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From: bruce@ais.com (Bruce C. Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Support for languages other than English
Date: 24 Dec 92 10:08:41 GMT
Organization: Applied Information Systems, Chapel Hill, NC

In article <1992Dec22.181718.24@condor>, blacka@logica.co.uk writes:
> To what extent does VMS handle languages other than English.
> If you are logged on to a VAX in (say) France which messages
> come out in English and which in French.  For example, does 
>   $ DIR NON-EXISTANT-FILE 
> produce 
>   %DIRECT-W-NOFILES, no files found
> in English or French
> 
> To what degree do other DEC products handle multilingual
> operation.

My impression is that usually the message files (which contain the
messages like "%DIRECT-W-NOFILES, no files found") and text/help
files are translated, but that often text embedded in the program
is not.  This leads to a somewhat schizofrenic environment, although
VMS translated into some European languages would not be too bad
because of the cognates.  (Many of the untranslated text strings are
things like the word "Directory" in a directory listing).  Chinese
VMS is hilarious however;  it gives the impression of being half in
English and half in Chinese :).  You do need a special terminal that
can display Chinese characters to be able to use it very well.

It would be possible to customize VMS so that the message files and
text/help files could be put in separate directories and have logical
name searchlists so that each user could see them in his or her native
language, but I don't think DEC supports this in the general case;
my impression is that the standard configurations allow you to set up
a per-user environment that is English-OR-Chinese or English-OR-French
or whatever, but not English-OR-French-OR-Chinese (in other words,
pick English and any other single language).  This may be out of date;
you should contact DEC if you want to have a version of VMS with
support for multiple languages, it's possible that it's supported now.

If you want information on a particular national version of VMS, you
should probably contact the DEC office in the appropriate country
(France in your example). 

Bruce C. Wright
From: dragon@NSCVAX.PRINCETON.EDU (Mighty Firebreather)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: TT_AccPorNam field remains null on a SHOW USERS output ?
Date: 29 Dec 92 15:04:38 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


	Ehud Gavron <gavron@vesta.sunquest.com> writes:
>
>In article <1992Dec27.233720.1@woods.ulowell.edu>, sabotkap@woods.ulowell.edu writes...

	<much stuff omitted>

>  SET TERM/INQ
>in SYLOGIN is a reason for you to be shot, by the way...
>

	Ehud,

	I know that SET TERM /INQ can cause problems in some circumstances,
most notably under DECWindows but this reaction seems a little extreme.

	I have the following in my SYS$SYLOGIN:

$	IF F$MODE() .NES. "INTERACTIVE" THEN GOTO DEFINE
$! We know what's connected to the TX ports.  If terminal is not on one of 
$! the multiplexers, find out what it is.
$!
$	IF F$EXTRACT(1, 2, F$GETDVI("TT", "DEVNAM")) .EQS. "TX" THEN GOTO 10$
$	SET TERMINAL /INQUIRE
$10$:
$! If the login is via a modem, we need to ask what it is anyway.
$!
$	IF F$GETDVI("TT", "TT_MODEM") THEN $ SET TERMINAL /INQUIRE

	Given that a number of important utilities like to know what sort 
of terminal they are talking to and that, in many cases; e.g. terminal 
servers, you don't know unless you ask, why should one not use SET 
TERMINAL /INQUIRE?


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*                                                                       *
*                        Here, there be dragons!                        *
*                      dragon@nscvax.princeton.edu                      *
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*                                                Richard B. Gilbert     *
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From: DAHMS@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de (Heribert Dahms)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Help with PATHWORKS and Novell work on my PC
Date: 21 Dec 1992 13:30:45 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG (Dept. of Mechanical Engineering)
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: ifk29.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20

In <AAD6TChyM6@nienschanz.spb.su> valera@nienschanz.spb.su writes:

:         I have some problems when using ODINSUP with DEC PathWorks.
: I have D-Link DE-200 card with irq=5 and IO=300. When I use PathWorks
: with the following PROTOCOL.INI file and original NDIS driver for
: DE-200 all works fine.
[...]
:         But when I try to use PathWorks with original ODI
: driver and ODINSUP I always recive an error.
[...]
:         My STARTNET.BAT file which starts PathWorks
: in both cases looks like this:
: 
: @echo off
: decnet\netenvi 145 48
: set PCSA=\DECNET
: set DECNET=\DECNET
: dllndis
: netbind
: save
: schk /H
  ^^^^ Shouldn't that be:
  sch /H

: dnneth.exe /rem:2
: redir5.exe /L:10 /P1:128 /P2:128 /P3:128 /himem:yes
: setname WS386
: use D: \\MVX1\PCSAV41
: 
:         The error message that I recieve is generated by scheduler module
: (schk) and looks like this:
: Error:    Wrong Hardware Vector.  Set NI_IRQ in PROTOCOL.INI to
:           Interrupt Vector For Network Adapter.
[...]
When trying to install DLLNDIS on our 3C507 cards together with
a TCP/IP packet driver we have got a different error but I don't remember.
The DEC support at Munich said there is a undocumented switch
  sch /N
which solved our problems.
That's all I can say because I don't know ODINSUP.


