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From: jwmanly@amherst.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Apple LaserWriter via DECprint/ScriptPrinter software?
Date: 5 Oct 92 20:25:08 GMT
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst Mass.

Hello, everyone.

We at Amherst are attempting to hook up an Apple LaserWriter to our VAX/VMS
system using the regular DECprint (formerly Scriptprinter) software.  We have
connected the unit to one of the VAX serial ports, and have been able to simply
COPY postscript files to it and have them come out properly.

However, we have been unable to get the 'out-of-the-box' DECprint CPS$SMB
symbiont to recognize or otherwise be able to deal with the LaserWriter.
I recall a couple of years ago a discussion on this topic, suggesting that
one simply had to edit the set-up modules used in CPS$DEVCTL, but have long
since lost the details.

Has anyone out there suceeded in getting DECprint to drive a LaserWriter?
(We're at VMS 5.4-3 and DECprint 4.1 by the way.)  If not, is there some
other solution (besides Alisa or Pacer or Pathworks or other commercial
Postscript symbiont)?

I am planning to summarize to this list any responses I get, so people need
not send "if you find out anything, let me know" requests.

Thanks very much.

- John W. Manly  <JWMANLY@AMHERST.EDU>  (System Manager -- Amherst College)
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From: jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,alt.binaries.pictures.utilities
Subject: MPEG
Date: 28 Sep 92 22:18:37 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory

Someone recently mentioned an MPEG utility for PCs was available on
this newsgroup.  Having only now subscribed, I've missed it.  Can
someone tell me where it is or whether there's an anonymous FTP
where I can get it.  Thanks.

Also, is there any experimental Sun/OS and/or MAC version of MPEG
available?

-- 
J. Giles
From: powers@ELROS.STG.TRW.COM
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: Disk Low-Level Formatter
Date: 30 Sep 92 05:00:01 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


I'm tossing this in just to get the history straight.  Unfortunately, I do
not have an answer to the question.

Mark-Tarbell@suite.com writes:
> As I recall, in the early days of VMS, there used to be
> a low-level formatter as part of the UETP set. I believe
> it was named EVRAC.EXE. Of course, such things are no
> longer delivered  (I guess DEC wants you to buy from
> THEM... Can't understand why...).

EVRAC was never a part of the UETP.  It was a part of the diagnostics
package that your friendly DEC customer engineer or field service
representative (i.e., hardware repairman) parked under the FIELD account
on many customer systems.  Long ago, it was convenient to the DEC repairman
to park his diagnostics on a customer system from his "VAX Magic" tape and
simply leave the stuff there permanently.  That's where EVRAC was.  And its
being on someone's VAX was ONLY a convenience for the repairman, NOT a
product delivered by DEC to its customers.  We customers weren't supposed
to mess with it, although we all messed with it anyway.

I don't know, but I imagine that the reason why [SYSMAINT] is empty and
EVRACless today is because hardware technology has simply made all those old
diagnostics obsolete.  And just as well.  Any other VMS version 1 guys out
there who remember asking the repairman, "How long will the VAX be down?"
And the repairmain would say, "We'll know in about an hour after the
diagnostics have run."  As to EVRAC, well it took hours and hours and hours
to format a disk.  I hated it.

Actually, if you need a disk formatted, down on the low level, you might
ask your hardware repairman if he's got a program you can borrow -- that is,
*IF* you are on good personal terms with the repairman.  (S/W borrowing is
probably against the rules somewhere).

      Lester Powers
      powers@elros.stg.trw.com
From: kwolcott@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Kenneth A Wolcott)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Please send UNIX-like tar for VMS and VMS GAWK in SHAR format...
Keywords: public-domain tar and awk for VMS in SHAR format
Date: 1 Oct 92 05:12:31 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado at Denver

I am in desperate need of a UNIX-like tar executable for VMS and it would
also be nice to have an executable GAWK for VMS.  I need it for a system
which has ftp access only internally and has email only within the
cluster.  I do not have access to any magnetic media devices.  Therefore,
I need VMS executables in SHAR format to be emailed to me so I can then
perform a local ftp session and then extract the SHAR format.  I would
really like to obtain the binaries myself, but I have no way of getting
them to the VMS machine.  To make certain that I have the right format, it
is the format that DCL can extract to make executables.

