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From: gvrod@isuvax.iastate.edu (R Eldridge, VMS FOREVER)
Subject: %UCX-E-TELNET_SCKOPT, Failed to set socket options
Reply-To: gvrod@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 16:26:05 GMT

i am running UCX v2.0 and have been getting this error when trying to
telnet out from the VAX:

        ISUVAX> telnet isumvs.iastate.edu
        %UCX-E-TELNET_SCKOPT, Failed to set socket options
        -SYSTEM-F-BADPARAM, bad parameter value
        Trying...129.186.1.1
        Connected to ISUMVS.IASTATE.EDU.
        Escape character is '^]'.
        ...

i doesn't matter where i try to telnet to.

does anybody have any idea as to how i can find out *what* socket option
is failing to be set? i'm not having problems during the telnet session,
i just don't like the error message always being displayed -- my users
think something is seriously wrong.

rod eldridge
vms systems support      gvrod@isuvax.iastate.edu
iowa state university    gvrod@isuvax.bitnet    
(515) 294-7498           fax: (515) 294-1717

Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.ucx
From: MyTH@ucx.lkg.dec.com (M. T. Hollinger)
Subject: Re: Proxies
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Littleton, MA
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 05:36:36 GMT

The PROXY and APPLICATION_PROXY flags on a service control proxy
checking at different times and by different entities.  The PROXY flag
directs the Internet ACP to perform proxy checking before even invoking
the target application and is useful for applications like RSH.  The
APPLICATION_PROXY flag is checked later, by the application itself.
The application is invoked under a pre-sepcified user name (UCX_LPD, in
the case of LPD) and may defer proxy checking until further
communications and processing have taken place.

For control of remote printing, it's really the APPLICATION_PROXY flag
you want.  To determine the remote username, LPD needs to be invoked and
needs to receive and parse the control file.  The user and host names
are found there and are used to check the proxy.

Note also the SET SERVICE /REJECT and /ACCEPT settings.  These allow you
to specify per-IP-address, rather than per-user, restrictions.  Such
controls are enforced by the ACP, before the application ever gets
invoked.

            - MyTH
From: alistair@mits.com.au
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
Subject: Re-gaining SLIP terminal line
Summary: How to regain terminal line
Date: 4 Oct 92 23:59:23 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: alistair
X-Nntp-Posting-Host: myrddn
X-Nntp-Posting-User: alistair

I am currently using a SLIP line over a dial up link.  To re-establish
the connection, I currently have to reboot the machine running
multinet to regain control of the terminal line and tell the modem to
re-dial.  Is it possible to get the terminal line back from multinet
without rebooting?  I've tried taking the line down, shutting down
multinet, and set term/prot=none, but the terminal line is still a
network device (actually it is still owned by the Multinet process,
even though it is long gone, and ZOWN won't clear out the field
either). (Have I missed the appropriate spot in the manual?).

Config:

	VAXstation 3100
	Slip line: tta3:
	VMS 5.5-1
	Multinet 3.1 Rev A

Thanks in advance,

Alistair Grant

Internet:     alistair@mits.com.au
Alternate:    alistair%mits.com.au@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
From: HEGE@finabo.abo.fi (Kaj H{ggman DC)
Subject: POP-adresses disappearing
Organization: Abo Akademi University, Finland
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 08:10:51 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.23

Hi guy!

I'm afraid I've seen this question before, but I must've missed the answer.

Some of our MAC-user's read their VMS-mail with a package called Eudora
(a POP-mail reader). Every now & then the From: looks like ???@??? and the 
Subject disappears.

I read the things about POP in the Multinet manual and know about the
possibility to set the cache to 0 and to increase a user's pagefilequota.
Any other ideas?

Thanx!

-=HeGe=-

Kaj Haggman             Internet: Hege@abo.fi     Phone:   +358-21-654467
Abo Akademi University  Bitnet:   Hege@finabo     FAX:     +358-21-654497
Computing Center        PSImail:  22101410::HEGE
SF-20500 Abo, FINLAND   X.400:    s=hege o=abo prmd=inet admd=fumail c=fi   
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
From: RODRIGOL@BIOMED.UIO.NO (Rodrigo Lopez)
Subject: Message banner file in ftp
Organization: THe Norwegian EMBnet node
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 10:06:35 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

Hello Multineters,

I'm trying to set up a message banner for my ftp server. The
examples in the manual say:

ftp_server ../message=@welcome.txt

How does this work? I have been unable to get the contents of
this file read by the example command.

