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[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote 2013-01-02 19:39:
> In article <kc1tg7$cl7$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
> <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>
>>>> Now, as much as I low VMS, I (only) use VMS for things that VMS does well.
>>>> Acting as a repository for the families files (sound, music, digital
>>>> pictures and such) is *not* one of those, IMHO.
>>>
>>> What's wrong with storing .JPG files on a shadow set?
>>
>> Nothing at all! I have a bunch of JPG's on my VMS server where
>> my auction site automation tools are running. These JPG's are
>> uploaded each evening together with the rest of the auction info.
>>
>> But they are on VMS becuse my VMS *applications* needs them.
>> The applications are a bunch of Python scripts, by the way.
>
> For a long time, I have had "data" disks in my cluster.  In contrast to
> scratch disks, which are just for temporary files and where it doesn't
> matter if all files older than a short time are deleted, the data disks
> are for largish files which have secure copies elsewhere (CDs, DVDs,
> data sets from the web) or which can be regenerated (i.e. temporary
> files from one of my programs).  I have these disks anyway, and a web
> server.  Thus, why the extra effort to set up something else, when this
> works?  Does a web browser care if the file is served from a VMS system?

OK. I see :-)

The difference is that my wife and kids actualy takes *new*
pictures now and then. :-) And they want a simple way to save
them on something else then their personal computers.
Samba on VMS might work, I don't know.

But of course a VMS server can serve files just fine throught
a HTTP server. I use WASD b.t.w.

As a side note...

To update the JPG's (and PDF's on another directory) on my VMS
system, I simply attach the files to a mail sent from my laptop
and send them to a specific username the VMS box with a specific
subject. DELIVER then triggers a COM file that "detach" the files
and copies them to the correct VMS directories ("images" or "docs"
depending on a keyword in the subject). The directories are mapped
through WASD just as a check that they are readable. The images
are use for the auctions and the PDF's are linked from the
auction descriptions. It's fast, aprox 1 sec from clicking
"send" in the mail client until the files are seen on the
web directory listing no matter where *I* am at the moment.

DELIVER is a damn nice tool b.t.w for automation tasks.
All product information transfered between a major swedish
telecom company and it's outsourced supliers are handled
by a VMS system and DELIVER for the triggering. Has worked
flawless since 1996 (when I built the solution).


Jan-Erik.