HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: steve@dbaccess.com (Steve Suttles)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: How can I change my Username
Date: 28 Jan 93 21:51:44 GMT
Organization: Cross Access Corp., Santa Clara, CA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

bruce@ais.com (Bruce C. Wright) writes:
: In article <159@mccoy.dbaccess.com>, steve@dbaccess.com (Steve Suttles) writes:
: > finocchiaroj@merrimack.edu () writes:
: > : I was wondering if there is a way that I can change my username by bypassing
: > : the system managers protected privliages.
: > 
: > Actually, there is.  For about $35,000 you can buy a vax of your own,
: > and you can call yourself anything you want.
: > 
: > Somewhat less expensive options include asking the system manager.
: 
: Oh really now.  You can get even a new VAXstation VLC (admittedly
: diskless) for under $3500, a tenth of the figure you quote.  If

Oh, wow.  A bookend.

: you don't mind not having state-of-the-art hardware, a MicroVAX 2000
: is a nice enough one or two user machine (no graphics however unless
: you get the VAXstation flavor) and costs well under $2000 used,
: including disk.

But why?  You can probably get a 730 for free, and people might even
pay you to take a 780.

Actually, I have two personal rules.  Never pay more than $50 for anything.
And never buy anything that is only worth $50.  I break them on occaision,
but I haven't bought any $3500 bookends or machines that haven't got the umph
for the job they were obtained for (although I always outgrow them).

And if Dave reads this group, he can vouch for the rules...

Actually (sorry Tim, I know it's your line), you could buy any old Vax and
just -REWIRE- it!

sas
-- 
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CROSS ACCESS Corporation     UUCP: {uunet,sgiblab}!troi!steve  Yo speako TECO!
2900 Gordon Ave, Suite 100   fax: (408) 735-0328              Talk data to me!
Santa Clara, CA 95051-0718   vox: (408) 735-7545   HA! It's under 4 lines NOW!
From: Gregory_S_Curtis.Roch809_XBS@XEROX.COM
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: VAX Station 4000/60 - Resolution
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:39:26 GMT
Reply-To: Gregory_S_Curtis.Roch809_XBS@xerox.com
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

To all interested parties,

First of all, a big thank you to all of you who responded.  Most of you made
the same observation,  the PAGEFILE was much to small.  I increased it from
30000 to 80000
and have not experienced the problem since.  The pagefile free is about 55000
at any given time.  This seemed to have the biggest impact for the resolution.
I did follow through on numerous other suggestions, so I thank you for those
too.

For those of you who asked,  MMG_CTLFLAGS was set to 0 per the Digital hotline.
That proved to be the wrong move and I have since restored it to 255.

Thanks,

greg
From: leichter@lrw.com (Jerry Leichter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: re: VAXC problems (V3.2)
Date: 21 Jan 93 01:29:34 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


	I have noticed that there are some differences between ANSI 'c' and
	VAXC.  I would like to know if these are known differences...

There are also many differences between VAX C and ANSI FORTRAN, and between
VAX C and ISO PASCAL.  So?  Where, anywhere, have you seen a claim that VAX C
is ANSI C compliant?  DEC never claimed it was, and it isn't.

The new DEC C compiler DOES claim ANSI C compliance.  If you found incompati-
bilities THERE, you'd have "problems" to report.  As it stands, what you have
described are NOT problems with VAX C, they are simply among the reasons DEC
never claimed VAX C was ANSI C compatible.

BTW, the first test of whether a compiler even CLAIMS ANSI C compatibility
is whether it predefines __STDC__ as 1.  Did you check what VAX C does?
(Hint:  DEC is honest.)

								       The
	following types of syntax do not work:  [Examples omitted, since they
	are of no significance.]

							-- Jerry
From: RABINOWITZ@VAX5.BEAR.COM (Ari)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Tracking DECW$DISPLAY
Date: 26 Jan 93 15:31:19 GMT
Organization: BEAR STEARNS & CO.
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

In <01GTXUFF9BMA8ZDVA9@POMONA.CLAREMONT.EDU> GREG@POMONA.CLAREMONT.EDU writes:

> Is there any way (such as a code to $GETDVI) to examine a _WSAn: device
> created with the SET DISPLAY command and determine what node it points
> to (ie the value of the /NODE qualifier to the SET DISPLAY)?

I usually just type SHOW DISPLAY WSAn:.

