[HECnet] VMS question

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-08-11 00:38, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2015-08-11 00:34, Johnny Billquist 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?
>
> Never mind. It was an executable which extracts the compressed file
> included...

And darned... That was just the patches. I need the base V5.3 as well...

(Speaking of which, I bet there are other updates and patches I should 
probably also install. How do one check which patches one have 
installed, and how do I find out which ones I should install?)

	Johnny

>
>      Johnny
>
>>
>>      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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