Re: Need Advice on Ubuntu/Linux Distro
As the orginiator of this thread, I should say that a few feet from where I¡¯m sitting is an IBM ThinkPad dated 2000 (the year I retired from IBM) that still runs Windows XP when I turn it on
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Dave Mitchell
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Re: Need Advice on Ubuntu/Linux Distro
Gregg, I am actually named "David" but prefer to be called "Dave" but I G4UGM except when in Spain where I am EA7KAE.... ... the Dave caused a problem or two when I last did a Microsoft exam as all my
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Dave Wade
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Re: Need Advice on Ubuntu/Linux Distro
[...] Well, the model came out in 2009(*), but I bought mine used in Oct. 2014 from a company called Stallard Technologies(**) that specializes in used Dell equipment. (HIGHLY recommended! Tell them I
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Fish Fish
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Re: Need Advice on Ubuntu/Linux Distro
Hello! There are three people(?) on this list who're named David, yourself, (Fish), one who is actually named Dave Wade, and of course Dave M, The monster reference was aimed at the both of them. And
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Gregg Levine
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Re: Need Advice on Ubuntu/Linux Distro
Gregg Levine wrote: [...] Too YOUNG? Nonsense! It (Dell Precision T7500) has been running non-stop for YEARS now, and is still going strong. Monsters? Well... All except the Linux stuff, yeah. ;-) --
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Fish Fish
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Re: Need Advice on Ubuntu/Linux Distro
Hello! Jim just how old is this laptop? And, ah, was XP native on it? Last year I bought a pair of Dell laptops from the VCF East events, and one of them, a Dell Latitude model runs Seven splendidly,
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Gregg Levine
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Re: Need Advice on Ubuntu/Linux Distro
Mike, It would be be good to see the console log for the VM startup. Dave Sent: 18 September 2022 16:53 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [h390-vm] Need Advice on Ubuntu/Linux Distro Is it possible
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Dave Wade
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Re: Need Advice on Ubuntu/Linux Distro
Is it possible that VM is trying to access a device that isn¡¯t there? Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2022 8:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [h390-vm] Need Advice on Ubuntu/Linux Distro Hello
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Mike Ward
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Re: Need Advice on Ubuntu/Linux Distro
This is *the* place to ask questions about VM/370 CE, VM/370 Sixpack, and others. The ONLY reason for using Hercules 3.x is because you heard about it, and can find it in the Fedora/Red
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Mark A. Stevens
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Re: Need Advice on Ubuntu/Linux Distro
When I couldn't install Devuan in an old laptop, I went upstream to Debian (which Ubuntu is also based on) and filed a bug report that Debian 6 was installable. In the next version, it was fixed. By
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Laird Heal
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Re: Need Advice on Ubuntu/Linux Distro
Jim Snellen wrote: What?! HOW DARE YOU! TRAITOR!! </kidding> :) [...] <std disclaimer(*)> I have 3 Linux distros installed in VMware virtual machines, and all run just fine for me (with various
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Fish Fish
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Need Advice on Ubuntu/Linux Distro
Hello all, I'm taking a break from Windows and trying to resurrect my old work laptop that used to run Windows XP.? I have a Dell Precision M90 with 4gbs and a NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500M graphics card.?
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Jim Snellen
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Re: Automatic generation of transcoding tables for IND$FILE
#rexx
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Sometimes I can be sooo very dense ... Tried this on tty.livingcomputers,org:24 Ready; T=0.05/0.07 17:04:44 l PROFILE? EXEC???? A1 LASTING? GLOBALV? A1 REXXSTUB EXEC???? A1 Ready;
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Mark A. Stevens
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Re: Automatic generation of transcoding tables for IND$FILE
#rexx
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Is this, then a malformed REXX program? Since the comment is not terminated? ... Mark S.
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Mark A. Stevens
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Re: Automatic generation of transcoding tables for IND$FILE
#rexx
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These are two different issues: there is no PARSE instruction in this dummy EXEC type rexxstub exec /* Ready; T=0.01/0.01 19:09:23 rexxstub 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Invalid character ' ' in fileID ' VSXSTUB
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Martin Scheffler
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Re: Automatic generation of transcoding tables for IND$FILE
#rexx
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I have identifiedthe same bug in CMS BREXX and it's parsing of command line arguments, and the problem is recorded here ... https://github.com/vlachoudis/brexx/issues/8 I Hope This Helps ... Mark S.
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Mark A. Stevens
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Issue #83: Errors with more than 7 arguments given to REXX EXECs, bREXX does not even start
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I have run into a bug that a CMS EXEC in REXX cannot have many blank-delimited arguments, bREXX does not even start. The string "CvG" is arbitrary. See Issue #83 on Github (
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Martin Scheffler
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Re: Automatic generation of transcoding tables for IND$FILE
#rexx
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It is one single REXX source file that detects its environment and acts accordingly. It is stlil Work In Progress, but test results are very promising. I have tested it successfully on following
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Martin Scheffler
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Re: Possible bug in BREXX parse instruction
Hi Bob, Hi Mark, Shit, I totally forgot about this topic. I'll look at it tomorrow, I promise. Mike Mark A. Stevens via groups.io <marXtevens@...> schrieb am Sa. 17. Sept. 2022 um
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Mike Gro?mann
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Re: Possible bug in BREXX parse instruction
Mike, Were you able to determine if the bug exists in the MVS version of BREXX? Did I miss that answer? Bob, You built a debugging version of BREXX for VM/370 CE, but I haven't figured out how to use
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Mark A. Stevens
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