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From: ross@mscf.med.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: DEC TZ85 vs. AccerlerTape
Date: 3 Sep 92 14:23:14 GMT
Organization: Univ of Penn - Med School Computer Facility


	We are planning to purchase a DEC VaxStation 4000 Model 90 with
two RZ25 drives.  The original idea was to have a TZ30 tape drive to be
able to read various distributions from third party software vendors.
Recently I saw an ad in Digital Review for a tape unit called ACCELERTAPE
from Enterprise Digital.  They claim that this unit is actually a TZ85
which will transfer at 800kb/sec and store 2.6GB per tape (with the ability
to stack seven cartridges).  This device would be perfect for us since it
has the ability to read TK50 tapes but can also serve as a backup device.
Therefore we could buy this tape unit and forget about purchasing the TZ30.
	My only concern is that the price is so much lower than DEC's price.
So much lower that I'm wondering if it's too good to be true.  Does anybody
have any experiences with ACCELERTAPE from Enterprise Digital or even any
experience with a TZ85 from DEC.  Any information you could share would be
most helpful.
	Also, are there any good affordable (<$3000) 4 or 8 mm tape backups
units available that we could use with this VaxStation 4000 if we don't go
with the ACCELERTAPE.
	Thanks for your assistance.
-- 

			--- Andy Ross ---
                    University of Pennsylvania
		 Medical School Computer Facility

                    ross@mscf.med.upenn.edu
From: ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Text or .DVI to BookReader?
Date: 3 Sep 92 09:54:51 -0700
Reply-To: EWILTS@GALAXY.GOV.BC.CA
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

Is there any way of converting normal text files or .dvi files to BookReader
format?  We don't have Vax Document here but would still like to be able to
produce nice on-line documentation.

Thanks,
	.../Ed
-- 

Ed Wilts, BC Systems Corp., 4000 Seymour Place, Victoria, B.C., Canada, V8X 4S8
EWilts@Galaxy.Gov.BC.CA   |   Ed.Wilts@BCSystems.Gov.BC.CA   |   (604) 389-3430
From: poole@admin.usask.ca ()
Subject: Re: Submitting Jobs for Last Day of Month
Reply-To: poole@admin.usask.ca ()
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:50:09 GMT

|In article <1992Aug26.160808.1446@rtpnc.epa.gov>, rbn@ralph.rtpnc.epa.gov (Bob Boyd) writes:
|>In article <1992Aug25.134248.285@cutler>, john@cutler.com (John E. Babbitt Jr.) writes:
|>>In article <1992Aug25.102008.28397@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>, jmacdonald@mta.ca writes:
|>>> I am wondering if anyone has a nifty way to have jobs submit themselves for the
|>>> last day of the month.  Thank-you.
|>> 
|>
|>>I like this:
|>
|>> f$cvtime("01-''f$cvtime("15--+60-","ABSOLUTE","MONTH")--1-","ABSOLUTE")
|>
|>I think the following is more functional:
|>
|>$ end_of_month =  -
|>   f$cvtime("01-''f$cvtime("1--+32-","ABSOLUTE","MONTH")--1-","ABSOLUTE")
|>
|>--
|>Bob Boyd                 
|>rbn@ralph.rtpnc.epa.gov 
|>Unisys/EPA               

I think that John inadvertently used 60 instead of 30 which gave the last day
of the next month.
But...
The above procedure will not work in December. It will give you the last day
in December of the previous year. The year cannot be defaulted but must be
calculated along with the month.

$ end_of_month = -
  f$cvtime("01-''f$cvtime("15--+30-","ABSOLUTE","MONTH")'-''f$cvtime("15--+30-","ABSOLUTE","YEAR")'-1-","ABSOLUTE")

<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
Chris Poole
Computing Services                        CA*Net:  Poole@ADMIN.USask.CA
56 Physics Building                       Phone:   (306) 966-4807
University of Saskatchewan                FAX:     (306) 966-4938
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, S7N 0W0
From: iccsap020@spacm1.spac.spc.com (David Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Locks (was: RE: DCL question again)
Date: 26 Aug 92 09:51:45 PDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Security Pacific Automation Co., LA, CA

>>> In article <1992Aug13.164237.18724@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> uucm000@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
>> (Tingli Pan) writes:
>>>>Here is another DCL question from me. (obvioustly I'm working in a small
>>>>DCL project) Is there a way to find whether a file is locked or not on
>>>>the DCL level.

