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From: harttree@VAX1.ELON.EDU ("Matt Harttree, Academic Computing")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: thanks and a couple of questions.
Date: 2 Sep 92 20:10:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: vax1.00960062.A2E04480.5616
Organization: The Internet

Thanks to all who responded to the question about VMSINSTAL!

I have a few perplexing questions (AGAIN!) and was wondering.


I love the emacs and it's nicer approach but I cant seem to get it to work
(the cursor keys are being printed as ABCD [escape equiv])

I like EVE but on our system it is slow to load and can be bulky if
you start to customize.

Suggestions for good VMS editors available by FTP???


Thanks,
Matt

  "Where all the programs are above average and the VAXes are good looking."
                            Matthew Harttree       
			   HARTTREE@VAX1.ELON.EDU
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From: schuler@admin.usask.ca ()
Subject: Re: Submitting Jobs for Last Day of Month
Reply-To: schuler@admin.usask.ca ()
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:31:14 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.102008.28397@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>, jmacdonald@mta.ca writes:
|>Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
|>Path: access.usask.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!ubc-cs!destroyer!caen!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!torn!csd.unb.ca!mta.ca!JMACDONALD
|>From: jmacdonald@mta.ca
|>Subject: Submitting Jobs for Last Day of Month
|>Message-ID: <1992Aug25.102008.28397@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
|>Sender: news@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca
|>Reply-To: jmacdonald@mta.ca
|>Organization: Mount Allison U, Sackville, N.B. Canada 
|>Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 10:20:08 GMT
|>Lines: 9
|>
|>I am wondering if anyone has a nifty way to have jobs submit themselves for the
|>last day of the month.  Thank-you.
|>
|>Jane MacDonald (jmacdonald@mta.ca)
|>Jr. Systems Programmer
|>Computing Services
|>Mount Allison University
|>Sackville, New Brunswick
|>Canada
|>

I use the following to calculate the last day of the current month.  Basically
it just calculates the first day of the next month and then subtracts one day.

The following procedure calculates the last day of the month and writes it
out.

$ MONTHS = "JAN|FEB|MAR|APR|MAY|JUN|JUL|AUG|SEP|OCT|NOV|DEC"
$ YEAR = F$CVTIME("","COMPARISON","YEAR")
$ NEXT_MONTH = F$ELEMENT(F$CVTIME("","COMPARISON","MONTH"),"|",MONTHS)
$ IF NEXT_MONTH .EQS. "|"
$ THEN
$    NEXT_MONTH = "JAN"
$    YEAR = YEAR + 1
$ ENDIF
$ LAST_DAY_THIS_MONTH = F$CVTIME("01-''NEXT_MONTH'-''YEAR'-1-")
$ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT LAST_DAY_THIS_MONTH

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Rodney Schuler				Internet: schuler@admin.usask.ca
Programmer/Analyst			Phone: (306) 966-4862
Computing Services			University of Saskatchewan
From: tsd72@gz.alcbel.be (Werner Lemaire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: CPU usage monitor
Date: 25 Aug 92 14:48:26 GMT


Hello All,

I am looking for a tool that monitors the CPU usage of my VAX. It should give
an alarm when there is a process that takes more than a given percentage of the
CPU.
Does anyone know about such a tool? Please e-mail your answers to me, I will
post a summary afterwards.

Thanks in advance.

Werner.

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From: winston@ssrl01.slac.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: RE:Will lmf kill alpha???
Date: 3 Sep 92 20:05:01 GMT
Organization: SSRL, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lab

In article <9209030436.AA11396@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, ALLIN1V2@WR-HITS.AF.MIL
("Allin1v2") writes:

>I agree that DEC needs to get on the Ball in sending out PAKs. There has been
>many times I was installing something and find out that the old PAK is no good
>and DEC forgot to send me a new one.  I found the Temp. Service PAK service on 
>DSNLink other day ago and figure that that should help, get a TSP a little
>quicker than calling CSC and waiting ( and waiting and waiting) for them to
>call back with the PAK they should have sent in the first place.  

