1 INFO-VAX	Tue, 23 Dec 2003	Volume 2003 : Issue 708       Contents:1 Re: can one embed escape sequences in the prompt?  CSWS_JAVA problem.@ installation issue with OpenVMS 7.3-1 / AlphaStation 255/233 MHz$ Re: Looking for a HSG80 driver Guru.$ Re: Looking for a HSG80 driver Guru.* Re: Move from TCPIP Services to Multinet ?( Re: Singapore Exchange to run on OpenVMSN Re: Subject: Re: backing up VMS files to PC based CD writer - belated followup Re: Support for passive FTP  Re: V7.3-2 shipping problems... / Re: What Andrew and sun can't stand is that ... / Re: What Andrew and sun can't stand is that ...   F ----------------------------------------------------------------------  # Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 20:27:59 GMT 1 From: "Barry in Indy" <barrymeindy@ameritech.net> : Subject: Re: can one embed escape sequences in the prompt?@ Message-ID: <jtIFb.14236$aw2.7967552@newssrv26.news.prodigy.com>  * "Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply"2 <helbig@astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de> wrote in message news:bs433m$2d8$5@online.de...@ > I'm not saying it's necessarily a good idea, but can one embed escape? > sequences in the prompt, e.g. to make it appear bold by using  the < > appropriate escape sequences for the terminal in question? > = From my current LOGIN.COM (running QVT/TERM on a Windows PC):  $!! $!  Control characters for screen  $!  Not all of them work $! $ ESC[0,8] == 27' $ CLRSCR == esc + "[1;1H" + esc + "[2J"  $ BOLD == esc + "[1m"  $ RESTORE == esc + "[0m" $ UNDER == esc + "[4m" $ BLINK == esc + "[5m" $ REVER == esc + "[7m" $!' $!  Control characters for color change  $! $!  First number is attribute  $! $!  0  All off $!  1  Bold  $!  4  Underscore  $!  5  Blink $!  7  Reverse
 $!  8  Hidden  $!% $!  Second number is foreground color $ $!  Third number is background color $! $!  COLOR    FG    BG  $!  -----    --    --  $!  Black    30    40  $!  Red      31    41  $!  Green    32    42  $!  Yellow   33    43  $!  Blue     34    44  $!  Magenta  35    45  $!  Cyan     36    46  $!  White    37    47  $! $! $ CPMPT = " [1;33;44m"@ $ CPMPT[0,8]=27   ! This puts an escape character in bits 0-7 of
 the string   --  
 Barry in Indy    Knock me out to reply    ------------------------------  % Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 17:17:09 -0700 % From: "Dave" <glarborg@ix.netcom.com>  Subject: CSWS_JAVA problem. 0 Message-ID: <07ydne45d_YYFHqiRVn-sA@comcast.com>  D Hi there.  I am having a problem starting up APACHE$TOMCAT using the
 following:  
 VMS V7.3-1	 CSWS V1.3  Java SKD 1.4.16 CSWS_JAVA V2.0 or V2.1 (problem is the same with both)  G The process starts, and terminates, with the following error in the log  (from v2.1 log):  I     Dec 21, 2003 10:18:39 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init '     SEVERE: Error initializing endpoint 6     java.net.SocketException: function not implemented  @ I think I might have missed a step somewhere, but can't find anyJ documentation which says I should have started something which I didn't...   Thanks,  Dave   ------------------------------  % Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 04:44:23 +0100 ) From: Ralph Graulich <maillist@shauny.de> I Subject: installation issue with OpenVMS 7.3-1 / AlphaStation 255/233 MHz ( Message-ID: <3FE7BA17.6020705@shauny.de>   Hello,  @ after I have received my OpenVMS/Alpha Hobbyist Kit I set up my H AlphaStation (which ran netBSD before) and updated the SRM firmware. It  says:   " V7.0-9, built Mar 18 1999 13:41:11   "show dev" tells me  - dka0 (IBM DORS-32160)  - dka500 (RRD45) - dva0 - ewa0 (onboard 10 MBit NIC)  - ewb0 (DEC500 100 MBit NIC PCI) - pka0  B Now trying to boot the OpenVMS installation procedure by using "b I dka500". It tells me "configuring devices", first finds the onboard NIC,  H then finds the DEC500 additional NIC, cursor goes to newline, the CD ROMI is accessed some more times and then nothing else happens, no prompt, no   warning, no error.  F I already tried to remove all cards except for the onboard NIC - same  failure.  G As I have got four identical systems, I took the next system (which is  F the same, except for another hard disk model), upgraded the firmware, 
 same failure.   ; Being pretty clueless at the moment, I appreciate any help.    Many thanks and kind regards
