HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: reece@eco.twg.com (Reece R. Pollack)
Subject: Re: FLAG PAGE INFO' EVAPORATED!
Reply-To: reece@eco.twg.com (Reece R. Pollack)
Organization: The Wollongong Group (East Coast Operations)
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 19:39:56 GMT


In article <9208171908.AA10256@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, SYSTEM@CLUSTER.POLY-NORTH-LONDON.AC.UK (System Manager) writes:
|>Here's a funny one that was pointed out to me by one of my users the other
|>day. In 5.5-1, the banner page that gets printed seems to be missing a
|>whole paragraph of useful information that existed under 5.4-3 (and
|>possibly 5.5 - I didn't hang around at 5.5 very long).
...
|>Banner flag under VMS 5.4-3
|>
|><Fancy bits omitted>
|>
|>File _HSC000$DUA10:[SYSD.SYSEXE]MODPARAMS.DAT;9 (5869,85,0) last revised on
|>22-JUL-1992 13:05, is a 9 block sequential file owned by UIC [SYSTEM]. The
|>records are variable length with implied (CR) carriage control. The longest
|>record is 108 bytes.
|>
|>Job MODPARAMS (999) queued to NORMAL on 18-AUG-1992 16:03 by user SYSTEM,
|>UIC [SYSTEM], under account SYSTEM at priority 100, started on printer
|>_LOFN$LPA0: on 13-AUG-1992 16:03 from queue LOFN_LPA0.

This is a FILE flag page; one file flag page is printed for each file in
the job. This is printed by default when the /DEFAULT=FLAG qualifier is
present on the queue.

|>Banner flag under VMS 5.5-1
|>
|><Fancy bits omitted>
|>
|>Job MODPARAMS (999) queued to NORMAL on 18-AUG-1992 16:03 by user SYSTEM,
|>UIC [SYSTEM], under account SYSTEM at priority 100, started on printer
|>_LOFN$LPA0: on 13-AUG-1992 16:03 from queue LOFN_LPA0.

This is a JOB flag page; one job flag page is printed per job.  This is
printed by default when the /SEPARATE=FLAG qualifier is present on the
queue.

If you want to print file flags instead of job flags, try this:

	$ SET QUEUE NORMAL /SEPARATE=NOFLAG/DEFAULT=FLAG

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From: brown@caer.uky.edu (Eva Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: signoff
Date: 18 Aug 92 12:36:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


 
remove in%"Eva Brown@caer.uky.edu"
From: RES_EWV@EXODUS.VALPO.EDU (Eric Vaandering)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: .HEX files
Date: 18 Aug 92 20:37:52 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Help!

I have a couple of files ending in .HEX extensions.  Supposedly I need a
program called DEHEX to recover the original form of these.  I have never heard
of this program.  Where could I find it?


			     Eric W. Vaandering

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From: nreadwin@micrognosis.co.uk (Neil Readwin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: LIB$SPAWN
Keywords: LIB$SPAWN, VAX C, Sort
Date: 21 Aug 92 08:22:16 GMT
Organization: Micrognosis, London, UK.

In article <20AUG199215201967@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu>, csc_alex@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu (ALEXANDRE KHALIL) writes:
|> Would a kind soul explain to me why in the following code, a subprocess
|> is spawned, a sort is started, but the names of the input and output
|> files are not passed. Sort comes back to you and asks for them.

The problem is that you have misunderstood the way that string
descriptors work (or rather the way that the $DESCRIPTOR macro works).
$DESCRIPTOR takes (sizeof(2nd argument) - 1) as the length of the
string.  This is so that things like $DESCRIPTOR(ds, "Hello world") work
correctly.  You have given it a char* and so the length is 3. That
means that you are spawning the command "SOR".

The following code appears to work. Hope this helps, Neil.

