[Info-vax] Error installing DECSet

[Antonio Duran]

On Wednesday, December 19, 2018 at 11:55:46 PM UTC+1, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> On 12/19/2018 2:05 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> > On 2018-12-19 17:24:07 +0000, Antonio Duran said:
> > 
> >> Totally agree. I went through the whole process to get a legit 
> >> hobbyist license and I got it. Then, I received an E-mail from OpenVMS 
> >> Customer Lab <openvmscustomerlab at hpe.com> containing a link and a 
> >> username and password for downloading the OpenVMS software 
> >> (https://ftp.ext.hpe.com/hprc). I believed that it was a legitimate 
> >> web site but now I doubt it.
> >> Is that a rogue site?
> > 
> > If the HPE site is where you got it, then the folks that created that 
> > media are seemingly either unfamiliar with OpenVMS and its operations, 
> > or something in their tooling and testing went sideways.  If there was 
> > an ISO-9660 step involved somewhere and that truncated the filenames, I 
> > don't know why.  OpenVMS has very old and very limited support for 
> > ISO-9660, and OpenVMS doesn't use that format for its layered product 
> > distros.  (I'm here ignoring the use of dual-format ISO-9660 El Torito 
> > media on OpenVMS I64, as the ISO-9660 El Torito path is not the path 
> > that OpenVMS accesses and loads its layered product software 
> > distribution kits.)
> 
> No ISO-9660 involved on the hobbyist FTP site except for the bootable 
> dual format IA64 system install disk you are ignoring.
> 
> The DECSet kit on at least one platform was simply zipped up wrong, and 
> needs to have the saveset manually fixed on the destination.
> 
> Someone interested in DECSet would probably want the MMK from the github 
> site.  All other sites are obsolete.
> 
> Regards,
> -John

John,

Anyway I'm somewhat stuck since, I'd need the C compiler which is also zipped (CC064.ZIP) and, moreover, I need a binary UNZIP which I wasn't able to find in the "official" site. I found the source code for UNZIP but again I need a C compiler which is zipped. A vicious circle, ain't it?

Thanks,

Antonio