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Subject: Laserwriter IINT printing problems
From: Jim Schenk <JIMS@SERVAX.BITNET>
Date: 11 Dec 1992 14:22:00 +0000 (GMT)
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Hello,
 
We recently moved an Apple Laserwriter IINT from Localtalk to Pathworks.
It is attached to a terminal server (serial) from our VAX server.
We are running Pathworks 1.1 for the Mac and Pathworks 4.1 for DOS.
 
Ever since we connected the printer, certain characters do not print
correctly from our Macs.  For example, the degree symbol prints out
as a right curly bracket }, bullets print out as percent signs %, and
apostrophies and double quotes print as capital T, S, and U.  This
happens from several Macs, with System 7.0.1 and 6.0.7, using both
truetype and bitmapped fonts.  I get the same results using Courier,
Geveva, Helvetica, New York, and Palatino; and with printing from
WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, and Teachtext.  All Macs are using the
LaserWriter 7.1.1 driver.  When printing from a DOS machine, the
characters print out correctly.  The printer is set to No parity,
XON/XOFF handshake, 8 data bits, and 1 stop bit.
 
Has anyone out there come across this problem?  Any suggestions would
be appreciated.
 
Jim Schenk
University Computer Services
Florida International University
 
Bitnet:         jims@servax
Internet:       jims@servax.fiu.edu
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From: dbk@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu (Don Katz)
Subject: Want to get 437usa directory out of the path
Organization: Physical Sciences Lab, UW-Madison
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 16:21:58 GMT

When our PC's boot, STARTNET.BAT adds three directories to the path
for Pathworks - %_SYSD%\decnet, %_SYSD%\pcapp, and %_SYSD%\437usa. We
don't have a sufficiently long path to accomodate everything, and I
so I would like to eliminate at least the \437usa directory from the
path.

Does anyone know what file(s) from \437usa are being used so I can
move them to another directory in the path?

Does anyone want to share any bright ideas about how to deal with path
length problems?

Don

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Subject: Delete Key under MAC X
From: "John M. George" <GEORGEJM%AM.A7141.mrouter@VIKING.NAVAIR.NAVY.MIL>
Date: 16 Dec 1992 08:58:34 -0500 (EST)
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Does anyone know how to enable the DELETE key (the big one
which normally does a backspace) under MAC X.  It seems to
be deleting the character in FRONT of the cursor instead
of behind it like I believe it should.
 
Thanks in advance,
 
John George
 
Information Systems Division
Naval Air Systems Command Headquarters
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Subject: RE: CD-ROM servers
From: TILLOTSON@ALISUVAX.BITNET
Date: 11 Dec 1992 17:30:10 -0500
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     Infoserver, Infoserver, Infoserver!
 
     It's plug-and-play architecture makes it a breeze to use
     and on the first day we installed it we put in the bookreader
     CD's for our VMS cluster, an x-ray diffraction database for
     the IBM PC's, and a database on a CD-ROM which is access by
     both PC's and MAC's SIMULATENOUSLY!  It couldn't get any
     easier than that!  AND all the CD-ROM software for the PC's
     comes with PATHWORKS and the CD-ROM software needed for the
     MAC's cost next to nothing (I also have heard rumors that
     this software will be bundled with the next version of
     PATHWORKS for the MAC).
 
     Jenett Tillotson
     Ames Laboratory
     (515) 294-7908
     TILLOTSON@ALISUVAX.BITNET or TILLOTSON@AMESLAB.GOV
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Subject: RE: 123WV11 server edition
From: "Greg Siegert, System Administrator, ORD LAN"<SYSTEM%APACHE@EPAVAX.RTPNC.EPA.GOV>
Date: 16 Dec 1992 14:18:43 -0500
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> I have Lotus installed in a read only app file service.  I created
> the LOTSHARE directory in another app file service which gives
> PUBLIC read/write/create access.  I installed the Licenser program
> on my hard drive so no one could adjust the counts.  Everything
> seems to be in order.  If anyone has any ideas let me know.  Maybe
> a call to Lotus is in order.
 
