[Info-vax] Legacy HP Documentation

hb end.of at inter.net
Thu Jan 3 10:48:20 EST 2019


On 1/3/19 2:20 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> One thing I would ask VSI is if they produce something like the
> ODL zip archives can they make the archives work on a case-sensitive
> filesystem ?
> 
> I examined the Alpha ODL archive on a Linux system recently as part of
> something I've been looking at, and I found multiple URL case mismatches.
> 
> If you extracted while preserving case, one set of links broke and
> if you extracted forcing filenames to lower case, those links then
> worked but another set of links then broke.

Wasn't the ODL on a CD-ROM intended to be used on Windows?

After extracting with cases preserved, I created an iso image with a
command like "genisoimage -o odl.iso -J *", mounted it (as a loop
device) and pointed the browser to the files. That worked for me.



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