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From: eric@napa.telebit.com (Eric Smith)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.pdp-11
Subject: RAM memory
Date: 9 Apr 92 02:48:32 GMT
Organization: The Internet
Cc: info-pdp11@transarc.com

>>>>> On Wed, 8 Apr 92 21:10:05 CDT, "Andrew Luebker" <aahvdl@eye.psych.umn.edu> said:
> Can anybody tell me whether the 4 x 9 rows of chips on the MicroVAX II
> CPU board can easily be removed and used in other microcomputers?  The
> DIP packages have "256-15" markings, but are soldered directly to the board.

Yes, but why bother when used 256K*1 DRAMs go for $.25 in surplus stores?
Anyhow, what could you put 150 nS parts into?  That's very slow by current
standards.

Eric
Newsgroups: vmsnet.pdp-11
Subject: Re: DECnet on RSX
From: "ARROWSMITH, DONALD" <arrow@napc-1.navy.mil>
Date: 16 Apr 92 10:51:00 EDT
Organization: The Internet

Johnny Billquist writes:

> I have DECnet-11M-Plus V3.0. Phase IV non-routing.
> The problem is that only one node is defined as adjacent,
> all other nodes are reached through this node, which is very stupid.
> I cannot find out how to tell DECnet that other machines also
> sit on the same Ethernet.

All nodes on the same Ethernet are adjacent and can communicate directly.
You will see only one node show up as adjacent because end nodes don't keep
routing databases. They do, however, keep a cache of destinations which are
on the same Enet. This is formed by packets received with the "intra-Ethernet
bit" set. The size of the cache is set by EXECUTOR MAXIMUM BROADCAST ENDNODES.

If you do have routers on your LAN, they dynamically decide who will be the
Designated Router. They all use the same algorithm to find the node at the
highest CIRCUIT ROUTER PRIORITY with the highest EXECUTOR ADDRESS. That node
then declares itself to be the designated router.

Xref: sparky vmsnet.pdp-11:338 comp.sys.dec:2553
From: gezelter@rlgsc.com
Newsgroups: vmsnet.pdp-11,comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: SCSI-controller/disk for the PDP-11/23+
Date: 14 Apr 92 01:57:15 GMT
Organization: Robert Gezelter Software Consultant, Flushing, NY

In article <1992Apr13.180423.29110@mits.mdata.fi>, karttu@mits.mdata.fi (Antti Karttunen) writes:
> 3) Hardest problem: The software. Is there any device drivers for SCSI
>    available in RSX-11M-(???) ? Do I have to do the SYSGEN to get the
>    system know the SCSI-disk? (I have _no_ sysgen packs! :-()
>    How hard it's to hack the OS to boot from the SCSI-disk, and not use
>    the RL02's at all?
> 
I am afraid to be the bearer of bad news, however, if any SCSI 
controllers are compatible with PDP-11 systems, they will most 
likely emulate DEC MSCP controllers. This means that a different 
device driver will be required. While technically speaking there 
is no need to do a complete SYSGEN, you will need to access a 
variety of files which are on the normal distribution disks.
 
Assuming that the controllers mimic an MSCP device, bootstrapping 
should not be too difficult, providing that your bootstrap PROMS 
"know" about MSCP devices.

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| Robert Gezelter Software Consultant         Voice:   +1 718 463 1079     |
| 35-20 167th Street, Suite 215               Fax:       (on Request)      |
| Flushing, New York  11358-1731                                           |
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From: bqt@minsk.docs.uu.se (Johnny Billquist)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.pdp-11
Subject: How to autoboot an 11/70 (again...)
Date: 12 Apr 92 05:17:49 GMT
Reply-To: bqt@bern.docs.uu.se
Organization: The Internet

Ok, guys. Sorry to tell you this, but my problem persists.
Serveral of you told me to fiddle with switch 2 on the M9301-YC.
Well, you're wrong.
I have the M9301 manual myself, and I said it before, the -YC
doesn't work that way.
I tried it anyway, according to all your tips. Nothing worked.

