Sure, I'll ping you later this evening when I'm back home.
On 2 Feb 2010, at 14:24, gerry77 at mail.com wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:28:23 +0000, you wrote:
If they are less than responsive, I'm happy to share the goodies, just
drop me a line. :)
Well, more than a full week has passed without any word from HP: I wrote to
them on Thursday, January 21st. Are you still willing to help us with a copy
of OpenVMS E8.4? :-) BTW, how does it run? Well?
Many many thanks!
G.
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:28:23 +0000, you wrote:
If they are less than responsive, I'm happy to share the goodies, just
drop me a line. :)
Well, more than a full week has passed without any word from HP: I wrote to
them on Thursday, January 21st. Are you still willing to help us with a copy
of OpenVMS E8.4? :-) BTW, how does it run? Well?
Many many thanks!
G.
Looks like it may be on Volume set #7.
Thanks for info.
-Steve
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From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE on behalf of Zane H. Healy
Sent: Wed 1/27/2010 19:31
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] VAX Notes
At 7:17 PM -0500 1/27/10, Steve Davidson wrote:
Does anyone here have a VAX Notes installation kit available? I'm
looking for the latest version that I can find.
Isn't it on the Freeware CD's?
Zane
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| healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
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At 7:17 PM -0500 1/27/10, Steve Davidson wrote:
Does anyone here have a VAX Notes installation kit available? I'm looking for the latest version that I can find.
Isn't it on the Freeware CD's?
Zane
--
| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
Sure, let me know.
Sampsa
On 26 Jan 2010, at 18:41, gerry77 at mail.com wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:28:23 +0000, you wrote:
If they are less than responsive, I'm happy to share the goodies, just
drop me a line. :)
How many days did you wait for an answer? I wrote them (both addresses) on
Thursday 21st, in the evening (about 8 p.m. GMT+1). So it's about five days
ago (counting Saturday and Sunday too). Let's wait till the end of the week?
Tnx, :-)
G.
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:28:23 +0000, you wrote:
If they are less than responsive, I'm happy to share the goodies, just
drop me a line. :)
How many days did you wait for an answer? I wrote them (both addresses) on
Thursday 21st, in the evening (about 8 p.m. GMT+1). So it's about five days
ago (counting Saturday and Sunday too). Let's wait till the end of the week?
Tnx, :-)
G.
Gerry,
Did you have any luck with HP? If not, have a peek under RHESUS::[.MEDIALIB.IA64]...
Sampsa
On 20 Jan 2010, at 15:28, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Gerry,
If they are less than responsive, I'm happy to share the goodies, just drop me a line. :)
Sampsa
On 20 Jan 2010, at 15:14, gerry77 at mail.com wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:55:17 +0000, you wrote:
I talked to a guy called John Egolf <John.Egolf at hp.com>, he sent me
the credentials to pull down the install.
Looking for that name with Google yields a link to a page of the HP DSPP
program about the 8.4 field test, in which they offer the opportunity to
become a field test site for the new OpenVMS version.
Sampsa, did you go through an formal request to HP or had some informal
contact with that John Egolf? I'm wondering if they will accept a poor
hobbyist as an official test site... :)
The address I've found with Google is http://tinyurl.com/fieldtest84
(shortened: the original is at the end of this message.)
Thank you very much,
G.
http://h21007.www2.hp.com/portal/site/dspp/menuitem.863c3e4cbcdc3f3515b49c1…
Oh so it does bomb - good to know, my security audit journal has just hit like 10k...
Sampsa
On 24 Jan 2010, at 00:33, gerry77 at mail.com wrote:
On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:24:08 +0000, you wrote:
Just out of interest, what happens when a file hits the maximum
version number (2^15 I think)?
Nothing. It just stops creating new files with that name. Why don't you test
this yourself? :-) Look:
ATHENA::RPT$ cre test.dat;32766
Exit
ATHENA::RPT$ cre test.dat !This will create ;32767
Exit
ATHENA::RPT$ cre test.dat !This will bomb
%CREATE-E-OPENOUT, error opening SYS_USERS:[RPT]TEST.DAT; as output
-RMS-E-CRE, ACP file create failed
-SYSTEM-W-BADFILEVER, bad file version number
ATHENA::RPT$
BTW, the maximum version number is 32767, so it is (2^15)-1.
Cheers,
G.
P.S.: help/mess badfilever yields also the following:
Explanation: The file version number in a file specification is greater
than 32767 or contains nonnumeric characters. Or, the file
system may have attempted to create a file with a version
higher than 32767 through defaulting rules.
On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:24:08 +0000, you wrote:
Just out of interest, what happens when a file hits the maximum
version number (2^15 I think)?
Nothing. It just stops creating new files with that name. Why don't you test
this yourself? :-) Look:
ATHENA::RPT$ cre test.dat;32766
Exit
ATHENA::RPT$ cre test.dat !This will create ;32767
Exit
ATHENA::RPT$ cre test.dat !This will bomb
%CREATE-E-OPENOUT, error opening SYS_USERS:[RPT]TEST.DAT; as output
-RMS-E-CRE, ACP file create failed
-SYSTEM-W-BADFILEVER, bad file version number
ATHENA::RPT$
BTW, the maximum version number is 32767, so it is (2^15)-1.
Cheers,
G.
P.S.: help/mess badfilever yields also the following:
Explanation: The file version number in a file specification is greater
than 32767 or contains nonnumeric characters. Or, the file
system may have attempted to create a file with a version
higher than 32767 through defaulting rules.
