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INFO.TXT, was Re: [HECnet] UPDATE: HECNET.HLP file for VMS systems

by sampsa＠mac.com

On 30 Dec 2012, at 04:28, Dennis Boone <drb at msu.edu> wrote: So what's supposed to be in this INFO.TXT file that everyone's been talking about lately? I think I may be too much of a newcomer here to know about it. Where should it be, and what should it contain? Bob has a nice explanation in his INFO.TXT file on LEGATO. Yup. Be aware that the HLP compiler cuts out any text after the .BEGIN-HECNET-INFO bit so put anything you want in the help files ABOVE that. Speaking of HLP compilers, I've set up a cron job to run on Sundays at 0500 EET, my robot will be sending update notices to the list when they happen. Sampsa

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New HECNET.HLP file at RHESUS::[.HECNETHLP]HECNET.HLP

by help-robot＠sampsa.com

HECNET.HLP Stats: 2 local customised HLP files 5 remote INFO.TXT retrieved Nodes processed: CHIMPY GEWT MIM RHESUS VAX780 Compiled HECNET.HLP: 13K, 479 lines

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INFO.TXT, was Re: [HECnet] UPDATE: HECNET.HLP file for VMS systems

by drb＠msu.edu

So what's supposed to be in this INFO.TXT file that everyone's been talking about lately? I think I may be too much of a newcomer here to know about it. Where should it be, and what should it contain? Bob has a nice explanation in his INFO.TXT file on LEGATO. De

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VAX compiler kits

by b4＠gewt.net

On 29 Dec 2012, at 21:01, sampsa at mac.com wrote: Didn't take me more than a minute or so Took me about 30 to grab it! On 30 Dec 2012, at 03:36, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote: On 29 Dec 2012, at 20:12, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote: On 29 Dec 2012, at 20:09, Mark Wickens wrote: On 30/12/12 01:06, Cory Smelosky wrote: On 29 Dec 2012, at 20:04, Mark Wickens wrote: On 30/12/12 01:01, Rob Jarratt wrote: Mark, If you want to try another source I could try making it available for you. Let me know. Hi Rob, I'm good thanks - I managed to get it installed once I'd got the saveset across to ORAC. Interestingly I'm not certain this is the version that I used back in the day looking at the header files, but it has already brought back a lot of memories of Modula-2 in general. How would I go about installing this? Extracting the backup to a scratch disk and then running VMSINSTAL? Looking at the definition files for the system libraries reminds me of Benchmark Modula-2 for the Amiga (which I've still got the manual for but have been unable to locate a copy of the code itself having suffered bit rot from my original disks) which has comprehensive coverage of the entire system in Modula-2 form. Regards, Mark. -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net/ Personal stuff! http://gimme-sympathy.org/ My permanently-a-work-in-progress pet project. Go into each of the [.KIT] directories and create a saveset a level up with an extension the same as the kit directory, for example in [.KIT.C]: $ backup/log [...]*.*; [-]modula031.c/sav when you have then all run the installation procedure in the directory with the savesets, in my case: $ @sys$update:vmsinstal modula031 DSA1:[MSW.MODULA.KIT] Regards, Mark. Thank you. I will do as such once I get the save set copied over from legato::, it's going rather slowly. ;) It's still copying how big /IS/ this? ;) -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net/ Personal stuff! http://gimme-sympathy.org/ My permanently-a-work-in-progress pet project. -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net/ Personal stuff! http://gimme-sympathy.org/ My permanently-a-work-in-progress pet project. -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net/ Personal stuff! http://gimme-sympathy.org/ My permanently-a-work-in-progress pet project.

