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From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: VCB02 & Monitors
Date: 14 Sep 92 11:17:22 PDT
Organization: Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego, CA

In article <1992Sep12.184759.17019@ultb.isc.rit.edu>, whd0675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
> I have a question for you hardware experts out there.  What monitors are
> compatable with the VCB02 subsystem?  The monitors can either be DEC or 
> non-DEC.  Actually, I would be quite interested in knowing if there are
> any third-party monitors that would work with the VCB02.  I am aware that
> there is a VR260, VR262, and VR290 from DEC.  Are there any others?
> Thanks in advance!

The relatively new NEC Multisync 5FG (17", street price $1400) and 6FG (20",
street price $2400) will work with *all four* of DEC's workstation video
standards: 60 Hz 1024x864 (GPX, which is what you're using), 66 Hz and 72 Hz
1280x1024 (SPX), and the 1024x768 that comes out of low-end VS 4000/VLCs (which
will drive a stock Sony 1304, btw).  They have BNC RGB inputs - just hook up
and go. Spearate H and H/V sync inputs are also provided; the monitor takes
sync wherever it finds it (ie DEC RGB uses sync on green, while others have one
or two separate sync lines). 

I'll bet they'd work with Suns also, but I haven't tried this. 

In addition to the BNC inputs, they also have both standard and mini Dsub-15
connectors and will work with just about every PC and Mac video standard ever
invented.  There is a front-panel switch to select between the BNC and D-sub
connectors so you can use the monitor on two machines at once without external
video switching boxes.  The two video sources do not have to use the same
timing. 

The NEC tubes have a polished glass face rather than an anti-reflection
coating. You can buy an add-on anti-reflection lens if you need one.  This may
seem like a kludgy approach, but any AR coating makes the image a little less
bright and a little less sharp; this way, if you don't need an AR screen, you
don't have to look through one.  And you can clean the tube face with ordinary
glass cleaner. 

In case you hadn't guessed I'm very impressed with these.  When I compared them
side-by-side I thought that the 6FG provided a sharper, crisper image than
DEC's VRT19 (19" Trinitron),  which lists for about $4000, and only works with
some DEC workstations.  

	--- 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: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: %BACKUP-E-NOMSG, Message number 00A38012 ???
Date: 15 Sep 92 10:03:46 GMT
Organization: St. Peter's College, US

In article <1992Sep14.152218.1@uwovax.uwo.ca>, brent@uwovax.uwo.ca (Brent Sterner) writes:
>    So I pumped the numbers through the DCL f$message lexical, and the
>    messages are indeed exactly what the user reported.  So, what is wrong
>    (and what is *really* going on)?  Hints would be appreciated.  A clear
>    resolution would be met with his eternal gratitude.  Chow,  b.

  Try this:

SPCVXA::$ set message sys$message:sysmgtmsg
SPCVXA::$ exit %x0a38012
%BACKUP-E-OPENOUT, error opening !AS as output
SPCVXA::$ exit %x0a38410
%BACKUP-W-ACCONFLICT, !AS is open for write by another user

  The fact that the user's invocation of BACKUP didn't have the message file
available indicates either a protection problem on the message file/directory
or an account that's improperly configured for the "new" (post-V5.2) BACKUP.
The latter is more likely.

	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
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: bandy@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Mike Bandy)
Subject: Re: Is it possible for set prompt to do this?
Organization: Johns Hopkins University
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 02:28:33 GMT

PARMALEE001@WCSUB.CTSTATEU.EDU (Rich Parmalee) writes:

>I want to be able to have something like the following come up for my prompt:

>dev:[top_level.cur_sub_directory]
>prompt>

>I have been able to get the directory to come up but have been unable to have
>it automatically update the prompt. I have a feeling that this can't be done but 
>I was noticing that I was able to have this type of prompt on the unix system.

>I have tried just having the directory name be my prompt through the various
>cd.com files that are floating around but I like a short prompt so my commands
>don't go 3 lines long. 


>Thank-you for any help.  

