1 INFO-VAX	Tue, 09 Mar 2004	Volume 2004 : Issue 137       Contents: Re: AlphaServer 300  RE: AlphaServer 300 , Re: Are RZ29B and RZ28D supposed to be LOUD?, RE: Are RZ29B and RZ28D supposed to be LOUD?, RE: Are RZ29B and RZ28D supposed to be LOUD?' Re: Check out these new VT flat panels!   Re: dismounting a spooled device< Error message: Failed to translate SYS$CLUSTER_NODE_FULLNAME@ Re: Error message: Failed to translate SYS$CLUSTER_NODE_FULLNAME Re: Fortran 9x for VAX?  RE: Fortran 9x for VAX? : Re: It is almost certain now, INTEL will have 64bit x86 !! Re: mailbox G Re: OpenVMS virus proof while other disks get zapped by latest viruses! / sending file on internet through FTP on openVMS / Re: Strange Device name...Anybody have ideas???  Re: Sun On The Run?  Re: Toys R Us and VMS ?  Re: Toys R Us and VMS ?  RE: Toys R Us and VMS ?  Re: Toys R Us and VMS ? < Re: USB and SYS$OHCIDRIVER (was: Re: Strange Device name...)
 Zope on Vms ?  Re: Zope on Vms ? . [ANN] GUIFFY 6.0 "SEQUOIA" diff/merge released  F ----------------------------------------------------------------------  % Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 11:51:05 +0100 7 From: Robert Trawinski <robert.trawinski@softax.com.pl>  Subject: Re: AlphaServer 300/ Message-ID: <c2k7ip$sge$1@bozon2.softax.com.pl>   8 Thanks very much. So I became happy VMS machine's owner.   Robert   ------------------------------  $ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 10:42:01 -0500* From: "Brian Tillman" <Tillmabg@yahoo.com> Subject: RE: AlphaServer 300' Message-ID: <012BE804.C22236@yahoo.com>    Robert Trawinski wrote:   9 > I can get for free AlphaServer300 (two disks, graphics,  > memory - 256MB?, > CD, floppy).9 > Not very good condition, but owner say it should works. F > I'd like to use it home, but I'm not sure is that good idea to spendG > some time revitalizing this one. There is VMS license. Is it possible  > to install > VMS 7.3-x on it?  F If you spend US $300, you can have the VMS license transferred to you.H Otherwise, you'll have to join the Hobbyist program and get aVMS license	 that way.  --  
 Brian Tillman    ------------------------------   Date: 9 Mar 2004 05:05:45 -0800 . From: al5vf03p02@sneakemail.com (William Webb)5 Subject: Re: Are RZ29B and RZ28D supposed to be LOUD? = Message-ID: <d5ce4b06.0403090505.27a89faa@posting.google.com>   k Chuck Chopp <ChuckChopp@rtfmcsi.com> wrote in message news:<1S43c.28900$JN2.9157@bignews4.bellsouth.net>...  > Dan Foster wrote:  > b > > In article <1078771184.415794@news.liwest.at>, Ralph Aichinger <ralph@dolphy.pangea.at> wrote: > > 2 > >>I know, this is not a strict VMS question, but5 > >>I think there might be knowledgeable people here:  > >>4 > >>I just got an AlphaStation 255 with 2 disks and 5 > >>a CD-Rom. It is unbelievably loud. It sounds like 2 > >>a dentist's drill as soon as the disks spin up7 > >>(or I suppose it is the disks giving these noises).  > >  > > G > > I've never heard hard drives so I don't know the definitive answer, M > > although if it also *vibrates* (internally) like putting your hands on an M > > huge subwoofer, then it'd probably be due to a failed ball bearing (which L > > often means the drive is expiring and needs immediate replacement). I'veI > > had a few drives over the years that failed in this way. Not a common " > > failure mode, but does happen. > > O > > If it's just loud but no associated vibration when you put your hand on the H > > drive (exterior, of course) surface, then it's probably 'just loud'. >  > M > I've got several RZ28s and a single RZ29 on a MicroVAX 3100m90 system here  O > at home, and they are all very loud in the home environment.  Now, when they  O > were in StorageWorks SBB containers in a BA350 shelf in the datacenter, they  H > were perceived as being relatively noiseless.  But, stripped of their I > containers and used in a location with relatively low background noise  = > levels, they do make a lot of noise while they are running.  >  >  > --  
