David, > Now I'm attempting to import Licenses from Ubuntu. I "select all" and > "cut" from gedit and then "paste" into the GNOME terminal where I have > started COPY TT: LICENSE.COM. But all kinds of unprintable characters > are inserted into LICENSE.COM so that the COM file can't be executed. > Obviously the wrong thing to do. Suggestions?
The standard terminal input buffer in VMS is something like 150 bytes (which is enough for a human typing, or a 2400 baud modem ;-) If you hammer on the line with more than that in a short time, data overruns will happen. You can either resize the input buffer (which will affect every terminal in the system) by the system parameter TTY_TYPAHDSZ, or you can switch terminals to an alternate typeahead buffer whose size is governed by the system parameter TTY_ALTYPAHD. For all changes to system parameters, the standard method is to edit SYS$SYSTEM:MODPARAMS.DAT, entering a line like MIN_TTY_TYPAHDSZ = 1024 and then call $ @SYS$UPDATE:AUTOGEN SAVPARAMS REBOOT which will recalculate a whole set of new system parameters (and then reboot, as most of these are static). > My second question is a bit more general. After I get the licenses > loaded I want to install TCP/IP .. it's part of the .iso file I got from > HP. But how do I set up SimH? I've Googled a lot and there seems to be > several approaches that have been developed over the years. I can't > figure out what's current. Primarily I'm looking for a way to get data > into VAX, COMs, ZIPs and EXEs. I'd forgotten that VMS takes a lot of > customizing to run smoothly. First you have to install the UCX license. Then you install the kit (named something like *-TCPIP-*.PCSI*) like $ PRODUCT INSTALL TCPIP /SOURCE=<path-to-PCSI-file> Then you configure it using $ @SYS$MANAGER:TCPIP$CONFIG.COM (if you have an older VMS version, it's named UCX$CONFIG.COM, and there's no PCSI installation kits). > And that question leads to DECNet. Does DECNet provide an easier way of > getting data in and out of VAX? Well, if you do have a DECnet stack for Windows of Linux, then yes, DECnet could be an alternative to TCP/IP. cu, Martin _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