This is what I've managed to find out so far.
The M9301 has an autoboot feature, enabled by switch 2 on the card.
This is valid for all versions of the M9301 EXCEPT the -YC.
The -YC doesn't use switch 2 according to both the manual and the
drawings. Yes, I finally went through the drawings as well.
They state very clearly that this portion is not used on the -YC.
(swtich 2 and associated logic).

On my M9301 all switches are in the ON position, and that gets it to boot
from the normal powerfail vector. If I turn switch 2 off, the CPU halts
on powerup, after switching to 22-bit addressing.

Anybody got some other ideas? Maybe some card on the CPU?

	Johnny

Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
CS student at Uppsala University  ||  on a psycidelic trip
email: bqt@bern.docs.uu.se        ||  reading murder books
pdp is alive!                     ||  and tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
From: bqt@bern.docs.uu.se (Johnny Billquist)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.pdp-11
Subject: DECnet on RSX
Date: 16 Apr 92 15:39:30 GMT
Reply-To: bqt@bern.docs.uu.se
Organization: The Internet

Hi, I have a problem.

I have DECnet-11M-Plus V3.0. Phase IV non-routing.
I have an Ethernet controller (DEUNA) to this.
The problem is that only one node is defined as adjacent,
all other nodes are reached through this node, which is very stupid.
I cannot find out how to tell DECnet that other machines also
sit on the same Ethernet.
Am I just looking on it the wrong way, or is this impossible?

	Johnny

Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
CS student at Uppsala University  ||  on a psycidelic trip
email: bqt@bern.docs.uu.se        ||  reading murder books
pdp is alive!                     ||  and tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
From: aahvdl@eye.psych.umn.edu (Andrew Luebker)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.pdp-11
Subject: RAM memory
Date: 9 Apr 92 02:10:05 GMT
Organization: The Internet

"John_Wilson@mts.rpi.edu" recently posted a question, either here
or under the PDP8-LOVERS mailing list, asking about sources for a
93L415 static RAM chip.  Please excuse me if this is a cross-posting!

Halted Specialties Co. (1-800-4-HALTED) in California lists the
following chip in their Spring 1991 catalog:

AM93L415    30ns     1Kx1    $4.95


Can anybody tell me whether the 4 x 9 rows of chips on the MicroVAX II
CPU board can easily be removed and used in other microcomputers?  The
DIP packages have "256-15" markings, but are soldered directly to the board.

  -Andrew Luebker-  aahvdl@eye.psych.umn.edu
Newsgroups: vmsnet.pdp-11
Subject: Re:  SCSI-controller/disk for the PDP-11/23+
From: young@ecn.purdue.edu (Mike Young)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 15:52:52 -0500
Organization: The Internet

	I have an Emulex (unibus) SCSI controller on an 11/44 running
RSX11M+ V4.0. It emulates an MSCP controller on the PDP side, so you
use the DU: device driver. Emulex says you can't hardware boot from
their UC-18 on an 11/44, and they explain why (sort of), but I'm not
enough of a system expert to understand it. So I boot from an RL02, and
software boot the SCSI disk from there.
	They have made, I believe, Qbus SCSI adapters for a few years
now, so it shouldn't be impossible to get hold of one.

							-Mike Young
							young@ecn.purdue.edu
From: issbal@uccvma.ucop.edu
Newsgroups: vmsnet.pdp-11
Subject: Software
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:19:41 GMT
Organization: The Internet

From:    Bruce Lane  ISSBAL @ UCCVMA  (510) 987-0014
Subject: Software

I'd like to get in touch with anyone running a PDP-11 (esp. 11/34A) as a BBS
under RSTS/E ver. 9.3-14 or lower. I'm particularly interested in how one
would handle:

    1). Routing logons into a menu that differs depending on privilege level.

    2). File-area handling and transfer over dialups, esp. to IBM PC's.

Thanks much!

==Bruce Lane (Day) (510) 987-0014 / FIDONet: 1:161/412 (The Dragon's Cave)

P.S., I'd also like to find a copy of WORD-11 for RSTS, and an E-mail handler.
Any help?

