HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. "Buddy can you spare a clue?" Ranum)
Subject: Re: Help : Copy protection 
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 21:10:41 GMT

>I tried to use the Ethernet address (i.e. 8:0:2b:24:42:55) of the
>ethernet interface card (the address is unique) but I coulnd't find a
>way to get it by software.

	You sure can get it via software - but it's not really likely to
always be unique. If you really want copy protection, you need to use a
dongle or something like that. Of course, everyone will hate you if you
do, and loads of people like myself will refuse to buy your product if
it's copy protected...

mjr.


PS -
	struct ifdevea hw_addr;

	s = socket (AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
	strcpy (&hw_addr.ifr_name [0], "ln0");
	ioctl(s, SIOCRPHYSADDR, (caddr_t) &hw_addr);

	What gets tricky is figuring ot what device to check. If the machine
has more than one device, do you pick the first? Or do you always use ln0?
Also, some systems allow you to change the apparent ethernet address...
Remember - the kernel is just software.
-- 
	It is important to focus on writing software that is "adequate."
Having one's software be "good" or even "excellent" is over-rated. If
"good" were necessary or even important, DOS would not be the de facto
standard operating system.                          -notebooks of a heretic
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au (Paul Repacholi)
Subject: Re: Please tell me how to load an RA60 Drive....
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 19:20:06 GMT

In article <nzimman.718409297@icaen.uiowa.edu>, nzimman@icaen.uiowa.edu (Nicholas R. Zimmerman) writes:
> Greetings....
>  
> I have a PDP11/44 that I am about to boot....I have one RA60 drive and a
> TU80 tape drive....what I need to know is how to load that RA60 so I can
> boot up and load the system on the drive.
>  
> I know the sticky ins and outs of loading the sys, but it is the actual
> physical loading of the disk pack that I don't know....please enlighten me
> and be very detailed....pretend I am a moron....
> 

Well... assuming the heads have been unlocked etc, etc... If you don't know,
find help and go no further... 

If that sort of stuff is realy, *REALY* OK, your are sure now, slide the drive
out so the top is clear, not ness if its on the top of course... Press the
flat thing that sticks out of the top of the front pannel. the lid should pop
up a little. open the lid. Is it realy clean inside? If not, see step one.
Take the pack in one hand and fondel underneath the pack cover. You should
see/feel 2 sections that you squeeze together to release the bottom section
of the cover. Place the pack, with the top cover in place in the big round
hole. It will feel a bit 'graunchy' for the last " or so. Turn the handel on
top clockwise. The pack should rotate a bit then lock. Keep turning. After a
few turns, you will feel it come tight. Now lift the cover straight up. It
may need a few pounds to remove. Put the top of the cover on the bottom, to
keep some of the dust out, close the drive lid, restore drive. Hold nose,
pray, press the "LOAD" button. The drive should spin up and the unit number
light up.

Good luck...

~Paul
From: STDN%MARIST@VM.MARIST.EDU (Dan Newcombe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Database shareware via ftp for DEC RAINBOW
Date: 13 Oct 1992 08:16:42 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Hi,
  One of our faculty own a DEC Rainbow running CP/M.  He is looking
for some database software for it.  Any help would be greatly appreciated

  Thanks,
    -Dan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: doug@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Douglas W O'Neal)
Subject: help needed with REPLY/ENABLE on a mailbox
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 18:17:32 GMT

Hello all!

I am working on a project for monitoring remote VMS systems and have hit
a snag that the big gray wll has not helped me on.  I want to capture OPCOM
messages and send them back to an Ultrix machine's syslogd.  I have the
transport mechanism in place and I figured that all I would have to do is
create a mailbox and give the equivalent of
    DEFINE/USER SYS$COMMAND MBAxxx:
    REPLY/ENABLE
The result of this is nothing.  There is no messages about "Operator MBAxxx
has been enabled", no error messages, and $SEVERITY=1.

My question(s):
Can a mailbox device be enabled as an operator terminal?  If so, how.  If
not, can anybody suggest an alternate approach?  I really do want to keep
operator.log in place and I really do not want to read operator.log through
this program.

