Looking for VAXSET Software Engineering Tools for VMS 4.x

[Zane Healy]

> On May 16, 2021, at 5:51 AM, Malte Dehling via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 11:47:09AM +0200, Malte Dehling wrote:
>> I plan on updating the description for the CONOLD CDs with a list of
>> the books included.  That probably means writing a script to extract
>> that information from the DECW$BOOKSHELF files.
> 
> 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
> 
> Cheers,
> Malte
> 
> -- 
> Malte Dehling
> <mdehling at gmail.com>

Did you read these on a VAX?  I’m trying to use MGBOOK (based on VTBOOK), to read the files from CDROM-AG-NC67C-RE-1989-07-VMS-CONOLD.iso.  I’m on a system running VAX/VMS 5.5-2, and I am able to read the DECW$BOOKSHELF files, but not the DECW$BOOK files.

I’m able to read the Bookreader documentation installed with VAX/VMS 5.5-2 just fine using MGBOOK.


Error from in MGBOOK when trying to read a DECW$BOOK after reading a DECW$BOOKSHELF file.

 %SYSTEM-F-ACCVIO, access violation, reason mask=00, virtual address=00000011,
 PC=00003B2F, PSL=03C00000


Error from MGBOOK when trying to read a DECW$BOOK directly.

%MGBOOK-E-READERR, Error reading bookshelf entry information  
-RMS-W-RTB, 1022 byte record too large for user's buffer

Zane