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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 20:04:59 EDT
From:         BCJ@PSUVM.BITNET
Subject:      Call for papers: Southern [U.S.] Conference for British Studies

     The Southern Conference on British Studies solicits proposals for
papers to be presented at its 1993 meeting, to be held on 10-13 November
in Orlando, Florida, in conjunction with that of the Southern Historical
Association.

     The SCBS construes studies widely and invites participation by
scholars in all areas of British history and culture, including the
Empire and Commonwealth as well as the home islands.  Interdisciplinary
approaches are strongly encouraged.

     Proposals may consist of individual papers or entire sessions for
the program.  Sessions should include two or preferably three papers
related to a common theme (not necessarily bound by the usual chrono-
logical framework), and ideally should have suggestions for chairpersons
and commentators.

     For each paper proposed, please submit an abstract of 200-300 words,
indicating the thesis of the paper, the sources and methodology employed
in the research for it, and how it enhances and expands knowledge of its
subject.  Papers should be planned to have a reading time of 20-25
minutes.

     All proposals should be sent by 9 October 1992 to Dr. John L.
Gordon, Jr., Department of History, University of Richmond, Richmond,
VA 23173.
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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 20:01:42 EDT
From:         BCJ@PSUVM.BITNET
Subject:      University of Delaware Press 18th-Century Manuscript Competition

     The deadline for the University of Delaware Press's 1992 American,
English, or European 18th-Century Manuscript Competition has been extended
to September 15/
     Please write to the Press at 326 Hullihen Hall, Newark, Delaware 19716
or telephone 302 831-1149 for details and an entry form/
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Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:50:00 CST
From:         FRAE141@UTXVMS.BITNET
Subject:      Re: two unrelated questions

I was much amused by John Sandys-Wunsch's reply about what side, historically,
one drives on. Are cars still going in two directions in the same lane in
Newfoundland?[!]

The age of the automobile began with cars driving on the "wrong" side.

In the 18th-C., the distinct impression is that coaches drove wherever they
wanted to, and there were lots of accidents. (Accidents were important in
introducing heroes to heroines.) This in France...

This year, I noticed that some French drivers stop (or at least slow down)
at the pedestrian zebra-stripes. This creates confusion for pedestrians,
and drivers alike.

The moral: do away with private cars, and use public transport.

--Bob Dawson
French-italian
UTx-Austin
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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 09:58:17 -0400
Reply-To:     dnichol@kean.ucs.mun.ca
From:         dnichol@KEAN.UCS.MUN.CA
Subject:      Re: two unrelated questions

As one who lives & drives in Newfoundland, I can assure everyone that we
+ continue to drive on the right & wrong sides of the road.  Newfoundlanders
+ are a
stubborn breed: we resent the imposition of such things as road signs that say
STOP (& so go), but we'll stop in the middle of the busiest road to let a
child jaywalk.  So as not to dissuade anyone from coming to this Swiftian isle -
+ especially as I'm running the CSECS conference here in October - I should
+ point
out that the Great Lane Shift (from left to right-hand side of the road) was
introduced in 1947.  The first accident after the Act occurred in St. John's;
happily there were no fatalities.  Then again, there weren't many cars or roads
fit to drive them on back in pre-Confederation.  At present, we are claiming
status in the Guinness Book of Records as the Pothole Capital of the Universe.
Come & see for yourselves (& remember: Look Both Ways)... Cheers, Don Nichol
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Organization: K.U.Leuven (Belgium)
Approved-By:  Van Uytven Herman <SYSTHVU@CC1.KULEUVEN.AC.BE>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.netnws-l
Date:         Fri, 31 Jul 1992 16:31:30 +0200
From:         Van Uytven Herman <SYSTHVU@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
Subject:      message for nntpxmit users

Hello,

Some time ago I posted the message included at the bottom.
This message isn't 100% correct, because a line can be empty also.
This means that the limit for one tcpsend buffer = (8192 / 2) =
around 4050 bytes.  Please change line 74 in nntpxmit xedit to :

      if length(line) > 4050 then do
      /* 4050 instead of 5400 or 7500 */

There is indeed a soc.culture.netherlands article floating around
which contains > 4000 empty lines.

