INFO-VAX Sun, 02 Mar 2008 Volume 2008 : Issue 124 Contents: Get all digital products in BookSho.com-Non P Book Shop Re: Long term archiving of VMS stuff Re: Long term archiving of VMS stuff Re: Long term archiving of VMS stuff Manual Traffic Exchanges Can Help Any Online Marketer Get More Traffic TrafficTr Noob File-Transfer (License to .com) Question Re: Noob File-Transfer (License to .com) Question Re: Noob File-Transfer (License to .com) Question Re: Noob File-Transfer (License to .com) Question Re: Noob File-Transfer (License to .com) Question Re: OpenVMS & Oracle BLOBS Re: OpenVMS & Oracle BLOBS OpenVMS Hobbyist ? 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Just have fun at http://BookSho.com And Add it to your favorite!! thanx!! :) ------------------------------ Date: 02 Mar 2008 13:16:46 GMT From: VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG Subject: Re: Long term archiving of VMS stuff Message-ID: <47caa8be$0$5613$607ed4bc@cv.net> In article <47ca3adf$0$90263$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= writes: >VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote: >> This is one of the reasons that I'm reluctant to buy new intel based Macs. >> Am I or am I not paying Billzebub tax because a new Mac can run Weendoze? >> Nobody in the Apple camp has been able to clarify this. > >I thought that (charging per windows capable computer sold instead >of windows sold) was one of the practices found illegal in court ? It doesn't matter if it was found to be illegal or not. What _does_ matter is the perpetuity of the practice. -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)COM "Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?" http://tmesis.com/drat.html ------------------------------ Date: 02 Mar 2008 13:38:13 GMT From: VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG Subject: Re: Long term archiving of VMS stuff Message-ID: <47caadc4$0$5613$607ed4bc@cv.net> In article <47ca4969$0$31253$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei writes: >VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote: > >> This is one of the reasons that I'm reluctant to buy new intel based Macs. >> Am I or am I not paying Billzebub tax because a new Mac can run Weendoze? >> Nobody in the Apple camp has been able to clarify this. > >Intel based MACs use EFI as console environment. Windows does not >support EFI booting on its 8086 versions (32 or 64 bits versions). I'm not concerned about whether or not EFI is used nor if Weendoze is or is not supported. Speaking of EFI, have you looked at rEFIt at http://macupdate.com ? >Intel Macs do not come with any windows licenses. You can buy a >shrinkwrapped version of Windows, and use the "bootcamp" software from >OS-X which customises a windows install partition with drivers and EFI >boot support. There were many intel based machines that came with NO Weendoze license; the Billzebub tax on them was still levied though. >So you can safely buy an intel mac confident no money will go to >microsoft unless you go and buy a version of windows. It'd be an awful cold cold day in hell before I would ever sink a single penny into any Micro$oft product or into any company providing Weendoze products. I recently returned a mobile phone to Sprint after discovering that it contained M$ code! Several US auto manufacturers have lost my $ too since they started adver- tizing the incorporation of M$ in their offerings. Why do I picture little Danny Lloyd on his big wheel peddling around the corporate office spaces of Detroit's auto manufacturers chanting "Redmond! Redmond! Redmond!" with a voice reminiscent of "Froggy" from the Our Gang/The Little Rascals series and drooling down his shirt? >You cannot buy an empty intel mac and just install Windows on it. It >needs bootcamp from OS-X. I know that. -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)COM "Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?" http://tmesis.com/drat.html ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 07:06:21 -0800 (PST) From: "johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com" Subject: Re: Long term archiving of VMS stuff Message-ID: <394cf288-a0ed-4e2f-9cb0-c75bd4fc5f00@z17g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> On Mar 1, 8:58 pm, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote: > In article <47c9ce15$0$10289$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei writes: > > > > >Main, Kerry wrote: > > >> A company selling that many copies per month also does not decide to slash > >> the cost of the product world wide in order to stimulate demand. > > >There are lots of issues with regards to Vista. Microsoft decided to > >have a very stringent hardware requiremenent for it. Without it, your > >machine is essentially an XP machine because the Vista glitz is disabled. > > >Because of this, very few people are bothering with an upgrade of their > >existing machine. They will get Vista whenever they upgrade their PC. > > >As