[Info-vax] Internals questions

[IanMiller]

On 25 Mar, 17:44, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
wrote:
> IanMiller wrote:
> > 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=m...
>
> OK, fine. Both are still easier then ANALYZ/SYSTEM... :-)
>
> I see that MBU also can create mailboxes. Will it give something
> that $ CREATE/MAILBOX don't ? (Apart from working on VMS versions
> where CREATE/MAILBOX isn't available, of course...)
>
> Jan-Erik.


I wrote it before CREATE/MAILBOX existed.