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Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: Installing WINDOWS applications on a Pathworks Server
From: Bill Wilder <wilder@NSRSKE.AGR.CA>
Date: 15 Oct 1992 16:03:30 -0400
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I am looking for a clean method of installing Windows
applications on a Pathworks file server. If it matters our
present configuration is:
 
        MicroVAX 3400 file server (VMS 5.4-3)
        Pathworks 4.0 (VMS server and client PC's)
        Various PC's - most running DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1
 
DOS applications do not create many problems for us. In general
they are started by invoking batch files which connect to the
appropriate service, run the application and then disconnect from
the service
 
Here are some of the things we've tried for Windows applications.
 
Option (1):
 
Ideally, I would like to place a Windows application (say
WHIZBANG) on a file service and let users create an icon with the
program  specified as:
 
         \\server\WHIZSERV\whizbang.exe
 
Again ideally, the connection count for service WHIZSERV would be
enforced as a means of respecting our software licences and the
connection count would be decremented as users exit from
whizbang.
 
Problem:
 
Some applications are unhappy being launched as above in that
they do not know which drive letter to load support files from.
 
 
Option (2):
 
Place applications on a file or disk service and then instruct
users to manually connect the appropriate drive letter to the
service using File Manager and manually disconnect when done.
Licenced counts would be handled at connect and disconnect.
 
Problem:
 
This is a nuisance for users and several may forget to disconnect
the drive after exiting from the application (effectively tieing
up a licence).
 
 
Questions:
 
Anyone have a clean and general purpose solution for Windows
applications? (some kind of Windows batch language, or some other
method of enforcing licence counts). It seems to me a small
Windows program that could connect to a file or disk service, run
an application and then disconnect would be very handy but I
don't have the tools at hand to construct such myself.
 
Will upgrading to Pathworks 4.1 provide any advantages specific
to this problem.
 
Thanks very much.
 
Bill Wilder, Computer Systems Manager     Internet: WILDER@NSRSKE.AGR.CA
Research Station, Agriculture Canada
Kentville, Nova Scotia CANADA             Phone:    (902) 679-5577
B4N 1J5                                   Fax:      (902) 679-2311
From: jackson@BDRC.BD.COM
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: RE: Help with MS Mail 3.0 & Pathworks
Date: 9 Oct 92 20:07:00 GMT
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Hey netters,
 
>I'm trying to implement Microsoft Mail 3.0 on a Pathworks network.
 
>Here's the details --
>
>      *MS Mail 3.0 (15 clients) with SMTP Interface
>       *Pathworks 4.1
>        *Windows 3.1 on all clients (at least so far..)
 
>Can anybody help with some of the implementation details that neither
>Digital or Microsoft have been able to address.
 
>1. How is security of MS Mail executables and actual mail files handled
>       by Pathworks. It looks like everyone needs read/write to all
>        postoffice files.
In our implementation we have it on a file service with PUBLIC R/W access
 
>2. How to configure the SMTP gateway. Do we really have to run it on a
>        stand alone PC (which also connects to pathworks)?
	It does run on a standalone PC.  The PC needs TCP/IP as well as
Pathworks.  You also must have a "Smart" SMTP host.  We use a SUN although
you can probably use any SMTP server.  We use FTP's PC/TCP for the tcp/ip on
the PC.  There are several other's that are supported.
 
>3. How do I connect MS Mail to VAX VMS Mail?
	We use an SMTP gateway on the VAX (Multinet).  We have not yet tried
the SMTP with DEC's TCP/IP.
>4. Do you need to run TCP/IP (instead of DECnet) on the
>        SMTP gateway?
	Our gateway is running both protocols (see above).
>        Other Mail clients?
	No.
 
>If anybody out there has got this product working for them I'd love to hear
>about it.
 
>Dave Tindall
>Seattle Pacific University
>Computer & Information Systems
>206-281-2239
>d_tindall@luke.spu.edu
 
	We have been running the SMTP gateway since 1989 (not the same
version).  There may be better ways to set it up today as our setup has
evolved over time.  We would prefer a more full-featured gateway to VMS/Mail
but have not yet found one.
 
