HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: brydon@asl.slb.com (Harvey Brydon (918)250-4312)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Hooking VT's up with 4-wire phone line?
Date: 10 Nov 92 12:32:42 GMT
Reply-To: brydon@dsn.SINet.slb.com
Organization: Schlumberger/Anadrill Sugar Land, TX

In article <00963279.399FBD40.10331@psuedvax.psu.edu>, ken@PSUEDVAX.PSU.EDU
("Kenneth J. Hoover") writes:
>
>	Can anyone please tell me how/if it is possible to run VT-series
>terminals by grafting DB25 connectors onto the end of 4-wire telephone line?
>
>	We have hundreds of feet of 4-wire line, and I've seen it done before.
>This could save us many $$$ if it is possible so we don't have to purchase
>data cables pre-made.

What you call 4 wire telephone cable is more than likely 2 pair.  To hook up
to RS-232, connect one wire in each pair to pins 2 and 3.  Both of the other
wires should go to pin 7 and/or 1.  I did this satisfactorily connecting one
to 1, the other to 7.  You won't be able to make really long cable runs.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: system tuning help request
From: leonard@telcom.arizona.edu (Aaron Leonard)
Date: 5 Nov 92 07:37:20 MST
Reply-To: Leonard@Arizona.EDU
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona Telecommunications

In article <1992Nov5.005140.21238@npal.rn.com>, sbrant@npal.rn.com writes:
| 
| Running VMS 5.4-3 and using vi for editor.  Problem:
| 
| with no other jobs running, can be typing along and all of a sudden,
| everything come to a halt.  No chars on screen.  Wait 5 secs and all
| starts up again and chars on screen are printed catching up with those
| typed while on hold.  This is very strange and getting quite annoying.
| 
| It is like the system is going off to do some job that takes everything
| I have for about 5 secs, then comes back to me.  
| 
| Nothing I have found sets this off.  It will occur when typing a line
| and I can type several line, or sometimes several words and wham.
| 
| Watching the system on a second port with MON CLU while in vi on first
| port show only about 10% CPU, 15% mem, 1% disk, and 0 Locks.  And not
| much changes even when the problem hits on the other port.
| 
| The 'hold time' seems to be constant, always about 5 secs, then it comes
| back.
|
| [...]
|
| Again, running VMS5.4-3 on 16 meg ram, MVII.

Is your terminal hardwired to the VAX, or does it come thru the
network?  If the latter, then an explanation perfectly consistent
with observed phenomenon would be that the network has 
dropped a packet.

Aaron
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: zeus@vxcrna.cern.ch
Subject: Re: VAXstation 3100/76 as an X-terminal?
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 00:24:27 GMT

In article <1992Nov4.191653.28490@netnews.alf.dec.com>, mitcham@easy.enet.dec.com () writes:
> 
>>I got two replies, one suggested that this should work (but it doesn't) and a
>>reply from Michael Miano (miano@helix.enet.dec.com):
>>
>>>I'm afraid not. EWS does not support this hardware.
>>
>>So, unless someone else knows better, I am out of luck.
> 
> Mike Miano is one of the EWS software engineering folks at Digital.  I can 
> think of no one who might give you a more accurate answer than him.

Terrible, terrible. I hear that the alpha dosen't run that software yet
either :-)

(Posted from  a 3100 M30 used as a workstation)
From: molnar@ort.edu.uy (Andres Molnar - CECOM)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: User limit in VS4000
Date: 11 Nov 92 12:10:29 GMT
Organization: The Internet
X-Unparsable-Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 17:01:46 GMT-3

Hi,

I've got a VaxStation 4000 VLC, with an interactive user limit of 2.
I asked for a more extensive limit, and people from local's Digital
told me that even they install another VMS license, hardware prevents
that the number of interactive users gets over 2. I'm not completely
sure, but I remember working in a VaxStation 2000 with a higher limit.

