Re: VM Operator messages to networked SYSLOGD

[Miguel Diaz]

I love it when books describe algorithms like this and then say "xyz is left as an exercise for the reader"...if I knew what I was doing, I wouldn't be reading your book, now would I?  :-)

Regards,
Miguel Diaz
z/VM TCP/IP Development

VM/ESA and z/VM Discussions <VMESA-L@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU> wrote on 10/13/2005 04:44:10 PM:

> On Thursday, 10/13/2005 at 03:02 EST, Rick Troth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Trivial!
> > This is positively trivial!
> > And it's fun!  And it's cool!
> >
> > PIPE [scif traffic] | [convert to ascii] | UDP
> >
> > where "[scif traffic]" is some stage (in REXX or a combination)
> > to slurp up your OPERATOR traffic,  and  "[convert to ascii]"
> > is something to translate EBCDIC to ASCII *and* add the
> > correct UDP bits.   But it's really easy to do!
>
> Everything is easy once you know how.  Please supply us with the details
> of [scif traffic] and [convert to ascii].  I know it's all just various
> combinations of 1s and 0s, but I wouldn't call it "trivial".  :-)
>
> Alan Altmark
> z/VM Development
> IBM Endicott