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From: acm@nauvax.ucc.nau.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Help with local command for C link
Date: 2 Sep 92 18:27:31 GMT
Organization: Northern Arizona University

In a previous article, adrian@mti.mti.com (Adrian McCarthy) wrote:
>In article <1992Aug20.202036.7251@sarah.albany.edu> sysbrc@loki.albany.edu (Brian Cuttler) writes:
>>... In your case you can just change the order of the
>>parameters to link ie:
>>
>>$ link :== link/nomap your_directory:options/opt,
>>$ link myfile
> 
>Except that this causes the executable to be options.exe rather than myfile.exe
>as expected.
> 
>Aid.  (adrian@lexcel.com)

   Here at Norhtern Arizona University we approached this problem from a 
different angle.  Instead of using DCL .COM files we wrote a wrapper program
that appends the appropriate string to include a C linking options file to
the end of the original command line.  Then the "fixed" command line is passed
to the real LINK command.
   This fixes problems that DCL hacks introduce such as trying to get the
following command to link the correct files and produce to correct .EXE

  $ LINK /debug PROG1,SUB /EXE=PJ2,SUB2/NOSYSSHR,SYS$SYSTEM:SYS /STB/MAP /FULL

   A DCL command file that can correctly parse out the above line or similar
ones would indeed be a very creative work of art.

   Our wrapper program is written in VAXC and is around 100 lines with
comments.  I can post the source and the documentation if anyone is interested.

   Hunter, would you like a copy for your VMS File server ??

Tony McCracken
ACM@nauvax.ucc.nau.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: rbn@ralph.rtpnc.epa.gov (Bob Boyd)
Subject: Re: Invoking VAXTPU within CAPTIVE environment
Reply-To: rbn@ralph.rtpnc.epa.gov
Organization: Unisys/EPA
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:36:53 GMT

In article <01GO1KBKETK00009YK@BENTLEY.BITNET>, JMOU@BENTLEY.BITNET writes:
>We are currently running VMS 5.4-2 on a VAX 6520.  I am looking into
>if there are any potential security problems of invoking VAXTPU within
>a CAPTIVE environment.  I have written a DCL command procedure that
>first establishes the environment that I want, and then invokes VAXTPU,
>and it works fine.

The main thing that is very important is that all of the command procedures 
and the SYS$LOGIN directories for these captive accounts be set up so that they
can only be READ by the captive user session.

This means that the LGICMD (in the UAF) points to a procedure that resides somewhere
that is a directory that is owned by a UIC in a different group.  Also SYS$LOGIN should
be owned by a different group.  The LGICMD procedure should set default to a directory 
that the captive session does have write access to for work file purposes and define 
SYS$LOGIN and SYS$SCRATCH to point to the work directory.  If you want to get really
tight on this, make sure that the work directory is on a different disk from the other stuff
and set up DEVICE ACLs on all your disks so that the captive account has read-only
access to all of the disks except the one that the work directory is on.

I set up an environment similar to this some time ago.  The work directory for each 
session was created underneath a general work directory.  The name of the temporary
work directory was determined from the date & time string+PID.

What kinds of things are you going to want these users to be editing?  I would assume
that each user will have a personal account rather than this being some sort of "general"
login account.  This may make things a little easier to manage, but could also create some
interesting twists.

--
Bob Boyd                 
rbn@ralph.rtpnc.epa.gov 
Unisys/EPA
From: edgecomb@CCRS.EMR.CA (John Edgecombe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Perkin-Elmer backup tape reader?
Date: 1 Sep 92 16:57:51 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

We are in the process of de-commissioning a Perkin-Elmer 3240 system,
and forsee the possible need to read some of the source code from the
system backup tapes from the PE system.  Does anyone know of, or can
supply (pointers to) a utility to read Perkin-Elmer 3240 backup tapes
on VMS?

Thanks

--john

John Edgecombe				<edgecombe@ccrs.emr.ca>
Canada Centre for Remote Sensing	<edgecombe@ccrs.span.nasa.gov> alternate
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

"People who have simple pleasures should be admired ... and then executed."
                                                                   Garfield

Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: newsmgr@exodus.valpo.edu
Subject: BOTTOM
X-Posted-From: exodus.valpo.edu
Organization: Valparaiso University
Reply-To: newsmgr@exodus.valpo.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 04:14:35 GMT
X-Posted-From: exodus.valpo.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

Networkers:

Does anyone know of an interconnection between either BITNET or Internet and
the Profs network?  If so, could you tell me where to get info on using it?
Thanks a bunch.