Here is an example:

VAX5::RABINOWITZ;1 >> sh disp

    Device:    WSA32:  [super]
    Node:      CARP
    Transport: DECNET
    Server:    0
    Screen:    0

VAX5::RABINOWITZ;1 >> sh disp wsa1

    Device:    WSA1:  [exec]
    Node:      xncd04
    Transport: tcpip
    Server:    0
    Screen:    0

If you want to be able to use the information for something there is the
undocumented qualifier /SYMBOL which will create symbols for the
information.  Another example follows:

VAX5::RABINOWITZ;1 >> sh disp wsa1/symb

    Device:    WSA1:  [exec]
    Node:      xncd04
    Transport: tcpip
    Server:    0
    Screen:    0

VAX5::RABINOWITZ;1 >> sh symb decw$*
  DECW$DISPLAY_NODE == "xncd04"
  DECW$DISPLAY_SCREEN == "0"
  DECW$DISPLAY_SERVER == "0"
  DECW$DISPLAY_TRANSPORT == "tcpip"

What more could you ask for?

Ari

Ari Rabinowitz                  rabinowitz@bear.com for VMS and personal mail
WorkStation Administrator	ari@bear.com for sun/HP Un*x mail
Bear Stearns
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: davids@kowari.cpsg.com.au (David Schulz)
Subject: Help with SYS$GETSYI please!
Organization: Computer Power Software Group Pty Ltd
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:21:11 GMT

Hello,

I am trying to use SYS$GETSYI to retrieve the local node name.  The call is
returning successfully, but the buffer is empty and return length is 
zero.  Any help will be greatly appreciated.  The code fragment below
shows what I'm trying to do.

Thanks in advance,

David


-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

#include 	<syidef.h>

int
main()
{
	int		status;
	short	version_len, node_len;
	char	version[8];
	char	node_name[15];

	struct item_list {
		short		length;
		short		code;
		int			buf_addr;
		int			return_length;
	} itmlst[] =
	{
		{	8,	SYI$_VERSION,		&version,		&version_len	},
		{	15,	SYI$_NODENAME,		&node_name,		&node_len	},
		{	0,	0,					0,				0	}
	};

	status = SYS$GETSYIW(0, 0, 0, &itmlst, 0, 0, 0);

	/* Returns version ok, but not node_name */

	printf("version = <%8s>, length = %d\r\n", version, version_len);
	printf("node = <%15s>, length = %d\r\n", node_name, node_len);
}

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
davids@kowari.cpsg.com.au
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: SABRY@SHEBIN.EG (Sabry Kotob El-Ganzory)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Public Domain....
Date: 21 Jan 93 11:16:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Welcome All..........
Please,I want ask you of:-
How I can I get these PUPLIC DOMAIN benchmarks? or least the e-mail of Digital
Review's?
Many Thanks to any help me.
Sabry
E-mail:sabry@shebin.eg


Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: houseman@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU (Carl Houseman)
Subject: Print symbiont interpretation of 'PASTHRU'
Keywords: SYMBIONT
Organization: UVA. FREE Public Access UNIX! 
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:00:57 GMT

I ran into an oddball problem the other day that made me look stupid (perhaps
true) to the users and questioned DEC's CSC about it.   They claimed it 'had
always worked that way' and sure enough, it was the same in VMS 5.1 as in
5.5-1.  Funny that it never got me before.  What it is:

$ SET TERM LTAx:/PERM/NOTAB/PASTHRU
$ COPY file LTAx:
<file comes out with horizontal tab characters, not spaces>

$ INIT/QUE/START/PROC=LATSYM/ON=LTAx: MYPRINTER
$ PRINT/QUE=MYPRINTER file
<file comes out with horizontal tabs translated into spaces>

It seems it is necesssary to specify /TAB in addition to /PASTHRU in order
to get the symbiont to pass the tab characters unscathed.

When questioned further the CSC said this was because of the symbiont's ability
to create left margins and the need to make sure tabs were aligned.

I say /PASTHRU should be the same no matter what.  If I don't want /PASTHRU I
wouldn't use it.  Searching for references in the Gray Wall produced nothing
useful, except to say that TT2$M_PASTHRU caused QIO's to be treated as if
IO$M_NOFORMAT was specified.  That was enough for me.

Has anyone else SPR'd this?


