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The Quayle Consulting homepage: www.stanq.com

Zmodem send and receive for VMS VAX and Alpha. The download is a VMS-format ZIP file.

Usage notes:

Define "sz" and "rz" as foreign symbols
Run "sz" without arguments for options. These options also apply to "rz".

Writing VMS-format CD's (link) Uses a Linux system to burn ODS-2 CD's. Doesn't require a CD burner on the VMS system.

Connections and Connectors (link) All sorts of serial and network connections: DB-9, DB-25, MMJ, RJ-45, etc. Supports VMS systems, Cisco routers, serial, 10Base-T, FDDI over copper (CDDI), DECservers, Flowpoint routers, and more!

"Fix" file attributes of VMS BACKUP savesets

If you FTP a BACKUP saveset, the file attributes will be mangled. If you use ASCII transfer, all is lost. But, if you use Binary transfer, the attributes can be fixed by this procedure. Note that this doesn't work on really old VMS systems (like VAX/VMS 5.5 and older) because it uses SET FILE/ATTRIBUTES.

$! RESET_BACKUP_SAVESET_ATTRIBUTES.COM
$!
$! P1  is the specification of the BACKUP saveset
$!
$! This procedure resets the record format and record
$! length attributes of a BACKUP saveset -- savesets
$! can get "broken" during certain sorts of file
$! transfers -- such as FTP.  This procedure reads the
$! (undocumented) saveset record attributes directly
$! out of the target file.
$!
$! First render the saveset readable, and implicitly
$! check that the file exists.
$!
$ Set File -
    /Attributes=(RFM:FIX,MRS:512,LRL=512,ORG=SEQ,RAT=NONE) -
    'p1'
$
$ Open/Error=whoops/Read BckSaveset 'p1'
$ Read/Error=whoops/End=whoops BckSaveset Record
$ Close/Nolog BckSaveset
$
$! Find the blocksize from within the record...
$
$ BlockSize = 0
$ BBH_L_BLOCKSIZE = %x28*8
$ BlockSize = F$CVUI(BBH_L_BLOCKSIZE, 32, Record)
$ If BlockSize .lt. 2048 .or. BlockSize .gt. 65535
$ Then
$   Write sys$output "Unexpected block size"
$   Goto whoops
$ Else
$   Set File /Attributes=(RFM:FIX,LRL='BlockSize', -
       MRS='BlockSize',RAT=none) -
       'p1'
$ endif
$ exit
$WHOOPS:
$ Write sys$output "Error"
$ exit

Services

Quayle Consulting Inc. provides a complete menu of services, including:

VAX migration and replacement using virtualization technology
Alpha migration and replacement using virtualization technology
Software design, development and maintenance,including porting to Alpha and Itanium OpenVMS
PDP-11 migation and replacement using virtualization technology
System Administration for platforms including VMS and Linux
Data Conversion to open formats
Software Development
Network design and support

Other items of interest:

The company blog
Details on hooking up equipment, including MMJ connectors
Sales and technical support for the DOS Buttons product, which has flown on the Space Shuttle
News and whitepapers about Quayle Consulting and VMS

The Quayle Consulting Inc. website

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Trademarks

OpenVMS is a trademark of Hewlett-Packard.
CHARON-VAX and CHARON-AXP are trademarks of Stromasys. Quayle Consulting Inc. is an authorized reseller of CHARON products.
NuVAX is a trademark of The Logical Company.
Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation, USA.