tada@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Tadayoff) (01/29/88)
Does anyone out there know how do decode the indexf.sys file at the root level of a disk? I'm writing a disk analysis program, and I know one can dump/header the file, and get all the information in text form, but for an RA81 it makes a *big* file. Also, I'd like to do all the decoding from within a C program, instead of a mixture of C and DCL. Thanks in advance any help... ------- Odds & ends: 'n' now if you're in a hurry. Wow! I finally got rn to work. I've been reading news for a couple of weeks, but the stupid thing refused to let me reply to anyone. This is sort of a mixture of replies to a few people.... re: windows (someone wrote: does anyone else have problems with uVax II's crashing under WS3.2 and VMS 4.5...) Yes! We've been having constant problems with the machine crashing, with processes going into resource wait states, and windows hanging around on the screen for no apparant reason. Partly it's our fault, because the machine that has had the most problem was a VaxStation 2000 running Lisp. DEC reccommends at least 9M of memory for a single user Lisp machine, but they only sell the 2000 with 6M.... When we moved our development to a VaxStation II with 9M the problems went away mostly. It seems to be a memory problem, and we were suspicious of exceeding UIS$QVSS_POOL_SIZE, but had no way of being certain. Thanks to whoever posted the method of checking if that is indeed the problem. re: AST's (& UIS) We've been doing some development here with window based interfaces, and naturally we have AST's coming out of our ears (one for each menu entry, etc, etc, etc). I had done some graphics hacking last fall during which I discovered that (although the manual doesn't indicate it) the different AST's refused to interrupt each other. When the programmers here started work and asked me questions about what I had found out concerning using UIS calls, I told them to watch out for AST's. Unfortunately, some of them can't seem to understand. Thanks to Jamie Hanrahan for the excellent explaination of AST vs. wait states. It's been a great help.