Carl Houseman
houseman@hopper.acs.virginia.edu
GENICOM Engineering, Waynesboro, VA
703-949-1323
From: cg656@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael O. Bartz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: TPU mail quoting procedure available?
Date: 24 Jan 1993 06:14:44 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: cg656@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael O. Bartz)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


I am currently using a TPU file that has the ability to quote
a message when replied with REPLY/EXTRACT in mail.  It's something that
I whipped up that simply looks until it finds a blank line and
then it deletes everything above it.  Then it quotes the rest of
the message.  Simple!  However not so simple since mail is in this form:

      non-local                            local mail

[vax 4 line header]             |     [vax 4 line header]
     S P A C E                  |         S P A C E
[the rest of the net-headers]   |     [body of message]
     S P A C E                  |
[body of message]               |

So the problem is that the TPU procedure can't tell the difference
between net-mail headers and the body of the message.  If I call the
procedure twice, it will delete the first paragraph of local mail.

Any suggestions on how I can do this?  Right now I am passing an integer
variable from a .com file that tells it how many times to loop.  Messy!

Thanks,
Mike
-- 
Michael O. Bartz @ cg656@freenet.cwru.edu
bartzmio@udavxb.oca.udayton.edu (direct all replies here)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: parris@star.enet.dec.com (Keith B. Parris)
Subject: Re: Remotely rebooting vms
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: 26 JAN 93 09:59:24 EST


In article <15JAN199309491266@spades.aces.com>, gavron@spades.aces.com (Ehud
Gavron 602-570-2000 x. 2546) writes... 
>If you don't define OPC$REMOVE_NODE then at V5.3 and higher
>the node will NOT send a last-gasp datagram to its cluster members,
>and they will have to go through the HELL of reconfiguring.

Actually, the last-gasp datagram will normally always get sent out, unless you
do a Control-P/Halt or there's a power failure.

REMOVE_NODE indicates that the cluster should try to adjust Expected_Votes
downward if possible, in hopes the cluster won't hang for lack of quorum when
this node leaves.
__________---_---_-_-_-_-_____-_----____---__-__-_-_-----_-_--_--___-_-__---__-_
Keith B. Parris, Digital Equipment Corporation, Alpha VMS Clusters & I/O Group
----_-____-_--_-__-_---_-___-_-_-_--__-_-__---__-_---_-___-_-_-_-_____--_--___-_
Anything blatantly opinionated or which is later found to be inaccurate was
mine, of course.  Digital gets the credit for any actual facts which appear.
-_-_--__-_-__----___---__-__-_-_-_-_____-__--_____---_-___-_-_-_--__-_--_--___-_
From: MCMAHON@AC.GRIN.EDU ("McMahon,Brian D")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: C problem
Date: 21 Jan 93 21:55:48 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

> Hi VAX/VMS experts.

Hello, an6034.

> When I try to compile this program in a VAX/VMS (5.4-2) environment I get a
> warning message.  I have looked up the error message but it doesn't mean a
> thing to me.

Oh really?  If you looked it up in the "Guide to VAX C," you found this:

INVMAINRETVAL, Return value of main function is not an integer type.

  Warning:  You have declared a main function with a return type that is
  not an integer type.

  User Action:  Check for an omitted semicolon at the end of any
  declaration immediately preceding the declaration of the main function
  [this is not the problem -- bdm], or change the return value
  specification to one of the integer types.

Now, if you had also taken the added step of looking up "integer data
types" in the index of that very same manual, you would have found a table
of integer data types, and noticed that data type void was not among them.

> So am I missing a compiler switch that will make it all ok??

Yeah, you could CC/NOWARN to suppress the warning message.  You could also
ignore it, because WARNING messages are _not_ ERROR messages.  Your program
will compile, link, and run fine exactly as it is.  (Did you try it?)  You
could also fix your main function declaration to conform to VAX C by losing
the void crapola.  You're not really worried about a return value, so why
bother?  Change your declaration to main() and all will be fine.  Please
keep in mind that VAX C is *NOT* ANSI C, nor does it claim to be.

And now, we bring you to the centerpiece of the day's entertainment.  For
those of you with delicate constitutions, I've placed the answer ahead of
the flame, so you can stop reading now.  Now, where did I put my napalm?

> To find out more about the anon service, send mail to help@anon.penet.fi.
> Due to the double-blind system, any replies to this message will be anonymized,
> and an anonymous id will be allocated automatically. You have been warned.