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VAX compiler kits

by sampsa＠mac.com

Didn't take me more than a minute or so... On 30 Dec 2012, at 03:36, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote: On 29 Dec 2012, at 20:12, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote: On 29 Dec 2012, at 20:09, Mark Wickens wrote: On 30/12/12 01:06, Cory Smelosky wrote: On 29 Dec 2012, at 20:04, Mark Wickens wrote: On 30/12/12 01:01, Rob Jarratt wrote: Mark, If you want to try another source I could try making it available for you. Let me know. Hi Rob, I'm good thanks - I managed to get it installed once I'd got the saveset across to ORAC. Interestingly I'm not certain this is the version that I used back in the day looking at the header files, but it has already brought back a lot of memories of Modula-2 in general. How would I go about installing this? Extracting the backup to a scratch disk and then running VMSINSTAL? Looking at the definition files for the system libraries reminds me of Benchmark Modula-2 for the Amiga (which I've still got the manual for but have been unable to locate a copy of the code itself having suffered bit rot from my original disks) which has comprehensive coverage of the entire system in Modula-2 form. Regards, Mark. -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net/ Personal stuff! http://gimme-sympathy.org/ My permanently-a-work-in-progress pet project. Go into each of the [.KIT] directories and create a saveset a level up with an extension the same as the kit directory, for example in [.KIT.C]: $ backup/log [...]*.*; [-]modula031.c/sav when you have then all run the installation procedure in the directory with the savesets, in my case: $ @sys$update:vmsinstal modula031 DSA1:[MSW.MODULA.KIT] Regards, Mark. Thank you. I will do as such once I get the save set copied over from legato::, it's going rather slowly. ;) It's still copying how big /IS/ this? ;) -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net/ Personal stuff! http://gimme-sympathy.org/ My permanently-a-work-in-progress pet project. -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net/ Personal stuff! http://gimme-sympathy.org/ My permanently-a-work-in-progress pet project.

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VAX compiler kits

by b4＠gewt.net

On 29 Dec 2012, at 20:12, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote: On 29 Dec 2012, at 20:09, Mark Wickens wrote: On 30/12/12 01:06, Cory Smelosky wrote: On 29 Dec 2012, at 20:04, Mark Wickens wrote: On 30/12/12 01:01, Rob Jarratt wrote: Mark, If you want to try another source I could try making it available for you. Let me know. Hi Rob, I'm good thanks - I managed to get it installed once I'd got the saveset across to ORAC. Interestingly I'm not certain this is the version that I used back in the day looking at the header files, but it has already brought back a lot of memories of Modula-2 in general. How would I go about installing this? Extracting the backup to a scratch disk and then running VMSINSTAL? Looking at the definition files for the system libraries reminds me of Benchmark Modula-2 for the Amiga (which I've still got the manual for but have been unable to locate a copy of the code itself having suffered bit rot from my original disks) which has comprehensive coverage of the entire system in Modula-2 form. Regards, Mark. -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net/ Personal stuff! http://gimme-sympathy.org/ My permanently-a-work-in-progress pet project. Go into each of the [.KIT] directories and create a saveset a level up with an extension the same as the kit directory, for example in [.KIT.C]: $ backup/log [...]*.*; [-]modula031.c/sav when you have then all run the installation procedure in the directory with the savesets, in my case: $ @sys$update:vmsinstal modula031 DSA1:[MSW.MODULA.KIT] Regards, Mark. Thank you. I will do as such once I get the save set copied over from legato::, it's going rather slowly. ;) It's still copying how big /IS/ this? ;) -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net/ Personal stuff! http://gimme-sympathy.org/ My permanently-a-work-in-progress pet project. -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net/ Personal stuff! http://gimme-sympathy.org/ My permanently-a-work-in-progress pet project.

