[HECnet] RPM on HECnet

[Johnny Billquist]

Speaking of Swedish Pascal, I did some fixes to that a number of years 
ago, which I'm not sure I ever released to anyway.
And since Oregon Pascal really is better, I haven't really bothered.
But is there interest in work on Swedish Pascal?

   Johnny

On 2021-06-14 02:57, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 6/13/21 6:32 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> In case someone is using RPM on HECnet, and using DECnet as the
>> transport protocol, you need to update your configuration of RPM.
>>
>> The reason is because I moved the RPM repository directory to a new
>> place. In order to avoid any similar problem in the future, please use
>> RPM$DIR: instead of LB:[RPM] which was previously the suggested default
>> when accessing MIM::
>>
>> You can change your configuration using RPM CONFIG, or edit CONFIG.CMD
>> in your RPM directory. If you edit the file directly, it is the USER
>> variable that should be changed.
>>
>> If people are using RPM with TCP/IP as transport, no changes are needed,
>> and all should work without any disruption.
> 
>    I happen to have my home (not LSSM) PDP-11/83 up today, doing some
> hacking with Swedish Pascal to heal my soul, so I took this opportunity
> to install it.  I'm rummaging through the packages now.  Looks fantastic
> so far!  Thanks for doing this!
> 
>                -Dave
> 

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