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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: DOS requester under Netware
From: T.M. RAJKUMAR <RAJKUMAR@MIAMIU.BITNET>
Date: Tuesday, 29 Sep 1992 08:07:04 EDT
Organization: Miami University - Academic Computer Service

I have installed Netware requester for OS/2 on my machine, with all the
options.  I am trying to establish a connection to my campus mainframe
using Clarkson Univ. Packet drivers in the DOS mode.  Hence, I need to
be able to load DOSdrivers in my session DXMA0mod.sys and DXMC0mod.sys
.  Every time I try to set up the DOS session, DXMC0MOD.SYS will not load
and complains.  If however I boot from DOS this will load correctly.
I have a DOS partition of 60 MB and OS/2 in an Extended partition.
I have tried loading the specific version of DOS 5.0 on my hard drive with
the same results.  My Novell requester is installed for Global setup, but
I set it to Private for this DOS session.
What am I doing wrong or is this not feasible.
I am on a 16MB token ring with a PS/2 Model 70.
 
Similarly, I have a problem with PMAIL.  It complains that the mapping
is not established for it session, and that it cannot get at Charon.
What could be wrong here?
 
Any pointers are appreciated.
If anybody has a system that works with Clarkson Packet drivers and Novell
on  a token ring setup, I would appreciate if they can send me a copy of
the relevant config.sys setups.i
 
Thanks
Rajkumar
Rajkumar@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu
 
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.novell,comp.os.os2.networking
From: rbf@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Bruce Ferrell)
Subject: Help! How do the requesters for OS/2 2.0 work?  I need "duel" ones.
Organization: Sacramento Public Access Unix, Sacramento, Ca.
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 92 01:52:50 GMT

I've got the requesters for Os/2 2.0.  Now I need to get them
working in "duel" mode.  The articles say that ODINSUP.SYS replaces
the NDIS MAC drivers, but I cant get PROTMAN to bind to ODINSUP.
If anyone has this working, would you please post or mail the relevant
files?

I'm sure its something simple, but I've been at this for a couple
of days.

Thanks in advance,

Bruce Ferrell
LAN Administrator

	 
MCI Western Network Managment Center
Sacramento CA

bferrell@mcimail.com

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: cummins@a.cs.okstate.edu (CUMMINS JOHN WILLI)
Subject: Re: FTP's TCP/IP for OS2 - When?
Organization: Oklahoma State University, Computer Science, Stillwater
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 21:08:52 GMT
Keywords: FTP TCP/IP OS2

In article <1992Oct1.150557.10658@intellistor.com> pliuskon@intellistor.com (Saul Pliuskonis) writes:
> *( edited )*  does anyone know if FTP will
>eventually support networking under OS2 directly?
>

FTP supports OS2, and has had a suite of stuff for OS2 for a few months.
Write info@ftp.com for more information.  It sounds good, and being used to
FTP inc. software....

jc
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: mwaldorf@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Matthias Waldorf)
Subject: Re: OS/2 Eating Cache on Novell
Keywords: OS/2 NETWARE 
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 11:23:50 GMT

edgar@lslp1.usu.edu (Edgar Tooley (3698)) writes:

>...
>I can watch the Total Cache Buffers on the netware console 
>monitor count down to twenty or so then ABEND the file server fo lack of 
>memory.
>...

We had the same experience. It happens under OS/2 1.1, 1.21 and 2.0: 
Copying a large number of files with xcopy crashes the server. 
We dont have a solution for this (despite of avoiding xcopy), so we would
be very, very happy, if someone has a tip.

Matthias

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Netware Requester under OS/2
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 01:42:08 GMT

In article <1992Sep26.153153.25921@news.columbia.edu> imj1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Imad M Jureidini) writes:
>	I am new to the world of ethernet, and I just got connected to a
>network at my school.  All I know about my ethernet card is that it is made
>by Cabletron.
>	I have a few questions to ask:
>	What is the latest version of the netware requester for OS/2 2.0?  Can
>I get it via ftp?

It is called the NetWare Workstation Kit for OS/2 2.0, and you can
order it by calling 800-UPDATE1 (in the U.S.)  Cost is $30.  Or, if
you have an IBM SE, you can ask him/her for it.  Or, you can obtain it
on the OS/2 developer's CD-ROM, available for about $30 from the IBM
Developer Assistance Program Office -- telephone number given in the
OS/2 FAQ List.

>	I downloaded the requester version 1.2.1 or something like that.  But
>it asks for a driver.  I don't know which one to choose and how to set it up
>for my own IRQs and other such stuff.  All I know is that I use a Packet driver
>under dos, before loading IPX.  Any ideas?

