[Info-vax] VAX LISP installation

[Paul Sture]

On 2018-02-15, Jim <mckinneyj at saic.com> wrote:
> 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.

Rich said "4 ZIP files". I would hope that when they are unzipped, they
will have names like that, e,g.  LISP021.{A,B,C,D} for Lisp 2.1.

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