original article :
>Some sites experienced an NNTPXMIT abend due to a tcpsend error.
>To solve it, xedit nntpxmit xedit and change 7500 to 5400 (line 74)
>(or ask the latest NNTPXMIT package).
>
>The reason is the following : normally the max buffer size for
>a 'tcpsend' is 8192 bytes.  The limit in nntpxmit xedit was
>7500 + 1 article line, which means a theoretical maximum of
>7500 + 512 = 8012, which seems OK.
>But in the EBCDIC - ASCII translation an EBCDIC NL is translated to
>ASCII CRLF (1 byte -> 2 bytes).
>Now there are some articles (e.g. gnu.g++.bug) which contain a lot
>of lines with only 1 character (e.g. X).  So the X + NL is translated
>to X + CRLF, which means that 2 bytes become 3 bytes.
>So the theoretical buffer size we can use for one tcpsend line is
>8192 * (2/3), which means around 5400 'original' bytes.
Organization: University of Central Florida--Computer Services
Date: Friday, 24 Jul 1992 09:49:02 EST
From: Jim Ennis <JIM@UCF1VM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.netnws-l
Subject: Netnews vs RiceMail

Hello,

  Has anyone re-configured NETNEWS to use the old (pre 1992) version
of RiceMail which did not use as much virtual storage for invoking
the MAIL function.  I have many problems with NETNEWS users running
out of virtual memory (even in 4M-6M) machines.  I know that if they
keep their ALL NOTEBOOKS small, the current version would probably
work, but I am looking for a more robust configuration.

BTW, we are running NETNEWS with VM/ESA 1.1 with no problems (from the
NETNEWS point of view, I have a few ESA problems which are thinning
my hair).

Jim
Organization: GMD St. Augustin, Germany
Date: Friday, 24 Jul 1992 17:52:54 MET
From: Richard Rodriguez <GRZ046@vm.gmd.de>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.netnws-l
Subject: Re: NETNEWS ABEND under VM/ESA 1.1

In article <NETNWS-L%92072317524317@VM1.NODAK.EDU>, Jim McIntosh
<JIM@american.edu> says:
>
>On Tue, 21 Jul 1992 22:49:03 MET Richard Rodriguez said:
>>Are you running CMS 8 in XA/ESA/XC mode? The RXIUCV MODULE as distributed
>>by PSU is not XA tolerant. You have to run Netnews in 370 mode.
>
>This is not true. I have VM/ESA 1.1 installed and am running NETNEWS in
>ESA mode.
>
>Also, for anyone interested, I have most of the netnews config files in
>the SFS and have seen no problems in that area either.

I have tried the distributed RXIUCV MODULE from PSU and, you're right,
it does work in an ESA machine. The distributed RXIUCV ASSEMBLE file
is definitely not ESA tolerant and, since I tend to assemble things
locally whenever source is available, it didn't work for me. I never
tried the distributed RXIUCV MODULE until today. :-(

Sigh.

rr
Date: Monday, 27 Jul 1992 08:53:27 EDT
From: James Justice <JAY@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.netnws-l
Subject: Re: NETNEWS ABEND under VM/ESA 1.1

In article <NETNWS-L%92072317524317@VM1.NODAK.EDU>, Jim McIntosh
<JIM@american.edu> says:
>
>This is not true. I have VM/ESA 1.1 installed and am running NETNEWS in
>ESA mode.
>
>Also, for anyone interested, I have most of the netnews config files in
>the SFS and have seen no problems in that area either.

I have found one problem with NETNEWS and the shared file system.  We are
testing the SFS for future conversion.  If you have no R/W minidisks,
NETNEWS fails to use your SFS A-DISK.  The problem is in the FindTemp
procedure.  I have modified the procedure as below to become more aware
of SFS disks.  What my code does is assume that if you have a directory
accessed R/W that is where the max free space is located.  Since all of
our users will either have a minidisk or a SFS space for their A-disk,
I think this is valid assumption.  I find that there is no easy way to
calculate the available space on a SFS disk.  The problem is that QUERY
LIMITS does not work if any file is open on the disk!  Terrible!!

Since we would perfer not to support mods to the product, I hope someone
will fix this problem in a future release.  It would also be nice to
make the product directory aware and have it use the directory stucture
to store its files in a nice way instead of putting everything in the
root directory.  If you are going to ask, ask for the *MOON*!

