[HECnet] Layered products for OpenVMS

[Mark Wickens]

Are you on HECNET Fred?

SLAVE is currently up and has various layered products available.

I'm not sure whether you mentioned if you were running on Alpha or IA64?


On 03-Aug-16 10:00 PM, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
>
> On 8/3/2016 1:31 PM, Fred wrote:
>> Afternoon all ...
>>
>> Is there a VMS layered product repository available on HECNET ?
>>
>> There was some discussion on c.o.v. about LSEDIT, and I'd to play 
>> around with that.  I emailed the OpenVMS Customer Lab about getting 
>> FTP access to layered products as a hobbyist, but they say since 
>> OpenVMS 8.3 is EOL, they won't provide the link.  I did not think 
>> layered products were version specific?  I suppose I could upgrade my 
>> DS10 to a more recent version, but that seems like a lot just to play 
>> with a layered product.
>>
>> Fred
>>
>> ---
>> $ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT F$MESSAGE (2928)
>> %SYSTEM-W-FISH, my hovercraft is full of eels
>>
>
>
> Fred,
>   They should give you the logon credentials if you let them know 
> you're a Hobbyist (I just forwarded the email I got from them with the 
> PAK info as proof).  The version of DECset on FTP should work with 
> V8.3 so don't tell them you're behind.  Or tell them you need access 
> to V8.4 so you can upgrade (even if you don't). ;)
>
> John H. Reinhardt