[Info-vax] New VSI Community license PAK

[John H. Reinhardt]

On 10/23/2020 5:47 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2020-10-23 kl. 10:49, skrev Phillip Helbig (undress to reply):
>> In article <rmt3o7$v90$1 at dont-email.me>, "John H. Reinhardt"
>> <johnhreinhardt at thereinhardts.org> writes:
>>
>>> %PCSI-E-OPENOUT, error opening DISK$CLARKE084:[VMS$COMMON.][SYSHLP]HELPLIB.HLB; as output
>>> -RMS-E-FNF, file not found
>>> %PCSI-E-OPFAILED, operation failed
>>> Terminating is strongly recommended.  Do you want to terminate? [YES] no
>>>
>>> %PCSI-E-OPENIN, error opening DISK$CLARKE084:[VMS$COMMON.][SYSLIB]DCLTABLES.EXE; as input
>>> -RMS-E-FNF, file not found
>>> %PCSI-E-OPFAILED, operation failed
>>> Terminating is strongly recommended.  Do you want to terminate? [YES] no
>>
>> To me, HELP and DCL are pretty important.  Really no ill effects?
>>
> 
> That must be highly dependent on what the next step was efter the
> steps that created those errors. Maybe some "update if exists, create
> if not". And the "Terminating is strongly recommended" message might be
> a generic processing for any error and not specific for these two errors.
> 
> Maybe just a missing check for file existance before the operation
> that failed. And HELP and DCL obviously works for John Reinhardt, not?
> 
> 

None seen so far.  There's no indication what was being installed at that point, but HELPLIB.HLB and DCLTABLES.EXE definitely get installed at some point.

$ dir sys$help:helplib.hlb

Directory SYS$COMMON:[SYSHLP]

HELPLIB.HLB;1                                        12001/12003      5-SEP-2020 02:09:58.68  [SYSTEM]         (RWED,RWED,RE,RE)

Total of 1 file, 12001/12003 blocks.
$
$ dir sys$library:dcltables.exe

Directory SYS$COMMON:[SYSLIB]

DCLTABLES.EXE;78                                       846/846        5-SEP-2020 02:10:07.40  [SYSTEM]         (RWED,RWED,RE,RE)

Total of 1 file, 846/846 blocks.


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John H. Reinhardt