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From: SABRY@SHEBIN.EG (Sabry Kotob El-Ganzory)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Help of AUF.......
Date: 9 Jan 93 13:37:00 GMT
Organization: The Internet

Date sent:  9-JAN-1993 14:17:13
>Hello all..........
>please, I have account has uic:[300,24] and I want change to him name is
>[IBRAHIM] but when go run authorizr
>UAF>modi izmorsi/uic=[ibrahim]
>  NOT accept and then give me this a message
>
>%UAF-E-UICERR, error in UIC specification \[IBRAHIM]\
>
>Any help???
>Sabry
>
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From: danmz@echosphere.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: DECServer CXY08 Port Problem
Date: 4 Jan 93 17:57:14 MST
Organization: Echosphere/Houston Tracker Systems

Dearest kind souls! Free at last! I've been away from the network too long!

I have a problem with using a DECServer 550 CXY08 (8 port modem control)
as a direct asynch computer<-->computer link.  The damn port attempts
to login to my system even though the port access is set REMOTE. Here
is the DECServer setup:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Local>show port 69

Port 69: Link                          Server: OSPREY

Character Size:            8           Input Speed:        9600
Flow Control:       Disabled           Output Speed:       9600
Parity:                 None           Modem Control:  Disabled
Stop Bits:           Dynamic

Access:               Remote           Local Switch:       None
Backward Switch:        None           Name:             LC-5-5
Break:              Disabled           Session Limit:         1
Forward Switch:         None           Type:               HARD

Preferred Service:  None

Authorized Groups:  0
(Current)  Groups:  0

Enabled Characteristics:

Dialup,  Limited View,  Loss Notification,  Remote Modification,  Security
Verification

And the device LC5 is setup as:

Local>show device lc5

Device name:  LC5                Device Type: CXY08

Slot -   7                       Port List:  65- 72
CSR address: 160540              Hardware Rev: 00071.00077
Vector: 350
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Now I will admit the program reading and writing to this port exits and
reenters an image frequently so the port isn't necessarily connected at
all times, but that shouldn't matter (right?) because of the way the access
is set. I'm convinced its a VMS, LAT, or DECServer bug. Version of VMS is 5.5-1
and the DECServer 550 is using C2.1 LAT5.1 ROM V2.0.1.

Love and kisses...
The Great Zar
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: szweep@sobeco.com (Steve Zweep)
Subject: Variable length records to tape
Organization: Sobeco Ernst & Young
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 22:48:31 GMT
Keywords: VMS VARIABLE LENGTH PHYSICAL RECORDS FOREIGN SYSTEM

Can someone tell me how to write variable length physical blocks to tape
with VMS, so that the tape can be read again on a foreign system?

In better detail:

If my file has record format "Variable length, maximum 2048 bytes", and I
have a record that is 2100 bytes, then I need the first 2048 bytes written
in one physical block and the next 52 bytes written in the next physical
block, immediately followed by a physical end-of-block.  No leading size-
of-block info, no trailing filler to complete 2048 bytes; just my data and
physical end-of-block markers.  On disk, my file is stored just as I want
it:  logical blocks are headed by 2 bytes to indicate their size, but
these 2 bytes are not included in that size -- just my data.  I need VMS
to write this file to tape using these 2 bytes to determine how long to
make the physical block, with no extraneous overhead.  The size of the
physical block would tell the system reading the tape how long the logical
block is.  VMS will *read* a file this way, but when I use COPY to write
one to tape and use "dd" to read it back on a UNIX system, each logical
block is headed by it's size, and this header takes physical space in the
block.  The last block in a record is padded to fill 2048 bytes.

