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From: canellis@MOHAWK.BROOKS.AF.MIL ("Alan J. Canellis")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Trouble with RRD42 and uVAX 3600
Date: 17 Aug 92 21:46:58 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Howdy!,
	I have installed a KZQSA in a uVAX 3600 and connected 2 RRD42s.  Under
VMS 5.4-3 I can see the drives and access them ($dir). 
	Problem:  When I try to do a VMS upgrade to v5.5 from the March 1992
Consolidated Distribution I get the error message that the medium went offline.
This inturn seems to corrupt the images on the system disk, because the
verification fails (this is all on saveset B).  Any clue as to what I have 
done wrong???  Also, how do I boot standalone from the RRD42?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: hudson@ug.cs.dal.ca (Bruce Hudson)
Subject: Re: VMS-Sun connectivity
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 23:11:35 GMT

In article <Stafford-120892161140@stafford.winona.msus.edu> Stafford@Vax2.Winona.MSUS.EDU (John Stafford) writes:
>In article <1140@racerx.bridge.COM>, ken@Bridge.COM (Ken Hardy) wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> I'm trying to bridge the huge void between our SunOS and VMS users.
>> 
>> We've got (I'm told) Multinet TCP/IP on one of the Vaxen that lets us
>> rlogin and ftp between environments, and an NFS server on the Vax that
>> lets us mount VMS directories on the Suns ("VMS to Ultrix Connection"
>> software).
>
>	You already have the solution:  Multinet.
>	IMHO - Forget VMS to Ultrix Connection and stick to Multinet's
>	TCP/IP which works very, very well.

    This is the third time I've seen this response. I am the only one
you read this to mean they were using the NFS part of UCX on top of
Multinet's UCX driver emulation? Comes from being at a university I
guess where TGV's NFS server is extra dollars and UCX is part of the
ESL. Why a .COM site would want to do it I don't know.


>> What I don't know how to do is to get e-mail and news between
>> environments; it's not included in the TCP/IP networking package.  The
>> vaxes are running VMS mail or whatever it is that comes by default
>> (*not* All-in-One).  The Suns, of course, consume and generate
>> RFC822-compliant mail, and use SMTP.
>> 
>
>	Multinet does include a fair internet EMail package called MM.
>	If you want a somewhat more robust package, try PMF but that
>	will cost you $.  

    MM is a user agent. MultiNet does come with an SMTP transfer 
agent as well but it works fine with standard VMSmail and doesn't
depend on the use of MM. As well, in addition to PMDF, there is
MX which doesn't cost anything.

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From: DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU (Dan Wing)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: help needed with directory problem
Date: 18 Aug 92 20:34:40 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Stafford <Stafford@VAX2.WINONA.MSUS.EDU>, wrote:

>In article <1992Aug15.014042.14635@ecst.csuchico.edu>,
>rgoldstone@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU (Robin, Girl Wonder) wrote:
>>
>> I have a user who currently cannot receive any mail.  The error message
>> when PMDF tries to send mail to the user's account is:
>> -RMS-E-CRE, ACP file create failed
>> -SYSTEM-W-DIRALLOC, allocation failure on directory file
>>
>> His mail directory has 560 files in it.  What do I need to do to fix this?
>> I tried creating a new directory and copying his mail files to it (via COPY
>> and via BACKUP).  Both of these attempts failed, giving the same error as
> above
>> on the new directory.
>>
>> Sorry if this is a RTFM question.  I am out of town and just dialed in to
>> check on the VAX and found this error.  My FM's are not handy.  8-)
>>
>
>	Check the size of the directory entry itself.  If it over 127, then
>you may have a problem right there.

Try $ HELP ERROR DIRACLLOC, which displays (in VMS V5.5):

    directory allocation failure

       Facility: SYSTEM, VMS System Services

       Explanation: The file system failed to allocate space to increase
       the size of a directory file. Because directory files must be
       contiguous, this error might be caused by the disk being full.
       More likely, there is not enough contiguous space on the disk for
       the directory, so the free disk space is being fragmented.

       User Action: Reorganize the free disk space by copying it with the
       Backup Utility, or restructure your application to use a larger
       number of smaller directories.

