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Date: 20 NOV 92 21:05:10 GMT
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
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X-RFC822-From:     adelman (Kenneth Adelman) @ TGV.COM
From: adelman@TGV.COM
Subject:  Re: How can I get a free port number?
Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community

>     I am running Multinet 3.0 Rev. A.   I was wondering if anyone could help
> me with the following problem.

>     I have a computer which is booted via TCP from a VMS VAX.   For reasons that
> are long and boring, I must supply the remote computer with the number of
> an unused TCP/IP port.   This port must not be in use, in any state, at
> the time the computer boots.	 Is there any call or combination of calls
> that I could make to the Multinet subroutine library that would report to
> me an unused, or free, port number?	Alternatively, I could just sequentially
> try port numbers if I knew of a subroutine that would tell me if a port
> was in use (it must not even be in a time-out or fin_wait state).   I'm
> currently using a subroutine that examines the output of the
> MULTINET SHOW/CONN command, and finds a free port by brute force, but
> this is apt to win me few points for either elegance or efficiency.

    If you bind() to port 0 you'll get an unused port number assigned
to you. You can discover it with getsockname() and then socket_close()
the socket you bound to to free it.

								Ken
From: ECLDCO@techno.isc.rit.edu (Eric Loyd - Data Center Operations, x7320)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
Subject: Re: Finger
Date: 23 Nov 1992 11:14:42 -0500 (EST)
Organization: Info-Multinet<==>Vmsnet.Networks.Tcp-Ip.Multinet Gateway
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>> As long as we're on the subject of finger, here's my three cents worth:
>> 
>> 	1)  The OWNER field of the UAF entry that finger gets
>> 		contains (at our site) a social security number
>> 		as well as a "name".  We'd like to be able to modify
>> 		the finger source to print only the name, and strip
>> 		the first nine characters (the sosh).
>
>Curious.  Why do you put that info there to begin with?  I suspect
>it is for some record-keeping function.  Unfortunate because SYSUAF.DAT
>has a free area which you can use for such purposes.

Please inform me.  What "free area" is this?  In looking in the AUTHORIZE
facility, I was unable to find any qualifier on the ADD command.  The OWNER
field is used for billing purposes and for automated system authorization
functions.  With over 16,000 accounts, it can get to be quite a headache.

-Eric


Eric C. Loyd                            ecldco@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Operations Coordinator                  ecldco@ritvax.BITNET
ISC/Data Center Operations              All-In-One: LOYD EC (@a1.isc.rit.edu)
Rochester Institute of Technology
One Lomb Memorial Dr                    Phone: (716) 475-7320
Rochester, NY  14623  USA               FAX:   (716) 475-5306
From: Keith.W.Johnson@tek.com (Keith W. Johnson)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
Subject: Re: Finger
Date: 17 Nov 92 01:58:58 GMT
Organization: Tektronix, Computer Graphics Group

In article <1992Nov16.133456.9310@abo.fi> HEGE@finabo.abo.fi (Kaj H{ggman DC) writes:
>From: HEGE@finabo.abo.fi (Kaj H{ggman DC)
>Subject: Finger
>Date: 16 Nov 92 13:34:56 GMT
>Hello Multinetters!
>
>I'd like something "lighter" than Multinet Finger to answer incoming
>finger-requests over tcp/ip. Does anybody have something simple just
>showing logged in users, that could replace the Multinet finger ?
>Or are there any non-documented switches that I could use :-)

I'm not sure what you mean by "lighter".  I use FINGER locally on my VMS 
machine with no arguments so it shows all current users.  It used to work 
fine then suddenly became very "heavy", taking two or three minutes before 
I control-Y'ed out of it.  Later I discovered that with version 3.1 it 
now does a cluster-wide search, which was slows it down unless you specify 
the /NOCLUSTER option.  Just type "$ FINGER /NOCLU".  I'm not sure how you 
control that for incoming requests over the net, though.
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
From: smith@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
Subject: NFS Client volume names.
Date: 17 Nov 92 16:06:20 GMT
Organization: NYU Medical Center, New York, NY 10016, USA

We have a number of NFS volumes that are mounted automatically at boot-up.  
Sometimes a machine is not available and the volume numbers (e.g. NFS3:) for 
the others nolonger the smae as they usually are.  Does someone have a script 
of some description that allows a logical name to be given to each volume in 
an invariant fashion?  I have now had about five calls in two hours 
complaining that 'all my files have gone from NFS4:...' etc. wheras in fact 
they are all there, just on NFS3:
 
If this is a FAQ, I'm sorry....

