🚀 go-pugleaf

cts@dragon.uucp (Charles T. Smith, Jr.) writes:
>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
 
I probably shouldn't be saying this ( and he may not appreciate it )
but if you want the definitive list of these, talk to Jym Dyer
( who is lurking out there in netland ).  Back when I was at DEC,
Jym was the moderator of the infamous HACKERS notesfile.  There
were some *UNSPEAKABLE* hacks in there, many of which never saw
the light of day in the external world ( thank goodness!! ).
Some of the hottest engineers from various DEC teams contributed
their favorites.  Until, that is, someone realized the inherent
danger involved ( I think this was post-Dyer days ) and the postings
became merely sanitized versions of pre-approved content.  Too bad ;-{
Oh well, it was incredibly fun while it lasted.
 
Cheers,
 
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