[Info-vax] openvms renaming file

[Bill Cunningham]

"Steven Schweda" <sms.antinode at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:db442b8a-b408-48d4-ba85-3c67d8daae72 at googlegroups.com...
>> [...] I put this file into a ISO file at at to simh, [...]
>> DEC-VAX-VMS-TCPIP--V0501-15-1.PCSI-ZIP
>
>   That's a bit vague.
>
>> And it shows up in the vms 7.3 emulation as DEC_VAXV.PCS;1
>
>   VMS doesn't have an 8.3 file-name limit.  (Long before
> V7.3, it did have a 9.3 limit, but that's no longer
> relevant.)  I don't know how you got the abbreviated name.
>
>> I typed 'R unzip -a dec_vaxv.pcs;1 and well here's the log
>> file, [...]
>
>   That's not how to use UnZip (or many other, similar
> programs) on VMS.
>
> $ r unzip
> UnZip 5.50 of 17 February 2002, by Info-ZIP.  For more details see:
> unzip -v.
>
> Usage: unzip [-Z] [-opts[modifiers]] file[.zip] [list] [-x xlist] [-d 
> exdir]
>  Default action is to extract files in list, except those in xlist, to
> exdir;
>  file[.zip] may be a wildcard.  "-Z" => ZipInfo mode (`unzip "-Z"' for
> usage).
> => define foreign command symbol in LOGIN.COM:  $ unzip :== 
> $dev:[dir]unzip.exe
>
>   Note the part after "=> define foreign command symbol in
> LOGIN.COM:".  Sadly, official online documentation for
> Info-ZIP programs is currently in limbo, but a Web search for
> keywords like, say:
>      UnZip INSTALL_VMS.txt
> should find something which contains additional details.
>
>   In the mean time, do this:
>
>      unzip :== $ device:[directory]unzip.exe
>
> where "device:[directory]" is where "UNZIP.EXE" is.  Then
> use "unzip" as you would anywhere else (without a "run"
> command).

OK. Oh its been so long. I will have to fire up EVE or something then on 
that login.com. I remember doing that with modparams.dat. And I don't 
remember a 8.3 limit before. IDK there. Maybe it's the way I am using 
genisoimage before attaching it to simh.

Bill