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From: am728@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Randy L. Betke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Need info on Fujitsu M2351 Drive ...
Date: 3 Sep 92 15:44:31 GMT
Reply-To: am728@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Randy L. Betke)
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet



Sorry if this is not appropriate for this list, but could anyone tell
me anything about a Fujitsu M2351 disk drive.  I need to know the capacity,
form factor, interface, and power consumption.  If anyone has the phone
number for them, that'd be ok too.  The number I have is not correct.
Again, sorry if this isn't the right spot for this question, and thanks
for any help.

Randy

Randy Betke  am728@cleveland.freenet.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: ?Cause of error message under $SUBMIT
From: isodonovan@npe.isnet.inmos.co.uk
Date: 1 Sep 92 10:20:42 GMT
Organization: Inmos Limited
Nntp-Posting-User: netnonpriv

In article <1992Aug28.130419.1@woods.ulowell.edu>, welchb@woods.ulowell.edu writes:
> Here is the error message I often get from a simple .com file
> when it is $SUBMITted: 
> 	Error opening primary file SYS$INPUT
> 	File not found

[...]

The chances are you'll get many responses to this.  When I've encountered this
before it's been due to submitting a file to a batch queue and then deleting
the file.  When you submit a file, the queue manager retains a pointer to the
file (by name and file id number I think), it does not take a copy of the file
- so the file still needs to be around when the job starts executing.  If you
create multiple versions of a file that you submit e.g. bat.com;1 ,;2, ;3 ...
and either PURGE or have a version limit set, then the earlier versions will be
deleted and when they come to the top of the queue, they will not be found.

Also (sorry if this is going on a bit!) if you submit a file, then change it,
it will be the OLD version that executes not the new one.  Because the queue
manager keeps a note of the file id, you cannot fool it into executing the new
version - you'd have to delete the old job and resubmit, so again, you need to
keep the old version aroud if you want it to run.

If you have an application that creates temporary files to submit, the best
thing I can think of is to ensure that they all have different names, so that
they will not be lost by purging, or by a limit on the number of versions.  One
way of achieving this is to use the data & time (e.g. from F$CVTIME) as part of
the filename.  From memory, I think I tend to use

  yyyymmddhhmmsscc = F$CVTIME()-"-" -"-" -" " -":" -":" -"."
to produce something like
  1992090110171755
which I then make part of the filename.

You'll need to clean up these files (probably!) and funnily enough, they can be
set to delete themselves if you put something like 

  $ DELETE 'F$ENVIRONMENT("PROCEDURE")

at the end of the command procedure.

I hope this is of some use to you!

  -- Brian

> -- 
> Brendan Welch, UMass/Lowell, W1LPG,  welchb@woods.ulowell.edu
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From: system@condor.navsses.navy.mil
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: POP server for VMS
Date: 2 Sep 92 18:30:17 GMT
Organization: NSWCCD, Naval Ship Systems Eng Sta, Phila PA

In article <BtyJ5r.7pu@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, hughes@logos.ucs.indiana.edu (larry hughes) writes:

> IUPOP3 is such a server, and has been used successfully on VMS 5.3,
> 5.4, and 5.5.  It works with UCX, WIN/TCP, and Multinet.  It's also
> a multithreaded server, so it won't create a process for every
> client connection.

Does it work with PROCESS Software's TCPware for VMS?  If not is there someone
who can help to port it?

thanks,

Mike Jacobi
NAVSSES VAXCluster system manager
System@Eagle.Navsses.Navy.Mil
System@Condor.Navsses.Navy.Mil

Disclaimer - I speak for myself.  No-one else.
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: CNGUYEN@130.187.183.14 (CHAU NGUYEN)
Subject: ADABAS and NATURAL, what are they ?
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:58:20 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.11




	Hello:
	If this is a wrong place to post this question, I apologize for any
	in-convenience. But anyone knows what ADABAS (spelling error ?) and
	NATURAL are ? Are they 4GLs used in the VAX ?

