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DEC Legacy Event, 15-16 October 2016, Windermere, UK PDP VAX Alpha VMS RSX

by mark＠wickensonline.co.uk

Greetings It's oh so quiet, shh.., shh.. Just a reminder that DEC Legacy is on this October again! Come make some noise! Tickets can be purchased either direct from the DEC Legacy website: http://wickensonline.co.uk/declegacy/register or via the eBay listing: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=331937152752 Would be great to see some old faces and some new ones! Regards, Mark.

9 years, 5 months

Layered products for OpenVMS

by fcoffey＠misernet.net

Afternoon all ... Is there a VMS layered product repository available on HECNET ? There was some discussion on c.o.v. about LSEDIT, and I'd to play around with that. I emailed the OpenVMS Customer Lab about getting FTP access to layered products as a hobbyist, but they say since OpenVMS 8.3 is EOL, they won't provide the link. I did not think layered products were version specific? I suppose I could upgrade my DS10 to a more recent version, but that seems like a lot just to play with a layered product. Fred --- $ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT F$MESSAGE (2928) %SYSTEM-W-FISH, my hovercraft is full of eels

9 years, 5 months

Bridge contact lost

by jg＠jordi.guillaumes.name

Hello, I?ve lost connection to Update so my area is off-hook. Am I the only one having problems?

9 years, 5 months

URL for Ask the Wizard

by system＠TMESIS.COM

Michael Holmes <mholmes10 at hotmail.com> writes: >Hi all, > > I was trying to search the "Ask the Wizard" archive, but HP seems to ha= >ve screwed up the URL so that it points to HPE's OpenVMS info page, but can= >'t find a link to the Wizard index. > > > Anyone know of a mirror for "Ask the Wizard" or a short cut url to the = >working old url or to a new HPE url? > > > Thanks in advance. Hoff wrote most of those responses. He may have them on hit site and or a link to where they've landed at HPE.com -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.

9 years, 5 months

URL for Ask the Wizard

by system＠TMESIS.COM

Michael Holmes <mholmes10 at hotmail.com> writes: >Was trying to find a wizard article on restricting which accounts can login= > via telnet. > >I use multinet and OpenVMS 8.3. > > >Would like to allow only a few captive accounts to login via telnet and for= >ce all others to use SSH (or console). > > >Since I figured this is been done before, it would be in Ask the Wizard ind= >ex. I don't know about Multinet but under TCPIP Services, TELNET is REMOTE and SSH is LOCAL. You can easily restrict accounts based upon that. -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.

9 years, 5 months

URL for Ask the Wizard

by mholmes10＠hotmail.com

Hi all, I was trying to search the "Ask the Wizard" archive, but HP seems to have screwed up the URL so that it points to HPE's OpenVMS info page, but can't find a link to the Wizard index. Anyone know of a mirror for "Ask the Wizard" or a short cut url to the working old url or to a new HPE url? Thanks in advance.

9 years, 5 months

Future problems?

by wilson＠dbit.com

From: Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 01:09:24 +0200 >Interesting, as XXDP V2 have a format that appears to be pretty much the >same as RT-11. (Including FLX being able to read it, more or less.) Hmm. My experience (of reading XXDP V2 disks with my own code) disagrees. And the RSX doc says that FLX supports DOS-11 disks/DECtapes (in addition to DOS-11 magtapes which are *much* easier), which are very similar to XXDP+ format (so maybe FLX has tweaks for the slight differences?). John Wilson D Bit

9 years, 6 months

Future problems?

by wilson＠dbit.com

From: <Paul_Koning at Dell.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 18:17:11 +0000 >>I didn't even know that there was a DOS-11 disk format, but thinking about >>it, it would seem obvious there should be one. > >Yes, there is, different from everything else as far as I know. I think >the DECtape format is faintly related. Some DOS manuals may give some >clues, but I've never looked into it or had any exposure to DOS disk file >system internals. Yes it's in the manuals, and the (commented) source code to PUTR.COM has some explanation too. I believe the DECtape and disk formats are the same, except that the MFD1 is located at block 1 on disks and block 64. (^O100) on DECtapes. The DOS/BATCH disk format is also used by XXDP before V2. XXDP V2 has its own similar (but different) format. John Wilson D Bit

9 years, 6 months

Future problems?

by bygg＠cafax.se

> Isn't the documentation wrong, since it says 2621? ... copy/paste/transcription error on my part. The file clearly says 2021. Copied sort of by hand from a .pdf file... > Either way, I believe this field was expanded to be interpreted as > unsigned later than your code and documentation, meaning it will work a > while longer. However, I doubt that the TOPS-10 code have been updated > for that. Something for you to do? As I said, the text indicates that the (monitor) code stops working in 2021, but the code does in fact allow one more bit, no change needed here. The thing to wonder about is a piece of (ehum) software called NML. Written in the wonderful language BLISS. (sarcasm) > There is a similar issue with FAL, where the date field was also > extended to be unsigned. RSX only got these updated in 1999 in the code. > I'm sure VMS also have this. But for other OSes, I have no idea. Time for some experimentation. > Johnny --Johnny

9 years, 6 months

Tunnels: update my IP (again)

by b4＠gewt.net

Okay, Now it's static so long as I stop switching routers...;) 50.131.218.138 is now handled by a 7301. -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net Personal stuff http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects

9 years, 6 months

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