Re: New site for Linux/390 Related Articles/Links
David, Thanks. I've already asked him off-list why he wanted to start his own instead of contributing to linuxvm.org. He didn't seem to realize I welcome new content from others, so he said he would be willing to close down his site, but I haven't heard back from him for sure as of yet. Maybe more notes like yours will expedite that. Mark -Original Message- From: David Boyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 12:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New site for Linux/390 Related Articles/Links I am building a site to host articles and links, related exclusively to Linux/390. To echo some other comments, why not just contribute to Mark Post's already fairly comprehensive site, linuxvm.org? I'm sure that Mark wouldn't object to someone helping out, or to give you a section of your own. I'd really like to have fewer places to look for this stuff, rather than more.
Re: Mail Merge on Linux-390
I would suggest compiling the FORTRAN program on Linux, direct its output to a file, and then run the lpr command against it. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Rod Clayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 12:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail Merge on Linux-390 I need to mail merge a letter that then gets printed on my VSE line printer. We have been using an old Fortran program for this. Does anyone have an example of how to do this on Linux? Thanks, Rod -- Rod Clayton KA3BHY Systems Programmer Howard County Public Schools [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TSM Client Setup
We now have the TSM client installed and successfully backup our Linux 390 image. However, I still have 2 questions: 1) The instructions say to update the .profile with 2 exports commands. I don't seem to be able to find the .profile on my SuSE 7 system (I know where it is on USS). 2) How do I automate the startup of dsmcad during the boot process? Do I really have to modify the /sbin/init.d/skeleton and /etc/rc.config? Keith NOTE: This e-mail message may contain information that may be privileged, confidential, and exempt from disclosure. It is intended for use only by the person to whom it is addressed. If you have received this message in error, please do not forward or use this information in any way, delete it immediately, and contact the sender as soon as possible by the reply option or by telephone at the telephone number listed (if available). Thank you.
Re: VIF W-F-S
See: http://www.vm.ibm.com/pubs/pdf/vm420bas.html for z/VM 420 base publications and notably the link for System Administration Facility for VIF migrations and VIF like functionality Kurt Acker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ferguson, Neale Neale.Ferguson@SoftwareTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AG-USA.com cc: Sent by: Linux on 390 Subject: VIF W-F-S Port [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/05/01 01:41 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port S/390 Virtual Image Facility for Linux to be withdrawn from marketing effective April 30, 2002 See: http://www.ibmlink.ibm.com/usaletsparms=H_901-307 US http://www.ibmlink.ibm.com/canaletsparms=H_A01-1760 Canada http://www.ibmlink.ibm.com/emealetsparms=H_ERIFZP010607 EMEA
Re: linuxvm.org Content
Also, if anyone has any ideas about how to better classify the various links on the links page, or how to better organize the site so that it's easier for people to understand and navigate, let me know that also. (As long as it doesn't involve HTML frames. I'm not going there with this site.) Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for NOT using frames, animation, Java, and other useless improvements that clutter other web sites and make them less navigable. -- Rick Troth, BMC Software, Inc., speaking for myself 2101 City West Blvd., Houston, Texas, USA, 77042 1-800-841-2031
SSHD on Redhat RC2
Hi, I just installed Redhat 7.2 RC2. sshd is running, but now PuTTY no longer seems to want to work. It's giving me an Unable to open connection: connect(): unknown error. I have the IP address correct, as well as the port. Very strange. Cheers, Arty
Re: New site for Linux/390 Related Articles/Links
I usually don't do this, but Me Too! David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 12/05/2001 11:08:36 AM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Dennis Wicks/infosvcs/CDG) Subject: Re: New site for Linux/390 Related Articles/Links I am building a site to host articles and links, related exclusively to Linux/390. To echo some other comments, why not just contribute to Mark Post's already fairly comprehensive site, linuxvm.org? I'm sure that Mark wouldn't object to someone helping out, or to give you a section of your own. I'd really like to have fewer places to look for this stuff, rather than more.
