HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: backstrom@ranger.enet.dec.com (ranger::backstrom)
Subject: RE: VT320: random tabs or spaces are inserted in the screen output
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 05:00:15 GMT
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>                       dbk@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu (Don Katz)
>        VT320: random tabs or spaces are inserted in the screen output
>
> When I run VT320 (Pathworks 4.1 server and client, Windows 3.1), I can
> connect to our cluster via LAT, but the output that appears on the
> screen contains interspersed groups of spaces which makes it almost
> unreadable. It is nearly impossible to use an editor. I have been
> unable to find a solution - help would be welcome.

    First of all, make sure you've installed the DECTERM.FON file
    from \PCAPP of the PCSAV41 system service with Control Panel.
    
    Additionally make sure that you have installed the Windows
    network drivers for PATHWORKS with Windows SETUP.
    
    Also check that you have in VT320 the TAB stops set at e.g.
    evenly every 8 character positions.
    
    If that's not enough, call your Digital Customer Support Center
    (or use DSIN/DSNlink or the DECPCI forum on CompuServe) to see
    if there are any newer updates to either VT320, LAT or whatever
    could be related.
    
    And, fwiw, it works for me with no strange spaces ot TAB's. ;-)

    ...petri (backstrom@ranger.enet.dec.com)
       Personal Computing Integration Engineering
       Digital Equipment Corporation
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
From: wasser@ranger.enet.dec.com (ranger::wasser)
Subject: Lost your wire?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 05:00:45 GMT
X-Posted-Via: NEWS-NOTES gateway (a hack!)

> Now attempting connection to the system file service \\TRLN\PCSAV41
> Error: Network name not found

	Since the system service connection is the first time the PC
	tries to talk to the network it could be something as simple
	as a bad wire or as bad as a dead ethernet board.  Time to
	look in the "Network Troubleshooting" part of the manual.
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
From: HSTAMS@CIPVAX.BIOLAN.UNI-KOELN.DE (Henning Stams)
Subject: Re: How do you backup a container file?
Organization: BIOLAN - COLOGNE UNIVERSITY (FRG)
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 06:32:56 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.22

> >            
> It is mounted read/write, otherwise I wouldn't care whether it is backed up in
> the nightly backup.
> What I was thinking of was to dis- and remount it without knowing the password.
> I guess there is a way, because when the server is rebooted the diskservices
> are remounted with the password. Of course they are permanent mounted.

You can do exactly the same by 
1) Stopping the Disk Server: $ PCSA STOP DISK CONNECTION
2) Backing up
3) Restarting the Server   : $ @SYS$STARTUP:LAD_STARTUP
Of course, this affects ALL your containers but is a worthwhile operation for
a nightly backup.

Henning (hstams@biolan.Uni-Koeln.DE)
From: SYSTEM@UHCL2.BITNET
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: test
Date: 19 Aug 92 15:51:00 GMT
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test
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From: petbas@thijssen.nl (Peter Bastings)
Subject: RCV utility for graphic mode?
Keywords: rcv broadcast
Organization: Thijssen BV, Veenendaal, The Netherlands
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 06:36:43 GMT

When a system manager sends a broadcast to all PC's which have the RCV
program resident loaded, the message is only displayed on those PC's
which are in text mode. Users who are working in a graphical application
don't see the broadcast message.

Is there someone who knows a solution for this problem? Is there a
version of the RCV utility for the graphic mode?

Replies will be much appreciated. Thanks.

Peter Bastings
petbas@thijssen.nl
From: PENTECOST@BROOK.BITNET (Gregg Pentecost X6228 IC44)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: Digital & MicroSoft revisited...
Date: 18 Aug 92 19:05:00 GMT
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A while back there was a message thread about potential downsides to
the Digital/MicroSoft alliances.  There's another development, and I was
wondering if anyone knows more about it.  The following paragraph was in
PC Week, 8/17/92 (my apologies to those involved in the date format
dispute on the win3 list):
 
        The system examined by PC Week let's DOS users share resources on
        SMB (server message block)-compliant servers, such as LAN
        Manager, Pathworks...
 
From the customer's side, this sounds pretty good, but I'm left wondering
how this could affect DEC's bottom-line; those client license revenues
must add up!
 
