---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Sun Consulting Specials SunFLASH Vol 26 #6 February 1991 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sun Microsystem's Consulting group has created many software packages for customer requirements that Sun's standard software offerings do not cover. These s/w packages have become know as 'consulting specials'. This article lists 2 new specials and about 40 existing ones. To order these specials, or to find the price or availablity for a specific configuration (h/w & SunOS release) please contact you local Sun sales representative. -johnj --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New this month: CONSULT-HPPJ - filters for the HPPaintJet printer. CONSULT-AUTODUMP - new version (2.2) =============================== = Consulting Specials Summary = =============================== Network ------- Multiple ethernet controllers The standard "ie" driver shipped with SunOS CONSULT-GATEWAY is configured for up to two ethernet controllers. This software is configured for up to four ethernet controllers so that a machine can be a gateway between more than two networks. Cray Channel Attach Support for Cray Channel Attach. Allows a Sun CONSULT-CRAYATTACH to communicate with a Cray over the 100 mbit Cray channel and act as a gateway. Supports TCP/IP. Driver is compatible with SunLink family. Requires FEI-3 VME channel adapter, available from Cray Research. HYPERchannel Interface Support for the connection of a Sun workstation CONSULT-HYPERCHANNEL to the HYPERchannel through an Ikon 10090 board plugged into the Sun and NSC A400 adapter. Enables a VMEbus based Sun workstation to serve as a HYPERchannel IP gateway to ethernet. HYPERchannel connected systems conforming to RFC 1044 can communicate with ethernet connected systems using the Internet Protocol (e.g. TCP/IP). RFC 1044 is NSC specification for IP communications over the HYPERchannel. Several systems conform to this RFC, including Cray, Vax (VMS and BSD), Silicon-Graphics and others. XNS networking software Kernel support for the XNS protocol; CONSULT-XNS targeted for experienced XNS hackers. X.25 Uucp Support for Uucp to run on X.25 Lines. CONSULT-X25UUCP This special supports the f-protocol of all connections. (Requires SunLink X.25) Link Layer Bisync Interface This special is an enhancement to the standard CONSULT-BSCLIB SunLink Bisync product, consisting of both a user bisync interface library and a modified SunOS kernel bisync protocol module. This special may only be run on machines licensed for standard SunLink Bisync. SDLC Library Enhancement to the standard SunLink SNA3270 CONSULT-SDLCLIB product, consisting of a user SDLC interface library. Programmatic interface ibmftp This special provides a programmatic interface CONSULT-IBMFTP to transfer files between a Sun computer and an IBM host using 3270 data streams. The interface consists of `C' callable subroutines which complement to current Datastream Access Interface (DAI) system provided with standard SunLink 3270 products. This special may only be run on machines licensed for standard SunLink 3270. Interfaces ---------- Ikon Parallel Interface UNIX device driver for the IKON model CONSULT-IKON88 10088 VMEbus interface board. Supports both Versatec and Centronics-compatible printers and plotters. High-speed serial driver High-speed line discipline / STREAMS CONSULT-HSPEED module (kernel driver) for up to 38.4 Kbps input on the Sun serial ports. Generic DR11-W driver The DR11-W interface is highly programmable; CONSULT-DR11W most applications require a custom device driver. This driver provides a suite of ioctl calls that allow a user-level application to program the Ikon 10084, 10089 or 10077 DR11-W interface board. SCSI Driver Starter Kit Starter kit for scsi drivers. Includes CONSULT-SIP a "How-to" manual and sample skeleton code. The sample code provides a head start to writing an actual SCSI driver. New SCSI Subsystem Support for the Sun Common SCSI Architecture SCSA subsystem on all Sun architectures (except Sun386i). Includes SCSA documentation, target driver binaries for disk, tape and CD-ROM, host adapter drivers for the "sc", "si", "sw", "se" and "sm" host adapters, and all of the SCSA support routines. IMPORTANT! Due to the complexity of this special, customers are strongly recommended to schedule some Consulting time to help with installation. Template Serial Mux Template SBus STREAMS asynchronous serial SMUX multiplexer driver. Includes source, an installation script and instructions. Print filters ------------- HP Laserjet Print Filters Intelligent HP LaserJet print filters CONSULT-HPLJET providing extended access to the capabilitites of the printer. Consists of text and graphic filters with command line ability to set page size, orientation, fonts and feed mode for text and density, orientation (supports software rotation), centering, and inverting of standard raster images. Includes source, utilities for partial screndumps, manual pages for all programs and sample printcaps. HP PaintJet Print Filter Filters to support printing on HP PaintJet CONSULT-HPPJ printers. SCSI peripherals ---------------- Optimem 1000 driver SCSI driver for the Optimem 1000 write-once CONSULT-OPTIMEM optical disk subsystem. Raw disk support only -- no file system. Floppy disk driver SCSI driver for an IBM PC compatible floppy CONSULT-FLOPPY disk drive and file system support for a Unix (4.2 BSD) file system. This drivber is compatible with SMS 5000 model floppy drives. Sun-4/60 SCSI Tape Driver This special supports the connection of CONSULT-SS1TAPE various tape drives to the scsi port of the Sun-4/60 (SPARCstation 1) under SunOS 4.0.3c. Sun-3, Sun-4 SCSI Tape Driver This special provides support for both the Sun CONSULT-S3S4TAPE scsi tape drives as well as the EXABYTE model EXB-8200, and the StorageTek STC-2925 on Sun3's, Sun4's and Sun3x systems. It will not work on the SPARCStation-1 (4/60); use CONSULT-SS1TAPE instead. Non-SUN CDROM driver SCSI/SCSA driver to support non-Sun CDROM CONSULT-CDROM drives. This driver works with SunOS4.1 only; it supersedes CONSULT-HSFS. The High Sierra filesystem (hsfs) provided with SunOS 4.1 is used. This allows disks in the High Sierra or ISO-9660 format to be mounted. Film Recorder Support for the LaserGraphics LFR/LFR+ CONSULT-FR or Presentation Technologies Montage film recorders. Includes SS1/SCSA SCSI driver, and an example program. Example program will download Sun rasterfile or Portable Bit Map images. (PBM is a public domain software package for conversion between a number of different formats, available via ftp from a number of sites) The example program can be used for inclusion into existing applications that wish to interface with the film recorder directly. 