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From: ttech1@jetson.uh.edu (Jon Randolph in Houston)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Reading VMS Backup (eqv) under IBM MVS
Date: 19 Nov 1992 21:16 CST
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: jane.uh.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

My management wants to archive files off of VMS in a format that can be
read on their IBM system (the vax is going away...).  It looks like the
cartridge tapes (System Industries 2480 - looks to the vax like a TA90)
themselves can be read on the IBM cartridge tape drives - though only
fixed length records so far. 

The question is, what would be a good format to write the tapes to 
preserve as much of the directory structure and file characteristics as 
possible?  Anybody done this?

Thanks
Jon

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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Subject: Re: Plans for mixed Alpha/VAX cluster with common system disk?
Organization: Enea Data AB
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 23:32:49 GMT

Nigel Arnot (SYSMGR@IPG.PH.KCL.AC.UK) writes:
>If DEC don't do something like this, I'll be very disappointed. Also it'll
>be a big mistake: the confusion caused may well result in Alpha+VMS getting a
>bad name and even loss of customers to the competition.

Competition with whom? To Sun, who have had Sun-3 (68xxx?) and Sun-4 
(RISC) since God knows when.

I must have been working too much in the Unix world lately (shudder!),
but I fail to see that this is any problem.

>If they can't do this, there's a trivial confusion-avoider. Simply create
>file types .AEXE, .AOBJ, and .AOLB for alpha code, plus qualifiers /VAX and
>/ALPHA on utilities like LINK and LIBRARY, which default to that native
>for the processor on which they are running.

And break a lot of programs, command files, MMS files and so. NO THANK YOU!

>However, it would be much, much nicer to have the ability to create EXEs
>that contain both sets of code and map and execute that appropriate for the
>processor on which they are run.

And then when someone ports VMS to a third architeture?
-- 
Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: rpkurapa@cougar.ecn.uoknor.edu (Ram Prasad Kurapati)
Subject: Novice to VAX/VMS and Ultrix needs help.
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:56:53 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA


I am working on a project.  A part of the project work is to convert the code
written in vax pascal to Pascal running on ultrix on DEC Station 5000/25.  The 
program which is written in vax has some system calls.  Is there any source from
which I can find the equivalent ultrix system calls for the vax system calls. 
In particular the vax system calls for which I need the ultrix equivalence are:
  
  SYS$ASSIGN
  SYS$QIO
  SYS$QIOW
  SYS$CANCEL
  SYS$SYS$BRDCST
  SYS$TRNLOG
  SYS$CANTIM
  SYS$SETIMR

If you have any information about this please forward to the following address.

rpkurapa@essex.ecn.uoknor.edu
Thanks in advance.  
Ram Prasad Kurapati.
From: elliott@lmt.mn.org (David Elliott  MIS x 363)
Subject: Modem DialBack Security for VAX?
Organization: LaserMaster Technologies, Minneapolis, MN
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 17:08:24 GMT

We're looking into the possibility of setting up a dial-back modem security
arrangement on our 6410.  I'm not certain if this is a modem thing or a VAX
thing, but I'd sure like to hear from you if you have any information about
this sort of stuff.  Please feel free to mail me directly at
 davide@ramrod.lmt.mn.org

Thanks!

-- 
Elliott
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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: thomas@sparcler.cc.ncsu.edu (Eric Thomas)
Subject: Multi-threaded TCP/IP server
Keywords: TCP/IP server
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:02:15 GMT

If anyone has written a general purpose multi-threaded TCP/IP server, 
I would love to take a look at it.  I am attempting to write one using
the C runtime library manuals but would MUCH rather study existing code.
 

