[Info-vax] product not installing

[Bill Cunningham]

"Jan-Erik Soderholm" <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote in message 
news:nsqpdu$pac$1 at news.albasani.net...
> Den 2016-10-01 kl. 23:38, skrev Bill Cunningham:
>> "John Reagan" <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:cd0c1348-e077-4c29-911f-0be7048f5060 at googlegroups.com...
>>> On Friday, September 30, 2016 at 3:55:40 PM UTC-4, Bill Cunningham 
>>> wrote:
>>>> "Jan-Erik Soderholm" <> wrote in message
>>>> news:nsk01p$u6g$1...
>>>>
>>>>> VMS doesn't "has ZIP", but it can be downloaded. Sometimes there are
>>>>> a copies on the same wen page where the CC kit was in the first place.
>>>>
>>>>     I logged into 'system' and I noticed that. There was no zip or unip
>>>> for
>>>> vax at the download site HP gave me. It is accessable by ftp, sftp,
>>>> dropbox
>>>> and a couple other ways. They don't want you giving this out per 
>>>> license
>>>> agreement. I guess they give it to everyone individually.
>>>>
>>>>     The C compiler pages to install is 100K blocks. This I am supposing
>>>> has
>>>> nothing to do with modparams.dat and autogen. Because it speaks of 
>>>> using
>>>> 'authorize'. Show device sys$sysdevice is used.
>>>>
>>>>     Now is this not a global pages or sections setting? What kind of
>>>> settings are changed by UAF> Authorize? I've never used it and I keep
>>>> reading and can simply copy the typed words, but IDK what I'm doing?
>>>>
>>>> Bill
>>>
>>> There are several issues that the installation guide talks about:
>>>
>>> 1 - The actual number of disk blocks needed to install the compiler, the
>>> additional stuff in the help file, etc.
>>> 2 - The additional "global pages"/"global sections" if you decided to
>>> install the compiler SHARED.  In that case, VMS keeps additional
>>> information
>>> in memory to reduce the overhead of repeated compilations by multiple
>>> people
>>> on the system at the same time.  You don't have to install the compiler
>>> SHARED
>>> for it to work.  It is the global pages/global sections that may require
>>> you
>>> to modify MODPARAMS.DAT, run AUTOGEN, and reboot.
>>
>>     OK John. IDK if I'm getting this right. sys$device...
>
> sys$sysdevice.
>
> I do not understand your issues. You are "only" installing the
> C compiler, and that should be a totaly problem-free operation
> on a newly installed VMS system.

    The issue here is unzip changes attributes. I with the help of others 
got that right.

    That memory has to be altered comes from the installation huide for the 
C compiler. I will post more errors if that will help. I thought my 
descriptions were good. Maybe not. Since I'm using simh I will have to turn 
on logging.

>> is not defined I can
>> see. So I typed sh dev dua0: which I am mounted on.
>>
>> Freeblocks are 2475639 then there are Tran blocks which if I remember 
>> right...
>
> "Remember right" ???
>
> Why not just copy the output from the command here??
>
> You are doing things *way* harder then needed...
>
>
>> is about 128. Then mnt count which is 1.
>>
>> Now when I tried dir/size sys$library:dcltables.exe the size returned was
>> 571. IDK if I'm on the right track here.
>>     So I think I might be off on something here. I don't want to install
>> shared. How can I manage that?
>>
>> Thx
>> Bill
>>
>>
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