Eric Vaandering
NEWSMGR@exodus.valpo.edu
From: SRDANIELS@RCKHRST1.BITNET ("SCOTT R. DANIELS")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: VMS Accounting Question...
Date: 3 Sep 92 18:40:02 GMT
Organization: The Internet

Is there a way to have ACCOUNTING use a file other than ACCOUNTNG.DAT when
genreating reports for output ?  Are accounting files are closed and renamed
at the end of every month, and we would like to get some data from an older
file that is not called ACCOUNTNG.DAT.  Thanks in advance...
       _______     _______    _______   _______   _______         (__==__)
      / _____/\   / _____/\  / ___  /\ /______/\ /______/\          (oo)
     / /\____\/  / /\____\/ / /__/ / / \_/ /\_\/ \_/ /\_\/   /-------\/
    / /_____    / / /      / // / / /   / / /     / / /     / | K.C.|| (MOO...)
   /_____  /\  / / /      / // / / /   / / /     / / /     *  ||----||
  ______/ / / / /____    / /__/ / /   / / /     / / /         ^^    ^^
 /_______/ / /______/\  /______/ /   /_/ /     /_/ /        SRD@RCKHRST1
 \_______\/  \______\/  \______\/    \_\/      \_\/         SRD@RCKHRST2

+----------------------------+--------------------------+----------------------+
| Scott R. Daniels           |  Rockhurst College       |   +1 816.926.4065    |
| VAX/VMS Systems Programmer |  Kansas City, MO  64110  |   +1 816.926.4162    |
+----------------------------+--------------------------+----------------------+
From: tscarpenter@bra.isnet.inmos.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: How many VUPS to 1 MIPS or how many MIPS to 1 VUP.
Date: 3 Sep 92 11:17:55 GMT
Organization: Inmos Limited

OK a easy question for all you Vax gurus,

I know what VUP stands for but what does it equate to.

For instance what is one VUP equivelent to in MIPS.

Thanks in advance.

Darren Carpenter.
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| VAX/VMS System Administrator. || first time is nobody appreciates how   ||
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From: PGMOGUSH%TAYLORU@UICVM.UIC.EDU (Peggy Mogush)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Time recommendations for DAT cleaning
Date: 27 Aug 92 13:35:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Greetings,

Does anyone have any recommendations for amount of hours/data between cleanings
for Winchester 4mm FlashDAT drives? I checked the hardware users guide for
recommendations on tapes to use but none for how often.

Thanks all,
Peggy

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Peggy Mogush                             bitnet: PGMOGUSH@TAYLORU
Taylor University
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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: gurman@umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov (Joseph B. Gurman)
Subject: Re: BookReader
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 15:37:43 GMT

canellis@MOHAWK.BROOKS.AF.MIL ("Alan J. Canellis") writes:

>	This maybe a FAQ, but here it goes.  How do I setup BookReader so I
>can read Documentation on non-licensed products?

    As one who initially failed to RTFM myself, let me refer you to the
"VMS Online Documentation Library / Disc Users's Guide" (AA-ND24N-RE)
with the July '92 CD's, p. 9. All you have to do is

$ @cd_device_name:[DECW$BOOK]BOOKBROWSER.COM

and you should be able to read any docs on the CD's, since you will have
licensed BOOKBROWSER. (And who said LMF was hard?)
    It doesn't say that this even requires any privileges, although to
allow clusterwide access to the docs, it suggests using SYSMAN to do the
license load.
    Colorado Springs pointed this out to me when I couldn't read the
Motif docs because I "only" have the NAS-250 license, not a Motif
license.
    Share & enjoy,
						Joe Gurman
--
J.B. Gurman / Solar Physics Branch / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center /
Greenbelt MD 20771 USA / gurman@umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov
| Federal employees are prohibited from holding opinions under the Hatch Act.|
| Therefore, any opinions expressed herein are somebody else's.              |
From: s01964@seb.se
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Re: equivalent to SET BOOT
Date: 3 Sep 92 08:32:56 GMT
Organization: S-E-Banken

>| 
>| 	Does anyone know if it is possible to issue an equivalent to the 
>|>>>SET BOOT <nickname> [>boot-parameters>], without bringing down the system.
>| We are running VMS5.5 on a 4010, 6320, and a 6610.  Thanks.

