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Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: Re: Is there a 'Maximum # of files' limitation on a virtual disk??
From: anos@trixie.ineab.ikea.se (Anders Ostling)
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 20:58:04 -0200
Organization: IKEA Northern Europe AB

In <01GT133IDFQAA4L849@Meena.CC.URegina.CA> "A. Mahendra Rajah, System Manager" <MAHENDRA@MEENA.CC.UREGINA.CA> writes:
>Hello:

>    Does anybody know if there is an upper limit on how many files one can
>    store in any directory on a virtual disk? We are trying to do the
>    following:
>    Thanks.

	Yes, its normal. A DOS root directory can only have 512 files
	since it cant be extended as normal directory files.

	Actually, the number 512 may vary since the root directory is
	initialized (in 32 byte chunks) during disk formatting. I dont
	know if you can tell FORMAT to create more entries. Check your
	manual. If it's impossible, create a subdirectory under W: and
	use that (maybe via a SUBST...).

>    -- mahendra (A. Mahendra Rajah :: Mahendra @ Meena.CC.URegina.CA)
>       System Manager, Dept of Computing Services, University of Regina,
>       Regina, Sask., Canada.

	Anders

-- 
Anders Ostling <Vax/Un*x Systems Manager>, IKEA Northern Europe AB, Sweden
Voice <+46 42 25 73 08> Internet <anos@ineab.ikea.se>
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: RE: PCX$SERVER and LOGIN.COM
From: MARK@AHECAS.COLORADO.EDU
Date: 07 Jan 1993 20:25:58 -0700
X-VMS-Cc: MARK
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT

Hi Prof. Miller,

>>When using DECwindows from a PC (i.e., DWDOS386 - DECW$WINMGR - VUE$MASTER),
>>what LOGIN.COM files are used? Apparently not DECW$LOGIN.COM. The DECwindows
>>Cookbook doesn't address this case - and that is the only documentation I've
>>found on the subject.

I don't know where to find the documentation but it is the login.com for the
account that you provide in the application startup window or in dwconfig that
gets executed for dwdos286/386 x-applications.

Good luck,

Feel free to contact me direct if you need more help.

-Mark-

*******************************************************************************
* Mark Montanez, System Programmer/Manager  !   Montanezm@ahecas.Colorado.EDU *
* The Auraria Higher Education Center       !        Mark@ahecas.Colorado.EDU *
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MURPHYS LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS - Things get worse under pressure.
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: DECwindows cursor on a PC
From: "Prof. David Miller" <DMILLER%BSU.DECNET@MSUS1.BITNET>
Date: 09 Jan 1993 09:47:00 -0600 (CST)
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Netters:

This was posted on the INFO-VAX list.

> ritley@uimrl7.mrl.uiuc.edu writes:
>
> In Kevin Barkes' "DCL Dialogue" column in this month's
> DECprofessional magazine, he indicates that by changing the
> value of sm.pointer_shape to -142, in the file
> DECW$SM_GENERAL.DAT, the DECwindows pointer
> will be changed to an outline of the "starship Enterprise".
>
> This seems to work.
>
> Is there somewhere a list of accepted pointer types??????
> Possibly other arrow styles????

But, apparently DECW$SM_GENERAL.DAT isn't used (or isn't entirely) when
starting DECwindows via DWDOS386. Is that right? Is there an alternative?
                                   /-------------------\
Dave.                             ||      /\   *       ||
                                  ||    /    \  /\     ||
DMILLER@VAX1.Bemidji.MSUS.EDU     ||  /_      _\   \   ||
           or                     ||   /      \     _\ ||
DMILLER%BSU.DECNET@MSUS1.BITNET   || /__________\___\  ||
                                  ||      ||    ||     ||
Bemidji (Minn.) State University   \------||    -------/
From: JOHNNY@DUCVAX.AUBURN.EDU
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: All-in-1 Desktop
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:56:00 GMT
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        I'm attempting to demo All-in-1 Desktop and am running into
        trouble getting it to work under Windows 3.1. I've followed
        all the steps in the manual to no avail. I'd like to hear from
        anyone who's using this product and would especially appreciate
        opinions good or bad. Thanks.



