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From: brydon@asl.slb.com (Harvey Brydon (713)274-8281)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Asynch. signal from VMS
Date: 22 Jul 92 12:40:09 GMT
Reply-To: brydon@asl.slb.com
Organization: Schlumberger/Anadrill Sugar Land, TX

In article <DB15A146AEA19B12@SCS.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>,
LEVITT@SLC.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Stevie Boy) writes:
>Does anyone know of a way to get some sort of asynchronous message from VMS
>when a file is written to a directory?

In some cases, yes.

>I want to write a server that waits for new or existing files to be written to
>a know directory and then processes them. The files will be written by 
>applications running on a PC with a logical drive mapped via pathworks onto
>the VAX directory. I have no way of modifying the PC applications, apart from
>specifying the names of the output files, so implementing a special TCP/IP 
>message is out of the question.
>Polling the modification dates of files is also out of the question as there 
>risks to be hundreds of them. The response time of the server is not too
>critical, but the server needs to make minimal demands on the CPU whilst it is
>idle.
>
>Has anyone out there faced the same problem? Better still, has anyone
>solved it?
>All ideas and commentaries would be gratefully accepted. 

If you copy the files into a VMS directory with the use of DECnet, then
either a new network process is created or an old one is reused.  you can
use the rundown code for the FAL process in SYS$SYSTEM:NETSERVER.COM to
trigger further processing.  I do this myself with plotfiles that are
copied from PCs to a particular VMS directory.  Works good with DECnet. 
You mention TCP/IP above - not sure if it is a requirement for your
application.  I don't know how to do the same thing with TCP/IP.
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From: JKRUEPKE@FROG.QGRAPH.COM ("Jeff Kruepke - Pewaukee IS - Ex. 6738")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: SCSI 9track tape drives and VMS BACKUP
Date: 23 Jul 92 17:42:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

>We have a 3rd party SCSI 9track tape drive (manufactured by M4)
>connected to a VAXstation 4000/VLC. So far we've been reading
>single volume foreign tapes successfully, also writing files using
>COPY work fine. However BACKUP causes all kinds of problems. The
>most serious one is that if the tape runs out, BACKUP generates a
>"tape label processing" error and aborts(, and the tape does not rewind
>automatically). We've been talking to the vendor and they now say it's
>VMS's fault and that BACKUP will never work with SCSI 9track tape
>drives. Can anyone tell me if this is true or not?!! DEC sells their
>own SCSI 9track drive (TS05/TS07). Does anyone know if those drive
>work fine with multivolume backups?
>
>Is there another 3rd party vendor that makes a properly working drive?
>
>Thanks
>
>Fred Velijanian
>University of California, Irvine
>fredv@uci.edu

	Fred,

	We currently are using Cipher model M995 drives on our
	MV3100-10e and VS4000-60 machines.  This is the oem drive
        that the DEC TSZ07 is based on.  The only thing the
	Cipher can't do is act as a bootable device, while the
	TSZ07 is bootable.

	The M995 is configurable to emulate a TSZ07, which allows
	us to write at 1600 and 6250 based on the density sent
	on the init or mount commands.

	Very highly recommended IMHO.


	Jeff Kruepke

	Quad/Graphics Inc.
	Pewaukee, Wi  (USA)

	My opinions are just that  - MINE.

Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Bob Marshall)
Subject: Boot-time quotas
Reply-To: marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 19:38:57 GMT

Where does the system initialization process get its quota values from? I
had always assumed that it was from the UAF record for username SYSTEM,
but it appears that they actually come from the settings of the PQL
SYSGEN parameters. My evidence is that I run an image from SYSTARTUP_V5.COM
which requires a page file quota of about 26,000, and I was getting an
"Exceeded quota" error from the image activator. Since username SYSTEM
has a page file quota of 150,000 I was a little bit surprised. But I
noticed that PQL_DPGFLQUOTA was set at 24,000, so I assume that was
the explanation. I've increased this parameter to 30,000, but I haven't
had a chance to reboot and test it yet. Also, once the system comes up
I can log into SYSTEM interactively and run the image with no problems.

Can someone confirm/refute my suspicion?

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Lockheed Missiles & Space Co.     \\     That makes me look this way
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"I tell the truth 'cept when I lie"  \\     - Chris LeDoux
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From: dougcc@brt.deakin.edu.au (Douglas Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: ShareWare Ada Compiler, exist ?
Date: 24 Jul 92 20:43:53 GMT
Organization: C&CS, Deakin University

> In article <1992Jul23.161901.1@blumon.enet.dec.com>,
> quodling@blumon.enet.dec.com writes:
>  
> > In article <0B17E910E0001B56@brfapesp.bitnet>, AFMORAES%WSFEP1@BRFAPESP.BITNET writes:
> >>
> >>
> >>                     ShareWare Ada Compiler, exist ?
> >>
> > ...
> >> |      Universidade            | Bitnet  :afmoraes%uspif.hepnet@brfapesp.bitnet|
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> > 
> > I don't know, but if you are a university, then you should find out about the
> > CampusWide software license agreement. It is a special price (very nominal) for
> > Universities and the like...

*Very* nominal --- $1 per product per year in Australia.  This provides you
with unlimited license units.  There are over three hundred DEC software
products available this way.  Maintenance is extra (if you want to be able
to put up more than release per year, or you want telephone support, etc).
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: GNUPLOT_X11 for VMS???
From: mckeever@cstp.umkc.edu
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 00:31:32 GMT
Organization: UM - Kansas City, Computer Science

Okay, I gave it the old college try.  I downloaded and successfully
installed GNUPLOT V3.2 from GATEKEEPER.DEC.COM on my VMS machines, but the
X11 interface will not install.  I spent 6 hours trying to port it.  I
finally got it to compile, using include files from many sources, but it
won't work.  Has some kind soul who knows what they are doing with X11 and
C already got GNUPLOT_X11 running on a VMS machine?  And are you willing to
share?

Thanks,

--Brian, MCKEEVER@CSTP.UMKC.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec,comp.windows.x
From: gerard@uwovax.uwo.ca (Gerard Stafleu)
Subject: Re: Want DECwindows Customizations (via Resources???)
Organization: University of Western Ont, London
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:12:30 GMT

> Problem 5  Has anyone figured out how to have multiple default
> ~~~~~~~~~  title and icon names that aren't "DECterm <n>"?

Assum that the symbol Pwin has the title in it you want for the window, 
and Picon for the icon:

$ dev_type = F$getdvi("TT","DEVTYPE")
$ IF dev_type .EQ. 112    !DECterm window
$    THEN
$    OSC[0,8] = 157
$    ST[0,8] = 156
$    WRITE SYS$OUTPUT OSC,"21;''Pwin'",ST    !set window name
$    WRITE SYS$OUTPUT OSC,"2L;''Picon'",ST    !set icon name
$ ELSE  ! Something else, presumably Xterm
$    write sys$output "<ESC>]2;"+ "''pwin'" +"^G"
$ ENDIF

[<ESC> is the Escape character]

The ELSE part works for Xterm windows (I don't know if you can do 
icons).  I discovered that that code will hang up a DECterm, hence the 
check on device type.  That is a bit of a workaround, as type 112 is 
something like a VT340.  I don't know of any way to find out if your 
terminal is a DECterm.  Xterms are VT100's, so the trick works.

----
Gerard Stafleu
email: gerard@uwo.ca
CCS, NSC 202, University of Western Ontario,
London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7
(519)661-2151
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: coar@Nephi.Enet.DEC.Com (Rodent of Unusual Size)
Subject: Re: Boot-time quotas
Summary: Some from SYSGEN PQL, some hardcoded
Keywords: VMS, startup quotas
Organisation: Employed by (*NOT* speaker for) DEC, Boxborough, MA, U.S.A.
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp.
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 14:09:57 GMT


In article <1992Jul29.193857.1822@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>, marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Bob Marshall) writes...
>
>Where does the system initialization process get its quota values from? I

    The STARTUP process is created with an hard-coded list of quota values.
    Any quotas no specified will be taken from the PQL_D<mumble> values; and
    hard-coded values may be overridden by setting the PQL_M<mumble>
    parameters.

    Here is the list of hard-coded quota settings for the STARTUP process as
    of VMS V5.5:

	PQL$_ASTLM	    10
	PQL$_BIOLM	    10
	PQL$_BYTLM	    32768
	PQL$_CPULM	    0
	PQL$_DIOLM	    10
	PQL$_FILLM	    60
	PQL$_PGFLQUOTA	    20000
	PQL$_PRCLM	    8
	PQL$_TQELM	    8
	PQL$_WSDEFAULT	    100
	PQL$_WSQUOTA	    200
	PQL$_WSEXTENT	    1000
	PQL$_ENQLM	    100
	PQL$_JTQUOTA	    1024

    Remember, the only way to override these specific values is by setting the
    corresponding PQL_M<mumble> parameter - when then defines the minimum
    value for ALL processes.  All others can be controlled with the
    PQL_D<mumble> parameters.

>Bob Marshall                     \\     "It ain't age
>marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com\\   It's the miles"

    #ken    :-)}	Jeratol the Chaotic

Coar@Nephi.Enet.DEC.Com	 | All opinions herein contained, stated or implied,
Coar@DECUS.Org		 | are solely those of the author.  And he's fullovem.
Coar@Eisner.DECUS.Org	 | `... it was mine art, ... that made gape the pine 
Massachusetts, USA       | and let thee out.'  - Prospero (_The Tempest_)
From: DEREK@U.WASHINGTON.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: A little license humor...
Date: 20 Jul 92 18:57:00 GMT
Organization: The Internet

See, it's this way.  I read INFO-VAX via MAIL.  I do DIR/SU=subject to
get all "related" items.  I saw something about licenses, so went to
retrieve them, and used an abbreviation.  I figured "LIC" wouldn't be
long enough, so I added one more character.  Then I realized that the
abbreviation had its own meaning.

Do you think its significant that licenses begin with LICE?   :)

-Derek S. Haining
From: AFMORAES%WSFEP1@BRFAPESP.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: ShareWare Ada Compiler, exist ?
Date: 23 Jul 92 18:59:26 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet
X-Unparsable-Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 12:22 BSC (-0300 C)



                    ShareWare Ada Compiler, exist ?


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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: freedmanm@woods.ulowell.edu
Subject: FINGER for VMS
Organization: University of Lowell
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:23:04 GMT

Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

		Does anyone know where I can get the latest version
of GNU finger for VMS???????

					Mike..

	freedmanm@woods.ulowell.edu
From: D7AP002@TOA.TOWSON.EDU ("Tom Ohlendorf - TSU Admin. DP,  830-3642", 410)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Time Management/Meeting Scheduling/Reminder/Calendar Software
Date: 23 Jul 92 13:31:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Hello Fellow Netters:

I am looking for some VAX shareware software via anonymous FTP, fileserver, or
posting to my Internet address that will do one or all of the following:

	1. Post personal reminder messages and send reminder messages
	2. Schedule meetings and remind the attendees
	3. Function as a datebook and perform 1, 2, or both

Please note that we are a COBOL shop and that is the language I have at my
fingertips. If the programs are not COBOL, I'll need objects or macros. I hope
I'm not asking too much because beggers can't be choosers.

Many thanks in advance,
Tom Ohlendorf, Programmer/Analyst
INTERNET: D7AP002@TOA.TOWSON.EDU

Xref: sparky comp.os.vms:12880 comp.sys.dec:4257
From: jeremy@vsm.com.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec
Subject: Booting via CI from a DSSI-connected system disk
Date: 29 Jul 92 19:35:39 GMT

Here's one for the VAXcluster gurus out there.

My present contract is at a site which has a VAX 8200, an 8530 and a
6000-610 clustered together using CI, HSC etc, all booting off the one
HSC-connected system disk.

Recently they took delivery of a VAX 4000-500 which is to be included in
the above cluster, preferably booting off the same system disk as the other
3 nodes.  The 4500 shares a DSSI bus with the 6610.  It is expected that
within the next 18 months the 8200 and 8530 will be disposed of, and the
cluster will move to being entirely DSSI-based (or whatever else DEC have
up their sleeves, eg FDDI).

Possible configurations that I can think of are:

1) Buy a CI board for the 4500 and give it direct access to the HSCs
2) Move the system disk to the DSSI bus, and have the 6610 serve it to the
   8200 and 8530
3) Boot the 4500 from Ethernet
4) Have two system disks, one on HSC, the other on DSSI.

Option (1) would be a nice solution but the limited life of the other
CI-based machines would make it superfluous before very long.

Option (3) no good as the 4500 will be playing a very important role in the
cluster, and the Ethernet is too busy already anyway.

Option (4) is workable but there are enough management problems without
having to worry about maintaining two system disks.

As you may have deduced by now, the preference is for option (2) because it
gets the 4500 going without spending any more money on hardware.  But is it
possible?  We tried booting the 8530 from the 6610 (by editing  BCIBOO.CMD
to set up the appropriate register values for the 6610's CI node number and
system disk unit number) but very little happened.  We ran SHOW
CLUSTER/CONTINUOUS/INTERVAL=1 and saw that *something* (presumably the
8530) was trying to make a connection, but it didn't boot.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated; please send them via e-mail if
you can as my reading of this newsgroup is sporadic to say the best.  I
will summarize to the net when the replies are in.

Thanks,

        Jeremy Begg

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From: AUTENRKL@SLUVCA.SLU.EDU (The Shadow Knows!)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: sys$setuai using UAI$_FLAGS?
Date: 22 Jul 92 19:48:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


    
    how do i do this?  
    does anyone have an examples? 
    vaxc or fortran will do fine.
    i would like to use the structure in uaidef.h if possible.

kevin autenrieth 
autenrkl@sluvca.slu.edu
so long and thanks for all the fish.  -- douglas adams

Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: rusterj@nijmeg.ingr.com (John Rusterholz)
Subject: Last page of *.txt
Organization: Intergraph Nijmegen
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:20:29 GMT


	O DCL GURU's,


	On several occasions I need to print out the last page of a 
	very large report. To date I use the EDT+ editor to move to
	the last page (pf1+4) and select the lines I want to a temporary 
	file. Then the file is submitted to the printer queue.
	
	This works fine, but I'm almost sure that there is a more
	sophisticated way of getting the last page printed!

	Any help is greatly appreciated.

	John Rusterholz

	e-mail: j_rusterholz@eis_john.nijmeg.ingr.com
From: karcher@jevex.waisman.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: re^2: When do we need VERIFY$01_055?
Date: 28 Jul 92 15:10:30 GMT
Organization: Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison

In a previous article, moeller@gwdgv1.gwdg.de wrote:
>VMS 5.5-1 just arrived here, and its release notes claim
>that the bug in VERIFY (ANA/DISK/REPAIR, lost extension headers)
>has been fixed in the new image that comes with the kit.
>The new VERIFY image has an id of X-12.
> 
>I'm somewhat confused because the DSIN article describing the problem
>explicitly states that the bug still exists in 5.5-1 !
> 
>So could someone who has the VERIFY patch please check the image id?!