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VAX compiler kits

by b4＠gewt.net

On 29 Dec 2012, at 20:09, Mark Wickens wrote: On 30/12/12 01:06, Cory Smelosky wrote: On 29 Dec 2012, at 20:04, Mark Wickens wrote: On 30/12/12 01:01, Rob Jarratt wrote: Mark, If you want to try another source I could try making it available for you. Let me know. Hi Rob, I'm good thanks - I managed to get it installed once I'd got the saveset across to ORAC. Interestingly I'm not certain this is the version that I used back in the day looking at the header files, but it has already brought back a lot of memories of Modula-2 in general. How would I go about installing this? Extracting the backup to a scratch disk and then running VMSINSTAL? Looking at the definition files for the system libraries reminds me of Benchmark Modula-2 for the Amiga (which I've still got the manual for but have been unable to locate a copy of the code itself having suffered bit rot from my original disks) which has comprehensive coverage of the entire system in Modula-2 form. Regards, Mark. -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net/ Personal stuff! http://gimme-sympathy.org/ My permanently-a-work-in-progress pet project. Go into each of the [.KIT] directories and create a saveset a level up with an extension the same as the kit directory, for example in [.KIT.C]: $ backup/log [...]*.*; [-]modula031.c/sav when you have then all run the installation procedure in the directory with the savesets, in my case: $ @sys$update:vmsinstal modula031 DSA1:[MSW.MODULA.KIT] Regards, Mark. Thank you. I will do as such once I get the save set copied over from legato::, it's going rather slowly. ;) -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net/ Personal stuff! http://gimme-sympathy.org/ My permanently-a-work-in-progress pet project.

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VAX compiler kits

by mark＠wickensonline.co.uk

On 30/12/12 01:06, Cory Smelosky wrote: On 29 Dec 2012, at 20:04, Mark Wickens wrote: On 30/12/12 01:01, Rob Jarratt wrote: Mark, If you want to try another source I could try making it available for you. Let me know. Hi Rob, I'm good thanks - I managed to get it installed once I'd got the saveset across to ORAC. Interestingly I'm not certain this is the version that I used back in the day looking at the header files, but it has already brought back a lot of memories of Modula-2 in general. How would I go about installing this? Extracting the backup to a scratch disk and then running VMSINSTAL? Looking at the definition files for the system libraries reminds me of Benchmark Modula-2 for the Amiga (which I've still got the manual for but have been unable to locate a copy of the code itself having suffered bit rot from my original disks) which has comprehensive coverage of the entire system in Modula-2 form. Regards, Mark. -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net/ Personal stuff! http://gimme-sympathy.org/ My permanently-a-work-in-progress pet project. Go into each of the [.KIT] directories and create a saveset a level up with an extension the same as the kit directory, for example in [.KIT.C]: $ backup/log [...]*.*; [-]modula031.c/sav when you have then all run the installation procedure in the directory with the savesets, in my case: $ @sys$update:vmsinstal modula031 DSA1:[MSW.MODULA.KIT] Regards, Mark.

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VAX compiler kits

by b4＠gewt.net

On 29 Dec 2012, at 20:04, Mark Wickens wrote: On 30/12/12 01:01, Rob Jarratt wrote: Mark, If you want to try another source I could try making it available for you. Let me know. Hi Rob, I'm good thanks - I managed to get it installed once I'd got the saveset across to ORAC. Interestingly I'm not certain this is the version that I used back in the day looking at the header files, but it has already brought back a lot of memories of Modula-2 in general. How would I go about installing this? Extracting the backup to a scratch disk and then running VMSINSTAL? Looking at the definition files for the system libraries reminds me of Benchmark Modula-2 for the Amiga (which I've still got the manual for but have been unable to locate a copy of the code itself having suffered bit rot from my original disks) which has comprehensive coverage of the entire system in Modula-2 form. Regards, Mark. -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net/ Personal stuff! http://gimme-sympathy.org/ My permanently-a-work-in-progress pet project.

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VAX compiler kits

by mark＠wickensonline.co.uk

On 30/12/12 01:01, Rob Jarratt wrote: Mark, If you want to try another source I could try making it available for you. Let me know. Hi Rob, I'm good thanks - I managed to get it installed once I'd got the saveset across to ORAC. Interestingly I'm not certain this is the version that I used back in the day looking at the header files, but it has already brought back a lot of memories of Modula-2 in general. Looking at the definition files for the system libraries reminds me of Benchmark Modula-2 for the Amiga (which I've still got the manual for but have been unable to locate a copy of the code itself having suffered bit rot from my original disks) which has comprehensive coverage of the entire system in Modula-2 form. Regards, Mark.

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