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From: dryfo001@deneb.mc.duke.edu (James D Dryfoos)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Using PC-NFS with UCX 2.0 NFS server.  Anyone doing it?
Date: 28 Jan 93 21:41:48 GMT
Reply-To: dryfo001@deneb.mc.duke.edu
Organization: Duke University Medical Center


Anyone using PC-NFS with UCX 2.0 NFS server?
If so, I could use some help, particularly with the Proxies.
Looks like connections from PC-NFS always come in as uid=-2 and gid=-2.
We are not using a pcnfsd server which may be the reason.
I have create a proxy for -2 -2 and that takes, but when I go to
mount the exported drive it does not work.  I do not know if this is because
of the -2-2 or something else?

--Jim


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From: MAHENDRA@Meena.CC.URegina.CA (A. Mahendra Rajah)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Postscript Printing woes...
Keywords: LPS20 Postscript
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:58:07 GMT
Organization: University of Regina, Regina, Sask., Canada
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

Hello:

    I hope someone in netland can provide some insight into this
    printing problem.

    My boss retrieved some postscript files from an MVS site, which he
    wanted me to print on our LPS20 laser printer. But, when I tried it
    with the following command

        $ Print/Notify/Queue=PRT$LPS20A_PS-
          /Param=(Sides=2, Page_Orient=PORTTRAIT, Number_UP=1) 'Filename'

    I get the following error after the job has started:

    %LPS-W-UNDEF, undefined: Name not known - offending command is letter

    I have to admit that I know very little postscript programming, but
    the above message seemed to indicate that the postscript interpretor
    on the LPS20 does not understand the command 'letter'. Since I
    couldn't correct the error (for lack of PS programming experience),
    I tried to view the file using the following command

        $ VIEW/FORMAT=PS/INTERFACE=DECWINDOWS

    on the same VAXstation that drives the LPS20 printer, and I could
    see the entire file with no complaints! The file also prints when
    COPYed to a slave NEC 290 laser printer off of a PC!

    So, my questions are:

    1)  why the LPS20 so picky?
    2)  What happened to the offending command with the CDA VIEWER or
        the NEC 290 laser printer? Did they just 'ignore' it?
    3)  Most importantly, how can I convince the LPS20 to print these
        files (there are about 8 of them!) before my boss get all upset?

    Relevant data: VMS 5.4-2, LPS 4.1

    Thanks for any input. I am taking 2 Postscript books home with me
    tonight, and you can bet what my bed time reading is going to be!
    :-)
        
    -- mahendra (A. Mahendra Rajah :: Mahendra @ Meena.CC.URegina.CA)
       System Manager, Dept of Computing Services, University of Regina,
       Regina, Sask., Canada.
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: lionel@quark.enet.dec.com (Steve Lionel)
Subject: Re: Recursion in FORTRAN
Reply-To: lionel@quark.enet.dec.com (Steve Lionel)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua NH
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:34:47 GMT


In article <1993Jan22.085253@mccall.com>, tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot) writes:
|>(Steve Lionel) writes:
|>>Relax.  The default behavior hasn't changed.   The compiler sort of gives you
|>>a free "SAVE" if it can't determine that you always store a variable before
|>>using it.  But if you use /RECURSIVE, then variables not explicitly SAVEd
|>>won't be.  Also, /RECURSIVE will eliminate guaranteed initialization to zero;
|>>I've heard one customer consider this a feature, so as to ferret out hidden
|>>bugs. 
|>
|>Thanks, I was worried. I've also got code that counts on guaranteed
|>initialization. I hadn't thought of that. So as long as I don't use /RECURSIVE,
|>I should be OK, right?
|>

Right on VAX and Alpha AXP, but not on some other platforms, so in the
interest of portability and correctness, put those initializations in!
--

Steve Lionel                    lionel@quark.enet.dec.com
SDT Languages Group
Digital Equipment Corporation
110 Spit Brook Road
Nashua, NH 03062
From: sysbrc@loki.albany.edu (Brian Cuttler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: SENDing an entire MAIL FOLDER ?
Date: 26 Jan 93 19:19:20 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Albany

Mark,

Is the user on the same cluster or even the same network?  If so you
should be able to "file" the mail in the other user's mail folder
(if you have write access to it).