-Dan Wing, DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU or WING_D@UCOLMCC.BITNET (DGW11)
 Systems Programmer, University Hospital, Denver
From: gezelter@rlgsc.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: LBN => Filename / FID => Filename ??
Date: 18 Aug 92 08:54:13 EST
Organization: Robert Gezelter Software Consultant, Flushing, NY

In article <1992Aug17.165506.21539@oracle.pnl.gov>, David Cowley writes:
> 
> 	2.)  Information on the format of and structures in the INDEXF.SYS
> 	     file?  I'm looking at how to find the first real file header
> 	     in INDEXF.SYS, and where and how the retrieval pointers are 
> 	     stored in the map area in each file header.
> 
> 				- Dave Cowley
> 
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Dave,
 
There are two written sources for the information that you seek. 
 
  -  The Book "VMS File System Internals" published by Digital Press
  -  In the gray wall, I believe that you will find the information
     in the IO Users Guide.
 
If I can be of further assistance, please feel free to contact me 
directly.
 
- Bob
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From: connelly@iscsvax.uni.edu (Ken Connelly)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Xyplex pinouts?
Date: 12 Aug 92 15:31:50 -0500
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

Could someone provide the RJ-45 pinouts for a Xyplex Maxserver 1500?  The
documentation that I have seen doesn't seem to have this information.

Thanks!
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From: gezelter@rlgsc.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Clustered Global Section
Date: 19 Aug 92 11:27:27 GMT
Organization: Robert Gezelter Software Consultant, Flushing, NY

In article <17320.2A913456@puddle.fidonet.org>, Ian.Parker@f1.n700.z6.fidonet.org (Ian Parker) writes:
> 
>  
> I'm just about to cluster a couple of VAXs.  On one VAX an application 
> uses global sections to communicate between processes.  After clustering 
> we want this application to be available across the cluster. 
>  
> Is there a problem? 
>  
> Yes, I know that you can't share memory across a cluster, but since  
> global sections are mapped to files (but are all sections mapped to  
> files?), and assuming that the files are available clusterwide then  
> will it work? 
>  
> I guess it would be somewhat (or a lot) slower since it'd be disk  
> I/O rather than memory access. 
>  
> Any help appreciated.  If my Microvax hadn't blown up, and if I had  
> any manuals to hand, I'd look it up.  OK, I'll go to the office and  
> read the manuals. 
>  
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Ian,
 
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but no, sharing Global 
Sections across a cluster is a very bad solution (It will not 
work).
 
There is literally no way to guarantee the paging behavior of a 
global section in any event (other than open/closing the 
section).
 
A different version of this hazard is also seen in many programs 
which use Global Sections on a single processor. The timing 
hazards which can appear (seemingly out of nowhere) are very 
impressive.
 
There are other mechanisms for sharing data safely across a 
cluster. Unfortunately, your post did not contain enough details 
about your particular application for me to suggest a possible 
alternative.
 
If I can be of further assistance, please feel free to contact me 
(E-mail, post, or voice)
 
- Bob
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From: goathunter@wkuvx1.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,vmsnet.sources.d,vmsnet.mail.mx
Subject: WKU power restored (finally)
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:03:24 CDT
Organization: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY

Well, WKU has finally restored our power.  I think it's up now for the
long run.

The power went off Tuesday, 11-AUG, was out until Thursday, 13-AUG,
came up for two hours, then went out again for 24 hours....  The first
time, a transformer on the street blew; when they fixed that, a
transformer in our building blew.  *Fortunately*, the machine room is
on the other transformer in our building, so I think we're up now.

If you've requested anything from any of the file servers at WKUVX1,
please be patient---your files are going out, but there's quite a
backlog built up.

Thanks for your patience!

Hunter
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goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET, 502-745-5251
From: tihor@acf3.NYU.EDU (Stephen Tihor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Reading ISO-9660 CD's on an Infoserver
Date: 22 Aug 92 17:15:00 GMT
Organization: New York University

Try infoserver 2.1 cd.
From: Stafford@Vax2.Winona.MSUS.EDU (Stafford)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: RE: get first name
Date: 17 Aug 92 22:37:28 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.vms
Organization: msus

In article <0C6CBAB4963FC0905E@sb.hhs.dk>, ARNE@ko.hhs.dk (Arne Vajhxj)
wrote:
> 
> > >You can not get the owner-fiels from SYSUAF by DCL (not until DEC implements....[deleted]

Right and as you know, unless SYSUAF is public read or the proc has privs,
you cannot really get the OWNER field.

