[Info-vax] Vax zip.exe that won't run on a particular computer

[Bob Gezelter]

On Oct 6, 2:49 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> > It's only to $ ANALYZE the /IMAGE, it won't fix it.  One of the
> > things it can show you are the shareable image idents that the
> > program is looking for and check the actual idents on your system.
>
> Wouldn't the image activator complain if there was a mismatch of the RTLs ?
>
> If both machines are at VMS 6.2, wouldn't the RTLs  be "compatible" in
> terms of linker and image activator ? A patch to an RTL wouldn't render
> executables unusable.
>
> If you compiled it on a 7.3 machine with linker options that allowed any
> RTL versions, what would the complaint be when you move the executable
> to a 6.2 machine and try to run it against an iolder RTL ?
>
> you could do a $CHECKSUM on the executable on both machines to ensure
> they are the same. (saves on testing file transfers at slow speeds).

JF,

The image activator would complain if the IDENTs were not compatible.
However, compatible IDENTs does not guarantee that there are not other
issues that could give rise to the problems cited.

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com