1 INFO-VAX	Sun, 17 Oct 2004	Volume 2004 : Issue 577       Contents:' ANN: PWAIT$SDA freeware from Ian Miller + Re: ANN: PWAIT$SDA freeware from Ian Miller & Re: ERROR: unable to write header file& Re: ERROR: unable to write header file& Re: ERROR: unable to write header file& Re: ERROR: unable to write header file Re: J F on why USA is a regime" Need Itanium2 (EPIC) Clarification Re: VMS for the blind  Re: VMS for the blind 3 Re: VMS related water bound powerful mammal artwork   F ----------------------------------------------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 10:43:50 -0500 - From: Hunter Goatley <goathunter@goatley.com> 0 Subject: ANN: PWAIT$SDA freeware from Ian Miller* Message-ID: <41729336.2040102@goatley.com>  C Thanks to Ian Miller, PWAIT$SDA V0.8 for OpenVMS Alpha is available 0 from my VMS freeware archives.  From the README:  @ PWAIT$SDA is a SDA extension (using the API first documented for@ VMS V7.2) which displays information about a process waiting and? what it is waiting for.  It is intended to help investigate why  a process appears hung.    http://www.process.com/openvms/   9 ftp://ftp.process.com/vms-freeware/fileserv/pwait$sda.zip > http://vms.process.com/ftp/vms-freeware/fileserv/pwait$sda.zip  5 ftp://ftp.tmk.com/vms-freeware/fileserv/pwait$sda.zip : http://www.tmk.com/ftp/vms-freeware/fileserv/pwait$sda.zip   And on the other mirrors soon.     Hunter ------9 Hunter Goatley, Process Software, http://www.process.com/ ; <goathunter@GOATLEY.COM>     http://www.goatley.com/hunter/    ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:29:29 -0500 2 From: David J Dachtera <djesys.nospam@comcast.net>4 Subject: Re: ANN: PWAIT$SDA freeware from Ian Miller+ Message-ID: <4172ABF9.F4DBFEEA@comcast.net>    Hunter Goatley wrote:  > E > Thanks to Ian Miller, PWAIT$SDA V0.8 for OpenVMS Alpha is available 2 > from my VMS freeware archives.  From the README: > B > PWAIT$SDA is a SDA extension (using the API first documented forB > VMS V7.2) which displays information about a process waiting andA > what it is waiting for.  It is intended to help investigate why  > a process appears hung.   H Gee - the folks at WEBES engineering could have used something like thatH earlier this year when we were trying to discover why DESTA Director - a2 JAVA program - was exhausting (leaking) its BIOLM.  D As it was, I wrote PRCQUOTA.COM to try to examine process quotas andE detect an imminent exhaustion. It's derived from an hourly monitoring C proc. I run on the production cluster at work which watches process ) quotas and sends e-mail when any get low.    See:4 http://www.djesys.com/freeware/vms/4038_freeware.zip  D ...for PRCQUOTA.COM and other goodies. (This is the freeware archiveG associated with the presentation I gave at this year's DECUS symposium, H HPworld-2004. I'm considering repackaging it adding some newer stuff and' submitting it to the next freeware CD.)    --   David J Dachtera dba DJE Systems  http://www.djesys.com/  ) Unofficial OpenVMS Hobbyist Support Page: " http://www.djesys.com/vms/support/  ( Unofficial Affordable OpenVMS Home Page: http://www.djesys.com/vms/soho/    ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 20:04:07 +0800  From: prep@prep.synonet.com / Subject: Re: ERROR: unable to write header file - Message-ID: <87aculsg94.fsf@prep.synonet.com>   % "Gremlin" <not-here@all.mate> writes:   7 > SYS$ERRLOG.DMP is to small to save error log buffers"   9 You need to increase the size of your errorlog dump file.  As to why, I'll pass :)    --  < Paul Repacholi                               1 Crescent Rd.,7 +61 (08) 9257-1001                           Kalamunda. @                                              West Australia 6076* comp.os.vms,- The Older, Grumpier Slashdot. Raw, Cooked or Well-done, it's all half baked.F EPIC, The Architecture of the future, always has been, always will be.   ------------------------------   Date: 17 Oct 2004 15:06:39 GMT From: Phaeton  <spam@spam.org>/ Subject: Re: ERROR: unable to write header file + Message-ID: <2tfg3vF1ukp6aU1@uni-berlin.de>   " Gremlin <not-here@all.mate> wrote:K > VMS 7.2-2, DS10L, 20Gb Seagate IDE drive, standard DQdriver, boots fine,  K > works well, using about 12Gb, when I shutdown, after stopping all queues  4 > etc. and then a long time at a blank screen I get:  < > "Error writing 2 blocks, buffer = FFFFFFFF.808B1E00, VBN 19 > Status code 00000054, 00000000 (Section = Header block)   8 > Unable to write header, sump will probably be unusable  < > Error writing 32 blocks, buffer = FFFFFFFF.809A0000, VBN 17 > Status code 00000054, 00000000 (Section = Error logs)   7 > SYS$ERRLOG.DMP is to small to save error log buffers"   O > So, is the first message indicating that VMS is bitching about a disk bigger  K > than 2Gb?  Or is there something else??  I have already run autogen with  M > testfiles and genparams so I know that it has calculated the sizes to it's  ' > needs for the dump file and the rest.   " > All ideas appreciated - thanks.   A 	I am probably totally off track here, not the first time, but is  	this any help :  	  $EXIT 54 0  %sYSTEM-?-BADATTRIB, bad attribute control list  $HELP/MESSAGE BAD ATTRIBUTE  (   BADATTRIB,  bad attribute control list  '   Facility:     SYSTEM, System Services   I   Explanation:  An invalid code or size is specified in the read or write B                 attribute list for a file system ACP QIO function.  L   User Action:  Check for a programming error. Begin debugging procedures toL                 verify the source of the problem and to correct the problem.  L                 Note that when using ANSI-standard magnetic tapes, the blockH                 size must be 4 bytes larger than the largest record in aL                 variable record length file, and the largest record that canI                 be written is 2048 bytes. To write files larger than 2048 E                 bytes, mount the tape using the /BLOCKSIZE qualifier.      	Just an idea...						Csaba   J  -------------------------------------------------------------------------I    CSABA I. HARANGOZO   |d|i|g|i|t|a|l|   phaeton at iinet dot net dot au J  -------------------------------------------------------------------------;    EARTH::AUSTRALIA:[SYDNEY]HARANGOZO.CSABA;1, delete? [N]:     Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent.   ------------------------------  + Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 15:52:07 +0000 (UTC) 7 From: moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) / Subject: Re: ERROR: unable to write header file ( Message-ID: <cku4f7$4sf$1@pcls4.std.com>    Phaeton  <spam@spam.org> writes:  # >Gremlin <not-here@all.mate> wrote:   = >> "Error writing 2 blocks, buffer = FFFFFFFF.808B1E00, VBN 1 : >> Status code 00000054, 00000000 (Section = Header block)  9 >> Unable to write header, sump will probably be unusable   = >> Error writing 32 blocks, buffer = FFFFFFFF.809A0000, VBN 1 8 >> Status code 00000054, 00000000 (Section = Error logs)  B >	I am probably totally off track here, not the first time, but is >	this any help :   
 > $EXIT 541 > %sYSTEM-?-BADATTRIB, bad attribute control list  > $HELP/MESSAGE BAD ATTRIBUTE   ) >  BADATTRIB,  bad attribute control list    ...    Wrong message.   $ Exit %x54 ) %SYSTEM-F-CTRLERR, fatal controller error  $   C This one makes more sense.  A bad/flaky drive, controller or cable.  --   -Mike    ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:59:23 +0100 / From: "R.A.Omond" <Roy.Omond@BlueBubble.UK.Com> / Subject: Re: ERROR: unable to write header file 4 Message-ID: <cku4sr$f60$1$830fa7a5@news.demon.co.uk>   Phaeton wrote:$ > Gremlin <not-here@all.mate> wrote: > K >>VMS 7.2-2, DS10L, 20Gb Seagate IDE drive, standard DQdriver, boots fine,  K >>works well, using about 12Gb, when I shutdown, after stopping all queues  4 >>etc. and then a long time at a blank screen I get: >  > < >>"Error writing 2 blocks, buffer = FFFFFFFF.808B1E00, VBN 19 >>Status code 00000054, 00000000 (Section = Header block)  >  > 8 >>Unable to write header, sump will probably be unusable >  > < >>Error writing 32 blocks, buffer = FFFFFFFF.809A0000, VBN 17 >>Status code 00000054, 00000000 (Section = Error logs)  >  > 7 >>SYS$ERRLOG.DMP is to small to save error log buffers"  >  > O >>So, is the first message indicating that VMS is bitching about a disk bigger  K >>than 2Gb?  