Thanks in advance!

Rodrigo:-)
From: grogers@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu (Greg Rogers)
Subject: UNIX to VMS keyboard map?
Reply-To: grogers@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu (Greg Rogers)
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 22:44:36 GMT

Hi All,

Let me appologise in advance if this post does not belong in this newsgroup.
If this is the case, could you please suggest where I might post this.

My company has orderd some NCD Xserver terminals with vt220 keybards.
These machines will be used off site.  Users will phone in, logon to a
UNIX machine, and run Xwindows.  From here, most users will want to open
a window to our VMS machine and this is where the problem is.

We apparently do not have a UNIX to VMS keyboard map.  When in VMS ( from
UNIX ), regular letters and numbers type correctly, but PF keys, control 
keys, Do, Find, Select, Replace, etc., do not.

My question is: Does there exist, or does anyone know how to create, a
UNIX to VMS keyboard map to solve the problem described above?

Please send all reponses via email as I have cross posted this to several
newsgroups and won't have time to peruse them all.

thank you,
Greg
From: rforster@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Russ Forster)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.misc
Subject: X25 Copy between VAXen and HP???
Date: 5 Oct 92 10:55:57 -0700
Reply-To: RFORSTER@GALAXY.GOV.BC.CA
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

	I am looking for a pair of programs to do an X25 copy between
	a VAX and an HP machine.  Does anyone have any idea if such
	a thing exists, or has any ideas on how best to accomplish
	this.  The file if a flat text file.

	Thanks in advance.
-- 
Regards,

Russ Forster (postmaster), Sr. Technical Analyst, MultiVendor Group
BC Systems Corp., 4000 Seymour Place, Victoria, B.C., V8X 4S8
Internet: RForster@Galaxy.Gov.BC.CA       Phone: (604) 389-3186
From: graham@visionware.co.uk (Graham Porter)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.misc
Subject: PC to VMS product
Date: 29 Sep 92 11:30:06 GMT
Organization: VisionWare Ltd., Leeds, UK
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4


PC-Connect for VMS

VisionWare a UK based software house which specialises in the Integration
and Connectivity of PCs running Microsoft Windows with UNIX hosts, SQL
Databases (such as Ingres, Informix, Oracle, Sybase & Interbase) and 
X Windows, now has a VMS version of its PC to host Integration product
called PC-Connect.

PC-Connect provides 3 basic things :

1. A Windows style desktop, from which an application can be started by double
clicking on an icon (in the conventional Microsoft way). However the application
could be either a PC application based locally, or on a VMS or UNIX host to which
the PC is connected (either via a network - support is included for TCP/IP and
transports such as DEC Pathworks; or via an asynchronous connection such as
a modem link). These MS-Windows applications and UNIX/VMS applications can
then be displayed side by side on your PC, with facilities such as cut-and-paste
and support for DDE transfers between Windows.

2. Terminal emulation.

3. Host applications.

VisionWare has provided several applications which run on the host platform -
VMS or UNIX, such as Windows based file transfer, a Microsoft Windows style
notepad for editing UNIX and VMS files and a Microsoft Windows style Executive
which displays directory and file structures for the UNIX/VMS host (similar to the
Microsoft DOS Executive with MS-Windows).

PC-Connect already supports most major Unix platforms such as IBM, DEC
HP, Sun, SCO. VMS has now been added to this list.

VisionWare also produces the XVision product, which is a market leading X Windows
display server for the PC running Microsoft Windows.

These products are sold through distributors worldwide and through OEM agreements
with companies such as Unisys, NCR, ICL, Wang, Siemens Nixdorf and Data General.

