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From: grant@reg.triumf.ca (Peter A. Grant)
Subject: HP PaintJet
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: TRIUMF: Tri-University Meson Facility
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:34:00 GMT

We have an HP PaintJut printer attached to a DECserver that we print to from
a large number of VAXen.  

While it took a long while to get all of the VMS/DECserver parameters right,
we haven't had any problems with it since this was done a few months ago.
(This is under VMS 5.5.  It worked fine for quite some time too before we
upgraded to 5.5 as well.)

Just to let you know that it can be done.   

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From: ARNE@ko.hhs.dk (Arne Vajhxj)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Problem with ANALYZE/DISK/REPAIR
Date: 22 Jul 92 12:00:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

> 	Im running V5.3-1 and for a while now when I run ANALYZE/DISK/REPAIR
> I get the message:
> 
> %VERIFY-E-SORTERROR, error sorting multiply allocated block list
> -RMS-E-WLCK, device currently write locked
> 
> 	I said something to DEC as an aside but didn't really get an answer.
> Is this a problem?  Any ideas how to fix or why it exists?

ANAL/DISK/REP write locks the disk it is working on. It also tries to
create a work-file in SYS$SCRATCH. If SYS$SCRATCH is on the disk being
worked on, then the above problem arise. The workaround is to
redefine SYS$SCRATCH to another disk. If I remember correct, then
this changed with VMS 5.4, so that you do not have do anything to
ANAL/DISK/REP the SYS$SCRATCH disk.


                                                          Arne Vajhxj

Arne Vajhxj                             local DECNET:  KO::ARNE
Computer Department                     PSI:           PSI%238310013040::ARNE
Business School of Southern Denmark     Internet:      ARNE@KO.HHS.DK
From: bus462db2@vx24.cc.monash.edu.au
Subject: HELP! uuencode/uudecode in VMS?
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 11:01:12 GMT

	Do we have equalents of uuencode and uudecode in VMS?  If we do, can
someone tell me what are they?  Thanks in advance!

---Cheers
	Bill Lo
	Monash Uni, Australia

Please send mail to:  william@natimuk.acci.com.au

or			bus462db2@vx24.cc.monash.edu
or			bus338pb2@vx24.cc.monash.edu
From: DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU (Dan Wing)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Copying a LONG list of rights identifiers between users.
Date: 27 Jul 92 21:30:04 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

In private mail, Don Robers, <don@biivax.dp.BECKMAN.COM>, wrote:

>"GENERIC" (to use your example), is a well established name that has been used
>for other purposes for a long time.  It has a *lot* of differences (access
>restrictions, flag, uic, sys$login, privs, etc.  I would have to be very
>careful to make sure it ended up the same as previous.

True...  How about:

  $ MCR AUTHORIZE LIST/FULL JOE
and then edit the SYSUAF.LIS file so it only contains the identifiers, then 
do something like:

$ OPEN/READ  INFILE SYSUAF.LIS
$ OPEN/WRITE OUTFILE SYSUAF_UPDATE.COM
$
$ WRITE OUTFILE "$ SET DEFAULT SYS$SYSTEM"
$ WRITE OUTFILE "$ RUN AUTHORIZE"
$
$LOOP:
$ READ/END_OF_FILE=DONE INFILE RECORD
$ WRITE OUTFILE "GRANT/ID ", F$EXTRACT(0,35,RECORD), " GENERIC"
$ GOTO LOOP
$
$DONE:
$ WRITE OUTFILE "EXIT"
$ WRITE OUTFILE "$ EXIT"
$ CLOSE OUTFILE
$ CLOSE INFILE

check it over, and then:

  $ @SYSUAF_UPDATE.COM

It's tacky, there must be a better way, but this should work.

-Dan Wing, DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU or WING_D@UCOLMCC.BITNET (DGW11)
 Systems Programmer, University Hospital, Denver
From: DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU (Dan Wing)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: RMU/BACKUP over decnet?
Date: 28 Jul 92 15:58:30 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Jeff E Mandel, mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu, writes:

>I would like to be able to backup an Rdb database on a remote node to the 8mm
>tape drive on my node. I run both nodes, which are MV IIs, but for a number of
>reasons, I don't want to cluster them if I don't have to. I'd like to be able
>to issue a command on my node (NODEA) to backup the remote node (NODEB):
>
>$RMU/BACKUP NODEB::DB$DEV:[DB$DIR]DB MUB0:DB.RBF
>
>I try this (I have proxy access between system accounts), and I get:
>
>%RMU-F-BADDBNAME, can't find database root NODEB::DB$DEV:[DB$DIR]DB.RDB;1
>-RMU-F-NONODE, no node name is allowed in the file specification

[... attempts to use logical names to fake out Rdb ...]

