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iLife disk requirements - 4.3 GB for a full installation 3 28 (9/4/2004 6:59:39 PM) comp.sys.mac.system Just to let folks know. I bought iLife today and reading the installation guide was surprised to see that a full installation with iDVD and GarageBand wants 4.3 GB free disk space. Yep it says that on the o... Paul

Upgrading a Powerbook G4 from OS9 to OS X 5 29 (9/2/2004 6:09:20 PM) comp.sys.mac.system A fairly non computer literate friend has just asked me to wipe his OS 9 system from his Powerbook G4 so that he can install OS X from scratch. I don't mind doing it, but I don't want to leave him with a non-... Paul

OpenVMS Wikipedia entry 3 43 (8/25/2004 8:01:04 AM) comp.os.vms I just stumbled across this today, and thought y'all might appreciate it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Memory_System -- Paul Sture OS X: "It's Unix, Jim, but not as we know it" ... Paul

VMS Hobbyist licenses for Switzerland 0 40 (8/16/2004 12:54:12 PM) comp.os.vms This had me thrown for a while, so I thought I'd pass it on. Hobbyist license users in Switzerland should note that when registering for licenses, in the drop down list for DECUS chapters the entry for Switz... Paul

Software Update - no Installed Updates listed 2 48 (8/6/2004 2:23:46 PM) comp.sys.mac.system No Installed Updates are listed. The window is empty. Scouting around my disk, I see softwareupdate.log with a date of August 2002, with the last entry being Security Update 2002-08-20. Any ideas how to fix ... Paul

DSPP (EMEA) newsletter too big & in HTML 2 48 (7/7/2004 9:26:55 AM) comp.os.vms Has anyone else received a ridiculously long DSPP EMEA Newsletter in their email? This arrived in the early hours of this morning; it was 187KB of HTML. Pity the folks on dialup lines! Included were Vol 4, i... Paul

10.3.4 Help simply dies after starting 14 29 (6/23/2004 8:52:30 AM) comp.sys.mac.system Invoking Finder Help loads the screen for about a second and then exits. No error message is displayed, and I cannot find anything in the logs. I've just run Disk Utility Repair Disk and Repair Permissions and... Paul

Accessing NFS servers from Finders 12 39 (6/12/2004 11:23:40 AM) comp.sys.mac.system Thanks to the fine document at http://astcomm.net/mac/tech/nfs_howto/client/#final I can now automount an NFS directory on a remote system. However, that involves creating a mount point /private/mnt, which I... Paul

man terminfo produces garbage on 10.3.4 11 34 (6/10/2004 1:42:34 PM) comp.sys.mac.system From the CLI, typing man terminfo spews forth over 2100 lines of errors, then appropriate man page, followed by another 180 or so lines of errors. The errors are all similar to this: usr/bin/tbl:/sw/share/... Paul

CDE - redirecting complete desktop to another system 34 43 (5/21/2004 12:29:36 PM) comp.os.vms It's been many years since I did this, but I'm trying to create a CDE desktop on another system (running OS X). I can create a single DECterm session via: $ set display /create /transport=tcpip /node=mac $ c... Paul

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[OT] To Paul Sture 1 36 (1/10/2005 9:38:01 AM) comp.os.vms Hi Paul, Could you send me your current email address, pls? Tx. D. firstname.lastname@freesurf.fr -- ~ L'hopital du logiciel ~ www.softwarehospital.org 190 avenue St Exup�ry, 31400 Toulouse France P... prenom.nom2 (142)

Hardware Today: HPC Server Snapshot 13 29 (1/11/2005 4:58:27 AM) comp.os.vms Hardware Today: HPC Server Snapshot by: Drew Robb ServerWatch: Vast marketing budgets from the likes of Dell, Microsoft, and IBM ensure the behemoths take much of the server limelight, leaving high-performan... KFarmer2 (196)

HP and SAP 5 40 (1/11/2005 11:47:40 AM) comp.os.vms I was flipping through a magazine this moning and came across an ad from SAP which was extolling the benefits of the SAP application has provided to HP in their recent SAP conversion. Seems to me that HP could... a6372 (1957)

vms versus solaris 214 47 (1/15/2005 5:13:03 PM) comp.os.vms Is there any resamblance between vms and solaris os. If so, then what are the main things that are simmiliar and what are not (in brief) ? Thanks :) ... no_spam_please3 (9)

Re: Is $3 million really so much to spend.... #2 25 34 (2/7/2005 10:16:03 PM) comp.os.vms At 02:57 PM 2/7/2005, JF Mezei wrote: >Dan O'Reilly wrote: > > > > ..and what would it have accomplished? > > > > Answer: nothing. > > > > It would mean absolutely NOTHING to 99.999% of the people watching the ... dano (152)

grep on openVMS? 75 271 (2/9/2005 8:49:25 PM) comp.os.vms Does OpenVMS have anything similar to the grep option on *nix? CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: This electronic transmission, including all attachments, is directed in confidence solely to the person(s) to whom it is ... mclark (39)

DIFF /ig=WHITESPACE request fo Guy Peleg 8 46 (2/10/2005 7:08:59 AM) comp.os.vms Guy following on from the discussions about how /ig=space does/should work, could we have a /ig=white_space qualifier? Why? Well, it would avoid the problems/confusion we discussed last time (how ta... djw-nothere (403)

DCL call to get shadow member status? 15 54 (2/11/2005 10:00:50 PM) comp.os.vms I have two shadow members dka0 and dka100 ... I want to bring in a third shadow set member for a quick backup nightly from a batch command routine but I need a vms call to find out the status of the dka200 thri... bob139 (982)

Data replication / disaster tolerance 8 31 (2/15/2005 2:13:45 PM) comp.os.vms Hi We would like to establish to OpenVMS sites, each with their own SAN. We want the data to be replicated in real time. The 2 sites will be at each end of a big processing plant. Can someone give me pointer... syltremzulu (577)

OT: Where do you get your News feed? 13 35 (2/15/2005 9:34:24 PM) comp.os.vms I got this email today and am looking for an alternate means to read and post. The News.Individual.NET fees are very reasonable, but I am not interested in entering into a contract paid in Euros. The last t... twnews (96)