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From: 9118187@ul.ie
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Help needed printing file using system routine
Date: 20 Nov 92 11:50:04 GMT
Organization: University of Limerick, Ireland


I'm looking for the system routine that queues a file to a printer.
I want to print the file without using LIB$SPAWN.

Please help.

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From: kenney@star.enet.dec.com (Forrest A. Kenney  22-Nov-1992 2150)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: Problems with 19,200 baud on VAXstation 2000
Date: 23 Nov 92 02:55:59 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


    	The VAXstation was never tested at 19.2K, the UART chip was not
    certified to function correctly at this speed.  I do not believe that
    this is not your problem instead I believe you are seeing a known
    hardware problem.  An ECO existed to fix this but I doubt you are going
    to be able to find anyone who remembers how to do it.  This would
    result in the keyboard being messed up, and the mouse to behave in a
    strange fashion.  What happens is that the shifter logic for the DZ11
    look alike code gets confused.  When this happens when you type it
    appears to be 1 character behind you.


    Forrest
    VMS Development
From: system@isi001.dnet.kfa-juelich.de
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: what the heck is it?
Date: 17 Nov 92 15:26:06 GMT
Reply-To: system@isi001.dnet.kfa-juelich.de ()
Organization: Forschungszentrum (KFA) Juelich GmbH, Germany

In article <009638CE.5B257BC0.1582@niuhep.phys.niu.edu>,
solfisburg@NIUHEP.PHYS.NIU.EDU writes:
|>   Can anyone tell me what the TEK4125 graphics window is for?  How is
|>it used?
|>   ...
DECwindows 4125 EMULATOR, called DW4125
emulates a TEKTRONIKS 4125 graphic Terminal on VMS,ULTRIX/VAX and
ULTIX/RISC systems.
For detailed information, consult the TEKTRONIKS documentation,
available though 
TEKTRONIKS, inc.

Greetinx, Wolf
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: michael@chpc.utexas.edu (Michael Lemke)
Subject: Re: Is it possible to DEFINE KEY in edit/edt AS EXIT?
Organization: The University of Texas System - CHPC
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 22:04:36 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.093822.21259@cs.umb.edu> mzraly@ra.cs.umb.edu (Michael S Zraly) writes:
>I am writing a *very* simple data-entry program for use by a few people
>with no experience whatsoever with editing on VMS systems.  I find it
>easiest to use EDIT/EDT for the data entry part, but I would like to
>avoid having to remind the users to type CONTROL-ZexitRETURN: I'd
>much rather be able to have them type, for instance, CONTROL-X or F10
>and have EDT interpret this as CONTROL-ZexitRETURN somehow.
>
[...]

>On another note, I would like to have the numeric keypad kept in
>numeric mode rather than application mode: 


Here's a bit from my EDTINI.EDT file which defines GOLD-E as exit and
GOLD-Q as quit and sets PF2 to toggel between Application keypad and
numeric keypad. GOLD-PF2 still gives you access to HELP.  You can put
it on another key if you like (I hit PF2 too often accidentially so I
got annoyed by waiting for the help screen to come up and disappear for
nothing).

Best put EDTINI.EDT somewhere and define a logical EDTINI to point to 
it.  That way it will always be found irrespective of your current 
directory.

Michael
INSERT =NUMER
DEFINE KEY 1 AS "I1^Z."
DEFINE KEY 2 AS "I2^Z."
DEFINE KEY 3 AS "I3^Z."
DEFINE KEY 4 AS "I4^Z."
DEFINE KEY 5 AS "I5^Z."
DEFINE KEY 6 AS "I6^Z."
DEFINE KEY 7 AS "I7^Z."
DEFINE KEY 8 AS "I8^Z."
DEFINE KEY 9 AS "I9^Z."
DEFINE KEY 0 AS "I0^Z."
DEFINE KEY 16 AS "I.^Z."
DEFINE KEY 18 AS "I-^Z."
DEFINE KEY 19 AS "I,^Z."
DEFINE KEY 21 AS "^M."
DEFINE KEY 10 AS "EXTKEYPAD."
^Z
INSERT =KEYPAD
DEFINE KEY 1 AS "W."
DEFINE KEY 2 AS "EL."
DEFINE KEY 3 AS "C."
DEFINE KEY 4 AS "ADV."
DEFINE KEY 5 AS "BACK."
DEFINE KEY 6 AS "CUTSR."
DEFINE KEY 7 AS "PAGETOP."
DEFINE KEY 8 AS "(16L)."
DEFINE KEY 9 AS "APPENDSR."
DEFINE KEY 0 AS "L."
DEFINE KEY 16 AS "SEL."
DEFINE KEY 18 AS "DEW."
DEFINE KEY 19 AS "D+C."
DEFINE KEY 21 AS "."
DEFINE KEY 10 AS "EXTNUMER."
^Z
F =MAIN
DEFINE MACRO NUMER
DEFINE MACRO KEYPAD
DEFINE KEY 10 AS "EXTNUMER."
DEFINE KEY GOLD E AS "EXT EXIT."
DEFINE KEY GOLD Q AS "EXT ?'Do you really want to quit? Type CRTL/U to continue, <ENTER> to quit.' QUIT."
SET MODE CHANGE

