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From: gjc@mitech.com (George J. Carrette)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.alpha
Subject: Anybody run CRASHME on ALPHA yet?
Date: 14 Dec 92 16:00:40 GMT
Organization: Mitech Corporation, Concord MA

Has anybody hacked CRASHME (execute a string of random bytes as code)
for ALPHA? Doing just a compile (had to #include <processes.h>) on
the version 1.8 that was distributed to vmsnet.sources and comp.sources.unix
results in a program that only causes a single kind of error.

   $ crashme 1000 666 10
   Crashme: (c) Copyright 1990, 1991 George J. Carrette
   Version: 1.8 27-SEP-1991
   crashme 1000 666 10
   Badboy at 2971960. 0x2D5938
   try 0
   Got signal 10 bus error
   Barfed

It seems that all you will see is "Got signal 10 bus error" no matter
how many times you let it rip.

Probable reason is that you have to do certain things in ALPHA
(well, on VAX you should also do certainly things, technically, but
in practice it isn't as important) in order to be able to execute data as code.

-gjc
Newsgroups: vmsnet.uucp
Subject: Re: Multinet TCP/IP forwarding through DECUS UUCP?
From: "Kevin V. Carosso" <kvc@summer.innosoft.com>
Date: 12 Dec 1992 19:16:19 -0800 (PST)
Reply-To: synful+vmsnet@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU
Organization: The Internet
Return-Path: <synful+vmsnet-errors@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
Errors-To: synful+vmsnet-errors@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU
X-Vms-To: IN%"synful+vmsnet%DRYCAS.BITNET@ymir.claremont.edu"
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT
Mime-Version: 1.0

> Has anyone worked out what's necessary to let us use SMTP, but have mail
> destined for (or received from) sites outside our domain forward through UUCP?

Put a capable e-mail gateway (like PMDF) on the machine to handle SMTP to/from
UUCP.  PMDF supports both MultiNet and DECUS UUCP and will handle gatewaying
of messages back and forth.

If you'd like more information on PMDF, let me know.

        /Kevin Carosso
         Innosoft
Newsgroups: vmsnet.uucp
Subject: Re: Decnet/UUCP Mail help please
From: MarcHall 4735 <marc@manta.dwp.la.ca.us>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 15:54:26 GMT
Reply-To: synful+vmsnet@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU
Organization: L.A. Dept. of Water & Power
Return-Path: <synful+vmsnet-errors@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
Errors-To: synful+vmsnet-errors@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU

  Please send info on PMDF.

  I have started to set up a UUCP link to a remote VAX 6000-600 to send
mail between an IBM RS-6000 and the VAX. The RS-6000 handles delivery of
mail for the domain dwp.la.ca.us and has a uucp links to 2 sites on the
Internet.

  The Vax 6000-600 sits on a network with a bunch (<100) of IBM PC clones all
of which sit a Novell IPX network. 18 of the PC's are running PATHWORKS also
in a dual stack mode to communicate with the VAX (eXcursions on the PCs. The
PC users use Word Perfect Office email to send mail internally at this site
(a large Power Plant in Utah). I would like to enable the users to use
Word Perfect Office email to be able to send/receive into our local network
and into the Internet via are existing link.

  Would your product provide a solution ?

  Marc

                           Marc Hall    213-481-7967
                       Los Angeles Dept. of Water & Power
                              marc@dwp.la.ca.us



Newsgroups: vmsnet.uucp,comp.sys.vms,comp.mail.uucp
From: dcm@csn.org (David C. Menges)
Subject: VMS UUCP?
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 01:36:26 GMT

Looking for UUCP for VMS.  Please email me leads, as I don't frequent 
these groups.  I can summarize.

	David Menges, Colorado SuperNet, dcm@csn.org, 303-273-3471.
Newsgroups: vmsnet.uucp
Subject: Mail Rewrite Rules Problem - V2.0
From: Dean Nedelman <nedelman@pasadena-dc.bofa.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 09:31:59 PDT
Reply-To: synful+vmsnet@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU
Organization: The Internet
Return-Path: <synful+vmsnet-errors@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
Errors-To: synful+vmsnet-errors@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU
X-Vms-Mail-To: uucp%"synful+vmsnet@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu"

>	U uucp sfpp
>	F D.sfpp03L
>	I D.sfpp03L
>	C rmail graue
                ^^^^^^ This is the text string that is passed to the mail
rewrite rules.  Note that is says graue, NOT graue@sfpp.com.  This is why
it is not matching the rewrite rules.

