HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: R.KITTREDGE@MD-B.Prime.COM (Roland Kittredge - Marketing 508-620-2800 x4666)
Subject: Prime/VMARK Announced Alliance
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 12:37:08 GMT

PrimeService Business Unit
Computervision Corporation
500 Old Connecticut Path
Framingham, MA 01701

                                        October 13, 1992

Dear Valued Customer:

PrimeService, the service business unit of Computervision Corporation,
has expanded its product and service offerings for the open system
environment which will include the continuing sales of the 50 Series
and PRIME EXL product lines and related software products.

PrimeService, in conjunction with VMARK Software Inc., recently
announced VMARK's purchase of the PI/open software. Under the
agreement, PI/open will be sold by both companies. We will provide
worldwide support for PI/open and VMARK will provide engineering
development of the products. Additionally, we will resell VMARK's
uniVerse products. PrimeService will be VMARK's exclusive worldwide
support provider for PI/open, uniVerse and all other VMARK products.

PI/open software is object-code compatible with Prime INFORMATION, and
provides an alternative without conversion or re-compilation, to our
Prime INFORMATION customers who may be interested in a future
migration path to UNIX-based systems. These systems, such as Sun,
PRIME EXL7000, MIPS, and Hewlett-Packard, are available through
PrimeServices's expanded product and service offerings.

For our Prime INFORMATION customers on 50 Series systems, PrimeService
will continue to develop, sell and service Prime INFORMATION. Our
software engineers and support personnel will continue with
enhancements, bug fixes and support just as we have provided in the
past. Prime INFORMATION and any related software packages on the 50
Series may be purchased by contacting your local PrimeService sales
representative or through Telemarketing at 800-827-7463.

Our 50 Series customers may continue using Prime INFORMATION with the
confidence that product support is unaffected. Moreover, if you wish
to expand your use of the product to UNIX-based systems or migrate to
UNIX-based systems in the future, there is also a migration path. If
you have questions on Prime INFORMATION or PI/open, please contact
your local sales office.

We at PrimeService value you as a customer. Our alliance with VMARK
will provide a broader range of options to help you protect your
computing environments. Thank you for your business; we appreciate
your support and look forward to continuing to provide you with the
products and services to make your organization successful.

Sincerely,

/s/ Jason Silvia

Jason Silvia
Vice President Sales - Service Business Unit
Computervision Corporation
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: gml4410@ggr.co.uk (Lack Mr G M)
Subject: Re: TCP/IP Upgrade problems.
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 13:36:53 GMT

> Perhaps a more concise questions are:
> 
> 1) Are there any changes to be made in the config files when
>    upgrading from TCP/IP Revision 2.3.xx to Revision 2.4.xx?

     I didn't make any.

     INIT_DNS_CACHE.RUN      is      a     new     command     replacing
TCP/IP_INIT_HOSTS.RUN, which should be deleted, but I can't  see  either
of  these  causing  a problem as they aren't actually used in the normal
course of events.  

> 2) Does TCP/IP Revision 2.4.xx require:
>    a) any special revision of the LHC download files?

     Well,  DOWN_LINE_LOAD*  files  come  with  it, so I expect it needs
*those*.  (The 2.4 version is under a different project name to the  2.3
one.  2.4 is EIG_001.DL - use DLINFO to check). 

>    b) any special revision of the network management server software, etc.?

     Again, it comes with its own version of some files in NETWORK_MGT*,
such as NMSR.RUN (and ICS3DLLTSR.RUN!!, though what ICS3 has got  to  do
with TCP/Ip is beyond me). 

>    c) any special revision of the microcode?
>    d) any special revision of the LHC hardware?

     Don't know, but doubt it.  I didn't change anything.

PS.   In  an  earlier  reply  I  said  that  I had 2 systems, on using a
specific GATEWAY entry, one using a generic 0.0.0.0 one. 
      I was wrong.  I only have a generic one (the specific one is still
at 2.3, so I can't comment on 2.4 + specific GATWAYs). 


-------------------------- Gordon Lack ----------------------------------
The contents of this message *may* reflect my personal opinion.  They are
*not* intended to reflect those of my employer, or anyone else."

Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: STEEN@DDS.Prime.COM (Steen Hansen)
Subject: Re: Changes on the 800-line?
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 20:48:16 GMT

I obviously owe the operator an apology, but maybe she should have told me
the new procedure (on the other hand I would be annoyed having to do that
a zillion times a day...). I got the letter with the new policy today, it
explains it fine.

It sounds like a good idea for most cases, though I would have to explain
the problem more than once. In my case I had a sheet clearly documenting a
bug in Information, and I just wanted to send it (fax or email) to the
proper person.

Hm, thought, maybe have an e-mail address where to send problem reports,
as an alternative for cases where one sheet tells the whole story? The
on-line entering of problem reports through SPT is not working well, I get
hung many times, and there is no ability to include a file to it.

Steen
From: Al@TURBO.Kean.EDU (Al Costanzo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
Subject: Anonymous FTP of Prime files
Date: 15 Oct 92 02:55:05 GMT
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Organization: Kean College of New Jersey

Kean College now allows anonymous FTP for those people with access to this
functionality. Some of what is available from Service is contained in
the anonymous FTP area but not all.

There is a great deal of pc programs. Windows 3.x programs are currently
the biggest item with GIFs a second.

To login use the user id: anonymous and password: guest

-al
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: gml4410@ggr.co.uk (Lack Mr G M)
Subject: Re: ED
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 16:15:23 GMT


> You may want to try GNU Emacs.
> Jim

     Or  even  MicroEmacs,  which  we  have running on Primos, DOS, unix
(various) and VMS. 

-------------------------- Gordon Lack ----------------------------------
The contents of this message *may* reflect my personal opinion.  They are
*not* intended to reflect those of my employer, or anyone else."

Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: Ted@CESCC.Bridgewater.EDU (Ted W. Flory)
Subject: Re: ED
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 13:12:17 GMT

In message of 14 Oct 92 14:44:31 GMT, Mark Stobbs said:
>Does anyone know if the Prime editor (ed) has been ported to Unix? Better
>still, has the Sheffield editor been ported to Unix?

You might try contacting Peter Mason at Sheffield.  It's been two years
since I contacted him via email, but at that time his address was:

             Peter Mason <CS1PM@PRIMEA.SHEFFIELD.AC.UK>


I would be interested to know what you find out.  We use the Sheffield
editor almost exclusively.  I imagine that there would be considerable
interest in a Unix version.

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Ted Flory                              Phone: (703) 828-2501
Director of the Computing Center       FAX:   (703) 828-2160
Bridgewater College                    Email: Ted@CESCC.Bridgewater.Edu
Bridgewater, Virginia 22812, USA
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: Toni@Blx-S.Prime.COM (Toni van de Wiel)
Subject: Re: Counting calls to BREAK$
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Organization: PrimeService, De Meern, The Netherlands
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 18:54:40 GMT

The following posting did not make it to most Info-Prime recipients
due to an error in one of the header-lines.
Apologies to those who now receive it twice.

++Toni;  [Info-Prime list admin]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   Toni van de Wiel, System Support Analyst, PrimeService, The Netherlands
  phone: +31 3406 95597   fax: +31 3406 63868    mail: Toni@Blx-S.Prime.COM
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

--- Original message :

Subject: Re: Counting calls to BREAK$
To:   Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
From: Duncan Roe <DUNC@CBRPN1.Prime.COM>  <DUNC@CBRDM2.Prime.COM>
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 16:04:04 +1000
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM

On 07 Oct 92 20:46:26 EDT, MARK@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu wrote:
>
> Can anyone tell me of a way to get the number of times the
> BREAK$ subroutine has been called by a user?

The following UNdocumented UNsupported &c &c facility has worked since
at least Rev 20 (when I first used it:-)

        INTEGER BRKCNT     /* That's I*2 for F77 fans
 C
 C     Get break count via undocumented args to BREAK$...
 C
       CALL BREAK$(2,BRKCNT)

<247 lines of the Language of Choice later...>

 C
 C     Restore break count...
 C
 1044  CALL BREAK$(4,BRKCNT)

-Duncan

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Disclaimer: Nothing of the above reflects official statements of Prime
Computer Inc., nor of Prime Computer of Australia, nor the author's...
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: tabo@hitech.com (Tony Abo)
Subject: problems with dns
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 23:47:41 GMT


You write:


   > 
   > Prime TCP/IP comes with a useful debugging tool called DIG (found at
   > TCP/IP*>RUN>DIG.RUN).
   > 
   > I am having some DNS problems on my MIPS.  Is there a UNIX version of
   > DIG, or any equivalent tool?
   > 
   > Thanks in advance for your help.
   > 

   Tony,

   Have you setup the /etc/resolv.conf file the tells DNS how to resolve names?
   I am asking because when we setup our DNS on the MIPS box, all references
   to setting up the resolv.conf file have been omitted from the documentation.

