From: Roar Thronęs [roart@nvg.ntnu.no]
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 10:33 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: vms software administration

Hi

Happy new year.

After a number of software installations (and especially the ones
which is neither pcsi nor saveset based), the sylogin.com and
systartup_vms.com files is starting to become a bit large and chaotic
with internal dependensies.
Also, keeping track of versions etc is also needed.

How is the availability of utilities capable of handling such software,
including generating scripts to be run by sylogin.com and systartup_vms.com?

I have not found any such.

I am in part underway of making a VMS port of a (perl) utility in Unix
called Store. (Works good enough to put to ordinary use)
(See http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~arnej/store/storedoc.html)
VMS differences from that doc:
The use of .s and @s is changed.
The linktree concept is not useful (even with DCL$PATH, I think)
Generation of scripts for sylogin.com and systartup.com.

How does this utility sound?

-- 
-Roar Thronęs