I believe you can use the lexical function f$file_attributes.  One of the
items you can specify is "locked" which must give you the lock status.
I haven't used it myself.
From: ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Librarian Question..............
Date: 2 Sep 92 18:03:11 -0700
Reply-To: EWILTS@GALAXY.GOV.BC.CA
Distribution: usa
Organization: BC Systems Corporation

In article <1992Sep2.232729.23659@news.Hawaii.Edu>, bill@gaza.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (William J. King) writes:
> 
> Is it possible to specify a $ LIBRARY command that will search
> for the module mame you are only interested in.
> 	eg.  *dump* 
> 
> $ LIBRARY /MACRO sys$library:starlet.mlb  *dump*     WOULD BE NICE IF
> 							IT WORKED.

The program you're looking for is called LIBSEARCH.  It's mentioned in the
monthly software posting.  Perhaps it needs to be put on a DECUS tape or on
vmsnet.sources.  Seems like there's a backlog to vmsnet.sources though.  I
posted something (TIME) a few days ago and it hasn't made it back here yet.
If you can suggest a site that will accept an anonymous ftp upload, I'll make
it available for you.

-- 

Ed Wilts, BC Systems Corp., 4000 Seymour Place, Victoria, B.C., Canada, V8X 4S8
EWilts@Galaxy.Gov.BC.CA   |   Ed.Wilts@BCSystems.Gov.BC.CA   |   (604) 389-3430
From: BAMON@OCVAXC.BITNET ("Jennifer R. Amon  775-6987", 216)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: temp. dial-up account in CA, anyone?
Date: 28 Aug 92 18:53:00 GMT
Organization: The Internet

If this is inappropriate for this list, I apologize in advance.

I'm going to San Francisco for the Oracle (RDBMS) International User
Week stuff, and I'm going a week early to spend some time with people
in the area. I'll be in San Francisco/Monterey/Pacific Grove from 
September 4th through September 20th.

My boss would LOVE it if I could have access to a dial-up account in 
CA, from which I could telnet into our VAXES at Oberlin, to check mail,
deal with crises, and maybe even get some real work done.

Is there anybody in the northern CA area willing to give me a 
temporary account (preferably on a VAX/VMS machine) with dial-up
access and with my only needed privilege being a way to telnet out
to my own machines in Ohio?

Please email me privately, and thank you for considering it.

_____________________________________________________________________
Jennifer R. Amon    FREENET: aa1190@freenet.lorain.oberlin.edu
Oberlin College     FREENET: cc312@cleveland.freenet.edu
Oberlin, OH 44074   INTERNET: bamon@ocvaxc.cc.oberlin.edu
PH: (216) 775-6987  BITNET: bamon%ocvaxc.cc.oberlin.edu@ocvaxc.bitnet
FAX: (216) 775-8573  
_____________________________________________________________________
From: munroe@dmc.com (Dick Munroe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Will lmf kill alpha?
Date: 25 Aug 92 10:54:25 EDT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Doyle, Munroe Consultants, Inc., Hudson, MA

In article <1992Aug24.130128.975@beckman.com>, dsroberts@beckman.com writes:
> 
> I couldn't agree more.  And all of us should pressure our vendors to abandon
> custom key/authorization code implementations for LMF.

How about pressuring DEC to abandon the truely RIDICULOUS price for the
PAK generation software? or to provide a reasonably priced, publically
accessible, PAK generation service?  or to allow some third party to set
up such a service?

Do this and you'll have a whole lot more products that use LMF.
-- 
Dick Munroe				Internet: munroe@dmc.com
Doyle Munroe Consultants, Inc.		UUCP: ...uunet!thehulk!munroe
267 Cox St.				Office: (508) 568-1618
Hudson, Ma.				FAX: (508) 562-1133

GET CONNECTED!!! Send mail to info@dmc.com to find out about DMConnection.
From: kalisiak@acsu.buffalo.edu (Christophe M. Kalisiak)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: FAQ? -- What is needed for a VAX running VMS to do Internet?
Date: 23 Aug 92 19:49:56 GMT
Organization: UB

I don't know if this is a FAQ or not (if it is, please point to the 
nearest FAQ), but I would like to know what would be required to connect
a MicroVAX 3100 to the Internet. Obviously, an Internet feed would be 
required, but I was primarily concerned about what software, DECUS or 
otherwise, would be required.