 > Chuck Chopp  > : > ChuckChopp (at) rtfmcsi (dot) com http://www.rtfmcsi.com3 >                                    ICQ # 22321532 B > RTFM Consulting Services Inc.     864 801 2795 voice & voicemail4 > 103 Autumn Hill Road              864 801 2774 fax6 > Greer, SC  29651                  800 774 0718 pagerE >                                    8007740718 (at) skytel (dot) com  > . > Do not send me unsolicited commercial email.   Chuck's right on the money.     C I just replaced an RZ28 for one of my co-workers for aesthetic (and D auditory) reasons. Nothing wrong with it, mind you, except the noise was bothering her.  F I spent a little too much time around LP27s with the lid raised, and I don't F hear some ranges as well as I used to- it didn't bother me, but one of the B fluorescent lights in her cubicle had a ballast going bad and thatF sound seemed far more annoying to me than the RZ28 in her AlphaStation 255.  B If you go back a little further in time, the AlphaStation 200s had@ RZ26s in them which were known to make awful noises (some of 'emB sounded like they had loose stuff rattling around inside) when the system started them up.   E If you go back yet further, I used to have a 500 meg or so ESDI drive E (on a PC, mind you, in the days when this was BIG) that took around a A minute or so to spin up, and did a pretty good imitation of a jet - engine increasing pitch whine while doing so.   D I've still got the controller for it in an antistatic bag somewhere.   WWWebb ========================! William W. Webb- EMS Operations,   OpenVMS Systems Support % USPS DSSC Annex - 4730 Hargrove Road  5 Raleigh, NC 27616-2874 919.325.7508 option 7 option 3  * * * -    ------------------------------  $ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 08:33:09 -0500* From: "Brian Tillman" <Tillmabg@yahoo.com>5 Subject: RE: Are RZ29B and RZ28D supposed to be LOUD? ' Message-ID: <012BDA3A.C22236@yahoo.com>    Ralph Aichinger wrote:  2 > These disks are 2GB SCSI or something like this.  ( The RZ28 is 2.1 Gb.  The RZ29 is 4.2 Gb. --  
 Brian Tillman    ------------------------------  $ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 10:29:19 -0500$ From: Mike Duffy <Duffy@process.com>5 Subject: RE: Are RZ29B and RZ28D supposed to be LOUD? J Message-ID: <63D30D6E10CFD11190A90000F805FE860492B4B6@lespaul.process.com>   > -----Original Message-----D > From: al5vf03p02@sneakemail.com [mailto:al5vf03p02@sneakemail.com] >   (William W. Webb) ' > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 8:06 AM  > To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com 7 > Subject: Re: Are RZ29B and RZ28D supposed to be LOUD?  >  > [snip]D > If you go back a little further in time, the AlphaStation 200s hadB > RZ26s in them which were known to make awful noises (some of 'emD > sounded like they had loose stuff rattling around inside) when the > system started them up.  >   E I have a pair of AlphaStation 200s.  I've noticed a tremendous amount D of variation among the RZ26L noise levels.  I took the two loud onesA and put them in one box, and the two quiet ones in the other (the E one that runs all the time.)  The machine with the two quieter drives D is tolerable on the desktop, but I also notice that it's best to let> the machine run all the time.  The first day after powering upB is the loudest.  After about a day the box seems much quieter, andA it's too much of a difference to attribute to becoming accustomed A to the noise, I believe.  The first day back from vacation is the G worst, with the drives making occasional screeching sounds that always  C make me think "Well, this time it's tearing itself apart. I should  C have written a more recent backup."  Then, after a few episodes of  . these scary noises, they settle down somewhat.  @ I also have a VAXstation 3100 M76 with an RZ26L and an RZ28, and? the thing is unearthly silent among the other machines.  If the > disks are not seeking, I have to put my head right next to the@ machine to hear anything at all.  I guess I got lucky with those? two drives.  The sound of the 3100 is completely masked by the  @ fan noise of the console terminal (present because the graphics ! board quit about four years ago.)   
