HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: PMX Server questions
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 02:22:04 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.002614.1050@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> nholford@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Nick Holford) writes:
>I would be grateful if anyone can clarify the ambigous answer to the
>ambiguous question by answering the following:
>If I telnet from an HP-UX machine which is running X windows (HP-VUE) to
>an OS/2 machine which is running X windows (PMX) what applications that
>are running on the OS/2 machine can I expect to control in a useable way
>from the HP system? OS/2 full screen? WPS? Windows? VDM? None?

OS/2 text mode applications only, at present.  (Text DOS applications,
too, if you use Telnet Enhancer, available via anonymous ftp from
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.)

That's about to change -- probably in 1993 -- with Distributed PM and
X client for OS/2.

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sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/faq.
Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | Or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP").
of Chicago, 60637       | Family Values Means a Job
From: chandoni@husc8.harvard.edu (John-Marc Chandonia, , , )
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: NFS Security (or lack thereof)
Date: 11 Oct 92 18:45:48 GMT
Reply-To: chandoni@husc8.harvard.edu
Originator: chandoni@husc8.harvard.edu

In article <1992Oct11.090253.21863@netcom.com>, badboy@netcom.com (Jay Keller) writes:
> The problem:  my OS/2 users are in danger of getting kicked off the net 
> because of how easily any of them can defeat the security of NFS and
> potentially do mischief in the Unix world.  All an OS/2 user with IBM TCP/IP
> has to do is set the UID and GID to anything he or she wants it to be, and 
> then mount anywhere in the Unix file system with read and write privileges.

This is not true... the NFS server on the UNIX machine will ask
for your password when you mount the disk.  If it doesn't, then
you have real problems; anyone on the internet with a little
programming knowledge could break into your system.

If anything, being on the network is a risk to the people running
the OS/2 system, if they have telnet and ftp servers going.  It seems
much easier to break into the OS/2 system, due to the lack of multi-
user capability and the accompanying file protections.

JMC
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Harvard University            | I will not yell fire ...
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: NetWare Requester for OS/2 2.0 downloadable?
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 16:28:55 GMT

In article <-159809997@hpopd.pwd.hp.com> yuk@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Yuk Lun Chan) writes:
>>Unfortunately it is not being made available from online services.
>>However, you can order it for $30 from Novell by calling 800-UPDATE1.
>>That number is good in the U.S.
>>Ask about the NetWare Workstation Kit Version 3.0 for OS/2 2.0.  It
>>should be out by now.
>Is it a OS/2 2.0 native package or just running in Dos Box?

_Very_ native OS/2 2.0.  A really slick package, in fact, with lots of
WPS features.

-- 
Timothy F. Sipples      | The OS/2 FREQ. ASKED QUESTIONS LIST 2.0f is avail.
sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | from 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all
Dept. of Econ., Univ.   | /faq, or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP")
of Chicago, 60637       | [For the Internet, vote Clinton-GORE this year.]
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: assela@aix02.ecs.rpi.edu (A. Andre Asselin)
Subject: Re: very poor ftp and nfs performance
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 02:00:59 GMT

Eliot,
   OK, when you get the info, let me know, and I'll see if I can help you
diagnose it.  The telnet response you reported seems pretty bad (even though
you showed short round-trip time).  Is the Rs6000 heavily loaded?  Telnet
should be virtually instantaneous over a network.  
   There is a number you can call for IBM support, but unfortunately,
I don't know what it is (I was always on the other side of the support
people, so I just dialed an extension and never found out what the 800
number was).  If you don't mind wasting a 15-20 minutes, you can try
calling IBM numbers until you find somebody who knows the right number.
You may want to start with 800-IBM-SERV-- they might be able to point you
in the right direction.  Good luck! 

         - Andre         (assela@rpi.edu)
From: mwaldorf@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Matthias Waldorf)
Subject: Re: New Novell Requester Problem
Keywords: Novell Requester Full-Screen
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 20:12:58 GMT

jim@tct.com (Jim Kunzman) writes:

>I updated my requester with the files from NSD201 and my Netware
>drivers still crash whenever I enter a DOS full-screen VDM or try to
>access a network drive.  They also crash if I just enter the VDM and
>exit without trying to access a network drive.  The strange thing is
>that this doesn't occur in OS/2 or DOS Window sessions.  Oh yes, I did
>set lastdrive to D...

