[Info-vax] product not installing

[Bill Cunningham]

"Steven Schweda" <sms.antinode at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:f23266f4-bce6-4937-a013-7db0c5c53b87 at googlegroups.com...
>> I type '@sys$update:vmsinstall cc064.a' and vmsinstal
>> attempts to install.
>
>   As with many (most?) DEC/Compaq/HP[E] products, there is
> an Installation Guide for this one.
>
> http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/servers/openvms/documents.html#&pd1=1
>
>   Of course, many of the links there are broken, but you can
> usually find a title, and then a normal Web search will
> usually find it.  For example:
>
>      http://h41379.www4.hpe.com/commercial/c/docs/igvax.htm
>
>> It says error not a backup set and cc064.a is not a
>> saveset.
>
>   As usual, showing the actual command with its actual
> output can be more helpful than vague descriptions or
> interpretations.
>
>>  The text files with the c compiler zip file mentions
>> several texts some of which the names have either been
>> changed or they are not in the zip file.
>
>   Which "The text files"?  What do they actually say?
>
>>  Seems I will not another file(s).
>
>   Eh?

Need, Steven. Need. Those accursed typos.

>>  I have copied into the directory dua0:[000000] a product
>> called cc064.a and one called cc064.b. [...]
>
>   You "copied" these files how, exactly?  Files on VMS have
> attributes.  Not all methods of copying files preserve those
> attributes.  BACKUP is especially sensitive to the attributes
> of save sets.

    I realize the attribs can be changed. Yes that happens when I copy the 
license into the vms via simh. I reset the attribs. I supposed that could be 
the case here too.

Bill