So, if there are any BETA testers or DEC employees out there who aren't
bound by non-disclosure agreements, I would like to learn more about this
new version of DOS accessing PATHworks services.
 
Thanks.  Gregg.
 
PENTECOST@BROOK.BITNET
From: Dennis.Sherman@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Dennis Sherman)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: Network Name not found -- Results
Summary: bad ethernet card causes problem
Date: 21 Aug 92 19:18:26 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service


Thanks for all the suggestions on possible causes of a Network name not
found error.  I realized as I looked at all the responses (email and
posted) that I wasn't specific enough about our transport -- we use
TCP/IP, not DECNET, so all of the suggestions using NCP (usually to define
MS-NET) aren't applicable to us.  I did mention TCP/IP in the
configuration information, but it was easy to overlook.

Our problem turns out to be an Ethernet card that went bad overnight.  I'd
missed it on the first go-round because the diagnostics that come with the
3Com 3c507 card won't run if you have EMM386 loaded, which I took a while
to remember from our original installation.

Thanks again for the suggestions!

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Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
From: icerd@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Subject: PATHWORKS TCP/IP and DECNET Simultaneously
Reply-To: icerd@Msu.oscs.montana.edu
Organization: Montana State University
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 21:12:22 GMT

I am interested in using PATHWORKS TCP/IP as my primary communication 
software.  I also have need to access disk services using LATCP which is
part of the PATHWORKS DECNET package.  Is it possible to run both DECNET
and TCP/IP simultaneously?  If so, how.
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: How do I start to set up remote boot computers
From: jpeterse@jaguar.csc.wsu.edu
Date: 20 Aug 92 12:41:31 -0800
Organization: Washington State University

We recently purchased 10 DEC 425 pc's, without hard disks, and a VAX
4000 model 60.  We intend to use Pathworks to provide remote boot
capabilities for the PC's, and to provide the equivalent of hard disks
across the network for the PC's.  In the PC's we purchased the DEC
ethernet boards with the remote boot proms.  

Now, we are faced with the problem of configuring pathworks on both the server
and the PC's to be able to remote boot.  I cannot find a clear set of 
instructions that says 1) do this, then 2), do this, etc.  to tell us how
to get the remote boot working.  Does anyone have any suggestions on
where such a set of instructions is in the manual?  Does anyone have such
a set that they would be willing to sent to us?

We posed this question to DEC via the DNSlink, and have not received *any*
response yet.  Hopefully, you folks will save the day.  Classes start next
week, and we would like to have the system working soon after the start.

Jim Petersen
jpeterse@thiele.che.wsu.edu
jpeterse@jaguar.csc.wsu.edu
From: jfn@titleist.Eng.Sun.COM (jamie )
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: LAST and LAD
Date: 12 Aug 92 16:48:04 GMT
Reply-To: jfn@titleist.Eng.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems
NNTP-Posting-Host: titleist


Are LAST and LAD DEC proprietary protocols for virtual disk or
may the specs be purchased,  any info on these two protocols would
be appreciated,  only thing I known about them is what they
stand for.

thanks
From: RONAU%CUTTER%OPUS@MCOIARC.BITNET
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: RE: Pathworks for VMS on Mac
Date: 21 Aug 92 15:13:00 GMT
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We are having a problem with accessing an AppleTalk MAC server on
Ethernet and at the same time accesssing a local printer.  They tell me
that there is some problem with accessing local talk and appletalk at
the same time.  We have applications on the server but can't print while
we are accessing the server.
 
Is this also true for PW for MACs 1.1?
 
I don't want to put every apple printer on the network.  Is this a
problem with the Dot matrix printers as well as the laser printers?
From: backstrom@ranger.enet.dec.com (ranger::backstrom)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: RE: How do I start to set up remote boot computers
Date: 22 Aug 92 05:00:16 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
X-Posted-Via: NEWS-NOTES gateway (a hack!)