 I would suggest that you offer Lotus as a "Common File Service" instead
 of a read only "File Application Service".  The procedure would be to
 attach to the new service as System and create two sub-directories under
 this service one called Lotus and the other Lotshare.  Install the Lotus
 files under the Lotus sub and make sure that they are OWNED by System and
 that privileges for Group are set to Read and Execute only. System and
 Owner should be Read, Write and Execute.  Do the same with Lotshare but
 make sure the Group has Write privileges to that subdirectory.
 
 That should do it.
 
 Greg Siegert
 VAX SA
 Martin Marietta at EPA/WIC, Washington, DC
 
 Internet Address:  siegert.gregory@epamail.epa.gov
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From: chrisc@bu.oz.au (Chris Christoff)
Subject: HPFS utilities
Organization: ITS, Bond University
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 06:16:08 GMT

This is aimed at those of you who have LanManager servers on OS/2 (in
addition to pathworks).

I aunderstand there is a US company called Gammatech thats has very good
HPFS disk utility software. I am after an Australian agent.

Can anybody help ?
Please email me direct to chrisc@bu.oz.au

Cheers,

Chris

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From: lee@hsh.com (Lee Havemann)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: RE: Remote boot not booting.
Date: 17 Dec 92 18:35:42 GMT
Organization: HSH Associates

In article <01GSE4Z58GOI006MJF@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU>, MONTANEZM@AHECAS.COLORADO.EDU (Mark Montaqez, System Manager AHEC, (303)556-2409) writes:
> RE: Remote boot not booting.
>  
>> I am having a great deal of difficulty setting up a pc to "remote boot"
>> from our Pathworks 4.1 server.  I have run the DOSLOAD utility to copy DOS to
>> the server but if I do a directory of the created dos directory all the files
>> show up as 0 bytes.  I have tried looking it up in the manual but it keeps
>> refering to the manual "Client Installation and Configuration Guide for the
>> VMS Server".  This manual is not listed in my Pathworks for DOS kit packing
>> list, so I would assume it comes in another kit.
>>
>  
> The book is in your Pathworks for VMS distribution......
>  
> Sounds like the user that you gave as an priv'd user for dosload to work wasn't
> System.... After several failed attempts I've decided that they meant SYSTEM
> not just a priv'ed account....
>  
> You can tell if things are amiss by doing a
> $dir/sec 'your pcas disk':[pcsa.pcsav41.'your dos service']*.*
> and looking for the files that are owned by someone other than SYSTEM, or that
> are missing the ACL's (what I found).
>  
> I've tried to fix the acls from the VMS side and found it easier to just remove
> the old dos service and re-add it using SYSTEM as the priv user..
>  
> Good luck... and let us know how it turns out....
>  
> MM
>  

The other workaround is to go into PCSA MENU, select User Options, Group 
Options, Service Options, Grant Group Access, and select the read/write/create 
option for your PCSAV4x.
  You have to first DENY group access in order to be able to regrant it to
give it the write/create privs though... 

This works with any prived account.
-- 

 Lee Havemann, Comp Ops Dir.    HSH Associates      (201) 838-3330 
 Internet: lee@hsh.com    Compuserve: 70410,3507    AOL: HSH Assoc
 "Any opinions expressed are not necessarily those of anyone else, 
  including myself."
From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: Re: help with LK250 on PC
Date: 18 Dec 92 07:14:44 GMT
Distribution: all
Organization: St. Peter's College, US

In article <1992Dec17.085616.673@duphy4.physics.drexel.edu>, lane@duphy4.physics.drexel.edu writes:
> I use DEC LK250 keyboards on PCs.  I'd like programs running on the PCs
> to be able to read keypresses from the entire keyboard (i.e. use the
> keyboard as a VT300 keyboard rather than a PC keyboard) including numlock
> as PF2, F17-F20, etc.
> 
> Any clues?

  I'd suggest you grab my LK250 TSR (part of MS-DOS Kermit) via anonymous FTP
from watsun.cc.columbia.edu (kermit/a/msulk2.asm as I recall). It demonstrates
how to flip the keyboard from PC to DEC mode and back, as well as how to set/
clear the LED's. Once you have this, it becomes a simple matter of grabbing the
keyboard scancodes and translating them to whatever you want (since the DEC-
mode scancodes won't make sense to the PC's BIOS keyboard decode routine).

