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From: gavron@spades.aces.com (Ehud Gavron 602-570-2000 x. 2546)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: SUBMIT help please.
Date: 12 Jan 93 00:56:00 GMT
Reply-To: gavron@ACES.COM
Organization: ACES Consulting Inc.
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1


	SHIT FOR BRAINS alert!


	SHIT FOR BRAINS ALERT!

	ALERT!  DANGER DANGER!


In article <1993Jan11.084533.1@hirama.hiram.edu>, williamsca@hirama.hiram.edu (Curtis Williams) writes...
#In article <1irjcdINNjcb@gap.caltech.edu>, carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes:
# 
#I have cut out all of the useless beratings of Carl.

	There weren't any useless beratings.

#Please post additional information so that those of us who are more patient can
#try to give assistance.

	The first moron	posted a question without any details and 
	Carl said so.  Then you, the second moron, attempt to have
	the balls to delete Carl's comments and ask for more details.
	Incredible.  Next time try to READ BEFORE DELETING, not after,
	then you'd be wise and look good, unlike your current posting.

	It's people like you that keep people like me highly paid.

#Curtis Williams, Programmer/Analyst        | "Work hard, rock hard, eat hard,
#Hiram College                              |  sleep hard, grow big, wear
#Hiram, OH 44234  USA                       |  glasses if you need 'em."

	OH, I see, I guess _ANYONE_ can be a programmer/analyst 
	in the middle of Ohio.

	Ehud

--
Ehud Gavron        (EG76)     
gavron@aces.com
From: mip@castle.ed.ac.uk (M I Parsons)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: EWS 1.1 Server problem
Date: 12 Jan 93 17:18:57 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

Hi,

I hope someone else has seen the following problem because I have
tried everything!

I have on my desk a colour VAXstation 2000 which I use as an X terminal
served off of a VAXstation 3100/GPX. Communication between the 2000 and
the 3100 is over DECnet. Recently it stopped working and I have been
unable to trace the problem.

On boot up the 2000 passes all checks and then loads the EWS software
correctly. It then displays it's EWS V1.1 initializing message and
the mouse cursor and default background appear and then SOMETIMES the
DECWindows login box appears. It generally disappears at this point -
this appearance/disappearance may occur several times before I am left
just the mouse cursor and the background. If I get as far as logging in
my windows etc disappear.

So - some quota is set incorrectly I hear you cry - I've checked and
increased all quotas against a working system (and used my head) for
both the EWS$SERVER accounts and the DECNET accounts. This has had no
effect.

The system this is part of is very large ~80 machines and I haven't
been able to correlate the appearance of this problem with any other
system changes - AUTOGEN is run regularly by the way.

Anyone else seen behaviour like this?

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.

Mark Parsons     Edinburgh HEP Group / Aleph Collaboration, CERN
--=ooOOoo=--     PARSONS@EDINBURGH.AC.UK or PARSONS@CERNVM.CERN.CH
From: ARTG@LAGUNA.EPCC.EDU (Art Gonzalez)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: UNDELETE Program
Date: 6 Jan 93 22:47:07 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Is there any UNDELETE program for VMS 5.4-2?  I searched ARCHIE for it 
but I couldn't find it.  

Thanks in advance.

<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
<>  Art Gonzalez               >< Phone #  : (915) 775-6141       <>
<>  Manager, Information Tech. >< BITNET   : ARTG@EPCC            <>
<>  432 Frederick              >< INTERNET : ARTG@LAGUNA.EPCC.EDU <>
<>  El Paso, Texas  79905      >< THENET   : EPCC::ARTG           <>
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<> Disclaimer: What I have said is my opinion and doesn't reflect <>
<>             the opinion of my employer or co-workers           <>
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From: gavron@spades.aces.com (Ehud Gavron 602-570-2000 x. 2546)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Date incorrect after reboot
Date: 7 Jan 93 21:46:00 GMT
Reply-To: gavron@ACES.COM
Organization: ACES Consulting Inc.
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1

In article <61050106@acf3.NYU.EDU>, tihor@acf3.NYU.EDU (Stephen Tihor) writes...
#(a) not everyone shutsdown their system betweeen jan1 and april 1.
#(b) SHUTDOWN only does a set time on the node being shutdown, in a cluster
#you want to do the set time on all nodes within the cluster before any 1
#is shutdown.

	B is irrelevant if these nodes use a common system disk and
	system image (SYS.EXE) which is where the data is stored.

