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From: MEEHAN@castle.printech.ie ("Eoin Meehan, Printech International")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: ?How to connect an IBM S/36 to a VAX
Date: 8 Sep 92 17:28:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Date sent:  8-SEP-1992 17:27:15

Hi folks,

Now don't laugh, but I want to find out the various ways of connecting an
IBM System 36 to a VAX to allow interactive logons from the the VAX and file
transfers in both directions.

We have looked at 3270 black boxes and DEC's SNA gateway but it looks like the
S/36 doesn't talk anything sensible.

Any ideas or experiences??

Please reply to this address and I shall summarise (if sufficient interest!)

Regards,
Eoin

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From: dittman@skitzo.dseg.ti.com (Eric Dittman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: VAXstation 3100 serial ports
Date: 16 Sep 92 00:27:40 GMT
Organization: Texas Instruments Component Test Facility

I'm considering buying a VAXstation 3100-30, but I've heard the serial
ports don't support modems.  Is this true?
-- 
Eric Dittman                  Texas Instruments - Component Test Facility
dittman@skitzo.dseg.ti.com    (214) 578-3575
Disclaimer:  Not even my opinions.  I found them by the side of the road.
From: TDIMARTI@BENTLEY.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: System disk shadowing
Date: 8 Sep 92 16:15:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

All,

I'm about to shadow my system disk, an RA90.  We have a VAX 6520 running
VMS V5.4-2.  All other disks are already shadowed.  Does anyone know of any
"gotchas" that I should be aware of?  My volume shadowing manual mentions
that "standalone backup is incompatible with shadow sets"  What is the
preferred method of performing standalone backups once the system disk is
shadowed?  The volume shadowing manual is unclear on this.  My guess would
be that I would boot from a "stand-alone" boot file which I must create.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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        Tom DiMartino                   TDIMARTI@BENTLEY.BITNET
        Systems Manager                 Phone: (617)891-2675
        Bentley College                 Fax:   (617)891-2444
        Waltham, MA 02154
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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: karppine@ntc.nokia.com
Subject: Micro Technology FailSafe (experiences ?)
Organization: Nokia Telecommunications
Distribution: comp.os.vms
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 11:47:01 GMT

  I am looking for any experience with the Micro Technology FailSafe
  CI attached RAID storage subsystem.

  Thanks in advance (if there is enough responses I will summarize).
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From: DYERFDF@hsdwl.utc.com ("Frank  Dyer x9568 ..Electrical Design", Chip)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Using Ln03 with IBM-PC Serial Port
Date: 8 Sep 92 20:23:42 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

I am trying to get a DEC LN03 PLUS printer to work on a IBM-AT clone.
I connected it up to the 9 pin Serial port connector & used DOS's MODE
command to set up the port.
I have not been able to get a printout.  I am using DOS 5.0, and I have
swapped pins 2 & 3 between the printer & PC, and I am trying to use only
pins 2, 3 & 7.
Thanks in advance.
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Hamilton Standard
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From: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: fast sort routine
Date: 4 Sep 92 22:06:31 GMT
Reply-To: winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua NH


In article <1992Sep3.235531.7036@macc.wisc.edu>,
johnson@uwmfe.neep.wisc.edu (Bob Johnson) writes:
|>
|>Does anybody have a very fast sort routine like the DCL SORT command?
|>I need a program to sort 150000 numbers.  I can write them to a file and 
|>spawn SORT and then read them in again, but this seems to be a waste of 
|>time.  I cannot find a way to call the SORT routine from a program without 
|>the use of files.  Thanks.

VMS SORT can be called from within programs as well as from DCL.  If you use
the callable interface, you can supply your own routines to provide records to
the sort and to get back the sorted results.  See the SOR$ facility in volume
3 of the VMS Programmer's Reference.

--PSW
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: uugblum@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (VMScluster Administrator)
Subject: Re: Tape drive allocated to non-existent process
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: 13 Sep 1992 20:44 EST  

In article <01GOGJAO6IR60001BH@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU>, DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU (Dan Wing) writes...
>Andy Harrington, nin15b63@merrimack.edu, writes:
> 
>>We have a tape drive which is allocated to a non-existent process.  The process
>>is not in a wait state,; it doesn't exist.  Our support droids said we've gotta
>>re-boot the node.  We'd really rather not.  Anyone know of a program that'll
>>deallocate it?  If not, anyone know what bits to flip?
> 
>DEC has a program in CSC Patch #245 which fixes the problem.
> 
[Stuff deleted]

This problem is reported to be fixed in VMS 5.5-1.  CSCPAT_0245 is no longer
required and is not supported.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss)
Subject: Re: ?Cause of error message under $SUBMIT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:02:42 GMT

