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Using Kermit-95 to emulate a VT320 516 302 (6/29/2010 9:38:52 AM) comp.os.vms Hi. I have an question I hope somebody can help me with, regarding running Kermit-95 to emulate a VT320 on a VMS system. For the last 6 months+ as a result of company policy, I have been working only on Unix ... Big

[Info-vax] UnZip 6.0 released 4 53 (5/1/2009 8:25:12 AM) comp.os.vms I suspect that you will not be able to use LARGE FILE on any version less than 7.3-1 If you look at the Version 7.3-1 New Features and Documentation Overview:=20 http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/731final/document... POWERS

Setting a console environment variable 1 83 (2/5/2008 5:08:01 PM) comp.os.vms Hi. We have a customer with a wrongly set environment variable (OpenVMS V7.3-2).. BEP1->write sys$output f$getenv("auto_action") HALT We need to set it to restart. Can this be done? Is there any way, short of... Big

Problem running sysman 6 53 (9/27/2007 1:30:23 PM) comp.os.vms Hi. I wonder if anyone can help me n this. On an alphaServer DS15 running OpenVMS V7.3-2, I cannot run any commands at all on another node via SYMAN. BEP1->mc sysman SYSMAN> set env /node=bep2 %SYSMAN-I-ENV, ... Big

HSZ question from RCM data collector 1 76 (4/2/2007 10:08:34 AM) comp.os.vms Hi. After a full health-check of a customer system, the RCM data collector has thrown up some odd messages about the HSZ. The system is.. AlphaServer ES40 Operating System VMS V7.3-2 Console Version V7.1-1 Pal... Big

For Charlie Hammond and his excellent DCL checker. 7 41 (3/2/2007 12:53:15 PM) comp.os.vms Hi. This is really a message aimed at Charlie Hammond (if you are out there anywhere reading this), but seems to me of general interest to the group anyway. I have discovered a little bug in your sublimely use... Big

An obscure bug in DIRECTORY 8 51 (5/23/2006 3:21:56 PM) comp.os.vms I have discovered a bug in the DIRECTORY command! - surely one of the oldest, most stable commands in the DCL lexicon. This was brought to me by a colleague who tried the bizarre command: DIRECTORY /SELECT=FIL... Big

A nice enhancement to SHOW SYSTEM 8 41 (3/3/2006 2:21:03 PM) comp.os.vms I notice Guy is often mooting improvements to us in this list, so let me moot one back. How about enlarging the field sizes in SHOW SYSTEM. Look what I get.. MON1->sho sys /proc=*eir* OpenVMS V7.1-2 on node ... Big

Another (simpler) DCL enhancement request 16 44 (6/15/2005 9:54:50 AM) comp.os.vms Mark Berryman started a thread for series of complex enhancements to DCL. My request is much simpler, so I will put it in a different thread. What I frequently find very useful (just now, in fact which is why ... Big

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TPU Reload command 9 51 (9/26/2006 6:10:37 PM) comp.os.vms Say, when looking at a file in TPU, I know the underlying file has changed on disk and I want to reload it with a single command(like Gold+R). Has anybody already coded a EVE routine to do this ? Or would like... vancouvercancun (39)

Huge Bug in TPU (Capitalize) 9 55 (11/20/2006 12:48:21 PM) comp.os.vms I realise that the odds of seeing VMS engineers spruce up TPU are=20 unfortunatly low (it hasn't been improved since last century), but.... If a word is MONT-TREMBLANT currently TPU's "capitalize" command se... jfmezei.spamnot4 (5184)

EVE defined key problem. 7 53 (2/21/2007 2:15:27 PM) comp.os.vms Hello, All I want is for KP2 to split the TPU buffer but altho the key gets defined ok, the keystroke does not perform the required action. Here's what I'm seeing: $ editx/tpu [DO] Command: define key=kp2 spl... comedyox (9)

EDT Replacement 92 66 (7/12/2007 3:39:32 PM) comp.os.vms Is there a free or low cost replacement for EDT on VMS 8.3? Preferably one that can be configured to use the same 10-key keypad (Gold) keys as EDT. Thanks, Mike Ober. ... Michael

F$FAO question 10 56 (8/3/2007 6:24:12 PM) comp.os.vms HAFNER> echo f$fao("!5AS","5") 5 This left-justifies the output. Now looking at the HELP description I see !n None Left-justifies and blank-fills all data ... tom298 (791)

Problem running sysman 6 53 (9/27/2007 1:30:23 PM) comp.os.vms Hi. I wonder if anyone can help me n this. On an alphaServer DS15 running OpenVMS V7.3-2, I cannot run any commands at all on another node via SYMAN. BEP1->mc sysman SYSMAN> set env /node=bep2 %SYSMAN-I-ENV, ... john.powers (35)

"file locked by another user" mystery 50 138 (1/9/2008 3:29:46 PM) comp.os.vms I sometimes get this message when I don't think there is another user. When I try to unlock the file with "UNLOCK" is says its not locked. I end up rebooting. What this all about? Is there a way to avoid re... tadamsmar (630)

how to hide a file 105 96 (2/10/2010 1:07:51 PM) comp.os.vms Help: Does anyone know how to hide a file in OpenVMS ? like in Unix/ linux if you prepend a file name with a . (dot) it will hide the file (example .scriptname) Thanks, Mukesh ... mukesh.rijhwani (2)

Using Kermit-95 to emulate a VT320 516 302 (6/29/2010 9:38:52 AM) comp.os.vms Hi. I have an question I hope somebody can help me with, regarding running Kermit-95 to emulate a VT320 on a VMS system. For the last 6 months+ as a result of company policy, I have been working only on Unix ... john.powers (35)

Why can't F$FILE_ATTRIBUTES do what DIRECTORY does? 14 77 (7/2/2010 9:39:38 PM) comp.os.vms When a file is locked (opened for write by another process), F$FILE_ATTRIBUTES gives an error for basic information (e.g. CDT) while DIRECTORY can display this information. Why? ... helbig (4874)