[HECnet] Anonymous FAL (Tops-20)

[John H. Reinhardt]

On 7/15/2019 3:06 AM, Tim Sneddon wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 1:17 PM John H. Reinhardt <johnhreinhardt at thereinhardts.org <mailto:johnhreinhardt at thereinhardts.org>> wrote:
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>     On 7/5/2019 1:57 PM, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
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>     > At one point, I do remember seeing certain VMS sources, but I don't recall the context.  It might have been when I was still with DEC.  I guess you can't even threaten to pay them to get any, huh?  Bummer...
>     >
>     OpenVMS source is/was available for a price.  The price was *somewhat* lower if you were an employee.  As I was of HP between 2006 and 2008.  One of the last things I did when I knew I was being laid off on 31-Dec-2008 was order from internal sources a bunch of OpenVMS CD sets.  I got VAX V7.3,  AXP V8.2, V8.3, IA64 V8.2 and V8.3 source sets.  Cost me under $200 and I ordered a few other bits and pieces along with.  I imagine if you were non-HP/Compaq/DEC then the prices were much, much higher.  I wish I had been around when V8.4 came out but I wasn't.  I had a line on someone that had the V8.4 but it fell through.
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> There is a great tool for processing those listings called CVTLIS.  Written by Hunter Goatley at Process Software.  You can find it here:
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> http://vms.process.com/scripts/fileserv/fileserv_search.exe?package=cvtlis&description=&author=&system=Either&language=All&RD=&RM=&RY=
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> I'm pretty sure I made some changes to my local copy that recognises Compaq and HP C.  Nothing major, just names.
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> Regards, Tim.

Thanks Tim!  I knew there had to be a script/tool out there somewhere to do that.  I figured it would be a perfect thing for Perl also.

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John H. Reinhardt