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From: CMATT@OCVAXA.CC.OBERLIN.EDU (Matt Gilbert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Apple LaserWriter IIg on Ethernet with DECprint and LanWORKS ?
Date: 23 Jul 92 13:48:00 GMT
Organization: The Internet


Dr Bernhard Fabricius writes

Hi there,

        does anyone have any experience (good or otherwise) with using
        an Ethernet (EtherTalk) connected Apple LaserWriter IIg from
        DEC CPS (DECprint Printing Services for VMS/whatever it is
        called these days) ?
                               
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  Well here is a horror story for you. We connected a couple of HP 
LaserJet IIISi's to ethernet using these 'boxes' called Etherprints (phonenet
appletalk to ethernet whiz-bang boxes). I set up some queues on my VAX
to point to them (using MSA) so we could print reports directly to the
user's offices. Sounded good to me, worked well too - once we got the users
to stop turning the printer off, or changing it's appletalk name. Now you 
couldn't use any of the neat-o fancy features the HP had because you needed
a special printer driver on your MAC to take advantage of these, and I just
couldn't get that 3.5 disk in my TK50. We didn't need to modify any CPS stuff
of anything in the MSA libraries either - it just worked (now isn't that scary).

  Well, leaving something that works alone is like trying to get a system mgr
to stop tweaking tuning parameters on his VAX. So, we buy the HP ethernet 
board for these printers. This board is from HP, fits in the printer and puts
it directly on the ethernet talking appletalk. Seems like a logical thing to
do. So we did it. The MAC's could still print to it just fine - but the VAX
couldn't find the printers anymore. If we went back to the Etherprint boxes
everything worked fine. But the VAX would not talk to HP's appletalk card.

  Of course, I talked to DEC about this and, of course, I got a very decisive
'beats me'

  Just something inquiring minds might want to know...

Matt Gilbert
Oberlin College
From: colombo@bronco.fnal.gov (Rick Colombo - Fermilab)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Last page of *.txt
Date: 30 Jul 92 15:47:07 GMT
Organization: Fermilab Computing Division

In article <1992Jul28.181445.29504@nijmeg.ingr.com>, rusterj@nijmeg.ingr.com (John Rusterholz) writes:
> rusterj@nijmeg.ingr.com (John Rusterholz) writes:
> 
> 
> 	Here's some more info about the last page problem:
> 
> 	The file is a plain ASCII one, the number of pages is unknown.
> 	What I'm looking for basically is something like
> 
> 	$ PRINT/PAGES=(""-1,"") FILE.TXT
> 
>>	Any help is greatly appreciated.
> 
>>	John Rusterholz
> 
>>	e-mail: j_rusterholz@eis_john.nijmeg.ingr.com


(I responding here because all my mail to you is bouncing.)

Call NTS, I believe that there is a prom fix for that model laser printer.
I had the same problem in the Chicago office.

(Can you tell that I'm an X-INGR employee?  :-)

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From: nat@drao.nrc.ca (Natalie Prowse)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Help: DECTerms disappearing!
Keywords: DECwindows
Date: 30 Jul 92 21:38:39 GMT
Organization: Universite Laval

I have an occasional problem under Decwindows which has been bugging me for a
while.  (Finally got 'round to posting about it).  I am running VMS 5.5 and
DECWindows (not motif) on my Vaxstation 4000 VLC.  Like most people with
workstations, I generally have more than a few windows up on the screen.  Every
so often, when I log out of a (DECterm) window, *ALL* my DECterms go poof!!!
The Clock, Session manager, and Notepad survive.  Any reason why this should
happen?  What do I need to do to prevent it from happening again?  It is not a
regular occurance, but often enough to be irritating...

Also - startup of DECterms is extremely slow.  Does anyone have any tuning
suggestions to speed things up?

