[Info-vax] product not installing

[John Reagan]

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.