>                          jpeterse@jaguar.csc.wsu.edu
>                How do I start to set up remote boot computers
>
> We recently purchased 10 DEC 425 pc's, without hard disks, and a VAX
> 4000 model 60.  We intend to use Pathworks to provide remote boot
> capabilities for the PC's, and to provide the equivalent of hard disks
> across the network for the PC's.  In the PC's we purchased the DEC
> ethernet boards with the remote boot proms.  
>
> Now, we are faced with the problem of configuring pathworks on both the server
> and the PC's to be able to remote boot.  I cannot find a clear set of 
> instructions that says 1) do this, then 2), do this, etc.  to tell us how
> to get the remote boot working.  Does anyone have any suggestions on
> where such a set of instructions is in the manual?  Does anyone have such
> a set that they would be willing to sent to us?

    0) Read the PATHWORKS Overview manual (if you know it otherwise already,
       this step can be skipped). If DOS & PATHWORKS memory issues & such
       are a concern, it is probably a good idea to look into the Memory
       Solutions Guide at this point as well (you're likely to need to
       know the issues later on).
       
    1) Install the PATHWORKS for VMS server. Instructions in the PW4VMS
       doc set (part of the kit). Read also the release notes.
    
    2) Install the PATHWORKS for DOS client software (on the server).
       Instructions again in the manuals. Read the client release notes
       also.
       
    3) Have one PC with a diskette drive and set it up; NETSETUP
       from Client Setup 1/2. Make sure you select LAD/LAST in
       the Advanced (or Intermediate) mode; use Ctrl+F10 to
       advance from Basic mode. Details, again, in the docs.
       
    4) Switch the EtherWORKS boards you want to remote boot to
       remote boot. While you're flipping the switches (for
       which switch to flip, see the Owner's - or is it User's -
       Guide that comes with the board). Make also a note of
       the Ethernet addresses (the 08-2b-etc. things on a label
       onthe adapter); you'll be needing them.
       
    5) Use this one PC with diskettes (now connected to the server,
       I hope ;-) and use NETSETUP to create Remote Boot keydisks
       for the other PC's (you'll need their Ethernet addresses
       here). There's a whole chapter about this in the Client
       Installation Guide.
       
    6) Boot the diskless PC's.
    
    ...petri (backstrom@ranger.enet.dec.com)
       Personal Computing Integration Engineering
       Digital Equipment Corporation
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
From: zcookbruc@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: Re: Network name not found?
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 11:14:20 GMT

In article <1992Aug19.173907.20018@samba.oit.unc.edu>, Dennis.Sherman@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Dennis Sherman) writes:
> 
> The Problem: one PC decided to stop working with Pathworks.
> It was working one day, I'm told (I was on vacation) and not the
> next.
> 
> The Symptom: the PC is unable to find and connect to PCSAV41 common
> file service, or any other file service for that matter.  The 
> specific message is:
> 
> Now attempting connection to the system file service \\TRLN\PCSAV41
> Error: Network name not found
> 

When I get this error, I have to set the MS-NET flag in the node
supplying file services. (I don't realy know is this is the proper
way to solve the problem, but it seems logical)

>NCP DEF node MS-NET

I think a re-boot is needed for this to come into effect.

If you wish to see if the vax is available to your PC node
through DECNET (I.e you can get a connection) try somthing
like:

>NFT DIR vax_node"user password"::

If you get a network failure with this then it's likely that
DECNET has gone away.

PCSA doesn't stop running on its own, it usually takes a bit
of indescriminate fiddling. I Stuffed my node up by bringing
the link count up to high, and then the network wouldn't even
start, and because the network wouldn't start I couldn't use
NCP to fix the problem.

Hope this helps

...BRU
From: finkel@sdi.com
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: RE: Disk Services no network devices with WIN3.1
Date: 17 Aug 92 15:19:18 CDT
Organization: Systems by Design of Illinois (SDI), Chicago

In article <0095F31F.EDB22AA0.32157@okra.millsaps.edu>, coopebl@OKRA.MILLSAPS.EDU writes:
> 
>      Sounds like your network startup procedure does not
>    contain the USE/FIXUP command.  This command is part
>    of the standard STARTNET.BAT created by NETSETUP.
>  
>      USE/FIXUP marks unconnected drive identifiers allocated
>    to LADDRV.SYS as invalid.  These identifiers are "hidden"
>    from DOS and Windows until a connection is made with a
>    USE command or the the File Manger.
>  
>     Exit Windows and try the following:
>  
>        - Log to drive E: at a DOS prompt.  You should get a
>          "Abort, Retry, Fail" prompt.
>  
>        - Issue a USE/FIXUP and try drive E:.  You should get
>          an "Invalid drive..." message.
>  
>      If the above corrects the problem, stick USE/FIXUP back
>    in the station's STARTNET.BAT.
>  
> 					-brad.
>  
> Internet: coopebl@okra.millsaps.edu


	Brad,

	 Thanks much for your suggestion.  However, my STARTNET.BAT
	 file *does* have the 'USE/FIXUP' command and at DOS I can
	 log to the network disk services just fine.  It's only from
	 within WIN3.1 that I experience problems.

	 After further testing, I discovered that if I REMark out the
	 command to load SMARTDRV (in my AUTOEXEC.BAT file), then the
	 WIN3.1 File Manager *does* see the disk services as connected
	 network drives.  The FILE MANAGER | DISK | SELECT DRIVE still
	 does not display the volume labels, but at least they are
	 listed as connected network drives (via FILE MANAGER | DISK | 
         NETWORK CONNECTIONS...).

	 Norton Desktop For Windows does not see them as network
	 drives, however, and displays floppy icons for the disk
	 services.

	 So, in summary, it seems that SMARTDRV is getting in the way;
	 turning it off, i.e., not loading it, has resulted in some
	 improvement.
	
	/Joel
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Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
From: zcookbruc@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: Re: Dec ethernet card
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 22:56:12 GMT

In article <10830@bdrc.bdrc.bd.com>, hamilton@bdrc.bd.com (Milton Hamilton) writes:
> 
> 	Could some kind soul please tell me how to turn off remote
> boot on the old DEC Ethernet card, the one with the built on mouse.
> I think the manual was eaten by Tribbles.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Milton Hamilton (Computer Tech From Hell)
> -- 
> Milton Hamilton		Becton Dickinson Research Center
> hamilton@bdrc.bd.com	21 Davis Drive, RTP, NC 27709
> It wasn't me! It was that new guy!
> ...!mcnc!bdrc!hamilton	(919) 549-8641



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Install jumper W16 to DISABLE MOP boot


(I'm assuming you're talking about the DEPCA)

{Sorry I didn't get the exact number of ICs into the drawing,
a limitation of text}

Appologies for the post, but my mail is stuffed

...BRU
From: PENTECOST@BROOK.BITNET (Gregg Pentecost X6228 IC44)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: RE: Disk Services no network devices with WIN3.1
Date: 18 Aug 92 04:25:00 GMT
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>          Norton Desktop For Windows does not see them as network
>          drives, however, and displays floppy icons for the disk
>          services.
>
 
That's explainable;  file services are accessed via (I think they're
called) Floppy Control Blocks.  Very interesting, your discovering that
SMARTDRV was messing up the SHOW DISK CONNECTION command in the file
manager.
 
Gregg.
From: Dolan@[150.252.1.1] (Tom Dolan)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: Network name not found
Date: 20 Aug 92 15:28:27 GMT
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I'm installing Pathworks 4.1 on a IBM XT with a Cabletron card.  It says
"Network Name not found" when trying to connect to \\moses\pcsav41
 
Ethernet card diagnostics says the card is OK.
 
Does anyone know how to make it connect?
 
Tom Dolan           Dolan@Acuvax.acu.edu
Systems Manager
College of Biblical Studies
Abilene Christian University
From: backstrom@ranger.enet.dec.com (ranger::backstrom)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: RE: PATHWORKS MAIL for MS Windows ?
Date: 14 Aug 92 05:00:29 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
X-Posted-Via: NEWS-NOTES gateway (a hack!)

>                 halderen@research.ptt.nl (Anton van Halderen)
>                       Pathworks-mail for MS Windows ? 
>
> I have a question about the pathwork-mail-utility's. Does Digital offer a
> mail-utility for MS Windows. (Pathworks 4.1?)

    No, not today. Or at least not a PW MAIL equivalent (i.e. one that
    uses MAIL-11/VMS Mail). Perhaps in a future PW client kit... ;-)
       
    We do have DEC MAILworks for Windows (a.k.a. ALL-IN-1 MAIL by its old
    name), which is an X.400 mail client that talks to the X.400 mail
    server on VMS.
    
