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Alert regarding Freeware V4 LD062

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LD062 installation sends email

BDue to what appears to have been an oversight during the masteringAof the Freeware V4 CD, a portion of the LD062 kitinstal procedureDautomatically attempts to send smtp email to vdburg(at)mail.dec.com,Dor in the absence of ucx$smtp_mailshr, decnet mail to 54687::vdburg.

GYou may wish to remove this before installing the kit. The instructionsfor doing this follow:

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  1. Set default to the directory containing LD062.A
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  3. $ create/dir [.a]
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  5. $ set def [.a]
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  7. $ backup [-]ld062.a/sav []/log
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  9. $ edit kitinstal.com
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  11. Go to the bottom of the file and remove the lines:?
    $ if f$search("sys$library:ucx$smtp_mailshr.exe") .eqs. ""$ then $   define/user sys$output nla0:$   define/user sys$error nla0:I$   mail/noself nl: 54687::vdburg/subj="LD V6.2 Installed on ''platform'"$ else $   define/user sys$output nla0:$   define/user sys$error nla0:Y$   mail/noself nl: smtp%"vdburg(at)mail.dec.com"/subj="LD V6.2 Installed on ''platform'"$ endif
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  13. $ purge
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  15. $ rename [-]ld062.a [-]ld062.a-org
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  17. $ backup *.* [-]ld062.a/sav
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  19. Proceed with your installation normally
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Other notes


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  1. This installation will create a system wide verb: LD. If you> do not want this, you will need to modify kitinstal.
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  3. This installation will install LD help into your system help file. IfB you do not want this, you will need to modify kitinstal.
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  5. The resulting protection on LD.EXE in SYS$SYSTEM allows world execute.J Since the image is installed privileged, I do not personally care forF this. (I haven't looked, but the program probably "does the rightK thing" somehow though). It was just easier to change the protection onP the file after the installation compled & rerun SYS$STARTUP:LD$STARTUP
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Final note

HI like the LD program and deeply appreciate it's being made available onBthe freeware CD - I just disagree with a few things regarding it's$installation - thus this webpage.

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