If anyone knows about the subject, please let me know. Thanks.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: clusmgr@vxcern.decnet.cern.ch	 (LETERTRE Christiane)
Subject: Re: Motif & DECwindows
Reply-To: LETERTRE@VXCERN.DECNET.CERN.CH
Organization: CERN
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 10:18:43 GMT


|>   I have an 8800 and 30 3100s clustered together.  I am currently
|>running DECwindows and would like to install Motif so that some of
|>the workstations run with Motif and the others continue to use
|>DECwindows.  All nodes share a common system disk.  Can this be
|>done?  What problems will I have?  How do I do this (The Motif
|>installation notes imply that DECwindows will be deleted when
|>I install Motif).
|>   Does anyone know what software won't work with Motif?
|>   I hope this question is not to general.  Thanks to everyone.
|>         Isaac Traxler
|>         VAX Systems Manager
|>         Louisiana State University
|>         TRAXLER@LSUVAX.SNCC.LSU.EDU
|>
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To achieve such a goal, you will have to introduce a second system disk in your
cluster. Then, you install MOTIF on the second disk and you make your stations
boot from one or the other, depending if they want to use MOTIF or DECWINDOWS.
That way you may check all your software with MOTIF. When you are sure
everything is OK, you may move all your stations to MOTIF and get rid of the
DECWINDOWS system disk. Caution: you need a license for each station to run
MOTIF while there were no license for DECWINDOWS.
We introduced MOTIF that way and we did not discover any software not running
with MOTIF.

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  Christiane LETERTRE                                                        

  CERN / European Laboratory for Particle Physics                            
  CH-1211 GENEVA 23                                                          
  Tel: (022) 767 28 54                                                       
                                                                             
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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: fisk@cvdv73.mayo.edu (Tom Fisk)
Subject: Problems with UCX 2.0 lpd
Reply-To: fisk@mayo.edu
Organization: Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 19:37:46 GMT


We are having some problems getting the UCX 2.0 lpd service running.  We want
to print a file from our AIX system on a VMS hosted printer.  Everything works
fine up to the point where the UCX$LPD_QUEUE is supposed to start.  At that 
point in time we get (from OPCOM):

%SYSTEM-F-OPCDEC, opcode reserved to DIGITAL fault at PC=001CA326, PSL=03C00000
Stopping the symbiont
%QMAN-E-SYMDEL, unexpected symbiont process termination

We are printing an ASCII file to an LN03R printer through a queue that has the
ANSI parameter associated with it.

Here is the PRINTCAP file:

#
# LOCAL PRINTERS
#
UCX$LPD_QUEUE:\
        :lp=UCX$LPD_QUEUE:\
        :sd=UCX$LPD_SPOOL:
# CVDV99 Queue LN03R$ANSI
IMS1|IMS1_00|ims1|ANSI Printer:\
        :lf=/$1$DKA300/SYS0/UCX_LPD/IMS1.log:\
        :lp=LN03R$ANSI:\
        :sd=/$1$DKA300/SYS0/UCX_LPD/IMS1:
#

Here is the SHOW QUEUE/FULL on the queues in question:

Generic printer queue LN03R$ANSI
  /GENERIC=(LN03R$PRINT) /OWNER=[SYSTEM] /PROTECTION=(S:E,O:D,G:R,W:W)
  /SCHEDULE=(NOSIZE)

Server queue UCX$LPD_QUEUE, stopped, on CVDV99::, mounted form DEFAULT
  /BASE_PRIORITY=4 /DEFAULT=(FEED,FORM=DEFAULT) /OWNER=[SYSTEM]
  /PROCESSOR=UCX$LPD_SMB /PROTECTION=(S:E,O:D,G:R,W:W) /RETAIN=ERROR

Log files don't lend a clue to why the symbiont is stopping.

