Pipeline - Table of Contents

November/December 1994 (Volume 5, Number 6)

A list of articles that appeared in the November/December issue of the Pipeline along with their summaries is presented here.

Automount: An Introduction

Describes the differences and advantages of automount over NFS mounts. Provides a detailed description of master, direct and indirect maps, as well as examples of setting up automount with local and NIS maps.

Using Overlay Planes in OpenGL Motif Widgets

How to draw to both the normal and overlay planes in OpenGL. An example program is provided.

Introducing Networker 4.0.2

Discusses NetWorker 4.0.2, including system requirements, new features and bug fixes, and compatibility with older releases.

1994 Table of Contents

A list of all articles published in calendar year 1994.

Frequently-Asked Questions about IRIX

Kodak Photo CD-ROM support under IRIX
Remotely displaying showcase(1) from IRIX 5.2 systems
Control characters in passwords are not allowed when logging in under pandora(1) and clogin(1).
A shell script to rotate a bar.
How to remove files beginning with the dash (-) character.

Frequently-Asked Questions about Communications

Why some IRIX 4.0.x binaries can't resolve hostnames when executed on IRIX 5.x.
Baud rate limitations on serial ports.
Strange errors when using rcp(1C) caused by assuming that the process has an interactive shell.
Why the error `connection closed' is received when users attempt to login to a system where their home directory is NFS mounted.

Frequently-Asked Questions about Multi-media

Installing Sirius Video and the Multi-Channel Option (MCO) on the same graphics pipe.
What software is needed to support the Multi-Channel Option (MCO).
Why the high-resolution display is lost when switching to
Multi-Channel Option (MCO) mode.
Which systems support Sirius Video.
Serial digital input and output under Sirius Video.
Why vout(1V) will sometimes dump core.

Frequently-Asked Questions about Graphics

Disabling Drop And Drag in Motif 1.2 clients.