Thanks,

- Andy Marchewka
--
Andy Marchewka, A.Marchewka@sobeco.com
multiLIS Group, Sobeco Ernst and Young
From: rkoehler@author.gsfc.nasa.gov (Bob Koehler)
Subject: Re: Creating subprocess with $CREPRC; preservation of symbols/logicals
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: CSC System Sciences Division
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 13:56:00 GMT

In article <C0I3xM.84F@acsu.buffalo.edu>, masmummy@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu writes...
>I have a program that needs the use of $CREPRC to create a subprocess.
>I think LIB$SPAWN is great, but I cannot alter quotas with it.
> 
>My problem lies in preserving symbols and/or logicals.
>Is there any way (with normal privileges) that I can pass information to
>this subprocess (I need to give it a stream about 80 characters long), without
>resorting to files, mailboxes, and such?  It appears to me (I am not an expert)
>that LIB$SPAWN copies the symbol and logical tables over by default.  Can I
>do that with $CREPRC, too?
> 
>Thanks,
>Bill

Basically, no.  You can put the logical names in a shared table, accessable by
both processes, but there's no built-in way to pass the contents of the process
logical name table or the CLI symbol table without using LIB$SPAWN.  IMHO, I
would most likely resort to a mailbox if faced with this problem.

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Bob Koehler                     |   Any illusion to these opinions being other
rkoehler@author.gsfc.nasa.gov   |   than just mine alone is just that.
From: mgrthh@rosevc.rose-hulman.edu (Thomas H. Hopson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Boot VAX3800 problem, help please!
Date: 5 Jan 1993 18:37:44 GMT
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Distribution: world
Reply-To: mgrthh@rosevc.rose-hulman.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: hydra.rose-hulman.edu


In article <1993Jan5.175824.4035@proton.llumc.edu>, lin@primus.llumc.edu (P. James Lin) writes:

>When I boot VAX3800 VMS5.3-1 which recovered for power supply failured,
>message
>	Error opening primary input file SYS$INPUT
>	Error in device name or inappropriate device type for operation
>
>What is it? How Should I take care of it?

Usually this means either:
	1. the startup file is set incorrectly --
		- boot conversationally and do a SHOW/STARTUP to check
		  and maybe a SET/STARTUP SYS$SYSTEM:STARTUP.COM to fix
	2. or the SYSBOOT process could not read your VAXVMSSYS.PAR file
		- boot conversationally and do a SHOW NPAGEDYN to see if it
		  has a value--to fix try USE DEFAULT and then AUTOGEN
		  repeatedly

As a last resort you might try SET/STARTUP OPA0: to get a DCL shell to fix 
the problem, though it is tricky at best to get things to work for you at
such an early point in the startup.

						- Tom

--
Thomas H. Hopson                      work: mgrthh@rosevc.rose-hulman.edu
VMS Manager / CS geek                       mgrthh@rhit
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology   play: hopsonth@cs.rose-hulman.edu
Terre Haute, Indiana
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: ieong@fraser.sfu.ca (Kim Ieong)
Subject: Re: Availability of PKZIP 2.04 on FTP sites
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:30:28 GMT

PKzip 2.04c is on garbo.uwasa.fi.  The directory is /pc/arcers/pkz204c.exe

Kim Ieong

Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: brent@uwovax.uwo.ca (Brent Sterner)
Subject: Making one image "free" of charging ?
Organization: University of Western Ont, London
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:42:47 GMT

   Bit of a strategic puzzle.  Our management here is *contemplating*
making mail a "free" service to our users, in part to make it more
universal on our campus.  This would mean providing "free" accounts
(pretty easy) for "new" users, and also perhaps for existing users.
I'm wondering about doing it "better" for existing users.  Is there
any way to capture resource usage for the use of a specific image so
that account credits can be created?  Or is there any way that an
image can suspend the capture of accounting data until image rundown?
Or any other way to accomplish this (short of running a separate machine)?
   This is a thought exercise for now.  It is not clear that we will
go ahead with this, and if we do it may not be on a VMS platform.  But
if it is, how would *you* go about implementing such a scheme?
   Please post your comments; I'd rather not run a dozen email discussions
with cross-mailings about this.  Is it doable (easitl?) in VMS?  Might a
*nix os provide a better atmosphere to do it successfully?  Thanks for
your ideas.  b.
--
Brent Sterner				AIX System Manager Apprentice
Fast:		<BRENT@uwovax.uwo.ca>	<129.100.2.13>
Medium:		(519)661-2151 x 6036	Fax:   (519)661-3486
Slow:  Computing & Communications Services, Natural Sciences Building
       The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada  N6A 5B7
From: SYSTEM_JB@UNODE1.NSWC.NAVY.MIL ("SYSTEM SUPPORT")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: SET TIME
Date: 7 Jan 93 19:56:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