Old requester -- don't bother.

>	What does IBM's TCP/IP package bring (mail, newsreaders, terminal
>emualtors...) ?

Lots.  There's a TCP/IP announcement letter you can read for full
details.  It is available via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu,
directory /pub/os2/all/info.  Note that the educational discount is
35%, so the base services is $130 -- quite reasonable, really.

-- 
Timothy F. Sipples      | The OS/2 FREQ. ASKED QUESTIONS LIST is avail. from
sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/faq.
Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | Or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP").
of Chicago, 60637       | Family Values Means a Job
From: phaethon@sara.cc.utu.fi (Timo Eronen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: LPRMON
Date: 27 Sep 92 14:52:47 GMT
Organization: University of Turku, Finland

In article <1992Sep23.130106.19511@newsroom.bsc.no>, vu@bsc.no (Nguyen Vu) writes:
> I have LPRMON running, that makes it possible to print a file at the printer-
> server through the net. But it seems that I only can print out ascii-file,  
> even if it's a postscript file (only the postscript codes), is there anyway
> to print a postscript file through the LPRMON ?.
> 

The problem might be with your LPD. This is because LPRMON sends files with
out -h -v (or what ever) switches telling LPD to print banner page also.
Now, if your queue is PostScript the interpreter gets confused and your
file gets lost. As far as I know the only way is to modify LPD so that
it does not try to print a banner page. Does LPR work OK for both text
and PostScript files ?
If not, try to add a ^D which resets the interpreter in the
beginning of the file.

/Timo Eronen, tke@utu.fi
From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: IP node numbers for "diskard.uthscsa.edu"? Re: OS/2 FAQ / PM NOS
Date: 6 Oct 1992 22:06:04 GMT
Organization: UT Health Science Center Houston

In article <1992Oct6.203635.9652@polaris.utu.fi> karmat@polaris.utu.fi (Kari Mattsson) writes:
>I think the Subject says it.  I was browsing throug Tim's FAQ v2.0f
>and found a reference to PM NOS, which should reside on
>diskard.uthscsa.edu.  Our University's ftp cannot resolve/find that
>address.  Could someone please post it's numeral address, or do I
>have a typo in my address ???

The latter.
It's giskard.uthscsa.edu, with a g. The login banner will tell you what
directory to find the package in.
-- 
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu      | adequately be explained by stupidity.
    Vote for a REAL change on 3 November: Throw out the check-bouncing,
  tax-and-spend Democrat Congress! (obviously, not an opinion of UTHSCH)
Xref: sparky comp.os.os2:364 comp.os.os2.misc:31911
From: price@helios.unl.edu (Chad  Price)
Subject: Re: Utils dont work in a window - WHY?
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Date:  1 Oct 92 19:23:34 GMT

edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold) writes:

>Hi.

>I downloaded som unix-like utilities (ls, grep, etc) for os/2, but when
>I type 'ls' in a os/2 window it opens a full screen session, does the ls,
>and exits - not what I want :-)

>Is there something that needs to be configured to run these in a os/2 window
>without 'spawning a subshell' in full screen mode???

When this happens to me, it is usually because I just ran a DOS application
in an OS/2 window.

--
chad
price@helios.unl.edu
cprice@molecular.unmc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2,comp.editors,comp.os.os2.apps
From: wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni)
Subject: Re: Does VI Exist for OS/2 2.0?
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 03:04:07 GMT

In article <joiner.718252464@exa> joiner@exa.cs.umn.edu (Jay K. Joiner) writes:
>In <1992Oct04.234209.7642@r-node.gts.org> singh@r-node.gts.org (Rajendra Singh) writes:
>
>>Does anyone know if VI exists for OS/2 2.0?  If so, I would appreciate it if
>>you could tell me where to find it.
>
>Look for Elvis on ftp-os2.


I found the elvis in ftp-os2 very hard to use because it doesn't
give me the freedom of using function keys like <PGUP>. Anyone
knows how to enable the features? Thanx!




Xref: sparky comp.os.os2:349 alt.cd-rom:3367 comp.os.os2.apps:6622 comp.os.os2.misc:31460
From: jdecarlo@mitre.org (John DeCarlo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2,alt.cd-rom,comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: CD-ROM Driver and OS/2
Date: 28 Sep 92 14:50:47 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: MITRE Corporation, McLean  VA

In article <1992Sep23.063223.3663@oracle.us.oracle.com>
 tslee@us.oracle.com (Terry S. Lee) writes:

>Yeah, I just had the same problem this weekend.  I have a DAK BSR cdrom (
>sony) that worked on dos, but OS/2 doesn't want to recognize it.
>
>When I boot os/2, i get a cryptic message (complaint?) about SCSI-DD, whatever
>that means.