Re: New Site is not available anymore
I hope you don't take our comments the wrong way. We appreciate every offer to help, but it is probably the consensus that your time (and ours) is better served by contributing to the site that Mark maintains (he certainly welcomes it). Rich Smrcina Sytek Services, Inc. Milwaukee, WI [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Catch the WAVV! Stay for Requirements and the Free for All! Update your S/390 skills in 4 days for a very reasonable price. WAVV 2002 in Cincinnati (Fort Mitchell, KY). April 12-16, 2002 For details see http://www.wavv.org One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. - Original Message - From: SAMY rengasamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 1:05 PM Subject: New Site is not available anymore I was not trying to contend with the Official Home of the Linux/390 Project. I do understand that me having a new site will cause people to look for Linux/390 stuff at multiple sites. I thought, I was trying to help the community, but if I am hurting it, I am sorry for that. I do ask everbody getting help from the mailing list to create write ups on their experience and get it posted at Official Home of the Linux/390 Project. Thanks, Samy Rengasamy. - Do You Yahoo!? Buy the perfect holiday gifts at Yahoo! Shopping.
Re: SSHD on Redhat RC2
have you tried protocols 1 AND 2? seems like here when we upgraded ssh sometime ago putty suddenly had problems and i cannot recall if we upgraded putty or just changed the default protocol. currently using putty v0.51 -Original Message- From: Arty Ecock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 1:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SSHD on Redhat RC2 Hi, I just installed Redhat 7.2 RC2. sshd is running, but now PuTTY no longer seems to want to work. It's giving me an Unable to open connection: connect(): unknown error. I have the IP address correct, as well as the port. Very strange. Cheers, Arty
Re: Mail Merge on Linux-390
Does the gf77 compiler support the fortran 4 language level? Thanks, Rod I need to mail merge a letter that then gets printed on my VSE line printer. We have been using an old Fortran program for this. If you've got the source to the Fortran program and you don't want to change anything, the steps will look something like this: Install the gf77 compiler on Linux. FTP the Fortran source to Linux and the data files and compile the Fortran with gf77 program.f If the program uses unit number-based I/O you'll need to read the GF77 docs to indicate how to associate files with unit numbers, or modify the Fortran to explicitly open the file and associate it with a unit number. Run the program. Print the output with LPR. If you don't mind some additional changes (and want a nicer looking letter), you may want to modify your Fortran program to emit troff commands (troff is a text formatter like DCF) to make the letters and then postprocess the output file with troff. troff will allow you to use all the features of your printer, produce Postscript or PCL output, and generate a lot of useful other stuff. There are macro packages included with troff (I'd suggest using the mm macros-- they're easy and well documented.) Your output letter might look like: .MT 5 .ND date of letter .WA writers name return address .WE .IA recipients address .IE .LO RN in reference string .LO AT attention line .LO SA salutation .LO SJ subject line .LT .P text of the letter with .P on a line by itself between paragraphs .FC text of closing and then you run the output file through 'troff -mm output.file | dvips | lpr -Pyour fave printer' and you get a very nicely formatted letter to print on your postscript printer. If you want plain text, use dvitty instead of dvips. The MM macros do the work of formatting and constructing the letter. See the ATT Documentor's Workshop manuals or man mm for details. -- db -- Rod Clayton KA3BHY Systems Programmer Howard County Public Schools [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT (somewhat) - ps2pdf tool
Hello from Gregg C Levine normally with Jedi Knight Computers Indeed. Also better check the settings on that wayback machine of yours. Try more like the 1890s. The all mechanical versions, sure. By the 1930s more of them ran that way. Besides, my dad, and my grandfather both were running a shop which used Intertype machines. So, I do know enough about them. So we agree on almost everything here. Also, I am inclined to lean more in your direction regarding the PS output devices on Linux. And my father did work with both of those guys, as I said. In three different places, at different phases in his career. For myself, I prefer Times Roman, for all of my work, except when it is necessary to use a special symbol, like those dingbats. Say, which proprietary page description language from Linotype are you referring to? I ask that, because this is what I remember, Cora ran inside the L500 for example. And