Thanks.
Doug
-- 
Doug O'Neal, Distributed Systems Programmer, Johns Hopkins University
doug@jhuvms.bitnet, doug@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu, mimsy!aplcen!jhunix!doug
From: bruce@ais.com (Bruce C. Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Need 115kb asynch into my uVAX-II..
Date: 15 Oct 92 12:31:32 GMT
Organization: Applied Information Systems, Chapel Hill, NC

In article <1992Oct12.150522.1@alien.gici.com>, laut@alien.gici.com (Bill Laut) writes:
> 
> 	We're thinking of replacing some modems with v.42bis in order to
> achieve the (theoretical) 115.2kb in asynch mode.  The only problem we're
> facing is that we cannot do a "$ SET TERM/SPEED=115200" (:-).

You're not likely to get anywhere near 115.2 KB on anything but highly
redundant data.  I don't know what your application is, but for typical
data you won't get much benefit beyond 38.4 KB, and if it is already
compressed (by lzcmp or ZIP for example), then you won't get beyond
maybe 19.2 KB if that, depending on whether the modem's compression
algorithm can do any better than the one being dome by the CPU.

> 	Therefore, does anyone know of an intelligent Q-22 card that can
> plug into a MicroVAX-II, and which has the following properties:
> 
> 	1)  Has a self-contained CPU which we can program
> 	2)  Has a full-modem asynch UART that can hit 115.2k
> 	3)  Preferably does DMA into the MicroVAX-II

The KXT11 and KXJ11 cards from DEC can do all but the second; I forget
what their maximum baud rate is but I think it's 38.4.  Unfortunately I
no longer have any of the manuals for them around to check.  They have
a PDP-11 chip on them so if you're familiar with that architecture they
are pretty easy to program.  You can download code to them or burn ROMs
to put on the card.  They also have a very flexible DMA capability,
although programming it is a little odd compared to most other DEC
devices.  You can either program them in MACRO-11 if you have, say, an
old RT11 system lying around to do the programming;  or you can get the
VAX RSX product and program them with that.

They're fairly expensive if you get them new from DEC, but I've sometimes
seen them for sale used for dirt cheap prices so if you're interested in
them you should probably shop around.

Good luck,

Bruce C. Wright
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: pilmeyer@utrtsc.ENET.dec.com
Subject: Re: MS01-AA
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 13:24:36 GMT


>In article <1992Oct8.203358.25370@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>, alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.) writes...
> 
>In article <1992Oct8.064911.12723@oce.nl>, mbee@oce.nl (Marcel Beelen) writes:
To avoid further confusion I'll quote parts of the MS01L-AA memory upgrade
for the DECstation 5000 Model 100 Series:

DECstation 5000 Model 100 Series workstations use pairs of
2-megabyte or 8-megabyte memory modules. Your workstation
can hold up to eight pairs of memory modules.

The system unit comes with at least four 2-megabyte MS01-AA
or MS01L-AA memory modules or two 8-megabyte MS01-CA
memory modules in place.

With pairs of 2-megabyte MS01-AA or MS01L-AA memory
modules, you can install up to 32 megabytes of memory. You
need at least 8 megabyte of memory to use your workstation.

MS01-AA or MS01L-AA memory modules can be used interchangably.

CAUTION: Do not mix 2-megabyte and 8-megabyte memory modules in
the same system. This will cause the 8-megabyte modules to act
as 2-megabyte modules.

Do not install MS01L-AA memory modules in DECstation 2100/3100 systems.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Han Pilmeyer                 DEC Easynet:  utrtsc::pilmeyer
Digital Equipment bv         UUCP:         {decvax,ucbvax,allegra}!
Utrecht                      Internet:     decwrl!utrtsc.enet.dec.com!pilmeyer
The Netherlands                            pilmeyer@utrtsc.enet.dec.com
Xref: sparky comp.sys.dec:5345 comp.unix.ultrix:7431
From: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: 1+ gbyte disk problem
Date: 7 Oct 92 18:02:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: nntpd2.1992Oct7.180225.23170
Reply-To: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <1992Oct7.090036.1@vax1.tcd.ie>, eorourke@vax1.tcd.ie writes:
>
>
>
>Hi,
>Does anybody know if there are problems in using a 1.2gigabyte disk
>on a DECstation 2100 running Ultrix 4.0?

Quoting from the ULTRIX FAQ.

"16. Why doesn't ULTRIX 4.1 work with disks bigger than 1.2GBytes?