>	[INBOUND-TO]
>	*@sfpp.com		spvx01::\001
>	*%sfpp.com		spvx01::\001
>	sfpp.com!*		spvx01::\001
>	sfpp!*			spvx01::\001
>	*@*.sfpp.com		\002::\001
>	*%*.sfpp.com		\002::\001
>	*.sfpp.com!*		\001::\002

Add the following line to the end of the INBOUND-TO section

	*			spvx01::\001

>-Bob Longo
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Newsgroups: vmsnet.uucp
Subject: Re: Decnet/UUCP Mail help please
From: "Kevin V. Carosso" <kvc@summer.innosoft.com>
Date: 14 Dec 1992 21:27:04 -0800 (PST)
Reply-To: synful+vmsnet@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU
Organization: The Internet
Return-Path: <synful+vmsnet-errors@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU>
CC: 
Errors-To: synful+vmsnet-errors@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU
X-Vms-To: IN%"sbrant@npal.rn.com"
X-Vms-Cc: IN%"synful+vmsnet@DRYCAS.BITNET"
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT
Mime-Version: 1.0

>        Machine 'B' is connected to 'A' via decnet/ethernet.
>
>        Setting a forward in mail on machine A to user on machine B works
>        fine.
>
>                 The problem comes when a user on 'B' wants to reply to a
>                network mail message forwarded from 'A'.  As you have guessed
>                by now, it wont work.
>                What we need is a way for B to talk to A or A to poll B for
 work
>                via Decnet/Ethernet.
>
>                Running VMS 5.4-3,  uucp2.0
>
>                Does anyone out there have any solutions to this ?

This problem is typically solved by running e-mail gateway software in addition
to DECUS UUCP on node "B".  Such software knows how to deal with the mixed
addresses, UUCP and DECnet MAIL-11, and conversions back-and-forth, leading to
fully repliable addresses.  Our package, PMDF, is one such mailer.  It supports
DECUS UUCP and DECnet MAIL-11, as well as many other network transports and
messaging protocols.  If you'd like additional information on PMDF please let me
know.

	/Kevin Carosso
	 Innosoft
Newsgroups: vmsnet.uucp
Subject: DECUS UUCP 2.0                                                                  
From: Programmierer@BEIZ.mediatex.ch (055485666: MEDIAtex AG)
Date: 17 Dec 1992 13:18:05 CET
Organization: MEDIAtex AG, CH-8807 Freienbach/SZ

at the moment we are running uucp 1.1


I'm planning to update this to decus uucp 2.0.



what are the new things in the new release?

Is it (for example) possible to define the window sizes used for the
connection with other sites? (for tuning the speed of the transfer)





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Newsgroups: vmsnet.misc
From: brennan@tango.cchs.su.oz.au (Luke Brennan)
Subject: Re: writing lexical functions
Organization: Cumberland College of Health Sciences
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 01:52:57 GMT

In article <12DEC199200264446@spades.aces.com>, gavron@spades.aces.com (Ehud Gavron 602-570-2000 x. 2546) writes:
> In article <Bz3KEC.Es2@wm.estec.esa.nl>, hevans@estcs1.dnet.estec.esa.nl writes...
> # 
> #Can anyone out there tell me if it is possible to write my own lexical
> #functions, and how?
> 
[...]
> 	The answer to your implied question is NO, you cannot normally
> 	write your own lexical functions into DCL.
[...]
> 
> 	Ehud

	Why precisely? No hooks? Yes, but undocumented? Totally impossible?
	'you cannot normally'.. okay - so what about NOT normally? :-)
	Isn't this the kind of thing an internals guru would *eat* ? !!
        Seems like an incredible oversight for VMS - I recall even PRIMOS
	had that kind of thing standard in the RTL..

	Just asking.. Luke.
Newsgroups: vmsnet.misc
Subject: Unknown error message.
From: gareth@lucifer.latrobe.edu.au (Chief Smeghead)
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:50:58 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University
Keywords: DATATRIEVE, CDD, TDMS, RDU
Summary: %TSSFDV-E-ITT, invalid terminal type


I have this anoying problem with a DATATRIEVE call in SPSSx that has popped 
up that I hope someone might be able to help me with.

HISTORY
-------

The software versions are as follows...

