SYSRUTH@UTORPHYS.BITNET.UUCP (02/07/87)
From: ATLAS::SYSRUTH 5-FEB-1987 12:48 To: Orig_To! info-vax@sri-kl.arpa, SYSRUTH Subj: tcp info file, MAIL COMPRESS, and DLVJ1's Several things this time: 1. I could not reach the following people who requested a copy of my collection of TCP responses: R. Haslam, I. Ahn, D. Morgan, and S. Cavrak. Please send me a FULL address (some of it gets truncated or left out in the messages you send me) if you still want a copy. Preferably something not too far removed from BITNET if possible. 2. A note about the MAIL COMPRESS command - it does NOT lock the MAIL.MAI file, or at least it didn't in 4.3. I got a message once during a COMPRESS and had to use the SET FILE command to get at it - it was in MAIL.OLD. Maybe they have fixed this in 4.4 (did they FIX anything in 4.4?). I would be interested to know what sort of message it gives someone trying to send a COMPRESSor mail. "File locked by another user" would not be very helpful. 3. A plea for HELP! We have just received a DLVJ1-M 4-line asynch. terminal line Q-bus interface. It is covered in jumpers. According to the technical manual that came with it, some of the features (speed etc.) are software settable. It is my understanding that this device uses the DLDRIVER. Is this the case? Is it truly software settable or do we have to pick a speed, wire it, and stick to it? What device names do things show up as? Would the SET TERM commands work the way they do with DZQ lines, or would we be stuck with SET DEVICE? I would try some of these things out for myself, but it is a production machine being used exclusively by one group in our department, and I can't take it away from them for long to play with it. CSR's and vector's (ignore the last apostrophe) should not be a problem as the CSR is uniqie uniqUe (having problems today - got bitten by a squirrel this morning) and we have nothing else at vector 300. Which brings me to another question - since the driver comes with uVMS, will the device autoconfigure? Thanks for any help you folks can give on this one. I have no exposure to the original UNIBUS device this is based on, either, so you'll need to get down to reasonably basic points (this is what I get for being non- technical - but that's changing!). Ruth Milner System Manager University of Toronto Physics SYSRUTH@UTORPHYS (BITNET)