Thanks in advance,
-Natalie Prowse


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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
Subject: Re: How to setup a 'MAIL ONLY' VMS user name
Reply-To: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU
Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 01:05:58 GMT

In article <738@wookie.dbaccess.com>, steve@dbaccess.com (Steve Suttles) writes:
>in article <1992Jul18.034649.3552@engage.pko.dec.com>, moroney@ramblr.enet.dec.com says:
>> 
>> In article <01GMHDOK6HCGDU7FFH@RCNVMS.RCN.MASS.EDU>, JREARDON@RCNVMS.RCN.MASS.EDU ("JACK REARDON, POSTMASTER") writes...
>>>   We would like to setup VMS usernames that are restriced to 'just'
>>>VMS Mail.  Have people done this?  We have setup a CLI that 'only'
>>>allows Mail.  Is this THE way to do it?  Any thoughts? Help?
>> 
>> Set up captive accounts.  Anything else allows a user with sufficient smarts
>> to do more than you probably want them to.
>> 
>Please set me up such an account.  I'll send myself a command file and
>save it as my login.com.

Fine.  I'll set up the captive account with LGICMD pointing to a file in a
directory owned by system and to which you have only execute access.  So send
yourself the command file, save it as SYS$LOGIN:LOGIN.COM, and see how much
good it does you.  You try it, and I notice it, and you'll get a lecture about
not trying to subvert the system.  Try anything like it again, and you lose
your account.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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: leichter@lrw.com (JERRY LEICHTER)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: re: wait for event flag halts ast deliver
Date: 21 Jul 92 22:21:40 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


	Hey does anyone know why waiting for an event flag causes asts to stop
	being delivered?

It doesn't!  At least not in any version of VMS I've ever known....

			  I really need to be able to wait on event flag...
	and the only way to set the event flag is with an ast.

Are you by any chance waiting for the event flag from within an AST routine?
Waiting for an event flag won't remove you from AST level-execution, and
further AST's will be blocked.
							-- Jerry
From: jem@mhinfo.UUCP (John McCormack)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: TCPware vs. Multinet
Keywords: TCP,Tcpware,Multinet
Date: 28 Jul 92 22:31:52 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Mile-High Information Services, Inc.

I am interested in any information in a product called TCPware from
a company called Process Software Corporation.  My preliminary opinion
of the product rates it as a good all around TCP/IP solution.  I 
am real satisfied with Multinet, however TCPware seems to provide
much the same capabilities with a reduced price tag.  Any information
would be appreciated.

John E. McCormack
Consultant
Mile-High Information Services, Inc.
mhis.com!jem
From: wayne@FAC.CABOT.NF.CA
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: DOS-Based LPD
Date: 30 Jul 92 03:57:53 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Is there a DOS based LPD program that will enable a non-DOS tcpip
node to route a print request to a PC running MS-DOS and TCPIP ?

Thanks in advance for your response.

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From: lilleyc@cs.man.ac.uk (Chris Lilley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: DecWindows Print Screen Utility Hangs VT1200 Terminal
Date: 24 Jul 92 21:10:26 GMT
Reply-To: lilleyc@cs.man.ac.uk (Chris Lilley)
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester UK

In article <1992Jul22.234347.19865@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
smikes@kathy.jpl.nasa.gov (Steven C. Mikes) writes: 

>	We are using the Print Screen Utility provided by DEC to
>capture and print some real-time plots.  

Thatas a nice piece of software, and gives good results at our site

>Every now and then the
>VT1200 terminals will lock up and the only way out seems to be a
>reboot. 

VT1200s do this *regularly*. Basically, they are ok for using as a
multisession text terminal, but just run out of memory when using andy
graphical program.

>(Don't know if it's a reboot??, Switched off then on).  

Yes, that will reboot it. (A new meaning for rtfm ;-) )

>The problem is that this is real-time data and the process of
>creating the plots, etc.. is time consumming.  We can't let this happen
>so the other option is no hardcopy of real-time graphs.  YUCK !!

>	Has anyone else seen this problem ??  Can I fix it or should I
>try to hack xwd (X Window Dump) that comes with the R4/R5 release to 
>run under VMS.  (This may compile cleanly ?!?)  I don't want to do this
>because it is a Class A type of deal and the documentation would kill me.