3480 Tape Driver Dump and restore support for the CONSULT-ST3480 Fujitsu M2480 tape drive with autoloader. Modifications to dump and restore to support the additional features of an autoloader. File Systems ------------ MS-DOS file system SCSI driver for an IBM PC compatible floppy CONSULT-DOSVFS disk drive and file system support for MS-DOS file system. High Sierra File System SCSI driver for CD-ROM driver and file system CONSULT-HSFS Support for High Sierra or ISO-9660 format. Read-only access - no mastering capability. This driver has been tested on Toshiba XM-2100, XM-3101 and XM-3201 as well as Sony CDU 6100 series drives. Input / output devices ---------------------- GTCo Tablet drivers Three line disciplines / STREAMS modules CONSULT-GTCO (kernel drivers) for the GTCo Micro Digipad digitizing tablet. One driver provides fast, buffered access to tablet data; another allows the tablet to replace the Sun mouse; the third allows the digitizer to be a SunView input device in addition to the mouse. Analog input driver Driver for the 12-bit MPV952 A/D boards CONSULT-BBAD by Burr-Brown. Input can be multiplexed through as many as 8 data acquisition channels. Analog output driver Driver for the 12-bit MPV954 DAC board by CONSULT-BBDA Burr-Brown. The board provides up to 8 channels of analog output. Utilities --------- Tape copying utility Copies tapes with arbitrary numbers of files CONSULT-TPUTIL with arbitrary blocking factors. Good for reproducing SunOS boot tapes. Disk Purge Purges data from a disk. Good for low to CONSULT-DPURGE medium security applications. Also available as a user level program for Sun3/4 under SunOS 4.0. This special will become obsolete with SunOS 4.0.3. dbxWorks An enhanced version of dbx which provides CONSULT-DBXWORKS source-level cross-debugging with Wind River Systems's VxWorks real-time executive. This replaces the standard dbx, and can be used for local debugging as well. Dbxtool can also be used with this modified dbx. CCITT (de)compression Library routines that perform CCITT groups CONSULT-FAXCOMP III & IV compression and decompression. These are the types of compression used by FAX machines. Color VT100 Terminal Emulator Enhanced version of SunLink TE100 which adds CONSULT-TE100C color attributes to the emulation. Eight colors are user defined and supported in any foreground/background combination accessed by the user through additional control sequences. The special also includes a color selection utility. This special may only be run on machines licensed for standard SunLink TE100. Automatic Network Disk Dump A SunView window-based application which CONSULT-AUTODUMP enables a systems administrator on a large site to plan and perform nightly dumps of file system partitions from several work- stations to a single medium. The history of all dumps is recorded in a single file. It is primarily intended for usage with a high capacity storage medium such as the Exabyte 8mm video cassette shoebox. Fax Modem Tools SunView applications and a daemon which allow CONSULT-FAXTOOLS reception, transmission, viewing, printing and saving of facsimiles on Sun workstations. Includes tools that allow composition of faxes from transmission. Currently able to transmit text files, raster files, and saved fax documents. Scanner control and image processing CONSULT-SCANTOOL A SunView window-based application which provides image capture and archive capabilities using either the Eikonix 850/1412 series camera or the Sharp JX-450 color scanner. Designed for use on Sun workstations with color or grey-scale frame buffers, and interfaced to the Sun through a National Instruments IEEE-488 to VME interface, Scantool provides a straight- forward Sunview based user interface. Full-Screen Microstation Full-screen Sunview Driver for the CAD/CAM CONSULT-MICROSTATION software Microstation from Bentley Systems, Inc. The software runs under DOS windows on the 386i. Multiple Displays Extensions to SunOS to support multiple color CONSULT-MFB frame buffers on a Sun workstation. The software allows the user to configure up to 3 VME based frame buffers (cg2, cg3, or cg5) on a single workstation. Source Code ----------- SunCGI Source Code This special consists of the source code for the CONSULT-SunCGI SunCGI product. The directories libcgi and libcgi77 contain the C and Fortran library sources. SunCORE Source Code This special consists of the source code to CONSULT-SunCORE SunCORE product, including libcore, libcore77, libcorefp, libcorepas, and libcoresky. Also included is a CORE to PHIGS program that will aid the conversion of a program from SunCORE to SunPHIGS. Other ----- RT Scheduler CONSULT-RTSCHED is a deterministic scheduler CONSULT-RTSCHED for sun4 and sun4c architectures running SunOS 4.1. This scheduler is similar in functionality to the Realtime scheduler specified for SVR4 (SVID Realtime Extensions) and by the POSIX 1003.4 committee on Realtime. CONSULT-RTSCHED is intended for the experienced Unix developer. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ For information send mail to info-sunflash@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. Archives are on solar.nova.edu and paris.cs.miami.edu. 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