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From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: outgoing modems
Date: 3 Oct 92 19:02:49 PDT
Organization: Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego, CA

In article <1992Sep28.175109.18814@umbc3.umbc.edu>,
 themos@umbc5.umbc.edu (Mr. Themos Pentakalos; ADMIN-COMP) writes:
> He has absolutely no idea what system services to use to manipulate
> the outgoing modems. He doesn't even know where to look. Since I am
> supposed to "know" these things, I was asked to provide him with
> information... So..... hhmmm.....

There are no system services directly associated with modems.  

You use the $ASSIGN system service to assign a channel to the serial port,
and then use $QIO or $QIOW to issue reads, writes, manipulate or read modem
control signals, etc.  Instructions for using $QIO[W] with terminal devices
can be found in chapter 8 of the _I/O User's Reference, Part I_.  

As Dick Munroe suggested, you could get a copy of DECUS uucp and see how we do
it.  (We do it with $ASSIGN, $QIO, etc.) 

	--- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA
uucp 'g' protocol guru and release coordinator, VMSnet (DECUS uucp) W.G., and 
Chair, VMS Programming and Internals Working Group, U.S. DECUS VAX Systems SIG 
Internet:  jeh@cmkrnl.com, hanrahan@eisner.decus.org, or jeh@crash.cts.com
Uucp:  ...{crash,eisner,uunet}!cmkrnl!jeh
From: richard@hacgate.SCG.hac.com ("R.Shimamoto")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: DEC Catalogs, Booklets, and Pamphlets
Date: 30 Sep 92 18:35:30 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


 
 	In addition to being a major software company, DEC is also
 	one of the biggest publishers of technical manuals, catalogs,
 	booklets, and pamphlets.
 
 	The one thing I haven't seen on this LIST, IS a list of the
 	free and very informational catalogs, booklets, and pamphlets
 	one can get from DEC just for the asking.
 
 	So, here is my list.
 
 	To get them, just call DEC's Media and Documentation Center at
 	(508)351-4401, or if they don't know about the publication, then
 	call DECdirect at 1-800-DIGITAL.
 
 	Of course, this information is really for the unfortunate few
 	who cannot attend a DECUS Seminar or one the of many well supported
 	LUG mettings at which these publications are freely distributed.
 
 	I'm sure that this will not be a comprehensive list, so feel free
	to make your own contributions to this list.
 
 Name/Description		   Date of Pub. Order Number	Comments
 ----------------                   -----------  ------------   -------------
 
U.S. Software Price List	    06/29/92	EE-C0824-98	Big and Heavy
U.S. Systems/Services Price List    06/29/92	EE-C0823-98
Digital Systems and Options Catalog 07/00/92	EC-I1919-46	Big and heavy
Supplement to Digital Systems and   07/00/92	EC-I1985-46
    Options Catalog, Alpha-ready
    System Upgrades
The Cost of Network Ownership	    08/00/89    EJ-32929-42
Networks Buyer's Guide		     92-93      EC-I1866-42    Very Good Info
Digital Storage Technology Handbook     1989    EC-H0374-45/90A Very Good Info
DECnet/OSI Phase V  			1989    EK-PVTRN-BR
  Making the Transitions From Phase IV 
DECnet/OSI				1990    EC-H0660-42/90
  The Foundation for Open Networking
DECnet/OSI Transition			1991    EC-H0661-42
  Planning for Open Networking
The Networking Solutions Guidebook      1989    EB-32600-78/89
Digitals Wide Area Networking Solutions 1988    ED-32525-42/88
COHESION Environment for CASE:		1991    EC-H0986-48/91
Guide to Software			1990    EC-H0488-48/90
OPEN VMS Operating System Handbook      1992    EC-H1369-93/92
Open Systems Handbook:			1991    EC-H1089-48/91
  A Guide to Building Open Systems
A Primer to FDDI			1991    EC-H0750-42
The Workstations Source Book		1990    EC-J0917-51/90
NAS Application Catalog			1990    EC-J1036-58/90
The OPEN DECconnect System Guide        1990    ECH-0631-42
Software Documentation Products Catalog 90/91   EB-K2526-76/90
Network Printing: The Printserver Family 1992   EC-H1490-56/92
 
 
--
Richard Shimamoto				richard@hacgate.scg.hac.com
HUGHES Aircraft Co.
El Segundo Telecommunication Lab
 
 
 


Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: cdimick@javelin.sim.es.com (Clint Dimick)
Subject: Re: Nobroadcast
Reply-To: cdimick@javelin.sim.es.com
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 14:14:07 GMT

