[Info-vax] Some questions on software for VMS 7.3 VAX

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On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:36:10 +0100
hb via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:

> On 01/21/2016 04:58 PM, lists at openmailbox.org wrote:
> 
> > %DCL-W-ACTIMAGE, error activating image BLD_ROOT:[LOCAL.BIN]EMACS-21_2
> > -CLI-E-IMGNAME, image file DUA0:[REDACTED.][LOCAL.BIN]EMACS-21_2.EXE;
> > -RMS-E-DNF, directory not found
> > -SYSTEM-W-NOSUCHFILE, no such file
> 
> I apologize, my fault. I should have checked GNU_STARTUP.COM for
> BLD_ROOT and what it is set to.

Thanks, no apology necessary. I appreciate the help.

> > I guess one thing at a time. What should I do now? Thanks a lot for
> > helping with this. Sorry it took me awhile to get to this. Usually
> > whenever I have something interesting to try on my home systems I get
> > to work overtime that day. I will never know how they know...
> > 
> 
> (Re)-Define BLD_ROOT, the rooted logical. Assumed your current directory
> when restoring the saveset was DUA1:[USER] then
> 
> $ define BLD_ROOT /trans=(conc,term) DUA1:[USER.]
> 
> It seems, when BLD_ROOT is defined before GNU_STARTUP runs, the command
> procedure will not change it.
> 
> Or change GNU_STARTUP.COM. It seems in line 278 BLD_ROOT is defined.

Thanks, I'll try this asap but right now I have a half-deleted directory
tree since I was trying to delete everything and start again.

How do I delete everything under local? the set file/prot worked but the
delete [.local]*.*;* comes back with a lot of messages about various
directories that aren't empty.

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