-- 
Michael Lemke
Astronomy, UT Austin, Texas
(michael@io.as.utexas.edu or UTSPAN::UTADNX::IO::MICHAEL [SPAN])
From: goathunter@wkuvx1.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Grep for VMS
Date: 19 Nov 92 06:39:35 CDT
Followup-To: comp.os.vms
Organization: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY

In article <2244@sousa.tay.dec.com>, anderson@funyet.enet.dec.com writes:
> 
> grep is part of OpenVMS POSIX.  This is a layered product that runs on any
> version of OpenVMS starting with V5.5.  To see if it's installed on your system,
> type POSIX at the DCL prompt.  If it's not, have the system manager install it.
> The license to run POSIX is included with the OpenVMS license, and the software
> kit is on the CD.
> 
You can also get a VMS port of GNU grep (and fgrep) by sending the
following commands in the body of a mail message to
FILESERV@WKUVX1.BITNET:

SEND GREP
SEND FGREP

For a brief listing of all packages available from WKUVX1, include the
command DIR ALL on a separate line.

You can also get them via anonymous ftp from ftp.spc.edu; you'll need:

	[.MACRO32]AAAREADME.TXT
	[.MACRO32]LZDCMP.EXE
	[.MACRO32.SAVESETS]GREP.BCK_Z
	[.MACRO32.SAVESETS]FGREP.BCK_Z

Hunter
------
Hunter Goatley, VMS Systems Programmer, Western Kentucky University
goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET, 502-745-5251
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: reuber@world.std.com (kent b reuber)
Subject: Problems w/ creating print queue on terminal server
Keywords: print queue, terminal server
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:01:24 GMT

I'm having a problem creating a print queue on a terminal server. We have
a VAX 8350 and 2 MicroVAX II's clustered. This isn't the first device
configured this way--we have two other LN03's on a terminal server port.
I'm trying to follow that COM file and the instructions in the _Maintaning
a VMS manual, but it doesn't seem to work.

Here's a journal of the session. All input is sent to the boot node of the
cluster. Is there something I have to do from the satellite nodes to make
this work?

Create a port

$ run sys$system:latcp
LCP> create port lta7738: /nolog
LCP> set port lta7738: /application /node=lat773 /port=port_8

Local Port Name = LTA7738:   <application>

   Specified Remote Node Name = LAT773
   Specified Remote Port Name = PORT_8
   Link Name = LAT$LINK

LCP> exit

$ set terminal lta7738:/perm/dev=ln03/lowercase/nobroad/width=255

set protection so only the symbiont can access them

$ set protection=(s:rwlp,o,g,w) /device lta7738:

set up spooling

$ set device lta7738: /spooled=(lntest,sys$sysdevice:)

define a form

$ define/form ln_form 10 /width=80 /stock=default /truncate

initialize the queue

$ initialize/queue /processor=latsym /default=(form=default) -
_$ /record_blocking /retain=error /library=sysdevctl -
_$ /sep=(reset=(ln03_reset)) /form=ln_form /start lntest /on=lta7738:


Make sure we got a queue. Looks OK.

$ show queue lntest
Terminal queue LNTEST, on CDV::LTA7738:, mounted form LN_FORM (stock=DEFAULT)

Try it.
$ print /queue=lntest login.com
Job LOGIN (queue LNTEST, entry 720) started on LNTEST
$ show que lntest
Terminal queue LNTEST, on CDV::LTA7738:, mounted form DEFAULT

  Jobname         Username     Entry  Blocks  Status
  -------         --------     -----  ------  ------
  LOGIN           REUBER         720       6  Printing

Check the queue a few seconds later. Now it's stalled

$ show que lntest
Terminal queue LNTEST, stalled, on CDV::LTA7738:, mounted form DEFAULT

  Jobname         Username     Entry  Blocks  Status
  -------         --------     -----  ------  ------
  LOGIN           REUBER         720       6  Printing

Wait a few seconds, then check again.