Basically, you can't use the SONY_CDU.SYS driver under OS/2 to access your 
DAK CD-ROM drive.  At least, not under native OS/2.  You can (and I do) use 
it with a Boot from Drive A type arrangement, which actually boots another 
version of DOS than the OS/2 MDOS.

It helps to have a version of MSCDEX.EXE that doesn't need SETVER.

John DeCarlo, MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA--My views are my own
Fidonet:  1:109/131  Internet:  jdecarlo@mitre.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2,alt.cd-rom,comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.misc
From: wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand)
Subject: Re: CD-ROM Driver and OS/2
Reply-To: motcid!wiegand@uunet.uu.net
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 17:53:16 GMT

schoellhorn@booze.enet.dec.com (Klaus Schoellhorn) writes:

>Yeah, I just had the same problem this weekend.  I have a DAK BSR cdrom (
>>sony) that worked on dos, but OS/2 doesn't want to recognize it.

>I've a MATSUSHITA SCSI CD-ROM 54XX , AHA1542B.
>Try to patch the cdrom.sys for your manufacture  Id e.g. SONY,
>Include in your config.sys
>basedev=os2scsi.dmd
>device=patched_cdrom.sys
>after 
>basedev=aha154x.add

>Perhaps it'll work.

>My CD-ROM is visible and accessible in a  DOS-BOX and OS/2.

>But anyway the actual mscdex does not work in a dos box. 
>( Incorrect dos version, you'll know why)
>But i think the mscdex is required for audio capability only, because the 
>drive appears as a CD-ROM drive in the system.

This patch only works for SCSI CD-ROM drives. The Sony drive from DAK
uses a "Sony bus" not SCSI.

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Robert Wiegand - Motorola Inc.
motcid!wiegand@uunet.uu.net            uunet!motcid!wiegand
Disclamer: I didn't do it - I was somewhere else at the time.
From: dl10697@ehsn3.cen.uiuc.edu (Duc Trieu Le)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: DEC create/terminal
Date: 29 Sep 92 20:02:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: ehsn3.dl10697.717796943
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

Hi Everyone,

I'm new to DEC/VMS systems and I'm currently running with VAXStations.
I have a question. I'm currently developing an application using
DECWindows. One of the requirements is to have the Window applications
pop up another DECTerm. I was able to successfully create the DECTerm.
My question is: Is there a way to have this new DECTerm execute another
image file? One method is to modify the Login.com, but we don't want
to mess around with the user's login.com.

Any help or pointers is greatly appreciated. thanks in advance.

Duc T. Le
led@sunfs1.dsd.northrop.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,alt.binaries.pictures.utilities
From: dhenchoz@ulci20.unil.ch (Daniel HENCHOZ)
Subject: GIF to HPGL converter
Organization: University of Lausanne CH (Switzerland)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 15:44:28 GMT


Hello world !

I'm looking for a GIF to HPGL converter runnning on VAX/VMS ?
Any help would be appreciated !
Thanks in advance.

						Daniel

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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: reece@eco.twg.com (Reece R. Pollack)
Subject: Re: Seeking beta sites for Pony Express mail gateway
Reply-To: reece@eco.twg.com
Organization: The Wollongong Group (East Coast Operations)
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 16:47:04 GMT


In article <1a81pdINN718@gap.caltech.edu>, carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes:
|>In article <10480@gollum.twg.com>, deven@twg.com (Deven) writes:
|>
|>[29 lines of shameless advertising omitted]
|>
|>>	Currently we are soliciting beta sites to run the new Pony Express 
|>>	mailer to test the BITNET and UUCP support.  If you would like to be 
|>>	a beta site, please contact:
|>
|>Did anyone else think this seemed more like a commercial than a request for
|>beta test sites?

I'd hardly call it 'shameless advertising', especially after some of the
things I've seen posted to the net.

The primary intent of this message was, and is, to solicit for beta test
sites for some new features. Anyone interested in participating in the
beta test should contact Deven.

The problem here arises from the name change from "WIN/TCP for VMS" to
"PathWay for VMS". Quite a few of our customers have been confused by
the name change, so Deven was just trying to explain what's involved
in the change from WIN/TCP to PathWay. If you want to take his posting
as advertising, so be it. That was not the intent.

