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pdp11 7 41 (11/16/2010 10:15:11 PM) comp.os.vms Yes, I remember running DOS on pdp11; first did that with DOS V4, which became known as DOS/BATCH in V8 and later. Anyone still interested in running it, I have some old DECtapes (for TU56 drives, yes) that st... Glenn

re asciz/horses/water 0 21 (10/10/2010 1:21:03 AM) comp.os.vms As far back on pdp11, though Macro did have .asciz directives, system calls used headers for buffers with counts to give lengths. Practically all operations used byte counts. Introducing system routines and cal... Glenn

DECnet history - was openly avail 0 29 (9/20/2010 2:01:33 PM) comp.os.vms When DECnet first came out its specs were fully and openly published. DEC was hoping at the time (from what I heard) that it might be used instead of SNA which IBM had announced at about the same time. There we... Glenn

Hey, folks...I do post. How about a net sec technique revisit? 7 32 (7/17/2009 2:16:38 PM) comp.os.vms Folks - I do post here now and then. Blame the relative scarcity of such on work environments that distrust any public postings and brain pagefault errors when trying to remember to post something in the even... glenn

VMS SIG Tape released (last from me) 12 31 (11/30/2008 1:08:01 AM) comp.os.vms All - This is to let you know I have (belatedly) released another VMS sig tape to those I had on the tree. The following describes what is there; I have mailed the last bunch of CDs today, though those needi... glenn

Spring 2006 VMS SIG tapes release announcement 0 46 (11/12/2006 2:37:35 AM) comp.os.vms This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------000607080606040208090100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit All- The Spring 2006 VMS SIG Tape... Glenn

Some interesting authentication schemes I devised. Amuse selves reading if you like. long. 0 36 (4/6/2006 3:04:21 AM) comp.os.vms Some authentication ideas I have come up with may bear mention given all the attention problems of authenticating folks remotely have been getting. Let us suppose to introduce the ideas that we have some token... glenn

Re: Can VMS make files immutable? 3 37 (2/24/2006 3:11:11 AM) comp.os.vms Re making a file "immutable" in VMS... If he at least recompiles Safety (on VMS SIG tapes c. 2000) it will allow this. It can prevent access by anyone desired, or if desired can block access by processes with ... Glenn

Announcing the 2005 VMS SIG tapes 0 33 (1/11/2006 12:15:10 AM) comp.os.vms This is to announce the Spring 2005 sigtapes, which were mailed out a couple weeks ago. The spring 2005 CD was rather late, so another for Fall 2005 was composed with some updates of mainly similar material and... Glenn

Quo vadis Galaxy or VMS (a bit rambling) 4 29 (9/25/2005 11:41:12 PM) comp.os.vms When Galaxy was thought of, the idea was that it was/is where the future of computing needs to go. Now granted, the focus was on enterprise problems that require large scale computing with hefty guarantees abou... Glenn

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Request for DCL improvement (say) 19 36 (4/3/2008 3:21:37 PM) comp.os.vms Why doesn't VMS have a "SAY" command ? My Mac has one. > SAY(1) Speech Synthesis Manager SAY(1) > > NAME > say - Convert text to audible speech > > SYNOPSIS ... jfmezei.spamnot (8968)

"Network tape drive" for VMS 35 46 (7/17/2008 1:11:14 PM) comp.os.vms Is there anything available that could be called a "network tape drive" that is supported with (a) OpenVMS / Alpha 7.3-2 (b) OpenVMS / I64, 8.2 or 8.3 ff. ? The reason is to have the backup tape drive separat... ajs567 (58)

150 year 164 52 (11/17/2008 7:13:36 AM) comp.os.vms $set ver $ crea foobar.foo $ wr f$file("foobar.foo","bdt") 17-NOV-1858 00:00:00.00 $ wr f$time() 17-NOV-2008 07:53:57.56 150 years since i backed up that file :) - the_mip Lets celebrate with a good old 1 :... Nospam112 (2)

VMS SIG Tape released (last from me) 12 31 (11/30/2008 1:08:01 AM) comp.os.vms All - This is to let you know I have (belatedly) released another VMS sig tape to those I had on the tree. The following describes what is there; I have mailed the last bunch of CDs today, though those needi... Everhart (97)

Info-VAX to end 11 35 (12/1/2008 7:33:50 PM) comp.os.vms Since no one at work uses the usenet feed anymore it is going to be shut down shortly. This means I will be shutting down the various news/mail gateways that I have been running. It also means that I will b... mark363 (126)

Eisner takes a little trip 24 30 (3/14/2009 6:32:25 PM) comp.os.vms Eisner is not back online yet, but it made its first leg of that journey today. I picked it up in Fitchburg, WI and hauled it over to East Troy, WI where it should be very happy in its new home. There was n... brown_du2 (16)

Anyone have a working DEC Rainbow PC200B? 19 50 (3/15/2009 2:15:05 AM) comp.os.vms Hello old friends, It's been a while since I have posted here, and I am back with another Legacy Computer issue. This time it is not for a PDP-11. Now for something a little more modern. A DEC Rainbow. I have... jcam905022 (12)

file size limit #2 6 37 (6/15/2009 4:47:52 PM) comp.os.vms Hello We have a VMS share that is open to any user. For a better term, the share is used as a dumping directory. There are no restrictions on what can be copied/ftp to the directory (within company guide lines... totheedgeoftime (58)

Hey, folks...I do post. How about a net sec technique revisit? 7 32 (7/17/2009 2:16:38 PM) comp.os.vms Folks - I do post here now and then. Blame the relative scarcity of such on work environments that distrust any public postings and brain pagefault errors when trying to remember to post something in the even... Everhart (97)

Is CDP available for VMS? 10 27 (7/24/2009 9:57:31 AM) comp.os.vms Wow, a VMS group! Question - is Continuous Data Protection available for VMS? Sort of a poor man's shadowcopy? Are there any products like this out there? I want to use it for DR. ... editor12 (3)