In article <20315005@zl2tnm.gen.nz>, don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes) writes:
> davo@homer.corp.sgi.com (David Ferrise) writes:
>> After contacting DEC they informed us that this is a *known* bug and that every
>> good VAX shop will do a SET TIME after the first of the year before attempting
>> any reboot.
> 
>Yeah... My VAX systems NEVER crash, so why bother?    ;-)
>
>Seriously - you are correct that SHUTDOWN.COM does the SET TIME, but systems
>do occasionally crash, lose power, etc.  Issuing the SET TIME shortly after
>midnight after the new year change covers you in case of such a disaster.

Was anybody out there actually sobber enough to work heavy machinery like 
a VAX at the suggested time??   O-)

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Jon Baker
Naval Surface Warfare Center
Code N23A 
Dahlgren, VA 22448-5000
703-663-8705


Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: lionel@quark.enet.dec.com (Steve Lionel)
Subject: Re: VMS 6.0 features - the little ones
Reply-To: lionel@quark.enet.dec.com (Steve Lionel)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua NH
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:02:47 GMT


In article <1993Jan12.161229.7079@Rapnet.Sanders.Lockheed.Com>, 
mores@eavax.sanders.lockheed.com (David C. Mores) writes:
|>--
|>Aside from the major features of OpenVMS V6 I have not seen much mention of 
|>the minor features and improvements.  Steve Lionel of DEC mentioned that 
}>TYPE/TAIL would be an enhancement to TYPE, but what other goodies are coming?
|>What are the new and improved commands, lexical functions, DCL features?
|>  

Here's a quick summary of what I would say are some of the more interesting
minor "goodies" coming in OpenVMS VAX V6.0; not in any particular order (well,
yes, the order they're listed in the V6.0 New Features Manual draft I have).

Disclaimer: Though I have every reason to believe that this list is accurate,
it is subject to change and should not be considered a commitment by Digital.

SHOW LICENSE shows more information in a more readable format, and has a
/WARNING_INTERVAL qualifier to let you ask what licenses are due to terminate
in a given interval.

RENAME/INHERIT_SECURITY; causes the renamed file to inherit security attributes
as if it had been COPY-ed to the new location, instead of keeping existing
attributes.  Also a new flag to LIB$RENAME_FILE.

SPAWN/TRUSTED - Indicates that the SPAWN command input originates in a trusted
command procedure for a captive account.  Also /PRIVILEGES=CURRENT|AUTHORIZED.

TYPE/TAIL and /CONTINUOUS

EVE editor has Motif interface.  EDIT/TPU is now the default for the EDIT
command; EDIT/EDT still available.  EVE and TPU have a bunch of enhancements
(GET WILDCARDED FILES, for instance).

Ability to mount ISO 9660 media (level 3 medium interchange)

Automated pool management eliminates separate SRP, IRP, LRP lists and "virtually
eliminates the need to actively manage the allocation of pool resources."

Crash Log Utility Extractor (CLUE) runs at system startup to extract and keep
history of significant information about most recent crash (assuming there
are any; my V6 system hasn't crashed due to a VMS problem in over a year.)

InfoServer tape access

Multiple queue managers.

Snapshot facility to reduce system startup time by booting from a "saved
system image file".  (non-cluster systems only, and there are some restrictions,
but imagine having the system reboot and your applications running in seconds!)