such, Microsoft isn't seeing much demand for upgrades. And its > >revenue base is from the Winodws tax charged to wintel makers for just > >about every wintel box built. This is assured revenu no matter how > >good/bad windows is, it is simply relative to the health of the PC industry. > > >Note that the recent price cut announcement only deals with *certain* > >versions of the shrinkwrapped Windows product. It does not cover the > >price charged by Microsoft to wintel manufacturer. > > >While many rejoice at any bad news related to Microsoft, those news > >cover only a small portion of the Windows revenus since nobody has > >mentioned bad news with regards to the window tax on newbuilt Witel boxes. > > This is one of the reasons that I'm reluctant to buy new intel based Macs. > Am I or am I not paying Billzebub tax because a new Mac can run Weendoze? > Nobody in the Apple camp has been able to clarify this. > I can't imagine Steve Jobs being able to stomach paying a "tax" to Bill Gates on each Intel Mac sold just because it could run Windows. In any case, if your PPC Macs are doing the job you need then there's no reason to upgrade, but if it comes a time you need more compute power or you find the available applications lacking (and it will happen sooner or later - look at VAX vs Alpha vs Integrity OpenVMS) then you are only hurting yourself by avoiding Intel-based Macs. John H. Reinhardt ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 06:50:22 -0800 (PST) From: scsaya7ozh17p9irlzkz@gmail.com Subject: Manual Traffic Exchanges Can Help Any Online Marketer Get More Traffic TrafficTr Message-ID: <6f353823-7c79-4f30-adf3-8f8495f8ff63@u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com> The internet is a great place. Manual Traffic Exchanges are a great way to get free online traffic to any website that just needs more traffic. http://www.trafficwonderland.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:32:07 +0100 From: Ralf Folkerts Subject: Noob File-Transfer (License to .com) Question Message-ID: <6d1r95-q63.ln1@boss.home.folkerts-net.de> Hi, I have a Problem with the Transfer of a Hobbyist-License "as" Commandprocedure-File to a OpenVMS 8.3 Machine. First I might mention that my Origins are in the /370 and Unix-World. However, I used to work on VMS for a while, but never became a good friend with VMS during that time -- and now wanted to become one using a AlphaStation 255 @home. I Installed the Machine from the Hobbyist CD, using all Defaults except for not installing DecWindows (the machine has a Matrox Graka). I also entered the License-Data for the OpenVMS during Install. However, when trying to configure TCP/IP the Configure-Tool also wanted to activate DecNet which seems to require another License than the Base-System, so I cannot start TCP/IP (for sure the Experts can, but unfortunately not me). No Problem, I obtained the PAKs for the Layered Products from openvmshobbyist, too. To make my live easier I wanted to Transfer the License, which looks like a Command procedure, as such to the Alpha. However, I did not manage to get it running :-( I Googled and searched the VMS-FAQ but didn't find a hint :-( What I did: I saved the License-Mail, removed the Headers etc. so that only a Text-File containg the License-Info was left. As I work on Linux I also converted the File to DOS-Formatm put both, the Unix- and the DOS-Format into a iso-FS, burned that on CD and mounted on VMS. However, the file seems not to be of the correct Format. So I tried exchange, convert and set file/attr (setting stream_lf and stream_cr) but nothing really solved my Problem :-( I'm sure it's just a very simple thing to make a Unix- or DOS-Textfile a workable VMS-Commandprocedure-File -- however, I didn't find out, how :-( When trying to execute the DOS-File(s) I get the error: %DCL-W-IVVERB, unrecognized command verb - check validity and spelling \ $\ %DCL-W-IVVERB, unrecognized command verb - check validity and spelling \ $\ Which I think is caused by the CR? I managed to get a Unix-File working but it stops $ @LICENSE_UNIX_1.LIS %LICENSE-F-BADCHK, checksum does not validate for X500-DIRECTORY-SERVER However, in ed the Checksum does look exactly as it does in the EMail I got (so, probably there is some bad character after the Checksum, too? So, it would be great if someone could point me to a place where I can find how to "correctly" get the License-Document into an executable File (please note that I have to transfer using a CDROM; I wanted to FTP the stuff as Text but as I cannot start TCP/IP w/o the licenses being installed I have a recursion-Problem here. MTIA! Cheers, _ralf_ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:03:39 -0500 From: "Richard B. Gilbert" Subject: Re: Noob File-Transfer (License to .com) Question Message-ID: <47CADDEB.8070303@comcast.net> Ralf Folkerts wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Problem with the Transfer of a Hobbyist-License "as" > Commandprocedure-File to a OpenVMS 8.3 