Any ideas???  Thanks for you help!   Tom.
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From: WILLIAMST@ATCF.NCSC.NAVY.MIL ("Tom Williams")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: which news to use?
Date: 10 Nov 92 19:26:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

I'd like to get news running on my vax, but don't know which one to get.  What's the difference
between anu news,  mewsrdr, and vnews for vms. also, what about nntp news and usenet news? 
I'd like access to comp.os.vms, (I think), misc.rec.humor, etc.  I'm not sure if I'm getting
these names right, but hopefully you know what I mean.  I'm subscribed to infovax now, and
get the monthly FAQ list, but it doesn't list what news is or which one's which.

Thanks for any info

Tom Williams
williamst@atcf.ncsc.navy.mil


Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: rick@qucdnee.ee.queensu.ca
Subject: third party hardware maintenance experiences? 
Organization: Queen's University EE Department
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 17:52:10 GMT


this has come up before, of course, but i cleverly forgot to save
things as they came by. what the heck, perhaps things have changed
somewhat. 

i'm looking for experiences that people might have had with
third-party maintenance in the southern ontario neck of the woods. i
got my paperwork for the renewal of a service contract on a vaxserver
3400 a while back, and at about the same time got a phone call from a
sales droid for a third-party (keal computer services). i got him to
give me a quote, and the numbers look pretty good. they are based near
toronto, however, which puts them a two or three hour drive away.
(dec, on the other hand, is local and we've dealt with them for a
decade. sigh.)

to help me in my dithering, does anyone have any experiences they
could share (horror stories, recommendations, abuse, or whatever)
about 

 - third-party maintenance firms operating in this part of the world
   (kingston - midway between montreal, toronto, and ottawa)
 - any obscure methods one could use to coax dec into being "more 
   competitive. :-)

thanks in advance.

rp
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: reuben@auvax1.adelphi.edu
Subject: TN3270 for UCX
Organization: Adelphi University, Garden City NY
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:42:01 GMT

Hi All,

Can you anyone point me to a version of TN3270 that works the UCX?
I am running VMS 5.5-1.
I apologize if this is an FAQ.
Thanks in advance.
 
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From: goathunter@wkuvx1.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Intelligent mailer for VMS 5.5?
Date: 12 Nov 92 09:33:02 CDT
Organization: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY

In article <11NOV199220085697@spades.aces.com>,
  gavron@spades.aces.com (Ehud Gavron 602-570-2000 x. 2546) writes:
>
> 	Innosoft International's PMDF is an excellent mail
> 	package (mta, etc.) which provides all the functionality
> 	you're looking for!
> 
> 	It's the #1 choices of places that need reliability.  Often
> 	a secondary choice is the public domain MX program.  I'd
> 	recommend PMDF for performance reasons as well.
> 
I don't think there's much secondary about MX, if it does what you
need; sounds like just what Chuck needs.  MX is my number #1 choice
for reliability.  Not that I've had reliability problems with PMDF,
but I want to point out that, for most sites, there's nothing
unreliable in MX.

As far as performance goes, I assume things have changed since PMDF
v3.1, where batch jobs were used....

For more information on MX, send the following command in the body of
a mail message to FILESERV@WKUVX1.BITNET:

SEND MX031.INFORMATION

MX is also available via anonymous ftp from ftp.spc.edu in [.MX].

Hunter
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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: spowell@trentu.ca (Stefan Powell)
Subject: Wanted: UUENCODE for VMS
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Trent University Computer Services Department
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 06:13:00 GMT

I have UUDECODE for VMS but I don't have UUENCODE.
Can anybody tell me the FTP site where I can get it.
Or, just mail it to me if you have it.

Thanks in advance.

________________________________________________________________________________
                                              Stefan Powell - SPowell@TrentU.CA
From: gerland@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Jim Gerland - Network Consultant)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Need help on Vnews
Date: 8 Nov 92 02:39:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <19921106.091840.439@almaden.ibm.com>, micky_wong@vnet.ibm.com (Micky Wong) writes...
>A netter on soc.culture.china asked me the following question via E-mail:
>"As far as 'kill file concerned', now I am using Vnews on Vax/Vms to
>brows news. Could you tell me how to make 'kill file' under my
>condition ?"