   If you have not set it up and need a copy of the man page, let me know.


   Cheers!

Actually, my problem wasn't in getting DNS working, but with a
specific remote server which seemed to stop providing service once in
a while.  On the MIPS, although my resolv.conf listed two nameservers,
when the first one failed, the name lookup would fail as well.

resolv.conf as follows:

domain hitech.com
nameserver 38.146.21.2
nameserver 38.145.250.2

and after considerable time and headache discovered and set up
vis.conf as follows: 

host: files dns

(This had to be present to have anything but /etc/hosts used for lookups.)

I have since resolved the problem with the troubled nameserver,
however I still don't know why the second server in resolv.conf wasn't
tried when the first one failed.  The manual page seems pretty clear
about this.

Any ideas?

Thanks again.

------------------------------------------------------------

Tony Abo
Hitech Systems, Inc.
1964 Westwood Blvd. # 435
Los Angeles, CA 90025

Internet: tabo@hitech.com
Voice:    (310) 475 3210
Fax:      (310) 474 0655

This is may clever little saying at the end of my mail messages
because everyone else seems to have one.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: tabo@hitech.com (Tony Abo)
Subject: DIG command
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 23:25:20 GMT


You write:

   > I am having some DNS problems on my MIPS.  Is there a UNIX version of
   > DIG, or any equivalent tool?

      You want to try ping. It is in /etc/ping. There is a man page entry for
   it. It has more functionality than dig. 


The DIG tool allows a specific domain name server to be querried for
various types of information contained about a specific name.  My ping
seems only to be able to echo ICMP packets to a specified host.  Am I
missing something?

------------------------------------------------------------

Tony Abo
Hitech Systems, Inc.
1964 Westwood Blvd. # 435
Los Angeles, CA 90025

Internet: tabo@hitech.com
Voice:    (310) 475 3210
Fax:      (310) 474 0655

This is may clever little saying at the end of my mail messages
because everyone else seems to have one.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: TOWN.CRIER@md-b.prime.com
Subject: (none)
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 11:57:24 GMT

 PRM -    Computergram International (CGIN)                    STORY 6

VMARK COMPLETES PURCHASE OF COMPUTERVISION's PI/OPEN
10/07/92
   VMark Software Inc, Framingham, Massachusetts, has now firmed up
its agreement to buy the Pick-derived, Unix-based PI/open (formally
Prime Information) database management and application development
software from Computervision Corp. The agreement also establishes a
strategic alliance whereby Computervision will resell VMark products,
including PI/open, and its Service Business Unit will provide
worldwide support for PI/open and VMark's uniVerse Pick-under-Unix.
Terms were not disclosed. PI/open provides a migration path for Prime
Information users to move their applications to IBM Corp,
Hewlett-Packard Co and Sun Microsystems Inc Unix systems without
conversion.
   COPYRIGHT 1992 by Apt Data Services Ltd.
PRM -    Computergram International (CGIN)                    STORY 7

Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: deh@rocket.com (Dale E. Higgs)
Subject: Re: Counting calls to BREAK$
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Organization: Rocket Research Company, Redmond WA
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 16:44:05 GMT


>From within Information:

CALL !PTERM('-BREAK COUNT')
COUNTER = STATUS()

Bis Spater..
Dale
-- 
 ____________________________________________________________________________
| Dale E. Higgs                 Just my opinion, nothing more.              |
| Programmer/Analyst                                                        |
| Olin Rocket Research Company                              deh@rocket.com  |
| Redmond, WA                                               !uupsi!rrc!deh  |

Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: Ted@CESCC.Bridgewater.EDU (Ted W. Flory)
Subject: Supplies for the Ricoh 4080 laser printer
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Organization: Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA 22812, USA
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 21:34:56 GMT

All four of our Ricoh 4080 laser printers died within the last year.
We have a small quantity of remaining supplies for these printers.


