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From: ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Anonymous SMTP
Date: 18 Dec 92 11:13:55 -0800
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

In article <9212171518.AA10066@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, CM3BCH11@staffordshire.ac.uk writes:
> 
> Someone may have mentioned this, but the best way of stopping people
> accessing port 25 is to recompile telnet with a check in the code
> to stop people specifying port 25. Thats what i'd do.

When you have PCs and MACs on your network, you'll quickly find out that you're
only fooling yourself on this one.  For example, I can easily issue a forgery
at any time from my Mac without even breathing hard.  I just tried it and the
only thing that gave me away was the mail header that included my IP address. 
If I had a MAC or PC Telnet product that allowed me to specify the port #, my
forgery would be even easier.

What many people are having difficulty grasping is that "systems" are no longer
just Vaxes on your network which "The System Manager" manages.  When you put a
personal system on somebody's desk, that person now becomes a system manager
and has just as much control over your network as you, "The System Manager",
has.  This new person can now sniff packets, forge mail, and create you great
havoc if s/he so chooses and if you have made not a very concerted effort to
prevent stop.

> This won't stop people with their own copy of telnet 

Absolutely right.  This is another case of security through obscurity.  You'll
slow down the less-informed; unfortunately, these people are the ones that
typically don't try to hurt you.  Those people that want to will succeed
against systems managed with this security attitude. 

I believe it was Ray Kaplan that once brutally explained in a Decus seminar
that one of the first things you need to learn is that there are people out
there smarter than you are.  Hurts the ego doesn't it?

-- 
Ed Wilts, BC Systems, 4000 Seymour Place, Victoria, B.C., Canada, V8X 4S8
EWilts@Galaxy.Gov.BC.CA     Office:  (604) 389-3430   Fax: (604) 389-3412
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From: craa79@ccsun.strath.ac.uk ("R.B.Rodger")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,vmsnet.misc,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Reading VMS Backup savesets under Unix
Date: 11 Dec 92 09:17:06 GMT
Organization: University of Strathclyde

I write 
>
>I'm looking for software which can read VMS backup savesets under Unix.
>I'm sure such a beast must exist - can anyone suggest where ?

Thanks to all who replied - the package i'm looking for is "vmsbackup", 
available from your local friendly ftp server - eg

wuarchive.wustl.edu:mirrors2/unix-c/tapes

Several people said they had modified versions of this , which could cope with 
little-endian byte orderings etc....

I also got a call from a company called "Essential Computing", who offered
to sell me a product to read VMS tapes under Unix - they seemed rather 
surprised when I told them that there was public domain code to do this, and
wanted to know where I got it from :-)

Once again, thanks to all who replied.

Bruce.

-- 
R.B. Rodger                       |R.B.Rodger@strath.ac.uk
Computer Centre                   |
Strathclyde Univ                  | +44 (0)41 552 4400 x3460
Glasgow G4 0LN, Scotland.         |
From: michelotto@vaxfpd.pd.infn.it (Michele Michelotto)
Subject: Digital Review's PD disk I/O benchmark. Where?
Reply-To: michelot@dxcern.cern.ch
Organization: CERN - European Laboratory for Particle Physics
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 10:18:26 GMT


I received by mail some commercial information on disks.
There is a sheet with a comparison of some disks against
a DEC disk and it says:
"The bencmark used was Digital Review's current public domain
disk I/O comparison"
then there are the specifications of the disks:
Capacity (byte), Average Access(ms), Overhead(ms),
Random read (kB/s), Random write(kB/s), Peak Read(kB/s)@127blocks
Peak Write(kB/s)@127blocks

How can I get these PUBLIC DOMAIN benchmarks? Or at least
the e-mail address of Digital Review's?
--
						Michele
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* Michele Michelotto, INFN Padova, Delphi group.                             *
* Internet: michelot@dxcern.cern.ch     BITNET: MICHELOTTO@IPDINFN           *
* Tel (+39).49.844347                   HEPNET: VAXFPD::MICHELOTTO           *
*                     "Ho bevuto CHE COSA ?"   (Socrate)                     *
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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: jcr@avila.inesc.pt (Joao Fernando Cavaco Rolo (INESC - CSC))
Subject: Re: DecWindows on a PC?
Organization: INESC (Inst. Eng. Sistemas e Computadores) -LISBOA -PORTUGAL
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:54:54 GMT


:Can anyone recommend a terminal emulation package for the PC that
:allows
:the PC to run DecWindows software (eg. emulate VT340 etc.) - A Regis
:compatible
:terminal would also help. - Thanks.