SYSMAN SHUTDOWN can do cluster shutdowns with one invocation.

VAXcluster Cache improves file read performance (disk data block caching)

Virtual balance slots (can have many more processes without swapping)

New Motif-interface debugger (superset of what's in DECset V11.)
--

Steve Lionel                    lionel@quark.enet.dec.com
SDT Languages Group
Digital Equipment Corporation
110 Spit Brook Road
Nashua, NH 03062
From: HOLDREGE+_MP%A1%PacifiCare@MCIMAIL.COM (Matthew Holdrege)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: SHOW/UNIBUS (was: What is XPDRIVER for?
Date: 4 Jan 93 06:20:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


>Calling all readers:  Has ANYONE out there ever seen this actually happen?  
>If so, what devices were on the bus?

I just tried SHOW/UNIBUS on a vax 10000-630 and it just returned to the 
sysgen prompt. 8-)

Matt Holdrege                  5156065@mcimail.com
Pacificare Health Systems      holdrege@eisner.decus.org
From: leichter@lrw.com (Jerry Leichter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Question about RMS and MSCP-pair
Date: 5 Jan 93 12:47:58 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


	[Referring to dealing with files with forced errors:]
	Use BACKUP or any other tool you have written to accept and ignore the
	forced error, copying the file.  Delete the original.   The block is
	happily revectored and can be reused by a WRITE operations, its just
	that the system has reason to suspect that the data in the block MIGHT
	be corrupted

By the time you get a "forced error", the data is gone.  The forced error
indicator is set on the REPLACEMENT block, not the original one, and I don't
believe the corrupted data, such as it was, is even copied into the block.

		     and VMS taks data integrity very seriously.  So seriously
	in this case that you have to be prepared to dismiss an ERROR return
	to get to it.

	Tool suggestions:

	A useful tool for someone to write (who is so inclined) would be a
	utility program to read and rewrite the blocks of a file handling and
	checking about forced errors as they happen.

Just what would it do with a block that had a forced error?  It has no way to
determine what was there.

A common suggestion for dealing with a file with a forced error is to back it
up, then restore it.  BACKUP will read past the block with the forced error,
and when it restores the file, will simply substitute a block of zeroes for
the data it couldn't read when it created the saveset.  So the result of this
suggestion is to produce a file which doesn't have a forced error - but which
doesn't contain the right data either.  This is an improvement?

The tool you are suggesting would simply provide people with a simpler way to
screw themselves.  This is sweeping under the rug not dust but burning embers!

	Another interesting varation on that tool would be something to run on
	a privately mounted disk to read or double read and compare, overwrite
	with test patterns, and then rewrite each block on a disk.

Some of this is already in ANALYZE/DISK/READ_CHECK.  The rest is in the old
BAD utility (ANALYZE/MEDIA), though that will refuse to run on DSA disks.
However, that utility won't run on DSA disks, reporting "Unable to analyze
<disk>, due to revector caching".  You really need diagnosic-level code
(which has its own specialized disk drivers) to do this properly on a DSA
disk.
							-- Jerry
From: simons/G=Colin/I=CB/S=Sewell/O=H.A.Simons.Ltd/OU=CORP@mhs.attmail.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Date incorrect after reboot
Date: 7 Jan 93 16:52:12 GMT
Organization: The Internet

Rob W.W. Hooft writes:
!Just make sure you have a cluster: good LAVC practice is to
!synchronize the clocks every once in a while: I think SET TIME/CLUSTER
!will also take care of the problem?
!
!And: NO: Our VAX systems NEVER crash. Uptimes upto 600 days, causing an
!overflow in the CPU time of the NULL process (Yes: VMS 4.7).

	to get really reliable time synchronization across all nodes
	in a LAN/WAN, split the DTSS server and client software off
	of the DECNET/VAX Extensions V5.4 distribution. We have this
	software running on all nodes in our network and even have
	a time provider routine that dials up the NBS-ACTS time
	service occasionally and coordinates with universal time. The
	time provider time is synched across all nodes of our network
	and the time is rarely off more than a fraction of a second
	on all nodes. DTSS even handles differing timezones and will
	even change your clock automatically on DST changes.