Or is there something else??  I have already run autogen with  M >>testfiles and genparams so I know that it has calculated the sizes to it's  ' >>needs for the dump file and the rest.  >  > " >>All ideas appreciated - thanks.  >  > C > 	I am probably totally off track here, not the first time, but is  > 	this any help : >  >  $EXIT 54 2 >  %sYSTEM-?-BADATTRIB, bad attribute control list >  $HELP/MESSAGE BAD ATTRIBUTE  8 'fraid not.  The 54 mentioned in the original posting is" almost certainly in hex.  So it's:   	$ exit %x54* 	%SYSTEM-F-CTRLERR, fatal controller error  & which fits the scenario rather better.  	 Roy Omond  Blue Bubble Ltd.   ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 02:49:49 -0400 ( From: David Froble <davef@tsoft-inc.com>' Subject: Re: J F on why USA is a regime ( Message-ID: <4172160D.503@tsoft-inc.com>   Bill Todd wrote:  - It's always nice to hear fromt he far left...   7 > "David Froble" <davef@tsoft-inc.com> wrote in message ( > news:4170088A.6070901@tsoft-inc.com... >  > ...  >  > C >>>>The day the USA began its illegal invasion of Iraq, it became a  >>>> > "regime".  >  >>H >>It's even more illegal and a crime against humanity to allow something >> > like > G >>Saddam to remain in power and impose harm on those within and outside  >> > Iraq.  > N > Actually, the latter is not technically illegal at all, whereas the invasion > most assuredly was.     O I guess it depends who is defining 'illegal'.  In "Dave's World", someone like  @ Saddam is definitely 'illegal'.  Possible not in "Bill's World".    K > Perhaps you need to brush up on your international and United States law, N > rather than speak from such abject ignorance while acting as if you actuallyK > knew something about the subject.  Kofi Annan has (unfortunately, over 18 N > months too late) finally recently admitted the reality that the invasion wasI > indeed illegal:  not only was it a violation of the U.N. charter, which N > restricts military action to self-defense unless authorized by the U.N., butK > by extension it was also a violation of U.S. law, since the U.S. ratified F > said charter as a treaty and the Constitution (Article VI, clause 2)D > specifies that treaties are part of 'the supreme law of the land'.     See above.  :-)     H > Whether it might constitute a greater 'crime against humanity' (in theJ > vernacular, of course, rather than the legal sense) is also seriously inF > doubt.  For example, it has been exhaustively substantiated that theL > sanctions imposed on Iraq (largely as a result of misguided U.S. pressure,I > long after the rationale for any such sanctions was known to be faulty) H > since the first Gulf War resulted in far greater hardship on the IraqiN > people than Saddam's regime did - so any argument that justifies the removalA > of his government would equally justify the removal of our own.     O I do agree about the sanctions.  It's always been thus.  Long ago, when a city  N was under seige, who was the last to go hungry?  Getting rid of Saddam should  have happened 10 years earlier.     H > Attitudes like yours are a significant part of the reason that a largeI > portion of the world would stand up and cheer if Washington, D.C., were K > wiped off the face of the earth - not as vengeance so much as to knock us M > down enough pegs to make us cease being a threat to the rest of the planet. N > Until we change our attitude significantly, you can count me in that number. >  > - bill    M So you would actually cheer if hundreds of thousands of people in Washington  H D.C. were to die?  I guess I just have to ask, did you cheer as the WTC N buildings fell?  They too were a symbol.  Be careful to avoid being on one of  dubya's lists.  K As for the politicians in Washington, I doubt others could do worse.  Then  N again, I've learned not to challenge 'worse', so maybe I should withdraw that 