   VMS             5.5-2  H       Operating system
   VAX CDD/Repos.    5.1  H       Common Data Dictionary / Repository
   VAX DATATRIEVE    6.0  H       Data management tool
   VAX TDMS          1.9  H       Terminal Data Management System - forms
   SPSS              4.1  H       Statistical Package for the Social Sciences

VAX CDD/Repos. & VAX DATATRIEVE have been recently upgraded (worked with 
earlier versions) which is probably a coincidence.

PROBLEM
-------

The problem is as follows...

Up until recently I have used the following command in SPSSx with great 
success...

get datatrieve
        /dictionary=CDD$TOP.USERS.U5536554.REGISTRY
        /domain=twinreg
        /command=FIND first 5 id in twinreg
        /variables=id

but now it falls over with the following error...

>>>>>> Message from DATATRIEVE <<<<<<

>%TSSFDV-E-ITT, invalid terminal type
>Statement abandoned due to error.


QUESTIONS
---------

Does anybody know where in the manuals I can find a better explanation of this
	error? I have tried the CD-ROM documentation and the hard-copy TDMS, 
	RDU & DMU manuals that I have.  

Does anybody have any suggestions where the problem could lie?

Any help appreciated.

Many thanks,

Gareth.


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Newsgroups: vmsnet.misc
Subject: Re: VMS listings kit (was Re: writing lexical functions)
From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
Date: 15 Dec 92 17:53:32 PST
 555.5895@ais.com> <1992Dec14.223000.964@cmkrnl.com> <1992Dec15.114750.5898@ais.com>
Organization: Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego, CA

In article <1992Dec15.114750.5898@ais.com>, bruce@ais.com (Bruce C. Wright)
 writes:
> But if you're changing something like DCL, to do something like add new
> lexical functions, I think you'll _need_ the compilable sources -- it's
> not like writing something that interfaces with some of the internals,
> you'll have to actually modify the sources and recompile the image.  The
> listings are rather problematic for this purpose.

Maybe, maybe not... I'll bet it could be done via PATCH.  however I don't have
enough free time to investigate the possibility right now.

> They _are_ very useful however, and in many (most?) cases you don't
> really need compilable sources.

Yes, and in a case like the one we're discussing, it would be cheap enough to
buy the listings first, just to find  out if you really need the compilable
sources.

> if I'm not mistaken the actual source kit is not only expensive, but
> also subject to frequent policy changes by DEC.

Price for the source kit has remained at a steady $25,000 for as long as I can
remember.  (You now have the choice of CD or mag tape, same price.)  The policy
has always been that you need to sign a source license agreement (same as for
the listings kit).

Digital has sold so few of these, though, especially since listings became
available, that the last source kit I'm aware of was made for VMS V5.2, and
I've heard them say that that is likely the last one they'll put together.  It
takes them a fair amount of effort to produce it and to arrange it so that J.
Random Customer has some hope of being able to do the build on their own
machine, especially since there are a few blocks of code (proprietary
technology, which requires a separate licensing arrangement; the code that
speaks LAT is one example) which have to be provided as object libraries.  It
isn't just a matter of taking a snapshot of the master source pack!  Doing all
this for the small number of customers who are interested (I gather that the
number is well under a hundred) just isn't worth it.

> As you note there is
> a widespread misconception that the listings kit is also subject to the
> same policy changes, a typical case of DEC's right hand not knowing
> what the left hand is doing.
>
> Bruce C. Wright

This is unfortunately true.  Again it's a matter of putting resources where
the most sales are.

	--- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA
drivers, internals, networks, applications, and training for VMS and Windows-NT
uucp 'g' protocol guru and release coordinator, VMSnet (DECUS uucp) W.G., and
Chair, Programming and Internals Working Group, U.S. DECUS VMS Systems SIG
Internet:  jeh@cmkrnl.com, hanrahan@eisner.decus.org, or jeh@crash.cts.com
Uucp:  ...{crash,eisner,uunet}!cmkrnl!jeh
Newsgroups: vmsnet.misc
From: SERFLING@V6000A.GSI.DE (Volker Serfling)
Subject: IMG to GIF 
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 12:31:18 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24
Organization: GESELLSCHAFT FUER SCHERIONENFORSCHUNG MBH DARMSTADT



Hi !

I'm loooking for a program that converts DEC's IMG-Files into COMPUSERVE GIF-
Files. I'm using VMS 5.5 on a VS4000-60. 