--
Reece R. Pollack
Senior Software Engineer
The Wollongong Group, Inc.
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: bjb@mullauna.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Bruce J. Baker)
Subject: Re: Help: File Header Full on system disk
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 09:46:06 GMT

dragon@NSCVAX.PRINCETON.EDU (Mighty Firebreather) writes:
>	Kipp <TEAGUE@ACAVAX.LYNCHBURG.EDU> writes:
>>
>>I just experienced a HEADERFULL (file header full) on my RZ56 system disk
>	I think that you are going to have to do a backup and restore.  I
>	Evidently RABBIT-7 doesn't do a thing about INDEXF.SYS.  I couldn't
>say if any of the other defragmenters do or not.  In any event, backup and
>restore is the quickest and easiest solution to your immediate problem.

I venture to suggest the backup and restore is the ONLY solution.  A temporary
workaround is to delete a bunch of files.  That that only postpones the 
problem.  I had this problem a few weeks ago with a 4*RF72 stripe set.
Apparently INDEXF.SYS is expanded in increments of 1000 blocks and there is
a limit to the number of extents.  Disks mounted as /SYSTEM (including
system disks) always have INDEXF.SYS open.  Disk defragmenters won't touch
open files, so there is only one way to defragment INDEXF.SYS.  I hear there
are intentions to make the increment size dependent on the disk size, but
for now we are stuck with 1000 block increments.  On our stripe set INDEXF.SYS
is ~140,000 blocks so larger increments seem logical.  Be aware that your
restore could take a LOT longer than you are acCustomed to for backups.  My 
backup of the stripe set to a TF857 took about 2 hours,  but the restore took
11.  I was horrified, but DEC CSC said they had a RA92 that took an hour to
back up and 5 to restore.  Lots of small files are a killer.

I could have got details wrong, but the substance is correct.

Bruce J. Baker
Valet to VAXen for Dow Chemical (Aust) Ltd.
From: RGS@UVMVAX.BITNET ("Randy G. Spooner")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: unsubscribe info-vax
Date: 1 Oct 92 03:10:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


        unsubscribe info-vax

                                                please.....
From: munroe@dmc.com (Dick Munroe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Changing Newmail count
Date: 26 Sep 92 08:40:28 EDT
Organization: Doyle, Munroe Consultants, Inc., Hudson, MA

In article <1992Sep25.113355.4105@pony.Ingres.COM>, pdaunno@Ingres.COM (Paul Daunno, Premium Support) writes:
> I am running VMS version 5.4-3.  When I log into my account it says
> I have 9 new mail messages but I am unable to read them.  Is there
> a way to reset the new mail count?  I looked in mail help and there
> is a SHOW NEW_MAIL_COUNT command but not a SET NEW_MAIL_COUNT command.
> 
> Any and all help is appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in Advance,
> 
> Paul Daunno
> Ingres, An ASK Company
> Premium Support

From next month's InfoVAX FAQ:

,MAI1
>From: fairfield@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu
>Subject:Re: New Mail won't die!
>
>In article <bs6m_l_.mendi@netcom.com>, mendi@netcom.com (Greg Mendizabal) writes:
>> ...
>> Now, everytime I logon I have 1638 new mail messages.  I cannot eradicate
>> this "flag".  I've tried deleting my mail directory, the "mail" itself 
>> (ie send myself new mail and then do a del/all within mail). 
>> ...
>> So, where is this flag bit set and kept????  We have another account with
>> the same problem (only 2 msgs however).
>> 
>> This is driving me nuts!  ;-)
>
>    Just start up MAIL, READ any and all new mail messages.  When you
>are _sure_ there are NO NEW MAIL messages left to read (I don't mean you
>have to delete them, you just need to have read them), then type READ/NEW
>and exit:
>
>	$MAIL
>	MAIL> READ
>	MAIL> READ
>               .
>               .
>               .
>	MAIL> READ
>	%MAIL-E-NOMOREMSG, no more messages
>
>	MAIL> READ/NEW
>	%MAIL-W-NONEWMAIL, no new messages
>
>	MAIL> EXIT
>
>The new mail count has now been reset to zero...
>
>		Cheers, Ken

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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: CCC_KARG@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (ComRam)
Subject: Re: Reading Bookreader Help on VT330
Organization: Chaos Computer Club Ulm
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 10:20:29 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

In <1992Oct2.092431.1044@galaxy.gov.bc.ca> ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca writes:

> In article <1992Oct2.103735.1486@wega.rz.uni-ulm.de>, CCC_KARG@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (ComRam) writes:
> > Or perhaps even a complete 'bookreader-like'-ASCII Interface ?
> 
> DEC is rumoured to have a product named BookReader Plus in internal field test
> that gives you an ASCII interface to BookReader files as well as giving you
> search capabilities (something BR doesn't currently have).
> 
Just a personal comment :

If DEC is developping such a tool I would suggest that they include some
printing capabilities (both ASCII + Postscript) for getting some of the
manual pages printed out.
From: carlf@panix.com (Carl Fink)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: change default mail editor?
Date: 3 Oct 92 03:04:25 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC


  Hi.  I'm using a vax, largely to access Bitnet.  The mail software
on my system (both MAIL and GMAIL) uses some sort of absolutely dreadful
text editor, which allows no carriage control other than backspace, 
and which aborts the whole mail process if it receives an ESC character!