Tell that person to issue the command: K /pattern
at the Action: prompt, where pattern is a string he would like to use
for his kill criteria.  He can type a ? at the Action: propmt for a
list of valid commands.

Jim Gerland  - Consultant, Network User Support         University at Buffalo
Academic Services, Computing & Information Technology   Buffalo, NY 14260
716.645.3557 Work                                       716.645.3734 FAX
gerland@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu                            gerland@ubvms.bitnet
Xref: sparky comp.os.vms:17813 vmsnet.sysmgt:333
From: ttytst@merak.usc.edu (Guess what)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,vmsnet.sysmgt
Subject: HELP: how to stop and prevent break in?
Date: 11 Nov 1992 15:36:58 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: merak.usc.edu

We got very strange things happened on one account where we found the owner of files are not only the owner of the account but also another one.  

	OWNER=[my,WHO] 

All the files and directories under that account have two owners and we are sure that the other one is illegal. What we need to know right now is how to prevent this kind of things happened again and how to remove the illegal one from the ownership without SYSTEM ADMINSTATROR's Privilage.  Thanks in advance.

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Please don't reply to this account and I am just helping them to forward the mail.

ttytst
From: ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Kermit packet size
Date: 7 Nov 92 15:56:42 -0800
Reply-To: EWILTS@GALAXY.GOV.BC.CA
Distribution: world
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

In article <01GQVM6KPFZ48WW1MS@scorva>, CAPTANSKI33@SNYCORVA.BITNET (CHRIS TANSKI) writes:
> Anyone know how to change the pakcet size kermit sends from 84 to
> 9000? My comm. program receives that fast so it would be nice if this
> kermit server would send it that fast. Please reply directly.

It depends on the version of Kermit you are using.  There are 2 different VMS
flavours, each of which has production and test versions.

Kermit-32
	The latest *production* version available from Columbia is 3.3.126. 
This does not support long packets.  You can pull off a test version that does. 
I believe the latest test is T3.4.018.

C-kermit
	The latest production version is 4E(70). This supports long packets but
not sliding windows.  A test version, 5A, is available that will give you both
as well as a lot of other very useful features (especially when transferring
from one VMS system to another).

You can pull either of the production versions from Columbia
(watsun.cc.columbia.edu) in the kermit/b directory.  You can find both test
versions in the kermit/test directory.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: andreas@didymus.rmi.de (Andreas Fassl)
Subject: PROBLEM: SET COMMAND UTILITY
Summary: Command-Definitions missing.
Keywords: VMS 5.1, DCLTABLES.EXE, MicroVAX 3200, VMSINSTAL
Organization: Klaus Kaempf Softwareentwicklung
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 14:14:31 GMT

Hi,

any pointers/solutions to the following problem?

Software product successfully installs via VMSINSTAL, runs fine.
After logout all new command definitions are gone.
A dump of the file DCLTABLES.EXE shows a correct installation.
Setting the command files via SET COMMAND directly will make
the commands available, a definition via
SET COMMAND/TABLE=DCL.../OUT=DCL.. command NOT.
What other locations are possible, how can I determine the other
command tables. A look in authorize gives no hint.

