[Info-vax] What's up with DECUS HTNotes ?

[Robert A. Brooks]

On 5/15/2021 5:56 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-05-15, <kemain.nospam at gmail.com> <kemain.nospam at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Not related to original q, but I tried installing htnotes_021b3.zip on
>> latest VSI OpenVMS V8.4-2L3 on rx2600.
>>
>> $  cc/version
>> VSI C V7.4-001 on OpenVMS IA64 V8.4-2L3
>>
>> Followed install notes, but I get an error on the last build statement in
>> the build section
>>
>> $ link/exe=[.client] [.client]ht_client, [.source]ht_client.opt/opt
>> sys$library:notes$share/share
>> %ILINK-W-COMPWARN, compilation warnings
>>          shareable image: SYS$COMMON:[SYSLIB]NOTES$SHARE.EXE;1

> Also, I'm surprised to see a DEC product shipped with user visible
> compiler warnings in the product...

It was probably freeware at that point; not a saleable product.

A shareable image should never be built with compiler warnings, even
if it's a free product . . .

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                  -- Rob