Yes we have seen this problem. It is not just the DEC print screen program,
it is any X application of any size.

Your options:

Increase the amount of memory in the VT1200 from 2Mb to 4 or more

Use different X terminals - from DEC (VTX2000) or third party, eg NCD

You could try using xwd. I believe there is a version on one of the DECUS
tapes. 

>	We are running VMS 5.4-3 and Motif.

You could try going to VMS 5.5   I do seem to remember the odd crashette
when using the 5.4 screendump which doesnt seem to happen with 5.5

Chris
From: CS19241593T@LUST2.LATROBE.EDU.AU (Bernard Leach)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: wait for event flag halts ast deliver
Date: 21 Jul 92 06:37:32 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.22


Hey does anyone know why waiting for an event flag causes asts to stop being
delivered?  I really need to be able to wait on event flag... and the only way
to set the event flag is with an ast.

Arrgh!...

Thanks in advance!

| Bernard - CS19241593T@lust.latrobe.edu.au               |
| "Thou shalt not suffer a Pepsi, for it is the AntiCola" |
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: robinson@zibby.zko.dec.com (Bill Robinson)
Subject: Re: wanted: help w/ EDIT
Reply-To: robinson@zibby.zko.dec.com (Bill Robinson)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 12:09:35 GMT


In article <4103@winnie.fit.edu>, karin@zach.fit.edu (Karin Nicholson) writes:

|>There's a user of my system who'd like to be able to use the NUMERIC
|>KEYPAD MODE to key in data.  I pointed out that she could use the
|>INSERT mode to accomplish this, but that's not what she wants.  She
|>wants to be able to see all 80 characters on the screen at one time
|>and not have the data lines wrap.
|>
|>I am open to any suggestions/ideas you have.  Thanks in advance!


Instead of using EDT (which is what /edit gives you), use TPU instead:

  $ edit/tpu

That will put you in the EVE editor using the numeric keypad
where pressing KP0 thru KP9 will insert digits.  You can then switch
to the EDT keypad by pressing the DO key and entering the command
SET KEYPAD EDT.  To get back to the numeric keypad, enter the command
SET KEYPAD NUMERIC.  Your users will most likely prefer EVE over EDT
once they've used EVE (I'm a former EVE developer, so excuse my EVE bigotry).
Have them press DO and enter the command HELP EDT DIFFERENCES to see how
the EDT keypad in EVE differs from the real thing.

Bill (a fellow chocolohik, payment always accepted in M&M's :-)
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From: lin@nome.llumc.edu (P. James Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Need help on VAX4000 configuration
Date: 22 Jul 92 01:30:41 GMT
Organization: LLUMC Radiation Research Lab


Hi,

We have 4 new VAX4000-200 under VMS 5.5. We want to configure those machines
in an Ethernet NFS environment by using TGV's Multinet. Unfortunately, only
one of the machine can succeed in network communication at a time. Based on TGV's
manual, we have to reset the Ethenet address on each machine since their
manufacture defaults are the same (sorry, I though they must be unique).
Now, how can I set those values? You help will be very appreciated.

Please e-mail your suggestions. Thanks again.


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
From: akearns@ll.mit.edu ( Adam Kearns)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Reading C output with FORTRAN
Summary: Looking for something a little easier than QIO
Date: 23 Jul 92 18:31:29 GMT
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory


	Hi.  I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but someone
here can probably help.

	We have a C program that writes out a file using the write() command.
Of course, VAX C creates a STREAM_LF type file instead of a binary file
like it would in UNIX.  Then a FORTRAN program has to read it in and
write it to tape.  We can do it, unfortunately it is a little cumbersome
on both sides.  The C program has to write out fixed size blocks for the
FORTRAN program to read it.  The FORTRAN program uses QIO to read in the
file, but has to keep track of what disk block it is on for the QIO to
work.  It works OK for now, but we would like a more intuitive way.

