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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: TZ30 performance
From: gordon@chmeds.ac.nz
Date: 27 Aug 92 12:23:57 +1300

We are in the midst of replacing a microVAX II with a VAXstation 4000-60.
That's a real win in general, but tape performance isn't.

The microVAX has a TK-50, and on a straight backup of sys$help gets 18.5 
disk blocks/second to tape.  The VAXstation has a TZ30 and only gets 4.1 disk 
blocks/second to tape.  

It was suggested to me to run BACKUP as a user with greatly increased quotas
and working set, and use BACKUP/BLOCK_SIZE=32256 This gave only a marginal
performance improvement. 

Other differences: microVAX has RA81, VMS 5.3-1. VAXStation has RZ58, VMS 5.5

Has anyone else measured the performance of a TZ30? Has anyone got better
performance? With the present perormance an image backup will become more than 
a week's work!

Thanks for any suggestions,

Gordon
----
Gordon Findlay,  
Computer Scientist, Christchurch School of Medicine
Nuclear-free New Zealand  

Gordon@CHMEDS.AC.NZ
From: jms@mrsvax.mis.arizona.edu (Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE:Will lmf kill alpha???
Date: 30 Aug 92 19:49:00 GMT
Reply-To: jms@arizona.edu
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona MIS Department
X-Lunar-Date: 0 days, 17 hours, 59 minutes since the new moon
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Aug29.210056.1@amc.uva.nl>, hellings@amc.uva.nl writes...
>I sure like LMF especially when I updated my Fortran compiler during the
>weekend and the License was outdated. So I phoned DEC Sorry no support during
>weekend. So I had to wait until Monday. Yes it was true with this Fortran
>version you needed a new code. So why don't the do something extra for people
>who are always paying there licensefee instead of punishing them with LMF??

The would, except that they're so busy handling people who
can't/won't read that there's no time and money left.  

When we got the "temporary SUPs" from Digital 3 years ago they told us
that we needed to get real PAKs.  When the PAKs for some things didn't show
up after 6 months, they sent us a letter saying, "if you didn't get any
PAKs, please let us know."  When the Fortran compiler showed up last month,
it had a big letter on the top saying, "hey, if you don't have a certain
kind of PAK, then you better get one before upgrading."  

I think that 3 years notice PLUS a special letter with the kit is plenty of
"something extra." 

Joel M Snyder, 1103 E Spring Street, Tucson, AZ, 85719 
Phone: 602.882.4094 (voice) .4095 (FAX) .4093 (data)
BITNET: jms@Arizona  Internet: jms@arizona.edu  SPAN: 47541::telcom::jms
I'm also against BODY-SURFING!!
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: huber@vxcrna.cern.ch (Sepp Huber, CERN -4439,-6712)
Subject: Re: Use of Symbols with SQL
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:20:00 GMT

In article <9208251827.AA15454@univax.fhda.edu>, hasan%avax.dnet@UNIVAX.FHDA.EDU (HASAN%AVAX.DNET@UNIVAX.FHDA.EDU) writes...
> 
>		Is there a way, that I can translate symbols set via
>		DCL, into SQL insert statements?
>		The code shown below, does not work.  SQL is not
>		translating the symbols A, B or C to their values.
>		I am just curious, if there is any other way to use
>		symbol definitions in SQL?
>==========================================================================
>	$	A = "AAAVAX.XXYY"
>	$	B = "999.99.99.99"
>	$	C = "8650"
>	!
>	SQL
>	!
>	DECLARE SCHEMA FILENAME INTERNET_INFO;
>	!
>	INSERT INTO NODE_INFO (NAME, ADDRESS, HWARE)
>       	 	VALUES ("''A'", "''B'", "''C'"); 
>        |
>	COMMIT;
>==========================================================================
There's nothing specific to SQL, it's a general misunderstanding of how
applications interact with DCL (or other CLIs):
Only DCL itself interprets the syntax of "''A'" and other such DCL-language
constructs, not the application (SQL) which simply gets the lines as data on
its standard input/SYS$INPUT.
(Only very clever applications having a built-in interpreter for DCL would be
able to handle the above lines :-).