The VAX Professional had an article this past month on an exec mode AST routine
that automatically checked the default directory periodically and set
the prompt accordingly.  If you like, send me an e-mail and I'll dig out
the rag and tell you how to download the source.  They don't have FTP
access (I think) but you can place an internet file server request for it.

	Mike Bandy
	Johns Hopkins University / Applied Physics Lab
	bandy@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu




Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Subject: Re: background for DECwindows pause screen
Reply-To: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua NH
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 21:49:45 GMT


In article <1992Sep15.202845.8666@synapse.bms.com>, kaz@bms.com writes:
|>
|>I know how to change the DECwindows login background - does anyone
|>know if it's possible to change the background of the 'pause session'
|>screen?  That plain white background is kind of boring!

It is possible to determine the window ID of the pause window.  With that in
hand, any application can draw whatever it wishes to it.  I have a version of
the xneko (kitten that chases the mouse) program that locates the pause window
and draws to it, so when I pause my session, I get a cat that chases around the
cursor (which of course is mouse-shaped).

--PSW
From: system@secs.ucsc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: LSE font on SONY Trinitron, how change?
Date: 14 Sep 92 00:06:46 GMT
Organization: UCSC Molecular Engineering Laboratory
NNTP-Posting-Host: secs.ucsc.edu

We note that LSE on high res SONY trinitron color workstations displays
the text bigger than on the 3100 workstations we had which are lower res.
The choices in the LSE options menu are unsatisfactory and we would like
to redefine them so it doesn't take such a big window to display 80 char,
but so it is still easily read.  We don't know if these can be redefined by
an entry in a defaults file.

wipke@secs.ucsc.edu
Molecular Engineering Laboratory
UCSC
From: enisaxg@state.systems.sa.gov.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: VMS symbiont for HP LJ IIIsi?
Date: 15 Sep 92 14:27:52 GMT
Organization: State Systems, South Australia

Problem: We have an HP LaserJet IIIsi with an ethernet connector (and no serial
	 port). We have software to control it from an HP 847S or 710 or a SUN.
	 What we'd really *like* to do is to control the printer in toto (forms
	 and duplex and postscript etc etc) from a VAX. Has anyone out there
	 seen a VMS printer symbiont for an ethernet-only HP LaserJet IIsi?

Constraint: Software must cost nothing!

Thanks in advance,

Alex Gunjko
System Manager
Department of Environment and Planning
South Australia

Email: gunjkoa@dep.sa.gov.au
Phone: 61-8-207-2054
FAX  : 61-8-207-2298
From: deffer@uni2a.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Looking for Lantronix
Date: 11 Sep 92 11:52:20 GMT
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland

In article <216009A6_00057EE8.0096013247A9C7A0$6_1@UK.AC.KCL.PH.IPG>, SYSMGR@IPG.PH.KCL.AC.UK writes:
> 
> I need to obtain an up-to-date TSCODE8.SYS for an early Lantronix ETS-8
> terminal server. Are Lantronix on the internet? Failing that, is anyone
> willing  to let me fetch (FTP or JANET TRANSFER) from their system?
> 
> Before anyone flames about pirating software, perhaps I should point out
> that Lantronix have this available for Kermit on a public dial-up service.
> Trouble is I'm in the UK, Lantronix are in California, and the phone
> cost would be significant.
> 
> 	Thanks in advance,
> 
> 

Check out the content on ftp.lantronix.com.

There plenty of nice folks up there if you run in any trouble.
From: sabotkap@ASPEN.ULOWELL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: unsubscribe
Date: 11 Sep 92 01:20:46 GMT
Organization: The Internet

Please remove me from this mailing list.
Thank you.

-Peter Sabotka
-sabotkap@woods.ulowell.edu
From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Subject: Re: Announcing VMS_SHARE version 8.0
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 14 Sep 92 16:59:58 GMT

In article <9209051630.AA02958@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> UDAA055@ELM.CC.KCL.AC.UK ("Andy, Systems Manager") writes:
>
> about his new release of VMS_SHARE

I have placed a copy of the new VMS_SHARE in the anonymous ftp area on
vmsa.oac.uci.edu.  Please try to limit your ftp access to times outside
8am-6pm Mon-Fri; we have real users using the system during the day.