      Qty   Model #   Desc                       Purch $ (each)
       10   5397-26   Toner kit 80/150             50.00
        6   5397-36   OPC kit 80                  165.00


These supplies were purchased in July and December of 1991 and are unopened.
If anyone is interested in purchasing these supplies from us, please contact
me.  Any offer would be welcomed!

Ted Flory
Bridgewater College
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: ccai!grover@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (grover davidson)
Subject: problems with dns
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 11:56:25 GMT

> 
> 
> Prime TCP/IP comes with a useful debugging tool called DIG (found at
> TCP/IP*>RUN>DIG.RUN).
> 
> I am having some DNS problems on my MIPS.  Is there a UNIX version of
> DIG, or any equivalent tool?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 

Tony,

Have you setup the /etc/resolv.conf file the tells DNS how to resolve names?
I am asking because when we setup our DNS on the MIPS box, all references
to setting up the resolv.conf file have been omitted from the documentation.

If you have not set it up and need a copy of the man page, let me know.


Cheers!

grover
-- 
Grover Davidson II               | The opinions expressed here are solely mine
Conley, Canitano, & Assoc., Inc. | and in no way reflect any opinions or 
voice: 216-831-6240              | policies of my employer, even if they may
internet: grover@ccai.clv.oh.us  | agree with them, and especially if they
or grover@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu | don't agree with them.
From: aew@spitfire.unh.edu (Allan E. Wright Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
Subject: Re: DIG command
Date: 13 Oct 92 12:33:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: spitfire.9210131233.AA03200
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM


In article <9210122325.AA00977@hitech.com>, you write:
> 
> You write:
> 
>    > I am having some DNS problems on my MIPS.  Is there a UNIX version of
>    > DIG, or any equivalent tool?
> 
>       You want to try ping. It is in /etc/ping. There is a man page entry for
>    it. It has more functionality than dig. 
> 
> 
> The DIG tool allows a specific domain name server to be querried for
> various types of information contained about a specific name.  My ping
> seems only to be able to echo ICMP packets to a specified host.  Am I
> missing something?
> 
   Tony,

   Sorry, I blew it - nslookup and ping together should do it - also try to 
get traceroute - an excellent debugging tool.

-Allan

> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Tony Abo
> Hitech Systems, Inc.
> 1964 Westwood Blvd. # 435
> Los Angeles, CA 90025
> 
> Internet: tabo@hitech.com
> Voice:    (310) 475 3210
> Fax:      (310) 474 0655
> 
> This is may clever little saying at the end of my mail messages
> because everyone else seems to have one.

-- 
===============================================================================
Allan Wright Jr.            | Pole-Vaulters Get a Natural High!  | GO Celts!
University of New Hampshire +--------------------------------------------------
Research Computing Center   | You keep using that word. I do not think it means
Internet: AEW@UNH.EDU       | what you think it means. -The Princess Bride
===============================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: YODERS@Prime.Wittenberg.EDU (Kevin Yoders)
Subject: Re: File Compression for Prime and Ultrix BSD4.2 ?? POSSIBLE ???
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 17:11:08 GMT

Dan,

    Once again, Computronics to the rescue (I think).  They offer a
product that produces ZIP-compatible archives that can be moved
between systems that have a ZIP-like utility (the literature
indicates that there is a version for UNIX, though no specifics).

Computronics
4N165 Wood Dale Road
Addison, IL 60101 USA
(708) 941-7767

Kevin Yoders
Wittenberg University

PS.  I am not affiliated with Computronics in any way, nor is this
an endorsement of any product(s) by myself or my employer.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: gml4410@ggr.co.uk (Lack Mr G M)
Subject: Just a test - please ignore
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 10:24:40 GMT

     Just to see whether it gets there - having relay problems.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: GOLDSTEIN@CSSS-A.Prime.COM
Subject: ISAM files under Primos
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 15:38:07 GMT

To:       Info-Prime mail list (info-prime@blx-a)
Cc:       (kjelld@lmv.lm.se) Kjell Degerstedt
From:     D. Miles Goldstein (Goldstein@Csss-A)
Date:     12 Oct 92  11:34 AM
Subject:  ISAM files under Primos

Kjell Degerstedt writes:
> We are trying to build a very large database under Primos.
> For reasons that I cannot explain here, we are using ISAM-files,
> that is MIDAS+ files. Now some of these files have become so large
> that they don't fit into one directory.
>
> My question is therfore:
>
> Is there a possibility in Primos to have a (MIDAS) file that is
> bigger than one logical disk ? Or is there any other ISAM-system
> under Primos that can handle this situation ? What about FAST+?