+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Ross Smith,  Research Computing Resource, Department of Cell Biology, NYU-MC|
|E-Mail:  SMITH@NYUMED.BITNET (BITNET),   SMITH@MCCLB0.MED.NYU.EDU (Internet)|
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From: ECLDCO@techno.isc.rit.edu (Eric Loyd - Data Center Operations, x7320)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
Subject: Re: Finger
Date: 20 Nov 1992 22:13:54 -0500 (EST)
Organization: Info-Multinet<==>Vmsnet.Networks.Tcp-Ip.Multinet Gateway
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As long as we're on the subject of finger, here's my three cents worth:

	1)  The OWNER field of the UAF entry that finger gets
		contains (at our site) a social security number
		as well as a "name".  We'd like to be able to modify
		the finger source to print only the name, and strip
		the first nine characters (the sosh).

	2)  The plan file that finger prints _could very well_ contain
		nasties that wreak havoc with terminals that are looking
		for the right thing.  I believe that filtering _this_
		information is what would be useful.

Well, three cents won't buy what it used to, but there's my thoughts.

-Eric

Eric C. Loyd                            ecldco@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Operations Coordinator                  ecldco@ritvax.BITNET
ISC/Data Center Operations              All-In-One: LOYD EC (@a1.isc.rit.edu)
Rochester Institute of Technology
One Lomb Memorial Dr                    Phone: (716) 475-7320
Rochester, NY  14623  USA               FAX:   (716) 475-5306
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Date: 20 NOV 92 21:04:21 GMT
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X-RFC822-From: "Bruce R'. Miller" <MILLER@TGV.COM>
From: "Bruce R'. Miller" <MILLER@TGV.COM>
Subject: Re: <None>
Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community


>I recently washed my new Alpha Ready TGV T-shirt from Interop and most of the
>printing went right down the drain. The reds were especially bad.

We are using an identical T-shirt in-house and can not reproduce the
problem.  Have you tried contacting your washing machine manufacturer?

-bruce
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
Subject: Re: NFS Client volume names.
From: leonard@telcom.arizona.edu (Aaron Leonard)
Date: 17 Nov 92 13:09:13 MST
Reply-To: Leonard@Arizona.EDU
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona Telecommunications

In article <1992Nov17.110620.7162@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu>, smith@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu writes:
|| 
| We have a number of NFS volumes that are mounted automatically at boot-up.  
| Sometimes a machine is not available and the volume numbers (e.g. NFS3:) for 
| the others nolonger the smae as they usually are.  Does someone have a script 
| of some description that allows a logical name to be given to each volume in 
| an invariant fashion?  I have now had about five calls in two hours 
| complaining that 'all my files have gone from NFS4:...' etc. wheras in fact 
| they are all there, just on NFS3:

Just mount the devices with $ MU NFSMOUNT node::"mount-point" logicalname,
and have your users reference `logicalname:' instead of NFSn:.

The one problem I can see is that entries in the system batch and print queues
would have a problem with the physical device name changing on them.  Don't
know quite how you would work around that.

Aaron
From: Mark.Berryman@Mvb.Saic.Com (MUMPS Wizard)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
Subject: Re: Multinet vs UCX vs POSIX ?
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:21:26 GMT
Organization: Science Applications Int'l, Corp. - Computer systems operation

brent@uwovax.uwo.ca (Brent Sterner) writes:
>In article <9200677@MVB.SAIC.COM>, Mark.Berryman@Mvb.Saic.Com (MUMPS Wizard) writes:
>>
>> [Discussion about starting Multinet and POSIX at system boot time]
>
>   In what sequence please?  Below you suggest Multinet 1st; then POSIX.
>   Is that your systartup ordering?
 
My SYSTARTUP_V5.COM file submits a batch job that starts several layered
products, the last of which is POSIX.  Once the batch job has been submitted
SYSTARTUP_V5.COM then begins starting Multinet.  Is is almost certain,
therefore, that Multinet is started first, then POSIX.
 