	Ehud

--
Ehud Gavron        (EG76)     
gavron@vesta.sunquest.com
.  If I had heart failure right now, I couldn't be a more fortunate man!!
From: Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Long-awaited $IMGACT example follows
Date: Wed,  6 Jan 93 18:45:48 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world

Yesterday I wrote:

>"working example program I wrote that wraps a jacket around activation
>of bona fide VMS COPY."  I'm going to post it in two VMS_SHAREd parts
>immediately following this message, [...]

...whereupon I discovered that I couldn't successfully upload Part 1
from my VMS system to Portal, and got disconnected (modem carrier loss).
So now I'm going to try again, to post the two VMS_SHAREd parts of my
$IMGACT-the-real-COPY demo program, imaginatively named "TRYIT", immedi-
ately after THIS message.  I'm crossing my fingers, toes, and all other
paired body parts, and I suggest you do the same.  Here goes nothing!

>Chris Chiesa
>  Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com

   ^ yup, that's me...
From: XMBS_GH@KREDIT.nhh.no (Gunnar Helliesen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: BACKUP to DAT - ideal qualifiers?
Date: 11 Jan 93 21:13:53 GMT
Distribution: local,world
Organization: MBS Fjerndata AS, Bergen Norway
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

Hi!

We have just bought a new WangDAT 3200 4mm tape drive with data compression.
Any hints on what would be the best values for the different qualifiers to 
the BACKUP-command when writing to this drive? (when running "on-line" 
image-backups as well as Stand-Alone backups).

I'm especially thinking of the /BLOCK_SIZE=n qualifier. Also, will the 
qualifier /MEDIA_FORMAT=[NO]COMPACTION have any effect on this drive?

The drive supports the DDS-DC tape format and yields up to 8 GB of storage 
on 90 meter tapes.

Our setup: MicroVAX 3400 running VMS V5.5, approx. 2.4 GB of diskspace on 5 
drives connected via SCSI and DSSI.

The WangDAT is connected to our VAX via an Emulex UC08 SCSI-controller (ROM 
revision P). $ SHOW DEVICE/FULL MUB0: shows that VMS thinks the drive is a 
DEC TU81 drive.

Experiences, anyone?



Please reply via e-mail. Thanks!

-- Gunnar

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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: cmelaro@loyola.edu (Chris Melaro)
Subject: help on SET WATCH?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Loyola College in Maryland
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 23:35:00 GMT

Can anyone help me with the undocumented SET WATCH command?  I've used it in
the past but can't seem to remember all the paramaters now.

Thanks,
cmelaro@loyola.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: system@ubevx1.unibe.ch (Martin Egger)
Subject: Re: TN3270 emulation on a VAX
Reply-To: SYSTEM@ID.unibe.ch
Organization: University of Bern, Switzerland
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:07:01 GMT

In article <01GTE8HKP66A004FG7@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU>, DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU (Dan Wing) writes:
>Posted for a friend of mine ...
>
>A site needs TN3270 emulation to access an IBM system through dumb VTxxx 
>terminals.  The IBM system can be accessed using TCP/IP software on the VAX, 
>but due to the number of VTxxx terminals already installed, it would be 
>desirable to some software, on the VAX, emulate the TN3270 terminal and 
>display the output on a VTxxx terminal.
>
>Basically a "$ TELNET/TERMINAL=TN3270" sortof setup.  There are some TCP/IP
>packages for PCs which do this -- hoping there's something for the VAX.
>
>Anyone know of such a beast (DEC's SNA-3270 requires too much hardware)?
>
>-Dan Wing, dwing@uh01.colorado.edu or wing_d@ucolmcc.bitnet (DGW11)
> Systems Administrator, University Hospital, Denver

Process TCPware and Multinet offer a TN3270 emulation.


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  University of Bern, P.O. Box, Laenggassstrasse 51, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
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  HEPNET/SPAN: 20579::49202::egger, DECnet (Switzerland): 49202::egger 
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From: ZSUZSI@MEDCOR.MCGILL.CA (Zsuzsanna Bencsath-Makkai)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: MultiMedia development requirements questionnaire
Date: 5 Jan 93 04:31:48 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Hello and Greetings to All, especially those working on/with MultiMedia
applications. I mean the programs that contain video, animation, text,
diagrams, audio (or any combination of these) and are interactive.

I would like to compile a survey on multimedia development
issues: what equipment is a must, what could wait, what are the popular
choices, what are the limitations posed by equipment, software or other 
factor(s) to aid us in our decisions. 

Our application paradigm is a computer-based lecture-notes series for 
Medical School.