There is a bug in the V4.1 SCSI driver that will only allow it to read
something like (2 ** 21) or (2 ** 20) LBNs.  After that it wraps
around to the beginning of the disk.  It is fixed in V4.2."

The problem would also occur in any version before V4.1.

>
>Thanks in advance . . .
>
>eorourke@vax1.tcd.ie
>
>Eugene O'Rourke
>Trinity College Dublin  
>
--
Alan Rollow				alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.unix.ultrix
From: eorourke@vax1.tcd.ie
Subject: 1+ gbyte disk problem
Organization: Trinity College Dublin
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 09:00:36 GMT


Hi,
Does anybody know if there are problems in using a 1.2gigabyte disk
on a DECstation 2100 running Ultrix 4.0?  We have such a system and it
crashes quite frequently, generally requiring an fsck to be able to boot it
back up again.  We have tried setting it up as a 1gigabyte disk, using only
1 gigabyte of it's useful space, but that doesn't appear to work.  The manual
refers to problems arising out of not using DEC cables to connect the scsi
together (which is what we are doing).  But due to the connection on the
Fujitsu disk, we have to use the cable we were supplied with.  This newsgroup
has had some discussion on using third party disks with no apparent problems.
Can anybody offer any information on what we may be doing wrong?

Thanks in advance . . .

eorourke@vax1.tcd.ie

Eugene O'Rourke
Trinity College Dublin
From: cuadrasola@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: ex
Date: 9 Oct 92 13:25:07 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
Summary: PD software for VMS?

I would like to know what the best FTP locations to get public domain VMS
software are.  In particulart, I am looking for BBS systems.  Can someone help?

Thanks

--- Juan
    cuadrasola@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
From: kh@arctic.se (Kenneth Hedlund)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: LAT on Token Ring?
Date: 7 Oct 92 19:38:55 GMT
Organization: Arctic software, Lulea, Sweden


We have a number of PC:s on a TokenRing Net, currently running 
PATHWORKS with TCP/IP. They connect to a 5000/240 MIPS/ULTRIX
(on ethernet) via a HP-ROUTER (eg WellFleat). 
We would like to use these PC:s local printers from the 5000/240
(by enabling the LAT service on the PC).

Is there anyone out there who could tell me if this is possible
and what would the hardware/software requirements be ?

(I know that there is a TokenRing card available for the 5000/240,
but is there support for this kind of action?)

--Kenneth Hedlund

Please respond by e-mail to:  kh@arctic.se
From: schoenzeit@vixvax.mgi.com (Loren Schoenzeit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Looking for:  TCP/IP for RT-11
Date: 16 Oct 92 20:35:20 GMT
Organization: Management Graphics, Inc.


	I hate to admit it, but I'm looking for TCP/IP software for
	DEC's RT-11 operating system.  I have Q-bus systems and
	I'd like to use DEQNA's or DELQA's.  Either commercial
	or Public domain software will work for this application.
	I really only need Telnet and FTP, LPR would be a bonus.

						Thanks
						-Loren

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						Loren Schoenzeit
Office:		612-851-6123			
Switch board:	612-854-1220			Management Graphics, Inc
FAX:		612-854-6913			1401 E 79th Street
Internet:	schoenzeit@mgi.com		Bloomington, MN 55425		
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: jui@hpopr4.cern.ch (Charles C. H. Jui)
Subject: wanted: alternate X-window manager for VAX3100
Summary: wanted: alternate window manager (X-based) for Vaxstation 3100's
Keywords: TWM vax 3100 window X manager alternate
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 15:04:17 GMT

HI...

We are interested in running something other than DECwindows for a X-based
window manager on our VAX station 3100's and 4100's...the motivation being
that DECwindows is impossibly slow and yet we like to have X instead of VWS.

Has anyone ported the public-domain window manager TWM or MWM to VAX/VMS?
or any other public-domain window manager?

appreciate any help you can give us...

Charles Jui
OPAL experiment, CERN
From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Need 115kb asynch into my uVAX-II..
Date: 16 Oct 92 20:05:24 GMT
Organization: Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego, CA

In article <1992Oct15.033322.40020@camb.com>, bruce@camb.com (Barton F. Bruce) writes:
> In article <1992Oct12.150522.1@alien.gici.com>, laut@alien.gici.com (Bill Laut) writes:
>> 
>> 	We're thinking of replacing some modems with v.42bis in order to
>> achieve the (theoretical) 115.2kb in asynch mode.  The only problem we're
> 
> The 16 port ds700 which can be had discount for maybe $2400 will do it
> but is a tad pricey for your need and has 15 more ports you don't want.
> 
> DEC has a recent 1 or 2 port terminal server designed for using with printers
> but it can be used just as a small terminal server. I have NO IDEA how fast
> it goes, but since feeding LASERs is a popular topic, just maybe they
> did it right and support 115.2kb - ask. 

