[Info-vax] Internals questions

[IanMiller]

On 25 Mar, 14:13, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
wrote:
> Example of using MBOX.EXE below.
>
>  From one process :
>
> $ cre/mailbox test_mbx
> $ sh log test_mbx
>     "TEST_MBX" = "MBA28887:" (LNM$JOB_8256DC00)
> $ open/write tmp test_mbx
> $ write tmp "ABCDEF"
>
> Then from another process :
>
> $ mbox MBA28887
>
> Device: MBA28887: (TEST_MBX/LNM$JOB_8256DC00)
>
>     Channels: 2, Operations: 0, Creator: 0000EE63 (SYSTEM_01)
>
>     Total size: 1056, Remaining: 1050, Message size: 256, Msgs: 1
>
>     Message number: 1, 6 bytes, Written by: 0000EE63 (SYSTEM_01) Waiting
>                        4645 44434241 ABCDEF.............. 00000000
> $
>
> At least for me, this is far easier then using SDA...
> The tool was found on one of the VMS freeware distros, I think...
>
> Jan-Erik.



MBOX is somewhat dated but I wrote MBU which will view messages in
mailboxes (formatted in various simple ways). It was on VMS FREEWARE
V8 and can be found at
http://vms.process.com/scripts/fileserv/fileserv_search.exe?package=mbu
See also
http://vms.process.com/scripts/fileserv/fileserv_search.exe?package=mbmon