Machine. First I might mention > that my Origins are in the /370 and Unix-World. However, I used to work > on VMS for a while, but never became a good friend with VMS during that > time -- and now wanted to become one using a AlphaStation 255 @home. > > I Installed the Machine from the Hobbyist CD, using all Defaults except > for not installing DecWindows (the machine has a Matrox Graka). I also > entered the License-Data for the OpenVMS during Install. > > However, when trying to configure TCP/IP the Configure-Tool also wanted > to activate DecNet which seems to require another License than the > Base-System, so I cannot start TCP/IP (for sure the Experts can, but > unfortunately not me). > > No Problem, I obtained the PAKs for the Layered Products from > openvmshobbyist, too. > > To make my live easier I wanted to Transfer the License, which looks > like a Command procedure, as such to the Alpha. > > However, I did not manage to get it running :-( > > I Googled and searched the VMS-FAQ but didn't find a hint :-( > > What I did: I saved the License-Mail, removed the Headers etc. so that > only a Text-File containg the License-Info was left. As I work on Linux > I also converted the File to DOS-Formatm put both, the Unix- and the > DOS-Format into a iso-FS, burned that on CD and mounted on VMS. > > However, the file seems not to be of the correct Format. So I tried > exchange, convert and set file/attr (setting stream_lf and stream_cr) > but nothing really solved my Problem :-( > > I'm sure it's just a very simple thing to make a Unix- or DOS-Textfile a > workable VMS-Commandprocedure-File -- however, I didn't find out, how :-( > > When trying to execute the DOS-File(s) I get the error: > > %DCL-W-IVVERB, unrecognized command verb - check validity and spelling > \ > $\ > %DCL-W-IVVERB, unrecognized command verb - check validity and spelling > \ > $\ > > Which I think is caused by the CR? I managed to get a Unix-File working > but it stops > > $ @LICENSE_UNIX_1.LIS > %LICENSE-F-BADCHK, checksum does not validate for X500-DIRECTORY-SERVER > > However, in ed the Checksum does look exactly as it does in the EMail I > got (so, probably there is some bad character after the Checksum, too? > > So, it would be great if someone could point me to a place where I can > find how to "correctly" get the License-Document into an executable File > (please note that I have to transfer using a CDROM; I wanted to FTP the > stuff as Text but as I cannot start TCP/IP w/o the licenses being > installed I have a recursion-Problem here. > > MTIA! > Cheers, > _ralf_ HELP LICENSE REGISTER ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 10:56:04 -0600 (CST) From: sms@antinode.org (Steven M. Schweda) Subject: Re: Noob File-Transfer (License to .com) Question Message-ID: <08030210560453_206707C4@antinode.org> From: Ralf Folkerts > However, when trying to configure TCP/IP the Configure-Tool also wanted > to activate DecNet which seems to require another License than the > Base-System, so I cannot start TCP/IP (for sure the Experts can, but > unfortunately not me). UCX. The original product name was VMS Ultrix Connection. > No Problem, I obtained the PAKs for the Layered Products from > openvmshobbyist, too. Good. > To make my live easier I wanted to Transfer the License, which looks > like a Command procedure, as such to the Alpha. > > However, I did not manage to get it running :-( > [...] It'd probably be easier to put the UCX PAK in manually (and get TCPIP (the new name) configured) than it would be to do all the DIRE /FULL and/or DUMP /BYTE tasks to see what happened to the useful bytes, and then do the CONVERT and/or SET FILE /ATTRIBUTES tasks to straighten them out again. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven M. Schweda sms@antinode-org 382 South Warwick Street (+1) 651-699-9818 Saint Paul MN 55105-2547 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:30:56 +0100 From: Ralf Folkerts Subject: Re: Noob File-Transfer (License to .com) Question Message-ID: Steven M. Schweda schrieb: Hi Steven, [...] > It'd probably be easier to put the UCX PAK in manually (and get TCPIP > (the new name) configured) than it would be to do all the DIRE /FULL > and/or DUMP /BYTE tasks to see what happened to the useful bytes, and > then do the CONVERT and/or SET FILE /ATTRIBUTES tasks to straighten them > out again. thanks for that hint! I'll give it a try. One more question: Once TCP/IP is up and running, can I painles transfer the License-File and expect it to be of a valid Commandprocedure-File? Or would I still have to perform some kind of conversion? Cheers, _ralf_ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:59:18 -0500 From: bradhamilton Subject: Re: Noob File-Transfer (License to .com) Question Message-ID: <47CAEAF6.3080306@comcast.net> Ralf Folkerts wrote: > Steven M. Schweda schrieb: > > Hi Steven, > > [...] >> It'd probably be easier to put the UCX PAK in manually (and get TCPIP >> (the new name) configured) than it would