In article <10981@platypus.uofs.uofs.edu> awb702@jaguar.uofs.edu (Alex W Bryant) writes:
>
>In article <1992Aug28.130419.1@woods.ulowell.edu>, welchb@woods.ulowell.edu writes:
>|>Path: uofs!netnews.upenn.edu!cs.widener.edu!ukma!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!uunet!ulowell!woods.ulowell.edu!welchb
>|>From: welchb@woods.ulowell.edu
>|>Subject: ?Cause of error message under $SUBMIT
>|>
>|>Here is the error message I often get from a simple .com file
>|>when it is $SUBMITted: 
>|>	Error opening primary file SYS$INPUT
>|>	File not found
>|>I have tried quite a variety of submissions, such as changing what the
>|>job does (usually a one-liner like "$show que "), whether the owner is
>|>the submittor, whether a log file is created, where it is created, postponing
>|>the execution time.  Some work ok; some do not.  The error is
>|>occurring as the very first thing, before the system's sylogin.com, and
>|>obviously before my own login.com.   I am embarassed that I cannot detect
>|>what the essential cause of the error is, out of all the possible factors.
>|>Could it have something to do with que manager problems under V5.5-1?
>|>-- 

I think this can also happen if you use Submit/user=yyy xxx.com and
user yyy does not have read access to either xxx.com or where xxx.com
resides.
From: mvbr@se.alcbel.be (Marc Verbruggen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: VMSMAIL forward problem.
Date: 8 Sep 92 07:11:14 GMT
Reply-To: mvbr@se.alcbel.be
Organization: Alcatel Bell Telephone



We have problems with a VMSMAIL "restriction" when forwarding messages
with a recordsize > 255 to an address that contains a DECnet
specification (node::user) : THIS DOES NOT WORK. It only works when you forward
to a user on the same system or cluster (node = ""), or node = local_system.
Is this really a restriction and why ?
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From: dragon@NSCVAX.PRINCETON.EDU (Mighty Firebreather)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: File transfer problem with Zmodem
Date: 7 Sep 92 20:31:31 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


	Jeremy B. Bierbach <bierbach@guvax.georgetown.edu> writes:
>
>I am having a very hard time using either SZ or ZMODEM for VMS to
>download files to my Macintosh. Every time I start the transfer, I see
>a warning message from VMS "WARNING: No ALT_TYPEAHEAD". What can I do
>to fix this? Also, transfers using XMODEM.EXE work OK for me, except
>for the fact that any carriage returns in a text file are replaced
>with spaces that force the next line to wrap. This is making it very
>difficult for me to decode uuencoded or binhexed files on my Mac
>without first searching and replacing the spaces with CR using a word
>processor.  By the way, there is nothing wrong with my computer or my
>term program, because I never had problems like this when using sz or
>sx on Unix.

$ SET PROCESS /PRIVILGE=LOG_IO
$ SET TERMINAL /PERMANENT /ALTYPAHEAD TXAn:

	Where TXAn: is the serial port on the VAX, to which the modem is 
connected.  Note that if TXAn: is the port that you are logged in on, the
command will not take effect until you log off and log on again. You may
also want, if you are suitably privilege, to go into SYSGEN and increase
the size of the alternate typeahead buffer. 

	As to there being nothing wrong with your computer, it's a 
Macintosh!  What can I say?

	The "standard" for XMODEM transmission of text files is to follow
each line with a <cr><lf>.  Macs are notably weird in this respect.  I 
forget which one it is that they don't use but I think they follow a line 
of text with only a carriage return, thus making them like nothing else on 
earth in this respect!  If the XMODEM implementation you are using on the
Mac was written to work with a non-standard implementation of XMODEM on
some other machine, it could be that the two just aren't communicating. 

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*                        Here, there be dragons!                        *
*                      dragon@nscvax.princeton.edu                      *
*                                                                       *
*                                                Richard B. Gilbert     *
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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Bob Marshall)
Subject: Re: VMS Accounting Question...
Reply-To: marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 02:09:13 GMT

In article <01GODOX3PKYA0000M0@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU>, DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU (Dan Wing) writes:
>Scott Daniels, SRD@RCKHRST1, wrote:
>
>>Is there a way to have ACCOUNTING use a file other than ACCOUNTNG.DAT when
>>genreating reports for output ?  
>
>I checked the manuals briefly, and didn't find a mention of a logical to 
>move the ACCOUNTNG.DAT file off the system disk, although I'm sure there
>is such a logical.

Years ago I was able to define the logical name ACCOUNTNG (or maybe it
was ACCOUNTING) to move the accounting file somewhere else. It was
not documented (and is probably still not documented). Don't know if
this undocumented feature still exists, but I feel sure that it does.

In any case, this doesn't have much to do with the original poster's
question. He was asking about using the ACC command for generating
reports rather than asking about where accounting records are to be written.

