[HECnet] VMS question

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Mon Aug 10 15:34:02 PDT 2015


On 2015-08-10 16:33, Mark Wickens wrote:
> This any good?
>
> simvax::dsa3:[media..patches.openvms_patches.vax.v7_3]dec-vaxvms-tcpip_eco-v0503-184-4.pcsi-dcx_vaxexe

Sucked it down. Definitely sounds like it should be the thing.
However, how do I install it. PRODUCT INSTALL do not see it.
If I rename it to end in just .PCSI, PDOCUCT INSTALL is still 
unimpressed, and exits with an error.
Is it compressed or encoded somehow? What should I do with it?

	Johnny

>
>
> Cheers, Mark.
>
> On 10/08/15 15:25, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> On 2015-08-10 15:23, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>> On 2015-08-10 15:18, Dave McGuire wrote:
>>>>    Where the TCP/IP logs go depends on which TCP/IP implementation
>>>> you're
>>>> running.  Many system logs go to SYSTEM's home directory,
>>>> sys$sysroot:[sysgmgr].  If you do a "purge *.log" there, that's a quick
>>>> way to free up some space in an emergency.  You're losing log data that
>>>> way, of course, so it's a last resort, but it could get you up and
>>>> running.
>>>
>>> The standard TCPIP from DEC. I forgot to say that it's running OVMS 7.3.
>>>
>>> $ tcpip
>>> TCPIP> sho ver
>>>
>>>    Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS VAX Version V5.1
>>>    on a VAX 7000-720 running OpenVMS V7.3
>>>
>>> TCPIP>
>>
>> Doh! I was just pointed to
>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.vms/xNVuDTj2X-E, which
>> tells me that this is a known problem in V5.1 of TCPIP, which are
>> fixed in V5.3. Anyone knows where I could find V5.3?
>>
>>     Johnny
>>
>


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