[Info-vax] Write Alpha kits on Windows PC for OpenVMS

Steven Schweda sms.antinode at gmail.com
Thu Nov 7 08:57:30 EST 2019


> [...] why not simply unpack the kits there?

   Some such kits might contain, say, release notes or
installation instructions, and some users might wish to
access those kit contents on a non-VMS system.

> I think all these "thay can be unpacked on other places"
> posts are just silly...

   Perhaps you do.  I think that it's silly to suggest
that such self-extracting archives "are meant to be executed
*on* the OpenVMS system", as if they're useless elsewhere.



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