[Info-vax] Alpha V8.4-2 distribution

[Steven Schweda]

> The following is something I wasn't quite ready for ....

  Where's the surprise?  How does this stuff differ from any
other Alpha VMS installation CD (other than the VMS version
numbers)?

> Directory LDA1:[000,000]

   Why waste the effort on the comma?

   I tend to specify /EXCLUDE = SYS*.* when using DIRECTORY
on these things, so that I can get more useful stuff onto a
screen.

   On my spare/experimental XP1000, which also has a Tru64
disk, the default boot flags specify "a" (for Tru64), so
SYSA, at least, has been useful for me.  (The VMS system
disks on that system have a SYSA which is linked to SYS0, so
that I can leave the flags at "a" for VMS, too.)