 statement.   Dave   --  4 David Froble                       Tel: 724-529-04504 Dave Froble Enterprises, Inc.      Fax: 724-529-0596> DFE Ultralights, Inc.              E-Mail: davef@tsoft-inc.com 170 Grimplin Road  Vanderbilt, PA  15486    ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 11:10:14 -0400 ) From: "Neil Rieck" <n.rieck@sympatico.ca> + Subject: Need Itanium2 (EPIC) Clarification 7 Message-ID: <fXvcd.110$JG5.40894@news20.bellglobal.com>   K In the past few weeks I've read several articles (including Terry Shannon's E SKHPCV11N36) which mentioned the fact that "Itanium2 (Montecito) will H shortly introduce multithreading". Here is a quote from Terry's article:  H "Other enhancements to Montecito include multithreading. Debuting in theE Xeon chip server line and already implemented in Pentium 4 processors @ and IBM POWER5 CPUs, multithreading allows a CPU to run multipleJ applications concurrently. This technology will be integrated into Itanium+ for the first time when Montecito arrives."   J Up until now, I was always under the impression that the EPIC architectureF was a marriage of hardware and software, with thread-level parallelismH being discovered by the complier which then directed the Itanium2 to "doL multiple things at once" by instruction grouping in a Long-Instruction-Word.A In fact, I was under the impression that this was one of the main H advantages of the EPIC architecture; simplify CPU design by shifting theD tough stuff to the compiler. (this was also the CISC to RISC mantra)  L So what is happening now at Intel?  Is Itanium2 quietly morphing into a moreG RISC like architecture? Or was my original concept of EPIC all wrong to  begin with?   
 Neil Rieck Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge,  Ontario, Canada.8 http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/links/cool_openvms.html   ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 00:52:06 -0700 % From: "Zachary" <Z_kline@hotmail.com>  Subject: Re: VMS for the blind+ Message-ID: <2teml6F1v0eo1U1@uni-berlin.de>   7 "Barry Treahy, Jr." <Treahy@MMaz.com> wrote in message  ! news:4171B742.3000500@MMaz.com...  > Zachary wrote: >  >>Hi, E >>I've recently setup an account on a public access VMS system.  I'm  K >>wondering how accessible VMS would be for the blind computer user, or if  @ >>anyone has successfully used it with a screen reading package.B >>In future, I may install openVMS if I can get something to work.	 >>Thanks,  >>Zachary Kline  >> >> >>H > JAWS is a windows based system that does a fine job of reading screen " > contents from telnet sessions... >  > Barry  >  > --   > @ > Barry Treahy, Jr                       E-mail: Treahy@MMaz.com@ > Midwest Microwave                          Phone: 480/314-1320@ > Vice President & CIO                         FAX: 480/661-7028 >  > H I already use such a system, but to be perfectly honest the VT keyboard K emulation is really hard to deal with.  Using TPU, for instance, is really  F next to impossible.  Also, my screen reader does not track the cursor M correctly, as I'm sure a real VMS screen reader would.  It is hard to do any  D sort of editing, let alone programming work, easily on this sort of  arrangement.I I also find VMS itself hard to comprehend.  The HP documentation helps a  I lot, but I guess their is a reason we refer to it as the Wall of Manuals. M I have heard of running openVMS via SIMH, a freeware VAX hardware simulator.  K SIMH itself is accessible, so it stands to reason that OpenVMS would be as   well. K Has anyone here gotten that to work?  And how would I go about obtaining a  K cd image?  I know that the actual physical CD is not necessary for SIMH to   function with VMS.  F I realize I've added a lot of information with this post, for which I J apologize.  