#include stdio
#include descrip
#include ssdef

void spawn( char *DCL_command  )
{
   int status;
   struct dsc$descriptor_s command = { strlen(DCL_command), DSC$K_DTYPE_T,
					DSC$K_CLASS_S, DCL_command };

   if ((( status=LIB$SPAWN( &command )) & 1 ) != 1 )
      LIB$STOP( status );
}

main(){ 
   spawn( "sort data.PCSA data.sort" );
}

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From: csc_alex@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu (ALEXANDRE KHALIL)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: LIB$SPAWN
Keywords: LIB$SPAWN, VAX C, Sort
Date: 20 Aug 92 20:20:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: uhdvx3.20AUG199215201967
Organization: University of Houston-Downtown
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41A
X-Lunar-Date: 5 days, 14 hours, 51 minutes since the full moon

Would a kind soul explain to me why in the following code, a subprocess
is spawned, a sort is started, but the names of the input and output
files are not passed. Sort comes back to you and asks for them.

alex khalil
U. of Houston-Downtown
---------------------------------------------------- 
#include stdio
#include descrip
#include ssdef

void spawn( char *DCL_command  );

main(){ 
   char *DCL_command;

   DCL_command = "sort data.PCSA data.sort"; 
   printf( "%s", DCL_command );
   spawn( DCL_command  );
}

void spawn( char *DCL_command  )
{
   int status;

   $DESCRIPTOR( command , DCL_command  );
   if ((( status=LIB$SPAWN( &command )) & 1 ) != 1 )
      LIB$STOP( status );
}
From: tillman@swdev.si.com ("Brian Tillman, Smiths Industries, VAX Support, x8425")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: Two problems: How to talk to Macs and how to move a printer.
Date: 19 Aug 92 14:02:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: swdev.0095F52E.FB6B4620.17630
Organization: The Internet

There are a number of TCP/IP packages for VMS.  One of them is *very* 
inexpensive (CMU-TEK TCP/IP from Cargenie-Mellon University).  Others are 
praised by the VMS community as being great products (such as Multinet from TGV, 
Inc.).  There is also an Appletalk for VMS product that can be obtained 
(included in Patchworks/MAC server from DEC).

Your DECrep was not far off, but you should consider third-party print servers 
sich as those from Xyplex.  They have parallel ports and cost less than DEC's 
DS250 (although we are *very* happy with our DS250).  You can also find DS250s 
on the used market.

-----------------------------+--------------------------------
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 Smiths Industries, Inc.     |
 4141 Eastern Ave., MS129    | Hey, I said this stuff myself.
 Grand Rapids, MI 49518-8727 | My company has no part in it.
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From: dtan@sg.oracle.com (Dean Tan - Oracle Singapore)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: The VAX Book
Date: 17 Aug 92 09:33:41 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


Hi, I'm looking for "The VAX Book", anyone knows where I can get a copy?

"The VAX Book" is a "book" compiled by someone from the internet and I once
had it by FTPing from one of the site.

Since I don't have direct FTP access now, it would be nice if someone could
mail it to me. Know the FTP is also OK, I can use some FTP mail server to
retrieve it.

Thanks in advance.

Dean Tan

Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: sday@lacerta.unm.edu (Stephen F. Day   UNM CIRT)
Subject: Re: SET TRANSPORT command in VMS MAIL
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 22:31:53 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM
Reply-To: sday@ariel.unm.edu

In article <1992Aug10.120547.838@slcs.slb.com>, brydon@asl.slb.com (Harvey Brydon (918)250-4312) writes:
> Yes.  It allows you to set a foreign transport as default for your username.
> If you have a transport 'X', rather than sending all your mail to 'x%address',
> you can SET TRANSPORT X and send to 'address' instead.  For this to work
> properly, your transport must be able to send locally to your system with only
> a username spec.  MX for example works for all cases except this one.  If you
> have MX on your system and you specify SET TRANSPORT MX, you will have to
> specify your addresses in the form 'user@node' in all cases, and send/self
> won't work. 

We are using PMDF here at UNM, and so I tried setting:

MAIL> SET TRANSPORT IN%
MAIL> SEND
To:     sday@lacerta
%MAIL-E-USERSPEC, invalid user specification '@LACERTA'

What am I doing wrong?

> Harvey Brydon         | Internet:   brydon@dsn.SINet.slb.com
> Dowell Schlumberger   | P.O.T.S.:   (918)250-4312
> I bought my VAXstation from my uncle on his deathbead - I wrote him a check.