Thanks,
Eric Thomas 
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From: sean@isis.win.net (Sean Gonzalez)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Anyone using CMD disk/tape controllers for BI?
Date: 17 Nov 92 12:21:40 GMT
Reply-To: sean@isis.win.net (Sean Gonzalez)
Organization: The Internet
X-Unparsable-Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 0:1.28.86


        Does anyone have any experience using CMD's TM & MB SCSI disk
        controllers for BI buses?  Specifically, I would appreciate
        getting any information regarding these boards' reliability
        (MTBF that you have experienced...not what the manufacturer
        claims) and suitability for task of the design of the controller
        (i.e., any functions that the controller should support and with
        which it has problems, or anything that is not implemented
        correctly/yet by the controller).  Likewise, I would also be
        interested in obtaining similar information for ClearPoint's
        controllers and any others you may know.  Please note that I
        need information on BI controllers only.  A lot of people have
        CMD controllers for Q-Bus, but their experience does not help
        me at all with BI buses.  Thanks!

                                                                Sean.

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        "May our users be forgiving of our systems' faults..."
From: gezelter@rlgsc.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: HUNG SYSTEM WHEN SUBMITTING THREE JOBS ON SYS$BATCH
Date: 23 Nov 92 14:52:26 GMT
Organization: Robert Gezelter Software Consultant, Flushing, NY

In article <C014F5D13B5F00093D@EGFRCUVX>, SABRY@SHEBIN.EG writes:
> HI...
> WE  WORK A MICROVAX 3400 ,12MB.
> HERE ON A DEVICE USERNAME CALLED SHEBIN AND HE MAKE THREE OR 3 JOBS BY
> SUBMITTING AND THIS A JOBS BY FORTRAIN ..OK.
> THIS A JOBS WROKED ONCE ON SYS$BATCH AND SYS$BATCH LIMIT_JOPB=3     OK.
> THEN AFTER SO SEEM THAT MICROVAX HUNG  AND CANNOT WORKINGD WITH US
> AND ALSO ANY USER CONNOT LOGIN TO ACCOUNT OWN IT AND DCL  VERY SLOWER AND
> NOT ANY ANSWER WITH US..OK
> THEN APPEARS TO US THIS A MESSAGES:-
> %SYSTEM-W-PAGEFRAD,PAGE  FILE BADLY FRAGMENTED,SYSTEM CONTINUING.
> ALSO,
> %SYSTEM-W-PAGECRIT,PAGE FILE SPACE CRITICAL,SYSTEM TRYING TO CONTINUE.
> I SORRY ON THIS A MESSAGE BUT I WANT FROM ANYONE SOLVE THIS PROBLEM AND
> GIVE ME A MAIL CONTIAN THE SOLVE  TO A ERRORS MESSAGES.
> THANKS A LOT FOR NAYONE ON HELP.
> E-MAIL OR  ENTERNET:SABRY@SHEBIN.EG
> FROM EGYPT.
> SABRY
> BYE.
> -- 
Sabry,
 
I will try to explain your problem as simply as is possible. 
To optimize performance, VMS attempts to write pages to the page 
file in contiguous pieces. The first message is generated when 
the space in the page file been broken up into a significant 
number of smaller pieces. The second message is generated when 
the situation gets worse. The immediate effect of this, as you 
have noted, is a severe reduction in system performance.
 
Without going into a long explanation, the solution to this 
problem is to increase the size of the PAGEFILE or, 
alternatively, create a secondary pagefile on a different disk 
(this is done using the SYSGEN utility) and connecting it (which 
you will need to do once manually, and in the future in the 
command file SYS$MANAGER:SYSTARTUP_V5.COM.
 
I hope that the above information is helpful. If I have been 
unclear, or if you have further questions, please feel free to 
contact me via e-mail.
 
- Bob
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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: pasztor@ub40.sztaki.hu
Subject: EPSON printer attached to VT200 terminal
Organization: Computer and Automation Institute, Hungary
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 11:12:39 GMT


 One of my friends ran in the following problem.
 There is a VT200 type terminal (actually a clone) and an EPSON FX1050
 printer attached to it.

 A number of escape sequences for the printer contain NUL characters.
 The terminal however (by definition) strips out these characters.

 Does someone know a workaround for this problem ?

 Thank you in advance.

