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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
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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