Mail:    University of California
.        UCOP Telecommunications Services
.        300 Lakeside Drive, Room 3010
.        Oakland, CA 94612-3550
From: wardle@hpb.cis.pitt.edu (Tom Wardle)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.pdp-11
Subject: UUCP for RT11/RSX/TSX+/RSTS
Date: 9 Apr 92 04:00:45 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

Does anyone have UUCP software for RT11 or RSX or TSX+ or RSTS ?
 
-tom

 


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..............................................................................
Tom Wardle / KA3LPS         | wardle@hpb.cis.pitt.edu
8033 Bennett Street         | wardle%edsi.uucp@hpb.cis.pitt.edu
Pittsburgh, PA  15221       |
From: mcc@wlv.imsd.contel.com (Merton Campbell Crockett)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.pdp-11
Subject: Re:  Decus C Compiler
Date: 15 Apr 92 14:26:25 GMT
Organization: The Internet

... and needs corrections for TKB delivered with IAS.

Merton Campbell Crockett
Newsgroups: vmsnet.pdp-11
Subject: Shrinking files in RT11
From: "Andrew Luebker" <aahvdl@eye.psych.umn.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 14:02:41 CDT
Organization: The Internet

Are there any size-reducing programs (like Unix "compress,compact,pack"
or MS-DOS "zip,arc") that will shrink ordinary ASCII and image files
under RT11?  I need to squeeze some more space from our old RL02 disks!

  -Andrew Luebker-  aahvdl@eye.psych.umn.edu
From: vj@gserv1.dl.ac.uk (Dave Hines)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.pdp-11
Subject: Qbus board help wanted
Date: 17 Apr 92 02:44:42 GMT
Organization: SERC Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, UK

Hi there,
     I recently picked up an old LSI-11/23 and some interface cards, which
I would like to get going again. I can currently boot the system using RX02
combatible floppies, but installing a winchester disc interface card will
stop the machine booting. I suspect that the boot ROMs of the two cards are
both at the same address, but don't know how to disable either card. If you
have any information on the boards, in particular how to disable the boot ROM,
please let me know. The cards are:

RX02 combatible floppy interface:
	Double width Q-bus board, with a 40 pin IDC connector, made by SMS
	(Scientific Micro Systems). The board is etched FAB.0003772-D on the
	top, and AW 0003771/C on the bottom. A sticky label says "PROG ASSY
	1001939-0001" & "ASSY NO 0003770-0001"

Winchester interface:
	Double width Q-bus board, with a 50 pin IDC connector. Came complete
	with a cable which splits into two edge connectors, which will fit a
	ST506 interfaced disc. It is made by Andromeda systems, and is
	labelled WDC11 Rev.D


Finally there are a pair of quad width cards, which are connected togeter by
a 50 way ribbon cable separate from the Q-bus. They are labelled
"DATACUBE QVG120 ATC31-46-82"  and  "DATACUBE QAF-120 D-07-00001".
I suspect that they may be some form of video device, as one board has a pin
marked "sync", and a BNC terminated piece of co-ax was attached to one of its
pins. (No other cables were present). The other board has 64k bytes of memory.
Any / all information, including addresses or 'phone numbers of suppliers with
data would be usefull.

Thanks in advance,
--
Snail:	David Hines,  Daresbury Lab,	JANET:	D.Hines@uk.ac.daresbury
	Warrington,  WA4 4AD,  U.K.	Other:	D.Hines@daresbury.ac.uk
	('phone:  +44 925 603357)
From: kcwellsc@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Ken Wellsch)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.pdp-11
Subject: Decus C Compiler
Date: 15 Apr 92 13:38:12 GMT
Organization: The Internet

A special Thanks to Terry Kennedy for providing me with the DECUS C
compiler (including his mods/additions).  I've put it up for anonymous
ftp on watmath.waterloo.edu under pub/Decus-C.  I decided to stash it
in seperate .tar.Z sections based on the original "account" organization.