Mark Berryman
Mark.Berryman@Mvb.Saic.Com
Date: 20 NOV 92 21:04:35 GMT
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X-RFC822-From: Hannu Pajunen <HANNU@sara.cc.utu.fi>
From: Hannu Pajunen <HANNU@sara.cc.utu.fi>
Subject: Vaporware
X-Envelope-to: info-multinet@tgv.com
X-VMS-To: IN%"info-multinet@tgv.com"
Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community

>Wow.  Mine must be total vaporware then, because I never even got one.  :-)
>
>-Eric

Me neither - and given the chance, I could have at least beta-tested it in
arctic conditions...

Hannu
Univ. of Turku, Finland


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Date: 20 NOV 92 21:03:48 GMT
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X-RFC822-From:    NICK@SPEEDY.DFCI.HARVARD.EDU
From: NICK@SPEEDY.DFCI.HARVARD.EDU
Subject: nfs 
X-Vmsmail-To: SMTP%"info-multinet@TGV.COM"
Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community

Hi

	I am running multinet 3.1 rev d on vms 5.5-1 and mounting nfs disks
	from an ultrix 4.2 system. 

	The problem I am having is that some of the ultirx directories, when
	looked at from the vms side, do not show up as directories but as files
	If I go to the ultrix system and rename the directory, then it will
	sho up as a directory. To make matters worse, if I rename it back to the
	original directory name, then it shows up on vms as a file again.
	
	for example:
			ultix directory: junk
			should sho up on vms as: junk.dir;1
			but it shows up as: junk.;1
			
	any ideas on what is wrong????

	
						-=>nick

p.s. I've given up on ultrix link files...I can't even begin to discribe the
     problems I am having with those....topic for another day perhaps....
	

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Date: 20 NOV 92 21:05:13 GMT
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X-RFC822-From: Brian McKeever <MCKEEVER@VAX2.CSTP.UMKC.EDU>
From: Brian McKeever <MCKEEVER@VAX2.CSTP.UMKC.EDU>
Subject: Re: TCPDUMP and the ETHERS file.
X-Envelope-to: Adelman@TGV.COM, info-multinet@tgv.com
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Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community

>>>> It obediently translates Cecil's Ethernet address into the name Cecil when
>>>> it displays the packets.  Anybody know what's going on?

>>>     The name is case-sensitive. Put it in lower case.

>> oops...  I should have guessed that since it is probably written in C.

>     Don't damn the C language just because a few (thousand) UNIX
> programmers' can't write case-insensitive comparisions.

:-)

Did I damn anything?  I just stated that I should have thought of that.  A
little case-sensitive ourselves are we?  ;-)

--Brian

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Date: 20 NOV 92 21:05:08 GMT
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X-RFC822-From:     adelman (Kenneth Adelman) @ TGV.COM
From: adelman@TGV.COM
Subject:  Re: TCPDUMP and the ETHERS file.
Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community

> >> It obediently translates Cecil's Ethernet address into the name Cecil when
> >> it displays the packets.  Anybody know what's going on?

>>     The name is case-sensitive. Put it in lower case.

> oops...  I should have guessed that since it is probably written in C.

    Don't damn the C language just because a few (thousand) UNIX
programmers' can't write case-insensitive comparisions.

							    Ken

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Date: 20 NOV 92 21:05:45 GMT
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X-RFC822-From:    DOODY@fndcd.fnal.gov
From: DOODY@fndcd.fnal.gov
Subject: POP support under TGV
X-Vmsmail-To: smtp%"info-multinet@tgv.com"
Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community

Hello,

   Some of our users are using POP3 to read e-mail on our vaxes from their PCs.  
They use a package called WinQVT.  They can not send e-mail while connected.  
The documentation talks about reading mail but does not talk about sending e-
mail.  Is it possible to send e-mail using TGV's implemetation of POP3?  I 
acknowledge I might have missed something.  If I did, how does one set up the 
capability to send e-mail?

thank you for your help

Tim Doody  doody@fndcd.fnal.gov


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Date: 20 NOV 92 21:05:00 GMT
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X-RFC822-From: Brian McKeever <MCKEEVER@VAX2.CSTP.UMKC.EDU>
From: Brian McKeever <MCKEEVER@VAX2.CSTP.UMKC.EDU>
Subject: TCPDUMP and the ETHERS file.
X-Envelope-to: INFO-MULTINET@TGV.COM
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Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community