Bye, Heribert (dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de)
From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: long, long, really long DCL commands
Date: 28 Dec 1992 23:52:37 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 <1992Dec28.125931.1@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu>, fairfield@slacvx.slac.stanford.edu writes:
>    DCL will accept ONLY 256 characters maximum on the command line,
>whether that line is continued on multiple, shorter lines in the input
>stream (terminal screen, command file) or not.

Sorry, Ken, you're flat-out wrong, at least under VMS v5.4-2:
$ X:=
$ X[0,16]=%x0A0D
$ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT -
"************************************************************************",X,-
"************************************************************************",X,-
"************************************************************************",X,-
"************************************************************************",X,-
"************************************************************************",X,-
"************************************************************************",X,-
"************************************************************************",X,-
"************************************************************************",X,-
"************************************************************************",X,-
"************************************************************************",X,-
"************************************************************************",X,-
"************************************************************************",X,-
"**********************************************"

works just fine.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: mikes@Ingres.COM (Mike Schilling)
Subject: Re: SHOW/UNIBUS (was: What is XPDRIVER for?
Date: 4 Jan 93 02:32:01 GMT

From article <1i6e3uINNrct@gap.caltech.edu>, by carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick):
> In article <1992Dec30.100239.1043@cmkrnl.com>, jeh@cmkrnl.com writes:
>>> Using this command can crash your system.  
>>
>>Calling all readers:  Has ANYONE out there ever seen this actually happen?  
>>If so, what devices were on the bus?
> 
> I've had it happen ONCE.  On a VAXstation-II, running VWS.  Of course, even
> looking at that system cross-eyed seemed likely to crash it.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yeah, I could crash a system like that reliably (so to speak) with the BACKUP
command, if the target was MUA0: (a TK50).  I have seen serial interfaces
lose characters from SHOW/UNIBUS, but never a crash (hmm, 
SHOW/UNIBUS/OUTPUT=MUA0 might do it :-) )
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
mikes@ingres.com = Mike Schilling, INGRES, An ASK Group Company, Alameda, CA
Just machines that make big decisions,
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision.	-- Donald Fagen, "IGY"
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss)
Subject: Re: Gak groking (was Flames and Such)
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 07:16:05 GMT

In article <00966079.a6581c60.17022@elros.stg.trw.com> powers@ELROS.STG.TRW.COM writes:
>A post on the subject of Flaming and Such asserts:
>
>>	trap 's=$?; rm -f /tmp/gak.$$; exit $s' 0
>>	grep \^Subject: * | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' | \
>>	sed -e 's/[0-9]*:subject:[      ]*//' -e 's/^re:[     ]*//' \
>>		-e 's/^re:[     ]*//' | sort > /tmp/gak.$$
>>	awk -f - /tmp/gak.$$ <<"Grok!This" | sort -n
>>	BEGIN {f=1;c=0} {if (f) {f=0;c=1;l=$0} else {if ($0 == l) {c++;} else {
>>	printf "%3d %s\n",c,l;c=1;l=$0}}} END {if (c) {printf "%3d %s\n",c,l;}}
>>	Grok!This
>
>Grok?  Grok!  With a gak too???  Groking a gak??????  In public?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
>

Gee, Whats happened to higher education these days.  We live in a Nintendo
world with pac-man programers. Don't they teach TECO any more!



-- 
Jerry S. Weiss	  "If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the antimatter!"
j-weiss@nwu.edu    Dept. Medicine, Northwestern Univ. Medical School
From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Because I don't subscribe...
Date: 25 Dec 92 23:24:19 GMT
Organization: Enea Data AB

Dillon Pyron (pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com) writes:
>The question I hate is "I don't subscribe to this group, so E-Mail answers."
>If a newsgroup (any group) is important enough to you to answer heavy
>questions, you should be scanning it daily.  IMHO.

I have to disagree here. It has happened that I have posted
questions to groups I do not read, and I think this is valid
behaviour. After all, if you have an occassional VMS question,
but does normally work with VMS, why should you subscribe?

However, in such cases, it is good ettiquette that you summarize 
the responses you get, as other people might be interested as well.