Thank you!

Kenneth A. Wolcott
kwolcott@copper.denver.colorado.edu
kwolcott@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu
kwolcott@elbert.denver.colorado.edu
kwolcott@nyx.cs.du.edu
kenw@sybase.com

Thanks again!



-- 
--
Kenneth A. Wolcott                kwolcott@{copper,cudnvr}.denver.colorado.edu 
University of Colorado at Denver  kwolcott@cudenver.bitnet
From: CAPTANSKI33@SNYCORVA.BITNET (CHRIS TANSKI)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Talk
Date: 27 Sep 92 19:01:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: scorva.01GPA7ILCDOW8WWLDY
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

If this is an FAQ please reply directly. I have an old version of talk
installed on the VAX. I need to know of an FTP site where I can get the
most current version. Thanks.

Chris Tanski
From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Survival of LAVC across network modifications
Date: 1 Oct 92 05:01:53 GMT
Organization: St. Peter's College, US

In article <1992Sep30.102438.5311@nntphost.ciba-geigy.ch>, bnebga@ciba-geigy.ch (Gary Nebbett) writes:
> The SYSGEN parameter RECNXINTERVAL is dynamic, so an initial idea
> would be to set this to some suitable value on all cluster members
> before replacing a bridge. Does anyone know whether this would
> work (i.e. would it reliably increase the maximum tolerable network
> interruption interval)?

  As we have a 785 in our cluster (mixed-interconnect cluster), we've set
RECNXINTERVAL to 300 seconds to allow it to reload it's WCS microcode. We
haven't seen any problems from this, and it helps with cabling changes.

	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
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: diewald@virrus.zko.dec.com (Jeff Diewald)
Subject: Re: Help with DEBUG??
Reply-To: diewald@virrus.zko.dec.com (Jeff Diewald)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 13:34:46 GMT


The latest and greatest version of DEBUG has a completely new, far easier to
use, and much better performing Motif UI.  The UI has been completely 
rewritten.  We've gotten a lot of very positive feedback on the new UI.  

Furthermore, the debugger now has a RUN/RERUN capability.  No more getting
out of the Debugger just to turn around and get back in.  We've addressed a
number of other issues as well, including performance.  It's worth your while
to check out the new Debugger.

This new debugger will get you out of the business of messing with the 
terminal mechanisms.

Ask your sales contact about the version of the Debugger now available with
the latest release of DECset. (V11)

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	Jeff Diewald			EASYNET:   VIRRUS::DIEWALD
	Debug group			INTERNET:  diewald@virrus.zko.dec.com
	Digital Equipment Corp.
From: SYSMGR@IPG.PH.KCL.AC.UK
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: DANGER! re: Help: file header full on system disk.
Date: 30 Sep 92 09:37:23 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

DANGER - The following advice could prove lethal to your data!

> >If INDEXF.SYs is so fragmented that it has fused up its header then you
> >are stuck since it is the one file that does not see to use extension
> >headers.  unfortunately even backuip and restore onyl fixes the problem
> >a little since there still does not seem ot be any way to preallocate
> >INDEF.SYS to the right large size and have it survive BACKUP/IMAGE and
> >/IAMGE restore.  IF you are very careful you can do file by file style
> >restores and survive.
> 
> You *CAN*, however, immediately after using BACKUP to restore the image BACKUP
> or the disk, run a simple program that calls RMS' $EXTEND function to extend
> INDEXF.SYS in one fell swoop.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL


Carl,
	this was the subject of some discussion recently on the MACRO32 list.
I have used $EXTEND myself - once - and got away with it, but I was *LUCKY*.

	There are two dangers. Firstly, the backup index file header won't be
extended when the master one is. ANALYZE/DISK will report the backup header
as 'bad', ANALYZE/DISK/REPAIR will fix it. If you don't do this and your master
header goes bad... bye bye data.

	Worse though, $EXTEND doesn't know that it's extending an INDEXF as
opposed to any other file. It might add more extents than would fit in a
single block, at which point your disk is irredeemably corrupted in an
instant. You'll usually get away with $EXTEND if the disk has just been
BACKUP restored, as all the free space is likely to be contiguous or
nearly so, but on a used disk this technique is very dodgy.