CAPTANSKI33@SNYCORVA.BITNET (CHRIS TANSKI) writes:

>I know this is an FAQ so please reply directly to the above address. I
>am having trouble setting nobroadcast for my acct. I type:

>$ SET BROADCAST=NONE

>However I still get phone calls and mail etc. How do I set it so I
>don't get anything? Thanks.
           ^^^^^^^^
>Chris Tanski

   Pack up, go home, and don't go back.
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 and sugar-coated cereals." - _Human_Societies_ 6thed.| speak for myself, thank
 Your average overpriced, opinionated college text.   | you. Wow: 801-288-0887!
From: leonard@telcom.arizona.edu (Aaron Leonard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: SET UIC (was: ACLs to Processes ?)
Date: 2 Oct 92 17:00:26 GMT
Reply-To: Leonard@Arizona.EDU
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona Telecommunications

In article <1992Oct1.220940.19106@wega.rz.uni-ulm.de>, S_REHFELD@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Rehfeld
Tobias) writes:
| 
| Is it possible to set an ACL to a process, that I have all rights to this
| process from another account?
| 
| eg I want to do things like SHOW PROCESS and STOP from a process owning
| USER_1 to a process owning USER_2.
| 
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|  Tobias Rehfeld

I think what you want here is SET UIC.  The help file text explaining why
you would want to use SET UIC is silly:

       Changes the user identification code (UIC) of your process. Use
       the SET UIC command to gain access to a restricted file, that is,
       a file contained in a directory whose protection restricts access
       to the owner of that directory.

(Of course, you would use READALL or BYPASS for this purpose.)

The only reason I know of to use SET UIC is what you are asking for:
i.e. the ability to refer to another process by process name instead of
PID.  As process names are only unique within a UIC group, if you are
in a different UIC group, you can't reference a process by name.  So
from time to time I'll use SET UIC just so I can do a STOP PROCESSNAME,
etc.

By the way, when done SET UIC back to what you were.  Otherwise 
access to your LNM$JOB table gets weirded out.

Aaron

Aaron Leonard (AL104), <Leonard@Arizona.EDU>
University of Arizona Network Operations, Tucson AZ 85721
|>   If it ain't broke, break it.
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: hallam@zeus02.desy.de (Phill Hallam-Baker)
Subject: Re: Gawk:  Like Ghostscript?
Reply-To: Hallam@zeus02.desy.de
Organization: Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Experiment ZEUS bei HERA
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 13:48:11 GMT

In article <921005161217.21c052a8@EQL.Caltech.Edu>, rankin@EQL.CALTECH.EDU (Pat
Rankin) writes:

|>> Is GAWK (GNU AWK) similar to GHOSTSCRIPT?  A description I saw for it was
|>> "text processing language".
|>
|>     GAWK is an implementation of the awk programming language, which is
|>oriented towards text processing but not limited to that.  GHOSTSCRIPT
|>is a PostScript (tm) interpretor; PostScript is also a text processing
|>language--not a file format--ordinarily implemented inside a printer's
|>hardware.  awk and PostScript are not even remotely related to each other.

Postscript is of course the old language FORTH with a few additions that allow
it to make pretty pictures on pices of paper.

AWK is a pattern scanning language which is useful for doing simple text
processing like taking tabular lists of data and reformatting them.

GAWK and Ghostscript are in fact related, they both come free from Free Software
Foundation (GNU).

--

Phill Hallam-Baker
From: munroe@dmc.com (Dick Munroe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: XMODEM from Vax/vms?
Date: 28 Sep 92 16:24:51 EDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Doyle, Munroe Consultants, Inc., Hudson, MA

In article <1992Sep28.033618.3412@memstvx1.memst.edu>, langston@memstvx1.memst.edu (Mark C. Langston) writes:
>   This may be a simple question, but I've spent all night combing various
> Archie's and sugested ftp's to no avail.  Does anyone know anywhere where I
> can get a copy of an .exe that will let me download from a vax/vms system
> using the XMODEM protocol?
> 
> I have rz and sz .exe's, but the term I'm using on my Mac only supports
> Kermit (which doesn't seem to want to work), and xmodem....and I'm in no
> position to spring for a new term program right now...(ah, the plight of
> a student..)
> 
> Thanks all,
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> +--------8<------Cut Here------8<------Cut Here------8<------Cut Here---------+
>   Mark C. Langston   |  "Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny."                 
>   Psychology Dept.   |  "Always listen to experts.  They'll tell you what can't
>   Memphis State U.   |     be done, and why.  Then do it."                      
>       "Pftph!"       |           -From the notebooks of Lazarus Long         