>The error I get when the drivers fail is:

>NET0140: Timeout waiting for reply from file server TCT1

>The lan is an Arcnet and I believe that the server is running Novell
>Netware 2.15B.

>Has anyone else experienced these problems?  Do you have any
>suggestions other than don't use full-screen VDMs? :-)

Hi Jim,
are using the default ARCNet I/O address 2E0 ?
There is a bug in the VGA initialization of some Microsoft products which
I think made it's way to the OS/2 code:
The initialization code tries to initialize a _SECOND_ VGA card (which may
be installed in MC computers) on AT bus machines. Since the I/O address
space on the AT bus is limited to 1024 addresses, the access on the
(not installed) second VGA card is mapped to I/O address 2E0 and crashes
your ARCNet-Board ...

This bug caused us really a hard time finding it. Perhaps this tip might help
you.

Matthias.


Newsgroups: comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.misc
From: david@quintus.com (David Connelly)
Subject: Olivetti ESC-1 SCSI adapter driver
Organization: Quintus Corporation, Palo Alto, CA
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 02:01:40 GMT

Does anyone know if there exists OS/2 device drivers for Olivetti's ESC-1
SCSI adapter card? The default generic OS/2 SCSI driver handles the hard
disk ok, but does not let me use a CD-ROM or tape device connected to the
SCSI bus. I guess this means I need an appropriate *.ADD file? The board
itself does not have any clear markings indicating compatibility with some
other standard adapter, but does have an Adaptec 6250 chip on board, if that
means anything.

	Thanks,

	David C.


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From: jlautman@mettech1.metaphor.com (John Lautmann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: X with os2
Date: 12 Oct 92 10:09:58 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.os2
Organization: Metaphor Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA

In article <27SEP199201514015@summa.tamu.edu> gtb6038@summa.tamu.edu (BILES, GREG THOMAS) writes:
>In article <QekII=200YV709ZnkC@andrew.cmu.edu>, mp52+@andrew.cmu.edu (Matthew Edward Patton) writes...
>>I am new to this board family and have a few questions about OS2.
>> 
>>I currently run Desqview/X with PCTCP Network interface and am
>>considering upgrading to OS2 (32bit OS and all seems to have a lot going
>>for it- cheap price is also an attraction)
>> 
>>Anyway, I understand that to display X apps on my OS2 box I need IBM's
>>TCP/IP suppliment.  What is the typical cost of said package and what
>>exactly does it include in the way of features/programs?  
>> 
>>On a side note, does OS2 support 8514 graphics mode or better yet the
>>ATI Graphics Ultra in its advanced mode?
>
>I have some ATI VGA Wonder drivers that will display 256 colors at 800x600
>and 1024x768.  I don't know if these would work with your card though.  
>However, I have a friedn who has a friend who is a Beta tester for OS/2 and 
>he said that the new version has some really fast video drivers for most VGA
>cards and ATI is a major card, so the next version will have the drivers
>that you want.
>> 
>>Thanks for all replies.
>
>Greg

TCPIP 1.2 provides basic lan functionality such as telnet, ftp, ping, vt100,
etc.  Many of the standard unix functions are there.  In addition, Lan adapter
and protocol support(LAPS) lets you use various network cards and
 comes with drivers for popular models.  LAPS comes 
 with TCP/IP and if your card isn't included, 
many manufactures provide drivers on disk with the card or that can be
downloaded from their BBS.  They are usually called xxxxx.os2 and xxxxx.nif
The first is a device driver which you place in the config.sys and the 
second is a text file that works with your protocol.ini (which controls
all the network configuration for OS/2).

In addition there is an Xwindows interface that comes with TCP/IP which
I am not familiar with.

The ATI graphics ULTRA definitely works well with OS/2 2.0  Right now
I am using an ATI 8514 ULTRA and TCP/IP to write this.  An 8514 ULTRA is
just a graphics ULTRA without the vga chip, so it depends on my Orchid prodes-
ign IIs card to supply the VGA signal via a VGA pass-thru cable.  

John Lautmann
jlautmann@mt1.m4.metaphor.com















Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
From: schuck@fraser.sfu.ca (Bruce Jonathan Schuck)
Subject: VMS 5.5-1 -- Print/Flag/Name="XXXXX"
Reply-To: Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 00:28:04 GMT

We just upgraded to VMS 5.5-1.