Kjell -

Have you looked into PRISAM?  It is fancier than MIDAS+, and
allows multipartition files.  (In case of flames, please see
Prisam User's Guide Rev 21.0 starting on page 3-8.)  I got
this info from a friend, and have not looked deeper into it ...

- Miles
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: DUNC@CBRDM2.Prime.COM (Duncan Roe)
Subject: Re: Counting calls to BREAK$
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 06:04:04 GMT

On 07 Oct 92 20:46:26 EDT, MARK@acspr1.acs.brockport.edu wrote:
>
> Can anyone tell me of a way to get the number of times the
> BREAK$ subroutine has been called by a user?

The following UNdocumented UNsupported &c &c facility has worked since
at least Rev 20 (when I first used it:-)

        INTEGER BRKCNT     /* That's I*2 for F77 fans
 C
 C     Get break count via undocumented args to BREAK$...
 C
       CALL BREAK$(2,BRKCNT)

<247 lines of the Language of Choice later...>

 C
 C     Restore break count...
 C
 1044  CALL BREAK$(4,BRKCNT)

-Duncan

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Disclaimer: Nothing of the above reflects official statements of Prime
Computer Inc., nor of Prime Computer of Australia, nor the author's...
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: dsevans@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Daniel S Evans)
Subject: File Compression for Prime and Ultrix BSD4.2 ?? POSSIBLE ???
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 13:30:56 GMT

Is it possible to compress files on the prime and extract them on
the ulrix box ??? (transfer with ftp).  Are there similar
algorithms ???

Thanks

Dan
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From: J.Cook@ENS.Prime.COM (Jim Cook)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
Subject: Re: ISAM files under Primos
Date: 16 Oct 92 18:12:55 GMT
Reply-To: <J.Cook@ENS.Prime.COM>
Organization: Prime Computer, Inc.

In article <1992Oct7.175510.26400@lmv.lm.se> kjelld@lmv.lm.se (Kjell
Degerstedt) writes:
>Hello Prime collegues !
>
>I have been working with Prime since 1975. We were in fact the
>first to buy a Prime (300) in Sweden. We have rather happy
>except for the latest years....

>But in the latest years we have come up with a enoying problem
>which unfortunately has to be solved under Primos for the time
>being.
>
>
>We are trying to build a very large database under Primos. 
>For reasons that I cannot explain here, we are using ISAM-files,
>that is MIDAS+ files. Now some of these files have become so large 
>that they don't fit into one directory.
>

I'm confused.  Are you saying that the MIDAS+ file overflows one disk drive
or overflows one directory or overflows the one Midasfile?

These are three different questions.

Trying to help,
Jim
Newsgroups: comp.sys.prime
From: ccsmcs@cd4380.ufh.ac.za (Mark Stobbs)
Subject: Editor and Black Box
Reply-To: Info-Prime@Blx-A.Prime.COM
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 12:58:07 GMT


> 
> I am interested too in a Sheffield Editor for Unix (SCO). I do support your
> statement about SHED en vi.
> 
> Y. S.
> 
> RTS
> 
Hi all

I got a reply from David Mason of sheffield University - their editor has not 
been ported to Unix. They need a decent Pascal editor to do the job.

What I need is an editor that will enable us to work easily on columns of data
within a file.

My earlier posting regards connecting a Data Products printer to a serial port
via a Black Box converter has been resolved. THE DOCUMENTATION THAT CAME WITH
THE black box EQUIPMENT WAS WRONG!!!!!


Many thanks to all that replied to my posts.

Regards

-- 
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               |  Mark Stobbs    ccsmcs@cd4380.ufh.ac.za |
               |          Computer Centre                |
               |  University of Fort Hare, South Africa  | 
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