1 INFO-VAX	Sun, 17 Sep 2000	Volume 2000 : Issue 521       Contents: I18N kit location  Re: Running NetHack on OpenVMS Re: To VMS From SCO/Solaris  Re: To VMS From SCO/Solaris  RE: To VMS From SCO/Solaris   F ----------------------------------------------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 16:42:39 +0200 7 From: "Uri Klil-Hahoresh" <uri.klilhahoresh@compaq.com>  Subject: I18N kit location5 Message-ID: <8q2i0d$mo$1@mailint03.im.hou.compaq.com>    Hi  J I need to know where can I find the kit location of I18N: since VMS 7.2 itK is not on the vms CD nor on the layered product attched to it. does someone  knows where can I find it?   Thanks Uri    ------------------------------   Date: 17 Sep 2000 04:08 PST ) From: rankin@eql.caltech.edu (Pat Rankin) ' Subject: Re: Running NetHack on OpenVMS / Message-ID: <17SEP200004083507@eql.caltech.edu>   <  [ NetHack is a single-player game descended from Hack and ]<  [ rogue; its name is based on the way it was/is developed ]<  [ rather than on anything to do with the way it's played. ]  6 In article <WJYv5.212$F93.94562@typhoon.aracnet.com>,\7  "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh@shell1.aracnet.com> writes... G > I've gotten the latest version of Nethack, V3.3.1 and have it running C > on my main server (hey, what can I say, it's a hobbyist cluster). H > Anyway I've been enjoying playing it but have found one major problem.F > What keystroke am I supposed to use as the "Meta" character so I can > issue certain commands?   ?      Someone else has already pointed out that no "meta" key is ? required to play; the keystrokes that use it are just shortcuts ? for commands that are also available by other means.  But as to > your question itself, this is a terminal issue, not strictly a= VMS issue nor a NetHack issue.  You need to figure out how to > make your keyboard set the 8th bit of otherwise ordinary 7-bit> ASCII characters.  I thought that DECterm provided a way to do: that, but looking right now I don't see it.  The <alt> key; accesses menu features instead of massaging the transmitted ? value of the corresponding keypress.  There's probably a way to - alter that, but if so I've long forgotten it.   2                 Pat Rankin, rankin@eql.caltech.edu   ------------------------------  # Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 13:33:09 GMT $ From: Scott Vieth <svieth@wi.rr.com>$ Subject: Re: To VMS From SCO/Solaris) Message-ID: <39C4C83F.5A8A65F2@wi.rr.com>    Kerry:  K Thanks for the upbeat reply.  I was surprised that no one decided to launch % outright flames against me last week.   F Looking back at my previous messages, I think I was just expressing my frustration F with some NT-related problems I'm fighting at work.  The definition ofM a "high availability configuration" in the NT world is buying two high-priced I Intel servers but only using one of them at a time.  We're trying to iron I the bugs out of a new NT setup that relies on Legato's (used to be Vinca) 0 Co-Standby Server to provide a hot-spare server.  H NT is not the most stable piece of software that I've ever seen.  Adding' Co-Standby only makes it more delicate.   D The software vendor for this project required that we use Co-StandbyD if we wanted a high availability solution.  Fortunately, they didn'tG force our hand when it came to chosing the storage part of the equation ? so I designed a solution based on an ESA12000 with dual HSG80s.   K The storage half of our new systems (from the dual HBAs in each Dell server G all the way through the dual HSG80s with their mirrored cache) is fully H redundant.  Prior to go-live, we tested the sytems by unplugging variousH fc cables, fc hub power supplies, and even by failing one of the HSG80s.< The servers never knew that a piece of the storage subsystem@ had failed.  I think the software vendor was extremely impressed? by how well our Storageworks array behaved (even when connected A to crappy NT).  The SecurePath software on NT really does work as  advertised.   C I'm glad to hear that things are looking up again in the VMS world. = Especially when it comes to Oracle getting their act together   when it comes to supporting VMS.  G My present shop may be too far down the migration road to turn back but G that doesn't mean I'm done working with VMS.  I've accumulated too much H knowledge working with these systems late at night or on the weekends toJ let it all drift away.  Maybe I'll follow the last boxes out the door when they're de-installed....  ;^)   I I *do* have a feeling that VMS will remain strong in certain markets like F healthcare.  I've supported IDX systems and Sunquest systems.  I think8 those back-end systems will be around for quite a while.  M My thanks to everyone for not flaming me this week.  It's so very frustrating L for me to think about migrating *away* from the systems that are running ourC business 24 hours a day, seven days a week.  The only reason I have D so much time to bang my head on the wall trying to fix NT is that my; VMS systems run and run and run without daily hand-holding.    -Scott  :^)    "Main, Kerry" wrote:   > Scott, > I > Your comments in the attached might have been true if the situation and + > events of 18-24 months ago had continued.  >  > Fortunately, they have not.  > L > As a number of the folks here have stated, OpenVMS is back and gaining new > Customers. > L > Server consolidation, ultra-high availability proven solutions that can beM > spread across multi-sites, ability to shut down systems for proactive maint I > with ZERO application availability impact are just some examples of why , > OpenVMS is again picking up new Customers. > K > So, while these statements might be attributed to vendor bias, here are a  > few recent urls to consider: > L > http://www.iseoptions.com/about/technology_compaq.html (ISE just webt live > in May of this year)D > http://www.compaq.com/inform/issues/issue31/industry-hc-109-a.htmlC > http://www.openvms.digital.com/solutions/healthcare/intersys.html 9 > http://www.compaq.com/alphaserver/gs/quotes/etrade.html C > http://www.openvms.compaq.com/solutions/oracle/oracle_june28.html  > 9 > And for those that want eBusiness and B2B technologies: N > http://www.attunity.com/content/newsevents/detail.asp?catid=6&scatid=20&o=10C > 7&y=01/01/2000&h=1 (August 2000 - formery known as ISG Navigator) K > http://www.cognos.com/adtpci/ (Cognos also ran a full page ad for OpenVMS F > web offerings on back inside cover of Compaq's last Inform Magazine): > http://www.openvms.digital.com/openvms/brochures/appdev/ >  > And in terms of committment:N > http://www.openvms.digital.com/solutions/government/coe/index.html (20 yearsN > -  if looking at other vendors, challenge them to make that same committment > on a public web page)  > % > And for those in the Finance space: G > http://www.cbot.com/cbot/www/cont_detail/0,1493,11+24+108+863,00.html  > + > And for those in the manufacturing space: G > http://www.compaq.com/products/software/solutions/basestar/index.html  > L > Lots more stuff cooking ... who knows - perhaps even stuff for Edu and low > end systems? > 
 > Stay tuned.  > 1 > In the meantime, keep checking occasionally at: / > http://www.openvms.digital.com/new/index.html  >  > :-)  > 
 > Regards, >  > Kerry Main > Senior Consultant, > Compaq Canada  > Professional Services  > Voice : 613-592-4660 > FAX   : 819-772-7036 > Email : kerry.main@compaq.com  >    ------------------------------  # Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 15:20:51 GMT 5 From: "Larry D Bohan, Jr" <LBohan@dbc.spam_less..com> $ Subject: Re: To VMS From SCO/Solaris8 Message-ID: <o2o9ssorqdu1abfuomurgc05ofnf553pju@4ax.com>  1 On Sat, 16 Sep 2000 22:32:35 -0400, "Main, Kerry"  <Kerry.Main@compaq.com> wrote:  $ >And for those in the Finance space:F >http://www.cbot.com/cbot/www/cont_detail/0,1493,11+24+108+863,00.html  ; that the CBT/Eurex alliance trading systerms were VMS-based 0 (or at least using VMS pieces)  is news to me.    7 the press release above, make no mention of VMS per se, . do you know of a release somewhere  that does?   ------------------------------   Date: 17 Sep 2000 17:27:41 GMT2 From: mathog@seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu (David Mathog)$ Subject: RE: To VMS From SCO/Solaris, Message-ID: <8q2uud$arh@gap.cco.caltech.edu>  x In article <910612C07BCAD1119AF40000F86AF0D8052847B2@kaoexc4.kao.dec.com>, "Main, Kerry" <Kerry.Main@compaq.com> writes:K >As a number of the folks here have stated, OpenVMS is back and gaining new  >Customers.  >   9 <SNIP of the usual "data center scale OpenVMS wins" URLs>   E If Kerry were to collide with Andrew would they both disappear and be F replaced by a pair of gamma rays shooting off in opposite directions?    Regards,   David Mathog mathog@seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu ? Manager, sequence analysis facility, biology division, Caltech     ------------------------------   End of INFO-VAX 2000.521 ************************