Thanks,
Chris 
-- 
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From: goathunter@wkuvx1.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,vmsnet.sources.d
Subject: Zip v1.9 patch 1 now available for VMS
Date: 3 Sep 92 17:00:20 CDT
Organization: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY

Naturally, right after the Info-Zip people released Zip v1.9, they've
already come out with a patch for it! 8-)

I've updated the kit on ftp.spc.edu; if you have access to anonymous
ftp, you might want to pick up [.MACRO32.SAVESETS]ZIP-UNZIP.BCK_Z.

I've also updated the ZIP-UNZIP package on FILESERV, but I'd rather
not have everybody request all 50 pieces again! 8-)  To that end, I've
created a .ZIP file that contains all of the modified Zip v1.9 files
and the corresponding .OBJ files for VMS.  To get all of the files
for the Zip v1.9 patch level 1 patch, send the following commands in
the body of a mail message to FILESERV@WKUVX1.BITNET:

SEND ZIP19-P1-VMS
SEND FILESERV_TOOLS

Hunter
------
Hunter Goatley, VMS Systems Programmer, Western Kentucky University
goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET, 502-745-5251
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: TZ30 performance
From: don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes)
Date: 29 Aug 92 15:48:28 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Wolery

goathunter@wkuvx1.bitnet writes:
> In article <1992Aug27.122358.89@chmeds.ac.nz>, gordon@chmeds.ac.nz writes:
> > 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!

I ran into the TZ30 a couple of years ago on a MicroVAX 3100.  My immediate
reaction on taking the thing for a burn was that although it claimed to be
the same speed as a TK50, it actually seemed considerably faster.  Other folk
have expressed a similar impression.  It certainly wasn't _slower_ than a
TK50/TQK50 combo.  

Things like WordPervert installation went like a rocket, at least partly 
due to the increased grunt of the machine (compared to the 750 it replaced).

Idea: Could it be that the disk and tape drive are on the same SCSI chain?
I've got a feeling that a lot of what I did with the thing involved the 
tape being on the other chain to the disk being copied to.

Could it also be some bogosity in the driver in your version of VMS or
to do with the machine in question's hardware?  Is the SCSI chain properly 
terminated?  Etc?

--
Don Stokes, ZL2TNM (DS555)                        don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (home)
Network Manager, Computing Services Centre            don@vuw.ac.nz (work)
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand              +64-4-495-5052
From: critz@star.enet.dec.com (Richard Critz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Alpha effects on VAX hardware, VMS license pricing Was: VAX 7000-6xx ...
Date: 28 Aug 92 16:19:20 GMT
Reply-To: critz@star.enet.dec.com (Richard Critz)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua, NH


In article <19AUG199212205091@bestsd.sdsu.edu>, mccurdy@bestsd.sdsu.edu (McCurdy M.) writes:
|>In article <1992Aug19.164034.8900@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, critz@star.enet.dec.com (Richard Cri writes...
|>> 
|>> ...
|>
|>What about the idea of prices for VAX hardware and VMS licensing changing 
|>in a significantly downward direction after the alpha releases?
|>
|>Would it pay to wait a bit and see what will happen?
|>
|>Mike
|>

Beats me.  I'm an engineer, not a marketeer or product manager.
--
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Richard Critz					      critz@star.enet.dec.com
      -- I speak only for myself; I make no commitments for Digital. --
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From: SYSMGR@IPG.PH.KCL.AC.UK
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Looking for Lantronix
Date: 3 Sep 92 15:56:41 GMT
Organization: The Internet


I need to obtain an up-to-date TSCODE8.SYS for an early Lantronix ETS-8
terminal server. Are Lantronix on the internet? Failing that, is anyone
willing  to let me fetch (FTP or JANET TRANSFER) from their system?

Before anyone flames about pirating software, perhaps I should point out
that Lantronix have this available for Kermit on a public dial-up service.
Trouble is I'm in the UK, Lantronix are in California, and the phone
cost would be significant.