Nope -- top speed on the LATprint is 38.4 kbps. 

	--- 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: tm8t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Tod McQuillin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Drives for a uVAX
Date: 16 Oct 92 12:08:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.Merm4ZO00WB68GkpRo
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Can anyone tell me what kind of a disk a DEC RZ57 really is?  Is it a
Maxtor?  Is there a list somewhere with the correspondences between
DEC model numbers and what the disks really are?  I would like to move
my RX57 to a Sparcstation, so I need the vital stats on this disk to
reformat it.

--tod
From: hoel@umiacs.umd.edu (Erik Hoel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: CISC vs. RISC, VMS vs. UNIX
Summary: opinions sought
Date: 16 Oct 92 17:58:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: mimsy.61209
Followup-To: none
Distribution: na
Organization: UMIACS, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

I recently had a very heated discussion with a peer concerning the relative
strengths and weaknesses of VAXes and workstations, as well as VMS and UNIX.
Although my personal knowledge of these two topics is limited, I do feel that
each must offer various advantages relative to each other otherwise they
would have died off long ago.  My friend on the other hand was vehament in
his assertions that both workstations and unix were clearly superior...

I would appreciate a brief discussion of these two religious topics ;-)

Any good natured opinions are most welcome.

Many thanks,

Erik Hoel
hoel@cs.umd.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: jackson@pravda.enet.dec.com ()
Subject: Re: VR262 monitor with VAXstation Model 90?
Reply-To: jackson@pravda.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 18:38:14 GMT


In article <4086.2ac1c58d@prowest.propress.com>, pan@prowest.propress.com writes:
|>
|>Does anyone know if I can use a VR262 monitor with the VAXstation Model 90?
|>Is there a way I can tell myself other than trying it?
|>
|>The VR262 doesn't show in the current Systems and Options Catalog.
|>
|>P
|>
--
Phil

NO support for the older 1024x864@60Hz monitors exists on the Model 90.  High
resolution (1280x1024) and high refresh only (66 or 72Hz)



William M. Jackson
Workstation Product Marketing Manager
Workstation Engineering
Digital Equipment Corporation
146 Main Street
Maynard, MA 01754

Mail:	Jackson@pravda.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: mknox@bongo.cc.utexas.edu (Margaret Knox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Need to read Ultrix Condist on VMS System
Date: 13 Oct 92 16:44:59 GMT
Reply-To: mknox@bongo.cc.utexas.edu (Margaret Knox)


We do inhouse software redistribution and now that we are getting our
Ultrix software distribution from DEC on CONDIST (the consolidated CDROM
distribution) we would like to be able to spin it on our INFOSERVER and
access it from a VMS system (yes, I know, Ultrix systems can get to the
INFORSERVER as well, but there is a specific need to log into a vms
system, access the ultrix condist and then ftp (TGV's) it to an ultrix
remote site). Has anyone done this? Obviously the software has to arrive
in good enough shape to be then installed.

Thanks

Marg Knox
Univ of Texas Computation Center
Xref: sparky comp.sys.dec:5406 misc.forsale.computers:36548 ne.forsale:4498 mit.bboard:184
From: rocker@csa.bu.edu (The Long Haired One)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,misc.forsale.computers,ne.forsale,mit.bboard
Subject: VMS manual set forsale
Date: 11 Oct 92 06:40:58 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.dec
Distribution: comp,misc,ne,mit
Organization: Boston University


The following set of VMS 5.0 manuals (1988) are forsale at $500 including
shipping(within continental US). According to the master index all manuals
are present except for General User 5c(DSR) manual. To make up for that
loss I've included 2 manuals I have from the extended set which are listed
at the bottom.