	If you know, can you tell me where I can find books or any documents
	about them ?


	Thanks



	My e-mail address is cnguyen@utes.sim.es.com


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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: lesnyd@monsanto.com (Larry E. Snyder)
Subject: Re: DECW$LOGIN_BACKGROUND & XV
Organization: DSC
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:54:32 GMT

 
> protecting its rights.  Did you know that the castle is copyrighted?
> 
How can the castle be copyrighted? It in itself is a copy of the 
Neuschwanstein castle in southern Germany. Can the owners of the REAL
castle (whoever that is, presumably the German government) sue Disney??
Or can Disney sue Germany for having a castle that looks like theirs?
How far can this go???
From: zaharchuk@harbor.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: How many VUPS to 1 MIPS or how many MIPS to 1 VUP.
Date: 3 Sep 92 19:18:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: engage.1992Sep3.191838.13188
Reply-To: zaharchuk@harbor.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation



The current VAXstation 4000 Model 90 workstation has tested at;

	40 MIPS (drystones)
	32.7  SPECmarks
	42.5 MicroVUPS ( DRlabs 8/27/92)

The MicroVAX II was considered  to be .9 of an 11/780 so  
	.9 VUPS/MicroVUP  x 42.5 MicroVUPS  = 38.25 VUPS  vs  40 MIPS

As with any benchmark, your application performance may vary.


Regards,

Bill Zaharchuk

Workstations and Servers Group
Digital Equipment Corporation
146 Main Street  MLO1-3/H20
Maynard, MA  01754-2571

(508)493.4077
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: jneves@bart.inescn.pt (Joao Neves)
Subject: Print DECW$BOOKREADER files
Organization: INESC-Porto, Portugal
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 20:31:29 GMT

Hi,

I'ld like to have hardcopies of the DECW$BOOKREADER documentation since from
now on I will not receive the VMS and Ultrix manuals but the DEC Campus 
license CDs. How can I do this?

If this is a RFM problem please forgive me but I couldn't find the fine
manual :-)

If you answer directly to me I'll summarize.

Thanx

Joao
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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: hallam@zeus02.desy.de (Phill Hallam-Baker)
Subject: Re: Motif 1.1
Reply-To: Hallam@zeus02.desy.de
Organization: Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Experiment ZEUS bei HERA
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 13:43:55 GMT

In article <MATS.92Sep3190209@styx.efd.lth.se>, mats@efd.lth.se (Mats Akerberg)
writes:

|>Hi!
|>
|>I'm looking for MOTIF 1.1 (For vms).
|>Is there anyone willing to put the saveset up for ftp.
|>I have tried to get it from my local DEC office but they say
|>that they can't get it ???? (And yes I have all the right licens and
|>PAK's)
|>
|>Thanks
|>           Mats

It's on CONDIST, only for reasons known to themselves dec have dubbed the Motif
release 1.1 as DECwindows/Motif 1.0. To further confuse there is also the old
developer kit release of motif (VUIT etc) which has Motif 1.0 so DEC of course
called this Developer version 1.1.

Now there is apparently a new 1.1 version of Decwindows motif...

--

Phill Hallam-Baker
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss)
Subject: UCX 2.0  Mail Unhappiness
Keywords: UCX SMTP DEC-TCP/IP
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 22:31:19 GMT

[ Please excuse previous posting on this subject with different contents.  ]
[ This is the corrected posting. So many different keyboards, so few brain ]
[ cells.								   ]

I've installed UCX 2.0 (aka DEC TCP/IP) on my system and cannot get outward
mail configured properly.  Telnet/FTP/incomming SMTP works fine.  The
name (bind) resolver is working correctly.

Whenever I try to post mail off system I basically end up with a
situation in which the STMP server symbiont queue dies a horrible death.

I get OPCOM messages complaining of problems with mailboxes, ultimately
leading to an access violation in the symbiont while in module
smtp$do_task.  The log files are not otherwise very helpful.  

