INFO-VAX Sun, 25 Feb 2007 Volume 2007 : Issue 112 Contents: MAIL losing a whole folder ? Re: OT: Quebec Health Care Virus Re: OT: Quebec Health Care Virus Re: OT: Quebec Health Care Virus Re: Outputting Variables from C Language Re: TSZ07 Re: TSZ07 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:33:43 -0500 From: JF Mezei Subject: MAIL losing a whole folder ? Message-ID: <4588f$45e1ba6d$cef8887a$7560@TEKSAVVY.COM> before leaving to be duct-taped in Toronto, I moved all my "MAIL" folder = to=20 a new one called "MAIL2". Why ? because the pop server woudl have=20 downloaded all those messages to my mobile handset. And I wanted to=20 download any new messages that would arrive while I was away. I used decw$mail to do this and it seemed to work fine. Upon my return, I set out to move this MAIL2 back to MAIL and get back t= o=20 normal mail processing. Low and behold, the MAIL2 folder is gone from bot= h=20 DECW$MAIL and character cell mail. Looking at the MAIL.MAI file, there are still many records in it with=20 "MAIL2" in what I assume to be the folder field near the start of the rec= ord. This is not the first time I have lost whole folders with mail. But this = time, I know that the records are still in there. Any way to get those=20 record back into the "active" messages that are displayed ? Here is a sample record: (from dump/record) > Record number 13 (0000000D), 235 (00EB) bytes, RFA(000C,0000,0022) >=20 > 0000324C 49414D05 00A6063F E4FB0000 ..=FB=E4?.=A6..MAIL2.. 000000 > 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................ 000010 > 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................ 000020 > 000500A6 063FE4FB 00000000 0000200A . ......=FB=E4?.=A6... 000030 > 00000000 00000000 00000000 00140007 ................ 000040 > 50544D53 00220000 00000000 00000000 ..........".SMTP 000050 > 40696D61 6B617275 6D2E656E 6E612225 %"anne.mArakUmi@ 000060 > 0001226D 6F632E73 7265676F 722E6C6E nl.rogIrs.com".. 000070 > 513F312D 39353838 2D6F7369 3F3D003E >.=3D?iso-8859-1?Q 000080 > 73696F37 453D6E61 72462D6E 61654A3F ?Jean-Fran=3DE7ois 000090 > 657A656D 666A3C20 3D3F6965 7A654D5F _Mezei?=3D 3E61632E 6E6F6974 616E6978 61764069 i@vIxEnation.ca> 0000B0 > 74206948 203A6552 001B0002 00000003 ........Re: Hi t 0000C0 > 74736575 71206120 646E6120 65726568 here and a quest 0000D0 > 000000 4D000400 056E6F69 ion....M........ 0000E0 Any hints ? (Alpha VMS 8.3. TCPIP Services 5.6 ) Also, while I am at it, is there a way to know the exact logic used by th= e=20 POP server to determine which messages should be offerend to a POP client= ? My handset seems to keep track of what messages it has already downloaded= =2E=20 But I am surprised that the POP server would have offered the 130 or so=20 message in my MAIL folder (already read) to my handset. ------------------------------ Date: 25 Feb 2007 06:34:59 -0800 From: bob@instantwhip.com Subject: Re: OT: Quebec Health Care Virus Message-ID: <1172414099.463550.159300@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> On Feb 22, 9:18 am, koeh...@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) wrote: > In article <1172105406.267418.31...@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>, b...@instantwhip.com writes: > > > anyone who signs a contract longer than 1 year with any other > > os than vms is plain stupid ... > > Oh, I'm not so sure. IBM has some prety good mainframe OS that > will be around for longer than a year. I have been on some of them ... they are as convuluted as unix/ linux ... I am still waiting for a call from IBM support at a job I had for a month back in 94 ... OS400 crashed twice and said they would get in touch and never did ... vms is the best all around os period ... it is easy to train people on and it can do any job including real time and do it very well, WITHOUT VIRUSES ... ------------------------------ Date: 25 Feb 2007 06:42:57 -0800 From: bob@instantwhip.com Subject: Re: OT: Quebec Health Care Virus Message-ID: <1172414577.283927.174460@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> On Feb 21, 10:10 pm, "Main, Kerry" wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: b...@instantwhip.com [mailto:b...@instantwhip.com] > > Sent: February 21, 2007 7:47 PM > > To: Info-...