	[5,1] Command procedures, documentation source, etc.
	[5,2] Portable math library
	[5,3] Compiler and assembler source.
	[5,4] Common (non-I/O) library source.
	[5,5] I/O library source and command files.
	[5,6] Native RSTS/E interface library.
	[5,7] Native RSX-11M interface library.
	
	[6,1] "Software tools."
	[6,2] Miscellaneous programs -- games and stuff.
	[6,3] Cross-assemblers for several micro-computers.
	[6,4] Lexical analyser generator.
	[6,5] Pieces of a standard library in C
	[6,6] Useful subroutines in C.
	[6,7] Vax/VMS interface library.
	
	[1,11] A working directory? ala bin/ & doc/

For those that may not know, the compiler is written in Macro-11.
Newsgroups: vmsnet.pdp-11
Subject: FREE LA36
From: john_wilson@mts.rpi.edu
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 17:58:32 EDT
Organization: The Internet

I have an LA36 which is blocking the way into my storage locker.
Although I was psyched that getting this thing completed my collection
of the entire DECwriter series, I honestly have no need for it, so
I'm offering it to anyone who wants it.
I got it for free (from DEC!), you can have it for free.
 
I'm willing to deliver it, within reason, if you pay for gas;
I'm going to Boston anyway this coming weekend, so if someone in Boston
wants it, then forget the gas.
 
John_Wilson@MTS.RPI.EDU   (Troy, NY)
From: naylor@med.wcc.govt.nz (Richard Naylor)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.pdp-11
Subject: Re: UUCP for RT11/RSX/TSX+/RSTS
Date: 14 Apr 92 00:02:46 +1200
Organization: Wellington City Council, Wellington, New Zealand

In article <1277@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>, wardle@hpb.cis.pitt.edu (Tom Wardle) writes:
> Does anyone have UUCP software for RT11 or RSX or TSX+ or RSTS ?
>  
> -tom
> 
No, but I'd like a copy

I started a simple mailer some years ago, but in the end bought 
the DECUS one for TSX, written by Mark Marack (?). Its good, but 
is not a networked version :-(

Maybe I should go back to my mailer.....
From: pat_barron@transarc.com
Newsgroups: vmsnet.pdp-11
Subject: GCC for PDP-11
Date: 6 Apr 92 12:25:39 GMT
Organization: The Internet

Michael Gschwind has provided a new version of the PDP-11 support for
GCC.  If you got the previous version from me, let me know, and I'll
send you the new one.  Or, you can pick it up by anonymous FTP to
grand.central.org, in the file /pub/pdp-11/gcc.pdp-11.

--Pat.
Newsgroups: vmsnet.pdp-11
Subject: RK07 data recovery
From: john_wilson@mts.rpi.edu
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 23:28:46 EDT
Organization: The Internet

Does anyone have any experience with making RK07's read flakey packs?
I have a pack with a couple of years' work on it, not backed up of course
(my other drive was broken), which has some small scratches on it from
the head lightly touching down (but no actual crash) and now the drive
refuses to load it.  I've cleaned the pack and heads to no avail, and I've
tried the pack on another drive with no luck.  Both drives work fine with
other packs.  Flipping the switch in the backplane which makes the drive
not freak out when it sees a bad format doesn't work.  What should I do?
 
Alternatively, does anyone know of a CHEAP data recovery service that can
do RK07's?  The best guess I've heard so far was $1000 from ESS, but I'm
just a student and can't afford that, besides which that was just a guess
since they haven't looked at the pack yet.
 
Thanks,    John_Wilson@MTS.RPI.EDU
Xref: sparky vmsnet.pdp-11:336 comp.sys.dec:2546
From: karttu@mits.mdata.fi (Antti Karttunen)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.pdp-11,comp.sys.dec
Subject: SCSI-controller/disk for the PDP-11/23+
Keywords: SCSI,PDP,ELEVEN
Date: 13 Apr 92 18:04:23 GMT
Organization: MITS, Helsinki, Finland

I have feeling that I have asked this once before, but here it goes again:

Currently I have the PDP-11/23+ with the four 10 MB RL02-drives and
2MB of RAM. It is running the RSX-11M version 4.? (or RSX-11M-PLUS 2.?).
However, I would like to have something little more effective for the
mass storage. So I'm thinking about purchasing the SCSI-controller
for the beast. Some questions:

1) Is it possible for the PDP-11/23-PLUS?

