[Info-vax] (no subject) INstall o f C and Cxx

[Steven Schweda]

Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:

> 2. Run them (they are self-expanding EXEs ZIPs).

   Or, if you're in a hurry, use a modern UnZip program, which
will probably be noticeably faster than the "UnZipSFX 5.12 of
28 August 1994 [...]" which HP tends to use for these things.

ALP $ pipe show time ; unzip6l [-.V7R3]CC073.DCX_AXPEXE ; show time
   5-AUG-2009 09:50:28
Archive:  ALP$DKA0:[PATCH.C.V7R3]CC073.DCX_AXPEXE;1
warning [ALP$DKA0:[PATCH.C.V7R3]CC073.DCX_AXPEXE;1]:  65536 extra
bytes at begin
ning or within zipfile
  (attempting to process anyway)
  inflating: CC073.A
  inflating: CC073.B
  inflating: CC073.RELEASE_NOTES
  inflating: CC073_RELEASE_NOTES.PS
  inflating: CC_IG.PS
  inflating: CC_IG.TXT
  inflating: CC_RBI.PS
  inflating: CC_RBI.TXT
  inflating: CC_SPD.PS
  inflating: CC_SPD.TXT
   5-AUG-2009 09:50:39

You do get the annoying "extra bytes" warning message (because
HP doesn't do the suggested "zip -A" step when preparing the
SFX archive), but 11 seconds beats 26:

ALP $ pipe show time ; run [-.V7R3]CC073.DCX_AXPEXE ; show
time
   5-AUG-2009 09:51:34
Archive:  alp$dka0:[patch.c.v7r3]cc073.dcx_axpexe;1
  inflating: cc073.a
  inflating: cc073.b
  inflating: cc073.release_notes
  inflating: cc073_release_notes.ps
  inflating: cc_ig.ps
  inflating: cc_ig.txt
  inflating: cc_rbi.ps
  inflating: cc_rbi.txt
  inflating: cc_spd.ps
  inflating: cc_spd.txt
   5-AUG-2009 09:52:05

The profit is larger for those big patch kits.

   I haven't seen a real Software Library kit for a while.
When did they start putting compressed product kits on CD/DVD
media, preventing an installation direct from the medium?  It
makes sense for network distribution, but I'm not convinced it
was wise for a physical medium (even if it does conserve
polymers).