1 INFO-VAX	Sat, 19 Nov 2005	Volume 2005 : Issue 645       Contents:. Re: ANN: New freeware - GBLSEC_SDA and MAILSYM Re: DECnet Configurator * Re: Epson printers are electronic theieves* Re: Illuminata says Itanium was a mistake.* Re: Illuminata says Itanium was a mistake. Re: MAKE utility for openVMS?  Re: MAKE utility for openVMS?  Re: MAKE utility for openVMS? ' Re: Making iso file from VMS install CD  Re: Microvax image to simh?  Re: Need help with C program Re: Need help with C program Re: Need help with C program Re: Need help with C program Re: Need help with C program Re: Need help with C program Re: Need help with C program Re: Need help with C program Re: new versions Re: new versions rdb odbc and Microsoft Re: rdb odbc and MicrosoftB Re: RFC1323 and large file copies over lines with moderate latency" Re: rx2620 DECWindows reinit hang?" Re: rx2620 DECWindows reinit hang?" Re: Unable to Boot Firmware CD-ROM" Re: Unable to Boot Firmware CD-ROM" Re: Unable to Boot Firmware CD-ROM" Re: Unable to Boot Firmware CD-ROM  F ----------------------------------------------------------------------  % Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 21:28:35 -0600 2 From: David J Dachtera <djesys.nospam@comcast.net>7 Subject: Re: ANN: New freeware - GBLSEC_SDA and MAILSYM + Message-ID: <437E9BE2.41D19936@comcast.net>    goathunter@goatley.com wrote:  >  > [snip] >   mailsym.zip  > A >   Description: Symbiont for mailing files to yourself via PRINT  >   Version: V2.0 < >   Author: Oswald Knoppers <Oswald.Knoppers@isc.politie.nl> >   Architecture: VAX,AXP,I64  >   Size: 15 blocks  >   Language: C  >   URL: >   Released: 2-NOV-2005  B Hhmmm... I wonder if mailsym could be modified to produce the much/ sought after "PRINT to a file" capability ... ?    --   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/   " Unofficial OpenVMS-IA32 Home Page: http://www.djesys.com/vms/ia32/    Coming soon:& Unofficial OpenVMS Marketing Home Page   ------------------------------  % Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 18:52:01 -0500 4 From: "Peter Weaver" <newsgroup@weaverconsulting.ca>  Subject: Re: DECnet Configurator9 Message-ID: <BOtff.3058$KP5.410847@news20.bellglobal.com>   1 "AEF" <spamsink2001@yahoo.com> wrote in message >  >...I > Do you have any ideas about the other node which doesn't complain about  > an invalid password? >   L To start off with, I'm not an expert on this, but I tried it myself and what; I see the command starts a network process on its own node.   L Take a look at your $NICONFIG object and make sure that there is not user IDK or password on the object. My guess is that someone put a username/password H on the object that are now wrong, on the system I tried these are empty.   NCP>show obj $NICONFIG Object Volatile Summary as of ' Object Number File/PID User Id Password  $NICONFIG 0   H After removing the User ID and/or password try the command again and youD should see a NETSERVER.LOG created in your own directory with object( "SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE]NICONFIG.COM" in it.   ------------------------------  % Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 00:21:12 +0100 3 From: "Dr. Dweeb" <NOSPAM_5msg0h202@sneakemail.com> 3 Subject: Re: Epson printers are electronic theieves = Message-ID: <437e61e0$0$78283$157c6196@dreader1.cybercity.dk>    Dr. Dweeb wrote: > Gentlemen, > B > I have reached the conclusion that the Epson corporation is bothC > incompetant and corrupt.  Someone should sue their scrawny little  > asses., > I have an RX500 - a high end combi-device. > B > Today, the reading on my black ink cartridge hit zero, while the > other 5 read between 23-28% H > I replaced the black cartridge with a 3rd party product from Gold-Ink. > D > After installation the printer informed me that it was loading the > ink.# > I decided to print the test page.  >  > Failure - and worse. > ? > 1: "The ink cartridge is different from Epson blah blah blah" E > message.  This will now appear EVERY time I try to print !!!!!!!!!! 2 > 2: The device reset all 5 other cartridges to 0%F > 3: The device has the black cartridge now pegged at 83%, despite not  > yet having printed 1 character > D > Because the other 5 cartridges now MUST be replaced I still cannotF > print and I am REALLY pissed off.  Check how much 6 cartridges (evenC > of alternative branbd) ink costs - this is an expensive exercise.  > M > The audacity of these assholes to pull this sort of stunt amazes me. It is  A > both amoral and illegal.  There is no technical reason for what H > has happenned to me - it is just punishment for installing a non-Epson9 > cartridge - something I believe is my commercial right.  > G > I mean, how much money do I have to spend on cartridges before I give = > up ? Is an ERROR message at EVERY print job even marginally  > apprpriate ?! > Where do I get my money back ??  >  > Dr. Dweeb   K For anyone following this thread.  A small chip resetting device made by a  K Thai company (I purchased it in Thailand last week) has solved my problem.  K The device is called a "COMAX Chip resetter" (see www.zemat.co.th though I  J could not find the product) and cost the princely sum of THB300 US$7 plus 	 change) .   J This is a trivial device and works.  I has already saved me several times  the purchase price.      cheers
 Dr. Dweeb    ------------------------------  % Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:44:46 -0500 - From: JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@teksavvy.com> 3 Subject: Re: Illuminata says Itanium was a mistake. , Message-ID: <437E757D.22C67ECA@teksavvy.com>   FredK wrote: > > off the x86 boat anchor ...  > >  > D > You found us out.  Bill himself comes by once a month scared sillyA > about VMS and dumps bags of unmarked $100 bills to keep us from  > releasing it.   G So you admit VMS has already been ported and is ready to be released on  the 8086 ?     :-) :-)    ------------------------------  % Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:17:18 -0500 ' From: Dave Froble <davef@tsoft-inc.com> 3 Subject: Re: Illuminata says Itanium was a mistake. 0 Message-ID: <11nt68thf52j3e8@corp.supernews.com>   JF Mezei wrote:  > FredK wrote: >  >>>off the x86 boat anchor ... >>>  >>D >>You found us out.  Bill himself comes by once a month scared sillyA >>about VMS and dumps bags of unmarked $100 bills to keep us from  >>releasing it.  >  > I > So you admit VMS has already been ported and is ready to be released on 
 > the 8086 ?   > 	 > :-) :-)   C Na.  Billy boy is worried about a MS type release.  You announce a  G product, and then start selling it prior to producing it.  Regardless,  G the money would be spend on VMS and not available for the next version  G of windoz.  Also, as with similar vaporware, once committed, customers  + can sit back and say "just wait until ...."    --  4 David Froble                       Tel: 724-529-04504 Dave Froble Enterprises, Inc.      Fax: 724-529-0596> DFE Ultralights, Inc.              E-Mail: davef@tsoft-inc.com 170 Grimplin Road  Vanderbilt, PA  15486    ------------------------------  # Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:57:42 GMT " From:   VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG& Subject: Re: MAKE utility for openVMS?0 Message-ID: <00A4CFD8.E3D8DCCC@SendSpamHere.ORG>  c In article <JchzkBXhzvan@eisner.encompasserve.org>, Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes:  >  > C >In article <iacff.75479$RG4.52498@fe05.lga>, Z <Z@no.spam> writes: 
 >> Jim wrote: K >>>>I'm looking a MAKE utility for openVMS Alpha 7.1 system, could someone  4 >>>>please tell me where I can get it? Thanks a lot! >>  ) >>> In truth, you really don't need MAKE.  >>  K >> A fully functional version of make would reduce by days, perhaps weeks,  E >> the amount of time it takes to build (compile,link) portable code  " >> packaged for Unix/Linux on VMS. > F >Leaving only the time to debug it and rid it of its Unix assumptions.C >But from reports in this newsgroup, lots of porters omit that step  >anyway.   What's wrong with that Larry?   *   if ( it_compiles && it_links)  it_ships;  A Pretty commonplace unix software vendor stratagem and a corporate A policy at the Redmond Academy of teenage Software Neophytes Emit-  ting Substandard Technology. --  K VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker   VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)COM              5   "Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"     ------------------------------  # Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:25:31 GMT   From: John Santos <john@egh.com>& Subject: Re: MAKE utility for openVMS?' Message-ID: <%Mqff.357$kw2.30@trnddc05>    Dave Froble wrote: > JF Mezei wrote:  >  >> Dave Froble wrote:  >>G >>> Not having ever seen such a utility, I cannot discuss it in detail. L >>> However, days?  weeks?  Cannot comprehend.  Is this stuff all bloatware? >> >> >>K >> If you have 500 source code modules, equal amount of includes with about K >> 20 that need to be created on-site based on your software configuration, ( >> then yes, the make utility is needed. >>I >> It isn't enough to CC *.C in that directory. Some modules need to have H >> special CC commands, others don't. And not everytrhing is necessarily; >> linked as a single .EXE. Maybe you are creting 15 .EXEs.  >>G >> Without the MAKE utility, you are stuck trying to interpret the unix J >> makefiles and create your own makefile (either .COM or other). And thisE >> means that with every new version of that software, you need to go  >> through the work again. >  > H > In all the software I write, included are command files for compiling B > and linking.  Use of logicals for source code, object files and K > libraries, executables makes it rather easy to re-build applications. As  G > for changes, when you change the source, if command file chenges are  J > required, you do them as part of the modification.  Basically, building - > the application is part of the application.  > : > I don't see the difficulty in doing the same for C code. >   < No problem, if you are the creator/maintainer of the code...    I > Me, I'd rather be in charge of what goes into an application, not some  
 > utility.   But you aren't! :-(   E The situation is you are trying to port some chunk of Unix-based code A to VMS.  It is a moving target.  (All non-dead code is constantly  changing...)  D So you make a .COM that correctly builds version 2.11.2 (the currentF version when you started.)  But by the time you finish, version 2.12.4F is current, with lots of source changes, new modules, things get moved around, etc.  C With the "Make a .COM that builds everything" approach, by the time F you get this done (basically starting from scratch), it is out-of-dateF again, and the source tree has forked.  Version 2.12.5 fixes some tinyE but important security bug, and V3.1.3 is the main development stream C and has had important stuff re-written from scratch.  (But is still  regarded as Beta-test quality.)   D This is why I pity the Mozilla and Apache and Java people at HP, and' try not to get on their cases too much.   E A much better approach, if you can get it to stick, is to get a build = environment on VMS that closely resembles the "standard" Unix C environment and get the VMS-specific source changes folded into the D common source.  At least then, there is some chance things won't getE broken by accident, and the developers will at least know "here there H be VMS dragons", making it easier to port.  Also, there may be a workingH test suite, so you can make sure newer versions haven't broken anything.  @ The makefile and config stuff is very important to this process.  C Remember, we *WANT* unix software (and current versions thereof) to G be available on VMS.  Everything from little nifty utilities to convert E MS .DOC files to postscript (so you can print something someone mails  you) to Samba to Openoffice...   --   John Santos  Evans Griffiths & Hart, Inc. 781-861-0670 ext 539   ------------------------------  % Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:23:54 -0500 ' From: Dave Froble <davef@tsoft-inc.com> & Subject: Re: MAKE utility for openVMS?0 Message-ID: <11nt6l9dojqrtdd@corp.supernews.com>   John Santos wrote: > Dave Froble wrote: >  >> JF Mezei wrote: >> >>> Dave Froble wrote: >>> H >>>> Not having ever seen such a utility, I cannot discuss it in detail.C >>>> However, days?  weeks?  Cannot comprehend.  Is this stuff all   >>>> bloatware?  >>>  >>>  >>>  >>> L >>> If you have 500 source code modules, equal amount of includes with aboutL >>> 20 that need to be created on-site based on your software configuration,) >>> then yes, the make utility is needed.  >>> J >>> It isn't enough to CC *.C in that directory. Some modules need to haveI >>> special CC commands, others don't. And not everytrhing is necessarily < >>> linked as a single .EXE. Maybe you are creting 15 .EXEs. >>> H >>> Without the MAKE utility, you are stuck trying to interpret the unixK >>> makefiles and create your own makefile (either .COM or other). And this F >>> means that with every new version of that software, you need to go >>> through the work again.  >> >> >>I >> In all the software I write, included are command files for compiling  C >> and linking.  Use of logicals for source code, object files and  I >> libraries, executables makes it rather easy to re-build applications.  G >> As for changes, when you change the source, if command file chenges  F >> are required, you do them as part of the modification.  Basically, 7 >> building the application is part of the application.  >>; >> I don't see the difficulty in doing the same for C code.  >> > > > No problem, if you are the creator/maintainer of the code... >  > J >> Me, I'd rather be in charge of what goes into an application, not some  >> utility.  >  >  > But you aren't! :-(  > G > The situation is you are trying to port some chunk of Unix-based code C > to VMS.  It is a moving target.  (All non-dead code is constantly  > changing...) > F > So you make a .COM that correctly builds version 2.11.2 (the currentH > version when you started.)  But by the time you finish, version 2.12.4H > is current, with lots of source changes, new modules, things get moved > around, etc. > E > With the "Make a .COM that builds everything" approach, by the time H > you get this done (basically starting from scratch), it is out-of-dateH > again, and the source tree has forked.  Version 2.12.5 fixes some tinyG > but important security bug, and V3.1.3 is the main development stream E > and has had important stuff re-written from scratch.  (But is still ! > regarded as Beta-test quality.)  > F > This is why I pity the Mozilla and Apache and Java people at HP, and) > try not to get on their cases too much.  > G > A much better approach, if you can get it to stick, is to get a build ? > environment on VMS that closely resembles the "standard" Unix E > environment and get the VMS-specific source changes folded into the F > common source.  At least then, there is some chance things won't getG > broken by accident, and the developers will at least know "here there J > be VMS dragons", making it easier to port.  Also, there may be a workingJ > test suite, so you can make sure newer versions haven't broken anything. > B > The makefile and config stuff is very important to this process. > E > Remember, we *WANT* unix software (and current versions thereof) to I > be available on VMS.  Everything from little nifty utilities to convert G > MS .DOC files to postscript (so you can print something someone mails   > you) to Samba to Openoffice... >   E Ok John.  Understood.  I don't do much porting so I don't really see  1 such problems.  Guess I should get out more, huh?    --  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: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 21:19:34 -0600 2 From: David J Dachtera <djesys.nospam@comcast.net>0 Subject: Re: Making iso file from VMS install CD+ Message-ID: <437E99C5.6ACB7EAE@comcast.net>    rcyoung wrote: > G > What is the best way to create an iso image file of a Vax VMS install  > CD?   E Well, technically you can't. VMS CDs are in ODS format, not ISO-9660.    > [snip]+ > I want to try out the SIMH Vax simulator.   C This will produce a "disk image" that you can transfer to your SIMH  host:   > $ MOUNT/FOREIGN ddcu:	! ddcu: = the device name of your CD-ROM $ COPY ddcu: VMSCD.ODS' $! The COPY will finish with an error,  . $! but the output file is complete and intact. $ DISMOUNT ddcu:  B Remember to transfer the disk image as binary when using FTP, etc.   --   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/   " Unofficial OpenVMS-IA32 Home Page: http://www.djesys.com/vms/ia32/    Coming soon:& Unofficial OpenVMS Marketing Home Page   ------------------------------  % Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 21:05:30 -0600 2 From: David J Dachtera <djesys.nospam@comcast.net>$ Subject: Re: Microvax image to simh?+ Message-ID: <437E967A.C0AE109F@comcast.net>   # Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:  > : > I have a MicrovaxII with dectape and magtape running 5.4: > something or other.  It is getting long in the tooth and: > took quite a while to get it going the last time I tried > to use it. > 8 > Against the odd chance that a customer would like some4 > upgrade to VAX Zmodem, I would like to write out a: > complete bootable system restore tape which I could then< > convert to SIMH format and load into simh.  How might this > be done??   D If you need info beyond whatthe group has provided, please e-mail meA privately. How to de-mung the reply-to address should be obvious.   C Please consider doing an Alpha version of Zmodem, as well as an I64 5 version. We can talk business privately, if you like.    --   David J Dachtera dba DJE Systems  http://www.djesys.com/  ) Unofficial OpenVMS Hobbyist Support Page: " http://www.djesys.com/vms/support/  ( Unofficial Affordable OpenVMS Home Page: http://www.djesys.com/vms/soho/   " Unofficial OpenVMS-IA32 Home Page: http://www.djesys.com/vms/ia32/    Coming soon:& Unofficial OpenVMS Marketing Home Page   ------------------------------    Date: 18 Nov 2005 10:46:27 -0800% From: "RJDurkee" <RJDurkee@yahoo.com> % Subject: Re: Need help with C program C Message-ID: <1132339587.441638.143870@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>   B Here is the source I was using. We have the Dec C compiler. I know5 nothing about C, except that I don't think I like it.    #include <descrip> #include <string.h>    char date_char[24];  unsigned int date_bin[2] ; int status;   $ $DESCRIPTOR(date_char_desc,"dummy");. strncpy()(date_char,"5-MAR-2000 05:35:30.25");0 date_char_desc.dsc$w_length = strlen(date_char);) date_char_desc.dsc$a_pointer = date_char;   4 status = SYS$BINTIM(&date_char_desc, &date_bin[0]);      Rich   ------------------------------    Date: 18 Nov 2005 13:17:35 -0600 From: gleason@encompasserve.org % Subject: Re: Need help with C program 3 Message-ID: <fPq4zPF+ApbZ@eisner.encompasserve.org>   k In article <1132339587.441638.143870@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, "RJDurkee" <RJDurkee@yahoo.com> writes: D > Here is the source I was using. We have the Dec C compiler. I know7 > nothing about C, except that I don't think I like it. 7                                ------------------------       Hail Brother! Well met!   --   Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR Control-G Consultants  lgleason@houston.rr.com    ------------------------------    Date: 18 Nov 2005 13:27:26 -0600 From: briggs@encompasserve.org% Subject: Re: Need help with C program 3 Message-ID: <NLciHAO6T5wT@eisner.encompasserve.org>   k In article <1132339587.441638.143870@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, "RJDurkee" <RJDurkee@yahoo.com> writes: D > Here is the source I was using. We have the Dec C compiler. I know7 > nothing about C, except that I don't think I like it.    Here is some fixed up source  @ You were missing a main program declaration, had extra parens inC strncpy and missed the third parameter to strncpy.  And you weren't 3 checking your return status on the SYS$BINTIM call.    #include <descrip> #include <string.h>  #include <stdio>   main() {   char date_char[24];  unsigned int date_bin[2] ; int status;   $ $DESCRIPTOR(date_char_desc,"dummy");> strncpy(date_char,"5-MAR-2000 05:35:30.25",sizeof(date_char));0 date_char_desc.dsc$w_length = strlen(date_char);) date_char_desc.dsc$a_pointer = date_char;   4 status = SYS$BINTIM(&date_char_desc, &date_bin[0]);  printf ("%d\n", status );    }    ------------------------------  + Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:26:33 +0000 (UTC) ? From: Graham Burley <burley.not-this@encompasserve-or-this.org> % Subject: Re: Need help with C program 9 Message-ID: <437E2AD9.4A0FAD92@encompasserve-or-this.org>    RJDurkee wrote:  >   H > I would also like the program to be able to accept one parameter - the? > date in "5-MAR-2000 05:35:30.25" format, and have it create a A > symbol with the converted time in it that I could read in a DCL 
 > program.  B Will this do? Alpha only. It converts the date in local DCL symbol2 BINTIM_IN and formats into symbol BINTIM_OUT, e.g.  & $ bintim_in = "5-MAR-2000 05:35:30.25"
 $ r bintim $ sh sym bintim_* &   BINTIM_IN = "5-MAR-2000 05:35:30.25""   BINTIM_OUT = "44589513302500000"   /* BINTIM.C */   #include <descrip.h> #include <starlet.h> #include <lib$routines.h>  #include <stsdef.h>  #include <libclidef>  
 int main() {          int s;         char b[40];          long long q;,         long sym_type = LIB$K_CLI_LOCAL_SYM;         $DESCRIPTOR(d, b);)         $DESCRIPTOR(sym_in, "BINTIM_IN"); +         $DESCRIPTOR(sym_out, "BINTIM_OUT"); "         $DESCRIPTOR(q_fao, "!SQ");  D         s = lib$get_symbol(&sym_in, &d, &d.dsc$w_length, &sym_type);1         if (!$VMS_STATUS_SUCCESS(s)) sys$exit(s);            s = sys$bintim(&d, &q); 1         if (!$VMS_STATUS_SUCCESS(s)) sys$exit(s);   #         d.dsc$w_length = sizeof(b); 4         s = sys$fao(&q_fao, &d.dsc$w_length, &d, q);1         if (!$VMS_STATUS_SUCCESS(s)) sys$exit(s);   4         s = lib$set_symbol(&sym_out, &d, &sym_type);         sys$exit(s);   }    ------------------------------  % Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:52:11 -0500 2 From: "Stanley F. Quayle" <squayle@insight.rr.com>% Subject: Re: Need help with C program . Message-ID: <437DEA9B.7505.2080DB76@localhost>  ( On 18 Nov 2005 at 10:46, RJDurkee wrote:! > Here is the source I was using.   A The extra () after strncpy is certainly an error  Here's an even   simpler version.     #include <descrip> #include <string.h>    int status; , char *date_ptr = {"5-MAR-2000 05:35:30.25"};   DSC$DESCRIPTOR date_char_desc,  4 memset (date_char_desc, 0, sizeof (date_char_desc));/ date_char_desc.dsc$w_length = strlen(date_ptr); ( date_char_desc.dsc$a_pointer = date_ptr;  4 status = SYS$BINTIM(&date_char_desc, &date_bin[0]);   
 --Stan Quayle  Quayle Consulting Inc.  