2) Are there any used ones (controllers) available in U.S.A?
   In this part of Europe? Prices?

3) Hardest problem: The software. Is there any device drivers for SCSI
   available in RSX-11M-(???) ? Do I have to do the SYSGEN to get the
   system know the SCSI-disk? (I have _no_ sysgen packs! :-()
   How hard it's to hack the OS to boot from the SCSI-disk, and not use
   the RL02's at all?

-- 
Antti Karttunen     --     karttu@mits.mdata.fi     --              !?
Newsgroups: vmsnet.test
From: sxmdc@orca.alaska.edu
Subject: just testing
Summary: test
Keywords: test
Organization: University of Alaska
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 16:25:51 GMT

|testing
From: gezelter@rlgsc.com
Newsgroups: vmsnet.test
Subject: Test Messaghe
Date: 14 Apr 92 15:45:48 GMT
Organization: Robert Gezelter Software Consultant, Flushing, NY

This is a test message. Please let me know if it gets off of this 
node.
 
-- 

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Robert "Bob" Gezelter                       E-Mail:  gezelter@rlgsc.com  |
| Robert Gezelter Software Consultant         Voice:   +1 718 463 1079     |
| 35-20 167th Street, Suite 215               Fax:       (on Request)      |
| Flushing, New York  11358-1731                                           |
| United States of America                                                 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: parryc@topaz.ucq.edu.au
Newsgroups: vmsnet.test
Subject: test
Date: 15 Apr 92 20:38:16 AET
Organization: University of Central Queensland, Australia

Testing...123....Testing...
From: CSC9016170L@lust1.latrobe.edu.au (Grim!!, Computer Systems Engineering, La Trobe Uni, Vic, Oz)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.test
Subject: Hello.
Date: 6 Apr 92 08:38:01 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20



Test.


-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Kamal Shaker,            | csc9016170l@lust1.latrobe.edu.au
Student Vax Cluster,     | %SYSTEM-F-EXQUOTA, Alcohol quota exceeded,
La Trobe Uni,            | stomach dumped.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
There's enough water on earth to drown the human population 87.6 million times.
Newsgroups: vmsnet.test
From: sxmdc@orca.alaska.edu
Subject: test
Organization: University of Alaska
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 11:11:25 GMT

test.......test.......test
From: pals@ipact.uucp
Newsgroups: vmsnet.test
Subject: a test message
Date: 14 Apr 92 21:51:29 GMT
Organization: IPACT, Valparaiso IN

This is a test message. .. ..
Newsgroups: vmsnet.test
Subject: test
From: sandy@mdcbbs.com (Wayne Sanders-Unrein)
Date: 9 Apr 92 09:59:25 GMT
Organization: VERY OLD PREAMBLE
Nntp-Posting-User: sanders

testing new username and node

-- 
| Wayne Sanders-Unrein	    | Voice:    +1 714 952 5773
| Currently on contract to: | Internet: sanders@vxw.mdcbbs.com
| EDS, Unigraphics Division | <-- talking from but not for
| Cypress, CA		    | UUCP:...{uunet,decwrl,att}!vxw.mdcbbs.com!sanders
From: reso@kkeka1 (Renzo Santi)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.test
Subject: test_from_ekab1_2
Date: 8 Apr 92 19:21:06 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: reso

-- 
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   __   __  __   __    ! 
  |__) |__ (__  /  \   !          Anything good in life is either
  |  \ |__  __) \__/   !          illegal, immoral or fattening.
                       ! 
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Renzo Santi            ! FAX = +46 8 7216606
Ericsson Components AB ! TEL = +46 8 7216871
Power Division         !---------------------------------------------------
Dep : KK/EKA/K/DU      ! VAX mail  =  KKEKA1::RESO (Ericsson internal only)
164 81 Stockholm       ! MEMO      =  ERI.VAX.EKARESO
Sweden                 ! INTERNET  =  reso@ekab1.ericsson.se               
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: vmsnet.test
From: yates@wctdpv.gd.com (Jeff Yates (x74726))
Subject: test
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords:  TEST
Organization: Computer Sciences Corp. - Technology Management Div.
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 19:06:00 GMT

Yet another test...