/***********************************************************************
*   F I N D   T E M P                                                  *
***********************************************************************/
FindTemp: procedure
   CurStack = queued()             /* Save stuff already in the stack */
   'MAKEBUF'
   'QUERY DISK R/W (LIFO'          /* Get list of all R/W disks       */
   MyStuff = queued()-CurStack - 1 /* Lines I should pull off         */
   TMode = ''                      /* Mode of biggest temp disk found */
   RMode = ''                      /* Mode of biggest R/W disk found  */
   TMax = 0                        /* KBytes of biggest temp disk     */
   RMax = 0                        /* KBytes of biggest R/W disk      */

   do MyStuff                      /* Get lines stacked by QUERY DISK */
      pull . +6 Adr Mode . . . BlkSize . 60 BlksFree .
      if BlkSize = 'OS' | BlkSize = 'DOS' then iterate
      If Substr(Adr,1,3) = 'DIR' Then RMode = Mode
      Else Do
         parse value diag(8,'Q V' Adr) with . . . Volume .
         KBytes = BlksFree * BlkSize / 1024
         if Volume <> '(TEMP)' then do   /* Is this a T-disk address? */
            if RMax < KBytes then do     /* Biggest R/W so far.       */
               RMode = Mode
               RMax = KBytes
            end
         end
         else if TMax < KBytes then do   /* A temporary disk!         */
            TMode = Mode                 /* and biggest one so far.   */
            TMax = KBytes
         end
      end
   End
   'DROPBUF'
if TMode = '' then return RMode    /* No (TEMP) labeled disk, use R/W */
else return TMode
Date: Tuesday, 21 Jul 1992 13:47:37 EDT
From: Jeff Brooks <JEFF@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.netnws-l
Subject: NETNEWS ABEND under VM/ESA 1.1

We just upgraded our VM system from VM/XA SP 2.1 to VM/ESA 1.1 (service
level 102), and our NETNEWS machine now abends occasionally while waiting
for spool files to show up on its reader.  The console log:

     .....

07:57:36 Spoolid 0593 from NNTPRCVR AT WVNVM; 52 records.
07:57:36 Process article for group(s) alt.horror,rec.arts.books
07:57:36 Adding <1992Jul20.213900.3378@wvnvms.wvnet.edu> to group alt.horror
  (#197)
07:57:37 Adding <1992Jul20.213900.3378@wvnvms.wvnet.edu> to group
  rec.arts.books (#81)
07:57:37 Process article for group(s) vmsnet.misc
07:57:37 Group vmsnet.misc does not exist.
07:57:37 Adding <1992Jul21.011827.28283@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> to group junk (#3)
DMSITP143T Specification exception occurred at C1C9E9 in system routine
  WAITECB;
re-IPL CMS
DMSABE2047I Dump started; please wait
DMSABE1297I Dump has been taken
DMSDIE3550I All APPC/VM and IUCV paths have been severed.
HCPGIR450W CP entered; disabled wait PSW 00020000 00E6F234

If we run the NETNEWS machine under an old (VM/XA) copy of CMS, it works.
Any ideas?

   Jeffrey A. Brooks                  (304) 293-5192
   IBM Systems Group                  jeff@wvnvm.wvnet.edu
   West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing
   Morgantown, West Virginia  26505

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Organization: St. John's University
Approved-By:  Marty Hoag <NU021172@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
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Date:         Wed, 22 Jul 1992 11:08:09 CDT
Reply-To:     HOLTZMAN@SJUVM
From:         "Michael S. Holtzman" <HOLTZMAN@SJUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Looking for a partner

As a brand-spanking-new Internet site, I am looking for someone to exchange
NEWS with.  We are running PSU NetNews and NNTPRCVR on a VM/CMS mainframe
(or at least we will be, after we hook up with another site).

If you can help me out, please respond to:

--------------------------------------------------------------------
Michael S. Holtzman      St. John's University    HOLTZMAN@SJUVM
(718) 990-1637           Perboyre Hall, Rm B14    MIKE000@SJUMUSIC
                         Jamaica, NY 11439
From: SYSTHVU@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (Van Uytven Herman)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.netnws-l
Subject: test our VM NNTP server
Date: Tuesday, 28 Jul 1992 11:05:50 +02
Organization: URC K.U.Leuven


Hello,

We have  written a  NNTP server for  VM (in REXX,  using RXSOCKET  and a
modified version of PSUVM's netnews).