>What I need is a way to get a fairly large database
>backup onto the 8mm tape without first having to put it on disk. I'd prefer a
>solution that doesn't require major changes to the machines (e.g. clustering,
>moving the SCSI controller from NODEA to NODEB).

The RMU command talks to the process RDMS_MONITOR on your system to coordinate
activity.  It cannot communicate to the RDMS_MONITOR process on another node 
using DECnet.

You'll have to copy it to disk first, cluster the systems, or move the SCSI
controller.

Remote Tape Facility (from System Management Software, 800-521-9966 or
805-582-6151) might solve your problem.  I don't anything about this product 
other than their ads.

-Dan Wing, DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU or WING_D@UCOLMCC.BITNET (DGW11)
 Systems Programmer, University Hospital, Denver
From: RFORSTER@VENUS.GOV.BC.CA ("Russell M. Forster")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: (none)
Date: 29 Jul 92 17:09:26 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet
From: oberman@ptavv.llnl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Vax to Ultrix delay over decnet
Date: 22 Jul 92 21:44:03 GMT
Distribution: usa

In article <1992Jul22.170955.22876@macc.wisc.edu>, stevens@vms.macc.wisc.edu (PAul STevens - MACC - 2-9618) writes:

> I have found that this happens when an ethernet packet is lost.  The
> decnet timeout value is 6 seconds.  Can't be changed as far as I can
> tell.  Telnet's timeout is generally a few tens of milliseconds.
> Decnet must have been manufactured in a clean-room with three nodes.
> It works rather poorly on busy, noisy networks.  I have fought these
> problems for years and all I can ever get from DEC is advice to make
> the ethernet work better.  IP protocols are much more robust.  I have
> seen cases where over 80 percent of packets sere being lost (no---that
> is not normal, even here!) and telnet users had no complaints.  VAX
> clusters simply crashed.

This may be close, but the statement that it can't be adjusted is false! There
are 2 executor parameters that control timeout, DELAY FACTOR and DELAY WEIGHT.

The units date back to the days of slow serial links and can be modified to
greatly improve performance. The estimated round trip time is in INTEGER
SECONDS!!!

I would drop DELAY FACTOR to about 16. This is a 1 second wait before
retransmission. Since round trip delay on a Ethernet should be very small, you
might also want to adjust DELAY WEIGHT which controls the recalculation of the
delay.

If you have some SLOW network links, such as 2400 baud async lines, this may
not be a good idea as the delay factor is an exec parameter and applies to all
circuits.

R. Kevin Oberman			Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Internet: koberman@llnl.gov		(510) 422-6955

Disclaimer: Don't take this too seriously. I just like to improve my typing
and probably don't really know anything useful about anything.
From: gezelter@rlgsc.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Help wanted : Running out of ENQLM
Date: 22 Jul 92 03:13:11 GMT
Organization: Robert Gezelter Software Consultant, Flushing, NY

In article <1992Jul21.123724.218@lincoln.ac.nz>, brown@lincoln.ac.nz writes:
> We have COBOL programs which run out of ENQLM very quickly.
> 
> I know that ENQLM is the number of locks you can have queued at any
> one time, and that file i/o can use locks.  But I don't really know
> much more than that, and I would like to understand what is going on.
> 
> 1.  What else besides file i/o uses locks ?  I imagine there are operating
>     system tables which require locks ?
> 
> 2.  What is the effect on the system of a user having a high ENQLM ?
>     How high is high ?  Our default is 800.  Our COBOL user normally has
>     2000.  We tried with 3000 and still didn't get very far.  I don't want
>     to just keep on increasing it without understanding that it is
>     sensible and reasonable that a program might require very large values.
>     Does anyone have guidelines on what are sensible and reasonable ranges
>     of values for ENQLM ?
> 
> Any hints or tips would be much appreciated.  We are running VMS V5.4-2 on
> a VAX 4000 model 200, and using COBOL V4.3.
> 
> with thanks,
> ________________________________________________________________________________
> Martyn Brown, Senior Computer Consultant          Phone: 64.3.3252811 extn 8012
> Centre for Computing and Biometrics                 Fax: 64.3.3252944
> P. O. Box 84, Lincoln University                 Pacnet: 05301.30000047::brown
> Canterbury, New Zealand                 Bitnet,Internet: brown@lincoln.ac.nz
-- 
Martyn,
 