I've been doing some debugging using TCPDUMP.  From the Multinet help
library I get this:

    ether dst ehost
         True if the ethernet destination address is ehost.  Ehost may be
         either a name from MULTINET:TCPDUMP.ETHERS or a number.
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^    ^^^^^^^^

Now.  My ethers file looks like this:

  #
  #   This file maps between ethernet addresses and host names for
  #   the tcpdump utility
  #
  09:00:2B:00:00:0F	LAT-servers
  09:00:2B:01:00:01	DEC-bridges
  09:00:2B:02:00:00	DECnet-L2-Rtrs
  AB:00:00:01:00:00	DECnet-Dump/Load
  AB:00:00:02:00:00	Remote-Console
  AB:00:00:03:00:00	DECnet-Routers
  AB:00:00:04:00:00	DECnet-End-Nodes
  AB:00:03:00:00:00	LAT-multicast
  CF:00:00:00:00:00	loopback
  FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF	broadcast
  00:00:89:01:A1:AC	Cecil

My question is, why can't I use the name "Cecil" in the TCPDUMP command?

  $ mu tcpdump/snap=1500 ether host cecil
  tcpdump: unknown ether host 'cecil'
  $

But, when I enter the Ethernet address for Cecil, I get:

  $ mu tcpdump/snap=1500 ether host 00:00:89:01:a1:ac
  13:57:04.27 Cecil 9:0:7:ff:ff:ff 0022 26:
                   001a 0000 0000 0002 ff5d 0101 0100 0208 .........]......
                   5d00 0280 0002 8200 0900                ].........

It obediently translates Cecil's Ethernet address into the name Cecil when
it displays the packets.  Anybody know what's going on?

--Brian

X-Gateway-Source-Info: INTERNET
Date: 20 NOV 92 21:04:18 GMT
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X-RFC822-From: Ehud Gavron 602-570-2546 <GAVRON@IT.SUNQUEST.COM>
From: Ehud Gavron 602-570-2546 <GAVRON@IT.SUNQUEST.COM>
Subject: VNEWS T-shirts!
Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community

Date sent:  18-NOV-1992 10:14:23 


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	This will be a limited run, one time only Vnews Alpha-ready shirt
	so now is your chance to order (or reserve) one.  They are only
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	If you're coming to DECUS, you may simply reply to this message,
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	If you're not going to be in Las Vegas, print the bottom part out,
	enclose with check, and mail to
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--
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Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
From: drewo@dcatlas.dot.gov (Andrew R. Orndorff)
Subject: LPD client problems
Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 12:11:55 GMT


	We're using the LPD client to provide print services from our
cluster to printers available via a Novell server running Novell's NFS
product. So far, things have been working fairly well, with the following
exceptions:

	a) We're able to turn off burst pages, trailers, and flag
	pages on the Novell side of the connection, but do not
	seem to be able to do so from the VMS side.

	We've tried altering the way in which the queues are
	initialized, tried 'setting' the '/separate' and 
	'/default' options after the queue has been initialized,
	and have even looked at the USER_LPD_CLIENT.C code in
	the [.Examples] directory, but to no avail.

	Is there some straightfoward way that we can enable the
	control of burst/flag/trailers from the VMS side - or 
	turn them off altogether?

	b) Similary, I understand that LPD relies on the print server
	performing all of the filtering and other print options, but
	are there any plans to extend the MULTINET LPD client services
	beyond their current capabilities?

	Don't get me wrong, I'm not griping - it just would be nice to
	have a more flexible environment.

	
	Our current environment is 'OpenVMS' v5.5-2, Multinet v3.1d,
an HP IIIsi printer with the Novell IPX/SPX network option, and device
control libraries attached to the LPD client print queues (we at least got
those straightened out)

	Any help or information would be much appreciated.

	Thanks.

	Andrew Orndorff

	NHTSA Data Center

	Internet:	dcatlas!zeus.dot.gov!drewo@uunet.uu.net
	UUCP:		uuent!dcatlas!zeus.dot.gov!drewo


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Date: 20 NOV 92 21:05:26 GMT
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X-RFC822-From: "Bruce R'. Miller" <MILLER@TGV.COM>
From: "Bruce R'. Miller" <MILLER@TGV.COM>
Subject: IP-over-X.25
Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community


Just a note to DEC PSI users out there since I gotten a lot of mail
about this and many of my replies seem to be bouncing:

I have a new version of the IP-over-PSI transport that's a big improvement
over the one that shipped with MultiNet 3.1.  The version I have now
will ship as-is with 3.2 with the exception of bug fixes.  I have a
copy that works with MultiNet 3.1 available.  Anyone interested should
send me mail or give me a call.

