-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SunFLASH March 1990 Table Of Contents SunFLASH Vol 15 #toc March 1990 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the March TOC for SunFlash. If there are any items that you missed and really want to see, please send email directly to me at johnj@sunvice.com. If the demand for back issues justifies the effort, I will install a program to service such requests automatically. -johnj PR: Press Release An 'official' Sun Press Release STB: Software Technical Bulletin A magazine for Customers who have purchased Sun Software Support TOC: Table Of Contents Of popular Sun/UNIX magazines 15.01 PR: Many F3 (OpenFonts) Available AFTER JUST A YEAR, SUN'S FONT SELECTION EXCEEDS ALL OTHER INDUSTRY SUPPLIERS; 627 F3 FONTS NOW AVAILABLE New TypeScaler Software Now Faster, Has Less Code 15.02 PR: Sun Dedicates New Building SUN DEDICATES NEW PALO ALTO CORPORATE FACILITY TO BOARD MEMBER 15.03 STB: March Contents Short Subjects ... SunOS 4.1 and a GNU-emacs Bug tftp Default Modes Articles ... OSS: A New Online Support Tool Sun386i ATBus I/O Space Drivers In-Depth Feature ... Window System Evolution Q&A Bulletin Board ... Using format and Disk Partitions Adding Disk Drives Speedier man Pages The Hackers' Corner ... Sun386i bar Hints Unwanted Email Headers Hardware, Configurations, & Upgrades SPARCstation 1 Audio Software Release Levels 15.04 Sun Training In Atlanta Sun Education is pleased to announce an 8 week training schedule in the Atlanta, Georgia area. Sun training schedule for Atlanta: Date Class ---- ----- April 9 - 13 SunOS for Users April 16 - 20 System Administration 4.0.x April 23 - 27 SunOS for Programmers April 30 - May 4 XView Programming May 7 - 11 SunOS for Users May 14 - 18 System Administration 4.0.x May 21 - 25 C Language Programming May 30 - June 1 Productivity Skills for you Sun Workstation 15.05 Memory Price Reduction Effectively immediately (2/20/90) all 4 MByte desktop memory options are now half price! Parts: Old New List List Price Price 4 MByte memory options for the SPARCstation 1 $2000 $1000 4 MByte memory options for the 3/80s $2000 $1000 4 MByte memory options for the 386i/250 $2000 $1000 4 MByte memory options for the 386i/150 $2200 $1100 4 MByte memory options for the 386i/150 $2000 $1000 15.06 PR: Japanese version of SunWrite/Paint/Draw Island Graphics Corporation and Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced today that Unisol Corporation of Tokyo will begin shipping Japanized versions of SunWrite(TM), SunPaint(TM) and SunDraw(TM) in Japan beginning April 1. Unisol translated the products into Japanese. 15.07 PR: AGFA to Support OpenLook AGFA Compugraphic announced that it will feature the intuitive OPEN LOOK(TM) graphical user interface in its commercial publishing software for high-performance SPARCstation(TM) workstations made by Sun Microsystems. Products offered by AGFA Compugraphic merge text and graphics in an electronic or photographic master document that is used to print a variety of materials, from brochures to magazines. 15.08 Sun Consulting Specials Sun's consulting group provide a number of services including some special software packages. This is a summary of the current offerings. Please contact your Sun Sales office for more deatils about each of these specials. 15.09 PR: XGL - Sun's New Graphics Interface SUN INTRODUCES NEW GRAPHICS SOFTWARE LIBRARY FOR SOPHISTICATED GRAPHICS 2-D/3-D Accelerated Graphics Library Boosts Graphics Performance In OpenWindows Environment 15.10 PR: SunVision - Visualizaion S/W SUN INTRODUCES VISUALIZATION SOFTWARE FOR SPARCSTATIONS Advanced Visualization At Very Low Cost On The Desktop At the National Computer Graphics Association (NCGA) '90 conference , Sun Microsystems introduced SunVision(TM), the industry's first software product that gives developers and sophisticated users a wide range of visualization tools and libraries on low-cost SPARC(TM)-based workstations. 15.11 TechNews TECHNEWS: FEBRUARY '90 EDITION Technews is a service provided by the Sun technical suport staff. It is intended for use by Sun system integrators and is provided for your information. -johnj C O N T E N T S I. NFS A. NFS mount options explained: retrans, timeo, and intr B. NFS File Handles II. Sun386i A. TOD PATCH III. Advantages of Automounter IV. PCNFS A. Overcomming the Network Drive Limit V. Sunview Error Messages Evaluated A. window input queue overflow B. Request to current holder failed: RPC: Timed out C. zs3: silo overflow D. memory buffer is full E. valloc failed VI. Second Ethernet controllers on SparcSTATION 1s VII. man strcmp VIII. Putting an SS1 on a 386i Network IX. Adding a Second Disk to the SS1 X. Helpful Hints on Subnetting XI. Expanding Environmental Space in the Sun386i DOS Windows 15.12 PR: SunTech Journal Sold IDG ACQUIRES SUNTECH JOURNAL Sun Microsystems' Magazine Goes Independent Sun Microsystems, Inc., and International Data Group reported today the sale of Sun's SunTech Journal quarterly magazine to IDG Communications/Peterborough, a wholly owned subsidiary of IDG. Started in late 1987, the SunTech Journal covers technology, products, and applications relating to Sun Microsystems. 15.13 Some SunOS 4.1 Release Notes SunOS 4.1 Release Announcement Announcement Messages Important Release Notes Ordering Information Unbundled System Software Documentation 4.1 SOURCE 15.14 Question on Fortran-90 FORTRAN-90 (was 8x) Questionnaire ( The product manager for SunFORTRAN would like to get input from FORTRAN users. Please respond via your Sun sales office or directly to Pondy . - johnj) 15.15 Sbus Developers Tutorial Tour Sun Microsystems is sponsoring a number of SBus Developer Tutorials over the coming months. This note is intended to give you advanced notice of these upcoming seminars so you can plan accordingly. The first of these seminars was held on Feb. 13 in Long Beach CA., and had 100 people from 52 companies. We would like to continue this momentum and hold similar seminars in a number of geographic areas. 15.16 Catalyst Program For Educational Users SPECIAL PROGRAM FOR U.S. Nonprofit Educational and Nonprofit Research Institutions. Campus Catalyst, sponsored by Sun's Education and Research Marketing group, is a program designed to make it easier for academic and research software and hardware developers affiliated with educational and nonprofit institutions to become members of the Sun Catalyst Program. 15.17 TOC: SunTech Journal Winter 1990 Table Of Contents: SunTech Journal Winter 1990 15.18 SunOS 4.1 Preinstall Dates SUNOS 4.1 TO BECOME PRE-INSTALLED O/S FOR 4/60 AND 3/80 On April 9, 1990, SunOS 4.1 will replace 4.0.3 as the pre-installed OS on the SPARCstation 1 and the 3/80. SunOS 4.1 is fully binary compatible with 4.0.3 applications and supports all of our unbundled software. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sunflash is an electronic mail news service from Sun Microsystems, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Please address comments to John McLaughlin (sun!sunvice!johnj or johnj@sunvice.sun.com). (305) 776-7770.