VMS versions of XMODEM have appeared on the following DECUS L&T CD/ROMs:

VS0114
VS0121
VS0126
VS0133

Languages are C, FORTRAN, etc.  If you can't find one of these online
somewhere, let me know and I'll mail you a copy.
-- 
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Doyle Munroe Consultants, Inc.		UUCP: ...uunet!thehulk!munroe
267 Cox St.				Office: (508) 568-1618
Hudson, Ma.				FAX: (508) 562-1133

GET CONNECTED!!! Send mail to info@dmc.com to find out about DMConnection.
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec
From: mikef@pacifier.rain.com (Mike Freeman)
Subject: Re: Looking for VMS FTP sites [ particularly zmodem ]
Organization: Pacifier BBS
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 06:42:39 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.204805.17561@eskimo.celestial.com> johnn@eskimo.celestial.com (John Navitsky) writes:
>
>I'm looking for some ftp sites that have good VAX/VMS support.  In particular
>I would like to get ahold of a copy of zmodem (sz/rz).  We are running VMS
>5.5 on our mVAX3900 if that is importaint.  

Try "oak.oakland.edu" in the pub/misc/vaxvms directory.  Get either zmodem17.arc or
rzsz9107.tlb; the latter has executables rz.exe and sz.exe but these only work with
the zmodem protocol.  zmodem17.arc contains C source from which programs
which handle xmodem and ymodem protocols can be built.

>
>Also, I'm interested if there are any PD C compilers floating around.
>

Try an anonymous ftp to "prep.ai.mit.edu"; you'll find GCC Version 1.40D or
thereabouts for Vax/VMS systems already compiled, I believe in the /gnu/
directory.

Good luck.

-- 
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301 N.E. 107th Street   |         or freeman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu
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Telephone (206)574-8221 |       Loose bits sink chips!
From: zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au (Paul Repacholi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Survival of LAVC across network modifications
Date: 30 Sep 92 18:35:14 GMT
Organization: Curtin University of Technology

In article <1992Sep30.102438.5311@nntphost.ciba-geigy.ch>, bnebga@ciba-geigy.ch (Gary Nebbett) writes:
...
> On a slightly different topic, are any descriptions (or even vaguer 
> hints) of the packet formats used by the Distributed Lock Manager
> and the MSCP available from anywhere? I would happily trade
> guesses if there is no reliable source of information. (I already
> have a rough idea of the LAVC and SCS formats, although more
> information on these packets would also be interesting).
> 
The MSCP packet are doced in the UDA-50 programers doc kit. Yeah, DEC canned it
within a few weeks of printing it... Can't imagine why. :-) If you need specific
info, I can look it up, but don't ask me to type in the whole manual...

~Paul
From: austin@cs.widener.edu (Jeff Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Utility to delete 0 block file
Date: 4 Oct 1992 22:08:34 -0400
Organization: Widener University CS Department, Chester PA
NNTP-Posting-Host: shirley.cs.widener.edu

	Is it me, or is this thread getting painfully more and more drawn out?

					Jeff
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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: themos@umbc5.umbc.edu (Mr. Themos Pentakalos; ADMIN-COMP)
Subject: Physically Moving a Network
Organization: Univ. of MD, Baltimore County
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 13:53:43 GMT

Hey everyone.

(I have a summary of comments on IO/EXPRESS, if anyone's interested!)

My department will be moving to another building in a few months
and it's time to start planning. I was wondering if anyone out there
has gone through a move and has documented the steps required.
I have started making my list and I find that every minute that
goes by, new issues come up in my head.

We will have to move the following equipement:
VAXes
Tape Drives
ROLM lines
DCM racks
Modem lines
Terminal Servers

	The only thing we have at the other building is the
thick-net already installed, as well as the data-phone wires.

	I know this is a topic which can be discussed for days,
so I am simply looking for any comments from your previous
experiences.

