Looking for VAXSET Software Engineering Tools for VMS 4.x

[Zane Healy]

Does anyone know if a 5.5-2 era CONOLD is available?  These that have just been made available are beyond awesome, as I gave my paper set of 5.x doc’s to Paul Allen’s computer museum, only keeping the basic 6 paperbacks, since I have a complete 6.x set, and the base 7.2 set

I’m going to see about putting them on PDXVAX (which is on HECnet), and making them available for viewing with VTBOOK.  I need to hunt up copies of that and a couple other things.  I should have them in my archives.

I want to say that there is a WASD package that will handle bookreader format doc’s.

Zane





> On May 16, 2021, at 11:46 AM, Antonio Carlini via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> On 16/05/2021 13:51, Malte Dehling wrote:
>> I have now generated a contents listing for the CONOLD CDs:
>> 
>> https://archive.org/details/vms-conold-1989-03
>> https://archive.org/details/vms-conold-1989-07
>> 
> That looks interesting: the fundamental VMS documentation is there, but very little of the layered product info is present.
> 
> The MAR-1989 CONOLD has FORTRAN and DBMS and the JUL-1989 CONOLD has C, FORTRAN, PASCAL, GKS, DBMS, VDE and DECforms.
> 
> So I would speculate that these would be amongst the earliest CONOLD distributions. I read elsewhere (comp.os.vms) that the first CONDIST
> 
> went out in the VMS V5.0 timeframe and the 1989-05 CONDIST contains both VMS V5.0 and V5.1. VMS V5.0 was announced
> 
> in APR-1998 (https://eisner.decus.org/anon/htnotes/note?f1=INDUSTRY_NEWS&f2=64.0), so it is possible that some earlier CONDIST
> 
> may yet appear.
> 
> 
> I've put the CD_CONTENTS.DAT that I have up on github: https://github.com/AntonioCarlini/dec-cdrom-distros. (I just realised that I've mis-named the 1989-05 release as 1989-03 ... I'll fix that rsn).
> 
> I guess that I should do something similar for the CONOLD CDROMs. Did you find DECW$SHELF to be enough to build up an accurate list of contents?
> 
> 
> Antonio
> 
> -- 
> Antonio Carlini
> antonio at acarlini.com
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