                                Johnny Hendricks

                                Johnny@Ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: DWDOS386 on XGA?
From: samurdock@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: 5 Jan 93 13:15:11 CST
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City
NNTP-Posting-Host: vax1.umkc.edu

I have an IBM 9515 XGA monitor.  I'm trying to set it up to use DECwindows at
the full screen capacity of my monitor (1024x768, 256 colors).  None of the
screen types listed when I run DWCONFIG exactly match what I have. The best
I've been able to get so far when I run DWDOS386 is a resolution of 640x480. 
Has anyone else successfuly set up 1024x768 resolution in DECwindows on this
monitor?  Any suggestions?

    -Scott-
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: RE: Pathworks Mail - carbon copy syntax
From: Gregg Pentecost X6228 IC44 <PENTECOST@BROOK.BITNET>
Date: 08 Jan 1993 10:20:01 -0400
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT

> At least they allowed the VMS server half of mail to interpret the CC:
> properly.  If you want copies to yourself, you'll also note that the VMS
> COPY_SELF settings aren't observed (another reduced functionality compared
> to PW 3.0 PCMAIL), instead you have to use MAILSETU to get yourself a copy,
> or write yourself in on the CC: line.

With the help of someone else on the list, we've modified the
\PCAPP\MAILSEDT.1 script to automatically give the CC: prompt.  I've
include the file below.

Gregg.


==== mailsedt.1 ====
:UOFF.
0:WI.
@BB.
@EL.
:UON.
:I?"Send to: ".
@EL.
:I?"Subject: ".
-1@EL.
:NL.
:I"CC:     ".
:I?"Copies to: ".
@EL.
2:NL.
:OM\Send: Enter mail message; <Exit> to send; <Cancel> to abort\.
From: fuhrman@litsun.epfl.ch (Cris Fuhrman)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: Re: Type 15 error
Date: 6 Jan 93 09:00:06 GMT
Followup-To: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

In article <LANWORKS%93010516542962@MIAMIU.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU>,
CHADWICK@UNMB.BITNET (John Chadwick) wrote:
> 
> I am running macs using system 7.0.1 on a Pathworks 1.1 VMS network. Earlier
> today I got a Type 15 Error and the mounted volumes disappeared from the
> desktop, the VAX gave an error message of no I/O channels available, and I
> finally had to reboot the macs and restart the fileserver on the VAX to get
> everything back up and running.
> 
> I am curious as to what a type 15 error is and what can cause it.

Error type 15 is a "segment loader" error, and is not usually handled by
the application because there's not a whole lot you can do when it occurs.

You often see this error when running an application off a disk which fails
for some reason (read errors on a floppy, for example).

Probably what happened was that you were running an application mounted on
the VAX file server, and the file server went down at a point where the Mac
was trying to load a code segment of the application into memory to run.
Eventually the Mac times out, and gives an error 15 as the segment can't be
loaded, at which time you get the bomb box (or in system 7 the "friendlier"
message).

---------------------------------------
 Cris FUHRMAN, fuhrman@litsun.epfl.ch
 Laboratoire d'informatique technique
 EPFL-LIT, IN Ecublens, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: RE: Pathworks Mail - carbon copy syntax
From: Gregg Pentecost X6228 IC44 <PENTECOST@BROOK.BITNET>
Date: 08 Jan 1993 12:04:46 -0400
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT

Some control characters got stripped from the script I sent out.  I've
attached a uuencoded version of MAILSEDT.1 with this message.

Gregg.

+++Binary Attachment: mailsedt.1
begin 777 mailsedt.1
M.E5/1D8N#0HP.E=)+@T*0$)"+@T*0$5,+@T*.E5/3BX-"CI)&#\B4V5N9"!T
M;SH@(A@N#0I 14PN#0HZ21@_(E-U8FIE8W0Z("(8+@T*+3% 14PN#0HZ3DPN
M#0HZ22)#0SH@(" @("(N#0HZ21@_(D-O<&EE<R!T;SH@(A@N#0I 14PN#0HR
M.DY,+@T*.D]-7%-E;F0Z($5N=&5R(&UA:6P@;65S<V%G93L@/$5X:70^('1O
<('-E;F0[(#Q#86YC96P^('1O(&%B;W)T7"X-"F5S