Many databases use fairly large numbers of locks. I remember the 
first time I brought up a data base package after the lock 
manager first appeared, I had to up the number of locks to on the 
order of a couple of thousand (even for a very simple 
application using Datatrieve).
 
Increasing the number of locks is also not particularly 
expensive.
 
I hope that the above information is useful.
 
- Bob
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From: tim@vxcrna.cern.ch
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Attaching IBM 0663 1 Gigabyte SCSI disk to VAXstation 3100 /4000
Date: 28 Jul 92 15:12:26 GMT
Reply-To: tim@vxcrna.cern.ch ()
Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics


I would be interested to know if anyone has successfully installed the IBM 0663
1 Gigabyte SCSI disk on a VAXstation 3100 or VAXstation running VMS 5.5. This 
disk has been installed on DECstations running Ultrix at CERN but even though
the disk is seen online as a generic scsi device, any attempt to initialize
the disk results in an %INIT-F-DRVERR, fatal drive error.  I have managed to use
this disk on a VAX 6000-420 using a CMD BI-SCSI adapter.

Thanks in advance for any help

Tim Whibley
VAX operations manager
CERN,Geneva,Switzerland

email::	tim@vxcrna.cern.ch
voice::	+ 41 22 7674849
From: STUKING@EKU.BITNET ("Steven C. King ", Ryu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Intercom Program
Date: 26 Jul 92 08:28:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

VAX Users,

         I just wanted to announce I'm giving out Intercom - a multi-channel,
multi-user, local relay system program which is similar to RELAY and IRC.  It
has been a project I've worked on for a few weeks on spare time.  Intercom
is written in VAX Pascal and uses system service and RTL routines.  At this
time, the source will not be given out until all the bugs have been fixed and a
final version is made.  For now, I'll be giving out the UUE and the DOC file
VMS shared.  Intercom will not work across DECNET nodes.  I could rig Intercom
to do such an operation, but file accessing would be terribly slow.  If anyone
is interested in receiving a copy, send me e-mail.  I hope you'll like the pro-
gram.

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From: billb@crpmks.uucp (Bill Bochnik (Info Systems))
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Boot-time quotas
Date: 31 Jul 92 14:22:13 GMT
Reply-To: billb@crpmks.UUCP (Bill Bochnik (Info Systems))
Distribution: comp
Organization: Ciba-Geigy Corporation

In article <1992Jul31.135907.9777@crpmks.uucp> billb@crpmks.UUCP (Bill Bochnik (Info Systems)) writes:
>In article <1992Jul30.163902.22460@cco.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
>>In article <1992Jul30.141103.29553@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, coar@Nephi.Enet.DEC.Com (Rodent of Unusual Size) writes:
>>>
>>>In article <1992Jul29.193857.1822@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>, marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Bob Marshall) writes...
>>>>
>>>>Where does the system initialization process get its quota values from? I
>>>
>>>    The STARTUP process is created with an hard-coded list of quota values.
>>>    Any quotas no specified will be taken from the PQL_D<mumble> values; and
>>>    hard-coded values may be overridden by setting the PQL_M<mumble>
>>>    parameters.
>>
>>Now, to provide an answer to Bob's REAL question:  If you don't want to fiddle
>>with the PQL_M* SYSGEN parameters (i.e., you don't want EVERYONE to have the
>>huge page file quota that one image needs), why don't you have your startup
>>procedure:
>
>Don't you mean the ABILITY to have a large page file quota?  If a user's UAF
>record says his paagefile quota is less than the pql, doesn't he get the uaf
>one?  Isn't the PQL a MAX for user accounts?  Or am I mistaken?
>
>
>--
>Bill Bochnik			| It's hard to be a James Bond in an Abbott
>Systems Analyst 		|	and Costello world.
>Ciba-Geigy Corporation		| Signed and sealed, they deliver oblivion.
>philabs!crpmks!billb		| It's worse than that, he's dead Jim.