>I haven't had a chance to use DSNLinks TSP service yet, but figure it should
>help and others might not be aware of it (like I wasn't)

---

I tried this the other day, without success.  I didn't save the message DSNlink
sent me back, but it said, approximately, that they were no longer doing the
TSP, and if you needed a PAK you should get in touch with a person.  (I can't
remember whether this was your local sales rep.)

In brief, don't count on DSN-TSP for a last-minute rescue if you don't have
the PAKs you need for an upgrade.

-- Alan

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 Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Stanford, California 415/926-3056
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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney)
Subject: Export restrictions
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 16:03:32 GMT
Organization: Computer Aided Design Lab, U. of Maryland College Park
Reply-To: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu

Is Slovenia on an export-restrictions list these days? 


                 Support U.N. military force against Serbia

  -- >                  SYSMGR@CADLAB.ENG.UMD.EDU                        < --
From: DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU (Dan Wing)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: BookReader
Date: 3 Sep 92 15:20:57 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Harry Flowers, FLOWERS@MEMSTVX1.MEMST.EDU, writes:

>In article <gurman.715448263@umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov>, gurman@umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov
> (Joseph B. Gurman) writes:
>>
[...]
>>
>> and you should be able to read any docs on the CD's, since you will have
>> licensed BOOKBROWSER. (And who said LMF was hard?)
>
>*should* is the operative word.  I tried reading some of the DECimage scan
>software docs, and the BOOKBROWSER license wasn't sufficient... I actually
>had to load the IMAGE-SCAN license just to read the docs.  Unfortunately,
>consistency is not one of DEC's strong points.  So, beware of non-conformant
>docs that won't work with a BOOKBROWSER license.

Can anyone explain why DEC wants a license for the on-line docs?  Now, I
can understand requiring a license for the product to run on your machine,
but it is interesting to read the docs, and decide that this product would
really be useful, and then, maybe, purchase it!

-Dan Wing, DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU or WING_D@UCOLMCC.BITNET (DGW11)
 Systems Programmer, University Hospital, Denver
From: kent@loral.cts.com (Kent Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,vmsnet.sources.d,vmsnet.admin
Subject: Wanted: program that will simulate unix on vms
Date: 27 Aug 92 01:14:04 GMT
Organization: Loral Instrumentation

I have just been put on a VMS project and being a unix programmer all
my life, I was wondering if there are any public domain or free software
that will allow me to simulate unix commands on a vms OS.  If you know
of such a program and where I can get it.  Please send me email or
leave a reply on the net.  

Thanks in advance.

Kent Yang

Please repond to: kent@loral.cts.com

Wed Aug 26 18:02:54 PDT 1992
From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: help needed with fixing a R80 disk drive
Date: 2 Sep 92 00:03:11 GMT
Organization: St. Peter's College, US

In article <1992Sep1.132304.23116@lut.ac.uk>, J.A.Jones@lut.ac.uk (Jeff Jones) writes:
> So does anybody out there know what the code "53" means ?
> Is the fault fixable ?

  It's "Personality module microsequencer error" with the most likely FRU's
being:

  Personality Module, Microprocessor Module, 40-pin data cable on personality
module.

> Better still does anybody have a list of all the possible error codes ?

  Yup, but I'm not typing it in from the fiche 8-). If you have more questions,
just ask.

	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: chad@lilly.com (Chad Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: POP server for VMS
Date: 26 Aug 92 20:36:24 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: Eli Lilly and Company


	Who makes a good POP (post office protocol?) mail server for
a VAX running VMS?  I've got a *bunch* of people who would
like to use Eudora for the Macintosh, but it requires a POP
server.  I've only heard of POP servers for u**x machines.
Any ideas would be appreciated.