	Is there any way to write a file in C that is not a STREAM_LF 
type file, or is there a way to open the file so FORTRAN can use the 
READ statement to read the file.  It would also be nice if the records 
could be variable length.  
					Thanks for your help,	
					Adam Kearns
					akearns@ll.mit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: madison@tgv.com (Matt Madison)
Subject: RE: sys$change_acl()
Reply-To: madison@tgv.com
Organization: TGV, Incorporated
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 17:14:12 GMT

In article <0095E640.E5B7A140.7754@nscvax.princeton.edu>, dragon@NSCVAX.PRINCETON.EDU (Mighty Firebreather) writes:
>	Try:
>
>struct itmlst {
>        unsigned short code;
>        unsigned short buflen;
>        unsigned long int bufadr;  /* or char *bufadr; */
>        unsigned long int unused;  /* or char *unused; */
>        };
>
>	Be sure to follow the last itmlst with a longword of zero.

Try it again, swapping the code & buflen fields.  The length field is
first in an item_list_3 descriptor.

-Matt
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From: mrandall@av8r.uucp (Mark Randall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Q: Hardware, why does the microvax wont boot
Date: 27 Jul 92 21:00:54 GMT
Organization: Daniel Webster College, Nashua, NH

Another reason might be the priority of the cards. Make sure cards are
in proper order (ask DEC, not me), and that you follow the Q-bus
zig-zag order.

			Mark

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From: dragon@NSCVAX.PRINCETON.EDU (Mighty Firebreather)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: GETDVIW question
Date: 21 Jul 92 13:48:38 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


	Marc Zampetti 
<elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!mips!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!eniac.seas.upenn.edu!zampetti@ames.arc.nasa.gov> 
writes:
>
>
>I am currently writing an application using VAX C. This application
>is a user front end for and Tape management. This program will handle all
>of the commn tape functions, like mounting and copying files, so that
>the users don't have to know a great deal about tapes. One of the things
>that I need to do is check to see if one of the four tape drives is
>online and available. I am using the SYS$GETDRVIW System Service Routine to
>check to see that the drive is NOT allocated, and thus capable of being
>used. My problem is that the VAX that this will be running on is actually
>a VAXCluster, consiting of two nodes. According to the Documentation and
>my own testing, if a drive is allocated to a user on another node, GETDVIW
>is unable to determine whether or not the drive has been allocated. I have
>tried all kinds of permutaions of item codes in the hopes that I can
>get some kind of return info that I can use to figure out if the drive is
>free or not. Does anyone know how I can achieve this goal? Any help would
>be appreciated. I would prefer to use System Service Routines and not have
>to go through DCL in order to achieve this, but if there is no alternative,
>then I will go that route.
>

	It seems to me that this is precisely what the $ALLOCATE system 
service is designed for.  If the drive is available, it is reserved for 
your use.  If it is not available, you get a return status that says so.
Further, the operation is atomic.  If you use $GETDVI to determine the
availability of a drive, someone could allocate that drive ten milliseconds
later and then what use is the information from $GETDVI?


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From: gaw@MERCURY.SYS.ACC.COM (...Glen............)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: (none)
Date: 25 Jul 92 00:09:12 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

signoff info-vax

Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: huber@vxcrna.cern.ch (Sepp Huber, CERN -4439,-6712)
Subject: Re: Decw$loginbackground>XGIF
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 09:03:00 GMT

In article <94920730233649.0004570754NA3EM@mcimail.com>, HOLDREGE+_MP%A1%PacifiCare@MCIMAIL.COM (HOLDREGE_MP) writes...
> 
>Does anyone have a utility to display a GIF image in the login background?
>I have the X11 bipmap working, but now I have a hankering to put a GIF 
>behind WSA1:. 8-)
> 
>I tried pointing DECW$LOGIN_BACKGROUND to a command procedure which ran XGIF 
>but I got "cannot open display". 
> 
>Anybody done this yet?
> 
>Matt Holdrege  5156065@mcimail.com  holdrege@eisner.decus.org
> 
One has to define the display explicitly in the decw$login_background procedure
before running the display program. Unfortunately the system does not pass any
information about the display to the procedure.
The easy case is, where You can make the assumption of running on a local
single-headed workstation:
  SET DISPLAY/CREATE/TRANSPORT=LOCAL/NODE=0
For non-local stations (like Xterminals), one probably has to look for the 
WSA device owned by the login process.
I never had a need to deal with it :-)
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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: Jeff E Mandel <mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu>
Subject: RMU/BACKUP over decnet?
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-29249]: mandel.anes.tulane.edu
Organization: Tulane University School of Medicine
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 13:48:41 GMT