For more information please contact VisionWare :
 

--
            Graham Porter, Distribution Sales Account Manager
         VISIONWARE LTD, 57 Cardigan Lane, LEEDS LS4 2LE, England
    Tel +44 532 788858.  Fax +44 532 304676.  Email graham@visionware.co.uk
----------- "VisionWare:   The home of PC/UNIX/VMS/SQL/X integration" -------------
From: edb_gunder@debet.nhh.no
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: Re: Macintosh System 6.05 Chooser "limit"
Date: 26 Sep 92 10:32:50 MET
Organization: Norwegian School of Economics

In article <24SEP199211554292@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu>, csc_richard@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu (Richard Huntington) writes:
> Is there a limit of the number of printers that can be displayed by the System
> 6.05 Chooser?
> 
Yes, there is a limit in version 6.0.x. I think the limit is 256
charachters, so if you shorten your printernames you would see more
printers. Another thing is that if you open Chooser and your printer
does not appear there, you can close Chooser and try again. Chooser
displays the printers that first broadcast their names, therefore you
will see different printers each time.

A solution to the problem is to use the shareware product "Chooser +"
which do not have this limitation.


Gunder Soensteby
EDP-dept.
Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: Pathworks performance vs Novell
From: Abel <ofabel@SI.UPC.ES>
Date: 02 Oct 1992 10:27:00 +0200
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   We want to ask some questions about the "answer time" of Pathworks in
   the environment that we describe below:
 
      -Microvax II
      -Pathworks for DOS V 4.1
 
      Client configuration:
 
      PC's 386 SX 20 with 3Mbytes
      MS-DOS 5.0
      QEMM 6.0
 
      The Microvax II is exclusive-dedicated for this purpose and we
    have installed both Disk and File Services. We have seen that the time
    since you call an application and the moment when you can work with it
    is more or less a constant time.
 
       In the other hand, we have installed the same environment in a
    Netware File Server (Novell) using the same network and we have proved
    that there is a big reduction in seconds.
 
       Has anyone got the same response-time with a VAX machine comparable
    with a Novell Server? In the afirmative case, which kind of VAX machine
    is using? Which are the principal parameters that can affect more di-
    rectly in perfomance?
 
       In our tests, the reduction time can be up to 3 times less using
    a Novell File Server.
 
        Which are the usual response times (acceptable) in a Pathwork's
     environment for a DOS typical applications  (WP5.1, etc) ?
 
        We have visited several installations but they are not good examples
     of quantity of PC's installed.
 
        Thanks for the information!!
 
 
    Janet Dura   ofjanet@si.upc.es
    Abel Agelet  ofabel@si.upc.es
 
    Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (Barcelona-92)
 
    and remember...   "Amics per sempre"
From: cjchen@TAOM13.ENET.DEC.COM
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: RE: Novell drivers for Depca's?
Date: 30 Sep 92 02:06:02 GMT
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Apparently-To: lanworks%miamiu.bitnet@pucc.princeton.edu

>	The only question is: Is the NDIS driver for the Etherworks cards
>	(DEPCA.DOS) free or not. The NDIS Software (PROTMAN.SYS and
>	NETBIND.EXE is as far as I know. About DEPCA.DOS I don't know.
>	If you can use DEPCA.DOS without license use the following
>	which are *all* free:
>
>	In config.sys:
>	PROTMAN.SYS	MS Protocol Manager. Reads PROTOCOL.INI.
>	DEPCA.DOS	NDIS Driver for all DEPCA cards
>	DIS_PKT.DOS	packet driver over NDIS (use version 9 or better)
>
>	In autoexec.bat:
>	NETBIND.EXE	"binds" the above drivers to the protocol manager (?)
>	LSL.COM		don't know exactly ...
>	PDETHER.EXE	ODI over packet driver
>	IPXODI.EXE	IPX over ODI
 
Where can I get these free software ? Can I run pathworks and packet drivers in
the same time ?
 
Thanks ,
 
CJ Chen ( Chen Chin Ju )
 
Email:	cjchen@taom13.enet.dec.com
From: jasper@vax.path.ox.ac.uk
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: Re: HOW TO READ MS-CDROM VIA PATHWORKS?
Date: 4 Oct 92 11:21:50 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Molecular Biology Data Centre
Nntp-Posting-User: jasper

In article <1992Oct1.145038.14028@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>, aus@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de (Hans Aus) writes:
> From article <2ac96be8.8ccb5d.2@BEIZ.mediatex.ch>, by Programmierer@BEIZ.mediatex.ch (055485666: MEDIAtex AG):
>> You need a software called F11CD.
>> 
>> What I heard (but I'm not shure) F11CD should be on the Septmeber CONDIST-CD.
>> If not, call your DEC-REP he can organize it for you. F11CD need's no license
>> and is free.
> 
> I just received my copy of the September CONDIST-CDs. I do not see it
> on the distribution. Am I missing something ?