 Mike Duffy      ------------------------------   Date: 9 Mar 2004 07:50:44 -0600 ; From: koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) 0 Subject: Re: Check out these new VT flat panels!3 Message-ID: <M$VRsj0tlCnw@eisner.encompasserve.org>   l In article <c2j0ch$6tu$1@new-usenet.uk.sun.com>, Andrew Harrison <andrew_._remove_harrison@su_n.com> writes: > 8 > I still have one bridge, second hand one carefull lady > owner. > . > Please apply at london-bridge-auctions.co.uk  E    Andrew sure can find some odd ways to be wrong.  The London Bridge B    was sold a long time ago, and is alive and well at its new home    in Arizona.  F    But I think there is still no recorded sale of the Brooklyn Bridge.   ------------------------------  $ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 19:13:30 +0100, From: "Hans Vlems" <hvlems.dotweg@zonnet.nl>) Subject: Re: dismounting a spooled device : Message-ID: <c2l1g2$1tl8hs$1@ID-143435.news.uni-berlin.de>  ; "Paul Repacholi" <prep@prep.synonet.com> schreef in bericht ' news:8765dfl01a.fsf@prep.synonet.com... 0 > "Hans Vlems" <hvlems.dotweg@zonnet.nl> writes: >  > > Wouldn't this help:  >  > > $ show dev dja0:/files > % > That is the drive code for an RA60!  >  > --  > > Paul Repacholi                               1 Crescent Rd.,9 > +61 (08) 9257-1001                           Kalamunda. B >                                              West Australia 6076, > comp.os.vms,- The Older, Grumpier Slashdot0 > Raw, Cooked or Well-done, it's all half baked.H > EPIC, The Architecture of the future, always has been, always will be.  I Correct Paul, just wondered if somebody would notice. Of course it is the ; new drive code because originally RA60's were DU's as well.    ------------------------------   Date: 8 Mar 2004 23:55:32 -0800  From: mb301@hotmail.com (MB)E Subject: Error message: Failed to translate SYS$CLUSTER_NODE_FULLNAME = Message-ID: <1d08b916.0403082355.65a1ea73@posting.google.com>   + Could anyone tell me what this error means?    $ mcr CDI$TRACE.EXE J 07:49:30     - 3139 -  first, look up noae "NET$490004AA000400031021"  --- 07:49:30. [3330] lookup 3330: "NET$490004AA000400031021"" 07:49:30 Full name : LOCAL:.alpha1! 07:49:30 Compressed name : alpha1 M 07:49:30 WARNING!! Failed to translate SYS$CLUSTER_NODE_FULLNAME. Status: 1BC  07:49:30 Alias name :   07:49:30 Compressed alias name :   $ sh log SYS$CLUSTER_NODE_* B %SHOW-S-NOTRAN, no translation for logical name SYS$CLUSTER_NODE_*   I can generate it by doing   $ set host 0- Failure on the back translate address request  Welcome to alpha1.  	 username:    ------------------------------  % Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 16:03:27 +0100 * From: Paul Sture <nospam@sture.homeip.net>I Subject: Re: Error message: Failed to translate SYS$CLUSTER_NODE_FULLNAME 0 Message-ID: <404DEACF.2ED9F9BD@sture.homeip.net>   Bob Koehler wrote: > ^ > In article <1d08b916.0403082355.65a1ea73@posting.google.com>, mb301@hotmail.com (MB) writes:/ > > Could anyone tell me what this error means?  > > Q > > 07:49:30 WARNING!! Failed to translate SYS$CLUSTER_NODE_FULLNAME. Status: 1BC  > ) >    $write sys$output f$message("%x1bc") . >    %SYSTEM-F-NOLOGNAM, no logical name match > >  > > $ sh log SYS$CLUSTER_NODE_* F > > %SHOW-S-NOTRAN, no translation for logical name SYS$CLUSTER_NODE_* > ? >    That's consistent.  Is there some product that realy needs  >    SYS$CLUSTER_NODE_FULLNAME?    $ sh log SYS$CLUSTER_NODE_*     1   "SYS$CLUSTER_NODE_FULLNAME" = "LOCAL:.ALPHAX::"   = where "ALPHAX" is my DECnet/plus cluster alias, as defined in ! SYS$MANAGER:NET$ALIAS_STARTUP.NCL    --    
 Paul Sture   ------------------------------   Date: 9 Mar 2004 07:42:26 -0600 ; From: koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler)   Subject: Re: Fortran 9x for VAX?3 Message-ID: <rTq35Lcnkm2I@eisner.encompasserve.org>   f In article <3cop4091vkj7c31l0v2ss0o70noqb5o0k3@4ax.com>, Steve Lionel <Steve.Lionel@intel.com> writes:L > On 8 Mar 2004 14:43:08 -0600, koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob > Koehler) wrote:  > I >>   Anyone know if there is a Fortran 9x compiler for VAXen running VMS?  > N > I can tell you with certainty that DEC/Compaq never produced one and I'd betK > quite a bit that HP never will.  I am also unaware of anyone else who has D > offered such a thing, but it is a big world...  I suppose g95 is a > possibility...  .    Yep.  I must have been mis-remmebering HPO.   ------------------------------  $ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 10:29:04 -0500* From: "Brian Tillman" <Tillmabg@yahoo.com>  Subject: RE: Fortran 9x for VAX?' Message-ID: <012BE6C8.C22236@yahoo.com>    Bob Koehler wrote:  E >    I thought I remembered an option for Fortran 9x on a VAX running B >    VMS.  I can only find the SPD for Fortran 77.  Maybe I got it > mixed    up with HPO.  > < >    Anyone know if there is a Fortran 9x compiler for VAXen > running VMS?  ' Fortran 9x was released for Alpha only.  --  