Gene Jackson
Becton Dickinson Research Center
jackson@bdrc.bd.com
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
From: bos@research.ptt.nl (Ties Bos)
Subject: RE: Parthworks vs Novell
Organization: PTT Research, The Netherlands
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 14:28:18 GMT

In article <9210121604.AA09351@mailgate.roche.com>, gladstog@rnprin.DNET.roche.com (201) writes:
> 
> I am writing a paper for upper management to discuss the differences between 
> Novell and Pathworks...... 

Gary,

i am very interested in a copy of your report.

Thanks in advance,

Ties


Internet: T.Bos@research.ptt.nl
From: to5232@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: Question about Appletalk to LAT, DECnet whatever
Date: 14 Oct 92 04:11:58 -0500
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

Can someone explain to me the Appletalk-??????? tools that exist in the
Pathworks for mac stuff?  My big question is : are they like the Appletalk-LAT
Tool that allows MACs running Appletalk to make LAT connections to VAXes?
From: mathog@seqvax.caltech.edu (David Mathog)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: MacX 1.1.7 from PW/Mac 1.1 won't start a DecW session
Date: 13 Oct 1992 11:58 PST
Organization: Division of Biolgy, CALTECH
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: seqvax.bio.caltech.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

Upgrading PW/Mac 1.0 -> 1.1 seems to have broken either the
AppleTalk-Decnet transport or MacX.  Here's the nitty gritty. 

An existing MacX "script" executed the command "run
sys$system:decw$session" using transport "AppleTalk-DECnet" with window
type set to "(0)B&W rootless".  This was straight out of the 1.0 manual, 
and it used to put the DecWindows session manager up on my Mac with no
problems. 

Under MacX 1.1.7 and PW/Mac 1.1 server the very same command fails.  
Watching the log window shows it making/breaking the connection to the Vax 
as before, but then it puts up a B&W *ROOTED* window, and pops up a warning 
box saying "There is not enough memory to show the 'MacX Color Root' root 
window right now - OK".  Naturally, hitting "ok" locks the Mac.

I did a little debugging by sending a nonsense command instead of "run
sys$system:decw$session".  This showed that MSAX$CLIENT claimed to have set
up the appropriate transport (server 0, screen 0) to the Mac. 

The TcpIp transport still works.

Anybody else had this problem, or know how to fix it?

Thanks,

David Mathog
mathog@seqvax.caltech.edu
From: M.C.PIETERS@SC.AGRO.NL
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: Fileserver-crash
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:11:00 GMT
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Would someone please try the following:
 
On the VAX:
 
    $ set def pccommon
    $ open /write file crashtest
    $ close file
 
On the PC:
 
    DEL L:\CRASHTEST.DAT (assuming L: being your PCCOMMON)
 
 
BE CAREFUL : At our site this invokes a shure fileserver-crash. I would
like to know if you guys out-there experience the same so this would be
a major BUG. I don't dare to try it anymore.
 
Site specs: Pathworks 4.1 / VMS 5.4-2 / DOS 3.3
 
Thanks.       Michiel Pieters  pieters@sc.agro.nl
                               the Winand Staring Centre
                               Wageningen
                               the Netherlands
From: BECKERJA%WPO1P%WPO2V@SNYCENVA.BITNET (Jim Becker)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: Disk Quota and Personal File Services (M:
Date: 7 Oct 92 17:09:00 GMT
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Easy.  Do a DIR on their personal drive (M:?) and see how many
"bytes free" remain.  This number divided by 512 is, for all
intents and purposes, the remaining quota in blocks for that
user.
 
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State Univ. of NY   | |ME|  Office     / Office     /   Gateway
Central Admin.      |  ~~                                  |
TEL: (518) 443-5548 |                                      |
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==================== Original message text =====================
 
Subj:     Disk Quota and Personal File Services (M: )
 
Hi,
 
Does anyone know of a way to find out the disk quota remaining on
an account when connected to the account as a file service (from
the DOS prompt - I want to avoid getting users to log into their
accounts and doing a "show quota").
 
Thank-you in advance.
 