/-----------------------\------------------------------\
| Chad Miller            \ Lilly Research Laboratories | 
| Systems Manager/Analyst \ 2001 West Main St. MS GL18 |  
| Internet: chad@lilly.com \ Greenfield, Indiana 46140 | 
| miller@nuacc.acns.nwu.edu \ (317)277-4107 Fax: -4962 |
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From: RABINOWITZ@bear.com (Ari Rabinowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Too many queues spoil the disk?
Summary: Our JBCSYSQUE.DAT disk is getting corrupted by the Job Controller
Keywords: queues JBCSYSQUE disk corruption
Date: 26 Aug 92 17:46:34 GMT
Organization: Bear Stearns & Co.
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20

Hi,

As the title says, we seem to be having a problem caused by too many
queues.  The disk which holds the JBCSYSQUE.DAT file, as weel as being
the spool disk for all of our terminal printers is getting corrupted
when we try to init a queue.

First, a little background.  Our cluster consists of 2 Vax 6540's,
4 Vax 6530's, all running VMS 5.4-2 off of two sets of HSC shadowed
system disks.  We also have 10 VaxStation 4000/60's running VMS A5.5
each off of it's own system disk.  The cluster common files, SYSUAF,
NETPROXY, RIGHTSLIST, JBCSYSQUE, etc are on another HSC shadow set.

All of this has been running fine until we tried to add another queue
last week for a new printer.  Suddenly we started getting errors on some
of the nodes indicating that the common disk ($1$DUS126 in our case) was
getting corrupted.  Since this disks holds the SYSUAF and RIGHTSLIST
files, as well as our Multinet software, corrupting it really caused
havoc with our cluster.

When we rebooted the cluster, which we do every Friday night, we could
not get some of the nodes to come up at all until we changed the
/BUFFER_COUNT on the START/QUEUE/MANAGER to 1000.  This allowed the
nodes to come up without corrupting the disk, but as soon as we tried to
INIT/QUEUE any new queues we had the problem again.

We have almost 300 queues, broken down as follows:

74 Batch Execution Queues
3 Generic Batch Queues
70 Generic Printer Queues
35 Printer Queues
94 Terminal Queues
1 Generic Server Queue
16 Server Queues

We have been in touch with DEC CSC and have sent them several crash
dumps, which they have "forwarded to Engineering".

Other than upgrade to VMS 5.5 with the new Queue management, is there
anything else we can do to allow us to add more queues?
Has anyone else ever seen this problem?

Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

Ari
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WorkStation Administrator	ari@bear.com for sun/HP Un*x mail
Bear Stearns
From: tillman@swdev.si.com ("Brian Tillman, Smiths Industries, VAX Support, x8425")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: Q: LSEdit with DECwindows configuration
Date: 2 Sep 92 15:29:34 GMT
Organization: The Internet

Claes Engelin (CLAES@rigel.efd.lth.se) writes:

>    Apart from that, are there any other significant changes to LSE in
>    V4? For example, I could use EVE's block cut-and-paste (and FILL)
>    stuff.

EVE's block cut and paste should still be usable (as it was in LSE V3.1).  The 
section file we used under V3.1 needed recompiling, but it still works with 
V4.0.

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From: pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com (Dillon Pyron)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: DECW$LOGIN_BACKGROUND & XV
Date: 25 Aug 92 14:44:00 GMT
Reply-To: pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com
Organization: TI/DSEG VAX Support


In article <01GNYEL28MDCANBFLB@psulias.bitnet>, JLW@PSULIAS.PSU.EDU ("J.Lance Wilkinson, 814-865-1818") writes:
>In the recent past there was a spate of discussions concerning the use of
>DECW$LOGIN_BACKGROUND and XV (or some other image viewer) to replace the
>standard logo background on a station running DECWindows/Motif.
>
>I have begun implementing this with a custom background for each of our
>VAXStation 4000 VLC's (each node, named for a Disney character, has the
>character prominently displayed as well as the university's mark).  