	There is a much safer way to forcibly extend the file header. It's

% A quick and dirty fix if you spot this in advance is to
% $ SET VOLUME/EXTENSION=20000 disk$whatever then create some files
% to cause an extension of indexf.sys by 20000 blocks..
%
% --
%
% Alan Greig                            Janet: Alan@UK.AC.DUNDEE-TECH
% Dundee Institute of Technology     Internet: Alan@DCT.AC.UK


which strikes me as neat, not at all dirty.

Apparently DEC fixed BACKUP in 5.5-2 so that on RESTORE, if you use
/NOINITIALIZE and have pre-initialized the disk with enough headers,
it doesn't truncate INDEXF.SYS any more. I can't vouch for this as
I haven't got 5.5-2 yet.

	Yours,
		Nigel Arnot

		NRA%ipg.ph.kcl.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk   (internet)
		NRA%uk.ac.kcl.ph.ipg@ukacrl.bitnet        (bitnet)

Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: vilain@netcom.com (Michael Vilain)
Subject: Re: "removed from VAXcluster": my bootnode can't reboot
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 92 07:27:09 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: world,local

I found similar problems managing an NIcluster.  The best way I
could force a reboot of the satillites (especially the ones that
were in manager's locked offices).  I disconnected the ethernet
transciever cable during reboot until the boot node was up and
running.  On reconnecting the ethernet cable, the satillites
would crash, then reboot.  Kludge, but it worked.

/MeV/

-- 
"Brevity is the soul of lingerie" -- Dorothy Parker
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"Brevity is the soul of lingerie" -- Dorothy Parker
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widowhood does not become me, even if I do look good in black
From: ault@queens.edu (Richard Ault)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: When is TT_ACCPORNAM setup?
Date: 4 Oct 92 19:36:12 GMT
Reply-To: ault@queens.edu
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

I am attempting to detect network logins in sylogin.com and I am trying to use
f$getdvi("tt","tt_AccPorNam") to determine the remote host domain.  The DCL
code works perfectly if I run it anytime AFTER the account's login.com starts.
However, when I run it in sylogin.com, I come up with a null string.  Show
terminal behaves exactly the same way (i.e. remote host & port is absent on
show term in sylogin, but present on later show terms).  I'm running V5.4-3 and
UCX 1.3.  Is this some sort of UCX bug or is it intentional (and if
intentional, WHY?)
Thanks
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Richard H. Ault, Computing Services Center      ault@queens.edu
Queens College, 1900 Selwyn Ave                 ault@alumni.caltech.edu
Charlotte, NC 28274-0001                        (704) 337-2303
From: DESMITH_N@COLLOQUIUM.CO.UK (Nick de Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Windows NT. Huh!
Date: 29 Sep 92 13:30:00 GMT
Organization: The Internet

Hi,

This may be common knowledge, but has anyone noticed that VMS + 1 = WindowsNt
(VMS is only one letter removed from WNT). Roll on 2001 (remember the
"HAL 9000"). Maybe this is just Dave Cutler's little joke. Someone also pointed
out that "Dave Cutler's Little joke" = "DCL joke". Bizarre...

Nick	NICK@NCDLAB.ULCC.AC.UK
From: ARNE@ko.hhs.dk (Arne Vajhxj)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Forwarding Mail by Distribution Lists
Date: 1 Oct 92 19:47:28 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

> I am trying to set up an account to forward mail to several users.  I tried
> forwarding the account's mail to a list of users in a distribution file by
> typing:
> 
> 	MAIL>	SET FORWARD @DISTRIBUTE.DIS
> 
> and also
> 
>          MAIL>   SET FORWARD "@DISTRIBUTE.DIS"
> 
> When mail is sent to the account I get the following message:
> 
> 	%MAIL-E-USERSPEC, invalid usser specification '@DISTRIBUTE.DIS'
> 
> Looks to me that the SET FORWARD command will not forward to distribution
> lists.  Has anyone set anything like this up or have any ideas on how to set
> one up.

Since some version of VMS (5.0 ?) MAIL will not accept SET FORW to a
distribution list !