	Thanks in advance,
From: tihor@acf3.NYU.EDU (Stephen Tihor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: CSLG licensing of VMS
Date: 26 Aug 92 19:22:00 GMT
Organization: New York University

It would be nice if the license grant allowance on new system purchas applied, cumulatively on the upgrade package and that there was a suitable package of just VMS and the CPU upgrades.
From: munroe@dmc.com (Dick Munroe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Submitting Jobs for Last Day of Month
Date: 26 Aug 92 11:09:11 EDT
Followup-To: comp.os.vms
Distribution: world
Organization: Doyle, Munroe Consultants, Inc., Hudson, MA

In article <1992Aug25.142427.976@beckman.com>, rlmeyering@beckman.com writes:
> In article <Stafford-250892085411@stafford.winona.msus.edu>, Stafford@Vax2.Winona.MSUS.EDU (John Stafford) writes:
> Hi,
> 
> I have attached a procedure that will schedule jobs for executution on
> the last day of the month. It can easily be adapted to allow the jobs to
> re-submit themselves for the last day of the month.
> 

Its a lot simpler than that if you are doing it repetitively:

$ time = f$cvtime(f$time()+"+31-","absolute")   ! Sometime NEXT month.
$ time = "01-" + f$cvtime(time,"absolute","month") + "-" + -
        f$cvtime(time,"absolute","year") + "-01-" ! first day of NEXT month.
$ time = f$cvtime(time,"absolute")              ! Last day of THIS month.

Then submit for the value in time!
-- 
Dick Munroe				Internet: munroe@dmc.com
Doyle Munroe Consultants, Inc.		UUCP: ...uunet!thehulk!munroe
267 Cox St.				Office: (508) 568-1618
Hudson, Ma.				FAX: (508) 562-1133

GET CONNECTED!!! Send mail to info@dmc.com to find out about DMConnection.
From: DAVIS%MISX02@KINGSTON.ARPC.ALCAN.CA ("Stuart Davis, Alcan Rolled Products Co, Oswego, NY, USA")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Q: LSEdit with DECwindows configuration
Date: 26 Aug 92 22:03:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

I am using the LSE product with DECwindows (the old one - haven't got MOTIF yet) 
and need some help in doing some X-type configuration on it.

I need to do the following:

Position the window somewhere other than the default.

Size the window to a longer screen than the default 24 lines.

As I will be using both character-cell and X-windows terminals to edit my files, 
I really would like to put the configuration in the DECwinows/X part rather than 
in the LSE initialization files.

Are there resource names that LSE uses?  If so, what are they, or where can I 
find out about them (without spending any money buying documentation, of 
course!)?

(I know that LSE uses TPU, so if I have to change the EVE parameters at the same 
time, well, that's ok)

Any help from the World-wide network would be appreciated

Stuart Davis
(Davis@Oswego.ARPC.Alcan.Ca)
From: parris@star.enet.dec.com (Keith Parris)
Subject: Re: Help! Boot node problem.
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 20:52:04 GMT


In article <1992Aug22.113057.12163@news.columbia.edu>, gs50@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Gong Su) writes...
>Is there any way to check from DCL wether a machine in a cluster is
>set up as a boot node?
>We have a two-node VAXcluster with one machine being boot node (ROCK08)
>and the other being satellite (ROCK09). After a failure in the network,
>ROCK09 can't boot from ROCK08. I tried to delete ROCK09 from the cluster
>and then re-add it. Cluster_config told me that ROCK08 is not set up as
>a boot node (I think that's just the reason why ROCK09 can't boot from
>ROCK08 even all other params are set correctly.) Ok, I thought the
>network might also do something bad to ROCK08, reboot ROCK08. Still,
>cluster_config told me ROCK08 is not set up as a boot node. Now I'm
>realy confused. The last reboot of ROCK08 was on Aug. 16 with "@autogen
>savparams reboot feedback". The MODPARAMS.DAT of ROCK08 contains all
>those params generated by cluster_config including BOOTNODE="YES". Can
>somebody explain this? Thanks very much.

CLUSTER_CONFIG.COM checks that NISCS_LOAD_PEA0 is 1, CLUSTER_AUTHORIZE.DAT
exists in SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE], and (what I think is your difficulty, since you
mentioned you had some network problems recently) that the DECnet service
circuit is set to be "State On" and "Service Enabled".  You can check this
with: 
   $ MCR NCP SHOW KNOWN CIRCUIT CHARACTERISTICS
If service is disabled, do:
   $ MCR NCP
   NCP> SET CIRCUIT xxx-n STATE OFF
   NCP> SET CIRCUIT xxx-n SERVICE ENABLED
   NCP> SET CIRCUIT xxx-n STATE ON
where "xxx-n" is the mnemonic for your LAN adapter.  Don't forget to fix it in
the DECnet permanent database, too:
   NCP> DEFINE CIRCUIT xxx-n SERVICE ENABLED