Would you kindly fill the following question sheet and add further items
you think relevant, as well as all the comments you could pass on to me.

I created a database and will load all the material into it to produce
all kinds of summary reports which I will gladly share with everyone on
the Net.

Thanks you.
------------------------------
MultiMedia Development issues.
------------------------------
A.  How long have you benn involved with MultiMedia application:

B.  Subject matter of your application:

C.  What do you use.  
I. Hardware
     1.  Computer model:
     2.  RAM:
     3.  Storage devices/capacity:
     4.  Graphics card:
     5.  VRAM:
     6.  Monitor type:
     7.  Video capture board:
     8.  Audio board:
     9.  SCSI interface (Y/N):
    10.  Video compression board:
   

II. Software
     11. Operating system/version:
     12. Frame grabber:
     13. Compression:
     14. Video edit tool:
     15. Video play tool:
     16. Animation tool:
     17. Authoring tool:
     18. Drawing tools:
     19. Programming language:
     20. Audio tool:

III. Developed application
     21. General category:
     22. Level of interactivity: 
           ALL = text+figure+animation+video+general control
     23. Application can run through network:

IV. Comments including additional issues I did not bring up in this Q'nnaire but
you think I should/could have done so.
-------------------------------------


-------------------------
Zsuzsanna Bencsath-Makkai
zsuzsi@medcor.mcgill.ca
Medical Computing/ McGill U/ Montreal
From: LPZ@LUDWIG.CTD.ORNL.GOV ("Lawrence MacIntyre - 615.576.0824")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Handling multiple client connections with VMS TCP/IP servers?
Date: 4 Jan 93 17:06:24 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

>Using UCX2.0, VAXC3.2 under VMS5.5-2.
>
>When writing VMS TCP/IP servers, is there an elegant method of having VMS
>sub/det processes handle multiple client connections, a'la U**x fork[/exec]?
>
>Is multi-threading the server (QIOs and ASTs) the only method?  In which case
>how are telnet, rsh, ... connections, that create network processes under a
>different UIC, handled?
>
>Questions, questions, and so little documentation.  The usual apologies (FAQ,
>etc.)  With thanks in advance.  Mark Daniel.

Mark:

I can't reply to you because you didn't include an address and the mailer
didn't leave one that works.  There is an elegant way of handling client
connections, and you already noticed it.  Multithreading the server is it! 
Check out sys$examples:db_server.c.  This is a DECnet server, but the concepts
are the same, just substitute TCP code for the DECnet code.  Unix fork/exec
isn't elegant, it's sloppy and lazy *unless* you have a multiprocessor machine
to run the forked processes on.  All it does is make unix programmers think
that forking is the one true way to write code.

                                   Lawrence
                                      ~
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          LPZ@ORNL.GOV                AT&T: 615.576.0824
From: SRDANIELS@RCKHRST2.BITNET ("Scott R. Daniels")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: SYSDUMP.DMP File Question...
Date: 7 Jan 93 15:57:11 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

This should be an easy one for you guys:

  Is there a way to have the system look on a different disk for the SYSDUMP.DMP
file ?  And is it also true that enough disk space should be allocated so that
ALL memmory can be dumped into it ?  We just doubled our memory to 128MB, and we
don't really have the room to put a 262,144 block SYSDUMP file on the system
disk.  Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.  Please respond privatley...
Thanks in advance -

    -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
    |                     |      Scott R. Daniels      |                 |
    | SRD@RCKHRST1.BITNET | VAX/VMS Systems Programmer | +1 816.926.4065 |
    | SRD@RCKHRST2.BITNET |     Rockhurst College      | +1 816.926.4162 |
    |                     |   Kansas City, MO  64110   |                 |
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From: kellym@tekgen.bv.tek.com (Kelly Mc Connell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Problem invoking xterm remotely via rsh
Date: 9 Jan 93 00:12:20 GMT
Reply-To: kellym@tekgen.bv.tek.com
Organization: Tektronix Inc.  VMS Systems Support

In article <1993Jan7.161333.19683@Rapnet.Sanders.Lockheed.Com> mores@eavax.sanders.lockheed.com (David C. Mores) writes:
>
>    It was suggested that I try nohup:
>
>    $ rsh rapnet "/bin/nohup xterm -display cadt2::0 -ls &"
>    
>    Unfortunately, this suggestion does not work.  I see no difference in
>    behavior.  
>    
>    Any explanations, suggestions or workarounds would be appreciated.

