[Info-vax] Updates to VMSTAR and Wget for VMS

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <026577aa-7490-4a23-f865-0c4c7a7c10bd at goatley.com>, Hunter
Goatley <goathunter at goatley.com> writes: 

> On 12/29/2020 3:09 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> > In article <7b95bdf3-4012-436b-9adb-106ed2f51171n at googlegroups.com>,
> > Steven Schweda <sms.antinode at gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> >>     I've posted a couple of updated kits:
> >>
> >>        http://antinode.info/dec/sw/vmstar.html  (1.20.3a)
> >>        http://antinode.info/dec/sw/wget.html    (V4.3)
> > 
> > The last time I checked, Hunter's software collection was still online.
> > Since most community-contributed third-party products for VMS are there,
> > it would be nice to have those above there as well (if they aren't
> > already).
> 
> An old version of VMSTAR has been in my archive for a long time, 

That's the one I have.

> and 
> I've long intended to update it.
> 
> Steven's VMSTAR and WGET can now both be found in my archive, along with 
> the links to Steven's web pages for both.
> 
> http://www.process.com/resources/openvms/index.html

Thanks!

Sometime this year, I'll update software such as this and perhaps get 
some more stuff from your site.

I don't know if it's worth the trouble, but it would be nice if
third-party software like this had some sort of standard setup, i.e. a
ZIP file would create a directory with the product name and version
number and unpack the files in it, then @[.DIR]BUILD would build it
(probably calling @COMPILE and @LINK) and @[.DIR]SETUP (possibly also
called from BUILD) would set it up initially (say buy adding the .HLB to
a library specified by a logical name or, if empty, prompt for it (NOT
add it to VMS HELP by default)) and then  @[.DIR]INSTALL would be done 
at boot for installing images, setting up DCL verbs, or whatever, and 
@[.DIR]DEFINE would be invoked before using it, probably usually
indirectly via SYS$SYLOGIN or LOGIN.COM, in order to define a symbol or
whatever.  One could then build a list of directories on the disk
(perhaps a concealed device) where such packages are on the fly at boot 
to call all the INSTALL procedures and at login to call all the DEFINE 
procedures.