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From: lrg702@jaguar.uofs.edu (Lori Gavin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Looking for menu software
Date: 21 Aug 92 16:00:31 GMT
Reply-To: lrg702@jaguar.uofs.edu
Organization: University of Scranton



I'm looking for some general purpose menuing software.  Public domain or 
commercial is OK.  Any information or suggestions would be appreciated.

         Thanks.
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From: aswx266@chpc.utexas.edu (Michael Lemke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Searching For Control Characters In EVE...
Date: 19 Aug 92 21:34:40 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas System - CHPC

In article <01GNRJ6I97O2000VH7@RCKHRST2.BITNET> SRDANIELS@RCKHRST2.BITNET ("Scott R. Daniels") writes:
>Does anybody out there know how to search for control characters in EVE ?  I
>know how to do it in EDT, but I really want to be able to do it in EVE as well.
>

At the find prompt (I suppose you know how to get there) enter CTRL/V and the 
control character you want to look for.  If you want to find just an 
arbitrary control character enter `Do wild find' or gold find on a VT220
keyboard (the find key on the mini-keypad) and enter \^ .

-- 
Michael Lemke
Astronomy, UT Austin, Texas
(michael@io.as.utexas.edu or UTSPAN::UTADNX::IO::MICHAEL [SPAN])
From: nreadwin@micrognosis.co.uk (Neil Readwin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: LBN => Filename / FID => Filename ??
Keywords: lbn, fid, indexf.sys
Date: 19 Aug 92 11:06:49 GMT
Organization: Micrognosis, London, UK.

In article <1992Aug17.165506.21539@oracle.pnl.gov>, David Cowley writes:
|> Does anyone have a way to take a logical block number (LBN) and determine
|> which file it's part of? [...] The same goes for the File IDs (e.g.
|> (135,1,0) ) reported by utilities like ANALYZE/DISK.

I can't help with LBNs, but FIDs are easier. The following piece of DCL will
dump out the file header. That contains a file name and you can follow back
the 'back link file identification' to get the complete spec.

$ write sys$output "Enter device name ..."
$ read sys$command device
$ write sys$output "Enter FID (eg 1235,1,1) ..."
$ read sys$command the_fid
$!
$ the_block = 4*F$GETDVI(device, "CLUSTER") + -
		((F$GETDVI(device, "MAXFILES") + 4095) / 4096) + -
		(f$element(2, ",", the_fid) / 256) * 65536 + -
		f$element(0, ",", the_fid)
$ dump /file /block=(count=1,start='the_block') 'device':[000000]INDEXF.SYS

If you want to get into this stuff then you need "VMS File System Internals"
by Kirby McCoy (EY-F575E-DP, ISBNs 1-55558-056-4 and 0-13-931783-X).
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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: pbrowne@micor.ocunix.on.ca (Pat Browne)
Subject: Defining logicals and use of quotes
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC., Orleans (Ont)
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 03:34:52 GMT

Greetings!
We have run into a mysterious problem. The logical that used to be defined
using quotes ceased to be known to VMS. We had to remove the quotes from
the startup file.  In the sample below, the first instance works, the second
does not. Has anyone had this experience?

K_G3> diff group_env.com
************

  185   $ define/group/nolog ICT_pcp$cfg     dir$config:pcp_startup.cfg

  186   $

******

  185   $ define/group/nolog "ICT_pcp$cfg"     dir$config:pcp_startup.cfg

  186   $

************

To quote or not to quote?  Please share your opinions/stories about this.
Thanks.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
pbrowne (Pat Browne)
pbrowne@micor.ocunix.on.ca

Ottawa Ontario, Canada
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From: dfilip@colornet.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: RE: Wireless link...
Keywords: wireless lan
Date: 16 Aug 92 20:44:47 GMT
Distribution: world

Richard B. Gilbert writes :
>        BILL VANREMMEN <VANREMMEN%UORHEP.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> writes:
>>
>>We need to connect another building (about 500+ meters away) to our ethernet.
>>We have considered both fiber and cable, but we would also like to consider
>>wireless connections.  I remember hearing a while back that there was some
>>wireless-LAN equipment appearing (920 MHz I believe...) and I wonder if any of
>>this sort of thing might be useful.  Could anyone provide pointers to likely
>>sources of info and/or hardware?  Thanks in advance...
>>
>
>        One possibility is the DEC MetroWave Bridge.  You'll find it in the 
>DECDirect catalog under "bridges".  It's pretty pricey, you can run an 
>awful lot of fiber for ~$18K.