This anon service is one of the worst ideas I have seen in a long, long
time.  I mean, not that SMTP mail is particularly secure or anything like
that, but this any-drooling-moron-can-post-anonymously shit is the pits. 
This is the clearest indication yet that the time has come to give up and
go dig out that DECUServe form that I never got around to sending in.  The
relative frequency of yahoos on the net is just getting too high, with a
corresponding degradation of the signal/noise ratio.

I will not respond to any further anon postings.  I urge others to do
likewise.  If someone is unwilling to so much as tell us his NAME, why
should we bother to provide free advice?

O tempora, o mores!

Brian McMahon (BDM13)    <MCMAHON@GRIN1.BITNET>    <MCMAHON@AC.GRIN.EDU>
Postmaster / Acad. Software Support   Grinnell College Computer Services
Grinnell, Iowa 50112 USA   Voice: +1 515 269 4901   Fax: +1 515 269 4936
From: Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Moderated List????
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 07:33:39 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world
 <1993Jan20.000331.3865@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au>
  <1jj897INNqik@gap.caltech.edu>

In a recent article, Carl J Lydick (CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU) writes:

>	Ehud has left the newsgroup.
>He apparently decided that:
 ^^            ^^^^^^^
>	1)  The posts from people who believe you can work with a computer
>	    without thinking; and
>	2)  The posts from those sympathetic to that piece of stupidity
>were taking too much space in the newsgroup.
>
>Congratulations, Brian.  Shitheads like yourself have now removed from this
>newsgroup input from one of the people more knowledgeable about VMS internals.

Oh, give me a break!  Blaming anyone but Ehud for his OWN decision to leave
the newsgroup is a cop-out of the first magnitude.  HE DECIDED (you said it
yourself) to leave, for reasons which were sufficient in HIS mind.  Nobody
forced him out or "removed (him) from this newsgroup."  "To leave" is an
ACTIVE verb, not a PASSIVE one.

Chris Chiesa
  Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com
From: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Ehud
Date: 27 Jan 1993 19:19:43 GMT
Organization: Computer Aided Design Lab, U. of Maryland College Park
Distribution: world,local
Reply-To: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: queen.eng.umd.edu

In article <1993Jan27.144111.26390@bony1.bony.com>, billg@bony1.bony.com (Bill Gripp) writes:
>>Meanwhile, I'm left to sorting out the likes of:
>>	(67GE)        norvaG duhE
>>	 reganaM krowteN tseuqnuS
>>	      moc.tseuqnus@norvag
>?drawkcab daer enoyreve t'naC
>
>lliB


Blast it, does everyone have to copy the DS9 story these days? :)

Ehud should be treated like gasoline. Respect it, do not waive matches in
front of open containers and you'll be just fine. 


                    I have talked to Ehud, and lived.
  -- >                  SYSMGR@CADLAB.ENG.UMD.EDU                        < --
From: lane@duphy4.physics.drexel.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: moderated vs. unmoderated: a modest proposal
Date: 23 Jan 93 12:13:29 GMT
Distribution: all
Organization: Drexel University Physics

With regard to moderated/unmoderated, I have to say that I always prefer an
open forum, even if it gets a bit chaotic at times.  Also (knowing Carl
for many years) he would be a highly conciencous moderator, but it would
consume far too much of his time and effort.

So how do you get the VAX-neophytes to read the FAQ before posting?   How about
a "filtered" newsgroup, rather than moderated?  The idea is to make the
"moderator" a simple automaton, that does the following:

  o   It checks posts for a simple keyword, perhaps in the
      message header, perhaps in the sig.

  o   If the keyword is not present the message is bounced, and a copy of
      the FAQ sent to the poster automatically.

  o   If the keyword is present, the message is acknowledged and posted
      (or "approved" in netnews-speak).

  o   The FAQ, after explaining guidelines for "how to post" tells the 
      newbie user the keyword.  If they can follow simple instructions,
      they'll have no problem.  It would certainly cut down on "where's
      the FAQ" and "how do I subscribe" posts. 

I don't know if you're still running STmail there Carl, but a filter
like this is pretty easy to set up in STmail. 