Thanks in advance :-)

Volker



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From: gavron@spades.aces.com (Ehud Gavron 602-570-2000 x. 2546)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.misc
Subject: Re: writing lexical functions
Date: 12 Dec 92 07:26:00 GMT
Reply-To: gavron@ACES.COM
Organization: ACES Consulting Inc.
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1

In article <Bz3KEC.Es2@wm.estec.esa.nl>, hevans@estcs1.dnet.estec.esa.nl writes...
# 
#Can anyone out there tell me if it is possible to write my own lexical
#functions, and how?

	The answer to your literal question is YES, someone out there
	can tell you whether it is possible or not.

	The answer to your implied question is NO, you cannot normally
	write your own lexical functions into DCL.

	There are a few workarounds:
		1. Work for Digital on the DCL team and put it in
		2. Grease the palm of someone in category 1
		3. Run an image which sets a symbol (lib$set_symbol)
		   or otherwise returns the information you seek.

	Ehud

--
Ehud Gavron        (EG76)     
gavron@vesta.sunquest.com
From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
Newsgroups: vmsnet.misc
Subject: Re: VMS listings kit (was Re: writing lexical functions)
Date: 14 Dec 92 22:30:00 PST
Organization: Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego, CA

In article <1992Dec14.085555.5895@ais.com>, bruce@ais.com (Bruce C. Wright)
 writes:
>> #Can anyone out there tell me if it is possible to write my own lexical
>> #functions, and how?
>> [...]
>                 4. Get a copy of the source to DCL and hack it in
> 		   yourself.
> 
> This is an EXPEN$IVE solution and DEC keeps changing the exact
> requirements for doing this legally.

I must protest.  Listings for nearly all of VMS, plus all of the utilities that
ship with it, can be purchased on CD-ROM for about $2200, and the legal
requirements (you need to sign a source license agreement) haven't changed
since this offering was introduced many years ago.  

No, you don't get compilable source for this price.  But you certainly get 
enough information to help you add things to the system. 

Oh, and in case you were wondering, you can get the VMS-Alpha AXP listings kit
for about the same price and the same legal procedures.  This is an incredible
bargain for anyone who wants to port code, particularly privileged stuff like
device drivers, to Alpha!  You can order it today.  It exists; I've seen it --
Two copies were on hand for perusal at the Fall DECUS Symposium last week. 

The hardest part about obtaining the VMS listings kit (VAX or Alpha), in fact,
is often in getting your DEC salescritter to admit that they sell such a thing
and to dig up the part number... years after its introduction, many salesfolks
still don't believe that the kit exists.  It may be salesfolks' misinformation
that led you to believe that the legal requirements keep changing.  I expect
similar troubles in trying to order the VMS-AXP listings.  Yet another case
where DEC is doing the right thing but has trouble marketing it.  

	--- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA
drivers, internals, networks, applications, and training for VMS and Windows-NT
uucp 'g' protocol guru and release coordinator, VMSnet (DECUS uucp) W.G., and 
Chair, Programming and Internals Working Group, U.S. DECUS VMS Systems SIG 
Internet:  jeh@cmkrnl.com, hanrahan@eisner.decus.org, or jeh@crash.cts.com
Uucp:  ...{crash,eisner,uunet}!cmkrnl!jeh
From: sbrant@npal.rn.com
Newsgroups: vmsnet.misc
Subject: UUCP-SMTP help request
Date: 16 Dec 92 11:14:19 EDT
Organization: PalNet -- Indianapolis, Indiana

-- 
Eh gods...

  My feed point wants us to stop doing routing from here.  We use VMS uucp
  2.0.  He says that because our system is establishing routing, we are
  not fully using his router in the best way. He is running smtp.  

  I am not clear as to how to establish this as if we do not have the
  paths database online, the uucp blows up and will not send the mail
  and responds with INVALID internet address.

  I think the solution is to use the mail_rewrite rules to intercept
  all outbound-to addresses and to insert the routing info forcing
  the message to go to the router system.  I have attempted to do this
  and it does modify the b.xxx file and the d.xxx file remains ok with
  the proper @ address and uucp likes this.  But I am not certain if this
  really works, or is the correct method.

  Since he is not a VMS person, I dont know if we are communicating correctly
  about what he needs and what the system here needs to function.


  Any ideas or suggestions??

  HELP!


