21 Feb
2004
21 Feb
'04
9:31 a.m.
Quothe Witchy, from writings of Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 07:15:16PM -0000:
Good stuff. I added the STARTUP_P2 in there so it
would dump all startup
output to the screen as it was booting, and STARTUP_P1 prevents the system
from executing sys$manager:systartup_v5.com, which is the site-specific
startup file. In that file there'll be some file initiation for stuff that
doesn't exist any more, QFAX probably being one of them. You need to track
down those startup files that no longer exist any more, and take out the
$SET COMMAND QFAX_SYS:QFAX (or similar) that lives in
SYS$MANAGER:SYLOGIN.COM or SYS$MANAGER:LOGIN.COM
Ok, thanks, I'll start commenting things out of the startup files and
poke around some more to see what all does, and doesn't, exist.
Once I mounted the other disk manually, I discovered lots of files
pertaining to qfax, software by Audiotechs for the DECvoice boards,
etc. Not sure how complete that software is---some things appear to
me missing, or what good it is to me, since I don't have commercial
telephone wiring. BTW, the qfax software apparently works with a
board manufactured by a company called Talon... one of the text files
on the system lists that as some sort of FAX hardware... need to look
into this a bit more. Apparently a modem too, possibly, since it has
a Rockwell IC, IIRC, on it.
A while back I think someone mentioned some piece of hardware that
allows one to use standard residential voice lines with the commercial
telephone (T1?) lines. Does anyone recall anything about this? It
would be fun to be able to put these DECvoice boards to some creative
use to have fun with people who keep dialing wrong telephone numbers
and reach my number. :-)
Since you're registered with the hobbyist program
you can install VAX C and
UCX too, or is there a reason you need gcc and CMU-IP? Long time since I've
seen mention of the latter :)
Can those be used with VAX/VMS 5.5? This system has a licence which
never expires, according to what I've seen by poking around. This
machine is also supposed to have an indefinite license for VAXC, RDB
and a few other things, but I'm still trying to figure out what all is
actually installed... the directory structure appears to be rather
disorganized.
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