About .001 seconds after I posted this, I realized that I was wrong.  I then 
proceeded to the grey wall (or whatever you want to call it when it is on cd) 
and confirm that the original poster was correct.  The PQL's are minimum 
values.  (stupid 'cause I knew that).  The idea of a batch job or run/detach 
is the best way to do it.

sorry.


-- 
Bill Bochnik			| It's hard to be a James Bond in an Abbott
Systems Analyst 		|	and Costello world.
Ciba-Geigy Corporation		| Signed and sealed, they deliver oblivion.
philabs!crpmks!billb		| It's worse than that, he's dead Jim.
From: HOLDREGE+_MP%A1%PacifiCare@MCIMAIL.COM (HOLDREGE_MP)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Summary of responses re: Ethernet monitoring tools
Date: 22 Jul 92 17:45:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


>Sniffers also come in the software only variety.  You supply the PC. It does
>not run on any other platform than DOS.  They send free demo diskettes to
>run on your PC if you call them.  I forget where I stashed their number, but
>if there is enough interest I can look it up.

The distributed Sniffer will soon be available on a Unix platform. I am 
eagerly awaiting this. When it arrives I will be able to access the Sniffer 
from any Xterminal on the network. With the distributed sniffer I can have 
several pods scattered throughout my network and view them in different 
Xterms.

================
Matt Holdrege  5156065@mcimail.com  holdrege@eisner.decus.org

Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: bdr@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (brian.d.reed)
Subject: Some DECW questions
Keywords: decw, calendar, links
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 02:11:36 GMT


1) How do you get calendar to do overdue alarms?  If I'm not logged
   in when the alarm is due, it never goes off.  Doesn't make me
   feel good about putting in an alarm far down the road.

2) Is there a way to make a list of links?  For example, I want to
   link to several subjects in bookreader.  I was wanting something
   like a pull down menu, so that I could just click on one of the
   choices and have that help window pop up.  I looked through some
   of the link help, but I'm having trouble visualizing how to use 
   it besides linking a bookreader window and a mail message.

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From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: DECwindows ==> Motif license upgrade
Date: 27 Jul 92 07:09:29 GMT
Organization: St. Peter's College, US

In article <9207262258.AA10530@genrad.com>, dongray@cdclu1.genrad.com (Derek Dongray) writes:
> When DW/Motif was released in the UK, with its license, I made several equiries
> to our local DEC sales people. The answer I got was that because part of the
> code was not DEC's property a license fee *had* to be charged. Hence the 100
> pounds for any machine offer. As far as I know there was *never* a free license
> program in the UK. I suppose it's just another example of the US getting a much
> better deal than the UK. (Or the rest of the world?)

  Just remember - it's DEC's job to its shareholders to show a profit [funny
time to be mentioning this, no? 8-]. If DEC can be convinced that doing some-
thing differently will make it easier to show a profit, they will do so. The
trick is getting the evidence in front of the right person who can make that
decision.

  If DEC thought it would come out ahead by giving away licenses, they would.
By the way, given the botch they made of the free upgrade program here in the
US, I suspect it cost them more than #100 per license - lots more.

  A similar example was the DEQNA->DELQA trade-up offer. The terms of this
varied in the different Digital divisions, anywhere from "tough - go buy a new
board" through "here's your free DELQA". In regions where folks thought the
policy was bad, they lobbied (some successfully) to have it changed. The prob-
lem with the Motif offer was that DEC managed to keep it a big secret, so no
such grass-roots movement got started.