I don't have any records loaded for routing (MX_records), so I'm wondering
if this is where things are amiss.   I have RTFMs, but I can't say that
I've really integrated all the material in a useful fashion in my brain yet.

CSC/DSIN has not be able to help or reproduce the problem,  so I was
wondering if anyone has seen/cured anything similiar.
From: gaertner@rz-berlin.mpg.de
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: VMS 5.5.1/Motif 1.0A/DECdtm problem
Date: 25 Aug 92 19:14:02 +0100
Organization: Rechenzentrum MPG Berlin

I recently installed VMS 5.5.1 and DECwindow Motif 1.0A on a new
VAX 4000 VLC.  I then installed VAXSET; when executing the DTM
startup procedure I get a message similar to 

  ! X Trap, Warning, unknown VMS version, using 5.4

Could anybody tell me wether this is due to VMS, Motif and/or DTM ?
Which patch (if any exists) is necessary ?

Thanks

  Ralf

P.S.  I did the installation 2 times since booting with this message
      seems to confuse the session manager (the 2nd installation used
      an ordinary VT420 as alternative console).

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  Ralf Gaertner     gaertner@rz-berlin.mpg.de
From: dragon@NSCVAX.PRINCETON.EDU (Mighty Firebreather)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: Editing large files with TPU
Date: 26 Aug 92 18:05:19 GMT
Organization: The Internet


	Karen Peterson <KPETERSO@BENTLEY.BITNET> writes:
>
>I am trying to EDIT/TPU (EVE) a 29553 block file and coming up
>with errors.  When I EVE the filename, the machine thinks about
>it, then I recieve the following error message:
>
>2098 byte record to large for users buffer
>

<stuff concerning available quotas and hardware configuration omitted>

	The problem is not your quotas or the memory available on your 
machine.  The problem is that EVE, like most text editors, was designed to 
edit *text* and the authors assumed a reasonable record length.  The limit
is something like five or six hundred characters per line (record).

	I don't think that there is a whole lot you can do about it.  If
you must edit this file, you could try TECO or EMACS.  TECO should be on 
your machine somewhere; good luck on figuring out how to use it.  EMACS you
will have to ftp from somewhere if you don't have it.

*************************************************************************
*                                                                       *
*                        Here, there be dragons!                        *
*                      dragon@nscvax.princeton.edu                      *
*                                                                       *
*                                                Richard B. Gilbert     *
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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: gerard@uwovax.uwo.ca (Gerard Stafleu)
Subject: Re: GNU Ghostscript for VMS?
Organization: University of Western Ont, London
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:19:29 GMT

In article <0095FC40.C973BE40.6601@yogi.hsc.ucalgary.ca>, 
   byron@yogi.hsc.ucalgary.ca (Byron Draudson) writes:
> Does anyone know where I can get GNU Ghostscript for VMS?  

You can get it from info.rz.uni-ulm.de, directory /pub/VMS/misc. 
Ghostscript is a bit primitive though.  Does anyone knowe of a Ghostview
for VMS? 

----
Gerard Stafleu
email: gerard@uwo.ca
CCS, NSC 202, University of Western Ontario,
London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7
(519)661-2151
From: cohnen@fs1.rockefeller.edu (Stuart Cohnen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: DECWindows Mail font sizes
Keywords: DECWindows Mail
Date: 4 Sep 92 19:43:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: rockyd.1992Sep4.154307.24888
Reply-To: cohnen@rockvax.rockefeller.edu (Stuart Cohnen)
Organization: Rockefeller University

What is the magic incantation in DECW$MAIL.DAT to change the font size?
My eyes really hurt.         
Thanks.



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Manager of Engineering and Technical Services
Computing Services 
The Rockefeller University
From: GOLDER_GL@CORNING.COM ("Gregory L. Golder  974-7539", 607)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Anonymous FTP sites for VMS, DOS, Mac files
Date: 4 Sep 92 06:30:00 GMT
Organization: The Internet

Greetings all,

    I realize this is a FAQ, but if you could find the time to E-mail me
the addresses of any of your favorite anonymous FTP sites for VMS, DOS,
or Macintosh files, I'd greatly appreciate it.  Thanks!