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Lockheed Missiles & Space Co.     \\     That makes me look this way
Sunnyvale, CA                      \\    It ain't the years, boys,
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"I tell the truth 'cept when I lie"  \\     - Chris LeDoux
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From: gezelter@rlgsc.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: ReHelp : Error for Background on VAX/VMS
Date: 8 Sep 92 12:45:30 GMT
Organization: Robert Gezelter Software Consultant, Flushing, NY

In article <1992Sep7.151216.22191@debbie.cc.nctu.edu.tw>, u7822044@cc.nctu.edu.tw (Sbin Lin) writes:
> 
> Hi, all:
>     Thanks for yours respones.  But I have tried the following method, I get a
> error :
> 
>    o  my executed program is dttan.exe
>    o  I create the file "batch_job.com" that contain 
>                    "$run/time_limit=0/output=dttan.dat dttan"
>    o  I use the command "submit batch_job.com"
>    o  then I get the message :
> 
>       Job batch_job (queue SYS$BATCH, entry 560) started on SYS$BATCH
>            
>       Job batch_job (queue SYS$BATCH, entru 560) teminated with error status
>       %SET-E-NOMSG, Message number 1077808A
> 
> 
>     What is the error?  Could you give me a example to do it?
>   
>     thankx in advance.... 
>                                                   Sbin Lin
> 					Internet : u7822044@cc.nctu.edu.tw
> 					Bitnet   : 7822044@TWNCTU02.BITNET
> 
-- 
Sbin Lin,
 
The error you are having is related to the use of the RUN 
command. 
 
There are two uses of the RUN command. The first, which activates 
an image in your "current" process, is the one which you should 
be using in your batch file. The only valid option for this 
version of the RUN command is the /DEBUG qualifier. (See HELP RUN 
IMAGE)
 
The second use of the RUN command is to create a detached 
process. This requires privileges, and has a variety of other 
optional qualifiers. (See HELP RUN PROCESS).

The output from your batch job is, by default, sent to the file 
"filename".LOG, where filename is the name of the batch job
that you submitted. This file is written, once again by default, 
to SYS$LOGIN. This is controlled by the /LOG switch on the SUBMIT 
command. (See HELP SUBMIT for details of the SUBMIT command). The 
time limit is also specified on the SUBMIT command.
 
I hope that the above explains your difficulty. If I can be of 
further assistance, please feel free to send me an E-mail.
 
- Bob
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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: burkhardt@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Spike Burkhardt)
Subject: Re: Simple 'script' question
Reply-To: burkhardt@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 20:05:55 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.164836.23007@wdl.loral.com>, djohanne@mcsds3.mcs.loral.com (David Johannes) writes:
>	I have a simple question for anyone with VMS experience.
>	
>	I am using a VAX for the first time (have only used UNIX and
>DOS systems in the past).  I was giving a distribution list for mail,
>like the following (File name:  PPTTEST.DIS):
>
>
>From:	COS3::J LEWIS    21-AUG-1992 14:03:14.89
>To:	@ppttest
>CC:	
>Subj:	
>
>!
>!    UPDATED DISTRIBUTION LIST 08/21/92 JLL
>!
>!   This is a distribution list to use with mail to send messages to
>!   the PPT Test Department, the name of the file is PPTTEST.DIS
>!   This should be in the directory you are sending a message from, the
>!   useage is  >MAIL message "@PPTTEST"
>! 
>!
>!   PPT Test Distribution List PPTTEST.DIS
>HMIKEC        ! Hank Mikec
>PHOLBERT      ! Phil Holbert
>MSTICKNE      ! Mel Stickney 
>RBEAUCHE      ! Bob Beauchesne
>PMCCLYMO      ! Paul McClymont
>KROSE         ! Kevin Rose
>RNIGH         ! Ron Nigh
>BSHEPHAR      ! Bob Shephard
>TPARKER       ! Tom Parker
>RFERRAR       ! Rita Ferrar
>DANDERSO      ! Dave Anderson
>
>
>
>	Now the problem is that the only copy of the .COM file (that
>was created by someone who does not work here anyone) got deleted a month
>ago.  I was asked (told) to write a new one, I am totally clueless.  If
>I had to write a UNIX C-shell script I would have no problem, and the
>books I have on VMS are too basic.
>	Any help is appreciate, please email it to:
>
>		djohanne@mcsds3.mcs.loral.com
>
>Thanx,
>
>David Johannes
>

David,  the mail distribution list should be formatted with one vax username
per line.  Anything past the ! is treated as a comment and is ignored.  Also
the distribution list file type is .dis, not .com.  The @ does confuse new-
comers.