Before we make  this available to end-users at our  University, we would
like it to be tested as much as possible.

So,  this  server  is  available  for  read,  post,  xfer  and  xmit  on
134.58.20.2, standard port 119.
The  server understands  all standard  NNTP  commands +  some UNIX  NNTP
extensions like xhdr, auth and  xcmd.  The  only limitation is  that for
xfer (newnews command), we do not allow wild-cards in the newsgroup name
(this is because all requests must  be handled in a reasonable amount of
time (we  can't (yet ?) fork  a process for every  connection), and this
wouldn't be the case for commands like 'newnews comp.* 920725 082523').

We have tested the server already with :
 - reading and  posting via xrn,  nnr, nnmvs, trumpet, tin  and TheNews.
   (TheNews had some problems, but as far as we could figure out it are
   client problems, not server problems).

   I  would be  especially interested  in postings  from other  clients.
   Since posting  is not well  defined in  the RFC's, and  because every
   client seems  to use other formats,  I would like some  test postings
   (you   can   use   newsgroups  vmnntp.test   (local)   or   misc.test
   (worldwide)).

 - receiving news send by nntpxmit.  The server receives already two
   months a full feed via xmit.

 - a limited amount of xfer-ing news.
   Here I would like  a test with someone asking a lot  of news via xfer
   (but the xfer  client needs to specify  groupnames without wild-cards
   or comma's, e.g. comp.sys.*  or news.answer,news.software.nntp in the
   newnews command is not allowed).


 Although this server receives a full  feed, we do not store everything.
 The news  server behind the nntp  server keeps comp, sci,  news and bit
 for 7 days, other groups are only kept for 3 or 0 days.

 If someone who uses this server finds a problem, please mail me. During
 netnews purge (around 0 hour GMT = evening in the USA), the NNTP server
 is not available.

 The software was mostly written by a student of our University,
 Kris Van Hees (gutest6@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be).

 Thanks,

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Organization: The American University
Approved-By:  Jim McIntosh <JIM@AMERICAN.EDU>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.netnws-l
Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:49:55 EDT
From:         Jim McIntosh <JIM@american.edu>
Subject:      Re: NETNEWS ABEND under VM/ESA 1.1

On Tue, 21 Jul 1992 22:49:03 MET Richard Rodriguez said:
>Are you running CMS 8 in XA/ESA/XC mode? The RXIUCV MODULE as distributed
>by PSU is not XA tolerant. You have to run Netnews in 370 mode.

This is not true. I have VM/ESA 1.1 installed and am running NETNEWS in
ESA mode.

Also, for anyone interested, I have most of the netnews config files in
the SFS and have seen no problems in that area either.

Jim McIntosh (jim@american.edu)
The American University
Washington DC 20016-8019 USA
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Organization: Ryerson Polytechnical Institute
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.netnws-l
Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 08:06:48 EST
From:         Paul Ribeiro <ACAD8012@RYEVM.RYERSON.CA>
Subject:      Don't forget to set NOFILES on locally gated lists

I gate a number of listserv lists locally to help keep our spool
low but made a boo-boo on one of them - I forgot to set NOFILE.
As my luck would have it, someone sent a "signoff file" to that
one list and netnews rejected it since it didn't have a header.
So, it passed it back to listserv (since listserv is a local user)
and listserv interpreted the single command in the file...
"signoff * (netwide"
oh well,
/Paul
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 17:08:42 EST
From:         Hobart Braden <HRB@HARVARDA.BITNET>
Subject:      Migration to 3390-3

The systems manager here has announced plans to migrate our VM/XA
(CMS 5.6) 3380 DASD environment to 3390-3 DASD, and later to
VM/ESA (CMS level undetermined at this time).  Will either of
these changes cause problems for Netnews or require changes to the
software or configuration?  Are most other installations already
running with this hardware and software?  Thank you in advance
for any suggestions, pointers to documentation, etc.
/Hobart Braden
Organization: GMD St. Augustin, Germany
Date: Tuesday, 21 Jul 1992 22:49:03 MET
From: Richard Rodriguez <GRZ046@vm.gmd.de>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.netnws-l
Subject: Re: NETNEWS ABEND under VM/ESA 1.1