I use rsh to start  a remote xterm from a SUN.  I was given the magic 
incantation by a real UNIX person (I'm not).  Here's what I do:

In my .cshrc I create an alias for the real command.

alias x11 '/usr/bin/X11/xterm -d IPADRS:0 -title SYSTEM -n SYSTEM -sb -ls
 -sl 250 -cu -fn 9x15 -geometry 80x32+215+330 >/dev/null</dev/null &'

My application command is rsh/user=kellym SYSTEM x11

I don't know why all the redirects & single quotes are there, but I know it
works.
-- 

            I may rise, but I refuse to shine before sunset

Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: hallam@zeus02.desy.de (Phill Hallam-Baker)
Subject: Re: Help a student in distress....
Reply-To: Hallam@zeus02.desy.de
Organization: Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Experiment ZEUS bei HERA
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 01:21:05 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.202903.6170@dbased.nuo.dec.com>, lionel@quark.enet.dec.com
(Steve Lionel) writes:

|>In article <20242.2b4c180e@ul.ie>, 9120092@ul.ie writes:
|>|>(1) How come DEC manuals have most of their examples in Fortran?
|>|>
|>
|>They're not; most are in MACRO.  (There - does that make you feel better?
|>:-))
|>
|>The large number of FORTRAN examples relative to other high-level languages
|>comes from several sources:
|>
|>	1.  FORTRAN was the first VMS HLL and is still the most widely
|>	    used.
|>
|>	2.  There was a book created called "Programming in VMS using VAX
|>	    FORTRAN" which had many FORTRAN examples; some of these migrated
|>	    to the regular VMS documentation.
|>
|>	3.  A particular FORTRAN developer (ahem) has been particularly
|>	    dilligent in writing such examples and making sure that those
|>	    written by others are correct.  (That same developer also wrote
|>	    just about all of the Ada examples in the VMS manuals.)  The
|>	    Pascal developers have also been active in example creation, but
|>	    those from other languages less so.

Apart from the C brigade which dominate the X-Windows books for obvious
reasons.

The predominance of FORTRAN is quite understandable though. Up to seven years
ago C was not dominant and UNIX just another O/S. FORTRAN was just about the
only language that it could be reasonably expected that most progarmmers would
know.

|>|>(3) Does anybody have any working examples of SMG's used in Cobol (cough
|>|>cough)?
|>|>    In particular SMG$CREATE_MENU. I would really appreciate this as the
|>|>    VMS ver 3 manuals that are available to me don't mention a thing
|>|>    about it. I know about it 'cause it's in the Ver 5.? help facility.
|>
|>The SMG$ manual in chapter 7 has a complete COBOL example of using SMG$
|>routines.  I don't know if this was in the VMS Version 3 (?!) manuals you
|>have.  Time to buy some new manuals!

Now we see the real reason for the apparent FORTRAN bias. When those manuals
were bought most of the authours were worrying about whether Columbus would fall
of the edge of the world on his great voyage of discovery.

--

Phill Hallam-Baker
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: lin@primus.llumc.edu (P. James Lin)
Subject: DECWindow application problem, help please!
Organization: LLUMC Radiation Research Lab
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:47:45 GMT


Environment:
VAX4200, VMS 5.5

Problem:
I have an application built on DECWindow. One special case is
	a contiguous pop-up windows to get user's inputs
	(the 1st pop-up window will dismiss after user's keyboard input,
	 the 2nd pop-up window then comes up, get user's input then dismiss,
	 the 3rd one does the same as the 2nd one
	 .... until all required inputs are completed)
	
The mouse pointer are RANDOMLY lost in those pop-up window. The later 
pop-up window, the higher possibility to lose the mouse pointer.
I have to point and click to get the input to that pop-up window to activate 
the keyboard input. It seems the pointer have not been handled correctly
in my application. But I can not find anything wrong. One strange result
is, if I set the DISPLAY to a SUN SPARCstation 2 OpenWindow 3.0 environment,
then I do not have this problem.

Could anyone give me suggestions? Is this a bug of DECWindow library?

Thanks for your help.