Bad solution:

    $ DEFINE/SYS DISTRIBUTE "@disk:[dir]DISTRIBUTE.DIS"

    MAIL> SET FORWARD DISTRIBUTE

    This may work, but this method do have some problems !

Good solution:

    Get a software package like DELIVER to do the job !

                                                          Arne

Arne Vajhxj                             local DECNET:  KO::ARNE
Computer Department                     PSI:           PSI%23831001304030::ARNE
Business School of Southern Denmark     Internet:      ARNE@KO.HHS.DK
From: munroe@dmc.com (Dick Munroe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Logicals: concealed deviced names and search lists
Date: 1 Oct 92 18:59:09 EDT
Distribution: na
Organization: Doyle, Munroe Consultants, Inc., Hudson, MA

In article <1992Oct1.013620.17552@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>, rbr4@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Roland Roberts) writes:
> 
> We have recently come near to running out of space on one of our disks
> that houses a lot of local code.  Rather than defining a new logical
> name to point to a new disk, we thought we'd try the following:
> 
> $ define/trans=concealed user$site1 dka0:[usersite1.],dka1:[usersite1.]
> 
> For most purposes, this works fine.  Users who want to run code from
> the user$site1 "disk" can do so fine.  Directory command and SET
> DEFAULT work fine too.  However, I discovered a problem when I tried
> to trap output from a command:
> 
> $ set default user$site1:[ug]
> $ directory
> [... list of files, looks fine ...]
> $ define sys$output foo.bar
> %DCL-E-OPENOUT, error opening USER$SITE1:[UG]FOO.BAR; as output
> -RMS-E-DNF, directory not found
> -SYSTEM-W-NOSUCHFILE, no such file
> 
> I haven't figured out why the inconsistent behavior, that is some
> commands work fine (e.g. DIRECTORY) and other fail (EDT, and friends
> are similarly unhappy).  So there are two questions:
> 
> (1) Why this behavior?

Roland,

When you do an open for output, the output file name is created as:

dka0:[usersite1.ug]foo.bar

it DOESN'T look for a valid directory in the search list and THEN create the
output file name.  This operation is equivalent to:

f$parse("user1$site:[ug]foo.bar",,,,"no_conceal")

which WILL return the file name relative to the appropriate directory.

> (2) Is there another way to get what I want?  In particular, to have a
>     logical device point to more than one physical device in a
>     transparent fashion for the user.

Well, it IS transparent (for reads), but in general unless you guarantee that
all directories that you will write to are in the FIRST element of the search
list, the answer is no, you can't.

> 
> roland

good luck.
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267 Cox St.				Office: (508) 568-1618
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From: grogers@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu (Greg Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: UNIX to VMS keyboard map?
Date: 1 Oct 92 22:31:43 GMT
Reply-To: grogers@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu (Greg Rogers)
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

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: brydon@asl.slb.com (Harvey Brydon (918)250-4312)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: ScriptPrinter/NUMBER_UP/frame-problem
Date: 27 Sep 92 21:22:17 GMT
Reply-To: brydon@dsn.SINet.slb.com
Organization: Schlumberger/Anadrill Sugar Land, TX

In article <01GP489ZSHIQ9I440C@kopc.hhs.dk>, ARNE@ko.hhs.dk (Arne Vajhxj)
writes:
>When I set up a queue with the ScriptPrinter software (called DECprint
>software today) and use the NUMBER_UP=2 option, then I get a frame
>around the two logical pages.
>
>Can I avoid that frame and if yes how ?

Hee hee hee.  We managed to catch Arne with an RTFM question. :-)

This is described in the DECprint/CPS Manager's Guide in Chapter 6, dealing
with Layup Definition Files.  I can quote some of it here but I know Arne
knows how to read it too.
_______________________________________________________________
Harvey Brydon         | Internet:   brydon@dsn.SINet.slb.com
Dowell Schlumberger   | P.O.T.S.:   (918)250-4312
       On a clear disk you can seek forever.
From: acm@nauvax.ucc.nau.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: HELP: Knighting the underprivileged
Date: 6 Oct 92 18:26:36 GMT
Organization: Northern Arizona University

In a previous article, devoy@vixvax.mgi.com wrote:
>HELP!!
>	I am writing an application that must be an installed task which
>can grant its installation privileges to a "underprivileged" user during
>the execution of certain tasks. LIB$SPAWN runs with user privs and cannot
>(methinks) be made to use task privs. SYS$CREPRC allows the task to specify the 

             (*** stuff deleted***)

>	Does anybody know of an alternative method of getting a spawned task
>to execute with task vs. user privs without going through LOGINOUT.EXE?