    ...petri (backstrom@ranger.enet.dec.com)
       Personal Computing Integration Engineering
       Digital Equipment Corporation
From: cooper@UTSPH.SPH.UTH.TMC.EDU
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: ...DEC ethernet board and 486/50dx
Date: 23 Aug 1992 13:38:42 GMT
Reply-To: cooper@UTSPH.SPH.UTH.TMC.EDU
Organization: University of Texas School of Public Health


   Hi,

	Has anyone out there been able to get DEC's DEPCA ethernet board
to work in a 486-50mh DX  computer.  I recently got a no-name brand PC
(that is what you get when you work for the state and have to accept low bids)
that has an AMI -EISA motherboard.  According to the manual it is suppose to
support both 8 and 16 bit boards (both ISA and EISA).  The only other boards
in the machine are the TVGA board and an SCSI -EISA disk controller.

However, when I boot with the DEPCA board, all the interrupt
settings come up as 00 other that IRQ 2 (using the NDIS drivers). 
I know the board is ok (I have tried two different boards).
Has anyone experience this problem and were you able to fix it.
From: backstrom@ranger.enet.dec.com (ranger::backstrom)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: RE: Disk Services no network devices with WIN3.1
Date: 14 Aug 92 05:00:42 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
X-Posted-Via: NEWS-NOTES gateway (a hack!)

>                                finkel@sdi.com
>                 Disk Services not network devices with WIN3.1
>
>	Anyone know a workaround to this?  Micrsoft says it's DEC's
>	problem.
>
>   ...
>
>	Within WIN3.1:
>
>		Command: E:
>		Results: Default drive is E:; all is OKAY
>
>		Command: FILE MANAGER | DISK | SELECT DRIVE
>		Results: Drive E: has no volume label; all is NOT OKAY
>
>		Command: FILE MANAGER | DISK | NETWORK CONNECTIONS
>		Results: Drive E: is not listed; all is NOT OKAY
>
>		In general, only File Services are known as network 
>		devices; Disk Services are not known as network devices
>		and are treated by WIN3.1 as local floppy drives

    Disk services (LAD's) are not handled through the Redirector,
    but rather their own interface.
    
    They appear to DOS/Windows as "removable media", or floppies
    through this interface.
    
    Now, for Windows to see them as network drivers, make sure
    you have used Windows 3.1 SETUP to select the "Windows
    Network Drivers for PATHWORKS". (Or, if it is Windows 3.0,
    run the WIN3SETU utility from the PATHWORKS system service).
    The key here is the PCSA.DRV file.
    
    After done that, File Manager -> Disk -> Network Connections
    show disk services just fine for me.

    And, indeed, File Manager -> Disk -> Select Drive doesn't appear
    to show the volume label. I can check with the developer(s), but
    should you really need to get a fix, please, escalate through your
    Digital Customer Support Center (to get resources officially assigned
    for this).
        
    ...petri (backstrom@ranger.enet.dec.com)
       Personal Computing Integration Engineering
       Digital Equipment Corporation
From: M.C.PIETERS@SC.AGRO.NL
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: FIX_RESET_MODULE + accounting
Date: 14 Aug 92 07:44:00 GMT
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After having used PCSA$FIX_RESET_MODULES (to stop blank pages coming from
laserjets) accounting seemes to report one page less. It used to report
correctly, so now it reports 0 pages where 1 page has been printed.
 
Can anyone confirm this peculiarity or is the relation I see nonexistent ?
 
Michiel Pieters          pieters@sc.agro.nl
                         the Winand Staring Centre
                         Wageningen, the Netherlands
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From: hamilton@bdrc.bd.com (Milton Hamilton)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.desktop.pathworks
Subject: Dec ethernet card
Date: 20 Aug 92 13:19:26 GMT
Organization: Becton Dickinson Rsrch Cntr, RTP, NC


	Could some kind soul please tell me how to turn off remote
boot on the old DEC Ethernet card, the one with the built on mouse.
I think the manual was eaten by Tribbles.

Thanks in advance,
Milton Hamilton (Computer Tech From Hell)
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hamilton@bdrc.bd.com	21 Davis Drive, RTP, NC 27709
It wasn't me! It was that new guy!
...!mcnc!bdrc!hamilton	(919) 549-8641