And please include a phone number or some other non-email way to get
in touch with you...

-bruce
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
Subject: Re: Finger
From: Stafford@Vax2.Winona.MSUS.EDU (John Stafford)
Date: 22 Nov 92 16:19:43 -0600
Followup-To: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
Distribution: world
Organization: MSUS

In article <01GRE2AV0WPE0000EV@techno.isc.rit.edu>,
ECLDCO@techno.isc.rit.edu (Eric Loyd - Data Center Operations, x7320)
wrote:
> 
> 
> As long as we're on the subject of finger, here's my three cents worth:
> 
> 	1)  The OWNER field of the UAF entry that finger gets
> 		contains (at our site) a social security number
> 		as well as a "name".  We'd like to be able to modify
> 		the finger source to print only the name, and strip
> 		the first nine characters (the sosh).

Curious.  Why do you put that info there to begin with?  I suspect
it is for some record-keeping function.  Unfortunate because SYSUAF.DAT
has a free area which you can use for such purposes.
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X-RFC822-From: (Matt Nowotny) <cir_jmn@vax1.utulsa.edu>
From: <cir_jmn@vax1.utulsa.edu>
Subject: RE:How can I get a free port number?
Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community

In Message 11 Nov 1992 04:14 PST,
  rtm@tacos.caltech.edu (Raoul Machilvich) writes:

>Hi,
>
>    I am running Multinet 3.0 Rev. A.   I was wondering if anyone could help
>me with the following problem.
>
>    I have a computer which is booted via TCP from a VMS VAX.   For reasons that
>are long and boring, I must supply the remote computer with the number of
>an unused TCP/IP port.   This port must not be in use, in any state, at
>the time the computer boots.   Is there any call or combination of calls
>that I could make to the Multinet subroutine library that would report to
>me an unused, or free, port number?   Alternatively, I could just sequentially
>try port numbers if I knew of a subroutine that would tell me if a port
>was in use (it must not even be in a time-out or fin_wait state).   I'm
>currently using a subroutine that examines the output of the
>MULTINET SHOW/CONN command, and finds a free port by brute force, but
>this is apt to win me few points for either elegance or efficiency.
>
>       Thanks
>       Taco (*)
>       rtm@tacos.caltech.edu
>
>(*) The most irresponsible hiker Mark "Dolson" has ever known.

How about mu config/server and list the ports that you have configured?  I
know, it's not a lot better than your idea.
=======================================================================
Matt Nowotny                                    CIR_JMN@VAX1.UTULSA.EDU
University of Tulsa - CIR
Zink Hall Rm.136
918-631-2366

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Date: 20 NOV 92 21:04:40 GMT
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X-RFC822-From:     adelman (Kenneth Adelman) @ TGV.COM
From: adelman@TGV.COM
Subject:  Re: Dates on files when using NFS client
Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community

> We've run into a glitch which I hope can be easily solved.  We want to
> transparently keep our anonymous ftp archives accessible from our VMS
> machine on our HP-UX, with the TGV NFS client pointing to the device.
> Then, define the MULTINET_ANONYMOUS_FTP_DIRECTORY to a directory tree on
> the device defined by the logical created with NFSMOUNT.  So far, so good
> (or so it seems -- if this is a bad idea, please let me know).

> When this is done, a DIR command in an ftp session to the VMS machine gives
> today's date as the file date.  In fact, doing a DIRECTORY/DATE at the VMS
> level within that tree gives today's date.  A VMS DIRECTORY/DATE=MODIFIED
> on the NFS mounted device at the VMS level shows dates which are in
> accordance with our Unix machine (which is what we'd prefer to broadcast on
> the VMS host, as well).

> Is there any way to achieve this (i.e., what didn't we read in the manuals
> that we should have)?

    FTP displays the file creation date, so since it agrees with
DIR/DATE the problem is not in FTP.  I'd get a
TCPDUMP/SNAP=1500/HEX/RPC=ALL of the packets between the NFS Server
and NFS Client and lets look at what dates the NFS Server is
returning.

							ken

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