[Info-vax] Tertiary VMB?

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On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:54:27 -0500, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca>
wrote:

> Just did a search of [vms$common...]*.exe tertiary_vmb.exe and got:
> %SEARCH-I-NOMATCHES, no strings matched

I did that too, but then I realized that the MOP request which would
eventually start a downline load of TERTIARY_VMB.EXE would be probably encoded
in the request packet with something as little as a single bit, i.e. the
request packet would not contain the actual file name, but something with a
meaning of "send me whatever tertiary loader you have been told to send me."

> Perhaps this was a leftover from older versions of VMS ?

I don't think so because references to TERTIARY_VMB.EXE can be found in
V7.3-revised manuals and that file is actually present both in distribution
media and patches for current releases such as OpenVMS VAX V7.3.

> I have version 4.4 of the VAX/VMS Iternals and Data Structures, and it
> doesn't have any entry for tertiary_vmb nor NCSCS_LOAD.EXE . And the
> section about VMB.EXE doesn't mention the tertiary either.

I have both V4.4 and V5.2 IDSMs. Only the latter has a little paragraph about
NISCS_LOAD. Instead, neither one has anything about TERTIARY_VMB...

Thanks,
G.