Our workaround is a tiny job that dumps SYSUAF USERNAME & OWNER
entries (under specific directories such as FACULTY:, STUDENT:,
STAFF:, to avoid verboten entries) to a public ISAM file which
is parsed simply via DCL. Too simpleminded to be interesting,
but it works.  The file is updated regularly in batch.

jjs
From: goathunter@wkuvx1.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Music Playing software for CD
Date: 17 Aug 92 07:11:03 CDT
Organization: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY

In article <1992Aug17.192924.3585@darwin.ntu.edu.au>, milnes_p@darwin.ntu.edu.au writes:
> Hi Peoples,
> I was just wondering if anyone out there knew of a location where I could grab
> a program that would allow me to play music through the CD player I have
> attached to a Vaxstation 4000?
> 
Joe Meadows wrote a nice CD player for Motif.  You can get it via
anonymous ftp from ftp.spc.edu; you'll need:

	[.MACRO32]LZDCMP.EXE
	[.MACRO32.SAVESETS]CD.BCK_Z

To get the sources via e-mail, send the command SEND CD to
FILESERV@WKUVX1.BITNET.

Hunter
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From: tihor@acf3.NYU.EDU (Stephen Tihor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Defining logicals and use of quotes
Date: 20 Aug 92 12:22:00 GMT
Organization: New York University

Works for me.  Of course you are defining two different logical 
names:

the first is mapped to upper case by DCL and becomes:

  ICT_PCP$CFG   

while the latter is not changed (being quoted) and creates:

  ICT_pcp$cfg

Which do you want?

[the latter is probably harder to refer to]
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: TASK object
From: don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes)
Date: 13 Aug 92 09:03:04 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Wolery

marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Bob Marshall) writes:
> In my case I have the username associated with the TASK object execute
> the following LGICMD :

There's another little trick if you want to let people transfer files but
not run tasks:

In LGICMD or SYLOGIN (after determining the user is in the class to be 
restricted):

	$	if f$mode() .eqs. "NETWORK"
	$	then	run SYS$SYSTEM:FAL
	$		eoj
	$	endif

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From: jw@innovative.com (Jay Whitney)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: LIB$SPAWN
Date: 21 Aug 92 00:00:40 GMT
Organization: The Internet

On Thu, 20 Aug 1992 20:20:00 GMT, csc_alex@uhdvx3.dt.uh.edu wrote:
> Would a kind soul explain to me why in the following code, a subprocess
> is spawned, a sort is started, but the names of the input and output
> files are not passed. Sort comes back to you and asks for them.

Alex,

You're not using the $DESCRIPTOR macro correctly in your "spawn" function:

> void spawn( char *DCL_command  )
> {
>    int status;
> 
>    $DESCRIPTOR( command , DCL_command  );
>    if ((( status=LIB$SPAWN( &command )) & 1 ) != 1 )
>       LIB$STOP( status );
> }

$DESCRIPTOR uses "sizeof" to determine the length of the descriptor, which is
going to be 4 bytes ("sizeof DCL_command").  Since you passed DCL_command as
"sort data.PCSA data.sort", the command line for LIB$SPAWN is "sort", which
will prompt for parameters.

You can replace $DESCRIPTOR and its use of sizeof by building the descriptor
manually with strlen as follows:

   struct dsc$descriptor command = { strlen( DCL_command ),
                                     DSC$K_DTYPE_T, DSC$K_CLASS_S,
                                     DCL_command };

Alternatively, you could write your own descriptor macro based on strlen.
Many VMS C programmers do.

[ BTW, the quick way to debug this inobvious example would be, for example,
  to replace LIB$SPAWN with LIB$PUT_OUTPUT to see what LIB$SPAWN is really
  getting as a command line. ]


                                                Best Regards,
                                                Jay Whitney

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From: tihor@acf3.NYU.EDU (Stephen Tihor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Vax C Executables
Date: 22 Aug 92 18:29:00 GMT
Organization: New York University

Are you linking against the sharable libraries instead of the tranditional C 
style libraries?
From: bdr@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (brian.d.reed)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: DECsound and VAXstation 4000 VLC
Date: 20 Aug 92 13:21:56 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: AT&T

In article <1992Aug19.181335.2695@henson.cc.wwu.edu> n8846069@henson.cc.wwu.edu (Barry) writes:
>We just installed DECwindows-Motif 1.1 here, 
                                    ^^^

How'd you do that?  We just got the July 92 distribution, but all I
see on there is Motif 1.0A.  I've been looking for some new things.