________________________________________________________________________________
  Gregory L. Golder (Greg), Analyst - Applications, I/S, Corning Incorporated
  Internet: GOLDER_GL@CORNING.COM
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From: beelian@iti.gov.sg (Ong Bee Lian (RC))
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Macterminal V3.0 printing problem
Summary: Print selection problem
Keywords: Macterminal v3.0
Date: 27 Aug 92 04:43:42 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Institute, National Computer Board, S'pore

Hi

 I am using Macterminal V3.0 shipped together with the Pathwork for Mac. Whenever I try to select the text and use the print selection to print, I face the 
problem of missing characters in the printout. However, if I print directly from
Allin1 to the printer connected to the decserver, I do not face this problem.
Also, may I know how to set the fonts and the margin if I use the print 
selection in Macterminal 3.0 to print.

Does, anybody know where I can get a copy of VMSxmodem software for the VAX?


Thanks

Ong Bee Lian
internet mail : beelian@iti.gov.sg
From: shoecraf@mc.bitnet (Steve Shoecraft)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Linking C programs...
Date: 30 Aug 92 20:43:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: MARICOPA.01GO4DY4BPF88WWVZU
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet
X-Unparsable-Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 16:31:57.70 MST


 
    Hi, all... Last week I posted a suggestion that the VAXCRTL might be
placed in the IMAGELIB to produce smaller executables without the need for a
linker options file... DON'T DO THIS!!! I got several responses to my query
for warnings, did some testing in C, Pascal, Fortran, and Macro, and found
some definite problems...
    So, if you've put it in there, TAKE IT OUT! Luckily, since it's the start
of the school year, we don't have too many students writing programs yet...
Had it been later on in the semester...
    I guess we'll all have to wait until the problem is repaired, and go on
using the linker options file... Sorry to put a bogus posting up like that,
but, I thought I had a good idea there... I DID test it out before posting,
but it wasn't extensive enough for the REAL problems to come out...
From: zimak1@urz.unibas.ch
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Wanted: disk fragmentation display
Date: 27 Aug 92 08:37:02 MET
Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland

Hi all,

I am looking for a tool to display the fragmentation of a disk. At one
of our VAXes we have installed RAXCO's RAXMASTER software (RABBIT xxx)
and I have in mind something similar to its PerfectDisk component.  Of
course, I prefer a program from the public domain or freeware software,
because I want to use it on several VAXes and only when "needed", i.e.
not on a regular basis.

Thank you for any hints or pointers. Please reply via e-mail directly
to me, I will summarize to the net.

Petr Zimak                                        zimak1@urz.unibas.ch
Computing Department,        University of Basel,          Switzerland
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.dcom.servers
From: sfr@wcusv1.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Steven Schaeffer)
Subject: Summary of "TCP/IP repacement for DS250"
Organization: Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 16:55:11 GMT

I asked for recommendations for terminal servers to replace my DECserver 250. We
need to provide the same functionality using TCP/IP. 2 respondents recommended an
Emulex P-4000 and one suggested calling XYPLEX.

The unit selected is a P-250 from Emulex. It has 4 serial and 1 parallel (can be
configured as either Centronics or Data Products) port and talks both LAT and
TCP/IP. At well under $2K it fills the bill quite nicely. I won't have the
critter in hand for some time yet so I can't give you any observations.

Thanks to those who responded.

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From: rankin@EQL.Caltech.Edu (Pat Rankin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Linking C programs
Date: 28 Aug 92 23:31:47 GMT
Organization: The Internet

>     I have seen many postings on this list regarding linking a C object
> against the sharable image, VAXCTRL.EXE. This involves creating a linker
> option file (.OPT), and specifying this option file on the command line when
> linking to create a much smaller executable image. I have used this method
> for some time now, and it works quite well...