DEC had demonstrated a neat wireless device at the last DECworld which was
something like (from memory) 4" X 4" X 1/2", although I don't believe it's
currently a real product yet. This is a different product than the MetroWave
bridge, but may have also had a much smaller distance limitation. Does anyone
else on the net remember any specs on this ? (our sales weenie had promised
getting us some info while we are at DECworld, but thus far has not delivered
anything in the way of proposed specs ... which may mean that its a far way
from being a product).

We had tested (with limited success) wireless LAN technology from Motorola
called Altair, with tighter distance limitations (around hundered feet ?).
However, I have been told that they have improved firmware, and now have some
longer-distance line-of-sight equipment as well. The stuff we looked at had
a 'base' module which ran about $10K which tapped into the LAN and supported
up to 8 'remote' modules which ran about $2K each. Although this is much
shorter distance than what the original poster had requested, it might be
worth while investigating Motorola's longer distance offerings.

Regards,

Dave.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: mccurdy@bestsd.sdsu.edu (McCurdy M.)
Subject: Re: VAX 7000-6xx series
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: San Diego State University - Dept. of Redundancy Dept.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 14:49:00 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.235422.3013@enterprise.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com>, marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com writes...
>We are in the process of adding another system to our cluster, and we
>had decided that a VAX 6000-610 was appropriate for our requirements. We
>got a quote from Digital, and just before we went forward with the 
>paperwork our sales rep came along and told me "look, I can get you
>a VAX 7000-610 instead for even less money!". I know very little about

What about the idea of holding off until a comparable Alpha machine is 
available? Consider also the effects of Alpha on the pricing of the entire 
VAX line, including the VMS licensing.

Mike



Mike McCurdy			Disclaimer:
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San Diego State University		"Everything I say may be wrong."
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From: ARTG@LAGUNA.EPCC.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Backup and Tape Manangement Utility
Date: 17 Aug 92 14:57:04 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


A couple of my peers asked me to post this inquiry on the list.

We are looking for a Backup utility that has a Tape Management System with 
it.  Since we have a C.S.L.G. through DEC, we'd like it to be a DEC 
product.  However, third party software will be considered also.  

We have a couple of VAX 4200's clustered together running VMS 5.4-2 
and we have a total of 5 disk drives.

Thanks in advance.

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Xref: sparky comp.os.vms:13847 vmsnet.internals:1166
From: sjs@sbphy.physics.ucsb.edu (Steve J. Schmidhauser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,vmsnet.internals
Subject: Help with local command for c link
Summary: Need help creating local command
Keywords: c link
Date: 19 Aug 92 19:57:50 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.vms

I am having problems trying to create a local command so that the c
linker will use the shared libraries. We used to use a batch link inside
a captive account. I am trying to give students more access to dcl but
would like the link command to default to the shared libraries to save
disk space. This is what I tried to do and the results:

$ lin*k    :== $LINK/NOMAP 'P1'  , DISK$UTIL:[MACRO]OPTIONS_FILE/OPT
(from login.com for c students) and this is what happens

$ link perf4
%CLI-F-SYNTAX, error parsing 'TRACE'
-CLI-E-ENTNF, specified entity not found in command tables

if you enter everything on command line ie.
$ LINK/NOMAP perf4 , DISK$UTIL:[MACRO]OPTIONS_FILE/OPT
it works

and suggestion or examples of c programming set up for students is
welcome. Thanks in advance.

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Xref: sparky comp.os.vms:13642 comp.sources.wanted:3950
From: smp_abbott@winkle.bhpese.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: HELP:Compress on VAX,Decompress on PC
Date: 14 Aug 92 08:03:02 +1000
Organization: BHP Information Technology, Newcastle

I have a need to compress text files on VAX-VMS and decompress on a PC.
Can anyone point me to some source that will compile on VMS and a PC to do
this.

