[Info-vax] unzip.exe and cc064.zip

[George Cornelius]

On 10/16/2016 04:32 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <ntvgpb$1elc$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, George Cornelius
> skriev:

>>  III. Execute AUTOGEN from GETDATA to SETPARAMS
>
> Why not combine these as @SYS$UPDATE:AUTOGEN SAVPARAMS SETPARAMS ?

I said this is a typical "cookbook" approach.  In other words, I
made some arbitrary choices instead of pointing out that you can
piecemeal down to doing each phase separately - assuming you remember
what the phases are - or you can precisely specify the starting and
ending phases of interest at the moment.  Not appropriate for a
cookbook, or perhaps I should say a cheatsheet.

SAVPARAMS is problematical because once you are into troubleshooting
which involves reboots you are now into a mode where the system has
not been up long enough to have good feedback data.  I suggest doing
the SAVPARAMS once before you start running AUTOGEN and doing the
(potentially) multiple reboots that ensue, and don't resave after
that until things are stable.

>> Verifying your change (for ACTIVE values must first reboot):
>
> I guess you mean that changed non-dynamic parameters will have the new
> values reflected in the ACTIVE parameters only after a reboot.

Let's not get him too confused at this point.  He specifically asked
not to be told about SYSGEN.  Yes, to change a parameter manually,
it's

  SYSMAN> P USE CURRENT
  SYSMAN> P SET GBLPAGES 50000
  SYSTEM> P WRITE CURRENT   ! spell it properly or you'll be sorry!

>>        NOTE: CURRENT parameters are permanently set in system parameters
>>        file.  ACTIVE parameters are what they are on the live system,
>>        and do not retain their values across reboots.
>
> Well, not really permanent, just until they are changed in that file.

Again, let's not confuse him.  It's permanent in the sense that it is
in the system parameters file so that will be the value after a reboot.

> Of course, SET in SYSMAN or SYSGEN doesn't do anything to the value
> unless it is also written (to ACTIVE or CURRENT parameters); of course,
> non-dynamic parameters require a reboot.

He doesn't know about dynamic parameters.

George