From: SMTP%"VAXman@tmesis.com" 18-NOV-1996 12:01:15.67 To: everhart@star.zko.dec.com CC: Subj: Re: DIGITAL STRIKES AGAIN... >Sheesh. Wish I had been there. Still, I can and will forward your >letter to the legal folks. Come next freeware CD I'll release a >faster vddriver for normal use...and on sigtapes before then. I'm sure you could have had a few choice words with der schmuckhead. >I'd love to see the symbol stuff, will not divulge to anyone, and >will give it a try at home. I can try it also here in the lab >anonymously; there are a few smp boxes around that can be used >for tests and I have priv'd access to them. Ok. You can anonymous FTP them from TMESIS.COM. There's both a SYMBOL031.ZIP and a SYMBOL031.BCK. The *.ZIP is *.BCK ZIPped up. It will create the build environment I've setup for SYMBOL which is a top level dir called SYMBOL and a subdirectory called V031_BETA. Below that you will find [.SRC], [.OBJ], [.EXE], etc. Issue an @BUILD V031_BETA and it will populate the directories. The [.KIT} file will contain all off the files you need to run. The INSTALL_SYMBOL.COM will take care of installing it and all you'll need to do is issue a SET COMMAND SYMBOL or define a foreign command: SYMBOL :== $SYMBOL I tend to use the SET COMMAND myself. >You can of course put a copyright on the source to protect it regardless >of how it gets released, though that wouldn't stop Rosenberg. I'd >love to have the code around for my own ref, but nobody else's; I can >build it even at home, and bring it in here on a cryptodisk in case >I need to diagnose a crash. The cryptodisk is pretty well inaccessible >and I use it to protect some of my top secret stuff from accidental >disclosure. (I put some logic into the FDT code (and don't serve) >so if the volume is owned by a process (private mount), then IRPs >must come from that process, no other, privs or not; opens just >return drverr from anyone else. Thus even share priv doesn't get >to them. This works on any virtual disk.) I don't care if the world gets access to this stuff but not the schmuckhead. He was totally floored by all the Alpha internals and I'm not going to do ANYTHING to help him understand them one IOTA. >R. has been a real fool about this. Kinda makes me wonder if I shouldn't >also write a remote shadow tool; I have I think all the technology >I need around. You may not have noticed yet that I put my journalling >virtual disk on the freeware cd (and the Safety SPD a few times) but >it's there in source. Shouldn't be too hard to turn that into something >that'd use the jnl info as a circular buffer to move across the net >from a diff. process, giving a remote shadow that needs only enough >net to keep up with average data write rates. The freeware release is >the first time that's ever seen the light of day. There ya go! His Remote Shadow stuff was kludgy anyway. BTW, The $LCKPAG question was for the changes I made in SYMBOL. If Karen Noel and/or David Wall would like to know why I posed the question, SYMBOL should answer them. Send me a message once you've FTPed the file because I want to zap it once you've gotten it. If you can't FTP it, let me know and I'll MFTU encode it and mail it. VAXman- VAXman@TMESIS.COM ================== RFC 822 Headers ================== Return-Path: system@tmesis.com Received: by galaxy.zko.dec.com (UCX V4.1-12, OpenVMS V6.2 VAX); Mon, 18 Nov 1996 12:01:12 -0500 Received: from ALPHA.TMESIS.COM by mail11.digital.com (8.7.5/UNX 1.5/1.0/WV) id LAA28763; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 11:46:28 -0500 (EST) Received: by TMESIS.COM (MX V4.1 AXP) id 1; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 11:45:04 EST Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 11:45:03 EST From: "Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-" Reply-To: VAXman@TMESIS.COM To: everhart@star.zko.dec.com Message-ID: <009AB8CE.669B1477.1@TMESIS.COM> Subject: Re: DIGITAL STRIKES AGAIN...