____________________-_-----_-_---__-__-_-----_____----_-____-_----____------_-__
         Keith B. Parris           Digital Equipment Corporation
                                   Alpha VMS Engineering, Clusters & I/O Group
Any information here which is later found to be inaccurate was mine, of course.
Digital gets the credit for any actual facts which happen to slip into this.
-__---__-_---__-__-_-_-_-_____-__--_____---_-___-_-_-_--__-_--_--___-_-__--_____
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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,news.software.anu-news
Subject: Help needed with corrupted news item file
From: fowler@southpower.co.nz
Date: 31 Aug 92 23:07:32 NZDT

Hi,


Yesterday I had to delete my entire news database due to a disk error which
corrupted the news item file.  I tried to salvage it for a while but in the end
I decided just to delete everything and start again from scratch.  This wasn't
too much of a problem as there aren't many people here that read news but if it
happens again I would like to have a go at salvaging what I can.

One thing I did try was a program that came with the ANU News distribution
called newitemfile.c.  However this program didn't want to continue once it
struck the disk error.  The problem with the file is evident when I try to
convert it and is as below.

%SORT-F-READERR, error reading MICKEY$DUA1:[NEWSDATA]NEWS.ITEMS;12
-RMS-F-RER, file read error
-SYSTEM-F-FORCEDERROR, forced error flagged in last sector read

Has anyone written a program that will extract all the records that are
readable from the news item file and put them into a new file???  Has anyone
out there ever tried to recover a corrupted news item file and if so how did
you go about it???

We are currently using ANU News version 6.0 and VAX/VMS V5.5


Thanks,
Ken.
--
System Administrator             Phone:     (64)(03) 3639-527
IS Dept, Southpower,             Fax:       (64)(03) 3639-816
Private Bag,                     Internet:  fowler@southpower.co.nz
Christchurch,                    PSI:       0530147000090::galaxy::fowler
New Zealand.                  or PSI:       0530130010083::galaxy::fowler
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: bear@nuc.anu.edu.au (Bernhard Fabricius)
Subject: Re: Looking for Newsreader software
Reply-To: BEAR@NUC.ANU.EDU.AU
Organization: Nuclear Physics, ANU
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 00:27:09 GMT


In article <1992Aug30.132942.4481@dmc.com>, munroe@dmc.com (Dick Munroe) writes:
|>In article <1992Aug29.170329.29824@news.iastate.edu>, gvrod@isuvax.iastate.edu (R Eldridge, VMS FOREVER) writes:
|>> ...
|>> at my site, we use NEWSRDR. IMHO, Matt Madison creates outstanding software
|>> products and documentation.
|>> 
|>
|>I agree about Matt's software.  You should be aware that he now
|>works for TGV and his software (at least MX, I have NO idea about
|>the rest) is now supported by Hunter Goatley
|>(goathunter@wkuvx1.bitnet) and available from
|>fileserv@wkuvx1.bitnet.  There is an ftp site as well, but I
|>don't remember what it is at the moment.
|>Dick Munroe				Internet: munroe@dmc.com
Great!
	That's the best news I've heard all week. I was just going to
	install MX when I learned Matt Madison had been bought by TGV,
	so I decided not to go ahead just in case the thing would break
	with the next version of VMS and/or UCX. 3 cheers to Hunter for
	taking this task on (and lots of cheers to Matt for writing MX
	in the first place!)

Bernhard
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Academic VAX/VMS Support           |  "I am a Bear of Very Little Brain,
Department of Nuclear Physics      |           and long words Bother me."
Australian National University     |
                                   |                           - A.A. Milne
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From: JMOU@BENTLEY.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Invoking VAXTPU within CAPTIVE environment
Date: 26 Aug 92 20:01:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

We are currently running VMS 5.4-2 on a VAX 6520.  I am looking into
if there are any potential security problems of invoking VAXTPU within
a CAPTIVE environment.  I have written a DCL command procedure that
first establishes the environment that I want, and then invokes VAXTPU,
and it works fine.

I would really appreciate if anyone that has similar environment setup
can share the experience or any problems you ever encountered with me
at your ealiest convenience.  Thanks in advance.

Jun Mou
Senior Database Analyst
Bentley College, Waltham, MA