     That is the best way to link VAX C programs, period.  Some other
shareable images are already linked with VAXCRTL, so if you use them then
the linker _will_ link VAXCRTL automatically.  Three which come to mind
are DECW$DWTLIBSHR, DECW$XLIBSHR and TPUSHR.  ANALYZE/IMAGE can be used
to find out which shareable images are linked into any given .EXE file.
(However, it will not show images activated via LIB$FIND_IMAGE_SYMBOL.)

>     A short time ago, I saw a response to one of these questions which
> pointed out where the REAL problem is, and why we need to do this in the
> first place.  It was pointed out that since the CRTL wasn't in the
> sharable image library, IMAGELIB.OLB, and therefore, we must provide a
> pointer to it implicitly.  Well, why not put it there??  To do this, just
> add it to the image library:
>        $ LIB/SHARE IMAGELIB SYS$SHARE:VAXCRTL.EXE
[...]
>     If anyone out there might have any comments or warnings on this
> please let me know...  As yet, I have not seen/heard of any problems by
> doing this...

     This has come up many times in the past.  There are two major
problems.  First, you'd be introducing routines with common names like
OPEN, CLOSE, READ, WRITE, ACCESS, ABORT, and so forth into the "system
name space".  If a user wrote a program in some language other than C and
tried to supply his/her own routine with one of those names, there would
be linker warnings and perhaps worse.  Even if no other languages are
used on your system, this could still impact arbitrary 3rd party software
if it's linked at installation time.  The other problem is that prior to
VMS V5.5, a linker bug prevented VAXCRTL's global variables from working
correctly if VAXCRTL was obtained implicitly from an image library rather
than explicitly via an options file.  There is a brief entry in the V5.5
Release Notes describing the problem (section 3.17.2; note that it does
not mention VAXCRTL there at all).

     When/if DEC C and DECC$SHR replace VAX C and VAXCRTL, this whole
issue will finally go away.  _All_ its entry points have a decc$ prefix,
which the compiler tacks on to user code as needed.  (The VAX/VMS to
Alpha/VMS cross-compiler already uses DECC$SHR instead of VAXCRTL; it's
a version of DEC C.  Unfortunately that particular DECC$SHR.EXE is an
Alpha image rather than a VAX one. :-)

		Pat Rankin, rankin@eql.caltech.edu
From: bill@bill.ab.umd.edu (Bill Bame)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: PC->VAX Databases
Date: 27 Aug 92 19:12:34 GMT
Reply-To: bill@office.ab.umd.edu
Organization: M.I.E.M.S.S.

Well...

One of my semi-computer-literate users stopped me in the hall with the phrase I
dread most when I am wearing my software designer/developer hat.  "All I want
to do is..."

This usually means that the user desires something that sounds (to the
uninitiated) like it should be simple and straightforward, but turns out to be
a huge project costing lots of time and $$.

I put on my best "I'm sure it will be simple" face and listened to his request.

"What I want to do is have a database program on my PC [368/DOS4.*/Windows3.1,
pathworks4.1] that can connect to your database [Rdb4.0,VMS5.5-2], but can also
manage personal (local!) databases like I do now [in Dbase IV]."

I took him into my office and showed him Excel accessing an Rdb database.  He
said it was interesting, but that he really wanted a database, not a
spreadsheet.  I showed him various SQL query tools that he could use from his
PC to query Rdb databases.  Again, he said it was interesting, but he wanted to
be able to use the same database for PC and VAX databases.  Not being made of
money, I couldn't show him Oracle, Sybase, Focus, or any other product that
might be able to do what he wants.

What I am looking for is information (preferably from people who have done this
sort of thing) about products, prices, likes, dislikes, gotchas etc.  I don't
want just technical information either, anecdotal comments [It seems to take
too long for Excel to connect to the VAX database] are fine.

Thanks in advance!

-Bill
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