	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: CF0@PSUALT.BITNET (Craig Farrell)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: 123WV11 server edition
Date: 15 Dec 92 19:48:00 GMT
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I'm trying to install Lotus for Windows version 1.1 server edition.
I think it's the first application I ran into where there are
instructions on installing it on a Pathworks Network.  Thats
nice to see.  Anyway, it installed ok but the Licenser Program
that tracks the number of concurrent users seems to not be working
right.  I know it's working to a degree because if I set the count
to zero Lotus will not start.  With the count set to 10 I can start
Lotus but when I look in the Licenser Window it says there are no
current users.  If I try reducing the count to zero I get an
error message stating a License must be in use.  If so why isn't
the count field being incremented.
 
I have Lotus installed in a read only app file service.  I created
the LOTSHARE directory in another app file service which gives
PUBLIC read/write/create access.  I installed the Licenser program
on my hard drive so no one could adjust the counts.  Everything
seems to be in order.  If anyone has any ideas let me know.  Maybe
a call to Lotus is in order.
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Subject: PC DECwindows Motif Options
From: David Woodall <DVWOODALL@TAYLORU.BITNET>
Date: 14 Dec 1992 09:25:00 -0500 (EST)
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We just bought Motif to replace DECwindow "classic".  It seems to work
great, but I have discovered several ways to configure things and wonder
what the rest of the world is doing.
 
First comment/question:  Why is the VMS DECwindows Motif users documentation
completly silent on PC clients?  I have read the PC Motif doc, but it
doesn't tell you all the options available.
 
Here is what I found works:
 
1.  Use the PC session manager and run DECW$WINMGR or PCX$WINMGR.
 
    You don't get a Motif "look and feel", but it works fine.  This
    seems to be the suggested method in the PC DECwindows Motif Guide.
 
2.  Use the PC session manager and run DECW$MWM (Motif Window Manager?)
 
    This also seems to work ok and gives you better Motif support.
 
3.  Don't use the PC session manager and use DECW$SESSION.
 
    This gives you access to the session manager described in the
    VMS DECwindows Motif User's Guide.  It's seems to work as
    documented, except for a couple little things (like color
    setting).
 
4.  Don't use the PC session manager and use DECW$STARTLOGIN.
 
    This seems to make your PC act like a X terminal or Workstation
    by providing a login screen.
 
What are others doing that are using PCs to access Motif?  Are there any
trade-offs I have not discovered?
 
Thanks in advance
 
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David Woodall                      BITNET: DVWOODAL@TAYLORU
Systems & Development Leader
Taylor University
Upland, IN
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Subject: RE: Problem with Pathworks Client hanging
From: TILLOTSON@ALISUVAX.BITNET
Date: 11 Dec 1992 17:35:40 -0500
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     HOWDY!
 
     You might try using the datalink layer that SMC supplies
     with their ethernet board.  It's on the SMC disk in a
     directory called "PCSA" or "DECNET".  If that works, at
     least you will know if it's the NDIS driver.  I've seen
     some pretty flaky NDIS drivers for the SMC cards in the
     past.  And if it works and you don't need the NDIS layer
     for anything else (TELNET will go through DECNET) then you
     can leave it configured that way.
 
     Hope this helps!
 
     Jenett Tillotson
     Ames Laboratory
     (515) 294-7908
     TILLOTSON@ALISUVAX.BITNET or TILLOTSON@AMESLAB.GOV
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Subject: Pathworks 4.1/VMS 5.5 symbiont problems
From: "Shaun Scott - Dir. of Micro Services" <s_scott@WMC34B.WMC.EDU>
Date: 07 Dec 1992 14:27:04 -0700
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I hope someone will receive this.
 
I also hope someone else out there has had the same kind of problems and a
little advice.
 
