[Info-vax] VAX LISP installation

[Jim]

On Thursday, February 15, 2018 at 3:51:46 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 2/15/2018 3:49 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
> > OK, this will seem odd to the folks running (Open)?VMS in production, but they
> > may ignore the question.
> > 
> > I need to install VAXLISP/VMS on a VAX 7640 here at the museum, with an eye to
> > moving the Lisp users off the 11/780-5 (to make the other users happy).  I have
> > a ZIP file whose contents are in turn 4 ZIP files named LISP.{A,B,C,D}, which
> > looks to me like someone zipped up the backup sets on an install tape.
> > 
> > May it please the court, I'd like to ask for suggestions for the simplest route
> > to installing Lisp on the 7000 in this situation.
> 
> Given the extensions then I would expect standard VMSINSTAL to
> work.
> 
> Arne

Would have expected a LISP distribution to have names like LISP010.{A,B,C,D} or somesuch and not "LISP" without version info filename. So Rich likely knows the 4 files to actually be ZIPs. Unzipping each of them individually might yield BACKUP SAVE_SETs that could be VMSINSTALed.