$ show que lntest
Terminal queue LNTEST, paused, stalled, on CDV::LTA7738:, mounted form DEFAULT

  Jobname         Username     Entry  Blocks  Status
  -------         --------     -----  ------  ------
  LOGIN           REUBER         720       6  Retained on error
    %JBC-F-JOBABORT, job aborted during execution

We've also tried unspooling the printer and copying a file directly to the
device, which also fails. This leads me to believe that there's some sort
of connetion or cabling problem, but we've changed cables, etc. Is there
something in this startup procedure that we're doing wrong?

-- 
Kent Reuber                   | Schepens Eye Research Institute
Computer Operations Manager   | 20 Staniford St.
reuber@world.std.com          | Boston, MA 02174
reuber@cdv.eri.harvard.edu    |
From: ALLEN@ECF.NCSL.NIST.GOV
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: How to get remote node name from RSH process?
Date: 18 Nov 92 14:50:20 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


	Hi guys,

	I'm using Multinet to execute various DCL command files on our Vax
	from a Sun workstation using the rsh utility. From within the VAX
	command file I'd like to be able to determine the name (or IP address)
	of the workstation from which it was invoked.

	I've played around a little and I see the VMS process seems to be
	running against a mailbox device but I havn't found any record of
	the remote node that created the process or mailbox.  Anybody able
	to offer any assistance?

	Thanks,

	Dan
	***********************************************************************
	Dan Allen			     Internet:  allen@ecf.ncsl.nist.gov 
	Room A62, Building 225		     Telephone: (301) 975-2903  
	Computer Systems Laboratory	
	National Institute of Standards and
	  Technology (NBS in a past life)
	Gaithersburg, Md. 20899
From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: %system-F-REMRSRC, insufficient system resources at remote node
Date: 21 Nov 1992 19:17:18 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Distribution: world
Reply-To: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <21NOV92.00260721@moleng.ucsc.edu>, wipke@moleng.ucsc.edu writes:
>When we do a
=SET HOST SECS
=we get
=%SYSTEM-F-REMRSRC, insufficient system resources at remote node
=
=How can I know what specific resource is causing this msg?  LRP's are
=available on SECS according to "show mem"
=Node SECS does not have many people logged in or connected.

Enable accounting and find out why the remote process creation is failing?  If
the process doesn't get created at all (and hence you get no accounting
record), check to make sure you've got enough process slots on SECS (controlled
by the SYSGEN parameter MAXPROCESSCNT).
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL

Disclaimer:  Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS.  That's what I get paid for.  My
understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below).  So
unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
organization responsible for it.  If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: CXY-08 Install .. missing
Date: 20 Nov 92 01:15:41 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: St. Peter's College, US

In article <24032@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL>, efb@slced1.nswses.navy.mil (Everett F Batey) writes:
> 
> Some months ago a vendor glued a CXY08 8-port RS232 card into our
> MV3600 .. this week one of the folks finally tried to use it ..
> MC SYSGEN .. SHOW /CONF shows it there .. TXA0-7 appear as ONLINE
> with no acess counts in SH DEV /FULL TXA .. 
> 
> Yet there is NO login prompt or signs of life on the 8 pigtails ..
> another host on the cluster has entries in SYS$MANGER ... .COM 
> defining TXAn .. TERMINALn for that node .. IS THERE
> 
> IS THERE SOMEWHERE A FILE WHICH SHOULD INIT THE CXY08 at boot time ?

  Provided that the hardware is jumpered for the proper addresses (CSR and
vector) it should work automatically. There's no configuration needed in
VMS (beyond the SYSGEN AUTOCONFIGURE ALL that's done for you by the DEC part
of the system startup) to recognize the card.

  There's a green LED on the card. This should be on. If it's not on, your
card thinks it's broken. Also, the light should blink off and back on briefly
when the board is initialized by VMS.

  Are you sure you're using the right cables to connect to the pigtails? Do
you have a breakout box you could use to see if there's any signal at all on
the leads?

  Perhaps you have the ports set to /DIALUP and /MODEM and you're trying to
use a local terminal? Also, the baud rate may be set to a different speed
than your terminal is expecting. You could also have the port set to /SECURE
or /NOINTERACTIVE, but those are non-default options so you probably don't
have them set.