However, a simple change in Your DCL script will do what you want:
$A = "AAAVAX.XXYY"
$B = "999.99.99.99"
$C = "8650"
$ tmpfile = "SYS$SCRATCH:SQLTEMP.COM"
$ if f$search(tmpfile).nes. "" $then delete/noconfirm 'tmpfile';*
$ OPEN/WRITE/ERROR=shoutatme tmp 'tmpfile'
$write tmp "$SQL"
$write tmp "DECLARE SCHEMA FILENAME INTERNET_INFO;"
$write tmp "INSERT INTO NODE_INFO (NAME, ADDRESS, HWARE)"
$write tmp "VALUES (''A', ''B', ''C'); "
$write tmp "COMMIT;"
$write tmp " ... some more SQL up to EXIT ..."
$write tmp "$ EXIT $STATUS !this is exit from sqltemp.com"
$ close tmp
$ @'tmpfile'   !this now executes the SQL statements
$ delete/noconfirm 'tmpfile';* !clean up
..
-
Joseph "Sepp" Huber        | At present in CERN
Max-Planck-Institut Physik | Internet: huber@vxcern.cern.ch
Munich, Germany            | HEPnet:   VXCERN::HUBER
From: MACRIDES@WFEB2.BITNET (Foteos Macrides)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: GRAILSHELLS.SHARE & NCBISHELLS.SHARE
Date: 4 Sep 92 06:57:49 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


        Oops.  There was an error in the 00README.TXT of my GRAILSHELLS.SHARE
posting (incorrect reference to NCBI).  Use this one:
==============================================================================
        GRAILSHELLS.SHARE is a VMS_SHARE set of Steve_Clark/Erik_Sonnhammer-
style command procedures for users of the Wisconsin GCG package to register
with the GRAIL (Gene Recognition and Analysis Internet Link) Email server, and
to send the server requests for GRAIL analyses.  Installation instructions are
included as comments at the tops of the files.  The *.HLP files can be
inserted in the GCG on-line help library.

Contents:

00README.TXT       -- This message.

REG_GRAIL.COM      -- For registration with the GRAIL server.
  REG_GRAIL.HLP

GRAIL.COM          -- For submission of GRAIL analysis protocols.
  GRAIL.HLP
  TOFASTA.FOR (Steve Clark's GCG to FastA format converter)
  TOFASTA.HLP
=============================================================================

        Also, in BLASTNCBI.COM of my NCBISHELLS.SHARE posting, find:

$       IF(choice.EQS."5")
$        THEN
$        iq histogr "Display histogram of scores (* yes *): "
$        if(histogr.EQS."") then histogr := "yes"
$        goto show_param
$       ENDIF

and replace it with:

$       IF(choice.EQS."5")
$        THEN
$        iq histogr "Display histogram of scores (* yes *): "
$        histogr = f$extract(0, 1, histogr)
$        IF(histogr.EQS."N")
$         THEN
$         histogr := "no"
$         ELSE
$         histogr := "yes"
$        ENDIF
$        goto show_param
$       ENDIF

=========================================================================
 Foteos Macrides           Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology
 MACRIDES@WFEB2.BITNET     222 Maple Avenue, Shrewsbury, MA 01545
=========================================================================

Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: GLL@fnal.fnal.gov (Gregory Landsberg)
Subject: Did anybody get ZIP 1.9 part 03/22?
Organization: SUNY at Stony Brook
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 01:41:24 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20



    Hi, folks!

The question says it all... On my server part 3 was missed by some reason.
Would anybody please send this part to comp.os.vms or vmsnet.sources?
Please, don't send it to me directly, because if several people would do
it, my mailbox will overflow!

Thanx a lot in advance!

Greg Landsberg
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: hoffmann@evax.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Hoffmann)
Subject: Re: UCX 2.0  Mail Unhappiness
Reply-To: hoffmann@evax.tuwien.ac.at
Organization: Technical University Vienna, Computing Services
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 18:27:30 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.223119.17192@news.acns.nwu.edu>, jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss) writes:
>
>I've installed UCX 2.0 (aka DEC TCP/IP) on my system and cannot get outward
>mail configured properly.  Telnet/FTP/incomming SMTP works fine.  The
>name (bind) resolver is working correctly.
>
>Whenever I try to post mail off system I basically end up with a
>situation in which the STMP server symbiont queue dies a horrible death.
>

We encountered the same problem. After some troubleshooting we found, that
UCX SMTP uses in the RECEIPT field only the form username@host without
the supplying the hostname with the domain.
e.g.: if you send email to xyz@foo.bar.none UCX SMTP transforms it
to xyz@foo

We found that most mailers on UNIX-host does accept this, but VMS systems
running MX-Software don't.



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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: edbis%Solomon.Technet.sg (Koh Eng San)
Subject: Transparent logon to VAXStation
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 06:29:31 GMT

I have a VAXStation 4000 that is running is the standalone mode. Is there a
way for the machine to use the sysuaf file of my VAXCluster. I do not want to
maintain too many accounts. 

Ultimately I am looking for a way to harness the power of the VAXStation to
run batch jobs which read and write data from my VAXCluster. Is there a way to
do this without having to join the VAXStation to the cluster? Please advice...

Thanks.

