[Info-vax] vmstailor

[Bill Cunningham]

"Bill Cunningham" <nospam at nspam.invalid> wrote in message 
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> "Steven Schweda" <sms.antinode at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>> http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/83final/6524/6524pro.html#major_preinstall_tasks
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>   Did you notice that that document covers "Operating
> Systems: OpenVMS I64 Version 8.2-1 OpenVMS I64 Version 8.3
> OpenVMS Alpha Version 8.2 OpenVMS Alpha Version 8.3", not any
> VAX version?

    Oh no I didn't. And it's the vax version I have. My host machine is 64 
bit but I don't have a I64 version of anything. It's 7.3

>> product extract file, now is that from the openvms iso?
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>   No, that's from the PCSI product kit, "*.PCSI*".  Which I
> assume you don't have.
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>   I don't know what you already have, and I don't know
> what's on a recent Hobbyist VAX CD image.  What I have on a
> March 2003 Software Products Library CD-ROM set is a choice
> between "Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Version 5.3" in
> the [UCX053] directory, and an older one, "DIGITAL TCP/IP
> Services for OpenVMS Version 4.2" in the [UCX042] directory.
> My notes suggest that my latest VAX stuff would be VMS V7.3
> with TCPIP V5.3 - ECO 4, so I'd guess that you're looking for
> files named "*UCX053*.*" (or similar), and I'd expect that
> kit to be (somewhere) on the VMS kit CD.
>
>   Otherwise, the e-mail message with the PAKs should have
> included an invitation to send an e-mail request to the
> fellow who can supply the credentials needed for [S]FTP/HTTPS
> access to the product kits.
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>> §1.2.1 says "distribution kit" and SPL. Dunno if they're
>> the same.
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>   The Software Products Library is/was a CD-ROM (later,
> DVD-ROM) set, which included many product kits.  A product
> kit is the set of files needed to install a product,
> typically including relevant documentation.  This could be a
> .zip archive or a set of loose files.  The loose files could
> include VMSINSTAL save sets (xxx.A, xxx.B, ...) or a PCSI
> (v-w-x-y--z.PCSI*) kit.
>
>> [...] I don't know if phase v or phase iv is used or needed
>> for tcp/ip.
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>   DECnet (of either version) is generally independent of IP
> networking.  If you have one VMS system, DECnet may be of
> little use to you.

    What I was meaning was I didn't know if the TCP/IP stack was somehow 
/deliberately/ linked or designed on DECnet components. I know they're 
separate networking suites. But some designers well kind of "hook things 
together."

>    Ok I will chek into the PCSI thing. I guress it's free and maybe the 
> guy that let me get opemvms73.iso has it. That's the only file I got.
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> Bill
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