@Mvb.Saic.Com > > Subject: Re: OT: Quebec Health Care Virus > > > I continue to be amazed at how people here continue to state > > the flawed fact that another solution is cheaper and better than > > vms ... > > > WRONG! > > > when you take that higher initial investment and divide it over > > decades > > of virus free 99.9999 uptime enviroment your TCO on vms wins > > overwhelmingly ... > > > also, they should be using vms to save money because they are > > broke running a socialized healthcare system the same one Hillary > > Clinton and the democrats are and have been pushing for years ... > > > look at Canadas broken system and think about that the next > > election ... > > While I certainly will not argue about your choice in OS's, Canada's > health systemm is far from broken. > > While no system is issue free, the reality is that it works very well > here for most situations - likely in the order of 95%+ or better. > Unfortunately, those few areas where there are issues are magnified > exponentially by those who prefer the status quo. > > And the system is constantly eveolving to reduce those 5% issues to an > even smaller number. not to break to your bubble, but I can send you links to countless stories of Canadians coming to the US for basic things such as gallbladder surgery because they got tired of waiting for their number to come up and suffering ... the US problem is three pronged ... 1 LAWYERS ... ever hear of frivilious lawsuits ... and these leach lawyers are driving doctors out of business and driving up healthcare costs with rising malpractice insurance ... 2 QUOTAS ... I was in an engineering graphics class at a major college here and a kid setting next to me said he was majoring in pre med and had a 3.4 GPA ... I said what are you doing here ... he said he got tired of trying to get in and that because of their racial quotas, they were letting in ethnic students with 2.7 GPAs over him so he was going to try engineering ... so we do not even put the best doctors into the system ... 3 ILLEGALS ... are driving hospitals and other doctors out of business with a requirement they be treated without paying ... add those three up and there is your problem ... ------------------------------ Date: 25 Feb 2007 06:43:52 -0800 From: bob@instantwhip.com Subject: Re: OT: Quebec Health Care Virus Message-ID: <1172414631.934854.200560@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com> On Feb 22, 6:29 pm, "Doug Phillips" wrote: > On Feb 21, 6:47 pm, b...@instantwhip.com wrote: > > > > > > > I continue to be amazed at how people here continue to state > > the flawed fact that another solution is cheaper and better than > > vms ... > > > WRONG! > > > when you take that higher initial investment and divide it over > > decades > > of virus free 99.9999 uptime enviroment your TCO on vms wins > > overwhelmingly ... > > > also, they should be using vms to save money because they are > > broke running a socialized healthcare system the same one Hillary > > Clinton and the democrats are and have been pushing for years ... > > > look at Canadas broken system and think about that the next > > election ... > > Not being a Canadian, I don't know how good that health care system > is. I do consider the U.S.'s system to be badly broken. > > A quick search will show you that: > > - the per-capita spending for health care in the U.S. is nearly double > that of Canada (and Australia, and France) and more than double that > in the UK. > > - their life expectancy is higher than in the U.S. > > - their infant mortality rate is lower than in the U.S. > > Maybe those facts alone don't prove a broken system, but the more > anyone looks at the U.S. health care system, the more facts one > gathers, the closer one looks at how each dollar spent is distributed, > the more obvious it should be to them that the system just isn't > working very well.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - not to break to your bubble, but I can send you links to countless stories of Canadians coming to the US for basic things such as gallbladder surgery because they got tired of waiting for their number to come up and suffering ... the US problem is three pronged ... 1 LAWYERS ... ever hear of frivilious lawsuits ... and these leach lawyers are driving doctors out of business and driving up healthcare costs with rising malpractice insurance ... 2 QUOTAS ... I was in an engineering graphics class at a major college here and a kid setting next to me said he was majoring in pre med and had a 3.4 GPA ... I said what are you doing here ... he said he got tired of trying to get in and that because of their racial quotas, they were letting in ethnic students with 2.7 GPAs over him so he was going to try engineering ... so we do not even put the best doctors into the system ... 