I had Pathworks 4.1 intalled on a Microvax 3400, we installed VMS 5.5 (no
incremental version) on the same 3400.  Of course as the release notes for
Pathworks stated we had a printing problem, the vms print symbiont wouldn't
allow the pathworks print services to work.  The release notes said to
reinstall pathworks 4.1 again on top of the vms 5.5 installation to replace
the vms print symbiont (latsym.exe) with the pathworks print symbiont.  This
didn't work.  After several installations of pathworks we are still using
the vms 5.5 print symbiont.
 
Since the state purchasing here is slower than molasses in winter I haven't
received my pathworks documentation does anyone out there have any ideas?
 
How can I get the right printer symbiont out there so the pathworks print
services will work??
 
Shaun Scott
Western Montana College
Internet address: s_scott@wmc.edu
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Subject: RE: Q: A1MAIL and the internet?
From: "Paul St. Amand" <STAMANDP@CCSUA.CTSTATEU.EDU>
Date: 10 Dec 1992 20:39:08 -0500
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>Subj:  Q: A1MAIL and the internet?
>
>Hi,
>
>   We are running A1MAIL on our PC network and use Message router to
>route A1MAIL through MRGATE to VMS mail.  However, we have been
>unable to route mail to the internet SMTP mail.  We use the Public domain
>MX gateway program to route between VMS mail and SMTP mail.  However,
>when one uses the "MX%" stuff from A1MAIL MR gets confused and returns
>it.  Has anyone out there been able to figure out how to route A1MAIL
>to internet SMTP mail?   Thanks for you help.
>
>
>Charles Cooper
>Director of Research Computing
>University of Texas
>School of Public Health
>Houston, Texas
>
>
>INTERNET:   COOPER@UTSPH.SPH.UTH.TMC.EDU   (COOPER@129.106.2.1)
>BITNET:     COOPER@UTSPH
 
Hello Charles,
 
Try sending to _MX%"user@domain" this should force A1 to Process the address
as a remote address and automatically pass it to the MX mail server.
 
Godd Luck,
-Paul
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From: a722756@roper.mc.ti.com (W. Donald Rolph)
Subject: Re: Pathworks <==> TCP/IP
Originator: a722756@roper.mc.ti.com
Organization: Texas Instruments / Attleboro Mass / USA
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:39:04 GMT


In article <BzFLvr.7n@ais.org>, sa@ais.org (Scott Almburg) writes:
|> 
|> We have a small DECNET  LAN running PATHWORKS on thinnet.  About a
|> dozen PC's running DOS  and a MicroVax running VMS.  Is it possible
|> to connect a UNIX box to the LAN that needs to run TCP/IP?
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> Do we need a router between   the TCP/IP  side and the Pathworks side?
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> Scott Almburg
|> 
|> 

You can run both tcp/ip and DEC/NET on the same lan.  What you cant do is
communicate between the decnet environment and the tcp/ip environment directly. 
DEC provide the DECNET Internet gateway software which provides some capabilities
between these environments, but its support is sa little ragged.

What  we have done is install  UCX on the VAXs, and pathworks tcp/ip on the pcs,
and made ourselves entirely standards based.  UCX still needs improvement, buts
its okay.  The pathowkrs tcp/ip is actually less problematic  than the dECNET
pathworks.  Further you can mix lanman tcp/ip, 3+open tcp/ip and pathworks tcp/ip
clients on the network and cross operate.
-- 

Regards.
 
Don Rolph  a722756@pan.mc.ti.com WD3 MS10-13 (508)-699-1263
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Subject: RE: Q: A1MAIL and the internet?
From: Ta Fuh Chiam <chiam@VULCAN.CBA.OHIOU.EDU>
Date: 10 Dec 1992 21:22:56 -0500 (EST)
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>   We are running A1MAIL on our PC network and use Message router to
>route A1MAIL through MRGATE to VMS mail.  However, we have been
>unable to route mail to the internet SMTP mail.  We use the Public domain
>MX gateway program to route between VMS mail and SMTP mail.  However,
>when one uses the "MX%" stuff from A1MAIL MR gets confused and returns
>it.  Has anyone out there been able to figure out how to route A1MAIL
>to internet SMTP mail?   Thanks for you help.
 