 Brian Tillman    ------------------------------  $ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 08:49:18 +0100( From: "Rudolf Wingert" <win@fom.fgan.de>C Subject: Re: It is almost certain now, INTEL will have 64bit x86 !! 3 Message-ID: <001201c405ab$071b6980$994614ac@wat153>    Hello,   Andrew did wrote:    >>> C Each slot has its own bus. This is the PDF for the F15K it contains H details of the older hsPCI I/O expansion unit as you will see each hsPCIE expansion card has 2 PCI controllers each with 2 PCI busses one at 33  and one at 33/66Mhz.  H The hsPCI+ expansion unit in the 20/25K is an upgrade to the hsPCI card. <<<   H Sorry, but I could not find any PDF documentation with that information.. I did find only that information for the F15k:G   Up to 72 hot-swappable PCI slots on 18 channels; 36 slots are 66 MHz, F 36 slots are 33 MHz; supports Sun Gigabit Ethernet FC-AL/P Combination Adapter,H   Sun Dual Fast Ethernet and Dual SCSI /P Adapter, Sun Dual Differential? Ultra SCSI Host Adapter, Sun Quad FastEthernet, SunATM 622, Sun  HIPPI/P1.0, (   Serial Asynchronous Interface Adapter.F This information says 18 channels for 72 PCI slots. AFAIK channels andH busses are the same, only different names. If not, please write the URL,' where I can verify your posted "facts".    Best regards Rudolf Wingert    ------------------------------  * Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 16:26:47 +0000 (UTC)- From: lewis@spyder.mitre.org (Keith A. Lewis)  Subject: Re: mailbox. Message-ID: <c2kr87$33n$1@newslocal.mitre.org>   usenet_vms@lehrerfamily.com (Joshua Lehrer) writes in article <477e0934.0403082038.3e074e5c@posting.google.com> dated 8 Mar 2004 20:38:57 -0800:C >I am using a mailbox to pipe the output of a subprocess back to my F >program.  I do this by creating a temporary mailbox, and passing thatE >mailbox to lib$spawn for it to use for its output.  I then read from  >that mailbox. > C >The problem that I am having is that I can not tell the difference D >between when the subprocess outputs data with a newline, or when itD >simply flushes the output stream.  The mailbox seems to be removing< >the newline character that was placed in by the subprocess. > F >When my main program reads the data from the mailbox, it doesn't knowC >whether the subprocess printed a full line of text, or whether the 0 >subprocess simply flushed the output to stdout. > G >Is there a way to have the mailbox not do any translation of the data, > >and simply pass through the data, raw?  In other words, if myD >subprocess sends "HELLO\n" to stdout, I'd like to read in "HELLO\n"D >from the mailbox.  I'd like to be able to distinguish that from the> >subprocess simply printing "HELLO" and then fflushing stdout. >  >Any suggestions?   K The mailboxes themselves have the capability to do what you want.  In fact, F you can send binary data structures through them.  But you have to use SYS$QIO(W) to do it.  L It's the stream-to-mailbox interface which is changing the newlines to flushK commands.  If you pass the mailbox to lib$spawn, or open it as a FILE in C, K you're going to be using it as a byte stream device, which it really isn't.   D The way I see it, you can solve your problem by doing any one of the
