INFO-VAX Tue, 06 Feb 2007 Volume 2007 : Issue 73 Contents: Re: Alpha artwork available again Re: F$GETSYI("TEMPERATURE_VECTOR") questions Help configuring VMS mail with Dynaccess.com How to extract file from pcsi file from Windows ? Re: How to extract file from pcsi file from Windows ? Re: How to extract file from pcsi file from Windows ? Re: Intel prepares to kill off the Pentium 4 Mark Daniel and/or Hein van den Huevel or anyone really Re: Mark Daniel and/or Hein van den Huevel or anyone really Re: Oracle Ships Data Integrator SWS 2.1 question Re: VMS Update (big one) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 5 Feb 2007 20:05:48 +0100 From: peter@langstoeger.at (Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER) Subject: Re: Alpha artwork available again Message-ID: <45c78e1c$1@news.langstoeger.at> In article <4LbKJzE76Dan@eisner.encompasserve.org>, burley.not-this@encompasserve-or-this.org (Graham Burley) writes: >In article <3e7c9$45c6f60c$cef8887a$1279@TEKSAVVY.COM>, JF Mezei writes: > >> Due to a bug in the LD driver, I had lost recent additions > >Can you provide any more details on the LD bug? <51d87$457fe2ee$cef8887a$12311@TEKSAVVY.COM> <45803a6c$0$321$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <4580f577$0$339$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> -- Peter "EPLAN" LANGSTOEGER Network and OpenVMS system specialist E-mail peter@langstoeger.at A-1030 VIENNA AUSTRIA I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:15:57 -0500 From: JF Mezei Subject: Re: F$GETSYI("TEMPERATURE_VECTOR") questions Message-ID: <480ed$45c80f1d$cef8887a$27875@TEKSAVVY.COM> Robert Deininger wrote: > This particular new feature request needs to be directed at the > Alphaserver hardware support folks, as has been pointed out before. Since there are no publically announced plans to keep on producing/upgrading Alpha models, such a request would serve no purpose. The request should be aimed at VMS so that the temperature vector returns a string for any/all alpha and even vax models, one where none of the bytes contain valid temperature (aka: all FFs). This way, command procedures could be rolled out that will not generate errors no matter what platform they run on. ------------------------------ Date: 5 Feb 2007 18:13:51 -0800 From: mcbill20@yahoo.com Subject: Help configuring VMS mail with Dynaccess.com Message-ID: <1170728031.487844.74350@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com> Hello all. I am trying to make some changes in SMTP mail configuration on my home VMS system. For the past couple of years I have been using VMS mail for incoming SMTP and a C program I wrote for the outgoing SMTP. Since VMS mail doesn't have authentication I had to use this method. Although my ISP doesn't restrict port 25, I never could get outgoing to work, probably due to the fact that I have a dynamic address. I used DYNDNS.COM for my incoming and it worked fine. I am hoping to be able to use VMS mail for both with the Dynaccess.com service but so far I am having problems. I set up an account at Dynaccess.com based on recomendations in older posts in COV. I can now receive email by sending to username@accountname.dynaccess.com but I am unable to get the outgoing mail to work. I reconfigured the domain to be accountname.dynaccess.com and set up a name in the host table that is accountname.dynaccess.com. I found that without the machine's own hostname in the local table, all incoming SMTP mail gets rejected with a "NOSPAMRLY" response. When I try to send outgoing mail, it gets returned with 550 %TCPIP-E- SMTP_NOSUCHUSER, no such user, USERNAME@DOMAIN.COM. I am guessing that I may have my domain info configured incorrectly for a dynamic IP address. I am not sure if my computer name should be part of the domain or not. Here is my specific config info (without actual names in order to avoid spam: VMS: 7.3-1 TCP: 5.4 ECO 2 domain: myaccount.dynaccess.com gateway address: 192.168.1.1 local host record: myaccount.dynaccess.com, 192.168.1.2 SMTP alternate gateway: dynaccess.com BIND resolver: myaccount.dynaccess.com The node name is different from the "myaccount" name. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Bill ------------------------------ Date: 5 Feb 2007 11:52:17 -0800 From: the.hifi.guy@gmail.com Subject: How to extract file from pcsi file from Windows ? Message-ID: <1170705137.823834.247390@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Is there any utility allow me to extract files from pcsi compressed file on Windows. I don't have any OpenVMS handy and would like to extract all the jar files from the Oracle RDB JDBC driver software which comes in a pcsi format. If there isn't, can help one help me with that. http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/rdb7/htdocs/othersoft.html Email me please ! Thanks ! Dominic ------------------------------ Date: 5 Feb 2007 21:45:40 +0100 