[Info-vax] Alpha Community licenes.

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2022-09-15 kl. 15:41, skrev Steven Schweda:
>> Sure, but the Windows Explorer shows the zip content [...]
> 
>     My complaint is more general; Windows was not involved at my end.  It
> looks as if it might have been involved at VSI:
> 
> $ unzip -Zv ALPHA_COMMUNITY_LICENSE_PAK.zip
> 
> Archive:  SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSMGR]ALPHA_COMMUNITY_LICENSE_PAK.zip;1
> There is no zipfile comment.
> [...]
> 
> Central directory entry #1:
> ---------------------------
> 
>    ALPHA_COMMUNITY_LICENSE_PAK_SEP_2022.COM
> 
>    offset of local header from start of archive:   0
>                                                    (0000000000000000h) bytes
>    file system or operating system of origin:      MS-DOS, OS/2 or NT FAT
> [...]
> 
> 
>> Need to first unzip on VMS to be able to read the text files.
> 
>     Did you try that?  That's exactly what led to the faulty line endings
> in the .COM files on my VMS system.  (That, combined with the way the
> .zip archives and their contents were made.)
> 
> $ @ ALPHA_COMMUNITY_LICENSE_PAK_SEP_2022.COM
> %DCL-W-MAXPARM, too many parameters - reenter command with fewer parameters
> %DCL-W-NOCOMD, no command on line - reenter with alphabetic first character
> %DCL-W-NOCOMD, no command on line - reenter with alphabetic first character
> %DCL-W-NOCOMD, no command on line - reenter with alphabetic first character
> %DCL-W-NOCOMD, no command on line - reenter with alphabetic first character
> %DCL-W-NOCOMD, no command on line - reenter with alphabetic first character
> %DCL-W-NOCOMD, no command on line - reenter with alphabetic first character
> %DCL-W-NOCOMD, no command on line - reenter with alphabetic first character
> %DCL-W-NOCOMD, no command on line - reenter with alphabetic first character
> %DCL-W-MAXPARM, too many parameters - reenter command with fewer parameters
> %DCL-W-NOCOMD, no command on line - reenter with alphabetic first character
> %DCL-W-NOCOMD, no command on line - reenter with alphabetic first character
> %DCL-W-NOCOMD, no command on line - reenter with alphabetic first character
> %DCL-W-NOCOMD, no command on line - reenter with alphabetic first character
> %DCL-W-NOCOMD, no command on line - reenter with alphabetic first character
> %DCL-W-NOCOMD, no command on line - reenter with alphabetic first character
> %DCL-W-NOCOMD, no command on line - reenter with alphabetic first character
> %DCL-W-NOCOMD, no command on line - reenter with alphabetic first character
> 
> 
>     A different file was also not a roaring success for what might be
> related reasons: sys$help:VSI_OPENVMS_CRTL_NOTES.TXT (part of the
> RTL-V0500 patch).  I suspect  that that one looked fine on a Windows
> system, too.
> 
>     It's possible that VMS users would have less trouble if VSI used VMS
> more.

Good points, of course. I have not tried to move he zip to any
VMS system, just wanted to look at the COM file... :-)

Now, when it comes to these basic LMF files, it is not uncommon
that one has to copy/paste the content into a console window, and
since the emulated environments usually are on Windows, a Windows
compatilble file might be the right thing anyway.

And it is fine to copy into the console of any AlphaServer also.