Jane MacDonald  (jmacdonald@mta.ca)
Systems Programmer
Computing Services
Mount Allison University
Sackville, New Brunswick
Canada
From: dmiller@VAX1.BEMIDJI.MSUS.EDU (Prof. David Miller)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: RE: Cannot connect to host from PCMAIL
Date: 15 Oct 92 00:07:40 GMT
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> From: Bob Findlay <SYSTEM@JII.AFRC.AC.UK>
 
> Occasionally, Pathworks PC's are failing to connect to mail with the error
> message 'failed to connect to host'.  This happens on various PCs, and is
> not reproducible on demand.
 
> Has anyone else had and solved this problem?
 
Sounds like a problem I had. It turned out to be the user's LOGIN.COM file
writing to the screen. To avoid the problem, the LOGIN.COM should begin with a
line this:
 
	IF F$MODE() .NEQ. "INTERACTIVE" THEN EXIT
 
Dave.
 
DMILLER@VAX1.Bemidji.MSUS.EDU
Bemidji (Minn) State University
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: RE: Fast NICs for fast PCs....on Pathworks.
From: Rick Beebe <BEEBE@YALEMED.BITNET>
Date: 07 Oct 1992 09:13:15 -0400
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>P.S.    Have you all heard that some research group in Holland
>        found a secret security problem with Novell's network just
>        recently? Supposedly, it's a rather big security gap and
>        Novell people are very concerned!
>
>        DRINKS FOR EVERYONE..... ON ME.....
 
Tsk tsk. Kicking the competition when it's down.
 
Actually, I believe it was a users group, not a research group (the latter
sounds far more "official"). Novell has already released a semi-useful fix
for the problem--their fix introduces a few problems of its own, though
they're not security related. That's what happens when you work too fast...
 
I'm also not sure just how major a hole it is. Basically if someone is
logged in as supervisor, another user can spoof that person's network
address and send a command to the server (such as make ME supervisor). The
server doesn't ask for confirmation from the sending machine--which would
fix the problem. Doing such things as limiting the supervisor access to a
few secure machines (there's a Netware setting for this) and not logging in
as supervisor except when necessary will patch up this hole. Is Pathworks
immune to this type of attack?
 
    .....................................................................
     Rick Beebe                                           (203) 785-4566
     Data Network Operations
     Biomedical Computing Unit                 beebe@biomed.med.yale.edu
     Yale University School of Medicine             beebe@yalemed.bitnet
     333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06510
    .....................................................................
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: MSWindows 3.1
From: "Umberto Tachinardi, MD" <TACHINARDI@INCOR.HC.USP.ANSP.BR>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 08:29:00 BSC
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Comments: @FPSP.FAPESP.BR - @FPSP.HEPNET - @BRFAPESP.BITNET - .BR gateway

Hello,
I'm new to this list and maybe I have missed any discussion on
this topic but I would like to know if there is any upgrade of
Pathworks (or add on) specific to Win3.1.
Thanks
**************************************************
* Umberto Tachinardi, MD                         *
* Medical Informatics Division / Heart Institute *
* Sao Paulo University Medical School            *
* Voice: 55 11 881-7558      FAX: 55 11 282-2354 *
* E-Mail: tachinardi@incor.hc.usp.br             *
**************************************************
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: Server crash
From: "M T NUNINGA TEL. 030 852367" <RC4@MEDEA.LNV.AGRO.NL>
Date: 14 Oct 1992 22:33:00 +0100 (MET)
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Dear colleague's
 
If you plan to upgrade to the following combination of software
release's:
 
Pathworks 4.1 & VMS 5.5
 
beware!
 
Your server will crash in grace when issuing the following command:
 
$ MC PCDISK
PCDISK> USE ?: \\SERVER\SERVICE /V
 
You need a patch that is said to fix some other bugs as well (see
release notes).
The patch carry's the gracefull name: cscpat_0296015
(Does anyone know whether the first one was cscpat_0000001 ? :-)
 
Good luck!
 