Are you running CMS 8 in XA/ESA/XC mode? The RXIUCV MODULE as distributed
by PSU is not XA tolerant. You have to run Netnews in 370 mode.

rr
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Organization: William Rainey Harper College; Palatine, IL  60067
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.netnws-l
Date:         Sun, 26 Jul 1992 20:19:29 CST
From:         Bob Brown <BBROWN@HARPERVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Netnews vs RiceMail

Are you running ricemail in a DCSS?  Perhaps you could also put parts of
NETNEWS in your CMSINST segment (if it is heavily used)..that may
help storage utilization.

-boB

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BBROWN@HARPERVM.BITNET     ####  ####    Bob Brown
Harper Community College   ##  ##  ##    Systems Programmer
Palatine IL USA            ####  ####    "...Boink"
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 21:56:48 KST
From:         Bob Barnard <eanc-ra@TAEGU-EMH1.ARMY.MIL>
Subject:      In-Reply-To: Re: IBM 3270 card in 386SX
X-To:         BITNIC IBM-NETS List <IBM-NETS%BITNIC.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>

Having problems getting off.

Please UNSUB ME.........
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 15:42:27 -0300
From:         KEN SEARS <KSEARS@ADM.DAL.CA>
Subject:      Vtam Based Email Systems

>Date: 30 Jul 1992 06:02:00 -0400
>From: Vide Infra <CEARLEY_K@WIZARD.COLORADO.EDU>
>Subject: Vtam Based Email Systems
>
>This may be an inappropriate topic for this list, if so, please redirect
>me to a more appropriate forum.
>
>Does any know of, can recommend, etc. an email system that runs as a
>native vtam application on MVS/ESA. What we are trying to avoid is an
>application developed under CICS, TSO, with the associated overhead.
>SNMP hooks would be nice but not mandatory.
>
>Legent's TPX offers one such facility, but it is fairly primitive.
>We require the ability to compose, send to one or multiple recipients,
>organize bulletin and bulletin boards for special interests, etc. I
>know most of this functionality is better suited to other platforms,
>but we've got a 'legacy base' (current buzzword) of 3270 users that
>need the same level of communication that we provide on other network
>environments. It would seem this application is best suited as
>part of a multi-session manager in vtam, but, what our limitted exposue
>has indicated, is that these are token efforts, based on transmitting
>screen-oriented data from one user to another. Ideas?
>
>                        -Kent Cearley
>                        -University of Colorado, Boulder

NET/MASTER from System Center Inc. has an optional mail system.  Its
main function is a session manager, but it has a very flexible internal
language which can handle a number of chores (timer commands, checking
application availability and sending notification of outages,application
scripting,control of signon screen before being passed to other
applications like CICS or TSO ... etc)



Their address is:
1800 Alexander Bell Drive
Reston, Virginia 22091
1-800-268-9279 or 703-264-8100

Ken Sears
Dalhousie University
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Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-nets
Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 12:51:16 MEZ
From:         Erwin Halpern <NODADMIN@AWIUNI11.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: ETHERNET interface card for IBM 3720

On Tue, 28 Jul 1992 15:15:00 EST Xavier Salmon said:
>Is there an Ethernet interface card for IBM 3720 remote communications
>controller?.  My problem is how to connect an IBM 4341 mainframe to
>an Ethernet backbone, if possible through the IBM 3720.
>
As far as I know only the 3745 supports an Ethernet interface.
Ethernet Lan Adapter (ELA), Feature #4781.

To connect a 4341 you may use a 3172 (channel attached) with Feature #2220
(Ethernet Adapter) and you need the Program 5735-FAL (TCP/IP for VM) or
the program 5685-061 (TCP/IP for MVS).

Erwin Halpern


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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 21:59:04 KST
From:         Bob Barnard <eanc-ra@TAEGU-EMH1.ARMY.MIL>
Subject:      In-Reply-To: Re: Thin Ethernet --> 10Base-T
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Please unsub me.......
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