[Info-vax] installation annoyance

[Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER]

In article <fcbef167-26d1-4f2d-8291-335513397fcf at p27g2000vbl.googlegroups.com>, Steven Schweda <sms.antinode at gmail.com> writes:
>   Defining some of the evil DECC$feature logical names might
>make UnZip misbehave.

After UNZIPing the freshly downloaded kit the 3 files are
 
Record format:      Stream_LF, maximum 0 bytes, longest 0 bytes
Record attributes:  Carriage return carriage control

and after the first PRODUCT INSTALL or PRODUCT LIST the .PCSI$COMPRESSED
file is corrected to fixed length 512 bytes, but the other 2 stay STMLF

>   Around here, for example:
>
>IT $ pipe dire /full *.PCSI$COMPRESSED | search sys$input "record
>format"
>Record format:      Fixed length 512 byte records

Before or after the first PRODUCT command?
On OpenVMS V8.3 or V8.4? On ODS2 or ODS5 disk?

>So it's not immediately clear how you got any other/wrong
>attributes for that file out of UnZip.

What did you use to UNZIP? As I wrote I used no options at all on an ODS5 disk.
And what DECC Logicals do you mean? I have only a handfull

(LNM$PROCESS_TABLE)     [kernel]
                        [no protection information]

  "DECC$FD_LOCKING" [super] = "TRUE"

(LNM$SYSTEM_TABLE)      [kernel]  [shareable,system]
                        [Protection=(RWC,RWC,R,R)]  [Owner=[SYSTEM]]

  "DECC$CRTLMAP" [exec] = "SYS$SHARE:DECC$SHR"
  "DECC$SHR_AV" [exec] = "DECC$SHR"

Until you prove me wrong (on V8.4), I still tend to think, that
a) the GNV V3.0-1 (AXP & I64) kit was produced wrong (ZIP without the "-V")
b) the attribute autocorrection is only done for the .PCSI$COMPRESSED file
c) the *_HPC checksum file is wrong when attributes are autocorrected
(because it is checked after autocorrection)
d) the problem is not limited to GNV V3.0-1 but to every coming kit
which has the "-V" missing at ZIP time)

and so I wonder, why noone found this annoyance so far

TIA

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Peter "EPLAN" LANGSTÖGER
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