	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: MARZEC@GUNBRF.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: VMS/Un*x media exchange compatibilities
Date: 24 Jul 92 19:13:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


Fellow VMS/Un*x users,

We are interested in methods of data exchange between VMS and other systems
such as Un*x via magnetic tape media preferably DAT. At present we have been
able to distribute to non-VMS sites by using the following protocol for mag
tape and TK dirves:

  1. rewrite VMS files from "variable length records / CR carriagecontrol"
                         to "fixed-length 80-byte rec / CR carriagecontrol"
  2. INITIALIZE tape device with some label
  3. MOUNT/FOREIGN/RECORDSIZE=80/BLOCKSIZE=4800 device:
                                          =2048 for TK50, TK70 (and DAT) tape
  4. COPY VMS-file device:

In the past most all non-VMS sites were able to use this media. We assume that
this protocol yields an industry standard ANSI-labeled tape. However, lately
we attempted to distribute data via the above protocol except using a WangDAT
Model 1300 DDS DAT tape drive. The system used is a VAXstation 3100 running
V5.5. The customer was able to read/copy only the first file of the volume
after which no more data was accessible. We are curious to get feedback from
this protocol, specifically if it can be used for all non-VMS systems and if
it is an efficient procedure (time and space).

Questions:
  1. is "VMS-ANSI-labeled" synonymous with "ANSI-labeled"
  2. the DAT drive spec for blocksize is 36, is this significant because we
     are able to read the tape inhouse when made using the above protocol
  3. does VMS file attributes affect the format of data when written to tape
     ie. fixed-length vs. stream_LF (is one better than the other)

Thank you for any suggestions/comments

Chris Marzec
MARZEC@GUNBRF.bitnet
From: duval@elpp1.epfl.ch (Basil P. Duval EPFL - CRPP 1015 Lausanne CH)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: GNUPLOT_X11 for VMS???
Date: 30 Jul 92 15:36:12 GMT
Reply-To: DUVAL@ELPP1.EPFL.CH
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne


In reply to the problems with ghostscript on VMS.

I got the sources and font files from prep-ai.mit.edu and uncompressed them
and untar'd them.

There is a file called vms-cc.com to complete the compilation.

I am running vms 5.5 and motif....

I found I needed three changes to the data supplied

1) in the file "file.h" it is necessary to include the line 
#include "stream.h"
	close to where it is commented out in the source
2) in the file "memory_.h" I had to comment out the definitions of memcpy and
memset sice the compiler did NOT like the redefinition
3) in the vms-cc.com file, I required an extra link file
SYS$SHARE:DECW$DWTLIBSHR/SHARE
SYS$SHARE:DECW$XLIBSHR/SHARE
were the sharable images I linked to get alll the required files.

Finally, since I had not specified another directory for the initialisation
files as described in the heading of vms-cc.com, I have a setup file

GNUSET.COM

$ gs :== $yourdevice:[yourpath.subpath]gs.exe
$ define GS_LIB yourdevice:[yourpath.subpath]

I even went to the trouble to delete all the files, repeat the untar and then
edit the two files before launching my slightly modified vms-cc.com, and
I got a usable executable.


I HAVE A QUESTION OF MY OWN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How can I rotate the screen image to correctly see images in the horizonatal
mode without turning my head....


Basil Duval
EPFL/CRPP
1015 Bassenges, Switzerland
EMAIL DUVAL@ELPP1.EPFL.CH
From: barrett@aminet.uucp (Keith Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Multiple save-sets on a tape
Date: 22 Jul 92 23:45:39 GMT
Reply-To: barrett%aminet@nuconvex.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: Waterbury USENET/UUCP
X-Copyright: (c) 1992 Keith Barrett; May be distributed freely, Not for sale
X-Disclaimer: Statements expressed are not representitive of any employer
X-NewsSoftware: XRN V6.17 Amiga UNIX SVR4

In article <1992JUL20.175952.03@pegasus.ch>, imkesun@pegasus.ch (Ralph Kloess) writes:
>   we put multiple savesets on a 8mm exabyte by doing an
>   $INIT $1$MUA110: 'label'
>   and then
>   $BACKUP disk:[dir-struct-1...] $1$MUA110:saveset-1.bck/SAVE/LABEL='label'
>   $BACKUP disk:[dir-struct-2...] $1$MUA110:saveset-2.bck/SAVE/LABEL='label'
>   $BACKUP disk:[dir-struct-n...] $1$MUA110:saveset-n.bck/SAVE/LABEL='label'
>
>   It works fine so far (over a year)

You can skip the "INIT" part if you include a "/REWIND" on the first AND ONLY
FIRST backup command.


-- 

-kgb

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