Mike Iglesias                        Internet:    iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu
University of California, Irvine     BITNET:      iglesias@uci
Office of Academic Computing         uucp:        ...!ucbvax!ucivax!iglesias
Distributed Computing Support        phone:       (714) 856-6926
From: mookherj@serss0.fiu.edu (The Happy Man)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Make file
Date: 9 Sep 92 20:13:04 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Florida International University, Miami

Is there any version of make file available which can work on vms os ?
Please forward all replies to lingaman@fiu.edu.

Thanks in advance !
Jay Mookherje
Xref: sparky comp.os.vms:14894 comp.sys.dec:4942
From: fredv@abba.acs.uci.edu (Fred Velijanian)
Subject: Re: VS3100; swapping Ultrix Motif for DECwindows?
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Keywords: motif
Date: 11 Sep 92 15:11:50 GMT

In article <hansg.716215302@risken> hansg@risken.vd.volvo.se (Hans Granqvist) writes:
>I have got a VAXstation 3100 (or is it DECstation 3100? Not right beside
>it at the moment) running DECwindows. I have just recently changed

Since you've cross posted to comp.os.vms & comp.sys.dec, then I assume
you run VMS and you have a VAXstation 3100, since DECstations cannot run VMS.

>My question: is it possible to use the ULTRIX MOTIF instead of
>DECwindows on my machine? Do I need to have VMS/MOTIF? Can I use MOTIF

If you have a license for DECwindows Motif 1.0 (or 1.1) for VMS, you
can upgrade your VAXstation to run it. I think the license prices are
very reasonable, even for non educational customers. Otherwise you should be 
able to run the Motif window manager (mwm) from Ultrix, if you can somehow
disable the local window manager on your system (sorry don't know how on
VMS). Some other applications such as dxterm, dxbook, etc are also Motif
based if you have Motif 1.1.3 on Ultrix, you can run those as well.

>remotely, or even, can I use the X-programs on Ultrix to display on my
>machine? I have only got DECnet to the Ultrix machine.

Yes, it should work as long as applications are linked with the decnet
transport, see below.

>Another silly thing: I open a session to the ULTRIX machine, with SET
>HOST/LAT, change DISPLAY with setenv DISPLAY mymachine::0, and am able
>to start xterm. But only xterm. E.g., xlogo chokes on "client refused
>access". Why is that? I have set the security correctly, otherwise the
>xterm would get the same error response.

It might be that xterm was compiled with the DECnet transport libraries
linked in, but xlogo was not. In general I've gotten better/more
reliable performance between Ultrix & VMS X applications when I've used
the TCP/IP transport. 

Fred Velijanian
University of California, Irvine
fredv@uci.edu
From: VANCE%VIPS@ARIZONA.EDU (Email comes like manna from Heaven)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Ethernet not starting because of Invalid circuit parameters
Date: 10 Sep 92 16:58:27 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Another FYI:

    Our local telecommunication's recommended DECnet parameters were recently
    updated to have us use the following parameters:


|For each Ethernet circuit (SVA-0, QNA-O, UNA-0, etc.)
|
|DEFINE CIRCUIT circuit-name HELLO TIMER 120
|DEFINE CIRCUIT circuit-name ROUTER PRIORITY 64  ! or less
|DEFINE CIRCUIT circuit-name MAXIMUM ROUTERS 64  ! or more


    I happily set these and went upon my business until the next cluster
    reboot when DECnet started but the ethernet devices on the cluster
    had an "Invalid parameter value" and failed to start.  It seemed
    strange since it seemed these values were alright:


|$ r sys$system:ncp
|NCP>help set circuit maximum routers
|
|SET
|
|  CIRCUIT
|
|    MAXIMUM
|
|      ROUTERS
|
|        Applies only to Ethernet circuits.  It specifies the maximum number
|        of routers (other than the executor itself) allowed on the circuit by
|        Routing for circuits that are owned by the executor node.  The value
|        must be a decimal integer in the range 0 to 255.
|
|
|Topic?