 following:   1.  Don't fflush.   ; 2.  Use $QIO to write exactly what you want to the mailbox.   L 3.  Use a different character to represent a newline.  Insert this character, before each real newline in the sending app.  0 --Keith Lewis              klewis {at} mitre.org> The above may not (yet) represent the opinions of my employer.   ------------------------------   Date: 9 Mar 2004 13:32:38 GMT , From: bill@gw5.cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon)P Subject: Re: OpenVMS virus proof while other disks get zapped by latest viruses!: Message-ID: <c2kh1l$1u783h$1@ID-135708.news.uni-berlin.de>  - In article <c2k1ec$285t$1@news.cybercity.dk>, # 	"Dr. Dweeb" <dr@dweeb.com> writes:  > J > No, there are some that run some version of the PocketPC OS (not windows > last time I looked).    = http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-15CA-7B5915-394AB4AC-prod3 ;   "The PocketPC OS is basically WinCe with still more added (     features, without most of the bugs."  E Considering the source, I will leave others to decide on the validity A of the last phrase.  The important thing is, it most definitel is  Windows.  I >                      Excuse me for not knowing the name of this OS this N > week, but it is the one MS is flogging for mobile devices, PDAs and at least$ > for a while (still?) thin clients.  F As stated above, it's called WindowsCE warmed over and with a new nameE most likely intended to lull the users into a flase sense of security ' that their "new" OS is actually better.    > 3 > I have no clue if Bob uses these, but they exist.   E Bob's thin clients run Powerterm and IE.  If it walks like a duck and  quacks like a duck.....    bill   --  J Bill Gunshannon          |  de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  Three wolvesD bill@cs.scranton.edu     |  and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. University of Scranton   |A Scranton, Pennsylvania   |         #include <std.disclaimer.h>       ------------------------------   Date: 9 Mar 2004 02:31:40 -0800 . From: shakeelj2k@yahoo.com (shakeel-ur-rehman)8 Subject: sending file on internet through FTP on openVMS= Message-ID: <cb950e29.0403090231.55d7ee33@posting.google.com>   C I have Open VMS 7.1-2 running on an Alpha machine. The system has a C UCX 4.2 and PPPD utility. I do have a US Robotics modem(external).I ? need to know how to write DCL script to get the above utilities > running( like running UCX,FTP,PPPD and modem configuration) toE accomplish described task. I have a TXT file placed in a directory of F Alpha machine.I want to read that file as input through  FTP software.D Then I would like that file to be sent through PPPD using dial-up to5 the ISP using TCP/IP software to send it on internet.   @ I need DCL programme sequence/Pseudo code as actual code for the? implementation of the about task in open VMS 7.1-2 environment.    ------------------------------   Date: 9 Mar 2004 06:55:04 -0800 - From: phillip_thayer@hotmail.com (PhilThayer) 8 Subject: Re: Strange Device name...Anybody have ideas???= Message-ID: <5ee1d1b7.0403090655.3ad51ffe@posting.google.com>   [ JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@istop.com> wrote in message news:<404CC080.621DB931@istop.com>...    > P > It is an undocumented feature for VMS engineers that should have never made itK > to public distribution. It is a virtual reality device driver depicting a O > Hawaii beach so that during new england's long, cold dark and dreary winters, > > the engineers can take 15 minute breaks on a hawaiian beach.  D I will pass this information on to my IT manager so that he will seeC just how powerful the AlphaServer running OpenVMS is.  Maybe we can D use this for some future business needs.  Or a remote office setup.  That would be nice.    PT :)    ------------------------------  # Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 17:46:20 GMT # From: "John Smith" <a@nonymous.com>  Subject: Re: Sun On The Run?J Message-ID: <Mpn3c.215426$Qg7.195176@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com>  D "Fred Kleinsorge" <my-last-name@stardotzko.dec.com> wrote in message* news:umn3c.504$hu1.107@news.cpqcorp.net...K > See: http://www.redhat.com/licenses/rhel_us_3.html?country=United+States&  > E > RedHat doesn't actually sell you "Linux" so much as they sell you a H > subscription service which includes the OS distribution as part of theI > contract.  When you agree to the contract, you are agreeing to use what  theyI > provide *only* on the number of systems for which you have paid them to  use K > it on.  You also agree to allow them to do a yearly audit for the purpose  ofL > compliance.  If you under report the number of systems, the penalty is 20%E > of the fees on the under reported systems plus administrative fees.   