                                Jeff Yates
                       Computer Sciences Corporation
                       Technology Management Division

                          (yates@gdwest.gd.com)
From: reso@kkeka1 (Renzo Santi)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.test
Subject: test_from_ekab1
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:38:33 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: reso

-- 
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   __   __  __   __    ! 
  |__) |__ (__  /  \   !          Anything good in life is either
  |  \ |__  __) \__/   !          illegal, immoral or fattening.
                       ! 
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Renzo Santi            ! FAX = +46 8 7216606
Ericsson Components AB ! TEL = +46 8 7216871
Power Division         !---------------------------------------------------
Dep : KK/EKA/K/DU      ! VAX mail  =  KKEKA1::RESO (Ericsson internal only)
164 81 Stockholm       ! MEMO      =  ERI.VAX.EKARESO
Sweden                 ! INTERNET  =  reso@ekab1.ericsson.se               
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Newsgroups: ua.test,vmsnet.test
From: sxjwg@orca.alaska.edu
Subject: test
Organization: University of Alaska
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 19:42:07 GMT

test
-- 

********************************************************************************                                                    
                        UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA - FAIRBANKS
                      UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA COMPUTER NETWORK
                              James W. (Jim) Grimes
                              SXJWG@ORCA.ALASKA.EDU
********************************************************************************
              "I've got friends in low places!" - Garth Brooks
    Loyal only to STARFLEET, the ENTERPRISE, and Captain Jean Luc Picard
From: zmw@altair.selu.edu (Mike Whisenhunt zmw@selu.edu)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.test
Subject: test w full news feed from suranet
Date: 6 Apr 92 10:13:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: altair.1992Apr6.161327.16
Organization: Southeastern Louisiana University

This is a test post after full news feed established.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
Mike Whisenhunt                |Internet: zmw@selu.edu   |How to tell if your
VMS System Manager/Postmaster  |Phone   : (504) 549-3643 |boss has used your 
Southeastern La. Univ, Box 430 |Fax     : (504) 549-5092 |Word Processor? Look
Hammond, La 70402  USA         |"Wise men still seek Him"|for whiteout on CRT.
Newsgroups: vmsnet.test
Subject: test
From: grads@otago.ac.nz
Date: 7 Apr 92 09:29:45 +1300
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

test
test
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
From: TILLMAN@benzie.si.com (Brian Tillman)
Subject: Re: UUencoded files and MX...
Reply-To: "Brian Tillman" <TILLMAN@benzie.si.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 13:50:00 GMT

Dan Wing (dwing@uh01.colorado.edu) writes:

>If you're trying to get the file from a VMS machine to a non-VMS machine
>while preserving trailing blanks, I think UUENCODE/UUDECODE is about the only
>solution.

There is also a pair of programs called HEXIFY and DEHEXIFY which can convert a
file to human-readable characters (i.e. the hexadecimal representation of the
data in the file) and back again.  This is also an option.  In fact, Matt
Madison uses these programs to help distribut the MX savesets by mail.  He
compresses the savesets with LZCMP, HEXIFYs them, and then VMS_SHAREs them to
make a mailable package.  I believe I've seen C versions of HEXIFY and DEHEXIFY
available on the Internet.  You could check by sending a mail message to one of
the following addresses:

    archie@archie.ans.net
    archie@archie.mcgill.ca (or archie@cs.mcgill.ca)
    archie@archie.rutgers.edu
    archie@archie.sura.net
    archie@archie.unl.edu

If you don't use a signature file, the message can be a single line that looks
like this:

    prog hexify

If you do use a signature file, put the line

    quit

immediately after the PROG line.  In a day or so you'll receive a message
listing all FTP-able files containing the string "hexify".

Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx