[Info-vax] Looking for VAX/VMS V1.0 and V2.x kits

[Paul Sture]

On 2018-08-14, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> [clanking of worn and tired washing-machine-size disk drives...]
>
> Does EISNER also have SYS$UPDATE:VMSKITBLD.COM ?
>
> It's still referenced in VMS documentation, e.g. OpenVMS System
> Manager's Manual available online in various places:
>  
> "2.5 Using VMSKITBLD.COM to Modify a System Disk
>
> On VAX systems, the command procedure SYS$UPDATE:VMSKITBLD.COM allows
> you to duplicate system files from an existing system disk on another
> disk. [...]"
>
> Not sure how far back it goes, ie when in the history of VMS versions 
> it first became useful.

It was certainly there im early 3.0 releases, and my memory is telling
me it was there in 2.n (though how far back in that series I do not
know).


> SPKITBLD is a bit different.

Indeed.

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