G And of course,  plus the annual license fee times the number of systems  under-reported.    Thanks for the link.   ------------------------------  $ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 09:59:17 +0100  From: "Dr. Dweeb" <dr@dweeb.com>  Subject: Re: Toys R Us and VMS ?- Message-ID: <c2k116$27pp$1@news.cybercity.dk>    Dave Weatherall wrote:G > On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 03:17:16 UTC, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@istop.com>  > wrote: > = >> HP is currently airing ads about how Toys R Us is using HP  >> technology to run4 >> the inventory control for its Times Square store. >>/ >> I seem to recall Toys R Us being a VMS user.  >>C >> Does anyone know if Toys R us was in fact a big VMS user ? Is it  >> still a VMS	 >> user ?  >>D >> *IF* the current TV ads was refering to a VMS system at Toys R UsG >> (without mentioning VMS, of course), then at least we could point to F >> our potential customers and tell them that the HP TV ads about that >> store refer to a VMS system.  > D > I do seem to remember being pleasantly surprised at seeing a VT5xxG > terminal when Xmas shopping at Toys R Us. I can't remember which Xmas 
 > tho' :-)  H Ha - I was working at a logistics (books and such) site recently.  BrandL new, automated skips, giant warehouse etc. etc.  The entire real time systemF looked like a job for VMS.  The remote stations were thin clients withI Citrix/W2K with WiFi, but quite a number of the fixed stations were VT5xx 
 terminals.  I So I asked one of the software suppliers technicians.  Sure enough, they I used to be a 100% VMS supplier, but now they have converted everything to K W2K.  Another lost VMS client.  I did not bother asking why - who cares - I  am not HP.   E Anyway, the system worked - except there were all sorts of networking I problems to the remote thin clients.  While the system crashed regularly, K this seemed to be mechanical failures rather than W2K, at least while I was  there.  H So, VT5xx terminals are not (if they ever were) necessarily a pointer to VMS.  J On the other hand, IKEA has VTxx terminals everywhere and they are still a VMS site last time I looked.  
 Dr. Dweeb.   ------------------------------   Date: 9 Mar 2004 13:36:48 GMT , From: bill@gw5.cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon)  Subject: Re: Toys R Us and VMS ?: Message-ID: <c2kh9g$1u783h$2@ID-135708.news.uni-berlin.de>  ) In article <404D3721.84409EC4@istop.com>, - 	JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@istop.com> writes:  > L > *IF* the current TV ads was refering to a VMS system at Toys R Us (withoutK > mentioning VMS, of course), then at least we could point to our potential T > customers and tell them that the HP TV ads about that store refer to a VMS system.  E And, of course, these mythical customers who have never heard of this F thing called VMS, who also "know" the whole world runs on Windows, are2 just going to take your word for that, right?  :-(   bill   --  J Bill Gunshannon          |  de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  Three wolvesD bill@cs.scranton.edu     |  and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. University of Scranton   |A Scranton, Pennsylvania   |         #include <std.disclaimer.h>       ------------------------------  $ Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 10:34:39 -0500* From: "Brian Tillman" <Tillmabg@yahoo.com>  Subject: RE: Toys R Us and VMS ?' Message-ID: <012BE756.C22236@yahoo.com>    Someone wrote:  < > HP is currently airing ads about how Toys R Us is using HPE > technology to run the inventory control for its Times Square store.  > . > I seem to recall Toys R Us being a VMS user. > B > Does anyone know if Toys R us was in fact a big VMS user ? Is it > still a VMS user ?  E Seems to me, Blockbuster used to be a VMS shop.  Has it, too, gone to  Billy-boy hell?  --  