 ... Ralph ...    ------------------------------  # Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 03:40:21 GMT % From: "Mike Naime" <mnaime@kc.rr.com> - Subject: Re: Looking for a HSG80 driver Guru. : Message-ID: <FOOFb.185268$Eq1.45724@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com>   Bill:   I I think that you will have to look elsewhere than COV.  The multi-pathing K ability is part of the Firmware in the Alphaserver hardware, and it is also J built into the OS release.  It is not an add on.  I do not have to write aH driver!!!!!!  I boot VMS from the SAN drives and I have no local storage installed in my servers!  H I can see what path the LUN is on by using the SHOW DEVICE /MULTI_PATHED+ (sho dev/multi for short) at the OS prompt.   @ A SH DEV FULL will list all multi-pathed routes to your storage.  K I can then issue the SET DEVICE {Device name} /SWITCH/PATH={Path string} to ! switch from one path to the next. A Example:  SET DEV $1$DGA55: /SWITCH/PATH=PGA0.5001.1FED.ABCD.EF01 J Note:  The last digit (1-4) is the port on the HSG that you want to switch4 too!  1-2 = bottom controller, 3-4 = top controller.  & Good luck finding an answer elsewhere!   Mike  5 Bill Nadzam <bill.nadzam@onstor.com> wrote in message 7 news:3dec9efa.0312220957.5c656a73@posting.google.com... D > Hello to the group, and I hope there is a kind sole out there with( > insight into the working of the HSG80. > E > Need the Rosetta Stone, AKA: inside information on the SCSI command E > required by a system driver to switch a device from Port to Port. I G > located a small statement in a LINUX users group that suggests a SCSI E > Start command is all it takes. When I run a SCSI command, like read G > capacity, down the NON-Preferred path of an HSG80 at Firmware 8.71F I H > get a device not ready sense response. This would seem to suggest thatG > a start command is needed. So it agrees with the LINUX groups info. I B > was just wondering if there is anyone out there that has writtenD > Multipath Failover drivers for the COMPAQ HSG80 controller. And ifG > there are any known problems that I should prepare for. Also does the @ > HSG80 start command allow for status after the switch over has; > completed, or if the driver needs to poll for completion.  > G > Thanks for reading, and hope to hear from the HSG80 Guru's out there.  > Bill.    ------------------------------  # Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 05:02:33 GMT > From: Michael Austin <maustin@no-more-spam.firstdbasource.com>- Subject: Re: Looking for a HSG80 driver Guru. < Message-ID: <J%PFb.1931$OQ6.1735@newssvr22.news.prodigy.com>   Bill Nadzam wrote:  D > Hello to the group, and I hope there is a kind sole out there with( > insight into the working of the HSG80. > E > Need the Rosetta Stone, AKA: inside information on the SCSI command E > required by a system driver to switch a device from Port to Port. I G > located a small statement in a LINUX users group that suggests a SCSI E > Start command is all it takes. When I run a SCSI command, like read G > capacity, down the NON-Preferred path of an HSG80 at Firmware 8.71F I H > get a device not ready sense response. This would seem to suggest thatG > a start command is needed. So it agrees with the LINUX groups info. I B > was just wondering if there is anyone out there that has writtenD > Multipath Failover drivers for the COMPAQ HSG80 controller. And ifG > there are any known problems that I should prepare for. Also does the @ > HSG80 start command allow for status after the switch over has; > completed, or if the driver needs to poll for completion.  > G > Thanks for reading, and hope to hear from the HSG80 Guru's out there.  > Bill.   F And exactly which OS/version are you trying to get to work?  If it is 8 VMS, the command is SET DEV $1$DGAxxx/switch/path={path} $show dev/multi C will show you the paths available.  If you lose a channel, it will  , automatically fail over to the other path(s)  I While your question is quite verbose, it does not give us enough info to  F give you a proper answer.  It would seem you are trying to write some 
 driver....  F HP has multipath drivers for OpenVMS and Tru64 -- it is a part of the  HBA driver.    Michael    ------------------------------  % Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 15:14:39 -0500 & From: David M Smith <dsmit115@csc.com>3 Subject: Re: Move from TCPIP Services to Multinet ? 8 Message-ID: <d7ceuv8gn5g1cb94ap4bd378jocqldn510@4ax.com>  O On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 06:20:37 -0500, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@istop.com> wrote:    >Paul Sture wrote:$ >> You can register as a Hobbyist at/ >> http://www.process.com/openvms/hobbyist.html  > M >Has anyone converted from TCPIP Services 5.3 to Multinet ? Would one have to K >relink all home-grown TCPIP applications or will those run transparently ?   J I recently setup a hobbyist system (about two months ago) and started withO TCP/IP SERVICES V5.3 ECO 2 (this is a VAX 3100). I started with that, because I N had both VMS and TCP/IP SERVICES kits on CDROM and could load directly without having a network connection.  P Once I had the network connection up and working, I downloaded the MULTINET kitsO from Process Software's hobbyist program, installed the hobbyist PAK I received N from them, and installed and configured MultiNet without any problem, and I'veK now "switched over" to MultiNet. In my case, it was to get access to an SSH I client and server to experiment with; HP is only providing SSH for Alpha.   M Since we use both products at work, it was easy for me to make the switch and P configure MultiNet for use. I also left the TCP/IP software intact, and chose toN not installed the MultiNet user commands in DCLTABLES; so, if I want to, I canP easily switch back to, or use temporarily, TCP/IP SERVICES by simply changing my startup file and rebooting.   O The only IP based applications I have (right now) are HGFTP and OSU web server. L I rebuilt OSU, and reinstalled NETLIB (bundled with HGFTP) to recognize both5 TCP/IP SERVICES and MultiNet, and both work fine now. I ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I David M. Smith 302.391.8533                       dsmit115 at csc dot com I Computer Sciences Corporation     (Opinions are those of the writer only) I -------------------------------------------------------------------------    ------------------------------  % Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 01:32:02 -0500 * From: JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@istop.com>1 Subject: Re: Singapore Exchange to run on OpenVMS ) Message-ID: <3FE7E152.73B6EC68@istop.com>   * Alan Winston - SSRL Admin Cmptg Mgr wrote:N > There needs to be _at least_ enough advertising of VMS to make it clear thatP > it's not dead.  Even relatively clueful non-VMS users who've heard that VAX isQ > dead and Alpha is sentenced to death can readily get the impression that VMS is 3 > dead, and you can't fix that with press releases.   E People equate VAX with VMS, and Alpha as just another flavour of VAX,   K People think that when you kill a product, it is because of dwindling sales J with no hope of putting it back in a growth pattern.  Killing Alpha sent aC strong message that VMS wasn't generating sufficient sales anymore.   H And don't forget that a certain percentage of the folks may think it wasL logical to kill Alpha since VMS had been let go, so had Windows on Alpha, soJ there was nothing left to run on it. Such false impressions are the directL result of lack of public exposure and marketing by the owner of the product.  J With all things being more or less equal, it is the product with uncertain future that loses.   ------------------------------  % Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 16:19:08 -0500 & From: David M Smith <dsmit115@csc.com>W Subject: Re: Subject: Re: backing up VMS files to PC based CD writer - belated followup 8 Message-ID: <ejneuv0atg3orb61e4dthpgc22mbn24cb1@4ax.com>  J On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 06:26:28 +0000 (UTC), YYYlmhYYY@cco.caltech.edu wrote:   >I have no luck at all with G >1) Zip. The VMS executable complains about missing some LIB$SHR (sic)  0 > file. I have no C compiler for the zip source.  M The distribution of ZIP and UNZIP which I referred to in my original post, on P Hunter Goatley's VMS freeware web site, contains already-compiled binaries whichN can be successfully linked on your version of OpenVMS (in fact, I successfullyK linked it on VMS V4.7 in response to an older post). So, whether or not you G decide to use ZIP and UNZIP as part of your solution to this problem, I 4 encourage you to download from the links on the page  . 	