Re: SQR 4.3 Installation Question for VMS

[Peter Alan Burton <peterb@SQRIBE.COM>]

Nick,

As per the install guide, the number of dots inside the square brackets should
be 3, not 1.  It should be as:

 $ BACKUP cd_device:SQR.BCK/SAVE [...]*.*/REPLACE/LOG

Putting three periods simply tells the OS to do its copies into the directory
from which the command is being run and then create directories below as called
for in the directory structure of the backup saveset

Peter

On 28 Jul 98, at 18:01, Nick Moscaritolo wrote:

Date sent:              Tue, 28 Jul 1998 18:01:01 -0400
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From:                   Nick Moscaritolo <nmoscaritolo@LNMTA.BENTLEY.EDU>
Subject:                SQR 4.3 Installation Question for VMS
Originally to:          SQR-USERS@USA.NET
To:                     Multiple recipients of list SQR-USERS <SQR-USERS@list.iex.net>

> Hello all,
>
> We are trying to install SQR 4.3 on our DEC ALPHA box   running VMS 7.1 and
> ORACLE 7.3.
>
> The installation instructions ask us to issue the BACKUP command to copy
> files from the CD to directories which the process should create. The
> BACKUP command is as follows:
>
>      BACKUP cd_device:SQR.BCK/SAVE [.]*.*/REPLACE/LOG
>
>  **** Please note that  "[.]" causes a ".DIR" to be created at the root
> level.
>
> The docs state that the directories will be
>
>      {your_disk_drive}:[SQR_INSTALL.{db_code}.BIN]
>      {your_disk_drive}:[SQR_INSTALL.{db_code}.LIB]
>      {your_disk_drive}:[SQR_INSTALL.{db_code}.IMAGES]
>      {your_disk_drive}:[SQR_INSTALL.{db_code}.README]
>      {your_disk_drive}:[SQR_INSTALL.{db_code}.SAMPLE]
>      {your_disk_drive}:[SQR_INSTALL.{db_code}.TUTORIAL]
>
> ** db_code will be ORA for ORACLE
>
> In reality, these directories were created
>
>      {your_disk_drive}:[SQR_INSTALL.BIN]
>      {your_disk_drive}:[SQR_INSTALL.LIB]
>      {your_disk_drive}:[SQR_INSTALL.IMAGES]
>      {your_disk_drive}:[SQR_INSTALL.README]
>      {your_disk_drive}:[SQR_INSTALL.SAMPLE]
>      {your_disk_drive}:[SQR_INSTALL.TUTORIAL]
>
> additionally,
>
> All files, that should have been copied to the above directories, were
> copied to the root directory.
>
> Any ideas ?????
>