VMS 5.0 (1988) manual set includes the following:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

VMS software product description, release notes

System Management
   Vol 1a setup - sys man master index, intro sys man,guide to setup, sys man
   Vol 1b setup - vaxcluster,exchange,install,lat control,sysgen,term fallback
   Vol 2  maint - guide to maintaining, analyze,backup,BAD,error log,mount
   Vol 3  security - guide to system security, ACL editor, authorize
   Vol 4  performance - guide to performance, accounting,monitor,show cluster
   Vol 5a networking - guide to DECnet-Vax networking, networking manual
   Vol 5b networking - network control program, DTS/DTR

Programming
   Vol 1  intro - master index,guide prog resources,guide to modular processes
   Vol 2a utilities - debugger
   Vol 2b utilities - command def,librarian,linker,message,patch,SUMSLP
   Vol 3  system routines - intro, utilities routines
   Vol 4a system services - intro
   Vol 4b system services - ref man
   Vol 5a run-time lib -intro,dectalk,mathematics,general purpose,parallel proc
   Vol 5b run-time lib - library
   Vol 5c run-time lib - screen management, string manipulation
   Vol 6a file system - uide to file appl,analyze,convert/reclaim,FDL, NCS
   Vol 6b file system - RMS
   Vol 7a system programming - I/O user's part I, part II
   Vol 7b system programming - delta/Xdelta, system dump analyzer
   Vol 8  device support - device support manual
   Vol 9  Vax macro - vax macro and instruction set

General User
   Vol 1  general info - master index, gen user master index, glossary
   Vol 2a using vms - intro, guide to vms, guide to files and devices
   Vol 2b using vms - mail, phone, sort/merge
   Vol 3  using dcl - dcl concepts, guide to using command procedures
   Vol 4  DCL dictionary
   Vol 5a processing text - guide, EDT reference
   Vol 5b processing text - VAXTPU reference EVE
   Vol 5c -missing-

extra 2 manuals are the following:
   Vol 6b system messages - system messages and recovery procedures part II
   DECwindows programming - toolkit routines, ref man: part I

email rocker@cs.bu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: mitton@dave.enet.dec.com (Dave Mitton)
Subject: Re: LAT on Token Ring?
Reply-To: mitton@dave.enet.dec.com (Dave Mitton)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Littleton MA
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 19:20:31 GMT


In article <kh.718486735@otto>, kh@arctic.se (Kenneth Hedlund) writes:
>From: kh@arctic.se (Kenneth Hedlund)
>Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
>Subject: LAT on Token Ring?
>Date: 7 Oct 92 19:38:55 GMT
>
>
>We have a number of PC:s on a TokenRing Net, currently running 
>PATHWORKS with TCP/IP. They connect to a 5000/240 MIPS/ULTRIX
>(on ethernet) via a HP-ROUTER (eg WellFleat). 
>We would like to use these PC:s local printers from the 5000/240
>(by enabling the LAT service on the PC).
>
>Is there anyone out there who could tell me if this is possible
>and what would the hardware/software requirements be ?
>
>(I know that there is a TokenRing card available for the 5000/240,
>but is there support for this kind of action?)
>
>--Kenneth Hedlund
>
>Please respond by e-mail to:  kh@arctic.se

	While it's feasible to run LAT over Token Ring, Digital currently
has no implementation that supports it.

	We are persuing this issue for future releases of VMS and Unix-based
operating systems and adapters for such.   In the sort term, a Translating
Ethernet to Token Ring Bridge would be your only path to a host system.
The Ethernet packets need to be mapped to 802.2 SNAP packets on the Token
Ring and 3 multicast addresses need to be mapped into Functional Addresses.
This can be done with Proteon p4100+ and CNX Bridging Routers in R12.0

	The only thing stopping the PATHWORKS PCs is a check for If Token Ring,
then print a "not supported" message.  A clever PC hacker can no-op that
out of LAT.EXE, it will work.  (using PW for DOS V4.1A ... the "A" is
important")

	Dave Mitton
	Digital Equipment Corp
	Networks and Communications 
	Token Ring Program
From: rob@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu (Robert K Shull)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Memory for DECstations?
Date: 9 Oct 92 14:50:43 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

Who's a good source for memory for DECstations? We're looking for memory
for Model 5000/200's and 5000/25's (Maxine). As usual, we're on a tight
budget so we're trying to find the best price.
	Thanks,
	Robert
-- 
Robert K. Shull, Sr. Applications Programmer, Engineering Computer Network
rob@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu
Disclaimer: OU can't afford opinions, so these must be mine.