	Thank you very much once again. Please answer directly to:

themos@umbc5.umbc.edu

	Themos

Xref: sparky comp.os.vms:16014 vmsnet.misc:890
From: mahan@TGV.COM (Patrick L. Mahan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: gif viewer for decwindows session
Date: 1 Oct 92 22:42:15 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

In article <1992Oct1.122249.1002@beckman.com> you write:
#
#I'd like to be able to view gif files from a pc using dwdosx86.  So far I've
#found xgif on public.tgv.com, but it stack dumps with an X error event, and I'd
#like one that works for vms.  The xgif.h file make this one appear to be unix
#oriented (even though it's a vms executable) and the man states it wants
#8plane, and the best I've been able to get my decw$terminal session to accept
#is 4.  Has anyone a suggested gif viewer for this type of configuration, a fix
#for xgif, or another alternative I might try (like a gif-ddif converter maybe)?
#

Why not obtain XV from PUBLIC.TGV.COM under [.mahan].  It should handle 
servers of depths different from 8.

--
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
From: mcdonald@dallas.sil.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Looking for VT Terminal Emulation Software
Date: 28 Sep 92 11:12:35 CST
Organization: Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas Center

In article <1992Sep25.195449.19303@CERIS.Purdue.EDU>, collier@CERIS.Purdue.EDU (Dick Collier) writes:
> From article <01GP5UWFRJPU0020I5@utrcgw.utc.com>, by DYERFDF@hsdwl.utc.com ("Frank  Dyer x9568 ..Electrical Design", Chip):
>> 
>> Netters:
>> 
>>    I am looking for a *GOOD* VT3xx (VT2xx last choice) shareware or public
>>    domain terminal emulation package (DOS).  I specifically want one that 
>>    can co-exist with PathWorks (DOS-VMS).
>> 
>>    I am looking for recommendations/reviews, and how to obtain these
>>    packages - Via FTP would be best.   Platform: DOS 5.0 & VAX VMS A5.5.
> 
> Me too!  Please summarize responses for the net (or if noone else
> cares, e-mail a copy of the responses you get to me).
> 
What's wrong with SETHOST that comes with pathworks?  It provides VT320
emulation and keyboard re-mapping facilities - a pretty good deal.
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From: DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU (Dan Wing)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Disk Defrag & System Disk
Date: 2 Oct 92 19:16:16 GMT
Organization: The Internet

Jim Feldhouse, <cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!ohstpy!miavx1
!miavx3.mid.muohio.edu!miavx3.mid.muohio.edu!news@UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU>, writes:

>I use the product PerfectDisk from Raxco to defrag various disks
>on mine machines.  Can anyone comment on what they see as the best
>way to defrag a system disk.  The problem being so many files are
>open and thus don't get optimized, I assume.
>
>I am hoping for something simplier thant reboot minimum startup
>and run defrag then.  Or if that is not a good solution then another.

Booting minimum will cause fewer files to be open, but there still will
be a few files open.

The 'best' way would be a SA backup and restore.

-Dan Wing, DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU or WING_D@UCOLMCC.BITNET (DGW11)
 Systems Programmer, University Hospital, Denver

(Jim, please include your return address in future postings.  The mess at the 
top is all that I got from the headers....)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: marshall@nebula.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Bob Marshall)
Subject: Re: assigning lta device numbers
Reply-To: marshall@nebula.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 15:18:36 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.161815.66@wronz.org.nz>, trounson@wronz.org.nz writes:
>We are about to install DECprint Printing Services for VMS 4.1. The release
>notes mention that it is important to assign high LTA device numbers for
>printers on decservers. Why? Ours are assigned from LTA1-LTA9 and we
>are loath to change them, especially as we haven't had any problems with the
>current assignments.

The only think I can think of is that if you use low numbers like LTA1-LTA9
it's possible for a user to grab one of those numbers in between the time
you start LAT and the time you assign the LAT ports for the printers. As
soon as LAT starts in SYSTARTUP, it's likely that one of those users out
there banging on their keyboard waiting for the system to come back up
will make a successful connection to LTA1: (he won't be able to log in
yet, of course, but he will have the device LTA1: tied up). So, I agree
with DEC here that you should use "high" numbers, at least greater than 10.

=============================================================================
Bob Marshall                     \\     "It ain't age
Lockheed Missiles & Space Co.     \\     That makes me look this way
Sunnyvale, CA                      \\    It ain't the years, boys,
marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com\\   It's the miles"
"I tell the truth 'cept when I lie"  \\     - Chris LeDoux
=============================================================================
From: ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Utility to delete 0 block file
Date: 27 Sep 92 09:37:16 -0700
Reply-To: EWILTS@GALAXY.GOV.BC.CA
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

In article <1992Sep26.071856.1033@nuscc.nus.sg>, edbis@solomon.technet.sg (Koh Eng San) writes:
> 
> I am looking for a file utility that deletes 0 block file. Is such a utility
> available?