Granted, if you are making it a habit, you should definitely sub-
scribe. Of course, you can subscribe for the time your question is
out - and if you want to make sure that you don't miss anything,
you'd better do. But as we all know, comp.os.vms has quite some
traffic and not easily scanned. And if you don't have access to
news, but have to choose the mailing-list, I can definitely under-
stand that you think twice before you subscribe.
-- 
Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
Jag gav en k{ck tjeck en check.
From: scher@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Ellen Scher)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: How do I use more memory?
Date: 23 Dec 92 22:20:23 GMT
Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

I've recently acquired a VAXstation with 80 Mbytes of physical memory, 
and I would like to use the memory almost exclusively to run really
big (large arrays) scientific computational code. I'm more than willing 
to sacrifice other management concerns.  

Unfortunately, my limited knowledge of VMS os management has prevented  me from
taking full advatage of the memory; whenever I run large executables the CPU
spends about half its time in kernel mode, and the system also page faults an
extraordinary amount considering there appears to be plenty of free  memory as
indicated by $show mem.  I'd like my code to use all the memory available 
without resorting to faulting.

Currently I've set:
     MIN_WSMAX=119531
     MIN_WSINC=1000
and boosted up my user authorizations to:
   WSdef:          150     
   WSquo:       163840    
   WSextent:    163840
   Pgflquo:     163840

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Marc Kessler                                        Assertion
Dept. Environmental Sciences and Engineering           of 
UNC-Chapel Hill                                   Individuality
phone # (919)966-3932                             
E-mail kessler@halley.sph.unc.edu
From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Disable proxies with LPD under UCX 2.0
Date: 22 Dec 92 00:28:56 GMT
Organization: St. Peter's College, US

In article <9212211106.AA12410@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, gloesener@ISTVAX.IST.LU writes:
> I've installed UCX 2.0 last week and tried the LPD for use with a SUN station.
> Every time when the SUN wants to print UCX complains about a missing proxy
> for the user which want to print. Now I want to setup LPD to be accessible
> for any user on that machine. I've tried to eliminate the PROXY flag from
> the service with 'SET SERVICE LPD/FLAGS=NOPROXY' after enabling the LPD,
> the flag had disappeared but it is still complaining about missing proxies.
> Can anybody help me here ?

  If you get the patch kit from the CSC, there is a new "generic proxy"
facility that should do what you want.

	Terry Kennedy		Operations Manager, Academic Computing
	terry@spcvxa.bitnet	St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
	terry@spcvxa.spc.edu	+1 201 915 9381
Xref: sparky comp.os.vms:20178 comp.sys.dec:6663
From: gezelter@rlgsc.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: DEClaser 1152 attached to Sparcstation?
Date: 31 Dec 92 15:07:42 GMT
Organization: Robert Gezelter Software Consultant, Flushing, NY

In article <1992Dec30.163111.19887@icf.hrb.com>, gwi@icf.hrb.com (Gregory W. Isett) writes:
> We recently purchased a DEClaser 1152 PostScript printer.  We're trying to
> hook it up to a Sun Sparcstation via a serial connection.  When we send a file
> to it, the display on the printer says "Processing", but no output is produced.
> 
> DEC only supports it under Ultrix.  They use and proprietary input and output
> filter to lpr to make it work (which they will probably sell to use for many
> $$)
> 
> Has anyone gottten this to work under SunOS?
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Greg Isett				Internet: gwi@icf.hrb.com
> HRB Systems				FAX	: (814)234-7720
> 300 Science Park Road			Voice	: (814)238-4311
> State College, Pa. USA 16804-0060
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
-- 
Greg,
 
I have been though this king of problem many times with different 
printers and systems. To find out what is causing the problem, 
start by loading an exception handler into your PostScript 
printer. Then (hopefully) the error which is causing the printer 
to have a problem will be signaled by a page being printed. Then 
you are in a better position to track and eliminate the problem.
 
I hope that the above information is of use. If I have been 
unclear, or if I can be of further assistance, please feel free 
to contact me via Email or phone.
 
- Bob
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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: bbs-comarow@jwt.UUCP (Bob Comarow)
Subject: RE: Stingray - experiences
Reply-To: bbs-comarow@jwt.UUCP
Organization: The Matrix
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 13:52:09 GMT

The benefits of the Stingray don't seem too significant
in light of the HSC65 and HSC95 - in that they support
cheap scsi drives.

Comarow@eisner.decus.org
From: SYSTEM@XAVIER.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: VAX 7610 experience & questions
Date: 22 Dec 92 16:58:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Dear netters,

We've tentatively decided to get a 256 meg 7610 for administrative work
and are looking for input from any of you on your experiences with it
and what to watch out for, as well as answers to a few questions:

We understand the machine comes completely ready for use as an Alpha
processor except that the cpu board is a 35 VUP VAX, and we can put it
into our CI Cluster. The board can be swapped later for an alpha board.

Questions:

1. We operate 2 DMB32's and a KLESI in the BIbus on a 6230 (the machine that
   the 7610 is to replace). The DMB32 parallel ports drive 2 LP37 1200lpm
   impact printers.
   The KLESI drives my TU81 and my AVIV 8mm tape cartridge unit.