Yup,  it's in [INFOSERV021.KIT]F11CD055.A, but not listed in the CD listings. 
Documentation is 'limited'. But it works OK.

Note: You need F11CD for VMS 5.5 and above; before that there was VFS which 
does *not* work above 5.4-3......

Then you can use the CD from the Infoserver, or I believe that you can serve
to PW for DOS from a driver directly attached to the VAX. As I understand it 
you cannot serve to Mac's from the VAX, only from the Infoserver. 

BTW, anyone know the functional difference between CD_DISMOUNT and plain old 
DISMOUNT? (Practical difference that is :)

regards,    jasper

Jasper Rees
Oxford University Molecular Biology Data Centre
Sir William Dunn School of Pathology
Oxford University

jasper@vax.path.ox.ac.uk
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
From: wasser@ranger.enet.dec.com (ranger::wasser)
Subject: Some things to try
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 05:00:26 GMT
X-Posted-Via: NEWS-NOTES gateway (a hack!)

> when using PATHWORKS DOS386 and running the application as a client on a 
> server and displaying it on the PC, the following error message is issued:
>  Error: Can't Open display

	I assume you mean PC DECwindows Motif V4.1 (The DOS based X Window
	System display server that comes with PATHWORKS for DOS).

	If you have not tried starting the application remotely from
	the PC you should try that...  You might get a more informative
	message.

	The "Can't Open Display" message usualy means that the application
	could not establish a network connection with the PC DECwindows Motif.
	It could be that the application is not picking up the PC's address
	from where you set it.  If you are using an environment variable,
	try a command line argument (I think "-display=<node>" is typical).

	Make sure that the node name you are using is associated with the
	correct address for the PC.

	It could be that the application is not capable of the transport
	you are using on the PC.  If the PC is running DECnet the
	application may only understand TCP/IP or vice-versa.
 
	Hope this helps!

				-John A. Wasser
				 Project Leader
				 PC DECwindows Motif V4.1
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: RE: pathworks - lan manager question
From: "(bachism)" <BACHISM@JHUDEV.DEV.JHU.EDU>
Date: 05 Oct 1992 17:46:01 -0400
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X-Vmsmail-To: SMTP%"LANWORKS%MIAMIU.BitNet@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU"

TALK TO ME IN ABOUT A MONTH AND HOPEFULLY I WILL BE ABLE TO HELP YOU OUT.
 
 
BETH BACHISM
PC SYSTEMS SPECIALIST
THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
(410) 615-3365
BACHISM@JHUDEV.DEV.JHU.EDU
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: RE: Novell drivers for Depca's?
From: Eckart Meyer <meyer@IFN.ING.TU-BS.DE>
Date: 30 Sep 1992 00:14:13 +0100
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> Is anyone aware of Depca/Etherworks drivers for use with Novell Dos clients? I
> know about the Novell Coexistence product which supplies the files to build an
> NDIS compliant IPX but it looks like that requires a pathworks license to use
> (and I don't want to run pathworks AND novell). Is there any way to make DEC's
> cards work with Novell 3.11 dos clients without pathworks?
 
	The only question is: Is the NDIS driver for the Etherworks cards
	(DEPCA.DOS) free or not. The NDIS Software (PROTMAN.SYS and
	NETBIND.EXE is as far as I know. About DEPCA.DOS I don't know.
	If you can use DEPCA.DOS without license use the following
	which are *all* free:
 
	In config.sys:
	PROTMAN.SYS	MS Protocol Manager. Reads PROTOCOL.INI.
	DEPCA.DOS	NDIS Driver for all DEPCA cards
	DIS_PKT.DOS	packet driver over NDIS (use version 9 or better)
 
	In autoexec.bat:
	NETBIND.EXE	"binds" the above drivers to the protocol manager (?)
	LSL.COM		don't know exactly ...
	PDETHER.EXE	ODI over packet driver
	IPXODI.EXE	IPX over ODI
 
	Sound complicated, but isn't. The TSR's are not too big.
	LSL, PDETHER and IPXODI is from NOVELL's FTP server.
	This configuration works for me, even in "coexistence" with
	pathworks.
 