I use eXcrursion who emulating PC as a X terminal on MS-Windows.
That is not a VT340 emulator, but X Display/Terminal elumator.

--
==============================================================================
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INESC - Instituto de Engenheria Sistemas e Computadores
Av. Duque D'Avila, 2,3 6 andar Dto
Lisboa
Telefone : 310 00 07
Fax      : 310 00 08
E-mail   : jcr@inesc.pt
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==============================================================================
From: ilfc594@vax2.concordia.ca (GEOFF SELIG - CONCORDIA U. COMPUTING SERVICES)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Looking for a PASCAL random number function
Date: 16 Dec 92 20:37:00 GMT
Organization: Concordia University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Does anyone out there have a good, efficient random number generator 
function written in PASCAL?  Thanks in advance for any contributions.

Geoff Selig        Phone (514)-848-7666 |        _,  /|     The Cat's Meow
Academic Services    FAX (514)-848-7622 |        \ o.O'
Department of Computing Services        |        =(___)=
Concordia University   (H928)           |            U
Montreal, Quebec   H3G 1M8              |  ilfc594@vax2.concordia.ca
                                        |  ilfc594@conu2.BITNET
From: WILLIAMST%ZEUS.decnet@ATCF.NCSC.NAVY.MIL ("ZEUS::WILLIAMST")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Extension cable for DEC keyboard and mouse
Date: 14 Dec 92 13:18:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

we recently bought some extension cables for a couple of our workstations; I don't have the
part no. handy now, but I'll try to find it.

Tom Williams
williams@atcf.ncsc.navy.mil
From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Page and Swap File Names Missing
Date: 13 Dec 1992 18:28:37 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 <1992Dec12.182248.1@tango.cchs.su.oz.au>, brennan@tango.cchs.su.oz.au (Luke Brennan) writes:
>	Carl? Is there some rational reason why the pagefile name can't
>	be shown to the masses? Am I missing something fundamental?

LIB$FID_TO_NAME requires read permission on the file in question.  I suspect
that SHOW MEMORY/FILE uses LIB$FID_TO_NAME to translate from the FID of the
secondary page/swap file to the file name.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: brian@dsm.fordham.edu (Brian Downing)
Subject: Re: PLAN. FILE
Organization: Fordham University/CLC, Division of Science and Math
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 13:11:03 GMT


 i just got this properly working (I just posted a followup/summary a
 few days ago if you want to look for the thread)
  
	1) set protection on your parent 'root' dir to w:e

	2) create a file in your root dir called .plan 
           (note null name before period).

	3) set file prot on the .plan file to be w:r

 that's all there is to it.

--

 Brian...

 brian downing@->fordham university, nyc ny
         brian@dsm.fordham.edu       bdowning@mary.fordham.edu
From: mvbr@se.alcbel.be (Marc Verbruggen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: LEX and Yacc
Date: 11 Dec 92 14:57:43 GMT
Reply-To: mvbr@se.alcbel.be
Organization: Alcatel Bell Telephone


Where do I find LEX and YACC for VMS ?
Thanks

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Alcatel Bell Telephone          fax : 03.240.99.50
F. Wellesplein 1                email : mvbr@se.alcbel.be
B-2018 Antwerp
Belgium
 
"System Manager's Headaches Are Not Cured With Aspirin,
 There Is A Better Way ..."
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: softhbo@guug.de (Winfried Huber)
Subject: Anyone ported RCS to VMS?
Keywords: RCS, VMS, Revision Control
Organization: Technical University of Munich, Germany
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:58:16 GMT

Hi there,
did anyone install Walter Tichy's RCS (Revision Control System) including
GNU diff on VMS? Is there any such installation on the archives?

