[Info-vax] Unable to install freeware

[Paul Richards]

Steven Schweda wrote:

> > [...] from the HP Freeware site [...]
> 
>    Ok, I'll guess that you downloaded
>       ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/openvms/freeware/vtfm/vtfm.zip
> unpacked it on some non-VMS system, and transferred these
> results to the CD-R using some CD-maker program or other.
> 
>    In general, when the ultimate destination is a VMS system,
> a zip archive should be unpacked on the destination VMS
> system, not on some intermediate, non-VMS system.  There are
> too many ways to corrupt/lose whatever file attributes might
> be stored in the original archive if the files are extracted
> on a non-VMS system.  The effect (damage) is commonly
> observed on BACKUP save sets, or on files with exotic,
> VMS-specific record attributes (indexed, fixed-length, ...),
> but even what looks like a simple text file can suffer
> line-ending corruption, especially if it started life on VMS
> as a variable-length record file.  (And especially if the
> non-VMS unzip program doesn't know how to deal with those.)
> 
> 
> > [...] UnZip executable [...] easy to find, [...]
> 
>    For example (Alpha -- others are nearby):
> 
>       ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/vms/unz552xv-axp.exe
>       ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/vms/unz552xv-axp2.exe

Steven: yes, thats exactly what I did. Downloaded to Windows and used
ImgBurn to create a CD.

-- 
Paul
Melbourne, Australia

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