 Brian Tillman    ------------------------------  % Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 09:51:32 -0600 ( From: brandon@dalsemi.com (John Brandon)  Subject: Re: Toys R Us and VMS ?1 Message-ID: <04030909513269@dscis6-0.dalsemi.com>    Brian Tillman wrote:  G > Seems to me, Blockbuster used to be a VMS shop.  Has it, too, gone to  > Billy-boy hell?   ? Blockbuster still is as far as the store systems are concerned.   N However, over the years they have had an underlying effort to replace VMS withH various other schemes...  testament to the staying power of VMS I think.  , I heard tale that they out-sourced their IT.     J*o*h*n B*r*a*n*d*o*n  VMS Systems Administrator * firstname.lastname.spam.me.not@dalsemi.com   ------------------------------   Date: 9 Mar 2004 06:58:07 -0800 - From: phillip_thayer@hotmail.com (PhilThayer) E Subject: Re: USB and SYS$OHCIDRIVER (was: Re: Strange Device name...) = Message-ID: <5ee1d1b7.0403090658.54f88a35@posting.google.com>   Z hoff@hp.nospam (Hoff Hoffman) wrote in message news:<AZ73c.463$T_.380@news.cpqcorp.net>...> > re: It does have USB, SYS$LOADABLE_IMAGES:SYS$OHCIDRIVER.EXE > E >   Which system?  Comparatively few AlphaServer boxes have supported F >   and functional USB, though more than a few do have the connectors.D >   On most existing AlphaServer boxes, the PCI USB 1.1 board cited E >   regularly by Forrest is one of the few options, and that approach ; >   is not officially supported though usually functional.   >  > P >  ---------------------------- #include <rtfaq.h> -----------------------------M >     For additional, please see the OpenVMS FAQ -- www.hp.com/go/openvms/faq P >  --------------------------- pure personal opinion ---------------------------G >         Hoff (Stephen) Hoffman   OpenVMS Engineering   hoff[at]hp.com   D This particular system would be an ES40 M2 that was bought used.  ItE has two USB ports on the back.  Something that would be nice is to be B able to connect one of them to a USB laser printer and be ab le toB setup a print queue to it.  Something else that was asked here wasC whether the USB ports would support any type of wierless networking @ device so that the AlphaServer could be connected to aq wireless network.  + Any plans for these types of functionality?    PT   ------------------------------  % Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 09:33:56 +0100 " From: labadie <labadie_g@decus.fr> Subject: Zope on Vms ?1 Message-ID: <c2jvur$da$1@news-reader4.wanadoo.fr>   E Zope (see www.zope.org) uses Python, and Python for Vms is available.   H I was wondering if porting Zope to Vms (and Itanium Vms) would interest 
 some people ?    regards    Gerard   ------------------------------  % Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 13:16:52 +0100  From: jf.pieronne@laposte.net  Subject: Re: Zope on Vms ?2 Message-ID: <c2kcjv$li7$1@news-reader5.wanadoo.fr>   labadie wrote:G > Zope (see www.zope.org) uses Python, and Python for Vms is available.  > J > I was wondering if porting Zope to Vms (and Itanium Vms) would interest  > some people ?  > 	 > regards  >  > Gerard > K webware would be probably much simpler to port and I have some interest :-)    http://webware.sourceforge.net/    JF   ------------------------------   Date: 9 Mar 2004 09:40:42 -0800 % From: britcher@cts.com (Bill Ritcher) 7 Subject: [ANN] GUIFFY 6.0 "SEQUOIA" diff/merge released = Message-ID: <2ca2ca42.0403090940.21b5eaba@posting.google.com>   C Guiffy is the advanced cross-platform compare/merge. Features 2-way F and 3-way smart, "SureMerge", interfaces. Compare and Merge interfacesE support Editing and Undo.  Guiffy's compare views include Inline diff B highlighting.  Comes with builtin UNICODE and MBCS support. And, aB command line interface for CM/SCM integrations --  Works with CVS,> Perforce, SOS, StarTeam and many others.  Guiffy also includes@ integrated Folder/FileTree Compare and Synchronization.  Plus, a! complete API package is included.   F Downloads are InstallAnywhere kits making setup a snap.  Available forB all Java-enabled platforms including: Windows, MacOS, Linux, Unix, OpenVMS, and OS/2.   Guiffy 6.0 "SEQUOIA" includes:8 <> FileTree details view includes Size and Modified DateA <> FileTree Style applies Background colors, Fonts and native LAF  icons D <> "Explore" FileTrees with [+] / [-] OR, select Folder Compare ShowF SubFolders (Recursively) option to perform a complete FileTree compare* <> File Tree view Performance Improvements* <> Folder compare Logical navigation tools2 <> Copy/Delete operations dynamically update views+ <> Ignore Files/SubFolders with * wildcards    Homepage: http://www.guiffy.com   D License: 21-day evaluation.  Single User license is $75.  Multi-user- licenses "3-for-2": 3-user licenses are $150.   
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