Thanks! Please answer via email, I will post a summary to comp.os.vms

Winfried Huber
Softwarehaus Huber und B"ohm, Illerweg 6, D-W 8037 Olching, Germany
voice +49-8142-13038 	Fax +49-8142-18612	E-mail softhbo@guug.de
--

Winfried Huber
Softwarehaus Huber und B"ohm, Illerweg 6, D-W 8037 Olching, Germany
voice +49-8142-13038 	Fax +49-8142-18612	E-mail softhbo@guug.de
From: uucm000@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Tingli Pan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Looking for package LINDO
Date: 16 Dec 92 15:53:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: uxa.BzD05t.5wn
Organization: Educational Computing Network

As the subject line suggested, need information about the package of
LINDO, which handls linear programming.

Tingli Pan                           
Academic Computing Services          Internet: uucm000@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
Northeastern Illinois University     Bitnet:   uucm000@ecnuxa.bitnet
From: leichter@lrw.com (Jerry Leichter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: re: SMG$ routines: Just how non-reenterent are they?
Date: 15 Dec 92 13:13:55 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


	The manual says that SMG$ is not reenterent (spelling?).

	Does this mean that I should disable ASTs from occuring arounds each
	smg call  if my program uses AST routines triggered by timers, $qios
	et cetera?

	Or does it only mean that I should not do any SMG routines in any ASTs
	that may interrupt a SMG routine?

The latter.  Call SMG entirely from AST level, or entirely from non-AST level;
don't mix the two modes.  (Actually, I'm not even certain that calling SMG
from AST level always works - if any part of SMG itself ever waits for an AST
to be delivered, calling that part from AST level will deadlock.)

							-- Jerry
From: LABELLES@ZENO.MSCD.EDU (Stephen LaBelle - MSCD)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Re: How to prevent login.com from running.
Date: 20 Dec 92 20:50:35 GMT
Organization: The Internet

Hello,

Several people have responded to the inquiry about keeping LOGIN.COM from
running. There were several people whom suggested something like the 
Following:
 
>>   Username: <your-account> /NOCOMMAND
>>   Password: <as normal>    ~~~~~~~~~~

The problem with the above response is that the responder's did not read the
original posting!!! The original posting asked for a system management way
of keeping LOGIN.COM from running when running an RSHELL command from another
machine, probally a unix box.

My response was partially incorrect as I did not take into account the RSHELL.
I did however suggest modifying the LGICMD flag in the UAF record. I assume
the poster wanted the LOGIN.COM, not to run only when the login was NETWORK,
for an RSHELL or rsh command. Both Aaron Leonard and Ehud Gavron had the
correct complete responses, refer back to those to see the solution.

When a RSHELL or rsh command is run from another machine a non-interactive
process logs in to an account and does one or more commands. You do not want
any type of unwanted output to be displayed, your unix machine will interpret
that output as an error exit status and the RSHELL or rsh will most likely 
fail. Therefore the reason for the original posting.

						Steve

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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: billb@crpmks.uucp (Bill Bochnik (Info Systems))
Subject: Re: please,I want solve the problem with RDO...
Reply-To: billb@crpmks.UUCP (Bill Bochnik (Info Systems))
Organization: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 12:59:10 GMT

In article <AFA6CC3EF17F000C57@EGFRCUVX> HAMDY@SHEBIN.EG writes:
>Hello info-vax...
>Please, when I try to define database file on RDO>
>RDO>define database <filename>.
>Now, appear to me these message in the following......
>I'll be glad If anyone solve this problem or the message error.
>
>%%%%%%%%%%OPCOM 13-DEC-1992 10:44:28 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>Message from user HAMDY
>%license-E-NOAUTH, DEC cdd-plus use is not authorized on this node
>-license-f-nolicense, noi license is active for this software prodeuct
>-License-I-sysmgr, please see your system manager
>
>
>%RDO-F-cdderr,error occurred during CDD signin, CDD will not be used
>-CDD-F-NOMSG, Message number 002bed2c
>-license-f-nolicense,no license is active for this software product
>
>any ideas?
>I'll be happy to solve these problem..