From: peter@langstoeger.at (Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER) Subject: Re: How to extract file from pcsi file from Windows ? Message-ID: <45c7a584$1@news.langstoeger.at> In article <1170705137.823834.247390@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, the.hifi.guy@gmail.com writes: >Is there any utility allow me to extract files from pcsi compressed >file on Windows. Not that I'm aware of. Even on VMS you need a relative recent VMS version to handle compressed PCSI files. (eg. a [emulated] VAX can't do it). >I don't have any OpenVMS handy and would like to extract all the jar >files from the Oracle RDB JDBC driver software which comes in a pcsi >format. Why do you need them if you don't have any VMS system? Or why don't you check into the Personal Alpha Freeware? http://www.softresint.com/charon-axp/ >If there isn't, can help one help me with that. >http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/rdb7/htdocs/othersoft.html >Email me please ! Drop me a line, if you still have no help. -- Peter "EPLAN" LANGSTOEGER Network and OpenVMS system specialist E-mail peter@langstoeger.at A-1030 VIENNA AUSTRIA I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:40:37 -0600 From: David J Dachtera Subject: Re: How to extract file from pcsi file from Windows ? Message-ID: <45C7EAA5.670AF9A4@spam.comcast.net> the.hifi.guy@gmail.com wrote: > > Is there any utility allow me to extract files from pcsi compressed > file on Windows. > I don't have any OpenVMS handy and would like to extract all the jar > files from the Oracle RDB JDBC driver software which comes in a pcsi > format. > > If there isn't, can help one help me with that. > http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/rdb7/htdocs/othersoft.html > Email me please ! Ask here, get answer here (most folks don't use a "real" e-mail address here that hasn't scrozzled in some obvious-to-unscrozzle way). You might try signing up for a free account on: - HP's Testdrive Cluster http://www.testdrive.hp.com/ - The "Death-Row" Cluster http://deathrow.vistech.net/ That would get you access to VMS. Unpacking the kits and extracting selected files is your next challenge! -- David J Dachtera dba DJE Systems http://www.djesys.com/ Unofficial OpenVMS Marketing Home Page http://www.djesys.com/vms/market/ Unofficial Affordable OpenVMS Home Page: http://www.djesys.com/vms/soho/ Unofficial OpenVMS-IA32 Home Page: http://www.djesys.com/vms/ia32/ Unofficial OpenVMS Hobbyist Support Page: http://www.djesys.com/vms/support/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:47:51 +0800 From: Paul Repacholi Subject: Re: Intel prepares to kill off the Pentium 4 Message-ID: <87sldkek4o.fsf@k9.prep.synonet.com> JF Mezei writes: > Neil Rieck wrote: >>> Also, back in 2004, it was announced that the 8086 would sport a >>> high performance and very scalable system interface by 2007 (now >>> slipped to 2008). >>> >> I hadn't heard about this. Could you elaborate? > > > It was announced that the 8086 and Itanium would, in 2007 (slipped to > 2008 for 8086, 2009 for IA64) share the same high performance system > interface chipset that would give the 8086 the same scalability for > high end systems as IA64. > > Can't remember the exact name of that system chipset. Perhaps Bill > todd can chime in with the exact details. > > Since Intel is now focusing development on the 8086 in order to > compete against AMD, it is natural that its faster progression will > see implementation of new features first. It was the case for dual > cores, it will be the case for that new system interface. CSI, either the register or the inq has a current article on it. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 08:37:05 +0800 From: "Richard Maher" Subject: Mark Daniel and/or Hein van den Huevel or anyone really Message-ID: Gentlemen, Good-morning, Can you please help me with a little Webserver/RMS conundrum? I an using a Mickey Mouse DCL http server (see below) listening on port 80 to transfer some html files and a Java Applet Archive file. Once the file exceeds somewhere between 7231 and 7244 bytes big, the receiving IE Browser on W2K falls over with Unexpected end of file on Socket and a subsequent CLassNotFound error :-( Hein ----- The .JAR file has been $set file/attr=(rfm:udf) and as you can see is a straight forward DCL copy to the _BG: device. Anything RMS might do with fragmentation? Mark ------ Does something other that a standard streamed socket read on the client, and an RMS copy on the server, have to happen here to satisfy HTTP semantics? Am I hitting a socket quota or TCP/IP seg size here? Everyone: ---------- I really don't want to have to install and maintain a full-blown Webserver just to test my applets so if someone knows of a SYSGEN, TCP/IP or Quota I should be looking at and adjusting then please let me know! Cheers Richard Maher $ open/read/write net sys$net $read_it: $ read net httpcmd /time=5/error=end $ method = f$element (0 , " " , httpcmd) $ path = f$element (1 , " " , httpcmd) $ show sym/all $ if "GET".eqs.method $ then $ filename = "t3$applets:" + f$element (1 , "/" , path) $ if f$search(filename).nes."" $ then $ type = "application/octet-stream" $ if f$parse(filename,,,"TYPE").eqs.".HTML" then type="text/html" $ write net f$fao("HTTP/1.0 200 OK!