  I'd like to use WordPerfect Vax, available on my system, as my mail
editor.  Is this possible?  Can someone tell me how?

  If people reply to my mail addresses, as below, either via Internet
or Bitnet, I'll compile a summary and post it here. (Unless 10,000 
people scream IT'S IN THE FAQ!  I did look, but I didn't see it.)

-- 
==============================================================================
Carl Fink          carlf@panix.com, C.FINK4(GEnie), or CF427620I@LIUVAX.BITNET
  "Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits"  -  Mark Twain
From: mzagsaa@v4.cgu.mcc.ac.uk (Tony Arnold)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Forwarding Mail by Distribution Lists
Date: 1 Oct 92 08:24:48 GMT
Reply-To: A.C.Arnold@mcc.ac.uk
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre


In article <920928134742.5fef@MERLIN.NLU.EDU>, UCCGAMBLE@MERLIN.NLU.EDU
(Stuart Gamble, University Computing Center) writes:
|>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.		Thanks
|>
|>
|>					Stuart Gamble
|>					Northeast Louisiana University
|>					uccgamble@merlin.nlu.edu
|>
This was a 'feature' that was withdrawn in V5.0 (someone correct me on the
version number, please). At the time DEC said it was never a full feature,
it just happened to work before!

I think to do what you want you need DELIVER or MX.

Tony Arnold,
Manchester Computing Centre,
University of Manchester.
From: donham@dbldog.enet.dec.com (Perry Donham)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: CD-ROM drives on VAX/VMS Systems
Date: 5 Oct 92 13:22:40 GMT
Reply-To: donham@super.enet.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Education/Training


WHD0675@RITVAX.ISC.RIT.EDU (Walter H. Dick) writes:

>How compatable are the RRD40 and RRD42 SCSI based CD-ROM drives with other
>SCSI based systems.  In other words, can I use them on other SCSI based 
>machines with any reasonable amount of success?  In addition, what is the
>difference between an RRD40 and RRD42?  Thanks in advance!

There's a jumper on the RRD42 to select the default block size. On a VMS system,
the jumper is in the 512-byte/block position. To use the RRD42 on a non-VMS
system (such as a PC), the jumper should be set to 2048 bytes/block. I believe
that removing the jumper will do this.

Perry Donham
VMS Training
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: CCC_KARG@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (ComRam)
Subject: Solution: Displaying GIFs on a VT330
Organization: Chaos Computer Club Ulm
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 10:07:06 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

Some days ago I posted a question here, how to display GIFs or similar
common graphics formats on a DEC VT330 Terminal. After a while I got an
solution. As some people asked me to forward them any answers to my
question I will explain how it works.

Actually I don't have a specific GIF-Viewer , but I found a nice way to
show GIFs on a VT330 anyway. All You need is the PBM+ Graphics Package.
Then you just have to execute a statement like this:
(for this solution you need something like Unix-Pipe, otherwise use Temp-Files)

giftoppm GIFNAME | pnmdither | ppmscale .5 | ppmquant 4 | ppmtosixel >OUTFILE

Then a simple type OUTFILE will show the Pic in a rather good quality.

PS: In my VMS-PBM+ Package the ppmtosixel seem to have a bug.
    When I use a Unix Version of PBM+ everything works fine.
From: leichter@lrw.com (Jerry Leichter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: DCL says 1 = 0 (puzzle)
Date: 3 Oct 92 10:00:29 GMT
Organization: The Internet


	--- file XX.COM ---
	$ ???			[mystery line here]
	$ show symbol 1
	-------------------

	$ @XX.COM
	  1 = 0   Hex = 00000000  Octal = 00000000000

	:-)

Well, this one is very close:

	$ dummy = F$CONTEXT("PROCESS",1,"NODENAME","*","EQL")
	$ show symbol 1

	  1 = -1   Hex = FFFFFFFF  Octal = 37777777777

Perhaps a better choice of context item would produce 0 ...  You can certainly
get it to change by evaluating F$PID(1) - but I never get to 0 that way.

							-- Jerry