James
P. James Lin                      INTERNET: lin@proton.llumc.edu
Radiation Research Laboratory     UUCP    : ..ucrmath!proton!lin 
Loma Linda University Medical Center, 11234 Anderson St., Loma Linda, CA 92354
Tel: (714)824-4066 FAX: (714)824-4067
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: rkoehler@author.gsfc.nasa.gov (Bob Koehler)
Subject: Re: WANTED: lex and yacc for VAX/VMS.
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: CSC System Sciences Division
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:37:00 GMT

In article <7JAN93.15462395@wl.aecl.ca>, zinckt@wl.aecl.ca writes...
>Hello Netters,
> 
>I am looking for a site which contains numerous GNU/UNIX commands such as Gawk,
>Lex, YACC and such for use on a VAX/VMS workstation..
> 
>Please e-mail responses.
> 
>Thanx.
> 
>Tom
> 
>----------------
>zinckt@wl.aecl.ca

I don't have an address on the net for you, but if you're running a recent
version of VMS, you can load the POSIX kit, and they're in there.

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Bob Koehler                     |   Any illusion to these opinions being other
rkoehler@author.gsfc.nasa.gov   |   than just mine alone is just that.
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com (Dillon Pyron)
Subject: Re: Ethernet address (sans code) ?
Reply-To: pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com
Organization: TI/DSEG VAX Support
Distribution: world,local
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:40:36 GMT


In article <1993Jan12.122943.4238@arizona.edu>, leonard@telcom.arizona.edu (Aaron Leonard) writes:
>In article <1993Jan12.152310.12125@mksol.dseg.ti.com>, pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com (Dillon Pyron)
>writes:
   [and I do, look it up]
>
>If you have the DECnet node number and wish to know the node's
>Ethernet physical (vs. hardware) address, then this can be derived
>algorithmically in a trivial manner.  (An old article on the subject
>follows.)

Yes, I use that.  But the request was for a no-code solution, which I took to
be the no brainer approach.

There are advantages to the calculated approach, such as when the machine in
question is stone cold down.
>
>Best,
>
>Aaron
>
>Aaron Leonard (AL104), <Leonard@Arizona.EDU>
>University of Arizona Network Operations, Tucson AZ 85721
>  "It's not a bug, it's a form of flow control."
>  - Jerry Leichter on why crash-prone Unix is a suitable
>    platform for NSFNET core routers
  [Aaron's repost of eariler article omitted, look it up]
--
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TI/DSEG Lewisville VAX Support    | sender unless otherwise stated.
(214)462-3556 (when I'm here)     |
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pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com          |binding!"
PADI DM-54909                     |-Friar Tuck   _Robin Hood:The Hooded Man_

Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: sw4847@albnyvms.bitnet
Subject: Synthetic UserID
Reply-To: sw4847@albnyvms.bitnet
Organization: University of NY at Albany
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 08:44:22 GMT

I posted this question acouple of months ago and I'm hoping that some other
reader might be able to help me... 
I want to know how to create a syntetic UserID, what I mean by this is a
command which would make it appear  AS IF my user ID was "Scott" instead of
"SW4847". I know this is possible because some of the students at my school
have done it but they are unwilling to give up their secret... They insist 
that is does not require any special privs to do this.
If anyone has any Ideas I would greatly appreciate them (because SW4847 is 
kind of impersonal), if you E-mail them I'll sumerise and post them here. 
Thanks

						Scott Weinstein
						SW4874@albnyvms.bitnet
						University at Albany
From: DNW@NLR.NL
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: CREATE/TERMINAL from a program?
Date: 11 Jan 93 17:28:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

L.S.

The rtl equivalent of SPAWN is LIB$SPAWN
What's the equivalent of CREATE/TERMINAL?

Please respond to me directly.
/Carlo Mekenkamp <DNW@NLR.NL>

Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: lionel@quark.enet.dec.com (Steve Lionel)
Subject: Re: vms tail utility?
Keywords: tail
Reply-To: lionel@quark.enet.dec.com (Steve Lionel)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua NH
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:42:46 GMT


In article <1993Jan11.155543.9477@sarah.albany.edu>, sysbrc@loki.albany.edu 
(Brian Cuttler) writes:
|>
|>Steve,
|>
|>Someone sent me a PASCAL source file for "tail" - it may have been off
|>the decus tapes.  I will send it to you if you like.  Since I don't
|>recall the source I'll just say I take no credit for the product but
|>it does appear to be public domain.
|>

I'm not the one who asked for TAIL; my posting was simply to let people know
that a TAIL-like feature was coming in OpenVMS V6.  I should have also pointed
out that this was the direct result of a DECUS SIR request, so here's
evidence that they work!

Doing a good job of TAIL on VMS is not a piece of cake for variable-length
records, as it's difficult to tell for sure where the previous record starts.
--

Steve Lionel                    lionel@quark.enet.dec.com
SDT Languages Group
Digital Equipment Corporation
110 Spit Brook Road
Nashua, NH 03062
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms