A word of thanks to all those who supplied information or who suggested solutions to this problem. I have passed the info on and will be interested to hear if...
Chris Anderson
slug@...
Mar 5, 1999 9:36 am
1209
A SPITBOL user called yesterday with a problem. The solution may be of interest to others, hence this letter. His program performs extensive and very...
Mark Emmer
marke@...
Mar 5, 1999 2:23 pm
1210
... Thanks for the great suggestion, Mark! A practical question, though... a table containing "many millions of elements" is going to take up an enormous...
Kevin G. Barkes
kgb@...
Mar 5, 1999 3:04 pm
1211
I still don't see why the EXIT function did not solve the problem here?...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Mar 5, 1999 3:35 pm
1212
<<A practical question, though... a table containing "many millions of elements" is going to take up an enormous amount of memory. Even with virtual memory...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Mar 5, 1999 3:43 pm
1213
... spt". The "init.spt" program will do all the initialization, then create ... x x x x x terminal = "Initialization complete" exit(-3,"run.spx") c =...
gep2@...
Mar 5, 1999 3:54 pm
1214
... Not if you're running on an old VAXstation and DEC is the sole source of memory add-ons... Regards, KGB -- Kevin G. Barkes, President <> KGB Consulting,...
Kevin G. Barkes
kgb@...
Mar 5, 1999 4:02 pm
1215
- On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Mark Emmer wrote: ...snipped... - ... - ... - ... - Here's a far less elegant technique, which I regularly use for large _text-only_...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Mar 5, 1999 4:18 pm
1216
<<Not if you're running on an old VAXstation and DEC is the sole source of memory add-ons... ... THe best advice in that situation is dump the old hardware, it...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Mar 5, 1999 4:58 pm
1217
... same ... ! This is correct. Mark...
Mark Emmer
marke@...
Mar 5, 1999 5:13 pm
1218
... elements" ... system ... Swapping would kill this program. The NT machine was sized to accommodate it (256 MB DRAM). BTW, is everyone clear on why we used...
Mark Emmer
marke@...
Mar 5, 1999 5:14 pm
1219
... There is, but it doesn't tell you *which* statement is in error, only the nature of the error. If you look at the SLOAD function that's included with the...
Mark Emmer
marke@...
Mar 5, 1999 5:14 pm
1220
True, but the application software we use (Datalogics Pager) runs on VAX/VMS. They do have versions that run on Unix and NT, but given the cost of a) a new...
Kevin G. Barkes
kgb@...
Mar 5, 1999 5:33 pm
1221
... Gee, you didn't say there would be a quiz... Regards, KGB -- Kevin G. Barkes, President <> KGB Consulting, Inc. Email: kgb@... <> Web: www.kgb.com 1512...
Kevin G. Barkes
kgb@...
Mar 5, 1999 6:00 pm
1222
Howdy! ... include... " ... elements" is going to take up an enormous amount of memory. Even with virtual memory operating systems, the potential's there for...
gep2@...
Mar 5, 1999 7:53 pm
1223
... memory add-ons... It sounds like it may be time to retire the VAXstation. The MicroCenter superstore chain is selling (under $400!) a PC with: AMD K2-300...
gep2@...
Mar 5, 1999 7:54 pm
1224
<<Plus, my VAXstation has been up now 67 days without a reboot. It would be 200+ days, but I had to take the system down to replace a bad tape drive. ... True,...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Mar 5, 1999 8:39 pm
1225
... Some of our contracts require us to resolve problems within a certain timeframe. We can get 4 hour guaranteed response time from DEC/Compaq. There are also...
Kevin G. Barkes
kgb@...
Mar 5, 1999 9:26 pm
1226
... I'm not going to get into a religious argument here, but... I work out of my home. I have about 13 systems, most of them running MS-DOS or Windows 98. The...
Kevin G. Barkes
kgb@...
Mar 5, 1999 9:29 pm
1227
why on earth are you struggling with Win98, that's crazy even if you DO want to stick to Bill Gates stuff. NT is far more reliable. And as I said earlier, if...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Mar 5, 1999 9:46 pm
1228
Hear hear! I'm glad that you are still able to use your old equipment and financially you've been able to justify it! Here where i work, they've been...
Russ W. Urquhart
urqurw@...
Mar 5, 1999 10:03 pm
1229
<<Here where i work, they've been pressuring us to move to the latest NT (i'm at 3.51) and to get rid of my Sun box and just an Xwindows emulator under NT. ...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Mar 5, 1999 10:32 pm
1230
... You're preaching to the choir. Am I the only one on this list who has a business that requires me to deal with The Real World? I use Win98 because my...
Kevin G. Barkes
kgb@...
Mar 5, 1999 10:34 pm
1231
... The advantage of being the President and sole shareholder of a company is that I don't have to listen to beancounters. My accountant questioned the support...
Kevin G. Barkes
kgb@...
Mar 5, 1999 11:23 pm
1232
... Regretably, no. I've said "real soon now" for too long to repeat it yet again. I did install Red Hat Linux a few weeks ago, and found the "Linux ...
Mark Emmer
marke@...
Mar 6, 1999 1:40 am
1233
well right now there are hundreds of books on linux at all levels ... Can't you run the Windows version of SPITBOL under Wine?...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Mar 6, 1999 2:49 am
1234
... It couldn't hurt but, honestly, NT might be ok for his operation, depending upon what he's doing. It's hard to justify keeping a VAX around to run SPITBOL...
Kevin G. Barkes
kgb@...
Mar 6, 1999 3:05 am
1235
... Dunno. I downloaded Wine, but never tested it when I got frustrated installing Linux. Maybe on some long, snowy weekend (if we ever get snow this...
Mark Emmer
marke@...
Mar 6, 1999 6:33 am
1236
... time. ... It's also as reliable as a tank. Last year one employee and I produced about 320,000 pages of type, 850 separate publications, using VMS and its...
gep2@...
Mar 6, 1999 3:31 pm
1237
... The only way to crash a VMS system is to write software that directly mucks with the hardware in kernel mode, such as a device driver. Period. You cannot...
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