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From: sriniv@ee.ualberta.ca (Suresh Srinivasan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Some questions....
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.154706.18389@ee.ualberta.ca>
Date: 13 Jun 91 15:47:06 GMT
Sender: news@ee.ualberta.ca
Reply-To: sriniv@ee.ualberta.ca (Suresh Srinivasan)
Organization: University of Alberta Electrical Engineering
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Hi,

I'm new to the HP-Apollo way of computing so some of the following questions
might seem silly but....

Background:

   Our department has an Apollo Domain 2500 workstation with 4MB ram, 1 5.25"
   floppy, 1 tape drive and a 200MB winchester.  We are running SR 10.2 with
   the floppy patch PSKB.  We are using Sys V.

Questions:

1) The floppy drive can invol a disk and read and write MS-DOS disks with DPCE
   but the operating system will not allow me to mount a floppy.  If I try
   to mount the floppy, an OS error comes up saying that it is unable to mount
   to a directory.  What am I doing wrong?

2) When I physically shutdown the node (pull the plug), upon return, the
   PSKB patch is no longer effective and I have to reinstall the patch.

3) Is there any way to redirect the monochrome output of DPCE to a stream?

4) Is there any way to speed up DPCE?

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Alex Srinivasan
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
University of Alberta
Email:  sriniv@ee.ualberta.ca
Phone:  (403) 492 5421
FAX: (403) 492 1811