						Brian

-- 
 Brian R Cuttler                 |        bitnet:    sysbrc@albnyvms
 Senior System Programmer        |        internet:  sysbrc@uacsc1.albany.edu
 State Univ of NY at Albany      |        phone:     518-442-3906
                                 |        fax:       518-442-3697
From: Carpenter@Fwva.Saic.Com (Apprentice Wizard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Problem with LaserJet 4M attached via terminal server
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:12:59 GMT
Organization: Science Applications Int'l, Corp. - Computer systems operation

DALEP@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu (Dale Plummer) writes:
>I am having a problem with a HP LaserJet 4 M printer connected to
>a DECserver 200 terminal server.  The system is a VAXstation 3100
>running VMS v5.3.  Using the set up described below, I can print
 
 
These settings work fine for my HP 4 and postscript files:
 
Terminal: _LTA113:    Device_Type: FT4           Owner: SYMBIONT_0002
                                              Username: SYSTEM
 
   Input:   9600      LFfill:  0      Width: 240      Parity: None
   Output:  9600      CRfill:  0      Page:   66      
 
Terminal Characteristics:
   Interactive        Echo               Type_ahead         No Escape
   Hostsync           TTsync             Lowercase          Tab
   Wrap               Scope              No Remote          Eightbit
   No Broadcast       No Readsync        No Form            Fulldup
   No Modem           No Local_echo      No Autobaud        No Hangup
   No Brdcstmbx       No DMA             No Altypeahd       No Set_speed
   Line Editing       Insert editing     No Fallback        No Dialup
   No Secure server   No Disconnect      Pasthru            No Syspassword
   No SIXEL Graphics  No Soft Characters No Printer Port    Numeric Keypad
   ANSI_CRT           No Regis           No Block_mode      Advanced_video
   No Edit_mode       DEC_CRT            DEC_CRT2           DEC_CRT3
   No DEC_CRT4
 
Device spooled to _LEANVA$DUA0:
 
Terminal queue OPENLASER, on LEANVA::LTA113:, mounted form DEFAULT
<HP 4 Laser Printer Paul Van Doren's Office>
    /BASE_PRIORITY=4 /BLOCK_LIMIT=(1,500) /DEFAULT=(FLAG=ONE,FORM=DEFAULT) 
    Lowercase /OWNER=[SYSTEM] /PROCESSOR=LATSYM /PROTECTION=(S:RWED,O:RWED,G:RW,
    W:RW)
 
Port 2:  (Remote)
 
Character Size:            8           Input Speed:       19200
Flow Control:            XON           Output Speed:      19200
Parity:                 None
 
Access:               Remote           Local Switch:       None
Backwards Switch:       None           Name:             PORT_2
Break:                 Local           Session Limit:         4
Forwards Switch:          ^F           Type:               Ansi
 
Preferred Service: None
 
Authorized Groups:   0- 33
(Current)  Groups:   0- 33
 
Enabled Characteristics:
 
Broadcast,  Input Flow Control,  Loss Notification,  Message Codes,
Output Flow Control,  Verification
 
=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=
Scott Carpenter                              
VAX Systems Manager                  Ya dina' tell 'im how long it'd really
SAIC Falls Church, VA                take ta fix it did ya'?
CARPENTER@FWVA.SAIC.COM                              M. Scott, CAPT, SUFP
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From: chen@speed.uucp (Lilei Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Problems with EXABYTE tape drive
Keywords: EXABYTE
Date: 22 Jan 93 20:09:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: das.1993Jan22.200938.22220
Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University

On our site we use EXABYTE tape drive for backup purpose.  But we
can not get more than 500MB on a 112M tape which is supposed to be
able to hold more than 2GB according to the specification.  We have
about five drives and all behave the same way.  We even tried it on
a PC with an ADAPTEC SCSI controler, but the result is the same.
EXABYTE claimed that they don't know anything about the possible
cause.  So I am asking the net if anyone has encountered similar
problems with EXABYTE tape drive and/or knows its possible cause.
Thanks.