	If you can't use DEPCA.DOS, you may try the DEPCA packet
	driver, which is part of the packet driver distribution. I'm
	not shure if the driver works - an older version didn't work
	at all. I havn't tried this.
 
	As far as I know there is currently no ODI driver for the DEPCA.
	There has been an IPX driver, but it doesn't work at all. It's
	very old (Pathworks V2) and supports only the old DEPCA.
 
	-- Eckart
 
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Technical University of Braunschweig                                  Germany
                                                 Phone:      +49 531 391 2454
E-Mail:   meyer@ifn.ing.tu-bs.de                 FAX:        +49 531 391 5192
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From: alistair@myrddn.mits.com.au
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks,vmsnet.mail.pmdf
Subject: Summary: Mail system to use with PathWorks
Date: 25 Sep 92 11:25:50 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: alistair

In article <1992Sep9.214100.3556@mits.com.au>, 
alistair@mits.com.au (me) writes:
> We are currently in the process of connecting all our PC's to the
> network using PathWorks, and I am trying to determine the most
> appropriate mail system to put in place.  It must be able to integrate
> with VMS Mail.
> 
> The possibilities seem to be:
> 
> 1.	The unsupported mail client.  This is a DOS application and
> 	most of our users use Windows, so this is a bit clunky.
> 
> 2.	Microsoft Mail as licensed with MS Office.  Has anyone
> 	integrated this with PMDF?
> 
> 3.	DEC's Mailworks.

Two mail systems were reported in responses:

	DEC MAILworks
	WordPerfect Mail

The person who is using WordPerfect Mail is quite happy with it.  We
are moving to MS Office, so aren't interested.

Most of the responses were for MailWorks, and most people seem to be
quite happy with it.  One person criticised the interface (buttons not
working, menu items not being updated), and the mail editor.

There were no responses in relation to MS Mail, so I'll be
investigating that further myself.

Thanks to:
	Murray	Penno
	Mark Strawcutter
	Tom Hayes
	Mitch Russell
	Carl Makin
	Kevin Carosso
	Tom Hayes
	Ta Fuh Chiam
	Laura Halliday
	Peter Whisker

for their help.

If anyone would like more information, I am quite happy to mail (or
post) it out.

Thanks,

Alistair Grant

Internet:     alistair@mits.com.au
Alternate:    alistair%mits.com.au@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au
From: DUG@CZHETH5A.BITNET
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: How to read MS-CDROM via Pathworks?
Date: 26 Sep 92 14:30:00 GMT
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X-Original-To:  LANWORKS@MIAMIU, DUG

Comment: Mail not returnable through this path, use the list address
 
Author: AEOLUS::NOTES3B "Dillier Norbert"
Topic 2458.0
Time: 25-SEP-1992 16:57 ZRH
 
    We have a RRD42 CDROM-Reader attached to our Pathworks-Server (mainly
    for software-installation from CONDIST).
    We can access VMS-CDROM's from DOS (or Windows) via the following
    procedure:
    in VMS:
    CDR == dkb400:
    mount/ign=id cdr:
    in DOS: (batch-file)
    use ?: \\servr\common%%common * /env=cdrom
    use %cdrom% cdr:[000000] /setdir
    now we can access all files with names conforming to DOS-restrictions
    (i.e. 8 chars. max for file name and 3 chars. max. for ext.)
    Now our problem:
    How can we read a DOS-CDROM (such as Microsoft SDK) which has no
    VMS-file structure??
    We have been successful with "mount/foreign cdr:" which allows a simple
    "dump cdr:" to view some bytes and text strings in ASCII.
    However when we try to use PCDISK ("use a: cdr:/hard" for example) we
    get only error messages (such as "invalid partition table entry,
    possibly not partitioned format").
    Also, in the documentation for PCSA-Manager I have not been able to
    find a solution to mount a CDROM as PCSA-Service and consequently the
    DOS-USE-command does not work.
    I have gone through a number of manuals and could not find a solution
    so far.
    Any help would be appreciated.
    Norbert DIllier, ENT-Department, University Hospital, Zurich,
    Switzerland
    E-Mail K365710@CZHRZU1A.Bitnet