/") $ write net f$fao("Content-Type: ''type'!/") $ len = (f$file(filename , "EOF") - 1) * 512 + f$file(filename,"FFB") $ write net f$fao("Content-Length: ''len'!/!/") $ copy/log 'filename' net $! goto read_it $ exit $ endif $ endif $ write net f$fao("HTTP/1.0 404 not found!/!/") $end: $ exit TIER3.JAR;81 Size: 15/18 Created: 6-FEB-2007 05:34:44.31 Revised: 6-FEB-2007 05:35:04.80 (3) File organization: Sequential Caching attribute: Writethrough File attributes: Allocation: 18, Extend: 0, Global buffer count: 0, No version limit Record format: Undefined, maximum 512 bytes, longest 512 bytes Record attributes: None RMS attributes: None Journaling enabled: None File protection: System:RWED, Owner:RWED, Group:RE, World: Access Cntrl List: None Client attributes: None ------------------------------ Date: 5 Feb 2007 21:27:55 -0800 From: "Hein RMS van den Heuvel" Subject: Re: Mark Daniel and/or Hein van den Huevel or anyone really Message-ID: <1170739675.231502.114240@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com> Hey Richard, You know I like UDF files, but they do require the application to do something semi intelliegent with the data. I prefer to think of it as User Defined instead of Un Defined. Here are some interpretations: $ copy TEST.MAP;1 udf.tmp/log %COPY-S-COPIED, TEST.MAP;1 copied to UDF.TMP;1 (17 blocks) $ set file/attr=(rfm=udf,lrl=512,mrs=512) udf.tmp $ conv udf.tmp nl:/stat Total Records Processed: 17 Buffered I/O Count: 6 Total Exception Records: 0 Direct I/O Count: 36 $ sear udf.tmp fwerfwer/stat Files searched: 1 Buffered I/O count: 5 Records searched: 1 Direct I/O count: 2 Characters searched: 8522 Page faults: 35 $ copy udf.tmp nl:/log %COPY-S-COPIED, UDF.TMP;1 copied to NL: (17 records) $ copy udf.tmp 0"hein"::/log %COPY-S-COPIED, UDF.TMP;1 copied to 0"hein password"::UDF.TMP;2 (17 blocks) $ conv udf.tmp 0"hein"::/stat Total Records Processed: 17 Buffered I/O Count: 21 Total Exception Records: 0 Direct I/O Count: 18 $ open/write tmp tmp.tmp $ copy/log udf.tmp tmp %COPY-S-COPIED, UDF.TMP;3 copied to DRA3: (17 records) I agree with JF that you should at least try RFM=512, but wonder what the EOF block will look like. IFF the files are less than 32KB then stream_lf should be fine also, just don't use stream. Knobs to turn which might have an influence? Do a SHOW RMS My WAG would be SET RMS/NET. Try a different copy tool? CONVERT? EXCHANGE/NET? Are you runnning that server with a logfile? Any (close?) errors in there? put a /LOG on that copy? Good luck, Hein. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:52:38 -0500 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= Subject: Re: Oracle Ships Data Integrator Message-ID: <45c7fb82$0$49208$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> David J Dachtera wrote: > http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/02/05/HNoracleshipsdataintegrator_1.html > > Interesting quote: > > "Ashish Mohindroo, senior product director for Oracle's Fusion middleware ... > wouldn't comment on Oracle's plans to support Hewlett-Packard's offerings other > than to note that HP continues to be a partner." > > Probably worked in sales at some point... Or politics ! Arne ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 13:19:53 -0700 From: "john.nebel_vms" Subject: SWS 2.1 question Message-ID: <45C79169.8070802@csdco.com> The SWS installation manual specifies: "You must install the V2.1-1 kit on an ODS-5 target volume. If you attempt to install this kit on an ODS-2 volume, the installation will fail. If you had an existing CSWS V1.3 installation, the failed operation will leave it in a corrupt state." It doesn't say anything about where the HTML files reside. Is it correct to assume these may be on an ODS-2 disk? John Nebel ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:42:43 GMT From: "Matt Muggeridge" Subject: Re: VMS Update (big one) Message-ID: <7FMxh.95$Hx3.62@news.cpqcorp.net> Hi Richard, The IPsec EAK is now planned for H2CY07. This is being announced at the OpenVMS Technical Update Days that are held around the globe. The Asia Pacific TUD is currently planned for April/May. I will make sure this is announced in cov also. Matt. "Richard Maher" wrote in message news:eq1ikv$krv$1@news-01.bur.connect.com.au... > Hi, > > Has anyone heard anything on the TCP/IP (EAK or other) IPsec > functionality? > Still two months of the quater to go I suppose. > > Regards Richard Maher. ------------------------------ End of INFO-VAX 2007.073 ************************