    Well it seems that the NCP HELP is wrong because the "VMS Network
    Control program" manual states that the permitted values for maximum
    routers is 0-33 (under SET/DEFINE CIRCUIT).  When you try to SET
    this parameter above 33 you get an error:

    
|NCP>set circuit sva-0 maximum routers 34
|%NCP-W-INVPVA, Invalid parameter value , Maximum routers allowed

    
    however using the DEFINE command doesn't complain and in fact sets
    the parameter to an invalid value:

    
|NCP>define circuit sva-0 maximum routers 64
|NCP>list circuit sva-0 characteristics
|    
|    
|Circuit Permanent Characteristics as of 10-SEP-1992 09:30:27
|    
|Circuit = SVA-0
|    
|Cost                     = 4
|Maximum routers allowed  = 64
    
    
    at which point you get the error upon DECnet startup and your
    ethernet devices are not activated.
    
    So... DON'T DEFINE MAXIMUM ROUTERS ABOVE 33!

    It would be nice if NCP HELP reflected reality and NCP not accept
    invalid parameter values which have bad consequences later.
    
 
   Vance Haemmerle                              vance@vips.lpl.arizona.edu
   Support Systems Analyst, Senior              vance%toyvax@arizona.edu
   Lunar & Planetary Lab
   University of Arizona

Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: DAVISM@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Michael T. Davis)
Subject: Re: Long lines and DCL line editing
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 07:24:25 GMT


	I believe the original message mentioned that before an OS upgrade, the
ability existed, but was lost after the upgrade.  I remember having the ability
to move about freely within multi-line commands under 4.6, without the need to
delete lines at the end of the command.  (I can't speak to 4.7, since we went
from 4.6 to 5.x.)  I'm not sure if the reasoning behind the modified behavior
was ever explained.  (BTW, multi-line command line editing is available under
the tcsh shell [any others?]; is the implementation really that awkward for
the terminal driver under 5.x?)

							Mike
--
 Internet: davism@KCGL1.eng.ohio-state.edu |
            -or- DAVISM+@osu.edu           |   These Thoughts, They Be Mine
   BITNET: DAVISM+@OHSTMAIL.BITNET         |
From: cdavis@BME1.IMAGE.UKY.EDU (Charles Davis VA)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: VAX Operations Manual info
Date: 7 Sep 92 14:36:59 GMT
Organization: The Internet

It is a very good manual with graphics and a text version wouldn't be as useful.
It was the first such message that I pasted, decoded etc. and I'm glad
that I learned how to do it!  I appreciate the original authors efforts also.
From: dragon@NSCVAX.PRINCETON.EDU (Mighty Firebreather)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: Desperately seeking memory corruptions
Date: 4 Sep 92 14:09:57 GMT
Organization: The Internet


	Cameron Laird <claird@Neosoft.com> writes:
>
>What support is there for C development (C++,
>actually, but apparently it all uses the same
>library) in regards to memory management?  I
>think I have a needle-in-a-haystack heap error,
>and I'm close to the end of my rope in tracking
>it down.  If I were under UNIX, I'd use
>debug/{malloc,mallocmap}.o, Saber [Centerline],
>and/of Purify; if this were an MSDOS project
>I'd have a number of IDEs from which to choose;
>what do VMS folks do?
>--

	At a DECUS Symposium I attended a few years ago, someone reported 
having written his own jacket routines for malloc and free.  These jacket
routines wrote an audit trail of memory allocated and freed.  He used this
to track down a memory leak by sorting the audit trails by memory address
and matching entries to eliminate all of the malloc entries that had 
subsequently been freed.  The remaining entries pointed to the allocator of
all memory that had not been freed.

	Some similar approach might work for you.