Pa'sztor Miklo's                              | E-mail: pasztor@hugbox.bitnet
MTA SZTAKI/ASZI Budapest  Victor H. u. 18-22
Institute for Computation and Automation, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
From: alanmoore@yang.earlham.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Looking for X11 .olb files
Date: 16 Nov 92 03:24:35 GMT
Organization: Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana

I have downloaded XFig, and need the following libraries to compile it.  Any
help in locating them would be appreciated.

XAW.OLB
XMU.OLB
XVMSUTILS.OLB
DECW$XTSHR.EXE

Thanks,
Alan Moore                              alanmoore@yang.earlham.edu
System/Network Manager, Postmaster      (317)983-1437
Earlham College
Richmond, IN
From: mike@starburst.umd.edu (Michael F. Santangelo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: ?UCX /NFS/ Question
Summary: How the f### do I get write access to an export?
Keywords: UCX,NFS
Date: 17 Nov 92 06:38:41 GMT


Okay, I spent a few hours playing with UCX 1.3's NFS Server and
finally managed to get an NFS client to mount the user disk on
my VMS host (simple, non-CFS), config was something like this:

  ADD PROXY TESTUSER/UID=-2/GID=-2/HOST="myclient"
  BIND DUA1: "/userdisk"
  ADD EXPORT "/userdisk"/HOST="myclient"

myclient successfully mounts a subdirectory (testdir) of DUA1 as
"/userdisk/testdir" using the "nobody" user (uid=-2/gid=-2).  TESTUSER
has full access to this directory, it is its owner and permissions are
set O:RWED,S:RWED,W,G.  In DCL, I place a file in /userdisk/testdir
and the client sees it when I do a directory (ls).  HOWEVER, the
client CAN NOT write to this directory despite everything I have
tried!  It is somehow write protected.

Any ideas?  There is a "SECURITY" logical in UCX$NFS_STARTUP set to 0,
does this have anything to do with it?  I am baffled.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: jhawk@panix.com (John Hawkinson)
Subject: Re: Account creation utilities?
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 04:40:40 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

In <01GR9BYHRK6O9BW1GZ@SPOCK.FHCRC.ORG> JOE@SPOCK.FHCRC.ORG (Joe Meadows) writes:

>>        I'm looking for a utility which would allow users who don't
>>have write access to SYSUAF.DAT to be able to create and modify
>>accounts. I know such a beast exists, and I recall someone mentioning
>>it, but I can't seem to find it in the VMS software list.


>How about using INSTALL SYS$SYSTEM:AUTHORIZE/PRIV=BYPASS? It sounds like
>it would be exactly what you're asking for!

Err, no.

The point is that I'd like to allow certain users who aren't fully
priv'd to create certain accounts (say, in a specific group), without
being able to grant privs. In your example, anyone can just give
themselves BYPASS or SETPRV or CMKRNL or whatever...

--
John Hawkinson
jhawk@panix.com
From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Fixing SYSTEM-W-HEADERFULL error
Date: 17 Nov 1992 06:22:05 GMT
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Distribution: world
Reply-To: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu

In article <1992Nov16.153235.958@calmasd.prime.com>, kjb@calmasd.prime.com (Ken Brucker) writes:
>Be careful on this last step.  There's a bug that I know existed back in VMS
>5.4 and may still be present in Backup.  Essentially, it ignores the /noinit
>when doing an image restore and re-creates the indexf.sys to be just large
>enough to hold the files that are in the save set.

As has been pointed out many times before, BACKUP has no way of knowing for
certain with what number of headers the volume was initialized.  That number
simply isn't stored anywhere on the disk.

>I mentioned this to one of the Backup developers at a DECUS a couple of years
>ago and I think the patched version of Backup that is available via DSNlink
>contains the fix, but I don't think VMS 5.5-1 does.  Although I haven't had
>reason to test this lately so I don't know if this is still a real problem with
>the current VMS release.

I understand that it was finally fixed in 5.5-2.

>To get around the bug, do steps 1 to 3 and then do a selective restore to the
>entire disk.

Of course, this won't work if the disk in question happens to be your system
disk.
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Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL

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: solfisburg@NIUHEP.PHYS.NIU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: what the heck is it?
Date: 13 Nov 92 17:22:24 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


   Can anyone tell me what the TEK4125 graphics window is for?  How is it used?
What are its capabilities? Where can a manual be obtained?  No one around here
seems to know anything about it.  I am a mechanincal engineering and physics
student.  Any information would be welcome.  Thank you.
 

Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: welchb@woods.ulowell.edu
Subject: RE: ?Why does this backup go so slow?  From the original poster.
Organization: University of Lowell
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:35:37 GMT

	I have been busy on other things for a week.  To my surprise, that
delay has allowed even more answers to be generated, both on this thread
and on some parallel ones.  The summary seems to be that a fragmented disk
is a major cause of the slowness of an image backup.
	Thanks to those who responded to me directly.  I would have 
mailed this only to you folks, except for a colossal single digit slip (human
digit) which wiped out my last 100 messages; I haven't had so much fun
since my last "$del *.*.*" .
	There is still some question left, to me at least.  Again, I will
refrain from all the details used and hints garnered (unless you all beg me).  
A shorter summary would be:

1) It took 4.3 hours to back up a very fragmented disk, using a VAX 6420,
at high priority, with exclusive access to the disks, with the simple command
"$BACKUP/IMAGE", VMS 5.5-1.  The fact of whether "/LOG" was added or not
was not much of a factor, nor was the selection of HSC ports.   My boss was
using the landmark that he always backed up a full RA90, every night, in
45 minutes.
2) As an experiment, on the next day, I backed up the newly created disk
(now unfragmented) back to the original.  The circumstances were not the same,
because now I was using a (more powerful) 6610, the unfragmented disk was
being used by users, and a normal complement of other users were on the
machine.  It now took 2.6 hours.  And, there lies the basic question,
"Is that still too long?"  How long should it take to do an image backup
of an RA92, 64% occupied, to an RA90.  Can someone dare to state, that
regardless of the other parameters, that there is a definite answer one way
or the other?
3) When you $MONITOR/DISK, what are the units of I/O measurement?  They seem
to be blocks per 6 seconds (using the default of 3 seconds of sampling
and 3 seconds of display).  I was getting approx. 20 on the original
transfer.

-- 
Brendan Welch, UMass/Lowell, W1LPG,  welchb@woods.ulowell.edu
From: billb@crpmks.uucp (Bill Bochnik (Info Systems))
Subject: Re: Fixing SYSTEM-W-HEADERFULL error
Reply-To: billb@crpmks.UUCP (Bill Bochnik (Info Systems))
Organization: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:06:30 GMT

In article <BxoMzw.Jx9@irvine.com> adam@irvine.com (Adam Beneschan) writes:
>
>Please help us!!  We're getting this error message and we're not sure
>what to do.  Please email replies to abeneschan@irvine.com.
>
>Our situation:  We have a Vaxstation 4000 model 60, VMS version V5.5,
>1 gigabyte SCSI drive.  There are 49112 files on our system, and our
>INDEXF.SYS file is 49190 blocks.  (Each header in INDEXF.SYS is 1
>block, so it's not surprising that these figures are close.)  If we
>say SHOW DEVICE/FULL, it says the maximum number of files is about
>257000.
>
>Our problem is that we can't create any new files on the system.  If
>we try to use the CREATE command to create a new file, we get this
>error message:
>
>%DCL-E-OPENOUT, error opening DKA200:[VM.INTEL.74.JUNK]X313.DAT; as output
>-RMS-E-CRE, ACP file create failed
>-SYSTEM-W-HEADERFULL, file header is full
>
>(Actually, at the time the above numbers were computed, some files
>have already been deleted from our system since the error first
>occurred.)
>
>We think the problem is that the system is trying to enlarge the
>INDEXF.SYS file and can't.
>
>Thank you in advance for your help.
>
>--
>Adam Beneschan
>Irvine Compiler Corporation
>email: abeneschan@irvine.com


Sounds like it is time to do a backup / init /restore.  The problem is that 
the default init values are the SAME FOR ALL DISKS, NO MATTER WHAT THE SIZE!
I wish that DEC would address that problem.