Jim (xue@cfaft5.harvard.edu)
From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Mystic construction
Date: 28 Jan 93 11:45:49 GMT
Organization: St. Peter's College, US

In article <1993Jan27.085300.24933@ifi.unizh.ch>, mueller@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Eric Mueller) writes:
> Can someone explain me, what this is, how it works, where I can find more
> information about it and if there are other similar constructions
> that one can use. I find this very usefull.

  Various useful things are stored in the system address space. Many are
readable by unprivileged users, while others must be accessed from an inner
access mode. By defining a symbol containing a system space address and
passing it to the F$FA0 lexical, you can interrogate these addresses and
format them appropriately.

  The best reference for these locations is the VMS Internals and Data
Structures Manual and the VMS listings kit. You can also poke around in SDA
after doing a READ SYS$SYSTEM:SYS to load SYS.STB.

  Note that accessing these items by address rather than by name can tie
you to a specific version of VMS - some of them move when things are re-
linked.

	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
From: CALIFF@PASCAL.ACM.ORG
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: VMS Product Registrar - how to contact?
Date: 22 Jan 93 21:01:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

I'm starting to work on building a VMSINSTAL kit for my company's product.
We got a copy of the VMS Developer's Guide to VMSINSTAL which "recommends"
that we register a facility code and logical name prefix with the "VMS
Product Registrar".  The phone number for the contact has been disconnected,
and the new number referenced in the message started me on chain of people
who had no idea what I was talking about.  I finally ended up talking to
someone who said she would try to track the number down and call me right
back.  Since then she has been out of the office every time I've called.

Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks in advance,

Mike Califf
califf@acm.org             (817) 776-5695


Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: simon@sun1x.actc.res.utc.com (Sluggo)
Subject: Re: operator accounts
Organization: United Technologies Research Center
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:06:11 GMT

NEVER,NEVER,NEVER give a user (especially if they like to play) SETPRV.

You are asking for headaches.

Sluggo

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From: mzagsaa@v4.cgu.mcc.ac.uk (Tony Arnold)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: DECwrite
Date: 22 Jan 93 17:13:32 GMT
Reply-To: A.C.Arnold@mcc.ac.uk
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre


In article <1jjo91INNeor@mserv1.dl.ac.uk>, ufe@dlva.dl.ac.uk writes:
|>
|>How do I go about getting DECwrite to display on UNIX workstations ?
|>
|>DECwrite is installed with the British/English option and when an attempt
|>is made to run it to an X-server on a UNIX box comes back with
|>
|>DECW$SYSTEM_DEFAULTS:WRITE$UI.UID not found
|>
|>I believe this is because it queries the server for the resource
|>*xnlLanguage and expects to get en_GB back.

You are quite correct. It asks the server what language to use and Unix
servers tend not to support this.
 
|>
|>Has anyone got it to work ? - i've tried SUN and SG boxes with no
|>success.