3 ILLEGALS ... are driving hospitals and other doctors out of business with a requirement they be treated without paying ... add those three up and there is your problem ... ------------------------------ Date: 21 Feb 2007 10:37:23 +0100 From: huber@NIRWANA-mppmu.mpg.de (Joseph Huber) Subject: Re: Outputting Variables from C Language Message-ID: In article <1172010651.358917.125580@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com>, raggden@gmail.com writes: > I wrote this DCL script to execute some calculations however I need to > do decimal math so I need to introduce a C script into the DCL > commands. I can pass the variables from DCL to the C script using argc > and argv but can't figure out how to pass certain variables (values) > back to the DCL script environment. I have three values I need to pass > back out so that the DCL script can continue. How does one do this? I > assume I use the "return" command in C but then how does DCL interpret > that and store those values to variables? > > DCL ----- (Passes Values) ---> C (Does Decimal Math) -----(Need to > pass new values back???)---> DCL If the program just has to evaluate simple expressions (including standard functions like ln,sin.cos ...), consider to use a command-line driven formula-calculator program like ICALC from the freeware ( http://h71000.www7.hp.com/freeware/freeware80/icalc/ ). This program evaluates the expression and returns the result in a symbol (ICALC_OUT) for use in a DCL commandfile. -- Joseph Huber , Muenchen,Germany: http://www.huber-joseph.de/ ------------------------------ Date: 25 Feb 2007 16:02:01 GMT From: bill@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) Subject: Re: TSZ07 Message-ID: <54dq7oF1vsld8U1@mid.individual.net> In article <874ppbh4qq.fsf@k9.prep.synonet.com>, Paul Repacholi writes: > bill@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes: > >> I don't think we are talking about the same tape drive. There is no >> front tensioner. I assume by "tensioner" you mean the arm with the >> wheel that presses the tape down on the take-up. It has nothing >> between it and the body of the drive except the pivot and a spring. >> I am certain the tach is the sensor on the bottom of the drive with >> the plastic wheel spinning inside it. > > On the top of that roller, there should be a slot wheel and a LED/PD > unit. Mine has a pile of bits on top, I'll rty to clear it off > and have a look tomorow. As I said, there are no wires coming from the tensioner/pressure roller for the take-up so I can't see that being the tach. The motor itself has two connections. One is obviously power (regular wires, fairly heavy guage) and the other, which comes from the unit pictured on my webpage, has a ribbon cable coming from it and disappearing throuhg the blower housing. I am certain this is the tach. bill -- Bill Gunshannon | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wolves bill@cs.scranton.edu | and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. University of Scranton | Scranton, Pennsylvania | #include ------------------------------ Date: 25 Feb 2007 16:03:44 GMT From: bill@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) Subject: Re: TSZ07 Message-ID: <54dqb0F1vsld8U2@mid.individual.net> In article <87zm73fq3e.fsf@k9.prep.synonet.com>, Paul Repacholi writes: > bill@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes: > >> Are you sure? Then what is the wheel on the bottom that spins >> inbetween that sensor? (See picture on website!) I just looked >> again and there are no wires or anything coming from the tension arm >> so I don't see how it could containt he tach sensor. > > Is this the bigger 6250 drive? or the lower profile 1600 one? Pretty sure it does 6250, but in any case, it definitely is not "low profile". It is a fill sized rack-mount 9 track, It fit into the slot vacated by my old Cipher 990 perfectly!. Even uses the same rails. bill -- Bill Gunshannon | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wolves bill@cs.scranton.edu | and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. University of Scranton | Scranton, Pennsylvania | #include ------------------------------ End of INFO-VAX 2007.112 ************************