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From: martineau@MacMartineau.ccr.hydro.qc.ca (Alain Martineau)
Subject: Re: Need Customer Feedback!
Followup-To: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Organization: Hydro Quebec
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:17:01 GMT


> > 	Unfortunately is is hard to justify adding features
> > 	to PC DECwindows Motif when we give it away free
> > 	with PATHWORKS for DOS.  With no feedback in the
> 
DECwindows included in Pathworks was one of the reasons for buying
it. But at this time, as we want to use larger monitors, and 
DECwindows does not support them, we will have to go somewhere
else. As eXcursion has been found to be too slow, we will have to
go to another company. And since other X servers usually run only
over TCP/IP, we will have to go to another transport as well. This
won't be Pathworks TCP/IP. 

Alain Martineau
Hydro Quebec
martineau@macmartineau.ccr.hydro.qc.ca
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: Is there a 'Maximum # of files' limitatio
From: Jim Becker <BECKERJA%WPO1P%WPO2V@SNYCENVA.BITNET>
Date: 04 Jan 1993 13:29:00 -0500 (EST)
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Yes, there is an upper limit of directory/file names in a ROOT
directory of any physical disk.  This includes diskettes,
RAMdrives and Disk services, among others.  This is because the
space for the Root directory is reserved upon initialization of
the disk.  Therefore, it is limited.

A subdirectory, on the other hand, is virtually limited only by
the amount of available space on a disk since it grows
dynamically depending on the number of directory/file names it
holds.  I say virtually because if there are filenames, there is
usually space used for the files.  So you can't normally fill all
disk space with only directory information.

I believe this is accurate.

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================== Original message text ===================

Subj:     Is there a 'Maximum # of files' limitation on a virtual
          disk??

Hello:

    Does anybody know if there is an upper limit on how many
files one can store in any directory on a virtual disk? We are
trying to do the following:

    1.    All Win31 files are on a file service (say) W:
    2.    Create a 64MB disk service on the server - call it H:
    3.    Connect to both W: and H: from a PC.
    4.    XCopy or just plain copy all files from W: to H:

    Step 4 fails after copying 511 files and cmplains "cannot
make a directory entry" for any more files.

    Is this normal? Is there a workaround? Am I missing something
very obvious? (It is 4:19 AM right now).

    Any help will be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks.

    -- mahendra (A. Mahendra Rajah :: Mahendra @
Meena.CC.URegina.CA)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
From: houseman@Turing.ORG (Carl Houseman)
Subject: Re: Binary attachments in Mail
Organization: The Turing Project, Public Access Internet Host
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 00:32:09 GMT

In article <7JAN93.22301124@jevex.waisman.wisc.edu> karcher@jevex.waisman.wisc.edu writes:
>In a previous article, houseman@Turing.ORG" wrote:
>>Does anyone know of or have a tool that will reconstruct a binary attachment
>>as encoded by Pathworks 4.x Mail?  I need to be able to decode the mail
>>messages under DOS, Unix, and VMS (hmmm, sounds like a simple C-program).
>The format is UUENCODED. You should be able to use a UUDECODE program to decode
>it. They are available for all the platforms you mention.
>
>Carl Karcher                          Internet: KARCHER@WAISMAN.WISC.EDU
>Waisman Center                        Bitnet:   KARCHER@WISCMACC
>University of Wisconsin-Madison       PSTnet:   (608) 263-5896

Thanks, Carl, and also thanks to Richard Hoffbeck (rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu)
who responded in e-mail.  At least DEC didn't re-invent this wheel.

Carl Houseman
houseman@turing.org
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
From: houseman@Turing.ORG (Carl Houseman)
Subject: Re: Pathworks Mail - carbon copy syntax
Organization: The Turing Project, Public Access Internet Host
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:12:27 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.155625.18804@trentu.ca> ccksb@trentu.ca (Ken Brown) writes:
>OK, call me crazy...

OK, if you insist. "Crazy."

>How do I carbon copy a message with Pathworks Mail?  I really want the
>equivalent of VMS MAIL `send/cc'.  (I'm using version 4.1).