The error says it all.  You need some form of CDD to do this, and the license 
has expired.  See your system manager.
-- 
Bill Bochnik			| It's hard to be a James Bond in an Abbott
Systems Analyst 		|	and Costello world.
Ciba-Geigy Corporation		| Signed and sealed, they deliver oblivion.
philabs!crpmks!billb		| It's worse than that, he's dead Jim.
From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: $QIO: What happens within?
Date: 16 Dec 92 17:22:33 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego, CA

In article <1992Dec15.191506.17470@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>, winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski) writes:
> 
> In article <1992Dec14.220506.963@cmkrnl.com>, jeh@cmkrnl.com writes:
> |>
> |>For the specific question re the mailbox driver, writes are (in all versions of
> |>VMS that I've looked at) buffered I/O.  This means that $QIO (both $QIO and
> |>$QIOW, by the way) grabs a copy of your buffer before the procedure call
> |>returns to you, whether or not the write has actually completed yet. 
> 
> This is true, but there is no architectural guarantee that this will always be
> the case.  [...]
> It is not safe to write code that depends on undocumented internal behavior of
> a device driver.  Such things can change at the blink of an eye.

I believe I said that, although the point probably is worth repeating.

	--- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA
drivers, internals, networks, applications, and training for VMS and Windows-NT
uucp 'g' protocol guru and release coordinator, VMSnet (DECUS uucp) W.G., and 
Chair, Programming and Internals Working Group, U.S. DECUS VMS Systems SIG 
Internet:  jeh@cmkrnl.com, hanrahan@eisner.decus.org, or jeh@crash.cts.com
Uucp:  ...{crash,eisner,uunet}!cmkrnl!jeh
From: david@ittpub.nl (David P. Morgan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: IMG to GIF
Date: 16 Dec 92 19:06:24 WET+0100
Organization: ITT Publitec R+D BV, Amsterdam

In article <1992Dec16.123118.24869@news.th-darmstadt.de>, SERFLING@V6000A.GSI.DE (Volker Serfling) writes:
> 
> I'm loooking for a program that converts DEC's IMG-Files into COMPUSERVE GIF-
> Files. I'm using VMS 5.5 on a VS4000-60. 
> 
> Volker

I assume you mean DDIF to GIF ?
You could try reading the DDIF image into DECwindows Paint, exporting
it as X11 bitmap and read this into XV and save it as GIF. XV is a PD graphics
manipulation program that handles many formats.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
David P. Morgan                        Internet: david@ittpub.nl
ITT Publitec R+D BV                    UUCP:     ...!sun4nl!ittpub!david
Amsterdam                              PSI:      020412905761212::DAVID
From: NAT@drao.nrc.ca (Natalie Prowse)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: PROBLEMS with VISTA terminal server
Date: 18 Dec 92 19:01:42 GMT
Organization: Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.11



Probably not the place to post this, but since I know many of you have
these babies (VISTA terminal servers) I beg your forgiveness in asking
the question here....

Our VISTA has just recently (in the last 48 hours) started rebooting itself
at frequent and random intervals.  There is no apparent reason for it.
Anyone ever have this problem before?  Can someone suggest a cause?


Thanks,
-Natalie


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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: khofmann@biomed.biolan.uni-koeln.de
Subject: local printing with NCSA-Telnet and CMU-TEK
Reply-To: khofmann@biomed.biolan.uni-koeln.de
Organization: Biochemical Institute, Cologne University
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 10:54:36 GMT

Dear Netland,
I hope the following question is not too stupid, but we have not much
experience in that field and the manuals leave us alone with the problem:

We are running CMU-TEK on a microVAX under VMS 5.3
We connect to the VAX from PCs using NCSA-Telnet and/or QVTnet/Windows.
Since our PCs have local printers attached to them it would be 
desirable to have the opportunity for printing VAX-files on the PC-printers.

Can someone tell me what is the recommended way of doing this?

I think it should be possible because I know one VMS-program which offers
the menu-choice of printing on the local PC-printer and that feature 
works fine with our present configuration. I am now looking for a DCL-
equivalent (configuration of printer queue or the like) that would 
redirect the print output to the locally attached printer.