This is really not a PATHWORKS problem but I will attempt to give you an answer
anyway. The problem you are seeing is the same problem if you send mail from
ALL-IN-1 IOS. To make it work, you will have to put the appropriate quotes to
enclose the Internet address. I cannot remember the combination now but even if
you successfully get it passed MRGATE to MX, many mailer on the Internet will
not like the FROM: string which will include string like
 
\username::AM::MRGATE\
 
or something like that. The problem is with the :: and the \. Many mailers do
not like that and will cause the mail to be bounced around.
 
The best solution is to write an interface to MRGATE for MX. I have talked to
the developer for MX and he currently has no plan for it but will put it in his
to-do/think-about-it list.
 
Ta Fuh Chiam
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Ohio University, College of Business Administration / Phone: (614)593-2088
Management Information Systems                        FAX:   (614)593-0319
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Athens, Ohio 45701, U.S.A.            or    : chiam@ouvaxa.ucls.ohiou.edu
                                   BITNET   : CHIAM@OUACCVMB
                          Use my first Internet address if at all possible.
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Subject: PROBLEM WITH EXCURSION
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Date: 16 Dec 1992 09:45:43 -0500
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From: Programmierer@BEIZ.mediatex.ch (055485666: MEDIAtex AG)
Date: 11 Dec 1992 10:40:23 CET
Organization: MEDIAtex AG, CH-8807 Freienbach/SZ
 
I have a problem with eXcursion on a PC.
 
one one it's running without problems. on another in the past it run, but now
I have a problem with the fonts and with the mouse pointer.
 
the mouse-pointer in an X-Window comes as a small line looking like (').
also the fonts looking something crazy. (on DECterm I have a proportional-spaced
font and also on DECW$MAIL it looks a little bit crazy)
 
I don't know where the problem could be. the settings in eXcursion are the
same, on both machines it's the same font-directory (on a net-drive) and
the same other settings.
 
have anybody any hints for me?
 
 
 
Peter.
 
 
 
 
 
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Subject: RE: COMPARATIVE STUDIES - PATHWORKS VERSUS NOVELL,VINES etc..
From: "Gordon Cressman RTI (919) 541-6363" <GMC%SSIDW1@RTI.BITNET>
Date: 17 Dec 1992 10:42:15 -0500
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> Subj: COMPARATIVE STUDIES - PATHWORKS VERSUS NOVELL,VINES etc..
>
> Hello,
>
> Can anyone point me to studies comparing Pathworks to other Network
> Operating Systems. Particularly comparisons against NOVELL and BANYAN VINES.
> Any other NOS study comparisons also very helpful (ie LANtastic, Lan Manager).
 
Some of the most illuminating studies are the competitive analyses done by
independent research firms contracted by the producers.  DEC has had several
such studies done for them comparing PATHWORKS to Novell.  I suggest you do
your best to convince your DEC sales rep. that you'll keep such documents
strictly confidential.  Who knows; he might give you a copy.
 
-gmc@rcc.rti.org
Organization: Rohm and Haas Company
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 13:33:48 EST
From: Aengus Lawlor <RBYAML@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com>
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: Re: LAT Parallel Print Servers

In article <01GSDPPH1RHE007U3E@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU>, "Mark Montaqez, System
Manager AHEC, (303)556-2409"<MONTANEZM@AHECAS.COLORADO.EDU> says:
>
>Hi Pathwork Users.....
>
>I'm looking for a 2 port inexpensive parallel print server.
>
>I see the DECserver 250 in DECdirect... but this is a little two expensive for
>our tastes.... and over kill for our application.....
>
>Thanks in advance.... any and all will be appreciated....
>
>Mark Montanez
>
It seems so obvious, doesn't it? All these ethernet ports for printers that
have to support various versions of IPX, and remote printer stuff, and queue
management, yet nobody seems to sell a simple LAT terminal server with a
single parallel port for output. They've been making big one with lots of
serial ports for years, so a little one with one or two parallel ports doesn't
sound like too much to ask for, does it.......

(So if anyone has an answer to Marks question, post it here for the rest of
us too!)

Aengus
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