>There would have to be a different routine for each type of VAX as each has
>a different console.  As far as I know no such program exists although perhaps
>one or two hack have been brewed up for a particular machine or two.


I've done a small program that change the boot device for VAXstation 3100
and VAXstation 4000. Please contact me with E-mail if you want to have the
source.

/Jonas Lindholm,  jlh@seb.se  (Internet)
From: agnew@gems.vcu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: problems with dec-gks and decwindows
Date: 26 Aug 92 15:28:41 -0400
Organization: Medical College of Virginia

Dear netpeople,
We had the same problem of gks never deikonifiying (sp) .. the problem
is you need to set gks$conid decw$display
and the gks$wstype = 231, and it should work.

warning, gks assumes that vt3xx's have mice...  input defaults to mouse,
not keyboard!!!!
that had me walking in circles for 2 days...

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        /      >  ||   Neurosurgery,     AGNEW@VCUVAX        (Bitnet)
   /\_/     '   \  /   MCV-VCU           This tape will self destruct in
 /________________>    Richmond, Va      five seconds.  Good luck, Jim..."
From: ARNE@ko.hhs.dk (Arne Vajhxj)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Command string from within VAX/VMS Pascal ???
Date: 26 Aug 92 12:13:00 GMT
Organization: The Internet

Someone, which did not supply an email-address, asked:

> Could somebody tell me how to retrieve the command string
> from within VAX/VMS Pascal, including the path,program name
> and on-line parameters ?

Look for LIB$GETJPI and LIB$GET_FOREIGN !

Small example:

[inherit('sys$library:pascal$lib_routines','sys$library:starlet')]

program z(input,output);

var
   img,cmd : varying [512] of char;

begin
   lib$getjpi(item_code:=JPI$_IMAGNAME,
              resultant_string:=img.body,resultant_length:=img.length);
   lib$get_foreign(resultant_string:=cmd.body,resultant_length:=cmd.length);
   writeln('Image = ',img);
   writeln('Command line = ',cmd);
end.

To test try:

  PAS Z
  LIN Z
  Z:==$disk:[dir]Z
  Z "kuk"

Hope it helps !

                                                          Arne

Arne Vajhxj                             local DECNET:  KO::ARNE
Computer Department                     PSI:           PSI%23831001304030::ARNE
Business School of Southern Denmark     Internet:      ARNE@KO.HHS.DK
From: richard@npri6.npri.com (Richard Head)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: DECUS UUCP available via e-mail?
Summary: DECUS UUCP available via e-mail?
Date: 2 Sep 92 15:31:38 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: NPRI, Alexandria VA

Does anyone know if DECUS UUCP V2.0 is available via e-mail (Mailserver)
rather than waiting for a DECUS tape?


Thanks!
-- 
richard@npri6.npri.com  <Richard Head>
I've fallen and I can't reach my beer!
From: dongray@cdclu1.genrad.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: ISEND for VMS posted to vmsnet.sources
Date: 27 Aug 92 09:27:51 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

> I have posted the ISEND.SHARE file to vmsnet.sources
> Here is the AAAREADME.TXT file information:
[...]
> ISEND is the implementation for Unix and VMS systems of RFC-1159 and RFC-1312.
[...]
> The server was then upgraded to support RFC-1312 as well (ignoring the new
> fields). The client is left with the old version in order to communicate
> with older implementations of ISENDD.
[...]
> Jim Gerland  - Consultant, Network User Support         University at Buffalo
> Academic Services, Computing & Information Technology   Buffalo, NY 14260
> 716.645.3557 Work                                       716.645.3734 FAX
> gerland@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu                            gerland@ubvms.bitnet

[FLAME ON]
Amazing! This README file manages to avoid actually saying what the program
does (unless you happen to have copies of the appropriate RFCs to hand)!

Instead of broadcasting an almost useless file, it would have been a lot more
helpful if you'd said ...
    "I have posted the ISEND.SHARE file to vmsnet.sources.
     ISEND is a client-server application which ... "
..and actually summarized what it does!