 ----------- Stanley F. Quayle, P.E. N8SQ  +1 614-868-1363 3 8572 North Spring Ct., Pickerington, OH  43147  USA 0 stan-at-stanq-dot-com       http://www.stanq.com) "OpenVMS, when downtime is not an option"    ------------------------------  % Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:57:58 -0500 2 From: "Stanley F. Quayle" <squayle@insight.rr.com>% Subject: Re: Need help with C program / Message-ID: <437DEBF6.27691.20862639@localhost>   8 On 18 Nov 2005 at 13:27, briggs@encompasserve.org wrote: > Here is some fixed up source > [...] @ > strncpy(date_char,"5-MAR-2000 05:35:30.25",sizeof(date_char));2 > date_char_desc.dsc$w_length = strlen(date_char);  B The problem with using strncpy is that if the date is longer than F date_char, date_char won't be null-terminated.  The best you can hope  for then is ACCVIO.   
 --Stan Quayle  Quayle Consulting Inc.  
 ----------- Stanley F. Quayle, P.E. N8SQ  +1 614-868-1363 3 8572 North Spring Ct., Pickerington, OH  43147  USA 0 stan-at-stanq-dot-com       http://www.stanq.com) "OpenVMS, when downtime is not an option"    ------------------------------    Date: 18 Nov 2005 15:34:45 -0600; From: koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) % Subject: Re: Need help with C program 3 Message-ID: <0NEdcJYbqTtG@eisner.encompasserve.org>   d In article <437DEBF6.27691.20862639@localhost>, "Stanley F. Quayle" <squayle@insight.rr.com> writes:: > On 18 Nov 2005 at 13:27, briggs@encompasserve.org wrote: >> Here is some fixed up source  >> [...]A >> strncpy(date_char,"5-MAR-2000 05:35:30.25",sizeof(date_char)); 3 >> date_char_desc.dsc$w_length = strlen(date_char);  > D > The problem with using strncpy is that if the date is longer than H > date_char, date_char won't be null-terminated.  The best you can hope  > for then is ACCVIO.   F    One generally follows up strncpy with setting the last character to    null, just in case.   ------------------------------    Date: 18 Nov 2005 20:23:43 -0600 From: briggs@encompasserve.org% Subject: Re: Need help with C program 3 Message-ID: <$OIpkwbzClR3@eisner.encompasserve.org>   d In article <437DEBF6.27691.20862639@localhost>, "Stanley F. Quayle" <squayle@insight.rr.com> writes:: > On 18 Nov 2005 at 13:27, briggs@encompasserve.org wrote: >> Here is some fixed up source  >> [...]A >> strncpy(date_char,"5-MAR-2000 05:35:30.25",sizeof(date_char)); 3 >> date_char_desc.dsc$w_length = strlen(date_char);  > D > The problem with using strncpy is that if the date is longer than H > date_char, date_char won't be null-terminated.  The best you can hope  > for then is ACCVIO.    No.  That's not a problem.   ------------------------------    Date: 18 Nov 2005 20:39:02 +01006 From: peter@langstoeger.at (Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOEGER) Subject: Re: new versions , Message-ID: <437e3be6$1@news.langstoeger.at>  Z In article <dlkna9$erh$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk>, issinoho <issinoho@gmail.com> writes:! >Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOEGER wrote:  >> In case you haven't noted:  >>  Q >> 1) CSWS V2.1 (along with CSWS_JAVA V3.0, CSWS_PERL V2.1, CSWS_PHP V1.3) is out  >> 2) PERL V5.8-6 is out. >> 3) JAVA 1.5.0 fieldtest (alpha only) is out >>  O >> Most/all kits (Alpha/I64 - no VAX) are in ZIPSFX now (many thanks for this). N >> A few (Alpha) kits have bad links (replace DCX with SFX to get a valid one) >>   > J >CSWS_PHP is now at V1.3 and has (hurray) PHP_GD support. Thanks, OpenVMS  >engineering. Great work.  > E >BTW, CSWS_PERL v2.1 for Alpha download like is broken at the moment.   