                                                     Steven B. Brant
________________________________________________________________________
       -->> sbrant@npal.rn.com <<--[ or ] -->> nstar!towers!npal!sbrant <<--
From: gavron@spades.aces.com (Ehud Gavron 602-570-2000 x. 2546)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.misc
Subject: Re: writing lexical functions
Date: 13 Dec 92 00:39:00 GMT
Reply-To: gavron@ACES.COM
Organization: ACES Consulting Inc.
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1

In article <1992Dec13.020257.1@tango.cchs.su.oz.au>, brennan@tango.cchs.su.oz.au (Luke Brennan) writes...
#In article <12DEC199200264446@spades.aces.com>, gavron@spades.aces.com (Ehud Gavron 602-570-2000 x. 2546) writes:
#> In article <Bz3KEC.Es2@wm.estec.esa.nl>, hevans@estcs1.dnet.estec.esa.nl writes...
#> # 
#> #Can anyone out there tell me if it is possible to write my own lexical
#> #functions, and how?
#> 
#[...]
#> 	The answer to your implied question is NO, you cannot normally
#> 	write your own lexical functions into DCL.
#[...]
#> 
#> 	Ehud
# 
#	Why precisely? No hooks? Yes, but undocumented? Totally impossible?
#	'you cannot normally'.. okay - so what about NOT normally? :-)

The other lines of the post which listed how you could, and why you NORMALLY 
can't were quite clear.

#	Isn't this the kind of thing an internals guru would *eat* ? !!
#        Seems like an incredible oversight for VMS - I recall even PRIMOS
#	had that kind of thing standard in the RTL..

There is a big difference between running an image, and adding your own 
iser functions to a privileged interpreter.  That is one Pandora's box
that Digital has left unopened.  It's too bad, of course.  It would be
nice if it were there, but there's nothing an external image can do that 
a lexical could do much better.

#	Just asking.. Luke.

I'm sure you realize that that question (as well as why there is no DCL
compiler) has been asked many times.  The question is not stupid, nor
is the answer: it opens up too many cans of worms to allow user modification
(including putting in the appropriate hooks) to the command interpreter 
which everything in VMS depends on, from bootstrap sysinit phase and on.

Ehud

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gavron@vesta.sunquest.com
From: ake@dayton.saic.com (Earle Ake)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.misc
Subject: Re: UUCP-SMTP help request
Date: 16 Dec 1992 21:46:37 -0500
Organization: Science Applications Intl Corp - Dayton, Ohio
NNTP-Posting-Host: dayton.saic.com
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

sbrant@npal.rn.com wrote:
: -- 
: Eh gods...

:   My feed point wants us to stop doing routing from here.  We use VMS uucp
:   2.0.  He says that because our system is establishing routing, we are
:   not fully using his router in the best way. He is running smtp.  

:   I am not clear as to how to establish this as if we do not have the
:   paths database online, the uucp blows up and will not send the mail
:   and responds with INVALID internet address.

:   I think the solution is to use the mail_rewrite rules to intercept
:   all outbound-to addresses and to insert the routing info forcing
:   the message to go to the router system.  I have attempted to do this
:   and it does modify the b.xxx file and the d.xxx file remains ok with
:   the proper @ address and uucp likes this.  But I am not certain if this
:   really works, or is the correct method.

	A better solution is to have a very small paths database.  Have an
entry for your site and any you call.  Put a smart-host line pointing to your
UUCP/SMTP neighbor.  Take out the rest of the UUCP entries.  Run the map
build procedure and you should have a working paths file.


-Earle
-- 
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Newsgroups: vmsnet.misc
From: David_Hunter@mindlink.bc.ca (David Hunter)
Subject: Novadigm EDM
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 22:07:50 GMT

I am curious to know if anyone out there has heard anything about a new
product from Novadigm, Inc. --- Enterprise Desktop Manager Series (EDM).  I
understand it created quite a bit of interest at the recent COMDEX.  I do not
know much about the product, but am interested in the company as an
investment.  I would like to hear any comments.

Thanks in advance, David.

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| Internet : David_Hunter@mindlink.bc.ca  |  stand there!"              |
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From: dsroberts@beckman.com
Newsgroups: vmsnet.misc
Subject: Re: writing lexical functions
Date: 17 Dec 92 13:27:00 PDT
Organization: Beckman Instruments

In article <17DEC199211540418@spades.aces.com>, gavron@spades.aces.com (Ehud Gavron 602-570-2000 x. 2546) writes:
> if f$getsyi("HOW_MODEL") .gt. 1023 then ALPHA else VAX

Of course, "HW_MODEL" works somewhat better in this case :-)  OR is this a new
alpha function, Ehud?
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