0 INFO-VAX	Mon, 13 Jan 2003	Volume 2003 : Issue 25      Contents:  CSwing status on OpenVMS v7.3-1?& FA: Digital Systems & Options Catalogs Re: Freeware VDD647 HP's Alpha Marvel arrives on Tuesday (says The Inq....) > Re: OT (sadly) Opteron servers preparing to hit the real worldP Re: Q: How to change the "compaq" logo on the VAXstation desktop to   "digital"?? Re: VAX boot time drivers, was: Re: JF and backporting features   F ----------------------------------------------------------------------  # Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 04:20:51 GMT / From: "Richard L. Dyson" <rick-dyson@uiowa.edu> ) Subject: CSwing status on OpenVMS v7.3-1? ( Message-ID: <3E223EC4.5050109@uiowa.edu>  J I heard that there were some programming problems in the old CSwing v3.7.6G program that became a problem on OpenVMS v7.3-1.  I have just recently  N upgraded and though CSwing works to first order, I have noticed some problems  with the Purge operation.   I I've been away from the newsgroup too long and must have missed any fixes F that might have come along.  Does anyone know where there is a current kit?   rick, (the foo and bar are not part of the e-mail)   ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 23:06:44 -0500 3 From: "Homer J. Simpson" <hsimpson@burnsenergy.com> / Subject: FA: Digital Systems & Options Catalogs 4 Message-ID: <BGqU9.8812$WT3.1173@news.bellsouth.net>  K Posted part one of the collection.  Reads like a trip down memory lane. . .    Jan-Mar 1991J http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=616&item=2905775148   Apr-Jun 1991J http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=616&item=2906082959   Oct-Dec 1991J http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=616&item=2906344449   Jan 1992J http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=616&item=2906348982   Apr 1992 Supplement J http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=616&item=2906355144   Jul 1992J http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=616&item=2906364932  
 April 1993J http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=616&item=2905720220   Jan 1995J http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=616&item=2905652541  
 April 1998J http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=163&item=2087603601   ------------------------------  % Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 00:11:45 +0100 + From: Thomas Schick <schick.thomas@gmx.net>  Subject: Re: Freeware VDD64 / Message-ID: <avssk2$sod$01$1@news.t-online.com>    Tim Oakley wrote:  > Hello, > H > Have just updated to v7.3 and our optical disks which used to use the K > PERCPETICS supplied 'WDD' drivers (OSMS i think) no longer work (in fact  3 > the system crashes when we load the WDD drivers).  >  > HP France told me that...  > eitherK > purchase new drivers from a company named USDESIGN who tookover the OSMS  K > software from Compaq (this seems fair, but USDESIGN tell me that the new  F > drivers will allow me to read data from my optical drives but *not* 6 > write to them (sounds like a Microsoft enhancement))   Welcome too!F I asked HP Germany with a reference to the OpenVMS SPD 25.01.66 where G some RWZ are mentioned as supported devices and HP told me: This is a   misprint in the SPD. . http://www.compaq.com/info/sp2501/sp2501pf.pdfI http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/askkcs/hpcg/215_0_86946134_3490025.html A We increased the disk capacity and copied the optical datas back.   
 Thomas Schick    > orK > try using the freeware VDD64 package which should allow me to access the  # > optical disks as i did with OSMS.  > K > Having downloaded the VDD package and read the help/user doc i don't see   > how VDD is going to help me. > J > Has anyone used the freeware 'VDD64' (virtual device drivers) for their G > optical drives or has anyone got a different solution to my problem ?  >  > best regards to all  >    ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 21:55:19 +0100 9 From: Jan-Erik =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F6derholm?= <aaa@aaa.com> @ Subject: HP's Alpha Marvel arrives on Tuesday (says The Inq....)' Message-ID: <3E21D637.1B664C7D@aaa.com>   ( http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7161   Enjoy. Jan-Erik Sderholm.    ------------------------------  # Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 00:24:15 GMT . From: peter@langstoeger.at (Peter LANGSTOEGER)G Subject: Re: OT (sadly) Opteron servers preparing to hit the real world 5 Message-ID: <PGnU9.156666$Gg2.1453476@news.chello.at>   c In article <gM4vLDhLyMCC@eisner.encompasserve.org>, Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes: A >An ordinary desktop user does not need something as fast as EV7.    Care to explain ?   . "The world computer market is about 6 systems" "Who needs more than 640 KB"  M were some mistakes of the past. Maybe the ordinary desktop user does not need M the speed (or the 64bit addresses) for the next couple of years but they will M claim them much earlier than you want them to. So don't force "currently big" 1 systems out of the desktop space artificially ...    --   Peter "EPLAN" LANGSTOEGER % Network and OpenVMS system specialist  E-mail  peter@langstoeger.atF A-1030 VIENNA  AUSTRIA              I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist   ------------------------------  # Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 04:08:21 GMT / From: "Richard L. Dyson" <rick-dyson@uiowa.edu> Y Subject: Re: Q: How to change the "compaq" logo on the VAXstation desktop to   "digital"? ( Message-ID: <3E223BD5.5050309@uiowa.edu>   Mike Rechtman wrote:   > On a related note:E > could not get the new XV to compile - blew up looking for X11\Xos.h G > Has anyone done this? (VAX OpenVMS 6.2, DW 1.2-4, Compaq C V6.4-005)    9 Did you get XV from my web site?  Or from somewhere else?   + 	http://www-pi.physics.uiowa.edu/~dyson/xv/    Rick --  J Richard L. Dyson                                      rick-dyson@uiowa.eduK   _   _  _____                      http://www-pi.physics.uiowa.edu/~dyson/ J | | | ||_   _|  Senior Systems Analyst   --   INFORMM-Cerner Systems Group< | | | |  | |    The University of Iowa Hospitals and ClinicsJ | \_/ | _| |_   Information Systems Dept. BT1000 GH   Office: 319/384-7016K   \___/ |_____|  Iowa City, IA 52242-1052                 FAX: 319/384-7020 E                  (Consulting to the Physics and Astronomy Department)    ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 19:55:40 +0000 + From: John Laird <john@laird-towers.org.uk> H Subject: Re: VAX boot time drivers, was: Re: JF and backporting features8 Message-ID: <anh32vgu65a9590s2oseh0ahhn8u0l6jq7@4ax.com>  , On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 19:13:06 -0400, JF Mezei( <jfmezei.spamnot@vl.videotron.ca> wrote:   >John Laird wrote:M >> Yes.  Otherwise how would you access any disk over 1Gb as a data volume on  >> such machines ? > O >I was thinking about the possibility that the system disk would continue to be H >mounted with the boot drivers (6 bytes) and only other drived would get >mounted with the VMS drivers.  . That'd be pretty yuk, to use a technical term.   >(system files) N >> Yes.  But don't expect the VMS engineers to identify them with any promises' >> you won't get into trouble one day !  > M >Seeing that I am not friends with the engineers :-), perhaps they would have H >no problem giving me the info knowing that one day I would have lots of >problems ... :-)   H To be entirely safe, I think you'd have to see the entire [SYSn...] tree7 within the first 1Gb (traversed also via [VMS$COMMON]).   M >> You're really out on your own with such a configuration.  If you seriously N >> wanted to use a 200Gb disk, search out and invest in a better class of Vax. > N >I am thinking in terms of the day my 1 gig drive fails. I know I could manageO >with a 4-10 gig drive if I do things carefully. (for instance, having a backup ! >of the SY0 and VMS$COMMON trees)   K Another suggestion has commonly been to use LD to "partition" the high part B of the disk into a data volume.  If you were to do this, you wouldJ definitely have to force the index file to the beginning.  But it ought toJ be completely safe.  By the time you can install LD and use that area, youL will have the genuine disk drivers loaded.  Restore from backup will also be fairly trivial.      	John    ------------------------------   End of INFO-VAX 2003.025 ************************