173 S7/Telecommunications 02-Aug-94 19:57:41 Sb: #20171-Help with MM/1 hi speed Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 To: Ken Scales 74646,2237 (X) Okay, Ken, here is the dope on the 68681. The problem with selecting the different baud rates on the chip is that you have to set the chip up to select baud rates from SET 1 or SET 2...and the sets apply to the entire chip, not just one side. So, here are the tables: BITS 7..4 SET 1 SET 2 0000 50 75 0001 110 110 0010 134.5 134.5 0011 200 150 0100 300 300 0101 600 600 0110 1200 1200 0111 1050 2000 1000 2400 2400 1001 4800 4800 1010 7200 1800 1011 9600 9600 1100 38.4K 19.2K 1101 Timer Timer 1110 IP2-16x IP2-16x 1111 IP2-1x IP2-1x From this the only problems appear to be some seldom used rates and 38.4K/19.2K. So, don't try to set one port to 38.4 and the other to 19.2! It won't work. Most other, normal, combinations should be okay. BTW, I hope someone captures this...I don't intend to type it in again . #: 20184 S7/Telecommunications 07-Aug-94 08:09:31 Sb: RS232 Fm: BRIAN P BROCKWAY 76672,3620 To: BRIAN BROCKWAY 76672,3620 (X) MY RADIO SHACK RS232 HAS DIED. IT LOCKS UP MY SYSTEM WHEN IN MY MULTI PAK . ANY IDEAS ON FIXING IT, OR WHERE TO BUY A REPLACEMENT WOULD BE WELCOME. THANKS, BRIAN #: 20172 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 02-Aug-94 07:57:19 Sb: #20169-#ispell and screen Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X) Yup ... I have Ved,and that's the "correct" answer! ;-) But it will do nothing to help me learn vi which is what I have at the office. . I'm sort of forcing myself to learn this bit of torture. Thanks for taking a look at ptyman ... and I think you're correct as to where the problem lies. The older version of screen which doesn't use ptyman doesn't exhibit this problem, according to Ken ... but the new version does. Ken mentioned he'd be monitoring this thread on both services, so we'll see what happens. *- Steve -* There is 1 Reply. #: 20174 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 02-Aug-94 19:57:44 Sb: #20172-ispell and screen Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X) I've spent some time looking at the ptyman source. It appears to be okay (which means that nothing leap out and screamed at me ). I'll dig out my copy of Ispell and see what happens on my systems. #: 20177 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 04-Aug-94 23:01:08 Sb: makdir Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 To: All I know that this will really bother some people...but, I have uploaded a replacement makdir program. Look in LIB 12 for MAKDIR.LZH. It has some very useful options. #: 20178 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 05-Aug-94 07:06:02 Sb: #scrolled mail and IX Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 To: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523 (X) Hi Bill, Recently, I've begun getting scrolled messages from the Internet Forum to my CompuServe mail box. As I understand it, unread messages will scroll from a forum that has their scroll to mail flag set (we obviously do in Inetfor). But ... if IX is scarfing _everything_ in the forum for me on a nightly basis, I'm hard pressed to find messages that I'm failing to read. Any idea on what's going on? *- Steve -* There are 2 Replies. #: 20179 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 05-Aug-94 08:45:21 Sb: #20178-scrolled mail and IX Fm: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523 To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X) Steve, No, I don't know what's going on. I've noticed this recently myself on a different, though just as busy, forum. Is it possible that it really isn't scrolled, and the user is mailing it from the forum? Which implies a forum software bug. I've got it on my list of things to investigate, but just haven't had the time. I'll see what I can figure out. -Bill- #: 20180 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 05-Aug-94 12:20:14 Sb: #20178-#scrolled mail and IX Fm: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523 To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X) Steve, I think I know what's happening, what you are getting is replies to messages scrolled to the other person, not to you. I'm fairly sure that a scrolled message contains a copy of the forum message header in the message, and the ones that I've been getting don't have those. CIS sets the subject of the scrolled message to "Scrolled from xxx Forum", a clue was that one of the messages I got had the forum name chopped off, the other didn't, which is more than likely the result of the nav program the other users are using, not IX or CIS. This also makes sense, since on a busy forum at least some of the messages that you leave are going to scroll unread. The message is scrolled to mail, and the person replies to you in mail, without changing the default CIS subject. Confusing, isn't it!? -Bill- There is 1 Reply. #: 20183 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK) 06-Aug-94 05:33:56 Sb: #20180-scrolled mail and IX Fm: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 To: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523 (X) Ahh ... makes perfect sense! *- Steve -* #: 20185 S14/misc/info/Soapbox 07-Aug-94 10:55:28 Sb: #20071-6802/6809 assembler Fm: Jay Truesdale 72176,3565 To: DOUG 72667,1433 > I'm needing an assembler for 6802 and 6809 that runs on OSK. > Anyone got one?? I was using the CSC6801 package from Southeast > Media. > We use Crasmb from LLoyd I/O. I don't know if this package is still available. Try FHL and see if he still has a copy for sale. Try the author, Frank Hoffman Frank_Hoffman@ortel.org as well. -J Press !>