[Info-vax] installation annoyance

[Steven Schweda]

> >Record format:      Fixed length 512 byte records
>
> Before or after the first PRODUCT command?

   Hmmm.  I thought "before", but apparently it was "after".
Looking more carefully, UnZip does seem to produce all
Stream_LF files here, too.  I may have done something like
PRODUCT LIST (which, at V8.3, _silently_ changed the
attributes).  Oops.  Trust no one, I always say.  (HP or me.)

   When an archive is made using "zip -V", UnZip should
reproduce all the original attributes.  When "-V" is not
used, then there are still some I/O-affecting "-a" and "-b"
options for UnZip.  In this case, "-b" seems to be helpful:

REX $ unzip6l -b HP-I64VMS-GNV-V0300-001-1.ZIP
Archive:  REX$DKA0:[gnv]HP-I64VMS-GNV-V0300-001-1.ZIP;1
  inflating: HP-I64VMS-GNV-V0300-001-1.PCSI$COMPRESSED
  inflating: HP-I64VMS-GNV-V0300-001-1.PCSI$COMPRESSED_ESW
  inflating: HP-I64VMS-GNV-V0300-001-1.PCSI$COMPRESSED_HPC

REX $ pipe dire /full | search sys$input ";", "record format"
HP-I64VMS-GNV-V0300-001-1.PCSI$COMPRESSED;1                   File
ID:  (153904,9,0)
Record format:      Fixed length 512 byte records
HP-I64VMS-GNV-V0300-001-1.PCSI$COMPRESSED_ESW;1               File
ID:  (162250,7,0)
Record format:      Fixed length 512 byte records
HP-I64VMS-GNV-V0300-001-1.PCSI$COMPRESSED_HPC;1               File
ID:  (162931,7,0)
Record format:      Stream_LF, maximum 0 bytes, longest 0 bytes
HP-I64VMS-GNV-V0300-001-1.ZIP;1           File ID:  (162902,6,0)
Record format:      Fixed length 512 byte records

REX $ prod list GNV

Performing product kit validation of signed kits ...
%PCSI-I-HPCVALPASSED, validation of REX$DKA0:[gnv]HP-I64VMS-GNV-
V0300-001-1.PCSI$COMPRESSED;1 succeeded

The following product has been selected:
    HP I64VMS GNV V3.0-1                   Layered Product
[...]


REX $ tcpip show vers

  HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Industry Standard 64 Version V5.7 -
ECO 2
  on an HP rx2600  (1.50GHz/6.0MB) running OpenVMS V8.4

REX $ prod show utility
POLYCENTER Software Installation utility version: V8.4-153
    Product Configuration File (PCF) support level: 1
    Product Description File (PDF) support level: 10
    Product Text File (PTF) support level: 2
    Image Name: REX$DKA0:[SYS0.SYSCOMMON.][SYSEXE]PCSI$MAIN.EXE;1

(So, not quite so new as your "V8.4-159", but my patch access
is not what it once was.)


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

   Perhaps there are no serious VMS customers any more?  I
find it somewhere between amazing and astounding that the
people who create these kits for HP have not mastered the
most fundamental elements of how to do it.  And, apparently,
never properly tested any of them.  (At least not on V8.4.)

   You could do what I do, and submit a complaint to
OpenVMS.Programs at hp, and then watch as nothing obvious ever
happens.  I always enjoy that.