25 Apr
2000
25 Apr
'00
2:43 p.m.
Rumor has it that healyzh(a)aracnet.com may have
mentioned these words:
So, should I not install it? Or does it give you trouble as it's not big
enough??? ;-)
Argh, I'm being unclear again and confusing people. Sorry about that.
By trouble I meant remembering what the proper designation for the drive
is, not that I have problems with them. I say install it.
Well,
I've been running DEC equipment now since... Easter. ;-) So I don't
It's the 1GB drive that always gives me trouble! Erm... not sure what the Version is on the freeware CD,
but I can tell you
that I have the December 1998 distro of VMS 7.1. Erm... and I got it
installed last night!!! ;-)
Foggy brain on my part, but I think it's V3, as I believe V4 was released
with OpenVMS V7.2
Now all I need to find is a URL for a quickie command
reference to find how
to do the menial stuff... like change directories and whatnot. From DEC's
Here is some quick stuff:
set default dka300:[000000] <----the 'root' of the disk dka300:
set default [-] <----back one directory
set default [.somedir] <----move into the somedir dir located under
current dir
set default [bin] <----move to bin dir located under root of
current disk
help <----Help
dir <----directory
Sounds like what you really want is to hit a used bookstore and find a book
on using OpenVMS.
I do have all the documentation on CDrom, but it
doesn't do me a hill
o'beans worth if I can't access them! ;-)
Yeh, need DECwindows running.
(I did find the "Show Mem" command, and was
suprised on how economical VMS
was, and it seemed to give quite a bit of info!)
I know, I"m always amazed by what it can do on a VAX.
Anyway, thanks again for all the help, and before long
there'll be another
DEChead floating around the ranks... ;-)
Good, the more the better!
(BTW, how long does it take for DECUS to process a
basic application?)
No idea.
Zane
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