[Info-vax] Reconfiguring VMS 6.2 - Shadow set question

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2012-10-24 07:03:48 +0000, supervinx said:

>> 
>> However, it is bad style to have more than one statement referring to
>> DSA1.  There should be exactly ONE statement referring to it, the MOUNT
>> command.  This defines DISK$label_name automatically, and optionally you
>> can define another logical name then.  Use these logical names later on.
> 
> I agree but, remember, I'm housekeeping a machine that I didn't set up ;)
> And I'm beginning to see that startup files had been modified by different
> hands, the latter being less clever than the former :P

Remember too that you decided to...
...Start a museum of archaic gear.
...Ask for but then not follow the nuke-and-pave advice.
...Not post the code or the error messages for this most recent "got 
errors" missive, but yet posted something that could be inferred as a 
request for help

I can't yet tell if you're investing the time necessary for reading 
through the wall of OpenVMS documentation.  (Painful as that effort is, 
too; it took me about a month to first read through The Orange Wall, an 
eon or three ago.)

This effort reminds me of "retrocomputing tourism", a rather odd 
phenomenon that I've been noticing around the 'net in recent years.  
Whether you invest in your retrocomputing curation, and work toward 
understanding and using the gear you've now collected - turning this 
into a "living museum", rather than these snapshots of each system's 
past - is entirely up to you.  Whether these systems become 'net 
accessable, or become development platforms, or whatever.  (And this 
"tourism" is not intended as a disparagement: there are a number of 
folks around c.o.v. and #vms and nekochan that have collected various 
old and odd VMS gear, some working and some not.  Some collect 
set-pieces and decoration.  Some collect and rebuild servers.  
Everybody needs a hobby.)




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