I run DECwindows Motif V1.1. Under that, I start up the session manager
to display on the remote system, use the Options menu to customise the
language to British English and then start up DECwrite. This has worked for
me when running on an HP-UX system.

|>
|>Cheers,
|>	Mark
|>========================================================================
|>Mark Enderby			   JANET - ENDERBY@UK.AC.DARESBURY
|>Systems Manager		  	   EARN/Bitnet - ENDERBY@DARESBURY.AC.UK
|>SERC Daresbury Laboratory
|>Keckwick Lane						
|>Daresbury
|>Warrington	tel:   0925-603353
|>WA4 4AD		Int:+44-925-603353
|>UK		fax:   0925-603174
|>

Tony Arnold,
Manchester Computing Centre,
University of Manchester,
England.
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: whd0675@cs.rit.edu (Walter H Dick, III)
Subject: VAXC divide problems (V3.2)
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 06:03:11 GMT

A statement in VAXC such as:

   i = (x + 511) / 512;

generates ten or so instructions.  Is there anyway to get it to generate:

   ADDL3  #511,x,R0
   DIVL3  R0,#512,i

Thanks in advance!

Walter Dick
whd0675@cs.rit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: tihor@acf3.NYU.EDU (Stephen Tihor)
Subject: Re: 3rd party CD-ROM on VAXstation
Organization: New York University
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:07:00 GMT

INtersting.  the DOS folks keep telling me tht they can get "the good ones"
for under $300 street prices.
From: DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU (Dan Wing)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: VAXELN --> AXP??
Date: 22 Jan 93 16:27:56 GMT
Organization: The Internet

Brad Price, price@phepds.dnet.nasa.gov, writes:

>Does anybody know if DEC is porting VAXELN to AXP? And if so, what's the
>time frame?

See Digital News & Review, January 4, 1993, page 42, where William Denner, DEC 
VP of Alpha and VAX Systems, is quoted as saying that DEC is investing more 
time into Alpha's real-time OS than they ever invested into the VAXes real-time
OS.

Doesn't sound like a port to me....

-Dan Wing, dwing@uh01.colorado.edu or wing_d@ucolmcc.bitnet (DGW11)
 Systems Administrator, University Hospital, Denver
From: brennan@tango.cchs.su.oz.au (Luke Brennan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Operator "Grunt" duties
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:50:05 GMT
Organization: Cumberland College of Health Sciences

In article <01GTXNL9NEGI8WW08S@MMC.BITNET>, SKELTON@MMC.BITNET (Hank Skelton) writes:
	[...]
>>         How can an operator take his job seriously if he is locked inside
>> some captive command procedure flopping around like a fish out of water?
> 
> At some installations, computer operators are de facto system managers.

	at *all* the sites I've worked at, ranging from Federal Govt
	systems to a *large* State Govt site, Operators were *expected*
	to know more than just how to feed paper into a printer..

	I was *shocked* when I got to another site and the Ops Supervisor
	knew virtually NOTHING about the O/S or hardware.. or damn near
	anything.

	and here's Carl upset about *users* !!

	Sites that I've managed have always had ops people who are EXPECTED
	to know and/or learn a GREAT deal..

> Computer operator is usually an entry-level position; you don't really know
> much about the people you hire so you're careful about the privileges you
> give them.  Once an operator has demonstrated trustworthiness and capability
> though, that operator should be allowed to grow in the job.  Some

	yep. Couldn't agree more.

> supervisors may think operators are likely to start hacking around in the
> system if they're given more privileges.  The "full privs" you want can be
> dangerous if you don't have system management training or experience, but
> that training and experience can be gained in increments on the job.  After
> all, most of us started out on the bottom rung of the ladder.

	exactly..  except of course for those born with a photographic
	memory AND an encyclopaedic knowledge of Unix, VMS, Novell, OS/2,
	hardware troubleshooting, networking, etc from the moment they
	were born and never asked a dumb question or made a mistake :-)

	I need a couple of those for ops here... :-}
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From: dragon@NSCVAX.PRINCETON.EDU (Mighty Firebreather)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Computing policy
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:19:10 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


	Does your organization have a "computing policy"?  What I mean by
that is, a policy that prescribes either what hardware and software your
organization will use, or how the decision on what to purchase and use will
be made. 

	My department is considering adopting such a policy and we'd like 
to know what experience others have had.