I was under the impression that if you did a print/flag/name="XXXX"

that XXXX should show up in big letters on the flag page.

It doesn't at our site.

The HELP is ambiguous, as it says the name is printed on the flag page
for the job. It does, but in small letters.

Am I mistaken, or is this a bug/feature of 5.5-1 ?

Thanks for your help.

-- 

All the demands made by the Quebec Nationalists can be summed up in
just one: keep giving us new powers and the money to exercise them, or
we'll leave -- Pierre Elliot Trudeau , 1992

Each new ransom paid to stave off the threat of schism will simply
encourage the master blackmailers to renew the threat and double the
ransom -- Pierre Elliot Trudeau , 1992

schuck@sfu.ca              Vote No on October 26th
From: lakia@ipact.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Strange OPCOM dump
Date: 8 Oct 92 14:14:06 CDT
Distribution: world
Organization: IPACT, Valparaiso IN

In article <42921005045624.0004570754NA1EM@mcimail.com>, HOLDREGE+_MP%A1%PacifiCare@MCIMAIL.COM (Matthew Holdrege) writes:
> 
> DATE: Sun Oct  4, 1992  5:49 pm
> SUBJECT:opcom                                                                   
> 
> %%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM   4-OCT-1992 15:16:09.70  %%%%%%%%%%%  DUMP_LOG_FILE
> OPCOM has noticed a condition which might be due to an internal error.
> It might also be explained by normal events, especially if nodes have just
> crashed or rebooted in a VAXcluster.  Please bring this message to Digital's
> attention only if you are having problems with operator communications.
> Buffer is   295 (%X0127) bytes -- "reply request not found"
>  6174733C 20202020 20204D45 54535953 00010004 FFFFFFFF FFFFFFFF 00000008 
>
> Has anyone seen one of these before? This is on a 6560 running VMS A5.5 on 
> a 5-node cluster. OPCOM died on another node about 20 hours before this 
> 
> Matt Holdrege                 5156065@mcimail.com

Yeah I've created some of these type of messages before.  It is
caused by passing the wrong buffer to the SYS$SNDOPR service.  Looks
like some service in VMS has got a bug with its buffer.
From: SYSMGR@IPG.PH.KCL.AC.UK
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: re: VMS POSIX
Date: 12 Oct 92 10:17:31 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

> >Yes, the VMS Posix shell is very slow.  I saw one trade rag article that
> >said 2800% slower than the equivalent DCL.  But you can bet that DEC is
> >working on an implementation that doesn't sit on top of DCL (if, in fact
> >the current implementation does) but is down there in the OS layers so
> >that it gives much better performance.  Develop now... the OS will catch
> >up later.
> 
> But my point, once again, is why ? If I want to develop in an 'open'
> environment, why not get OSF-1 on a MIPS or Alpha platform ? Why spend
> more time and money on a VAX-11 instruction set machine and hope that
> performance gets better ?
> 
Well, I can thing of a few reasons, like:

(a) You think that the VMS program development environment is better than that
    in other environments

(b) Your employer thinks that VMS is worth extra for things like BACKUP,
    clustering, security, networking ...

(c) you are trying to 'open' an application which is currently heavily
    VMS-dependant. It's always easier to go a stage at a time than all at once.

(d) your customers want VMS - it's VMS posix, or no sale.

No flames please. I am quite prepared to agree that there are plenty of folks
who don't believe the first two, and maybe even a few who don't believe the
third. If you are starting from scratch you may well be best sticking with what
you know best and like most, especially if it costs less as well.

	Yours,
		Nigel Arnot

		NRA%ipg.ph.kcl.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk   (internet)
		NRA%uk.ac.kcl.ph.ipg@ukacrl.bitnet        (bitnet)
From: ELEHUMBORG@ORBSEN.UCG.IE (It's more fun to compute)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: What's 1024 tera
Date: 10 Oct 92 12:28:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

>A user on the Fidonet VAX echo asked what the next series
>after "tera" was, i.e. 1024 units is a kilo, 1024 kilo is a
>mega, 1024 mega is a giga, 1024 giga is a tera, but
>what is 1024 tera?  