   Dave, in another thread the info-vaxers are discussing the building of 
"SECURE" installed images.  On of the rules that I mentioned was to never call
lib$spawn while the amplified privileges are in effect because the subprocess
will inherit those privs as AUTHORIZED privileges.  E.G. the subprocess can
use SET PROC/PRIV=xxx to obtain those privs.
   If your intent is to allow a subprocess to have amplified privileges then
you must be very careful to insure that the person obtaining that priv doesn't
abuse the privilege.  E.G. the subprocess runs a single command and then exits
immediately or runs a captive .COM file with CTRL-Y traps etc. to make sure
the person doesn't get to a dollar sign with the priv turned on.
   To give the subprocess the privs as authorized privs the parent process
will need the priv(s) in question as CURRENT or PROCESS privs not IMAGE privs.
The privileged image will need to call $SETPRV to enable these privs in the
process mask prior to the LIB$SPAWN call.  Also be sure and specify the 
temporary flag when enabling the priv(s) so that upon image exit the privs
get turned back off.  Disabling ctrl-y and declaring an exit handler is also
a good idea.  Putting the terminal into passall mode effectively disables
CTRL-Y and CTRL-C.  Be kind to the user and reset the terminal upon image
exit or they'll have a party trying to get their terminal fixed.

Tony


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| Anthony C. McCracken                   |                                   |
| Northern Arizona University            | Boom boom boom,,, Still going !   |
| Flagstaff, Arizona                     |                                   |
|                                        | VMS just keeps going and going and|
| acm@nauvax                   BitNet    | going.  Nothing outlasts VAX/VMS. |
| acm@nauvax.ucc.nau.edu       Internet  |                                   |
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From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Survival of LAVC across network modifications
Date: 1 Oct 92 05:16:53 GMT
Organization: St. Peter's College, US

In article <1992Oct1.033514.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>, zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au (Paul Repacholi) writes:
> The MSCP packet are doced in the UDA-50 programers doc kit. Yeah, DEC canned it
> within a few weeks of printing it... Can't imagine why. :-) If you need specific
> info, I can look it up, but don't ask me to type in the whole manual...

  That's odd, QP905-GZ is still a valid part number. Inexpensive, too.

  Don't all go order it at once... 8-)

	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
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu
Subject: Re: emacs with no decwindows...
Reply-To: davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu
Organization: Health Computer Sciences, U of MN, Mpls
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 15:25:55 GMT

In article <01GPLUIVJP76001OP9@EKU.BITNET>, STUBRBEE@EKU.BITNET (Oooooooops) writes:
>Can someone tell me a place to find emacs that doesn't require decwindows.  I
>found a place but when i got it...it said that the backup saveset wasn't
>reconized.  Any idea's?

If you have a C compiler on your system, you can compile the current release of
GNU EMACS.  This will result in a terminal-oriented version of EMACS which does
not make use of DECwindows.  If you do not have a C compiler, you can obtain
the GNU C compiler first -- precompiled binaries for the VMS port of GCC 2.2.2
are available on mango.rsmas.miami.edu.

-- David Paschall-Zimbel
From: drumm@cnsvax.uwec.edu (Danny)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: IRC (chat?) program for VMS
Date: 6 Oct 92 17:28:10 -0600
Organization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire

Is there an IRC program for vms?  If so, under what name, 
and where can I find it.

thanks,
-- Dan
From: edbis@solomon.technet.sg (Koh Eng San)
Subject: Re: DCL to check for identifier
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 11:08:22 GMT

Hi... Here I am again with another question.

Which lexical function would allow me to get the default login directory name?
I need to check if this directory exists but the F$SEARCH command does not
support checking of valid directory that exist... any suggestion?

Have a GREAT Day!

Koh Eng San
EDB Singapore