I found the checksum for VERIFY and F11BXQP in the VMS 5.5-1 saveset to be
the same as those in CSCPAT #1001 V1.1. However, the latest version of CSCPAT
#1001 is V1.3 which has additional fixes (such as an XQPERR bugcheck at offset
4008 which we experienced just the other day). The VERIFY.EXE of that patch
still has an image id of X-12 but F11BXQP is X-9B3. So it looks like the lost
extension header problem is fixed in 5.5-1 but there are some others that
aren't.


Carl Karcher                          Internet: KARCHER@WAISMAN.WISC.EDU
Waisman Center                        Bitnet:   KARCHER@WISCMACC
University of Wisconsin-Madison       PSTnet:   (608) 263-5896
From: usr7495a@TSO.UC.EDU (Kevin Cordell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: DHV11 configuration switches
Date: 24 Jul 92 16:19:25 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

FORWARDED FROM: /mail/74/usr7495a(#10572) From:INFO-VAX@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu 07/24/92 04:31
Reply-To: INFO-VAX@SRI.COM


I have a DHV11 (without a manual) for my VaxStation II running VMS 5.5 .

I had the card installed and found that VMS crashed with a bug check in
kernal mode during the VMS startup phase (bit difficult to know where).

The DHV11 config switches were set DDDDUDUD DDUDDDDU  (D=>open) as viewied
from Q-bus edge connector.

Are the switches set correctly (and the card stuffed) or what are the correct
settings.

-----FORWARDED BY: usr7495a(Kevin Cordell)
IN response to the question above.. since you did not post a name or
an address.. I have the following set on the DHV11 in the MVII that I
have..

From the card edge connector:
         CSR Address               Interrupt Vector
            E58                          E43
         000010011                   011000   (switch E43-2 is not used)

where 1= switch on
      0= switch off

This defines an address of 17760460 (factory default BTW)
and an Interrupt Vector of 300 (also factory default)

Now I hope that someone else can explain better than I about the addressing
in the configuration..  I only watched the Digital FE intall the stuff, but
try to watch everything that he is doing in case I have to do it myself.

kevin
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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Q: Hardware, why does the microvax wont boot
From: don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes)
Date: 28 Jul 92 11:57:17 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Wolery

mrandall@av8r.uucp (Mark Randall) writes:
> Another reason might be the priority of the cards. Make sure cards are
> in proper order (ask DEC, not me), and that you follow the Q-bus
> zig-zag order.

No!  It's serpentine, not zig-zag.  The bus grant goes (looking from the
back of the BA23 chassis):

		<- Power Supply

		AB	CD
	1	1	-	<- CPU
	2	2	-
	3	3	-
	4	4	5
	5	7	6
	6	8	9
	7	11	10
	8	12	13

The CD part of slots 1-3 can only contain memory or CPU cards, ie you can
put a double Qbus card in those slots but not a quad Qbus card. 

There must be no empty slots between the CPU and the last card.  Note that
in VAXstation II/RCs, slots 6,7 & 8 are full of glue.

--
Don Stokes, ZL2TNM (DS555)                        don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (home)
Network Manager, Computing Services Centre            don@vuw.ac.nz (work)
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand              +64-4-495-5052
From: n8846069@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Barry)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Terminal I/O in C
Date: 23 Jul 92 06:19:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: henson.1992Jul23.061912.26293
Organization: Western Washington University

I would like to send a string of text to a terminal that is connected
with an interactive process.  The string needs to be received as
if it was actually input by the terminal.  (The terminal is a DECterm,
if that makes any difference).

How can I do this in C?  Or will it require assembly?  Any examples
would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

-BarryB
 n8846069@henson.cc.wwu.edu
From: STUKING@EKU.BITNET ("Steven C. King ", Ryu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Intercom (Just to Make Mr. Gavron Happy)
Date: 27 Jul 92 16:46:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


     I've decided to go ahead and give the source code out to Intercom.  There-
fore, if you have Intercom in your account, delete it.  Then get it from the
SHAREd file I'll send out.  If you want the SHAREd file, just ask me.

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