Re: VMSINSTAL Message

On Feb 8, 8:32 pm, David J Dachtera <djesys...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Chuck Moore wrote:

Hi,

Wanted to get UNZIP going. So I went tohttp://www.djesys.com/unzip.html
and downloaded the UNZIP & SFX stuff, then FTPed it from Windows 2K to
Alpha VMS (binary transfer) and COPYed things together as specified on
the web-page. Here's what happened next:
$
dir

Directory UNIT02$DKB100:
[WORKAREA.UNZIP]

SFX_AXP.EXE;1 UNZIP_U2053.A;1 UNZU2053.EXE;2
UNZU2053.EXE;1
UNZU2053.ZIP;
1

Total of 5
files.
$ run
'vmsinstal'
_File: UNZIP_U2053.A;
1
%DCL-W-ACTIMAGE, error activating image UNZIP_U2053.A;
1
-CLI-E-IMGNAME, image file UNIT02$DKB100:[WORKAREA.UNZIP]UNZIP_U2053.A;
1
-IMGACT-F-NOTNATIVE, image is not an OpenVMS Alpha
image

Anyone got any ideas ?

Well, in sequence,

1. That's a very old UNZIP - I've not updated it in years.

2. VMSINSTAL is a DCL procedure, not a binary program: you don't RUN it.
The invocation is like so:

$ @SYS$UPDATE:VMSINSTAL UNZIP_U2053 DKB100:[WORKAREA.UNZIP]

Apologies if I left that out of the documentation. When I update UNZIP,
I'll add info to the doc / web page.

Oh, yeah: the reason you got the error from the image activator about
UNZIP_U2053.A is because you used apostrophes (Single quotes) around
vmsinstal. So, DCL tried to do symbol substitution. If you'd had a
symbol in your environment called VMSINSTAL, DCL would have inserted its
value into the command buffer before trying to execute the resulting
command string. Otherwise, you'd have gotten something like this:

$ run vmsinstal unzip_u2053
%DCL-W-MAXPARM, too many parameters - reenter command with fewer
parameters
\UNZIP_U2053\

David J Dachtera
DJE Systems

David and Richard,

Thanks for the quick responses. I looked on this list for UNZIP and
that's how I got that particular software. I was just trying to do
what was on the instructions.

What UNZIP would y'all recommend ?

Chuck
.

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