[Info-vax] vmstailor

[Bob Gezelter]

On Monday, February 22, 2016 at 7:38:41 PM UTC-5, Bill Cunningham wrote:
> "Steven Schweda" <sms.antinode at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:2bfcb790-1bf3-419a-b84a-067ab6ee9184 at googlegroups.com...
> 
> >   But I'd worry about many things before I started worrying
> > about disk fragmentation.
> 
>     OK. There's two commands vmsinstal and product. Are these what's used to 
> get tcp/ip? I'm working on purging the system and decompressing libraries.
> 
> Bill

Bill,

VMSINSTAL is used to install VMSINSTAL-style kits (the filetypes are typically .A, .B, etc. PRODUCT install installs PCSI (and PCSI$COMPRESSED) kits.

The original installation procedure for VAX/VMS used VMSINSTAL kits. Later, PRODUCT was added.

With regards to LIBDECOMP, decompression refers to within a library. Defragmenting a disk refers to a disk volume. With modern processors, I might very well take a pass on decompressing the HELP libraries, CPU time is nearly always abundant on personal systems.

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com