Thanks in advance

Andreas Fassl
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From: GLOESENER@MENVAX.RESTENA.LU
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: NEED VMS FTP client sources !!!!!!!
Date: 5 Nov 92 14:22:38 GMT
Organization: The Internet

From:	SMTP%"robinson@porter.geo.brown.edu"  3-NOV-1992 22:50:49.43
To:	GLOESENER@MENVAX.RESTENA.LU
CC:	
Subj:	Re: NEED FTP sources

Date: Tue, 3 Nov 92 16:48:26 EST
From: robinson@porter.geo.brown.edu (Darrin Robinson)
Message-Id: <9211032148.AA17024@porter.geo.brown.edu>
To: GLOESENER@MENVAX.RESTENA.LU
Subject: Re: NEED FTP sources
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Organization: /etc/organization
Cc: 

In article <9211032140.AA05219@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> you write:
>
>Hi,
>
>I am currently working on an FTPtool for VAX/VMS which will work on VT
>terminals. To realize this I need the sources of the normal FTP.
>Does anybody know where to get the FTP sources for VMS (I have a UNIX version)
>using UCX or multinet or any other software (best would be UCX).
>
>
>                                                 Gasty Gloesener
>


Gasty, I have a modified (the Washington University Archive) version of
the FDPD with SOURCE.  If you'd like it (it's in C of course ;-> it's on

	ftp.geo.brown.edu

in the directory:

	/pub/packages/ftpd.wuarchive.shar.Z

You'll need to uncompress it first and then "Un Share" it!

Darrin

Note:  When logging into my FTP Server just user your username and the
       @ sign for the password... i.e.  robinson@ is what I type... it's
       very picky about FQDNs!

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From: leichter@lrw.com (Jerry Leichter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: setting disk quotas
Date: 11 Nov 92 21:45:28 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


	Does anyone know how to modify disk quotas froM  a program? I can't
	see any reference to anything like it in the system services or RTL,
	and we would like to be able to do it so that non privileged users
	could modify their quota within reason

This is handled through what is known as the "ACP-QIO Interface", documented
in the I/O User's Reference Manual.  Most of the functions of that interface
have to do with file access, but at the end is a section on "ACP control"
functions, one (group) of which controls disk quotas.

The whole ACP-QIO interface is notoriously difficult to use - where RMS
provides a way to get the job done, it's usually easier to use RMS, no simple
interface itself!  In this case, you have to do the ACP calls directly.
Take heart:  It's complicated and has a lot of pieces, but there's nothing
inherently difficult about it.  (Kind of like plumbing:  Each of the indivi-
dual steps requires, at worst, some strength; the difficulty is in the number
of such steps you have to get right to finish the job.)

							-- Jerry
From: bear@nuc.anu.edu.au (Bernhard Fabricius)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Task to task decnet problem
Date: 9 Nov 1992 03:11:08 GMT
Organization: Nuclear Physics, ANU
Distribution: world
Reply-To: BEAR@NUC.ANU.EDU.AU
NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.19.47


In article <DAVIS.92Nov8154006@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu>, davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu ("John E. Davis") writes:

>   I am trying to write an application which communicates across DECnet from a
>system running VMS 4.7 to one run running VMS 5.4-1.  This purpose of this
>program is to copy files from a unix host via multinet's rcp to the VMS 4.7
>system then copy them to the VMS 5.4-1 system which does not have multinet.
>This part is easy enough.  Here is the hard part.
>
>   The VMS 5.4-1 system has a 3-1/2 in floppy which we access using the
>PCX program to read and write MSDOS files.  Once the copy has been made from
>VSM 4.7 to the 5.4-1 system, I'd like to run PCX to move the files to the
>floppy in an MSDOS format.  However, I'd like to do all of this from the VMS
>4.7 system.

[stuff deleted]


A very simple (but not very elegant) way of doing this would involve letting
the "4.7" nodes' menu system send a mail-message to a special PCX account on
the "5.4-1" node. A low-prio background job on the "5.4-1" node then checks (at
regular intervals) if there is any new mail for the PCX account and runs PCX
with the requested file-name when there is. (You could put the requested
file-name in the "Subject" field of the mail-message).

You can use callable mail-routines to do the work. There is an example in the
"Grey Wall" on the callable mail routines that you can use as a template - it
does almost all of what you want (except, of course, running PCX...)

This is quick and dirty, but very secure. (And your users need never know...)

Cheers

Bernhard
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