be to do all the DIRE /FULL >> and/or DUMP /BYTE tasks to see what happened to the useful bytes, and >> then do the CONVERT and/or SET FILE /ATTRIBUTES tasks to straighten them >> out again. > > thanks for that hint! I'll give it a try. > > One more question: Once TCP/IP is up and running, can I painles transfer > the License-File and expect it to be of a valid Commandprocedure-File? > Or would I still have to perform some kind of conversion? > Without knowing details of your particular network configuration, once you have successfully licensed, installed, and configured TCP/IP, you *should* be able to do a simple ASCII FTP transfer of the licenses from your system where you received the email, to your VMS system. Once the transfer has completed, you *should* be able to @ to register the licenses. Once you have successfully registered the licenses, a simple $license load will load the licenses, and you're on your way! Good luck! > Cheers, > _ralf_ > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 14:56:16 +0200 From: "Guy Peleg" Subject: Re: OpenVMS & Oracle BLOBS Message-ID: <47ca9863$0$25982$88260bb3@free.teranews.com> "rcyoung" wrote in message news:e593d8a7-4183-4a12-802a-7231ec731044@s8g2000prg.googlegroups.com... > Does anyone have some examples of extracting jpg, doc,txt files from > an Oracle BLOB field under OpenVMS using ProC? > > I have put in some requests re this over in the Oracle groups, but > 99.999% of the people > there are Unixers/Windowers and many things do not apply ( or other > things like setting logicals DO!) to OpenVMS! > > bob y http://ora-middleware.blogspot.com/2007/09/extract-blob-into-files.html What hear does not work on VMS? Guy Peleg BRUDEN-OSSG -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com ------------------------------ Date: 02 Mar 2008 13:43:10 GMT From: VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG Subject: Re: OpenVMS & Oracle BLOBS Message-ID: <47caaeed$0$5613$607ed4bc@cv.net> In article <47ca9863$0$25982$88260bb3@free.teranews.com>, "Guy Peleg" writes: > >"rcyoung" wrote in message >news:e593d8a7-4183-4a12-802a-7231ec731044@s8g2000prg.googlegroups.com... >> Does anyone have some examples of extracting jpg, doc,txt files from >> an Oracle BLOB field under OpenVMS using ProC? >> >> I have put in some requests re this over in the Oracle groups, but >> 99.999% of the people >> there are Unixers/Windowers and many things do not apply ( or other >> things like setting logicals DO!) to OpenVMS! >> >> bob y > >http://ora-middleware.blogspot.com/2007/09/extract-blob-into-files.html > >What hear does not work on VMS? Hear on VMS? Is there now a supported sound card? -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)COM "Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?" http://tmesis.com/drat.html ------------------------------ Date: 2 Mar 2008 19:00:01 +0100 From: peter@langstoeger.at (Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER) Subject: OpenVMS Hobbyist ? Message-ID: <47caf931@news.langstoeger.at> $ nslookup -type=ns openvmshobbyist.com. Server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1 *** localhost can't find openvmshobbyist.com.: Server failed $ nslookup -type=ns openvmshobbyist.org. Server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1 *** localhost can't find openvmshobbyist.org.: Server failed So, how to reach the OpenVMS Hobbyist pages nowadays? Does anybody know the current/real IP addresses (in case of only the BIND/DNS server is down)? TIA -- Peter "EPLAN" LANGSTOEGER Network and OpenVMS system specialist E-mail peter@langstoeger.at A-1030 VIENNA AUSTRIA I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist ------------------------------ Date: 2 Mar 2008 19:17:00 +0100 From: peter@langstoeger.at (Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER) Subject: [PATHWORKS-32] Vista Support? Message-ID: <47cafd2c$1@news.langstoeger.at> Currently, one can read on the web. There are no plans to add new functionality to the PATHWORKS 32 product. This would include support for new versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system. Not all new technologies operate with PATHWORKS 32 in all environments. Customers refreshing their Windows environments to the latest PC desktop that include Intelligent Network Interface Controllers (NICS), hyper-threading, and support for plug-and-play hardware devices could experience server crashes and system instability. In such complex environments, HP will make its best effort to provide support but cannot guarantee a resolution in all cases. Does anyone know, if HP's "best effort" made eXcursion working (supported) on M$ Vista already (or when this will/could happen)? And no, I haven't tried myself already, I've no M$ Vista so far... TIA -- Peter "EPLAN" LANGSTOEGER Network and OpenVMS system specialist E-mail peter@langstoeger.at A-1030 VIENNA AUSTRIA I'm not a pessimist, I'm a realist ------------------------------ End of INFO-VAX 2008.124 ************************