	Terry Kennedy		Operations Manager, Academic Computing
	terry@spcvxa.bitnet	St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
	terry@spcvxa.spc.edu	+1 201 915 9381
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: sofin@mot.com (Sofin Raskin)
Subject: SUN fonts on VAX ?
Reply-To: sofin@mcil.comm.mot.com
Organization: Motorola Communications Israel Ltd., Tel Aviv
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:33:45 GMT

                               HELP !!!



    I am using the SUN station through the X-terminal software of

MULTINET (V 3.1) on the VAX workstation ( VAX 4000/60. VMS 5.5. MOTIF). 

I didn't success to use all SUN applications on the VAX X-terminal software

because of the absence of SUN openwin fonts on the VAX. I tried to convert 

some of SUN fonts ( olcursor.fb, olglyph10.fb, olglyph12.fb, olglyph14.fb,   

olglyph19.fb) to BDF format, then I compiled these fonts on the VAX.

But still SUN applications fail to load fonts. It seems, that 

fonts alias name are wrong. What are the aliases for these fonts ?

What is the right order to install these fonts on the VAX workstation.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks,
Sofin Raskin.
Motorola Communications.

E-mail : sofin@mcil.comm.mot.com
Xref: sparky comp.os.vms:18184 comp.sources.wanted:5091 comp.lang.c:16747
From: flower@donald.etdesg.trw.com (Rick Flower)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.sources.wanted,comp.lang.c
Subject: SUMMARY: Looking for C Line Counter for Unix / VMS
Date: 18 Nov 92 22:30:39 GMT
Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA
Originator: flower@donald


This message is a reply to those of you out on the net that helped me locate
a "C" source line counter (a program that distinguishes comments/blanks from
actual lines of code).  I would like to thank the following for giving me 
quick responses of one sort or another :

		patbob@sequent.com
		carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
		bhoule@npg-sd.sandiegoca.NCR.COM
		steve@troi.dbaccess.com
		sherman@unx.sas.com
		mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com
		janw@fwi.uva.nl
		jgreen@csugrad.cs.vt.edu
		ayoung@vax.ox.ac.uk
		freeman@linc.cis.upenn.edu

I would like to especially thank (John Green) jgreen@csugrad.cs.vt.edu 
for informing me where I could find such a beast on many FTP sites... 
Thanks to him, I was able to locate the source for kdsl in the directory
/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume20/metrics on wuarchive.wustl.edu.
Anyway, here is a transcript of his message :

============================================================================
From jgreen@csugrad.cs.vt.edu Wed Nov 18 07:08:31 1992
To: flower@donald.etdesg.trw.com
Subject: Re: Looking for "C" Source Line Counter
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.os.vms
Status: O

Try comp.sources.unix volume20, look under directory 'metrics'  This package
includes kdsi (a C lines of code counter) and some other software metrics.
For archive sites, look at ftp.uu.net or wuarchive.wustl.edu.

Regards,
John Green
jgreen@csugrad.cs.vt.edu
============================================================================

I would also like to thank Bill Mitchell (mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com) for also
sending me the source for a comments extractor routine that Kent Landfield
apparently put together a few years ago... If there is interest in that 
routine, I'll e-mail it to anyone...

-- Rick
From: RELAY-INFO-VAX@CRVAX.SRI.COM
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: thanks (RE: How to get files in SYSLOST back)
Date: 16 Nov 92 13:35:05 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Thanks to Jerry Leichter and Dan Wing for their responses on getting my lost
files back in the right place.  Bottom line is - maybe possible, plus a big
pain.  There were only two people who lost files, and there accounts were
pretty stale, so I'll just restore those files from the last backup.

(This system is not being taken care of very well and is starting to show it.0
-- 
Tim Williams                                   COM: (703) 704-1685
Night Vision & Electro-Optics Directorate      DSN: 654-1685
AMSEL-RD-NV-ISP (Williams)                     FAX: (703) 704-1705
Ft. Belvoir, VA 22060-5677                  E-MAIL: williams@nvl.army.mil
From: SYSMGR@IPG.PH.KCL.AC.UK
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: re: Plans for mixed Alpha/VAX cluster with common system disk?
Date: 16 Nov 92 12:03:50 GMT
Organization: The Internet

> >
> > What worries me more about a mixed architecture VAX/Alpha VMS Cluster is
> > how the poor innocent users are going to sort out the confusion between
> > VAX and Alpha executables.
> 
>     David Kashtan had an interesting solution to this problem.	Create
> a format for images that allows you to "store" both a VAX and an Alpha
> image in the same executable.  Then you just need an APPEND/IMAGE
> command or somesuch to create these "duel-architecture" executables.

