[Info-vax] vmstailor

[David Froble]

Bob Gezelter wrote:
> 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

Frankly, I think compressed libraries should be a thing of the past.  Size 
constraints on distribution, and system disks, haven't been a problem for some 
time now.