	What we hope to accomplish:
With N users having N+X different machines, and M different operating 
systems, word processing packages, spreadsheets, technical graphics
packages, symbolic mathmatics packages, etc. support is much more difficult
than it needs to be. 

	By specifying one or a very limited number of different machines, 
we hope to make maintenance and the stocking of spares more manageable.

	By specifying one word processing package, one spreadsheet, etc.
we hope to facilitate the interchange of data among users and minimize the 
costs of training and technical support.

	I'd appreciate any comments you would care to share with me.  I do
read this list but I'd suggest that you reply by mail since the subject is
not really on topic.

	TIA


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*                                                                       *
*                        Here, there be dragons!                        *
*                      dragon@nscvax.princeton.edu                      *
*                                                                       *
*                                                Richard B. Gilbert     *
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From: david@ittpub.nl (David P. Morgan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: C problem
Date: 22 Jan 93 15:23:06 WET+0100
Organization: ITT Publitec R+D BV, Amsterdam

In article <9301201500.AA20662@anon.penet.fi>, an6034@anon.penet.FI writes:

Why the anonymity ?

> X-Anon-To: INFO-VAX@SRI.COM
> 
> Hi VAX/VMS experts.
> 
> I have a very simple C question.  I have a sample C program that compiles and
> runs fine in a Borland C++ environment.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Attached is the source and a sethost log of my compile.
> 
> Please help a student with out a clue?
> 
> ********************************************************************************
> cc example_1.c
> 	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.
> 
> %CC-I-SUMMARY, Completed with 0 error(s), 1 warning(s), and
> 		0 informational messages.
> 		At line number 29 in $DISK:EXAMPLE_1.C;24.

Is that an error ? It's a WARNING, like -W- and 1 warning(s) might suggest.
Jeez, the compiler output couldn't be clearer.
You got an object file so go ahead and link and run the thing. Next time
change the main declaration to int (as the "error" message might suggest) or
omit it (it defaults to int). The reason main should be declared int is so
that it can pass an exit status back to DCL. And use your name.

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From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: TALK command problem
Date: 25 Jan 1993 23:27:14 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 <01GTWUKZCBNK000N1O@MSUS1.MSUS.EDU>, TS117%BSU.DECNET@MSUS1.BITNET
(Tandi Sunarto) writes:
>There is a facility in my school's computer system called TALK.
>It's a facility to call somebody anuwhere in the network system.
>I tried to call a friend of mine, but I got an error message :
>
>   $ TALK <username@address>
>
>   Can't open a connection to <address>
>   Domain service : no address found for host-name.
>
>This is strange to me, since I have no problem at all everytime
>I send a mail to him, which means I could reach him.
>I am calling from Bemidji State Univ., MN and my friend is at 
>University of Kentucky.
>
>I'd really appreciate any help I can get.

First, I'm e-mailing Tandi my guide on how to ask questions of
info-vax/comp.os.vms. Second, the most likely reason for the problem described
is that the machine in question is not actually on the internet (of course,
there's no way for me to test that hypothesis, since Tandi apparently concluded
that the host in question *COULDN'T POSSIBLY* have anything to do with his
problem, DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE ERROR MESSAGE SPECIFICALLY POINTED OUT THAT
THERE WAS A PROBLEM WITH THAT HOST NAME.  Please, *THINK* before you post), but
that an MX record exists for it, pointing to some other machine as a mail
exchanger.  Here's how it works:

Suppose you've got a machine, HOST.REMOTE, that's not directly connected to the
internet, but there's another machine, HOST.INTERMEDIATE, that *IS* on the
INTERnet that can somehow get mail to HOST.REMOTE.  Then instead of having an
address record in the nameservers, HOST.REMOTE will have an MX record there. 
That record tells your host, "If you want to send mail to HOST.REMOTE, send it
to HOST.INTERMEDIATE, which will then forward the mail for you.  Thus you can
send mail to HOST.REMOTE, even though you can't talk directly with it.
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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.