WARNING: Disney copyrights images of all of its characters and guards (read
enforces) those copyrights.  You may find yourself visited by a very friendly
lawyer, followed by some not so friendly types.  Alot of us make and display
images from copyrighted material, but Disney is rather great guns about
protecting its rights.  Did you know that the castle is copyrighted?

I don't want to be a bummer, but universities don't like being sued (I've been
there).
>+-"Never Underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of mag tapes"--+
>| J.Lance Wilkinson ("Lance")            BitNet:    JLW@PSULIAS.BITNET      |
>| Systems Design Specialist - Lead       InterNet:  JLW@PSULIAS.PSU.EDU     |
>| Library Computing Services             AT&T:      (814) 865-1818          |
>| E8 Pattee Library                      "I'd rather be dancing..."         |
>| Penn State University         A host is a host from coast to coast,       |
>| University Park, PA 16802     And no one will talk to a host that's close |
>| <POSTMAST@PSULIAS.BITNET>     Unless the host that isn't close            |
>| <POSTMAST@PSUCES.BITNET>      Is busy, hung or dead.                      |
>+------"He's dead, Jim. I'll get his tricorder. You take his wallet."-------+
>
>
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From: lbmoore@tchden.org ("Louis B. Moore")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: Looking for DEC PathWorks Lists/Discussion
Date: 2 Sep 92 00:19:04 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


>I am looking for an interest group of DEC's PathWorks (for DOS).  The only
>list I have found (a LISTSERV, PCSA-L) does not seem to be around anymore.

We recently subscribed to LANWORKS@MIAMIU.BITNET.

 Louis B. Moore                      Internet: lbmoore@tchden.org
 Systems Programmer                  Phone:    +1 303 837 2513
 The Children's Hospital of Denver   Denver, Colorado USA 80218
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Dump of DCLTABLES.EXE
From: jms@mrsvax.mis.arizona.edu (Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem)
Date: 30 Aug 1992 13:02 MST  
Reply-To: jms@arizona.edu
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona MIS Department
X-Lunar-Date: 0 days, 18 hours, 5 minutes since the new moon
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

In article <14426@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>, andrew@DINO.QCI.BIOCH.BCM.TMC.EDU
(Andrew Sharff) writes...
>Does anyone know of a utility to dump the contents of DCLTABLES.EXE? 

The closest I've gotten is Joe Meadow's "VERB" program, available from
better VMS archives and DECUS tapes everywhere.  The "VERB/ALL" command
will pull out all the verbs in a command table, subject to the normal
constraints.

I got my copy from Arizona.EDU in directory UA_SOURCE:[VERB], but there
may be more up-to-date versions out there.

Joel M Snyder, 1103 E Spring Street, Tucson, AZ, 85719 
Phone: 602.882.4094 (voice) .4095 (FAX) .4093 (data)
BITNET: jms@Arizona  Internet: jms@arizona.edu  SPAN: 47541::telcom::jms
Why is everything made of Lycra Spandex?
From: byron@yogi.hsc.ucalgary.ca (Byron Draudson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: GNU Ghostscript for VMS?
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:57:51 GMT
Organization: The Internet

Does anyone know where I can get GNU Ghostscript for VMS?  I've tried archie
and could not find any sites that have ported to VMS.  I'm looking for a
compressed Backup saveset, preferably with executables.  Thanks for any info.

:byron
________________________________________________________________________
Byron Draudson, Systems Manager               byron@yogi.hsc.ucalgary.ca
Radiology, Foothills Hospital, Calgary, Alberta, Canada   (403) 670-2442
From: Ian.Parker@f1.n700.z6.fidonet.org (Ian Parker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Clustered Global Sec
Date: 24 Aug 92 16:24:08 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


 On 08-19-92 Peter Smode wrote to All... 
 