Spike Burkhardt
Systems Management VMS/Unix programming
Internet address - spike@lmsc.lockheed.com
408-756-4790(w)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
Subject: Re: ?Cause of error message under $SUBMIT
Reply-To: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 01:27:31 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.201646.19439@javelin.sim.es.com>, cdimick@javelin.sim.es.com (Clint Dimick) writes:
>jweiss@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jerry Weiss) writes:
>>I think this can also happen if you use Submit/user=yyy xxx.com and
>>user yyy does not have read access to either xxx.com or where xxx.com
>>resides.
>
>Don't forget that chaging the filename version after submitting the job will
>result in this error too.  The filename AND ITS VERSION NUMBER are used when
>executing the command file.

No, the queue manager uses NEITHER the filename nor its version number when
it's time to execute the file.  The file is accessed by device name and FID.
You can rename the file all you want and it will still be executed:

$	dele test1.*;*,test2;*
$	create test1.com;1
$	write sys$output "It worked"
$	submit/after=tomorrow test1.com/noprint
Job TEST1 (queue SYS$BATCH, entry 223) holding until 10-SEP-1992 00:00
$	show queue/full sys$batch
Batch queue SYS$BATCH, on SOL1::
    /BASE_PRIORITY=3 /JOB_LIMIT=64 /OWNER=[SYSOPR,SYSTEM] /PROTECTION=(S:E,O:D,G:R,W:W)

  Jobname         Username     Entry          Status
  -------         --------     -----          ------
  TEST1           CARL           223          Holding until 10-SEP-1992 00:00
    Submitted  9-SEP-1992 17:21 /KEEP /NOPRINT /PRIORITY=100
    File: _$1$DIA0:[CARL]TEST1.COM;1
$	rename test1.com test2.com;32767
$	set entry/release 223
$	wait 0:1:0.0
$	type test1.log
$ set noon
$	if f$getjpi("","MODE") .nes. "INTERACTIVE" then set noverify
It worked
  CARL         job terminated at  9-SEP-1992 17:22:01.82
  Accounting information:
  Buffered I/O count:              39         Peak working set size:     426
  Direct I/O count:                31         Peak page file size:      2588
  Page faults:                    432         Mounted volumes:             0
  Charged CPU time:           0 00:00:00.94   Elapsed time:     0 00:00:02.46

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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
Subject: Re: RS232 Test connector pinout?
From: don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes)
Date: 5 Sep 92 11:50:51 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Wolery

welchb@woods.ulowell.edu writes:
> 2-TD transmitted data
> 3-RD receive data
> 4-RTS request to send
> 5-CTS clear to send
> 6-DSR data set ready
> 20-DTR data terminal ready
> CD - I am confused.  I thought it meant Carrier Detect, and came on when
> you called a computer and got back the tone which said "I am a computer,
> not a voice",  but the catalog lists pin 20 as CD, but with the description
> Data Terminal Ready; it has nothing with the official name CD.
> How about 8-CF Received Line Signal Detector?  

Received Line Signal Detect and Carrier Detect are the same thing on the 
same pin (pin 8 for a DB25).  Pin 20 is DTR.  If your book says otherwise, 
file it in the round open-topped container under your desk.  8-)

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Network Manager, Computing Services Centre            don@vuw.ac.nz (work)
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From: jal@mdavcr.mda.ca (John Lloyd)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Text or .DVI to BookReader?
Date: 13 Sep 92 22:15:35 GMT
Organization: MacDonald Dettwiler, 13800 Commerce Parkway, Richmond, BC, Canada  V6V 2J3

In article <1992Sep9.164200.20462@europa.asd.contel.com> desroche@ssvax.gte.com (Dave Desrochers) writes:
>Ed Wilts (ewilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca) wrote:
>: Is there any way of converting normal text files or .dvi files to BookReader
>: format?  We don't have Vax Document here but would still like to be able to
>: produce nice on-line documentation.
>
>Ditto.  We use Scribe (markup language similar to VAX Document)
>and would like to produce BookReader format documents if at all possible.
>
>Dav

Indeed there are two choices:  VAX Document and DECwrite.  We bought
DECwrite to use for this purpose: it does work, although you can guess
that Digital did not include a template that makes a book "look" like
the Bookreader styles (smallish screen size, etc).  Indexing is also a
chore.  

John

"jal@mda.ca" in spite of what the header says.
From: tillman@swdev.si.com ("Brian Tillman, Smiths Industries, VAX Support, x8425")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Long lines and DCL line editing
Date: 10 Sep 92 17:11:40 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Mike (davism@KCGL1.eng.ohio-state.edu) writes:

>	I believe the original message mentioned that before an OS upgrade, the
>ability existed, but was lost after the upgrade.  I remember having the ability
>to move about freely within multi-line commands under 4.6, without the need to
>delete lines at the end of the command.  (I can't speak to 4.7, since we went

Hm... Our VMS V4.6 systems do not have this ability.  I've never seen a VMS 
version that did, and we've been using VMS since V2.x

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