*************************************************************************
*                                                                       *
*                        Here, there be dragons!                        *
*                      dragon@nscvax.princeton.edu                      *
*                                                                       *
*                                                Richard B. Gilbert     *
*************************************************************************

Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: uugblum@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (VMScluster Administrator)
Subject: Print Symbiont Modification
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: 15 Sep 1992 15:44 EST  

I need to change the print symbiont module execution order since my customized
flag page information conflicts with the current emulation mode of the printer.
I would like to call the existing FORM_SETUP module at the end of my
FORM_SETUP module, but I don't know what address to use.  Any ideas?

Execution
  Order      Current                             New
---------   ---------   --------------------------------------------------
    1       JOB_SETUP   Same
    2       FORM_SETUP  Null routine
    3       JOB_FLAG    My flag page routine which calls the existing form
                        setup routine at the end.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Greg Blumers				Sverdrup Technology, Inc.
VAXcluster Administrator		c/o NASA Lewis Research Center
(216)433-6777				Mail Stop 142-2
					21000 Brookpark Road
uugblum@scivax.lerc.nasa.gov		Cleveland, OH 44135
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From: nin15b63@merrimack.edu (THE WOLF)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Tape drive allocated to non-existent process
Date: 4 Sep 92 17:57:09 GMT
Organization: Merrimack College, No. Andover, MA, USA

We have a tape drive which is allocated to a non-existent process.  The process
is not in a wait state,; it doesn't exist.  Our support droids said we've gotta
re-boot the node.  We'd really rather not.  Anyone know of a program that'll
deallocate it?  If not, anyone know what bits to flip?
-- 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Andy Harrington                      | nin15b63@merrimack.edu
 Computer Geek                        | There's a certain freedom in being
 Merrimack College, North Andover, MA | completely screwed.
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From: MCMAHON@AC.GRIN.EDU ("McMahon,Brian D")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Digital News and Review's irresponsible attitude
Date: 15 Sep 92 18:02:11 GMT
Organization: The Internet

The one who rejoices in the name of Richard Head
<mcsun!sunic!psinntp!psinntp!npri6!richard@UUNET.UU.NET> writes:

> Hey, wow, like my name is Patrick T. McDonald, and I can use an editor
> and post to the net, and still demonstrate a .sig that is longer than
[ . . . ]

All right, this has gone far enough.  "Richard," you have ceased to amuse. 
This is one of the most childish, unprofessional displays I've ever seen on
this list.  Knock it off, or go find another sandbox.  The talk.politics.*
groups might be to your liking.

Brian McMahon (BDM13)    <MCMAHON@GRIN1.BITNET>    <MCMAHON@AC.GRIN.EDU>
Postmaster / Academic Flunky          Grinnell College Computer Services
Grinnell, Iowa 50112 USA   Voice: +1 515 269 4901   Fax: +1 515 269 4936
From: SRDANIELS@RCKHRST1.BITNET ("SCOTT R. DANIELS")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: CSC PATCH #543
Date: 4 Sep 92 18:09:48 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Does anybody out there have CSC PATCH #543 ?  Or, If you know of an FTP site
that I can get it from please let me know.  Thanks in advance...

P.S.  Yes, I know I can get it from DEC but I need it fast !

|                        |        Scott R. Daniels       |                     |
|   SRD@RCKHRST1.BITNET  |   VAX/VMS Systems Programmer  |   +1 816.926.4065   |
|   SRD@RCKHRST2.BITNET  |       Rockhurst College       |   +1 816.926.4162   |
|                        |     Kansas City, MO  64110    |                     |
From: connelly@iscsvax.uni.edu (Ken Connelly)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: Reading IBM tapes
Date: 9 Sep 92 08:23:47 -0500
Distribution: world
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

In article <009601DE.7B35F6A0.11945@nscvax.princeton.edu>, dragon@NSCVAX.PRINCETON.EDU (Mighty Firebreather) writes:
>                          I believe, but no longer recall for certain, that 
> the labels are separated from each other and from the file by tape marks.

This is true.

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