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Subject: Re: Using Kermit-95 to emulate a VT320 0 42 (7/8/2010 3:53:53 AM) comp.os.vms In article , you say...>=20 > On Jul 1, 2:33=A0pm, billg...@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote: > > In article , > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 AEF writes: > > > > > On Jul 1, 11:14=A0am, billg...@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Guns... John

Blowing stuff up... 10 35 (7/6/2010 11:11:48 PM) comp.os.vms Anyone here watch "Blowing Stuff Up in Miami", aka "Burn Notice?" Last week, our heroes discovered a "tape drive" (as they called it) hidden in a wall of a house formerly occupied by an international hit woma... John

Compatible DVDs 16 33 (9/23/2009 10:17:57 PM) comp.os.vms In case anyone has never noticed, the HP web site is "Hopelessly Pathetic". I'm trying to configure a system for a customer (actually, we've already done so, the order is ready to go in, just trying to cross ... John

Alpha VMS 8.3 upgrade using Inforserver emulation 0 46 (10/30/2006 11:56:20 PM) comp.os.vms The RRD46 in my AlphaStation 200 4/100 broke again, so I tried using the ESS$INFOSERVER stuff on my recently upgraded AS 1200 to do the upgrade. Worked great - subjectively, it seemed faster than the 1200 upg... John

TECO broken on I64 VMS 8.3 2 47 (9/13/2006 5:58:52 AM) comp.os.vms TECO broken on I64 VMS 8.3 It gets a register dump and exits whenever a search fails (and on various other "errors".... $ edit/teco/nocom ed.bas *zjht$$ ! %include "ELFDATYP" %from %library "SYS$SHARE:B... John

SSL not working in CSWB... Solved 0 68 (3/14/2006 2:31:15 AM) comp.os.vms There was an apparently corrupt file in my [._mozilla.default*.*] directory, namely one of the *.db files. There are 3, CERT8.DB, KEY3.DB and SECMOD.DB. I renamed them all, and restarted Mozilla, and it made... John

CSWB is not "secure" 8 33 (3/7/2006 1:46:33 AM) comp.os.vms The "S" is supposed to stand for "Secure" and they make a big deal about how this means it supports SSL. So WTF doesn't it? I have never been able to get it to access any HTTPS sites (e.g. most shopping sites... John

Problem with GRAPHICS ECO on V7.3-1/DEC 3000-300 0 52 (7/12/2005 7:49:33 AM) comp.os.vms After installing VMS731_GRAPHICS-V0400 ECO on a DEC 3000 Model 300 system, DECWindows (Motif V1.3) wouldn't start any more. Restoring the original version of "DECW$SERVER_DIX.EXE" fixed the problem. Original... John

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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)

What kind of systems are now available? 147 267 (3/3/2010 12:34:24 AM) comp.os.vms It has been ages since I last worked in a VMS shop. I am now curious as to what systems are available and whether HP still sells workstations that are Itanium based. ... GreyCloud

Prevent "SET PROMPT" 16 214 (4/28/2010 3:22:33 PM) comp.os.vms I have a development system, where I have the prompt set to DEV$. So that the users know they are in a development environment. Is there a way to stop the users from changing that prompt, either via their o... shrloc (2)

test---ignore 33 212 (5/4/2010 7:47:29 PM) comp.os.vms I've seen just one post today. Just testing. ... helbig

USB Interfaces on VMS 97 53 (5/23/2010 2:54:37 AM) comp.os.vms Last century, VMS engineers had developped some USB based military applications (USB rocket launcher). After 9-11, such devices became impossible to obtain. Now, I have stumbled onto some new military weaponry... jfmezei.spamnot (8821)

mem-f-nomem error 39 49 (6/14/2010 6:14:08 PM) comp.os.vms I have a client trying to run a simple cobol program. The program worked on his old Vax, we recently upgraded him to an Integrity server and now when he runs this program he gets this: %MEM-F-NOMEM, unable to... jetcitywoman (9)

More TCPIP Services POP problems 6 34 (6/25/2010 5:12:36 PM) comp.os.vms OpenVMS V7.3-2 Alpha, TCPIP V5.4 ECO 7. The system is not upgradeable due to being off support. TCPIP$POP account info: PGFLQUO=589724 BYTLM=108000 FILLM=512 WSQUO=25000 WSEXTENT=50000 (the two WS quotas wer... jordan (1203)

Is OpenVMS 8.4 ready for production 108 87 (10/17/2010 1:05:07 AM) comp.os.vms Hello, I am considering running VMS 8.4 (ia64) in a production environment in order to take advantage of running clusters over IP. To that effect I am looking for any feedback (positive or negative) on deployi... b.tutolo (1)

backup/header_only ? 13 31 (10/22/2010 3:47:37 PM) comp.os.vms hi, I have a huge disk with very volatile data and a complex structure (many dirs, subdirs..., with many different owners). I want to backup the structure to be able to rebuild it in case of a problem but I'm ... pierre.bru (228)

SET VOLUME/SIZE and DVE 8 28 (12/23/2012 3:55:47 PM) comp.os.vms When using dynamic volume expansion, at some point I will have a shadow set where all disks have a logical size less than the physical size and will a) want to add another disk of the same (or larger) physi... helbig (4873)