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

[jcwoman1963 at hotmail.com]

On Oct 7, 10:58 am, jcwoman1... at hotmail.com wrote:
> On Oct 7, 10:43 am, Steven Schweda <sms.antin... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > jcwoman1... at hotmail.com wrote:
> > > $ run zip
> > > %dcl-w-actimage, error activating image cma$tis_shr
> > > -cli-e-imgname, image file $1$dia4:[sys0.syscommon.][syslib]cma
> > > $tis_shr.exe
> > > -system-f-shridmismat, ident mismatch with shareable image
>
> >    Ok.  _That_ is the kind of problem which a patch (ACRTL?)
> > could fix.  If you can find a Zip executable which was built
> > on an older VMS version, then you might be able to get that to
> > work.  This seems to offer some pretty old stuff:
>
> >      ftp://ftp.process.com/vms-freeware/fileserv/zip.zip
>
> > It has a "zip30/vms-binaries/vax542_vaxc/" directory, and that
> > should be obsolete enough for almost anyone.  You may need to
> > transport the .OBJ/.OLB stuff, and link it on the target
> > system.
>
> >    If you get desperate and need a pre-linked executable, I
> > could probably fire up a V5.5-2 system, and make something
> > obsolete there.
>
> Lol, I love your language.  I agree, obsolete....  this system is
> physically falling apart, out of maintenance, and we're scrambling to
> get the Integrity in place before it completely dies.   Fun stuff.   I
> got this zip, and will give it a try.  Thanks!  I'll let you know if
> it works, or if not to ask you to try to link it for me.

Okay, sorry to be a pest.  One of the object files in the collection
seems to be corrupted.  Could you try to get me an exe?  You can zip
it and email it to jetcitywoman at speakeasy.net if you don't mind.