http://vms.process.com/fileserv-software.html  N Of course, you'll need a working UNZIP to unzip these archives themselves, andF you might get one via anonymous FTP from the vms-freeware directory atM ftp.process.com. There are versions of both UNZIP.VAX_EXE and UNZIP.ALPHA_EXE O which you can use to "bootstrap" the process. I don't know what versions of VMS N they were linked with. If they don't work on your system, contact me by directC email and I can send a VAX EXE file which I know will work on V5.5. I ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I David M. Smith 302.391.8533                       dsmit115 at csc dot com I Computer Sciences Corporation     (Opinions are those of the writer only) I -------------------------------------------------------------------------    ------------------------------  % Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 16:04:52 -0500 & From: David M Smith <dsmit115@csc.com>$ Subject: Re: Support for passive FTP8 Message-ID: <bmmeuvsmtq68erm7b0fn6gsf99kv7be43q@4ax.com>  K On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 01:35:26 GMT, Alder <PGDEHMKOKIMD@spammotel.com> wrote:   H >I'd like to support passive mode FTP connections to my VMS FTP server, H >but since it sits behind a firewall and NAT router, I want to minimize J >the security risk by opening only those ports which the FTP server might  >pass to the connecting client.  > I >Does anyone have information on the range of ports used by either HGFTP  J >or the TCPIP Services for OpenVMS server when clients connect in passive  >mode?  O In older version of TCP/IP there is no control over the port range, and I don't O know how to tell what the range is. On newer versions (at least V5.3 which I am O running) I think you can query the range and change it, if you need to. Use the . following sequence to check the current range:  ( $ @sys$manager:TCPIP$DEFINE_COMMANDS.COM $ sysconfig -q inet   D and then look at the values returned for ipport_userreserved_min andJ ipport_userreserved -- I think this is the range. Here is what I get on my system:    ipport_userreserved = 65535  ipport_userreserved_min = 49152   L I think this means the range of "ephemeral ports" is 49152 to 65535. This isO described in section 2.2.2.8 of the Tuning and Troubleshooting manual. See, for  example:  N http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/73final/6631/6631pro_003.html#connect_port_range    I ------------------------------------------------------------------------- I David M. Smith 302.391.8533                       dsmit115 at csc dot com I Computer Sciences Corporation     (Opinions are those of the writer only) I -------------------------------------------------------------------------    ------------------------------  % Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 21:05:36 -0500   From: John Santos <JOHN@egh.com>( Subject: Re: V7.3-2 shipping problems...6 Message-ID: <1031222203953.11604A-100000@Ives.egh.com>  ( On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Wayne Sewell wrote:   > >X-Newsgroups: comp.os.vms' > >Subject: V7.3-2 shipping problems... # > >From: VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG  > > E > >I received my V7.3-2 source listings some time ago but I only just D > >Saturday (20-DEC) received my V7.3-2 binaries from FedEx.  Why??? > > E > >My address has been in the DEC/Compaq databases with the full nine E > >digit ZIP code (08527-2320).  The new HP printing label has my ZIP E > >code as 8527232 -- the leading and trailing zeroes were lost.  The E > >FedEx label has this as a shipment to Arizona (AZ 85272).  There's G > >some interesting tracking history at FedEx (track id: 630136551751).  > > F > >I know most of HP is out for the duration of the Christmas and New E > >Year holidays but I thought I'd post this here in hopes that some- E > >body in HP would still be reading news and be able to forward this . > >issue to the appropriate party inside HP.   > > C > >Curious.  Anybody with a similar ZIP experience this same issue?  > >  > Q > I might have, with a code similar to yours.  I just looked at my label, and the P > the last digit of the extended zip was truncated and there was no dash.  So it > *was* dorked with. > P > However, my main zip starts with 7, not 0, so this is probably the difference.N > Without the leading zero, it was not truncated to a value corresponding to a, > location on the other side of the country. > P > So this is going to affect only people in the northeast, since that's the partR > of the country with zips that start with 0 (software partners, north of boston,  > is 01983). >  > Wayne   E I had a similar problem recently (September?) with a layered products D kit (DSPP), a bogified ZIP code sent it wandering.  I don't remember; the details, but I think it was similar to Brian's problem.   