Exa, I think.   (Isn't there some sort of tape drive called ExaByte? :-)

>And maybe if you know that, you can
>tell what is 1024 of that.

Dunno that one.

>Thank you

You're welcome.

>Paul Robinson -- TDARCOS@MCIMAIL.COM

Kenn Humborg
elehumborg@orbsen.ucg.ie
"I _like_ quiche!"
From: przemek@rrdstrad.nist.gov (Przemek Klosowski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Gawk:  Like Ghostscript?
Date: 8 Oct 92 18:43:16 GMT
Organization: U. of Maryland/NIST
In-reply-to: DION@OJC.Colorado.EDU's message of 5 Oct 92 20:39:19 GMT

GAWK ~= AWK == string processing (batch) interpreter; an AWK program like this:
               { s += $2 }
          END  { print "sum is", s, " average is", s/NR }
calculates the sum and average of numbers in the second column of an ASCII file.

GhostScript == PostScript interpreter for various display devices such as
		Xwindow screens, various laser/inkjet/dot matrix printers.
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			Reactor Division (bldg. 235), E111
			National Institute of Standards and Technology
			Gaithersburg, MD 20899,      USA

			(301) 975 6249
From: dragon@NSCVAX.PRINCETON.EDU (Mighty Firebreather)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: Remote Printing
Date: 10 Oct 92 19:40:23 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


	Koh Eng San, who gave no address, writes:
>
>I am using a PC Comm software to dialup to my VAX to run a Cobol application.
>I have a local printer attached to my PC and I would like to know how I could
>print a report from the VAX to my local printer. Can a queue be configured to
>route a printjob to a remote printer that is not connected to the network?
>

	If your terminal program does an adequate emulation of a VTxxx 
terminal, you can print to your local printer by sending escape sequences
to your terminal to activate your "terminal's" printer port.

	I just used this command file to print itself on my LJ-III at home
using Reflection 4 from Walker, Richer & Quinn.

$!--- PRINT FILE TO TERMINAL PORT PRINTER
$! 
$ SET TERMINAL /FORM /WIDTH=131 /NOWRAP
$ ESC[0,8] = %X1B		! Escape character
$ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT "''ESC'[5i"	! Printer control on
$ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT "''ESC'[4w"  ! Set horizontal pitch
$ TYPE /NOPAGE 'P1'
$ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT "''ESC'[4i"	! Printer control off
$ SET TERMINAL /NOFORM /WIDTH=80 /WRAP

	The sequence to set horizontal pitch won't work unless your printer
is ANSI compliant and damned few non-DEC printers are.

	You can not, as far as I know, set up a print queue directed to 
your PC and still be able to use it as a terminal.


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*                        Here, there be dragons!                        *
*                      dragon@nscvax.princeton.edu                      *
*                                                                       *
*                                                Richard B. Gilbert     *
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From: PETERSC0@CTRVAX.VANDERBILT.EDU ("Chris Petersen - Enterprise Systems Assoc.")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: VMS shareable images. MULTICS, AS-400, NT?
Date: 11 Oct 92 23:21:15 GMT
Organization: The Internet


    Goerge Carrette makes some very valid points in his posting about the
various directions DEC could have gone with VMS enhancements and further
development, and I have to agree with him.  Having just entered the AS/400
world after years in VMS and UNIX, I am distinctly uncomfortable with a 
machine when I cannot get to the hardware/machine language at all...  Thank
DEC (and KO!) they didn't pursue that avenue of development!!!

-Chris Petersen
 Petersc0@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu
 (Really @ Enterprise Systems Assoc - St. Louis)
From: tihor@acf3.NYU.EDU (Stephen Tihor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Accessing Infoserver through DECnet/Tcpip routers
Date: 8 Oct 92 15:04:00 GMT
Organization: New York University

Nope it does not.  You should upgrade your routers or buy multiple infoservers 
but for low load use like binary we just provide courtesy accounts on one of our server systems for the system managers elsewhere and let them worry about it.
Relay-Version: version nyu B notes v1.6.1 1/11/90; site acf3.NYU.EDU
From: tihor@acf3.NYU.EDU (Stephen Tihor)
Date: 9 Oct 92 10:39 EDT
Date-Received: 9 Oct 92 10:39 EDT
Subject: Re: Is this really true?  Let's get INFO-VAX involved in petitioning DECUS board members to quit being fat porkbellies...
Message-ID: <61050079@acf3.NYU.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Posting-Version: version nyu B notes v1.6.1 1/11/90; site acf3.NYU.EDU
Organization: New York University