   But DEC says you cannot have a BIbus on a 7610. They say would be
   'timing problems' and it would 'drag down the 7610 speed'.
   Given that as true, how to run my TU81/AVIV 8mm and my parallel-driven LP37
   printers ???

   The only solution we've come across on the printers is to connect the
   DEMNA Ethernet card on the 7610 to a DecBridge 90 and come off 1 side of
   the bridge to a DecServer 250 and off its 2 parallel ports to the 2 LP37's.
   Connect the other side of the bridge to an existing DELNI.

   I really want to keep the simplicity of running the printers as I do now
   but I guess that's not possible.

   On the tape, the only solution so far is to swap the TU81 for a TA81
   and run it off an HSC5X-CA card in the HSC70, and swap the KLESI-driven
   AVIV for an HSC or KDM70 or KFMSA driven model.
   (We have a 3 node CI Cluster.)

2. Any glitches to watch out for in the VMS 5.5.2 and 7610 combo ?

3. Any thing to watch for during the vms upgrade from 5.4 to 5.5 ?
   (CSC says the 7610 will only run under VMS 5.5.2)

Thanks much for any info you can give me.

My return address is probably not replyable (getting PMDF soon), so please
send answers to my address shown below.

Carl Dickhaus, VMS System Mgr.,XAVIER UNIV. SYSTEM@XAVIER.BITNET

Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Connection rejected by remote host
Date: 23 Dec 1992 00:25:41 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 <1992Dec22.114724.37@elmrd6.ineab.ikea.se>, anos@elmrd6.ineab.ikea.se writes:
>Broadcast to all network gurus ;
>
>I have a problem with RT-terminals (or lack of them ;-) on a system that
>previosly was used via LAT, but not any more. Since we moved it away from
>our LAT network we can't create enough logins
>
>	%SYSTEM-F-REJECT, connect to network object rejected
>
>I'm pretty sure that some system parameter (or possible PQL's for the
>REMACP on the remote node) is involved, but can't find what parameter
>to modify. Does anybody have a quick answer (or not so quick, but correct)?

You need to increase the SYSGEN parameter RJOBLIM.  Since it's a dynamic
parameter, you can:
	$ MCR SYSGEN
	SYSGEN>SET RJOBLIM new_value
	SYSGEN> WRITE ACTIVE
	SYSGEN> EXIT
if you want the change to survive the next reboot, you should also:
	$ MCR SYSGEN
	SYSGEN> USE CURRENT
	SYSGEN> SET RJOBLIM new_value
	SYSGEN> WRITE CURRENT
	SYSGEN> EXIT
If you want the change to survive the next invocation of AUTOGEN, you should
also make the change in SYS$SYSTEM:MODPARAMS.DAT
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: VAX c
Date: 30 Dec 1992 11:51:29 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 <9212290122.AA05517@hermann.barra.COM>, louis@BARRA.COM (Louis Dunne) writes:
>On Dec 26,  7:35am, Carl J Lydick wrote:
>>Actually, you don't have to go all the way to the FAB, just to the RAB.  And
>>the "unsupported and undocumented" function that DEC support was talking about
>>was almost certainly the one that returns the RAB associated with a file
>>descriptor.
>
>	1.	Does anyone know the function (undocumented or not) which will
>		return a RAB associated with a stream-id.

Sorry, my mistake.  I was confusing two different RTLs.  If you happened to be
using FORTRAN, the routine you'd want would be FOR$RAB.  There appears to be no
corresponding routine for the VAXC RTL.  Again, my apologies.

>	2.	The "unsupported and undocumented" function that DEC support
>		talked about was probably fsync(), which will force RMS to
>		flush it's buffers, for a given file *number*.

You're right.  fsync() is what you want to use under VAX C.  But don't forget
to fflush() first (and use fdopen() to get a file pointer for fflush() if
necessary).  If you've got a file pointer:
	fflush(fp);
	fsync(fileno(fp));
If you've got a file descriptor:
	fflush(fdopen(fd, "a"));
	fsync(fd);

For the third time, my abject apologies for the confusion I've caused.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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: DMILLER%BSU.DECNET@MSUS1.BITNET ("Prof. David Miller")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: What does the GOLD key do?
Date: 4 Jan 93 02:17:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


Paul Robinson -- TDARCOS@MCIMAIL.COM -- asks:

> Does anyone know what escape sequence is generated by the
> GOLD key on a DEC keyboard?  I'd like to add it to the
> VT100 emulation my PC software does.
 
Function key 1 generates "Escape O P" in both numeric and application modes.

If want a more complete list of VT100 escape sequences, MAIL a request to the
address below.

Dave.

DMILLER@VAX1.Bemidji.MSUS.EDU
Bemidji (Minn) State University