[Info-vax] [OpenVMS Alpha V8.3] How to recover a corrupted PCSI database?

[Paul Sture]

In article <512a8ee5$1 at news.langstoeger.at>,
 peter at langstoeger.at (Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER) wrote:

> In article <kgdr2h$pb3$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> 
> writes:
> >I don't care what some say about VMSINSTAL.COM.  It works, and when it 
> >doesn't, you can mangle the DCL to make it work.
> 
> Yup, but you *always* have to mangle when you want to deinstall a kit
> (as a DEINSTAL.COM is most likely not current or not existant at all) ...

Once upon a time I wrote my own APPINSTAL.COM, which was intended to do 
for applications what VMSINSTAL did for layered software, plus a few 
niceties such as an easy upgrade path and the removal of obsolete 
pieces.  Sadly not my code to take with me though...

-- 
Paul Sture