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Article #190Vax Hacks
From: Charles T. Smith, Jr.
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1991 21:17
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1991 21:17
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WANTED: Vax Hacks
I've collected a number of useful VMS lore and trivia over the years -
useful ways to do things, undocumented logicals, unsupported utilities, etc
that make life much easier on the Vax. For example:
Creating a process has a fair amount of overhead...especally when all
you want to do is grab a small file from another node. One way to
speed things up is to keep a NETSERVER process around longer than the
default timeout period of 5 minutes of inactivity. By defining the
logical netserver$timeout to a string containing a relative time,
netserver processes will be retained for the amount of time specified.
I'd like to collect as many of these useful hacks as possible into a
"cookbook" file which would be organized and then made available to the
net. If you have an interesting hack, lore on undocumented features
or utilities, an interesting way to solve a common problem, or even
quick and dirty programs, please forward them to me via mail. All
contributions will be credited in the final document.
Thanks
Charles Smith
cts@dragon.uucp
{backbone}!gatech!emory!dragon!cts
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!dixie.com!nanovx!dragon.uucp!cts From: cts@dragon.uucp (Charles T. Smith, Jr.) Newsgroups: vmsnet.misc,comp.sys.dec Subject: Vax Hacks Message-ID: <1991Apr3.161701.424@dragon.uucp> Date: 3 Apr 91 21:17:01 GMT Lines: 24