[Info-vax] VAX LISP installation

DaveFroble davef at tsoft-inc.com
Thu Feb 15 23:28:15 EST 2018


Paul Sture wrote:
> 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.
> 

Directory DKA100:[DFE.LISP031.KIT]

LISP031.A;1                    378/378      [DFE]       (RE,RE,RE,RE)
LISP031.B;1                  19692/19692    [DFE]       (RE,RE,RE,RE)
LISP031.C;1                  14130/14130    [DFE]       (RE,RE,RE,RE)
LISP031.D;1                  22590/22590    [DFE]       (RE,RE,RE,RE)
LISP031.E;1                   4734/4734     [DFE]       (RE,RE,RE,RE)
LISP031.F;1                   4320/4320     [DFE]       (RE,RE,RE,RE)
LISP031.G;1                   2754/2754     [DFE]       (RE,RE,RE,RE)
LISP031.H;1                  25020/25020    [DFE]       (RE,RE,RE,RE)
LISP031.I;1                   4320/4320     [DFE]       (RE,RE,RE,RE)
LISP031.J;1                   1944/1944     [DFE]       (RE,RE,RE,RE)
LISP031.K;1                  15966/15966    [DFE]       (RE,RE,RE,RE)


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