I have recently ported several new or updated open-source packages to OpenVOS Release 17.1. They are now available on the VOS anonymous ftp site, at the following URL: ftp://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/posix/ga/v-series/v-series.html. aspell-0.60.6.1 – a spell-checking tool, GNU license. aspell6-en-7.1-0 – an English dictionary for aspell (other languages are available from the GNU web site), GNU license. cmake-2.8.4 [...]

I recently diagnosed an apparent compiler problem for an OpenVOS customer. He has two modules running OpenVOS Release 17.1. He was able to succesfully compile a program on one of them, but the gcc compiler diagnosed an “internal compiler error” when he tried to compile it on the other module. I tried to duplicate the [...]

It seems we live in an age where we have to think of new passwords every week.  In the good old days, you could browse a web site, even order stuff, without having to create an identity first. Now, every site wants you to create an ID, in the hope that they can gleam more [...]

Over the last few weeks several people have asked me about routes that mysteriously appear and then disappear. For example route print Default Gateway: 10.10.10.1 Network Address Gateway Address Subnet Mask Redirect Life 172.16.0.0 10.10.10.172 255.255.0.0 Figure 1 – original routing table And then route print Default Gateway: 10.10.10.1 Network Address Gateway Address Subnet Mask [...]