Martin Nuninga
 System Manager at
  The Ministry of Agriculture,Nature Management & Fisheries
   Utrecht,
    Netherlands
 
nuninga@medea.lnv.agro.nl
From: mead@RCOCER.ENET.DEC.COM (252-7267 09-Oct-1992 0905)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: UNSUBSCRIBE and SUBSCRIBE LANWORKS Ted Mead
Date: 9 Oct 92 13:04:55 GMT
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Please unsubscribe mead@rcocer.enet.dec.com and
subscribe tmead@wellfleet.com
 
 
Thanks,
Ted
From: anos@elmrd6.ineab.ikea.se
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: Is DESQVIEW/X and Pathworks friens ?
Date: 9 Oct 92 16:02:48 +0200
Organization: IKEA Northern Europe AB

 Hi !

 I have recently installed DESQVIEW/X on my [no network] 386/33 and I must say
 that I'm very impressed by its mulittasking capabilites. Several months
 ago I followed a thread in another conference (a battle between the WINDOWS
 and OS/2 bunch). One reader said that "I can format floppies while doing
 other work under OS/2, you CAN'T do that under Windows". True, but DVX is
 also capable of this, to my surprise.

 Now to my question. I would like to connect my PC to our DEC/Pathworks net.
 The documentation is very unclear on this, since it only mentions Novell
 and NETBIOS compatible networks. From what I understand, Pathworks IS based
 on NETBIOS, and therefore it should be possible to use it as transport.

 If this is true, how about FTP'ing files between the Vax and the PC. Is this
 unnessecary since a VMS-mounted directory appears as a local drive on the PC?
 
 I suppose the same should go for printing to LPT1 and LPT2 (No need for own
 spooling though since it's handled by VMS printer queues). Correct ?

 Last but not least, terminal emulation. How do I solve this best. What
 options are there. I don't want to run Windows on top of DVX, since this
 would make DVX more or less just another shell...

 Any experienses on the combo Pathworks/DVX is VERY welcome.

 /Anders

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From: makinc@hhcs.gov.au (Carl Makin)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: RE: OS/2 server: Poor windows performance - HELP!
Date: 13 Oct 92 13:56:28 +1000
Organization: Aust. Dept. Health, Housing and Community Services

In article <LANWORKS%92100909482841@MIAMIU.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU>, WARFORD@UTHSCSA.BITNET writes:

>>The Server is running Pathworks for OS/2 v2.0, on top of Microsoft OS/2 v1.3,
>>with the following hardware:

> One thing... enhanced redirector?  Are you using SQL Server also?  If not,
> you probably shouldn't be using the enhanced redirector, unless you have
> something else that requires it.

The enhanced redirector is needed so users can change their
passwords on an OS/2 server.

Carl.


-- 
Carl Makin, MVS/ESA Systems Programmer, VAX/VMS Dabbler. 
Dept. Health, Housing and Community Services, Canberra, Australia.
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"I'm from the Government and I'm here to help you."
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: E-mail from a 5291
From: "(SYSTEM MANAGER)" <BILL@HARTWICK.EDU>
Date: 07 Oct 1992 12:05:55 -0400
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Hello....
I have a user telneting from a AS/400 into our VAX using a IBM 5291
terminal. She is trying to use E-mail, The problem is that there is no
control key on her Keyboard. Is there way to define one or is there a
key on a 5291 keyboard that does the same thing?. I know this may not
be the list to ask this question... But I just unscribed from the VAX list
becuase I am going out of town for a week... Any input would be helpful
BILL@hartwick.edu
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: RE: Yet another memory configuration question
From: Wim Nijenhuis RTD <W.NIJENHUIS@KIM.NL>
Date: 15 Oct 1992 13:23:00 +0100 (MET)
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Comments: Sent using PMDF-822 V3.1, routing is done by KIMSUR

To get a pageframe on a DECstation 320:
 
Disable video-shadowing. You do that with the configuration-utility
on your USER-DISKETTE.
Be sure that you enable: Shadow BIOS
                         Caching only on 8000-9FFF
 
After that EMM386.EXE will work.
I have a remote-boot situation, where the DEPCA is in 32k-mode on D800-DFFF
 
In my CONFIG.SYS stands:
 
        device=\himem.sys
        device=c:\sys\emm386.exe frame=e000 ram i=b000-b7ff i=d000-d7ff
        dos=high,umb
        devicehigh=\decnet\laddrv.sys /D:6
        devicehigh=\ansi.sys
        shell=\decnet\bshell.exe /P /E:526
        country=031,,\country.sys
        buffers=20
        files=50
        lastdrive=z
 
With QEMM V6.02 I did not succeed yet to get Upper Memory Blocks enabled
on a DECstation 320.
Maybe someone else can help me with that??
 
