[Info-vax] Error installing DECSet

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2018-12-19 23:04:50 +0000, Antonio Duran said:

> 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?

In this case, there are pre-built versions of unzip available from 
various locations.

The OpenVMS Freeware has 
not-current-and-not-secure-but-will-be-functional-here copies of the 
common tools located in the 000TOOLS directory, including unzip for all 
three architectures.  The OpenVMS Freeware disk images may still be 
available via the HPE kit area, and is available via various web sites 
and FTP servers including ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/openvms (yes, that's HP 
and not HPE), and at the http://digiater.nl/ site.  nb: the Freeware 
disk images are not cumulative.  nb: the newest Freeware is a dozen 
years old.

The unzip tools are also available at the bottom of this Process 
Software web page:  http://process.com/resources/openvms/index.html

HPE had downloads of unzip available, though those are no longer 
available following the November 2018 HPE OpenVMS web site 
consolidation.

VSI has not yet incorporated zip and unzip in their base distributions, 
though I'd suspect that has been discussed.



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