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Systems Analyst 		|	and Costello world.
Ciba-Geigy Corporation		| Signed and sealed, they deliver oblivion.
philabs!crpmks!billb		| It's worse than that, he's dead Jim.
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: brian@dsm.fordham.edu (Brian Downing)
Subject: Re: Grep for VMS
Organization: Fordham University/CLC, Division of Science and Math
	<1992Nov19.144446.29258@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 11:51:21 GMT


 Gee, I wasn't aware of the fact that SEARCH supported regular
 expressions. Is this new?

 And don't forget that the GNU greps from Hunter support redirection.
 i.e. 

 egrep '^From: (Brian)|(Frank)' >from.txt

--

 Brian...

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         brian@dsm.fordham.edu       bdowning@mary.fordham.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: dwight@geohub.gcn.uoknor.edu (Dwight D. Moore)
Subject: Re: Question on OpenVMS and VAX FORTRAN
Originator: usenet@kittyhawk.ecn.uoknor.edu
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:09:44 GMT
Distribution: comp.lang.fortran
Reply-To: dwight@geohub.gcn.uoknor.edu
Organization: Geosciences Computing Network, Univ. of Oklahoma
Keywords: Fortran, shareable images, MACRO, RTL 

In article <1992Nov22.152400.14845@doug.cae.wisc.edu>, dafnioti@cae.wisc.edu (Petros Dafniotis)
writes:
|>Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
|>Path:
|>constellation!convex!convex!darwin.sura.net!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!zazen!doug.cae.wisc.edu!dafnioti
|>From: dafnioti@cae.wisc.edu (Petros Dafniotis)
|>Subject: Question on OpenVMS and VAX FORTRAN
|>Organization: College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin--Madison
|>Distribution: comp.lang.fortran
|>Date: 22 Nov 92 15:24:00 CST
|>Message-ID: <1992Nov22.152400.14845@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
|>Summary: Information requested 
|>Keywords: Fortran, shareable images, MACRO, RTL 
|>Lines: 27
|>
|>I have a few questions regarding the new Alpha systems running OpenVMS.
|>In my research group we decided to purchase one Alpha now and soon more.
|>However, we do have thousands and thousands lines of code on our VAX/VMS
|>cluster that we shall need to port. 99.9% of the code is in VAX FORTRAN
|>and the remaining are in C and MACRO. The questions are"
|>(*) will shareable images be available in OpenVMS right away the same way
|>   as in VAX/VMS
|>(*) will OpenVMS fortran be 100% compatible (as language not binaries of
|>    course) with VAX fortran?
|>(*) are all the wonderful SYS$,LIB$,SMG$ etc routines of system and RTL be
|>    in openVMS totally compatible with the VAX/VMS?
|>(*) in conclusion: can someone give me some information regarding what will
|>    be different in OpenVMS wrt VAX/VMS (other than binaries and possibly
|>    fundamental types eg. longwords etc)?
|>(*) can someone point me to a source (ftp,journal,book) where i can learn
|>    more about alpha and OpenVMS?
|>
|> E-mail or response on the net is fine. I will summarize the responses in
|>any case if there is sufficient interest.
|>
|>  Thank you very much in advance for your time.
|>
|>						Petros Dafniotis
|>						Graduate Student
|>						Chem Engr Dept,UW-Madison
|>					e-mail:	dafnioti@cae.wisc.edu

I ported two models written in FORTRAN to the OpenVMS AXP 1.0, and had no problems,
but I didn't have alot of system calls to deal with. The main problem can be in memory
alignment, especially if you use structures. This can cause real performance problems.
The Alphas come with some documentation on migration, problems, and workarounds
and descriptions of things to watch out for, like alignment and shared images.
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