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SYS$SET_DEVICE 7 12 (2/21/2013 7:55:19 PM) comp.os.vms Has anyone a handy usage example for SYS$SET_DEVICE()? As I read the HP OpenVMS System Services Reference Manual, it's all exactly like SYS$GETDVI (which I _can_ get to work), but that makes little sense... Steven

Quirky UnZip behavior -- wildcard archive default file spec 6 37 (9/7/2012 3:01:39 PM) comp.os.vms I recently noticed that UnZip on VMS has a behavior which I found surprising. So far back as my records go (version 5.52, 2005, and, I assume, back into antiquity), UnZip has used a default file spec for... Steven

Gzip 1.5 for VMS 4 58 (7/11/2012 9:32:50 PM) comp.os.vms No big excitement here, just another update: http://antinode.info/dec/sw/gzip.html The highlight may be that the gzip developers have discarded the whole obsolete VMS-specific directory, which r... Steven

Wget 1.13.4a on VMS Alpha (V8.3, V8.4) can fail with %SYSTEM-F-ACCVIO. 2 63 (7/3/2012 9:51:05 PM) comp.os.vms A victim recently reported a problem with Wget 1.13.4a on VMS Alpha, where an attempt to process an empty "robots.txt" file ended abruptly (%SYSTEM-F-ACCVIO) when trying to use mmap() on the zero-length f... Steven

GNV v. SWB -- Web browser cache bewildered for three days 13 47 (6/9/2012 9:49:45 PM) comp.os.vms I'm still running some old version of GNV (V1.6-2?), so things may have changed, but in case they haven't, this might be of some interest. Today's accidental GNV/SWB discovery: SWB cache files appea... Steven

VMS Alpha v. Google Groups 51 54 (6/4/2012 10:42:11 PM) comp.os.vms Using my usual Web browser on my usual Alpha system ("SWB 1.1.12 | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; OpenVMS COMPAQ_Professional_Workstation; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20081029 SeaMonkey/1.1.12") I've mostly adapted t... Steven

VMS V8.4 (IA64) v. Non-directory file named fred.DIR;1 10 52 (4/30/2012 7:32:11 PM) comp.os.vms Someone please tell me that this has already been fixed, and that if I weren't a worthless-peon hobbyist, I would probably already have a patch for it: REX $ tcpip show version HP TCP/IP Services for Ope... Steven

VMSTAR V4.0, Wget 1.13.4 for VMS 1 57 (10/23/2011 4:24:32 AM) comp.os.vms Desperate for a good time? VMSTAR V4.0 should now be available: http://antinode.info/dec/sw/vmstar.html This is essentially the same as what's been floating around for a while as V3.5-pre12. I d... Steven

TCPIP FTP server v. symbolic links 0 46 (7/4/2011 5:49:56 AM) comp.os.vms Fool that I am, I recently found myself considering adding support to wget for symbolic links in VMS TCPIP FTP listings. This may be harder to do than I thought, because the FTP server itself (as of "HP TCP/... Steven

Gzip 1.3.12d for VMS 1 81 (2/16/2011 9:02:23 PM) comp.os.vms Yet another tweak to my gzip kit: http://antinode.info/dec/sw/gzip.html Version 1.3.12d may solve some old problems involving UNIX-like file-name suffixes. The default suffix on VMS is still "-gz", ... Steven

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RAM type for XP1000 2 3 (4/5/2013 12:17:25 PM) comp.os.vms Hi All, What type of RAM works in a XP1000? So far I figured out that it should be 168 pins sdram Are pc100 and pc133 OK? are there any other types working? Is "registered ECC" nescesarray? ... joukj2 (173)

DEC3000->DECServer90TL->CMM comunication problem 27 4 (4/18/2013 2:38:19 PM) comp.os.vms Hi All, I have a problem with communication between the DEC coomputer and our CMM (= coordinate measuring machine: B&S PFx MicroXcel, to be specific) and I was = hoping that someone could help me a little to... emilwp (8)

If interested with ! For your home and professional networks 8 4 (4/22/2013 5:38:43 PM) comp.os.vms http://vouters.dyndns.org/tima/Windows-Unix-OpenVMS-DNS-Comparing_DNS_search_order_between_operating_systems.html This document mainly focuses onto hostnames lookup order by three different operating systems... Philippe.vouters (69)

CKERMIT 9 5 5 (4/23/2013 3:03:25 PM) comp.os.vms Hello, I am trying to install C-Kermit 9.0.301. I had to modify CKVKER.COM but now I am lost with lots of C errors. Thus, has anyboday successfully built this version? Regards, Christoph Gartmann ... gartmann3 (393)

HP-OpenSSL 1.4-471 13 5 (5/7/2013 11:45:18 AM) comp.os.vms Team, In March-2013, HP released "HP-OpenSSL 1.4-471" for Alpha and Itanium. Yest= erday I downloaded and installed this kit because it fixes a few vulnerabil= ities including one involving DDoS. The good ... n.rieck (1972)

FTP Windows 7 to VMS 13 1 (5/13/2013 10:44:46 AM) comp.os.vms Hi all, Sorry for the Windows(ish) question but what the hell do I have to turn off to get command line (out-of-the-box) FTP to work PUTing files to VMS? XP is fine, W2K is fine, but VMS times out tryin... maher_rjSPAMLESS (27)

Displaying EWx0: to WEn: connection. 3 0 (5/14/2013 6:07:13 PM) comp.os.vms Hi. I have two Ether cards EWA0: and EWB0: (as seen from the console or from MC LANCP). TCPIP SHO INTER shows two devices WE0: and WE1:. Is there a single command that clearly shows which EWx0: devic... jan-erik.soderholm (2466)

VAX TFTP directory 4 3 (5/8/2013 9:01:50 PM) comp.os.vms We're starting to look at decommissioning our last production VAX (in the site cluster) because our last VAX customer is finally moving off theirs by the end of the year. My desktop VAXstation will keep on ... jordan (1202)

DECW on VMS V5.5.2 15 2 (5/14/2013 4:01:40 PM) comp.os.vms I found that I had a McroVAX-3100-80 lying about (and a few other system surprises I'd fogotten I had) and I installed V5.5-2 on for testing of my DCL Debugger. However, I cannot seem to get DECWindows to fu... VAXman

DEC Windows TCPIP forwarding 8 1 (5/15/2013 4:54:13 AM) comp.os.vms I am having difficulties forwarding X11 on my Vaxstation 4000-90 running OPENVMS 7.3. I have the display correctly configured, and I have allowed the VAX's host name using xhost on the remote machine. create/... andarm16 (9)