 Read againN >> A few (Alpha) kits have bad links (replace DCX with SFX to get a valid one)   --   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: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:16:17 -0500 % From: BRAD <bradhamilton@comcast.net>  Subject: Re: new versions * Message-ID: <437E3691.6030407@comcast.net>    Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOEGER wrote: <snip>- > 3) JAVA 1.5.0 fieldtest (alpha only) is out   F After registering for the download, the "Submit" button takes me here:  0 http://onlinecgi03.compaq.com/mail/Form-Mail.asp  @ along with a nice little "404" error page from an IIS server (!)  E Can someone from HP "fix" this, or can someone with a valid software  @ contract contact HP to have this fixed (I'm only a hobbyist...)?   ------------------------------    Date: 18 Nov 2005 11:48:02 -0800 From: michaedi@email.uc.edu  Subject: rdb odbc and Microsoft B Message-ID: <1132343282.083775.80100@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>   Excuse me for being ignorant...   C I'm trying to connect the sample database "corporate_data.rdb" from F Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003  using the odbc drivers for rdb. I'm5 doing this from "Server Explorer... Data Connections"   F I can connect to the "oci_sample" database and see the tables but when$ I click on a table I get an error...: Runtime Error: [oracle][odbc][rdb]%SQL-F-Curnotope, cursor sql_cur3E4B10 is not open   G When I try to connect to corporate_data I notice it prompts me one less F time for my odbc connection information than the "oci_sample" does and@ when I click to try and explode the tables... my error is simply "Connection Failure"  E Does anyone know of a good tutorial for connecting a rdb  database to D Visual Studio...  I did try and do things with SQL>GRANT...  and SET
 PROTECTION...   E I wish I could isolate if the problem is with Visual Studio, the ODBC  drivers, rdb or SQLServices?     :)   thanks david.michaels@uc.edu    ------------------------------  % Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 00:12:57 +0100 3 From: "Dr. Dweeb" <NOSPAM_5msg0h202@sneakemail.com> # Subject: Re: rdb odbc and Microsoft = Message-ID: <437e5ff0$0$78283$157c6196@dreader1.cybercity.dk>    michaedi@email.uc.edu wrote:! > Excuse me for being ignorant...  > E > I'm trying to connect the sample database "corporate_data.rdb" from H > Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003  using the odbc drivers for rdb. I'm7 > doing this from "Server Explorer... Data Connections"  > H > I can connect to the "oci_sample" database and see the tables but when& > I click on a table I get an error...< > Runtime Error: [oracle][odbc][rdb]%SQL-F-Curnotope, cursor > sql_cur3E4B10 is not open  > D > When I try to connect to corporate_data I notice it prompts me oneD > less time for my odbc connection information than the "oci_sample"D > does and when I click to try and explode the tables... my error is > simply "Connection Failure"  > G > Does anyone know of a good tutorial for connecting a rdb  database to F > Visual Studio...  I did try and do things with SQL>GRANT...  and SET > PROTECTION...  > G > I wish I could isolate if the problem is with Visual Studio, the ODBC  > drivers, rdb or SQLServices? >  > :) >  > thanks > david.michaels@uc.edu    Well,   F You say the "ODBC drivers for Rdb", and then try to connect to an OCI 6 service.  This is unlikely to work, too put it mildly.  F To connect to an OCI service you need to use the Oracle9i ODBC driver ! available from the Oracle website K To connect to Rdb via ODBC you need the Rdb ODBC driver available from the   Oracle website.   H Connecting via the Rdb ODBC driver requires nothing more than a generic I SQLServices service, as the connect information is specified in the ODBC   connection.   H Connecting via the Oracle9i ODBC driver requires an OCI service for the J target database, and correct TNSNAMES setup on the PC.  Also, I think the L owner of the OCI service must have database level privs assigned - I forget  which ones, but ALL will do.   cheers
 Dr. Dweeb    ------------------------------  % Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 21:23:35 -0600 2 From: David J Dachtera <djesys.nospam@comcast.net>K Subject: Re: RFC1323 and large file copies over lines with moderate latency + Message-ID: <437E9AB6.9CFCA1CB@comcast.net>    Hal Kuff wrote:  > M > We have a Ds-3 between East and West Coast that runs 42Mbits but when using K > TCP/IP limits any one session to about 6Mbits due to the 50ms latency and N > TCP Window size etc.... I was looking for a utility that would do stream theG > file copy into multiple streams, do the file copy via UDP, or exploit J > RFC1323 which might solve the problem in a point<>point line .... anyoneH > else poking around this?   A utility that splits the copy into say six- > streams would push the line at 36Mbits ....   G Well, depending on the file to be copied, look for 4038_freeware.zip on E my freeware site, http://www.djesys.com/freeware/vms/ . In there, you A will find a DCL proc. that can split files up into smaller pieces E (remember, however, that it only handles Fixed-512 files, and it *IS*  DCL - not a speed-demon).   H Then, you could COPY the pieces in multiple streams and re-assemble them" at the other end using APPEND/NEW.   One possible solution...   --   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/   " Unofficial OpenVMS-IA32 Home Page: http://www.djesys.com/vms/ia32/    Coming soon:& Unofficial OpenVMS Marketing Home Page   ------------------------------  # Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 23:47:57 GMT 1 From: "Ken Randell" <kenneth.randell@verizon.net> + Subject: Re: rx2620 DECWindows reinit hang? ( Message-ID: <NKtff.305$Nx2.196@trnddc09>  E > Sounds to me more like broken hardware rather than broken software.   K Well, I had HP Service come take a look at it; the guy simply looked at the K system event log, didn't see anything, so he basically did what I had done, G which was to power everything down, and then power it back up, and sure  enough, the silly thing worked.   H Must have been the fact that I was giving a software demo at the time ofI this hang in a room of about 20 people who were watching; we all know how 9 that is for bringing out the best in software & hardware.    In any case it's fixed now.    Thanks for the suggestions.    ------------------------------  % Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:34:06 -0500 ' From: Dave Froble <davef@tsoft-inc.com> + Subject: Re: rx2620 DECWindows reinit hang? 0 Message-ID: <11nt78bfjlut94d@corp.supernews.com>   Ken Randell wrote:E >>Sounds to me more like broken hardware rather than broken software.  >  > M > Well, I had HP Service come take a look at it; the guy simply looked at the M > system event log, didn't see anything, so he basically did what I had done, I > which was to power everything down, and then power it back up, and sure ! > enough, the silly thing worked.  > J > Must have been the fact that I was giving a software demo at the time ofK > this hang in a room of about 20 people who were watching; we all know how ; > that is for bringing out the best in software & hardware.  >  > In any case it's fixed now.  >  > Thanks for the suggestions.  >  >   G Ha!  We now have hardware to match MS software.  If there's a problem,  4 re-boot.  If that don't fix it, then re-load the OS.  + Hope my VAXstation(s) last as long as I do.    --  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: 18 Nov 2005 11:10:53 -0800' From: "Schnootling" <chuckm@dis.wa.gov> + Subject: Re: Unable to Boot Firmware CD-ROM C Message-ID: <1132341053.613634.195090@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>    Hi Tom,   G The internal CD-ROM devices are all SCSI right ? Just want to make sure  I buy the right type.    Chuck    ------------------------------    Date: 18 Nov 2005 12:42:22 -0800; From: "johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com" <johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com> + Subject: Re: Unable to Boot Firmware CD-ROM C Message-ID: <1132346542.477841.263350@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>    Schnootling wrote:	 > Hi Tom,  > I > The internal CD-ROM devices are all SCSI right ? Just want to make sure  > I buy the right type.  >  > Chuck   D For your Alpha, yes.  The trick is that you probably need a CD driveE that is capable of reading the CD in 512-byte blocks.  Most read them G in 2048-byte sectors.  VMS can handle the 2048-bytes on a CD that isn't D used for booting, but when you need to boot from it the SRM reads inD 512 byte chunks and often you have a problem. That's why the ToshibaC drives are so common. They had an option (Jumper 5 or 6) to set the E drive to work with the 512-byte blocks (It was often called Unix mode F whereas the 2048-byte sector was called PC workstation mode).  SeveralG other manufactures drives would also work. I believe there is a section B in the VMX FAQ about compatible drives.  You might also be able to/ Google this newsgroup to find some information.    ------------------------------  % Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 18:10:58 -0800 # From: "Tom Linden" <tom@kednos.com> + Subject: Re: Unable to Boot Firmware CD-ROM ( Message-ID: <ops0gtok1mzgicya@hyrrokkin>  E On 18 Nov 2005 11:10:53 -0800, Schnootling <chuckm@dis.wa.gov> wrote:   	 > Hi Tom,  > I > The internal CD-ROM devices are all SCSI right ? Just want to make sure  > I buy the right type.   K What kind of system is it?  The PWS500 and 600 that I have had, had atapi    cdrom drives and the XP1000 scsi.   >  > Chuck  >    ------------------------------  + Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:32:39 -0600 (CST) * From: sms@antinode.org (Steven M. Schweda)+ Subject: Re: Unable to Boot Firmware CD-ROM 2 Message-ID: <05111820323931_202AAB19@antinode.org>  # From: "Tom Linden" <tom@kednos.com>   M > What kind of system is it?  The PWS500 and 600 that I have had, had atapi   # > cdrom drives and the XP1000 scsi.   E    Note that the old PWS systems (Intel SIO chip) could not deal well G with ATAPI CD-ROM drives.  (I have a Plextor PX-40TSi ("UltraPleX Wide" D SCSI) drive in mine.  Its 68-pin interface simplifies its use with aG wide SCSI hard disk.)  On the other hand, I have ATAPI CD-ROM drives in . my XP1000 systems.  We seem to be out of step.  H ------------------------------------------------------------------------  4    Steven M. Schweda               (+1) 651-699-98183    382 South Warwick Street        sms@antinode-org     Saint Paul  MN  55105-2547    ------------------------------   End of INFO-VAX 2005.645 ************************