Koh Eng San
Economic Development Board of Singapore
From: goathunter@wkuvx1.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: SEEKING INFO ABOUT PK-ZIP
Date: 3 Sep 92 16:59:45 CDT
Organization: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY

In article <Bu0LDn.70D@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, ritley@uimrl7.mrl.uiuc.edu () writes:
> 
> I am using a version of PK-ZIP/UNZIP for VAX/VMS, a public domain or
> shareware file compression program.  This is version
> 4.1, I believe, and it contains a bug (?) in which all de-compressed files
> have the Stream_LF Record format.
> 
> Does anyone know if there is a new version
> available (and from where?) in which this
> bug has been fixed?
> 
So where've you been? 8-)  The new versions of Zip/UnZip were released
a couple of weeks ago and just appeared in vmsnet.sources.

The new versions of Zip and UnZip support the saving and restoring of
VMS file attributes, fixing the "bug" you described (which wasn't really
a bug).

You can get it via anonymous ftp from ftp.spc.edu; you'll need:

	[.MACRO32]AAAREADME.TXT
	[.MACRO32]LZDCMP.EXE
	[.MACRO32.SAVESETS]ZIP-UNZIP.BCK_Z

To get it via e-mail, send the following commands in the body of a
mail message to FILESERV@WKUVX1.BITNET:

SEND ZIP-UNZIP
SEND FILESERV_TOOLS

Hunter
------
Hunter Goatley, VMS Systems Programmer, Western Kentucky University
goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET, 502-745-5251
From: winston@ssrl01.slac.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: RE:Will lmf kill alpha???
Date: 3 Sep 92 20:02:50 GMT
Organization: SSRL, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lab

In article <9209030436.AA11396@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, ALLIN1V2@WR-HITS.AF.MIL ("Allin1v2") writes:
> |>When we got the "temporary SUPs" from Digital 3 years ago they told us
> |>that we needed to get real PAKs.  When the PAKs for some things didn't show
> |>up after 6 months, they sent us a letter saying, "if you didn't get any
> |>PAKs, please let us know."  When the Fortran compiler showed up last month,
> |>it had a big letter on the top saying, "hey, if you don't have a certain
> |>kind of PAK, then you better get one before upgrading."
> 
>    I agree that DEC needs to get on the Ball in sending out PAKs. There has been many times I was installing something and find out that the old PAK is no good and DEC forgot to send me a new one.  I found the Temp. Service PAK service on 
> DSNLink other day ago and figure that that should help, get a TSP a little quicker than calling CSC and waiting ( and waiting and waiting) for them to call back with the PAK they should have sent in the first place.
> 
>    I haven't had a chance to use DSNLinks TSP service yet, but figure it should help and others might not be aware of it (like I wasn't)
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Harry Anderson,ANDERSONHMAI@WR-HITS.AF.MIL 132.11.15.12 |Jesus Christ loves you
> Robins Air Force Base Ga - Geeks of the World Unite ! ! |and died for You.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: felipe@jupiter.jpl.nasa.gov (Felipe Hervias)
Subject: Looking for VMS binaries for GNU g++
Reply-To: felipe@triton.Jpl.Nasa.Gov
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena CA
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:22:28 GMT

hi,

i am looking for an ftp archive that has the VMS binaries
for GNU g++.  is this available or do I have to build it?

thanks.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Zoo on Unix..
Date: 26 Aug 92 23:38:55 GMT
Organization: The Internet

Dudes,
     I have been trying to get zoo to compile on our UN*X system.  Apparently
my make file doens't work.  Could someone explain to me how to compile it and
send me the make file?   Thanx...

David Barbee


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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: ?: Use of DECVEC printer sequences for LN03
From: don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes)
Date: 30 Aug 92 01:43:40 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Wolery

MR_CA_CBU@OSI.OHIO.GOV writes:
>      Our application requires us to 'merge' the form (DECVEC sequences) 
>      with the SAS data, although the data could come from any source - 
>      such as other database products.

I can't help you on a utility to produce the sequences, but once you have 
the form, you can have the print queue set up to print your form on each page.

To do this, create a file containing the sequences etc required to put
your form on the page.  You can move the "cursor" anywhere you like, as
long as it ends up on the top left corner afterward.  Let's call the file
MYFORM.TXT.

Now, stop _all_ print queues.  The reason for this is that the bloody 
Librarian won't let you write to a text library while something else is
fingering it.  (The print symbionts finger the library, not the job 
controller itself, so you can leave your batch queues alone.  But use
STOP/RESET or STOP/NEXT to stop the queues -- and make sure thay really
have stopped.)

Now, place the module in the library:

	$ LIBRARY/TEXT SYS$COMMON:[SYSLIB]SYSDEVCTL.TLB MYFORM.TXT

(Note that the library may not already exist, in which case you will
need to add the /CREATE qualifier to the command.)