I just thought it would help make the situation a bit clearer.L For interested parties, I am currently running Microsoft Windows XP Service L Pack 2 with the Window-Eyes screen reader program from GW Micro.  My public L access account supports SSH, so that is what I use.  I am undecided between   PUTTY and SecureCRT for clients. Thanks,  Zachary Kline    ------------------------------  % Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 10:24:33 -0500 * From: "ssj152" <ssj152 AT charter DOT net> Subject: Re: VMS for the blind0 Message-ID: <10n53lc3kbikfa7@corp.supernews.com>  0 "Zachary" <Z_kline@hotmail.com> wrote in message% news:2teml6F1v0eo1U1@uni-berlin.de...  > 8 > "Barry Treahy, Jr." <Treahy@MMaz.com> wrote in message# > news:4171B742.3000500@MMaz.com...  > > Zachary wrote: > >  > >>Hi,  > 
 > Big SNIP > G > I realize I've added a lot of information with this post, for which I L > apologize.  I just thought it would help make the situation a bit clearer.E > For interested parties, I am currently running Microsoft Windows XP  Service F > Pack 2 with the Window-Eyes screen reader program from GW Micro.  My publicE > access account supports SSH, so that is what I use.  I am undecided  between " > PUTTY and SecureCRT for clients.	 > Thanks,  > Zachary Kline  >  >    Zachary,  H I can't help with the screen reading issue, but perhaps I can be helpfulK regarding the CD image. I assume you know that licenses are required to run I OpenVMS, and that Hobbyist licenses can be obtained through the Encompass L user group for free, with a free membership in Encompass? You can also orderH CDRom media for OpenVMS through the user's group for a very low ($30 US)I price. It is also legal to borrow media from another member - ANY OpenVMS D media. Of course, you can only use what the Layered Products license- available with the Hobbyist Program covers...   G The full "layered products" distribution from HP contains documentation G CDroms that can be read under Windows, and another set that can be read I under OpenVMS. These can be very helpful and contain the full contents of  the documentation online at HP.   F HP has OpenVMS documentation online at: http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/  9 Here is a link about using SIMH under Linux with OpenVMS: : http://www.wherry.com/gadgets/retrocomputing/vax-simh.html  % Here is a link for joining Encompass: D http://www.encompassus.org/membership/join.html The associate (free)@ membership is sufficient to get the Hobbyist licenses and media.  I Here is a nice link for getting licenses for OpenVMS, including a "guide"  for the entire process: : http://www.openvmshobbyist.com/get_yer_licenses/index.html  4 Here is a link for ordering a media kit for OpenVMS:6 http://www.montagar.com/hobbyist/mount.html It is $30.  G This link details which Layered Products can be used under the Hobbyist ; Program: http://www.montagar.com/hobbyist/show_license.html   H I hope this material is useful and that you are able to get started withG OpenVMS. It is a terrific operating system, the best I've used in my 25  years as a systems programmer.   Stuart Johnson ssj152 AT charter DOT net    ------------------------------    Date: 17 Oct 2004 09:39:33 -0700+ From: shoppa@trailing-edge.com (Tim Shoppa) < Subject: Re: VMS related water bound powerful mammal artwork= Message-ID: <bec993c8.0410170839.73a6d16b@posting.google.com>   a JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@teksavvy.com> wrote in message news:<416F4CA1.BBFE3037@teksavvy.com>... H > In the theoretical scenario where I would have an imaginary friend whoO > happened to have *THE* shark in vector format (resizeable, can change colours P > etc), and such imaginary friend wanted to make that shark available to the VMSN > community since it seems to be the de-facto logo to compete against the evilP > penguin, what would be the best format to distribute this so that it is usable > by the VMS community ? > 	 > PICT ?   > DXF ?  > EPS ?  > Freehand ? > Illustrator ?    Tek4014 vector graphics.   Tim.   ------------------------------   End of INFO-VAX 2004.577 ************************