Isn't it a shame that DEC couldn't provide Pathworks with a decent mail
interface?  IMHO the Pathworks 3.0 mail interface was far better and should
have been improved, not replaced.  Anyway, to answer your question:

After you type in To: and Subject:, move your cursor up to beginning of the
Subject: line, press Enter, and type CC: your-cc-list.  You'll have something
on the screen that looks like:

To:   whoever
CC:   your-cc-list
Subj: your subject

At least they allowed the VMS server half of mail to interpret the CC:
properly.  If you want copies to yourself, you'll also note that the VMS
COPY_SELF settings aren't observed (another reduced functionality compared
to PW 3.0 PCMAIL), instead you have to use MAILSETU to get yourself a copy,
or write yourself in on the CC: line.

>Ken Brown                                   internet: kbrown@trentu.ca
>Trent University Computing & Telecommunications  tel: (705)748-1540
>Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, K9J 7B8           fax: (705)748-1246 

Carl Houseman
GENICOM Engineering
houseman@turing.org (good only through 1/8/93)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
From: olin@vger.cheme.cornell.edu (Steve Thompson)
Subject: Re: pathworks/mac: volume passwords won't go away
Reply-To: olin@vger.cheme.cornell.edu
Organization: Chemical Engineering, Cornell University, NY
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 12:26:10 GMT

In article <2372@sousa.tay.dec.com>, granoff@keptin.enet.dec.com (Mark H. Granoff) writes:
>
>In article olin@vger.cheme.cornell.edu (Steve Thompson) writes:
>>
>>We are running PATHWORKS/MAC V1.1 under VMS 5.5-1 on a VAX 4000/500. I
>>originally created several file services with volume passwords, and now
>>wish to remove them. However,
>>
>>	MSA$MANAGER> MODIFY FILE "file service" /NOPASSWORD
>>
>>only removes the password for the current invocation of the file server;
>>the volume password is back the next time the file server is started. Using
>>the undocumented /PERMANENT qualifier on the above command does nothing.
>>Has anyone seen this, and is there any way to permanently remove the volume
>>password, short of deleting and re-creating the file service?
>
>MSA$MANAGER has no such syntax.  Did you mean
>
>	MSA$MANAGER> MODIFY VOLUME "volume name" /NOPASSWORD
>                            ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>If you did, then this is a known problem, which is fixed in V1.1 ECO 1.
>
>--
>Mark H. Granoff | Personal Computing Systems Network S/W Development Group  
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>30 Porter Road, LJO2/I4       | Usenet  : ...!decwrl!keptin.enet!granoff
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>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Opinions herein are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of Digital.

Mmm, I had better get my brain in gear before posting. Yes, I meant
exactly as you thought. Thanks for the info.

Steve

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School of Chemical Engineering   Bitnet:   thompson@crnlchme
Olin Hall, Cornell University    Phone:    (607) 255 5573
Ithaca NY 14853
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Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: External cache trouble with an OS/2 2.0 PW workstation
From: BING@VUCTRVAX.BITNET
Date: 08 Jan 1993 15:05:05 -0600
X-VMS-Cc: BING
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT

        Hi, there,
                I have an OS/2 2.0 workstation connected to an VMS-based
PW server via OS/2 Lan server. The machine is a 486 PC compatible with an
external cache. The problen is that whenever the external cache is turned on,
the workstation will crash. if the external cache is turned off, then
eveything works fine. I  guess that this problem may not relate to Pathworks.
But I hope that somebody here could give me some advice on this problem
anyway. Any suggestion or info would be greatly appreciated.
        Thanks.
        Bingxue Xu, 1/8/93.
        Vanderbilt Univ CC.
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: Problem with print queue
From: "Shaun Scott - Dir. of Micro Services" <s_scott@WMC34B.WMC.EDU>
Date: 12 Jan 1993 12:37:59 -0700
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Richard Banks

(right off I hope this makes it there)

We had a similar problem here at WMC.  VMS 5.5 was installed and I installed
Pathworks 4.1 Server.  Immediately we received the same error message. "Error
writing to LPT2:" or lpt1 etc.  I think the cause was the print symbiont.
On the pathworks installation that server was rebooted but the queue manager
server wasn't.  After a few days of headscratching power went out and
the print manager server rebooted and all's been well since.  It appears
that the print queue manager server's symbiont's were quote "reinitialized"

