Thursday, June 24, 2010

More VMS how-to's

on unzip make sure you use "-V" capital V folks

unzip "-V" xyz-zip-file.zip

also make sure the exe is common so other users you may have on your hobbyist system can use it
(like the one other user yr allowed besides system)

Figuring out how to extract those damn .bck files for the freeware cd's is a real PAIN in the ass because I didn't understand the command to do it until i found this gem of a real world example.
Geez you think it would be in one place like VMS for dummies or something. examples folks...real world examples so here is one for the above mentioned problem:

backup FREEWARE70_1.bck/save_set [...]

simple yes?

nonetheless, the system is such a puzzle, and that is the fun part.
there is no
./configure
make
make install
here

now if I could only get sound working

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