W.Nijenhuis
Royal Netherlands Naval College
W.NIJENHUIS@KIM.NL
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.management.decmcc
From: tlee@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (Tong-yee Lee - EECS (CPTS541))
Subject: deadlock_free routing
Organization: Washington State University!
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 18:45:18 GMT


     I have interests to design a adaptive dead_lock free routing
     on hypercube. Is there anyone to give me some idea on this?
    
     Besides, I am very confused about dead_lock. How can I prevent it
     ?



     Best Regards

     Tony
From: Yaacov Fenster @ISO 882-3153  10-Oct-1992 1823
Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
Subject: RE: malloc() as a user defined function
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 17:19:17 MET
Organization: Macro32<==>Vmsnet.Internals Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

> From: VBORMC::"MACRO32@WKUVX1.BITNET" "MAIL-11 Daemon"  9-OCT-1992 21:28:56.38
> To:   MACRO32@WKUVX1.BITNET
> CC:
> Subj: malloc() as a user defined function
>
>
> Hi netters:
>
>     In programming on dynamic memory allocation, I prefer doing check on
>     every malloc(). I.e.:
>
>     if ((p=(SOME_TYPE *)malloc(sizeof(SOME_TYPE))) == NULL) {
>         printf("Malloc error.\n");
>         exit(0);
>     }
>
>     It turned out it's a pain to type in the above four lines if I have
>     lots of malloc() invocations in the program, also, the program looks
>     ugly. So I tried to use a function called my_malloc():
>
>     SOME_TYPE *my_malloc()
>     {
>         SOME_TYPE *p;
>
>         if ((p=(SOME_TYPE *)malloc(sizeof(SOME_TYPE))) == NULL) {
>             printf("Malloc error.\n");
>             exit(0);
>         }
>         return(p);
>     }
>
Try my_malloc() returning type of "void *", this will convert into any "type *"
type.

        Yaacov

-------------------------------------------------
Yaacov Fenster                  +(972)-3-9307239
y.fenster@ieee.org
fenster@taveng.enet.dec.com     DTN 882-3153
All the opinions voiced are mine alone and do not reflect anyone else's
opinion. (Including Dec).
From: JONESD@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (David Jones)
Subject: Re: VMS shareable images, what's wrong with them?
Organization: The Ohio State University
 <1at59bINNcc7@network.ucsd.edu>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 13:18:20 GMT

In Article <1at59bINNcc7@network.ucsd.edu>, gkn@ucsd.edu (Gerard K. Newman) writes
>In article <1992Oct6.201520.24059@e2big.mko.dec.com> lionel@quark.enet.dec.com (Steve Lionel) writes:
>
>>[...]  Dynamic linking has been
>>available for some years on VAX/VMS through LIB$FIND_IMAGE_SYMBOL.
>
>One of my favorite toys.  Thanks, if you had anything to do with it.

Speaking of LIB$FIND_IMAGE_SYMBOL, it would be nice if it had some optional
arguments to do version checking.


David L. Jones               |      Phone:    (614) 292-6929
Ohio State Unviversity       |      Internet:
1971 Neil Ave. Rm. 406       |               jonesd@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu
Columbus, OH 43210           |               jones-d@eng.ohio-state.edu

Disclaimer: A repudiation of a claim.
From: GAVRON@ACES.COM
Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
Subject: INVISIBLE now available for Alpha VMS
Date: 15 Oct 92 02:11:10 GMT
Organization: Macro32<==>Vmsnet.Internals Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

Date sent:  14-OCT-1992 19:09:35


        After a short day of it, INVISIBLE is now in C, ported to Alpha
        (and even works on the VAX) and available for anonymous FTP from
        vesta.sunquest.com [.alpha.invisible].

        Invisible is a short program which toggles a user's visibility on
        the system through SHOW USERS, FINGER, and even looks less visible
        to SHOW SYSTEM.  It requires CMKRNL privilege*.

        Ehud

--
Ehud Gavron     (EG76)
gavron@Spades.ACES.COM
* of course