The proposal above is serious, but for fun you could make the keyword
"Kibo" :-) 


-- 

 Drexel University       \V                     --Chuck Lane
----------------->--------*------------<--------lane@duphy4.hepnet
     (215) 895-1545      / \  Particle Physics  lane@duphy1.bitnet
FAX: (215) 895-5934        /~~~~~~~~~~~         lane@duphy4.physics.drexel.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: sasjzs@falcon.unx.sas.com (Joseph Slater)
Subject: Re: C problem
Originator: sasjzs@falcon.unx.sas.com
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:19:56 GMT
Reply-To: sasjzs@vms.sas.com
Organization: Or lack thereof


In article <9301201500.AA20662@anon.penet.fi>, an6034@anon.penet.FI writes:
|>X-Anon-To: INFO-VAX@SRI.COM
|>
|>Hi VAX/VMS experts.
|>
Sorry, all the experts have left.  {:*)

|>      void main(void){ /* begin main */
|>%CC-W-INVMAINRETVAL, Return value of main function is not an integer type.
|>              At line number 8 in $DISK:EXAMPLE_1.C;24.
|>
The problem is that you have declared your main routine to be a
void. It needs to be declared as an int or long.
Try:
   int main(void){

Joe Slater
sasjzs@vms.sas.com
Mine opinion is just that.
Never argue with a fool. Onlookers will have a hard time
telling who is who.
From: 92ADAMS@HANNA2.NLU.EDU (Erek Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Questions about Ultrix.
Date: 27 Jan 93 08:56:12 GMT
Organization: The Internet


Ok, first off I do know that this is Info-Vax/comp.os.vms, but I have no other
idea as to where to post this.

We (our college) recently set up a small LAN of Ultrix machines (DECStation
3100spx).  We are trying to get some products that use X11 for network
communications.  Right now all we have that can do that is a game called Xpool
(ver 4.0).  Now this works fine locally, but when we try to run it via net, it
'cannot access display.'  Both users have the SM security set to allow the
other node access to the display.  We have tried everything possible, that we
know, to make it work without success.

It is a long shot, buf if anyone has a copy of this program, check and see if
there are some docs that refer to a file 'default.Xpool'  From what we can
figure, this might have to be in the home directory of each user.  Has anyone
ever seen/used this program?  

One last pair of questions:  Is there a mailing list similar to Info-Vax for
the Ulrix side of DEC?  And where could we find some _nice_ X11 sources?

Please send me e-mail if you can help/have any ideas on this.  That way, 
Info-Vax won't be bogged with non Info-Vax messages!

Thanks in advance!

                                         Erek Adams

+-------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+
|  Erek Adams, Student Programmer     |  Internet:  92adams@hanna2.nlu.edu    |
|  Northeast Louisiana University     |  SnailMail: 5330 DeSiard, #43         |
|  Monroe, Louisiana  71202           |             Monroe, LA  71202         |
|                                     |  Home Phone: (318)-343-4729           |
+-------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+


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From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: command procedure calling
Date: 27 Jan 1993 01:38:08 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 <ERMIMWEI.20@er.ele.tue.nl?>, ERMIMWEI@er.ele.tue.nl (Wim Beckers) writes:
>When a command procedure is called by another command procedure  their is 
>always a return to the calling command procedure.
>Is there a possibility to NOT return to the calling procedure?

Well, you *COULD* execute the command:
	$ MCR DCL
(don't do this;  it deletes your process, but it does *NOT* return to the
calling procedure :-).

There's no documented way to exit from the entire stack of DCL procedures in a
single command.  The best way to deal with this is, after every invocation of a
command procedure, have conditional code in the calling procedure.  For
example:
	$!	LEVEL1.COM
	$ 	@LEVEL2
	$	IF ($STATUS .AND. 7) .NE. 1 THEN-
			EXIT 'F$INTEGER(%X10000000 .OR. $STATUS)'
	$ 	{additional commands}
and have the called procedure return a meaningful status when it exits.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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: mchenry@BAEPV4.NCSU.EDU (MCHENRY@BAE.NCSU.EDU)
Subject: Error Count on System Disk
Reply-To: mchenry@BAEPV4.NCSU.EDU (MCHENRY@BAE.NCSU.EDU)
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:53:21 GMT



28-JAN-1993 09:45:28.02
 

Hello:


I came in this morning to find the power supply on my cluster
system disk to have died. I performed emergency surgery and got
everything back up.

My concern is that the system disk now has a large error count on it as
does another disk served by the same node. I'm assuming this
has something to do with the fact that it was off line for several
hours .

My questions are...

Is this a problem?

Can the error count be reset?
 
Am I correct in assuming that it's being off line is was caused the
error count problem?

Why would the other disk also have error counts?

Thanks in Advance

Kevin R. McHenry

Computer Systems Administrator
BAE Department
N. C. State University
mchenry@bae.ncsu.edu