this was the step sequence: You sent your output from, say a Mac, running Quark, into a RIP, who then translated into Cora for the L500. Come to think of it, the same hare brained process was used for sending output from that midrange based system, as well. And yes, I agree, on somebody like that L500, you definitely need to use fonts, that look better at that level of resolution. Which explains why it took forever to get some fonts cut for the family. --- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Force will be with you...Always. Obi-Wan Kenobi Use the Force, Luke. Obi-Wan Kenobi (This company dedicates this E-Mail to General Obi-Wan Kenobi ) (This company dedicates this E-Mail to Master Yoda ) -Original Message- From: David Boyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 6:27 PM To: 'Gregg C Levine'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: OT (somewhat) - ps2pdf tool Basically you are very correct David in your statements. Except on one. The Linotype machines, L300, and L500, and their relatives, and descendants, are actually output devices, Correct. and predate Linux and actual desktop publishing by about three years. That from having worked with one, on a midrange based system. Umm, this is personal experience talking. Sherman, set up the Wayback Machine8-) The Linotype brand is much older than that, having been created in the late 1930s as a slug casting system for newsprint and professional press job set up that cast molten lead into full lines of type as lead slugs (each representing a line of text, and thus the name line-o-type) that were fitted into a page frame and used in offset and pressure-backed printing presses. The Linotype (note the missing e) PostScript front ends were released 8 months following the public release of Adobe PostScript version 1, replacing an earlier proprietary Linotype page description language and competing with the Xerox Courier network printing protocol. The major reason I put the distinction in my note is that Linotype devices (and other professional presses) generally operate at 2400 dpi resolution (about 4 times the resolution of the typical Canon-based desktop laser printer) and bitmaps for 600 dpi printers look LOUSY on that type of device. The stroke-based character font definitions are interpreted by the PostScript interpreter in the press device, and thus are rendered at full device resolution, producing significantly better output. I've used the actual lead-slug-producing kind. They're fun. Loud, clanky machinery, a bazillion motors moving rods and gears, molten metal, plus cryptic commands and having to type like you're raising a ten pound weight with your fingers all in one lovely device. It's a device that only an engineer could love, and it's a beauty in a gross electro-mechanical sense... -- db
Re: Problems porting Pth (Portable threads)
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 03:07:05PM -0700, Dave Pitts wrote: Has anybody successfully ported the GNU Portable Threads (Pth) library to Linux/390? I've tried with versions 1.3.7 and 1.4.0. I have both the TurboLinux and SuSE 390 distrbutions and I get the same compile errors on each distrbuition. The configurator does figure out the system correctly as s390-ibm-linux-gnu2.2glibc2.1. Thought I'd ask before jumping into the code. What compile errors do you get? It compiles out of the box on Debian, and make check succeeds. Maybe it is just a matter of building against a more up-to-date toolchain and libraries. -- - mdz
Re. OT: Microsoft may be in for it
Educational copies of Windows XP in the UK (sealed boxes that is) come with a promotional leaflet for SUSE Linux 7.3 inside them. MfG / Best Regards Sebastian Welton GZS Gesellschaft für Zahlungssysteme mbH Raum: 2.030A Telefon:069/7933-1183 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:Wed, 5 Dec 2001 14:12:52 -0800 From:Lionel Dyck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT: Microsoft may be in for it From www.ntk.org (need to know): Mr Gates is due in the UK this week, patting Blair's head,
Re: Backup and Restore for Disaster Recovery
That's exactly what i do, i just have to modify my parmfile for dasd parameter, and my dns for the new ip address. Hope this help. - - Original Message - From: SAMY rengasamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 2:31 AM Subject: Backup and Restore for Disaster Recovery We have SuSe 7.0 running successfully in an LPAR by itself. Used offlindr - OS/390 offline DASD dump/restore program source to backup the complete linux dasd's from MVS in 18 minutes. We are setting up another LPAR to restore the data to test disaster recovery. Has anybody done this before? We do have to change /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab. What were the challenges faced by any of you? Any catches, snags, surprises.?? Thanks for your help, Samy Rengasamy. - Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online at Yahoo! Greetings.