G The V7.3-2 kit came through fine, and has the correct 5-digit ZIP code. H (It arrived on Dec 2, and someone left it on the desk of someone who was7 on vacation, so I didn't see it for another week... :-(   C Today I received another box with V7.3-2 and the Q4 SPL (apparently C through the DSPP program.  It has two labels on it, both with bogus @ ZIP codes.  The HP label has a 4-digit code, 2173.  Our ZIP codeB *used* to be 02173, but the Post Office changed it about 3-4 yearsC ago.  The FedEx label has 02170 (wrong but probably near-by, before B the Post Office changed a bunch of local ZIP codes 3-4 years ago.)B The 02170 is crossed out and there is a hand-written 02420 writtenF next to it.  This is also wrong, 02420 is the other half of Lexington.  C I tried checking the tracking number on the FedEx site to determine F how long it took to get the 35-40 miles from Nashua (shipped "Priority= Overnight" a week before Christmas), but the FedEx site makes  DUNIX Netscape 4 core-dump.   B Later: VMS Mozilla works (complained about not having write accessG to its files, though) and says the package was shipped from Londonderry E (next to Nashua) on Thursday evening, arrived about an equal distance J in the other direction about an hour later, spent all day Friday wanderingD around Massachusetts (probably passing through Lexington 2-3 times),B spent the weekend in Needham (about 8 miles as the crow flies from. here), and was finally delivered this morning.  C I thought we had this straightened out after the September debacle.    --   John Santos  Evans Griffiths & Hart, Inc. 781-861-0670 ext 539   ------------------------------  % Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 20:16:36 -0500 & From: "Chris Moore" <just@my.twocents>8 Subject: Re: What Andrew and sun can't stand is that ...: Message-ID: <tGMFb.4740$d%1.1060145@news20.bellglobal.com>  C And he just slammed me for telling people to leave him alone.  This 1 gentleman needs to find a hobby or something.....     5 "Wayne Sewell" <wayne@tachysoft.com> wrote in message ) news:00A2AAC0.4629FEEC.1@tachysoft.com... ) > >From: "Chris Moore" <just@my.twocents>  > >X-Newsgroups: comp.os.vms; > >Subject: Re: What Andrew and sun can't stand is that ...  > > J > >Why is it that people continue to bait Harrison?  Reasoned arguments orH > >evidence to the contrary, he'll never admit he's wrong, so why bother > >"winding him up"? > >  > ) > One of the great mysteries of our time.  > I > Why people waste time responding to him is beyond me.  And deliberately = > provoking him to post by starting a thread like this one is  incomprehensible > behavior.  > K > Fortunately, I don't see his own posts, just the unfortunate responses to L > them.  I guess I'll have to start scanning the message *body* for his name so I > can filter those too.  >  > Wayne  > L ============================================================================ === : > Wayne Sewell, Tachyon Software Consulting  (281)812-0738 wayne@tachysoft.com : > http://www.tachysoft.com/www/tachyon.html and wayne.html > L ============================================================================ === J > Randolph Duke (in Trading Places): "Mother always said you were greedy."3 >    Mortimer Duke: "She meant it as a compliment!"    ------------------------------    Date: 22 Dec 2003 21:54:30 -0800. From: mistdragon@zdnetonebox.com (mist dragon)8 Subject: Re: What Andrew and sun can't stand is that ...= Message-ID: <7500353b.0312222154.10518fac@posting.google.com>   5 > In the last 12 months HPQ has shipped a grand total 0 > of ~5150 AlphaServers running OpenVMS, that is4 > entry level to GS1280 down from ~6100 Alphaservers, > running OpenVMS in the previous 12 months.  C And this pretty much explains from where the profit comes from. Not 3 from 400.000 new users, but 395.000 old licenses :)   F From here I see two outcomes: Continuing decline of Alpha as it is now3 EOL and continuing uncertainity on path to Itanium.   C Now that 8.1 has been released and available for public, it will be F interesting to see how the sales will be next year. I wish there wouldB be more than this figure on website - 400.000 customers could meanE anything from 40.000 to 400.00. I've heard all the figures inbetween, 4 but obviously HP is afraid to tell the true figures.  A It will be also interesting to see what happends to Itanium after  Intel will finish its x86-64.    M    ------------------------------   End of INFO-VAX 2003.708 ************************