I would like to be able to backup an Rdb database on a remote node to the 8mm
tape drive on my node. I run both nodes, which are MV IIs, but for a number of
reasons, I don't want to cluster them if I don't have to. I'd like to be able
to issue a command on my node (NODEA) to backup the remote node (NODEB):

$RMU/BACKUP NODEB::DB$DEV:[DB$DIR]DB MUB0:DB.RBF

I try this (I have proxy access between system accounts), and I get:

%RMU-F-BADDBNAME, can't find database root NODEB::DB$DEV:[DB$DIR]DB.RDB;1
-RMU-F-NONODE, no node name is allowed in the file specification

I figured maybe a concealed logical would work, but this doesn't seem to help:

On NODEB:
$define/system/translation_attributes=concealed db_nodeb db$dev:[dbs.root.]
$rmu/verify db_nodeb:[db$dir]db

Works fine, but on NODEA

$define/system/translation_attributes=concealed db_nodeb
nodeb::db$dev:[dbs.root.]
$rmu/verify db_nodeb:[db$dir]db
%RDB-E-BAD_DB_FORMAT, DB_NODEB:[DB$DIR]DB does not reference a database known
to Rdb
-RMS-F-DEV, error in device name or inappropriate device type for operation

Well, OK, I don't understand everything about concealed logicals. In
desperation, I even RTFM, but I still have no idea if what I want (as opposed
to what I need) is doable. What I need is a way to get a fairly large database
backup onto the 8mm tape without first having to put it on disk. I'd prefer a
solution that doesn't require major changes to the machines (e.g. clustering,
moving the SCSI controller from NODEA to NODEB).

Thanks,

Jeff E Mandel MD MS
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans, LA

mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: welchb@woods.ulowell.edu
Subject: ?Effect of large number of logical definitions?
Organization: University of Lowell
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 14:45:17 GMT

What measurable or noticeable effect upon users is caused by having
a large number of logicals defined in the system tables?  I ask this
because we just installed GKS; it has created close to 100 logical names,
which will seldom get used.  
Will this slow down the average non-GKS user?  Should the designers
of GKS have used a different method?
-- 
Brendan Welch, UMass/Lowell, W1LPG,  welchb@woods.ulowell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Multiple save-sets on a tape
From: imkesun@pegasus.ch (Ralph Kloess)
Date: 23 Jul 92 14:23:56 +0200
Organization: Pegasus BBS, Switzerland

In message <1992Jul21.145019.5078@av8r.uucp>, mrandall@av8r.uucp (Mark Randall) writes:

... Stuff deleted


> > Hi,
> >    we put multiple savesets on a 8mm exabyte by doing an
> >    $INIT $1$MUA110: 'label'
> >    and then
> >    $BACKUP disk:[dir-struct-1...] $1$MUA110:saveset-1.bck/SAVE/LABEL='label
> '
> >    $BACKUP disk:[dir-struct-2...] $1$MUA110:saveset-2.bck/SAVE/LABEL='label
> '
> >    $BACKUP disk:[dir-struct-n...] $1$MUA110:saveset-n.bck/SAVE/LABEL='label
> '
> >
> >    It works fine so far (over a year)
> >
> 
> Will this work for a /IMAGE saveset as well?
> 
> 
> 					Mark

Yes it works on /IMAGE save-sets as well.
Ralph Kloess (IMKESUN@PEGASUS.CH)
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