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : Derek Dongray, Systems Manager, GenRad Ltd.
Phone : 061 486 1511 ext 166
PSS : 234261600119::Dongray                 UKnet : Derek.Dongray@GenRad.co.uk
InterNet : Dongray@cdclu1.GenRad.com        CompuServe : 70374,2745
Address : Monmouth House, Monmouth Road, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, SK8 7AY, UK.
From: DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU (Dan Wing)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Locks (was: RE: DCL question again)
Date: 24 Aug 92 23:55:52 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Bruce Pihlamae, pihlab@hhcs.gov.au, writes:

>In article <4169@winnie.fit.edu>, karin@zach.fit.edu (Karin Nicholson) writes:
>> In article <1992Aug13.164237.18724@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> uucm000@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
> (Tingli Pan) writes:
>>>Here is another DCL question from me. (obvioustly I'm working in a small
>>>DCL project) Is there a way to find whether a file is locked or not on
>>>the DCL level.
>>>
>>>Tingli Pan                           Bitnet:   uucm000@ecnuxa.bitnet
>>>Academic Computing Services          Internet: uucm000@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
>>>Northeastern Illinois University
>>
>> I have found one failsafe way to find out if a file is open/locked and
>> by whom, if so.  Use the SHOW DEVICE/FILE <disk> command.  This will
>> not tell you what the logical filename is, in cases where the user has
>> done a DEFINE/ASSIGN, but at least you'll know if the file is open.
>
>This only shows you locks on your node.  If you're in a CLUSTER then it won't
>help.  I think.

If you like to use SHOW DEVICE/FILES, you can use something like, which will 
work across a cluster:

  $ SET PROCESS/PRIVILEGE=OPER
  $ MCR SYSMAN
  SYSMAN> SET ENVIRONMENT/CLUSTER
  SYSMAN> DO SHOW DEVICE/FILES/OUTPUT=FILE.TMP device:
  SYSMAN> EXIT
  $ APPEND/NEW_VERSION FILE.TMP;* OPEN_FILES.TMP
  $ TYPE OPEN_FILES.TMP
  $ DELETE FILE.TMP;*,OPEN_FILES.TMP;

Be sure you have sufficient privileges to view all the files on the device
without causing 100s of security alarms to be tripped.  Although the on-line 
help (V5.5) claims you need SYSPRV or BYPASS to view read-protected files, 
READALL should suffice.

-Dan Wing, DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU or WING_D@UCOLMCC.BITNET (DGW11)
 Systems Programmer, University Hospital, Denver
From: john@cutler.com (John E. Babbitt Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Submitting Jobs for Last Day of Month
Date: 25 Aug 92 20:42:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: cutler.1992Aug25.134248.285
Organization: Cutler & Company, Inc., Medford OR (503) 770-9000

In article <1992Aug25.102008.28397@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>, jmacdonald@mta.ca writes:
> I am wondering if anyone has a nifty way to have jobs submit themselves for the
> last day of the month.  Thank-you.
> 
> Jane MacDonald (jmacdonald@mta.ca)

I like this:

f$cvtime("01-''f$cvtime("15--+60-","ABSOLUTE","MONTH")--1-","ABSOLUTE")

Regards,

John E. Babbitt, Jr.        {UUCP: ...hplabs!hp-pcd!orstcs!cutler!john}
Senior Programmer/Analyst   {Internet: john@cutler.com}
Cutler & Company, Inc.      {Phone: 503/770-9000 (voice) 503/770-9014 (tdd)}
Medford, Oregon  97504      {Disclaimer: What I say is my personal opinion}
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
From: terry@pride386.PP.COM (Terry Lyons)
Subject: pick language
Organization: Pride Plastics
Distribution: ca
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 22:59:19 GMT

where in Southern Cal. can I take a class on PICK.?
preferabley in O.C.
terry

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From: furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod)
Subject: Re: pick language
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems Inc.
Distribution: ca
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 19:54:54 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.225919.4202@pride386.PP.COM> terry@pride386.PP.COM (Terry Lyons) writes:
>where in Southern Cal. can I take a class on PICK.?
>preferabley in O.C.
>terry
>
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Contact JES and Associates Inc.

