[Info-vax] VAX LISP installation

[hb]

On 02/17/2018 02:32 AM, Rich Alderson wrote:

> Apologies to all for misremembering what I saw in the vmslisp.zip file.  I was
> writing hurriedly while thinking about something I had done the evening before.
> 
> One of the resulting files is bad:
> 
>     $ unzip -t LISP031-B.ZIP;1
>     Archive:  SYS$SYSDEVICE:[USER.ALDERSON.VMSLISP]LISP031-B.ZIP;1
>         testing: lisp031.b                bad CRC 4516c835  (should be ccb5bf7e)
>     At least one error was detected in
>     SYS$SYSDEVICE:[USER.ALDERSON.VMSLISP]LISP031-B.ZIP;1.
> 
> The original file has the following contents:
> 
>     $ unzip -n -l "-V" vmslisp.zip
>     Archive:  SYS$SYSDEVICE:[USER.ALDERSON]VMSLISP.ZIP;1
>       Length     Date   Time    Name
>      --------    ----   ----    ----
>             0  11-04-16 16:58   vmslisp/
>       2631963  11-04-16 16:58   vmslisp/lisp031-b.zip
>         56983  11-04-16 16:58   vmslisp/lisp031-a.zip
>       2915466  11-04-16 16:58   vmslisp/lisp031-d.zip
>       1946471  11-04-16 16:58   vmslisp/lisp031-c.zip
>      --------                   -------
>       7550883                   5 files
> 
> So I think that this is a bad archive, and I'll have to dig up the condist CD
> after all.

This looks like the archive, which can be found on the net.

$ unzip -v Downloads/vmslisp.zip
Archive:  Downloads/vmslisp.zip
 Length   Method    Size  Cmpr    Date    Time   CRC-32   Name
--------  ------  ------- ---- ---------- ----- --------  ----
       0  Stored        0   0% 2016-11-04 17:58 00000000  vmslisp/
 2631963  Stored  2631963   0% 2016-11-04 17:58 7d2fb3f3
vmslisp/lisp031-b.zip
   56983  Stored    56983   0% 2016-11-04 17:58 16bdb349
vmslisp/lisp031-a.zip
 2915466  Stored  2915466   0% 2016-11-04 17:58 fd536b4f
vmslisp/lisp031-d.zip
 1946471  Stored  1946471   0% 2016-11-04 17:58 cf00ad2e
vmslisp/lisp031-c.zip
--------          -------  ---                            -------
 7550883          7550883   0%                            5 files
$
$ unzip -v vmslisp/lisp031-b.zip
Archive:  vmslisp/lisp031-b.zip
 Length   Method    Size  Cmpr    Date    Time   CRC-32   Name
--------  ------  ------- ---- ---------- ----- --------  ----
10082304  Defl:N  2631585  74% 1990-03-08 13:12 ccb5bf7e  lisp031.b
--------          -------  ---                            -------
10082304          2631585  74%                            1 file
$

It looks like the archive itself isn't bad. It seems it is bad on the
VMS disk. To me it looks like a question, how it was downloaded to VMS.

On the other hand, getting a full kit from the condist is probably the
way to go. As posted in another reply, the kit contains more savesets
than .a to .d (an extract from the KITINSTAL.COM):

$!      Saveset A:      KITINSTAL.COM and installation notes
$!      Saveset B:      DECWindows version of LISP.EXE (no UIS)
$!      Saveset C:      UIS version of LISP.EXE (no DECWindows)
$!      Saveset D:      System-building libraries
$!      Saveset E:      VAX LISP Examples
$!      Saveset F:      PCL
$!      Saveset G:      RdbLISP
$!      Saveset H:      Foxglove
$!      Saveset I:      GKS
$!      Saveset J:      VAXFlavors
$!      Saveset K:      Starlet