[Info-vax] MRU (media robot utility) for Itanium?

[John Santos]

In article <00A962E1.4086161E at SendSpamHere.ORG>, VAXman-  
@SendSpamHere.ORG says...> 
> In article <MPG.2594919241fddc3f98968d at news.giganews.com>, John Santos <john at egh.com> writes:
> >In article <00A962D0.11426752 at SendSpamHere.ORG>, VAXman-  
> >@SendSpamHere.ORG says...> 
> >> In article <00A962B5.A64FAC90 at SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>, winston at SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing) writes:
> >> >VMS 8.31H1 (and soon 8.4).  I need the ROBOT utility to control the tape
> >> >drive so I can move my backups from the slower old Alpha to the Itanium
> >> >machine.
> >> >
> >> >Where can I download MRU?  I was long ago able to find it for Alpha via
> >> >Google, but I can't even find *that* page anymore.
> >> 
> >> Good luck.  I'll bet it wasn't ported.  You could give AESTing it try.
> >
> >No, it has been ported.  I'm not certain, but I think the same kit files
> >(ROBOT018.A, .B, .C and .D) work with VMSINSTAL on all 3 platforms.  I
> >have a copy on disk that I just installed on an I64 rx2660 last week.
> >
> >I think I loaded it from an Alpha LP CD, but I might have downloaded
> >it from somewhere at HP/Compaq/DEC.  V1.8 appears to be the current 
> >version, though it is about 5 years old.
> >
> >I don't remember where it hides on the LP CDs, but I think it is in a
> >separate subdirectory under one or more of the Backup-related layered 
> >products (Saveset Manager [SAVESET*...], Storage Library System 
> >[SLSG*...], Data Cartridge Server Component [DCSC*...], or Archive 
> >Backup System [ABS*...]) where the precise directory name depends on
> >the version involved.
> 
> OK.  I have v1.8 on Alpha but I'm no certain where to find an IA64 
> version for install.

That means you must have ROBOT018.A and ROBOT018.C.  .A contains the
KITINSTAL.COM, documentation, header files and sources.  .C contains
the Alpha .EXE and .OLB files.  ROBOT018.B should be there too, it
has the VAX .EXE and .OLB files.  And ROBOT018.D contains the IA64
.EXE and .OLB files.

They did it *right*.  One kit for all 3 architectures, common source.


-- 
John Santos
Evans Griffiths & Hart, Inc.