 PS> IP> I'm just about to cluster a couple of VAXs.  On one VAX an 
 PS> IP> applicatio uses global sections to communicate between processes.   
 PS> IP> After clustering we want this application to be available across  
 PS> IP> the cluster. 
 PS> IP> 
 PS> IP> Is there a problem? 
 PS>  
 PS> As somebody else has already pointed out, this approach is a 
 PS> non-starter. 
 PS> However, depending upon the type of communication you need, you might 
 PS> be able to use the VMS lock manager instead. Check out the $ENQ and $ENQW 
 PS> system services along with $GETLKI. By coming up with a couple of 
 PS> resource names and access policies, you can do some very slick IPC  
 PS> wether there is a cluster in place or not. 
 
Peter 
 
I'm just sad they didn't do this in the first place.  I've used locks  
before to pass small amounts of data.  When I get chance to look at  
the application I'll be able to decide whether to go for locks, RMS,  
or DECnet.  At present I don't know how much data is being passed. 
 
Much thanks for your help. 
 
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From: davidc@montagar.com (David L. Cathey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: q:how to add more info in sysuaf file
Date: 2 Sep 92 09:47:33 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: Montagar Software Concepts, Plano TX

In article <1992Sep1.182012.3649@arizona.edu>, leonard@telcom.arizona.edu (Aaron Leonard) writes:
>>Pardon me if this is a faq.
>>i would to know, if i can add more information on sysuaf.dat.
>>I would like to add user phone number in sysuaf.dat, while creating his account.
>>any info would be appreciated.
> 
> It's possible to extend the length of SYSUAF records, up to 1412 bytes
> per record, and plunk your stuff past the VMS-standard fields.  You'd
> need to use RMS calls or somesuch to access and manipulate the info...

	Actually, you can use $GETUAI and $SETUAI with the UAI$_USER_DATA
item to get and store things in this area of the UAF record.  It's documented,
so it should work.  You can store up to 255 characters of data.

> Aaron Leonard (AL104), <Leonard@Arizona.EDU>
> University of Arizona Network Operations, Tucson AZ 85721
> |>   If it ain't broke, break it.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: HARTTREE@vax1.elon.edu (Matthew Harttree)
Subject: VMSINSTALLable and those .A files HELP!!!
Organization: Elon College
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 10:53:59 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.22

AW geez ....  Here I go makin a fool of myself again....

If this is on the FAQ I'm blind. but....

I keep getting requests to install certain software from various
ftp sites.  They come in various formats.  Most I can handle with ease.
Backup, Make, etc... 

I notice that many call for VMSINSTALL and are distributed in a format as
follows:

program.A
program.B
program.C

I know INSTALL well (I think) and I believe VMSINSTALL and INSTALL 
are two different things.  We are running cmu and MX and they came in 
this format.  My boss did the installation and I cant find a trace of 
the product.  

How does one setup and install such packages that come in the above format??
If it is a public domain program, could someone provide me with a FTP
pointer.

Thanks for your time and assistance,
Matt


---------------------------------------
Matthew Harttree
Elon College Academic Computing 
Harttree@vax1.elon.edu
"Where all the programs are above average and the VAXes are good looking"
(with apologies to G.K.)
From: ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Anybody have UCX 2.0 yet?
Date: 3 Sep 92 19:41:52 -0700
Reply-To: EWILTS@GALAXY.GOV.BC.CA
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

In article <gurman.715555709@umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov>, gurman@umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov (Joseph B. Gurman) writes:
> klein@saturn.glassboro.edu writes:
> 
>     All of which reminds me, in light of the "Will LMF kill Alpha"
> thread that hung around for a while, that DEC's "Ultrix to DEC OSF/1
> Migration Guide" (available as a PostScript file via anonymous ftp from
> gatekeeper.dec.com) says "The DEC OSF/1 system does not support the
> License Management Facility (LMF) software." Wow, could this be the way
> to the future for OpenVMS? NOT, I guess.

Don't forget about the new license standard that DEC and whole bunch of other
companies are openly supporting although no products have been announced yet. 
Check out comp.software.licensing for more info...

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