	And all it requires is a DECnet license to run. You don't even need
	DNS or to install DNVEXT.

	colin sewell
	h.a.simons ltd.
	vancouver, bc
	"simons/g=colin/s=sewell"@mhs.attmail.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: VAX c
From: tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot)
Date: Fri,  8 Jan 1993 08:24:09 CST
Reply-To: tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot)
Distribution: world
Organization: The McCall Pattern Co., Manhattan, KS, USA
Nntp-Posting-User: tp


In article <01GT9W2PQDHU8WWGNM@kopc.hhs.dk>, ARNE@KOPC.HHS.DK (Arne Vajhxj)
writes:
>  - There has been more bugs in VAXCRTL than in most other RTL.

And they take longer to get fixed. Now that they finally fixed qsort, does
anyone know how long that bug lasted?
--
Terry Poot <tp@mccall.com>                   The McCall Pattern Company
(uucp: ...!rutgers!depot!mccall!tp)          615 McCall Road
(800)255-2762, in KS (913)776-4041           Manhattan, KS 66502, USA
From: themos@umbc3.umbc.edu (Mr. Themos Pentakalos)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: VAXStation 3100 storrage
Date: 8 Jan 1993 10:32:01 -0500
Organization: Univ. of MD, Baltimore County
NNTP-Posting-Host: umbc5.umbc.edu

Hello everyone.

We received a VAXStation 3100 and would like to put VMS on it over an
infoserver. However, the drive that was inside the 3100 is not big
enough for VMS. Can someone give me information on where I can get
some new/used hard disks for our 3100 without having too spend 
too much money? This will be more of a trash/testing machine for us
and we don't need to dump any cash on it.

Thanks in advance and please reply to: themos@umbc5.umbc.edu

-Themos

Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com (Dillon Pyron)
Subject: Re: Making one image "free" of charging ?
Reply-To: pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com
Organization: TI/DSEG VAX Support
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:24:19 GMT


In article <1993Jan12.134247.1@uwovax.uwo.ca>, brent@uwovax.uwo.ca (Brent Sterner) writes:
>   Bit of a strategic puzzle.  Our management here is *contemplating*
>making mail a "free" service to our users, in part to make it more
>universal on our campus.  This would mean providing "free" accounts
>(pretty easy) for "new" users, and also perhaps for existing users.
>I'm wondering about doing it "better" for existing users.  Is there
>any way to capture resource usage for the use of a specific image so
>that account credits can be created?  Or is there any way that an
>image can suspend the capture of accounting data until image rundown?
>Or any other way to accomplish this (short of running a separate machine)?
>   This is a thought exercise for now.  It is not clear that we will
>go ahead with this, and if we do it may not be on a VMS platform.  But
>if it is, how would *you* go about implementing such a scheme?
>   Please post your comments; I'd rather not run a dozen email discussions
>with cross-mailings about this.  Is it doable (easitl?) in VMS?  Might a
>*nix os provide a better atmosphere to do it successfully?  Thanks for
>your ideas.  b.

The easiest, and most painful way, would be to install the MAIL image with
accounting enabled.  You could then go back and "credit" each account for the
time burned by mail.

We did the reverse of this, chargeing every user of our SNAgateway, since we
were in turn charged by our mainframe group.  Since then, we quit chargebacks,
moved all the money functions to a VP transfer level and everybody is happier
(even the guy who writes the check, since he hears less bitching!)
--
Dillon Pyron                      | The opinions expressed are those of the
TI/DSEG Lewisville VAX Support    | sender unless otherwise stated.
(214)462-3556 (when I'm here)     |
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