P.O. Box 19274 
Irvine CA, 92713
20311 Acadia Street
Suite 140
Santa Ana Heights CA 92707
(714) 553-8200
(714) 553-9779 (fax)

This is the last known address and phone numbers I have for them.
They have a very good team of people that can teach PICK better
than any I have seen in the past.

Hope this helps...

...Paul

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Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: netdefs
From: theobald@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Allen M. Theobald)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 18:35:15 GMT
Organization: University of Cincinnati


Hello netters!  I hope I have the right news group to post this
message to!  If not please direct me...

The question:

    On page 397 of "UNIX Network Programming", by W.Richard Stevens,
    there is a reference to an include file called "netdefs.h".
    I can't find any reference to it in the book (other than the
    #includes).  What is this file and where can I find the contents?	
    It is user defined, not system defined.

Thanks in advance!

Allen
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
From: stark@superc.che.udel.edu (Scott M. Stark)
Subject: Minx under system 7.0.1
Keywords: Mac, Minix, System 7
Reply-To: stark@superc.che.udel.edu
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:16:40 GMT


I have been reading comp.os.minix the past couple of
weeks to determine if Minix will run on a Mac with system
7.0.1.  A number of people have stated that a patch exists
to bring 1.5.10 to 1.5.10.7 but I cannot find anything that
look like it may do the trick.  Can someone who has accomplished
this please post a more detailed account of what to do.

Thanks,
Scott
stark@superc.che.udel.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
From: cs902125@ariel.yorku.ca (SHUK C YIP)
Subject: AmigaMinix
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 02:14:19 GMT

Is Amiga version of Minix compatible with 68040 CPU?
Does it support MMU?
From: ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: trouble with demo disk
Date: 2 Sep 92 02:00:05 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab.



I obtained the minix demo disk for MSDOS systems from an archive in
australia. My A: drive is 5.25" and although it is high density,
I don't have any free high density 5.25" floppies that can hold
the file demo_dsk.ibm. The file is about 368K, which is only a little
more than the size of low density 5.25" floppies. It seems that with
a little effort the makers of the demo could have made it just a little
smaller to fit on all 5.25" floppies, but they didn't.

I do have 3.5" high density floppies which I can use in my B: drive, so
I put the stuff there. When I try to boot up, my machine checks the
A: drive, then the B: drive, then passes them both by and boots up
from the hard disk.

If I just go into B: drive and try to execute demo_dsk.ibm, DOS tells me
that it is a bad command or file name, presumably because it doesn't have
a .com or .bat or .exe extension.

So how can I get this thing to work?

Allan Adler
ara@altdorf.ai.mit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
From: vromano@nyx.cs.du.edu (Vincenzo Romano)
Subject: GNU-C recompiled minix wanted
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 10:38:08 GMT

I'm looking for a copy of the Minix Operating System recompiled by using
the GNU-C compiler. I already own the Minix 1.5 but I'm sure that on my
386sx machine such a recompiled OS should be faster, isn't it?

Can anyone help me? Can anyone tell me where I can FTP this OS or, at least
a pre-compiled minix port of the GNU-C?

Many, many thanks!

Vincenzo "Enzo" Romano     .---------------------------------------------------.
Dept. of Computer Science  | Maybe Computers will never become as intelligent  |
I-56100 Pisa  ITALY        | as Humans. Surely they'll never become so stupid. |
vromano@nyx.CS.DU.EDU      `---------------------------------------------------'
From: waltje@cs.vu.nl (Kempen van Fred)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: newgpkt.c V1.6 fix for off-by-one error
Date: 30 Aug 92 22:11:43 GMT

wietse@wzv.win.tue.nl (Wietse Venema) writes:

>I found an off-by-one error in the gwrmsg() routine, that caused the g
>protocol driver to send an extraneous packet in case of a message that
>"exactly fits". A "<" operator was used instead of a "<=" operator.

Aaaiii.  This one must have been around for quite awhile... :-(
I checked my current UUCP (UUCP UWALT 4.0), and it still has this
bug.  Since Will (Rose) used my UUCP as a base for his UUCP 1.X,
it probably exists in his versions, too... :-(

Thanks for the fix, I'll fix the damn "g" driver... version 1.7 :-)

Fred.
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