[HECnet] VMS question

Cory Smelosky b4 at gewt.net
Mon Aug 10 15:35:14 PDT 2015


It's executable.

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> On Aug 10, 2015, at 15:34, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
>> 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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