Thanks in advance
Owen ABBOTT
Newcastle,
Australia
From: duval@elpp1.epfl.ch (Basil P. Duval EPFL - CRPP 1015 Lausanne CH)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: TCL on VMS
Keywords: TCL
Date: 12 Aug 92 13:33:11 GMT
Reply-To: DUVAL@ELPP1.EPFL.CH
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne


Hello there,
	I am trying to get TCL up on our Vax/Vms5.5 and was wondering
about two things.

1)	Has nybody done it ! I Took the sources from mango.rsmas.miami.edu
	but there was only a makefile. I managed to get the sources to link
	with only a single psect error, but it comes up with
	'invalid command name: "file" ' when run.
2)	Is there even a basic version of Make from which to build the 
	build file since I keep comming up against the VAX mms, and I always
	seem to lose.Please don't tell me that POSIX is coming, cause I
	already am having trouble sleeping at night.

	Any ideas, comments, and if they contain information, flames are
	welcome.

Basil Duval
EPFL/CRPP
1015 Bassenges
Lausanne, Switzerland
DUVAL@ELPP1.EPFL.CH
From: MORRIS@PATRICK-PIMS.AF.MIL ("Jay Morris")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: VNews again.
Date: 21 Aug 92 01:37:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Well I got several replies to my request on how to get a feed for VNews.  All
of them asking me to let them know what I find out.  Someone out there has
to be using it and be able to tell me how to get a feed!  

Morris@patrick-pims.af.mil
From: ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: VMS-Sun connectivity
Date: 12 Aug 92 12:38:34 -0700
Followup-To: comp.os.vms
Reply-To: EWILTS@GALAXY.GOV.BC.CA
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

In article <1140@racerx.bridge.COM>, ken@Bridge.COM (Ken Hardy) writes:
> 
> We've got (I'm told) Multinet TCP/IP on one of the Vaxen that lets us
> rlogin and ftp between environments, and an NFS server on the Vax that
> lets us mount VMS directories on the Suns ("VMS to Ultrix Connection"
> software).

Scrap the "VMS to Ultrix Connection" software.  You've got MultiNet, a *real*
product :-)

> What I don't know how to do is to get e-mail and news between
> environments; it's not included in the TCP/IP networking package.  The
> vaxes are running VMS mail or whatever it is that comes by default
> (*not* All-in-One).  The Suns, of course, consume and generate
> RFC822-compliant mail, and use SMTP.

MultiNet includes an SMTP mailer.  See Chapter 7 of your MultiNet
Administrator's Guide on configuring SMTP.  There are also freely distributable
mailers available that will do it, like MX.

> 2) Where are there any NNTP packages for VMS?  I've got news coming
>    into a Sun with UUCP, and available from there via NNTP.  I need a
>    VMS Multinet NNTP client and user-interface software.  What about
>    VMS/VNEWS, and where can I find it?

Check out ANU-NEWS.  It works happily as either an NNTP client or server, local
or remote newsgroups, and even has locally cached articles if you want.  If you
can think of a configuration, ANU-NEWS probably supports it.  The interface is
full-screen and quite user friendly.  VNEWS I believe is more of a rn port.
ANU-NEWS is discussed (and supported) on news.software.anu-news. The current
production version is 6.0-3.  V6.1 is currently in beta mode (I'm running the
beta and it's quite stable).  You can FTP the software from sao.aarnet.edu.au.

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From: tihor@acf3.NYU.EDU (Stephen Tihor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: VAX 7000-6xx series
Date: 19 Aug 92 19:01:00 GMT
Organization: New York University

Depends on which parts of cluster functionality he needs relative to wat will be available then.

BY other issues it was the other comments mentioed about VAX versus Alpha tradeoffs.

ALso the alpha line is making the CPU versus I/O tradeoff very clear, since its basically becoming CPU ~= constant and more I/O = more expensive system.

It will be itneresting to see what sorts of systems users buy and what their performance is over time.