[Info-vax] Error installing DECSet

[Marc Van Dyck]

antonio.duran at gmail.com presented the following explanation :
> On Tuesday, December 18, 2018 at 10:33:38 PM UTC+1, Paul Anderson wrote:
>> On 12/18/18 4:08 PM, Antonio wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Directory DUA3:[000000]
>>> 
>>> DECSET_A.A;1        DECSET_A.B;1        DECSET_A.C;1        DECSET_A.D;1
>>> DECSET_A.E;1        DECSET_A.F;1        DECSET_A.G;1        DECSET_A.H;1
>>> DECSET_A.I;1        DECSET_A.J;1        DECSET_A.TXT;1
>> 
>> This does not look like a standard DECset distribution, as I would 
>> expect the saveset names to be DECSET122.%.  Maybe there's something I 
>> don't know about old VAX distributions.
>> 
>> With the savesets named as they are, the product name you should use is 
>> DECSET_A, so that your command line should be:
>> 
>>    $ @VMSINSTAL DECSET_A DUA3:[000000] OPTIONS N
>> 
>> Paul
>> 
>> 
>>> Total of 11 files.
>>> 
>>> When I try to VMSINSTAL:
>>> 
>>> $ @VMSINSTAL DECSET122 DUA3:[000000] OPTIONS N
>>> 
>>> 
>>>          OpenVMS VAX Software Product Installation Procedure V7.3
>>> 
>>> 
>>> It is 18-DEC-2018 at 21:07.
>>> 
>>> Enter a question mark (?) at any time for help.
>>> 
>>> * Are you satisfied with the backup of your system disk [YES]?
>>> 
>>> %VMSINSTAL-E-NOPRODS, None of the specified products were found.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>          VMSINSTAL procedure done at 21:07
>>> 
>>> 
>>> $
>>> 
>>> What am I doing wrong?
>>> 
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> 
>>> Antonio
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Paul Anderson
>> VMS Software, Inc.
>
> Thanks Paul. I got a different error now. 
>
>
> $ @VMSINSTAL DECSET_A DUA3:[000000] OPTIONS N
>
>
>         OpenVMS VAX Software Product Installation Procedure V7.3
>
>
> It is 18-DEC-2018 at 21:39.
>
> Enter a question mark (?) at any time for help.
>
> * Are you satisfied with the backup of your system disk [YES]?
>
>
> The following products will be processed:
>
>   DECSE V1.A
>
>
>         Beginning installation of DECSE V1.A at 21:39
>
> %VMSINSTAL-I-RESTORE, Restoring product save set A ...
> %BACKUP-F-NOTSAVESET, DUA3:[000000]DECSET_A.A;1 is not a BACKUP save set
> %VMSINSTAL-E-NOSAVESET, Save set  A  cannot be restored.
>
>
>         VMSINSTAL procedure done at 21:40

Probably the unzip operation did not keep the correct save set file
characteristics. To fix that, try the command

$ SET FILE/ATTRIBUTES=(RFM:FIX,MRS:8192,LRL:8192,RAT:NONE)

on all the DECSET_A.% files that you have.

To check, try to do a

$ BACKUP /LIST DECSET_A.A /SAVE

before and after the operation mentioned above.
Before should give you an error, and after a save set listing if
the proposed cure worked...

-- 
Marc Van Dyck