Anyway, that's my best guess.
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    710 S Atlantic             MUSENet Mail: wmc34b::s_scott
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Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
From: man6131@ultb.isc.rit.edu (M.A. Naud)
Subject: Help with Pathworks and LocalTalk on a PC
Originator: man6131@ultb
Reply-To: man6131@ultb.rit.edu (Michael A. Naud)
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 01:58:46 GMT

I am posting this to see if some more experienced person can enlighten
me.  At work, I have several PS/2 that are on an ethernet Pathworks LAN.
I recently installed a LocalTalk card to access printers on our Mac
network.  Now, I can't seem to establish a link to the Pathworks
network.  I have tried toggling the interupts and addresses, loading one
first and then the other, and only loading one at a time.  Do I need any
special driver or patch when using Pathworks and LoaclTalk on the same
machine.  Any help would be greatly appreciated :-)

E-mail can be sent to: manaud@naz.edu
or to: man6131@ultb.isc.rit.edu (only if the first fails)

Many thanks,

Michael A. Naud

--
Michael A. Naud                    internet: man6131@ultb.isc.rit.edu
College of Business                bitnet  : MAN6131@RITVAX.BITNET 
Rochester Institute of Technology  -Pauly Shore for President in 1992
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: RE: VT320 DBL-HIGH DBL-WIDE Display Problems
From: bachism <BACHISM@JHUDEV.DEV.JHU.EDU>
Date: 12 Jan 1993 13:02:34 -0500
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
X-Vmsmail-To: SMTP%"LANWORKS@MIAMIU.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU"

In the Control Panel Add the fonts found in the PCAPP directory. (DEC Terminal
Fonts)  This should take care of it.
From: to5232@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: Using a VAX as an Apple Internet Router
Date: 6 Jan 93 19:38:11 -0600
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

Can anyone rely to me any good or bad experiences using a VAX as an Apple
Internet Router.  According to the Pathworks for Macintosh you can set up a VAX
as an Apple Internet Router.
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: Happy New Year & Thanks
From: Maria Rosa Drake <MARIA@SERVAX.FIU.EDU>
Date: 04 Jan 1993 20:03:20 -0500
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
X-Vmsmail-To: SMTP%"lanworks@miamiu.bitnet"

I would like to wish the staff from DEC that monitors this newsgroup a
very, very, very


                H A P P Y   N E W   Y E A R !!!


I would especially like to thank

                Petri Backstrom
                Bob Harris
                Dave Mitton
                Eirikur Hallgrimsson
                Jeremy Hitt
                John Wasser

for all their help. You have all provided us with a wealth of useful
information. Keep up the good work!!

Maria Rosa Drake
Florida International University
Bitnet:         MARIA@SERVAX.BITNET
Internet:       MARIA@SERVAX.FIU.EDU
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Subject: RE: Zenith 286 & PATHWORKS
From: Maria Rosa Drake <MARIA@SERVAX.FIU.EDU>
Date: 04 Jan 1993 14:07:46 -0500
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
X-Vmsmail-To: SMTP%"LANWORKS@MIAMIU.BITNET"

A problem we are aware of with several older Zenith's is related to the Z-449
video board. You will be able to recognize the 449 by the db9 and db15
connectors as well as the external switch block. The solution has been to
disable autosensing on the video board. To do this, set switch 5 to the OFF
position.

You may find the Z-449 in Z-248, Z-286, Z-286LP and Z-386/16 systems.

Maria Rosa Drake
Florida International University
Bitnet:         Maria@SERVAX.BITNET
Internet:       Maria@SERVAX.FIU.EDU
From: BETH@VSCNET.BITNET (Beth Stranahan)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: RE: Zenith 286 & PATHWORKS
Date: 5 Jan 93 14:24:00 GMT
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT

Many thanks to Maria Rosa Drake! This was exactly right!

>A problem we are aware of with several older Zenith's is related to the Z-449
>video board. You will be able to recognize the 449 by the db9 and db15
>connectors as well as the external switch block. The solution has been to
>disable autosensing on the video board. To do this, set switch 5 to the OFF
>position.

>You may find the Z-449 in Z-248, Z-286, Z-286LP and Z-386/16 systems.

Beth Stranahan
Office of Computer Services
Vermont State Colleges
Waterbury, Vermont 05676
beth@vscnet.bitnet
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