You can now restart your queues.

Next, create your form definition using the command:

	$ DEFINE/FORM MYFORM nnn /PAGE_SETUP=MYFORM

Check out the HELP on DEFINE/FORM for other things that DEFINE/FORM can
do for you.  If the form is going onto plain paper, add /STOCK=DEFAULT
to the DEFINE/FORM command.  The "nnn" is a unique number -- use 
SHOW QUEUE/FORM to list the forms defined, and pick a number that isn't 
in use.

Now, when you print a file with that form, just add /FORM=MYFORM to the 
PRINT command.  The form will be printed on each page.

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From: GUDURU@TSU.BITNET (Mahesh)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: q:how to add more info in sysuaf file
Date: 1 Sep 92 23:38:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet
X-Unparsable-Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 12:27 MULTINET_TIMEZONE

Hi
Pardon me if this is a faq.
i would to know, if i can add more information on sysuaf.dat.
I would like to add user phone number in sysuaf.dat, while creating his account.
any info would be appreciated.
Thanks
Mahesh
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From: brg@larice.var.dec.com (Marco Braga @ larice)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Lint for VMS
Keywords: lint
Date: 3 Sep 92 08:23:26 GMT
Reply-To: brg@larice.var.dec.com (Marco Braga @ larice)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

Hello everybody,

Does anyone know about a VMS porting of lint or anything similar ?
If yes where can I get a copy ?

Thank you !
From: kraftjoel@bvc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: DEC File Optimizer for VMS
Date: 2 Sep 92 16:51:01 CDT
Organization: Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, IA


	Hi!

	I was wondering if there are many people using the DEC File
	Optimizer for VMS??  Since it was added to CSLG last spring,
	we need to take a serious look at it.  I am personally a bit
	(okay a LOT) weary of release of version 1.0A (especially
	from DEC).  I would appreciate hearing the goods and the bads.

	Thanks.

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From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Re: equivalent to SET BOOT
Date: 4 Sep 92 17:10:04 GMT
Reply-To: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera

In article <1992Sep3.103256.3@seb.se>, s01964@seb.se writes:
>>| 
>>| 	Does anyone know if it is possible to issue an equivalent to the 
>>|>>>SET BOOT <nickname> [>boot-parameters>], without bringing down the system.
>>| We are running VMS5.5 on a 4010, 6320, and a 6610.  Thanks.
>
>>There would have to be a different routine for each type of VAX as each has
>>a different console.  As far as I know no such program exists although perhaps
>>one or two hack have been brewed up for a particular machine or two.
>
>
>I've done a small program that change the boot device for VAXstation 3100
>and VAXstation 4000. Please contact me with E-mail if you want to have the
>source.

I've seen lots of people talking about programs to do this, but why not just:
	1)  Halt the system;
	2)  Issue the SET BOOT commands;
	3)  Issue a CONTINUE command.
Sure, the system is halted for a few seconds, but you don't bring it down, and
once you issue the CONTINUE command, things proceed from where they were when
the system was halted.
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Disclaimer:  Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS.  That's what I get paid for.  My
understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below).  So
unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
organization responsible for it.  If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
From: bruifal@elof.iit.edu (Falke Bruinsma)
Subject: PHONE port and parameters?
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 18:56:21 GMT


Hello

Can anyone tell me what the parameters are for PHONE? Last year I wrote a 
program that could dump _any_ message on someone elses screen. What I did
is I changed the fieldname that contains the username of who is calling you.
So instead of: BRUIFAL is phoning you. It would say anything I wanted to say
by using the backspace to go to the beginning of the line and using spaces
to push the message 'is phoning you' of the screen on the right. Can anyone
please tell me what the port is and what parameters in what order go? I lost
the program over the summer when I was cleaning up.. you know how it goes.. oh
this is old stuff: DEL *.*;*...

 Thanx in advance

  Falke Bruinsma
 in%"bruifal@minna.iit.edu"
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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: gvrod@isuvax.iastate.edu (R Eldridge, VMS FOREVER)
Subject: Re: VMS Accounting Question...
Reply-To: gvrod@isuvax.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 15:00:03 GMT

SRDANIELS@RCKHRST1.BITNET ("SCOTT R. DANIELS") writes:
>Is there a way to have ACCOUNTING use a file other than ACCOUNTNG.DAT when
>genreating reports for output ?  Are accounting files are closed and renamed
>at the end of every month, and we would like to get some data from an older
>file that is not called ACCOUNTNG.DAT.  Thanks in advance...
>
this is such an easy question to answer that it would seem that you did not
even try to find the answer yourself. ;-) see HELP ACCOUNTING.

	$ accounting input-file-spec,...

input-file-spec even supports wildcard file specifications.

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