If DEC don't do something like this, I'll be very disappointed. Also it'll
be a big mistake: the confusion caused may well result in Alpha+VMS getting a 
bad name and even loss of customers to the competition. 

If they can't do this, there's a trivial confusion-avoider. Simply create
file types .AEXE, .AOBJ, and .AOLB for alpha code, plus qualifiers /VAX and
/ALPHA on utilities like LINK and LIBRARY, which default to that native
for the processor on which they are running. However, it would be much, much
nicer to have the ability to create EXEs that contain both sets of code
and map and execute that appropriate for the processor on which they are run.

		Nigel Arnot

		NRA%ipg.ph.kcl.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk   (internet)
		NRA%uk.ac.kcl.ph.ipg@ukacrl.bitnet        (bitnet)
From: francini@narfvx.enet.dec.com (John Francini)
Subject: Re: HELP: how to stop and prevent break in?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Littleton, MA
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 07:29:14 GMT


>Thanks for the explanation of the ownerships in the posts, but the
>problem we encountered is that the first name S892999 shown below is
>essentially a user's name.
> 
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>	$ dir login.com;3 /security
> 
>	Directory $DUA0:[STUD.S882000]
> 
>	LOGIN.COM;3          [S892999,S882000]     (RWED,RWED,,)
>                                 ^       ^
>	Total of 1 file.         |       |
>                                 |       |
>             Another user's name--       --- owner of the account
> 
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
>I'm just wondering if there is a possiblity that the name of a group
>can be the same as the name of a user. Or is there any way to check
>the group name in VMS? like "ypcat group" in UNIX running NIS.  
> 

Well, the closest thing to it is to type, in AUTHORIZE:

	UAF> SHOW/ID S892999

And it should display -- in UIC format -- the "owner" of that ID.
I'd bet it will be [something,177777] (may be displayed as [something,*]).

Here's a scenario how this comes about, in AUTHORIZE:

1. Create a user FOOBAR with UIC [123,456].  SHOW FOOBAR shows a UIC of
[FOOBAR] ([123,456]).

2. Create a user FOOBAZ with UIC [123,654].  SHOW FOOBAZ shows a UIC of
[FOOBAZ] ([123,654]).

3. Add a new identifier for the FOO group (ADD/ID FOO/VALUE=UIC=[123,*]).

4. SHOW FOOBAR and SHOW FOOBAZ again.

FOOBAR's entry now reads [FOO,FOOBAR], and FOOBAZ's reads [FOO,FOOBAZ].

You've just created the same kind of ID entry that you've mentioned above.

One way around this:  Delete the group entry, as others have indicated:

	UAF> REMOVE/ID [S892999,*]

which only removes the group ID, S892999, not all of the IDs in that group.

One way this can come about if someone once used SYS$EXAMPLES:ADDUSER.COM
(or similar) and gave an account name that matched the username. 
ADDUSER uses the account name as the name of the group for the UIC.  So if
someone entered S892999 as a username and also as the "account name", you'd
end up with a [S892999,*] ID added to the rightslist, and consequently all
the user accounts will appear to be owned by [S892999,whomever].

Hope this helps, even if it's a week late...


John Francini
PATHWORKS for VMS project leader
Digital Equipment Corporation
Littleton, MA

francini@narfvx.enet.dec.com


Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: hamjavar@hydra.unm.edu (Farid Hamjavar)
Subject: summary
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 23:21:15 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque




I thanked everyone for answering my DCL parameter passing question, and
someone asked me that I should post a summary.  Ok.

Two types of answers were given :

1. Generally, parameters/qualifiers passed to a user-written script
   must be surrounded by "" if they contain  /

   Example :
   
   application "/param 1" "/param 2"  .....

   I did not use these answers not that they are wrong, they were not
   meeting specific problem that I was facing.


2.A  Create a symbol for the script-file such as :

     application = "@user5:[farid.work]application.com """" "

     I chose this one because it is indeed very clean.
     A NULL string will be passed to .com script as P1.
     In this method the first parameter gets hosed, so within
     the application.com one must do simple adjusting.


2.B Create a symbol for the script-file such as :

    application = "@user5:[farid.work]application.com %  "
    
    Same as 2.A really.  Except that   % will be passed as P1.





Thanks again
Farid Hamjavar
University of New Mexico -- CIRT
From: VALLEYD@SIMSC.SI.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: (none)
Date: 23 Nov 92 04:13:57 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

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