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From: David Cowley
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: LBN => Filename / FID => Filename ??
Keywords: lbn, fid, indexf.sys
Date: 17 Aug 92 16:55:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: oracle.1992Aug17.165506.21539
Organization: Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs, Richland, WA
Originator: d3c724@baldrick.pnl.gov


Hmm...

Does anyone have a way to take a logical block number (LBN) and determine
which file it's part of?  This came up because bad block replacements are 
reported in the error log by LBN, and I can't investigate if I don't have a 
filename.  The same goes for the File IDs (e.g. (135,1,0) ) reported by 
utilities like ANALYZE/DISK.

I went sleuthing around yesterday, and didn't find anything that would take a
FID or LBN and produce the associated filename.  I did, however, take a look
at INDEXF.SYS, and it looks to me as if the answer lies there.  It doesn't 
seem to me that it would be too tough (on a quiet disk) to grind through 
the file headers in INDEXF.SYS and snoop in the FID field, or the retrieval 
pointers in the map area, and cough up a filename once the appropriate FID 
or LBN is found.

Granted, this isn't a pretty thing to do, and would be time consuming on large
disks, but I think it would be very worthwhile.  Unfortunately, I was unable
to come up with any information on the format of the INDEXF.SYS, and don't 
intend to stumble around blindly in such a critical file.  So I am wondering 
if anyone can send me or point me at:

	1.)  *Source* for comitting the above atrocities (I'm not allowed to
	     run binaries that don't come from an established vendor).  
	     Failing that, does anybody have:

	2.)  Information on the format of and structures in the INDEXF.SYS
	     file?  I'm looking at how to find the first real file header
	     in INDEXF.SYS, and where and how the retrieval pointers are 
	     stored in the map area in each file header.

I'd be fairly willing to bet that such things are on a DECUS tape somewhere,
but we don't glom onto those as consistently as we used to a few years ago.
If you have any clues, please e-mail me, or post to this group if you think
everybody would be interested.

			Thanks in advance,

				- Dave Cowley


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Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: cchd@lucifer.latrobe.edu.au (Huw Davies)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Memory Configuration for MicroVAX 3400
Keywords: MicroVAX-3400 memory
Date: 17 Aug 92 11:56:33 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University

I have a couple of MicroVAX-3400s which currently have 2 8Mb memory
boards. From inspection I can see that the hardware supports 3 boards
(there are 3 connecters on the memory interconnect cable). I can get a
couple of 16Mb boards for a reasonable price, the question I want to ask
is does the hardware support mixed sized memory boards, that is, can I
have 2 8Mb and 1 16Mb board in the same system?
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From: Peter Smode <psmode@jeslacs.wimsey.bc.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Clustered Global Section
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 09:55:06 PDT
Organization: JES Library Automation, Coquitlam BC, CANADA

Ian.Parker@f1.n700.z6.fidonet.org (Ian Parker) writes:

>
>
> I'm just about to cluster a couple of VAXs.  On one VAX an application
> uses global sections to communicate between processes.  After clustering
> we want this application to be available across the cluster.
>
> Is there a problem?
>
> Yes, I know that you can't share memory across a cluster, but since
> global sections are mapped to files (but are all sections mapped to
> files?), and assuming that the files are available clusterwide then
> will it work?

As somebody else has already pointed out, this approach is a non-starter.
However, depending upon the type of communication you need, you might be
able to use the VMS lock manager instead. Check out the $ENQ and $ENQW
system services along with $GETLKI. By coming up with a couple of resource
names and access policies, you can do some very slick IPC wether there is
a cluster in place or not.

A really good feature to use is a blocking AST routine to handle process
shutdown with low overhead.

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From: macy@POLAR.BOWDOIN.EDU (Tad Macy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Looking for appointment calendar tools for Unix...
Date: 18 Aug 92 18:31:41 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

I am looking for a calendar/appt. tool for Unix (RISC ULTRIX) with the following
requirements:

	1.  must allow boss and secretary (and possibly others) to view and
	    modify same safely
	2.  prefer X-window interface

Any  leads or tips are appreciated.

Yes, we have dxcalendar.  It does not appear to support the simultaneous
access.  Am I correct?

Please send replies directly to me as I am not a subscriber to this list.
Thank you.
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