Many thanks in advance

                         Kay Hofmann
From: MONTANEZM@AHECAS.Colorado.EDU ("Mark Montaqez, System Manager AHEC, 556-2409", 303)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Netnews Readers for VAX/VMS DECnet
Date: 15 Dec 92 21:39:49 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Help,
 
I want to read the netnews and participate in some Listserv groups... however I
can't deal with the heavy mail traffic.  I also want to follow the treads of
conversation.
 
Can some one give me the location of a DECnet NETnews reader? and a DECnet
netnews source.....
 
I'm on a VAX/VMS DECNET system, I also have access to a DECnet/TCP-IP gateway
so I might be able to use other netnews readers that will run on a vax....
 
All/Any will be greatly appreciated.....
 
Mark Montaqez

montanezm@ahecas.colorado.edu
mark@ahecas.colorado.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,gnu.gcc
From: kushmer@bnlux1.bnl.gov (christopher kushmerick)
Subject: Re: Loading gcc 2.2 from Mango
Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 23:22:10 GMT

following the friendly advice of one reader, I am adding the following 
information to this post

Hardware: uVax II

OS	: VMS 5.1

Trying to run the DCL file KITINSTAL.COM.


In article <1992Dec19.032718.1102@bnlux1.bnl.gov> kushmer@bnlux1.bnl.gov (christopher kushmerick) writes:
>I grabbed the files from mango for gnu gcc 2.2  . From the first file, 
>I used backup to extract a file, KITINSTAL.COM, which is a com file that
>builds everything.
>
>
>However KITINSTAL.COM dies on my computer after asking for a top
>directory for BISON. The comment is "Object of call not found" or 
>something close to that.
>
>Has anyone else had trouble with this instal com file? Has it worked fine for
>people?
>
>I tried telling it that I did not want to install bison. It dies anyway
>with the same message. So I doubt that the problem is with setting up the
>Bison directory.
>
>Has anyone modified the install com to work? If so, could you mail me your
>version?
>
>thanks
>
>
>
>-- 
>Chris Kushmerick
>kushmer@bnlux1.bnl.gov


-- 
Chris Kushmerick
kushmer@bnlux1.bnl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: cmelaro@loyola.edu (Chris Melaro)
Subject: VAX 11/750 and InfoServer 100
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Loyola College in Maryland
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:48:00 GMT


	We have just recently recieved a 11/750 with no documentation.  I would
like to be able to boot it from our InfoServer in order to upgrade to a newer
version of VMS.
	I know that on our VAX 6310, we are able to do this with a command
similar to:
		BOOT/XMI:A/R5:E0000100 EXA0

	If anyone out there knows how to do the equivalent on a 11/750, or has any
advice, it would be greatly appreciated.

			Thanks in advance,

				CMELARO@LOYOLA.EDU

				(Chris Melaro)
From: SABRY@SHEBIN.EG
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Help to priority.....
Date: 17 Dec 92 10:46:00 GMT
Organization: The Internet

HELLO ALL...........
Please, I want from anyone give me about how  VAX/VMS work with processes
At the same priority and are scheduled? how do so????
Again, execuse me on my ignorance because I new in system manaement and also,
The our center computer under installtions or building......
Now, our system Microvax 3400 by 12.00Mb with VMS V5.2-1.....
Hope can you help me..........................
thanks in advance....
sabry
E-mail:SABRY@SHEBIN.EG
From: mahan@TGV.COM (Patrick L. Mahan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: MOVE for Vms anywhere ?
Date: 15 Dec 92 09:20:47 GMT
Organization: The Internet

In article <1992Dec14.110305.2934@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl> you write:
#
#Hi There,
#
#I am looking for a Vms MOVE command (I'ld prefer a fully Vms command which
#allows /LOG, /CONFIRM, /EXCLUDE etc. qualifiers).
#
#I haven't seen anything like it yet, so I wrote my own (in DCL :-{), but
#I can't get it working the way I want it to.
#
#If anybody knows where to find such a program, please let me know at
#nl0242t@nlzcl.decnet.philips.nl
#

Try the following:

	$ MV :== BACKUP/DELETE

--
Patrick L. Mahan

--- TGV Window Washer ------------------------------- Mahan@TGV.COM ---------

Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered  - Lazarus Long
a capital crime.  For a first offense, that is            From the Notebooks of
							  Lazarus Long


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