[HECnet] Re: VMS sources

[Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-]

<Paul_Koning at Dell.com> writes: 


On Jan 8, 2013, at 3:04 PM, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote: 

Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> writes:=20 >=20 >> On 01/08/2013
02:55 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote: >>> I've always wondered >> about VMS
sources: how they are actually distributed >>> today and how >> much
space they take? Is a CD-ROM enough for everything? And in >>> >> which
format are they? Just simple text files in a bunch of directories >> or
there is something fancier such as some cross references and >>
indexes? >> >>   They used to make source *listings* available on fiche;
I have several >> sets of those.   It's a stack of fiche maybe 3-4" >>
thick. > > How old are these "listings"?=20 >>=20 >> I haven't looked at
them in years, but I think I have at least 5.1 and >> 5.2, possibly
4.7.=20 >=20 > But who needs the source listings when you've got access
to the poor-man'= s > microfiche? 

Can't search microfiche, and a fiche reader is a clumsy and hard to use
con= traption. 

The "poor-man's microfiche" refers to:

$ ANALYZE/SYSTEM
SDA> EXAMINE/INSTRUCTION address;range

-- 
VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker       VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG

Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.