Deleting a single 0 block file is easy, just use the delete command.  I assume
that you have a bunch of 0 block files in a directory that you want to delete. 
In this case, do the following:
	$ dir/sel=siz=max=0/out=zeroblock.lis/nohead/notrail
	step through each file name in list and delete
It's times like this when DEC should have have completed the DELETE
implementation to include the qualifiers that DIRECTORY has.

-- 

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EWilts@Galaxy.Gov.BC.CA   |   Ed.Wilts@BCSystems.Gov.BC.CA   |   (604) 389-3430
From: leichter@lrw.com (Jerry Leichter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: MAIL$INIT Logical name doesn't work.
Date: 26 Sep 92 02:34:36 GMT
Organization: The Internet


	> MAIL allows only DEFINE/KEY commands in the MAIL$INIT file. 
	> 
	> -- --
	>  Dave C.                          cantor@star.enet.dec.com
	>  Digital Equipment Corp., Nashua, NH  03062, USA

	Well then, is it possible to permanently SET TRANSPORT ? It is rather
	annoying to do each time after entering MAIL...

It IS set permanently!  Try NOT typing the command the next time you go into
MAIL - things should work quite nicely.  (In fact, try SHOW TRANSPORT, or even
SHOW ALL - they'll show you the transport you have set.  Since SET TRANSPORT
is officially undocumented, SHOW TRANSPORT is undocumented and SHOW ALL says
nothing if you don't have a default transport set - but once you've set it,
SHOW ALL will talk about it.)
							-- Jerry
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: cantor@star.enet.dec.com (Dave Cantor)
Subject: Re: MAIL$INIT Logical name doesn't work.
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 02:01:53 GMT



In article <1a7ritINN718@gap.caltech.edu>, carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes...
>In article <1992Sep23.115440.396@dct.ac.uk>, eesb2mm@dct.ac.uk writes:
>=$ define/nolog MAIL$INIT EES:[B2.MM.MBOX]INTERNET.INI
>=$ define /user sys$command sys$input
>=$ mail
>=$ exit
>=
>=and INTERNET.INI contains :
>=
>=set transport cbs%uk.ac.nsfnet-relay::
>=define /key/terminate kp1 "SEND/NOTRANSPORT"
>=
>=MAIL, however, rejects ANY commands in the file pointed to by MAIL$INIT
> 
>You could, of course, simply have the DCL procedure be:
> 
>	$ MAIL
>	set transport cbs%uk.ac.nsfnet-relay::
>	exit
>	$ define/nolog MAIL$INIT EES:[B2.MM.MBOX]INTERNET.INI
>	$ define /user sys$command sys$input
>	$ mail
>	$ exit
> 
>and EES:[B2.MM.MBOX]INTERNET.INI contain:
> 
>	define /key/terminate kp1 "SEND/NOTRANSPORT"

The DEFINE statement for MAIL$INIT is backwards.  If you want to 
read from the command terminal rather than the command file, you
direct SYS$INPUT to be SYS$COMMAND, thus:

       $ define/user sys$input sys$command
or
       $ assign/user sys$command sys$input

Also, as has been pointed out by others (sorry, I don't have time to go back
and find all the references), the MAIL> SET TRANSPORT need be done only once;
the setting is permanent.

-- --
 Dave C.                          cantor@star.enet.dec.com
 Digital Equipment Corp., Nashua, NH  03062, USA
  The views expressed herein are my own, except where attributed to 
  someone else.  They are neither the opinion of, nor the responsibility 
  of, Digital Equipment Corporation.
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: e_alsberg@csc32.enet.dec.com (Ed Alsberg)
Subject: Re: Utility to delete 0 block file
Reply-To: e_alsberg@csc32.enet.dec.com (Ed Alsberg)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Colorado
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 20:32:04 GMT


In article <1992Sep26.071856.1033@nuscc.nus.sg>, edbis@solomon.technet.sg 
(Koh Eng San) writes:
|>
|>Hi there,
|>
|>I am looking for a file utility that deletes 0 block file. Is such a utility
|>available?
|>
|>Cheers.
|>

I have no problem deleting a 0 block file:
$ CREATE A.A
^Z
$ DIR/SIZ A.A


Directory DISK1:[E_ALSBERG]

A.A;1                     0

$ DELETE A.A;1
$ 
no errors.

Is this some wierd file you have or what?
Perhaps an $ ANALY/DISK/NOREPAIR might give some insight as to
what the file is.

/Ed


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