Rays summary is a tad inflamatory but ti is hard to argue with much.
Many of us have pressured the BOD to justify their actions with
specific, enforcable rules and the Ethics task force has been working
towards that sort of enhancement to the Canons so that the Mitnick case
would not be a special example but would either be overturned or would
apply to others equally culpable.  regretably DECUS time moves more
slowly than wall clock time as we all know and the process has not
reached closure.

Regretably for purist the BOD had the excuse that Kevin has attacked 
the display floor systems in the past which is somthing that no one
else had brought to the attention of Symposium committee or BOD.
From: dragon@NSCVAX.PRINCETON.EDU (Mighty Firebreather)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: HELP: Knighting the underprivileged
Date: 9 Oct 92 15:09:09 GMT
Organization: The Internet


	Dave Devoy 
<van-bc!cs.ubc.ca!destroyer!caen!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!noc.msc.net!vixvax.mgi.com!devoy@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
writes:

>
>HELP!!
>	I am writing an application that must be an installed task which
>can grant its installation privileges to a "underprivileged" user during
>the execution of certain tasks. LIB$SPAWN runs with user privs and cannot
>(methinks) be made to use task privs. SYS$CREPRC allows the task to specify the
>privilege mask to be used, and works for this purpose, but it is *PAINFULLY*
>slow to wheeze out a spawned task (presumably due to the fact that it
>goes through SYS$SYSTEM:LOGINOUT.EXE for each invocation.)
>
>	Does anybody know of an alternative method of getting a spawned task
>to execute with task vs. user privs without going through LOGINOUT.EXE?
>
>	Thanks in advance for any replies.
>
>-Dave Devoy; Network Products Group; Management Graphics, Inc.; Mpls, MN
>

	LOGINOUT.EXE is necessary *only* if you must have a CLI mapped into 
your process.  Some LIB$ functions make callbacks to DCL and if you use 
those you must map DCL by running LOGINOUT.EXE.

	LIB$SPAWN creates the subprocess with the *current* privileges of
your process.  Just do a $SETPRV to set your privileges to what you want 
the subprocess to have, then call LIB$SPAWN.  Once you have spawned the
subprocess, use $SETPRV to restore your previous privileges.  LIB$SPAWN has
some overhead of it's own; it duplicates all your symbols and logicals for
the subprocess.  The fastest way to create a subprocess would be to use 
$CREPRC and specify the privilege mask.  The subprocess thus created will
have no symbols defined, no logicals except for SYS$INPUT, SYS$OUTPUT and 
SYS$ERROR, and no CLI.  Any extra frills will require more overhead.


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*                        Here, there be dragons!                        *
*                      dragon@nscvax.princeton.edu                      *
*                                                                       *
*                                                Richard B. Gilbert     *
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From: cameronjames@finali.enet.dec.com (James Cameron)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: SYS$CREPRC and PRC$M_NOPASSWORD
Keywords: SYS$CREPRC PRC$M_NOPASSWORD
Date: 7 Oct 92 04:37:51 GMT
Reply-To: cameronjames@finali.enet.dec.com (James Cameron)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation (Australia) Pty. Limited A.C.N. 000 446 800


In article <1992Oct6.231714.9666@unlinfo.unl.edu>, mosemann@unlinfo.unl.edu
(Russell Mosemann) writes:
>    I'm have a hard time trying to get PRC$M_NOPASSWORD to work in
> SYS$CREPRC.  Does anyone have any hints?  The code, in C, looks like
> this

"... intended for use by DIGITAL software ..."
"Some error conditions are not detected until the created process
executes."

So check the accounting log for a completion status for the detached
process.  Execute the call again and then use a command like;

  $ ACCOUNTING/SINCE=aminuteago/FULL ...

Try also the PRC$M_NOUAF flag rather than PRC$M_NOPASSWORD.  I remember
having trouble with this flag some years back.  

--
James Cameron
Digital Equipment Corporation (Australia) Pty. Limited A.C.N. 000 446 800
(cameronjames@snoc01.enet.dec.com)