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From: hhd0@GTE.COM (Horace Dediu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: pcsim install difficulties
Keywords: pcsim install AIX RS/6000
Message-ID: <10148@bunny.GTE.COM>
Date: 3 Dec 90 19:30:15 GMT
Organization: GTE Laboratories, Inc., Waltham, MA
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I've been trying to install pcsim on our Model 320 and I failed every time.
The installation instructions say to use smit to install the two
distribution diskettes (everything went well), then to run the following 
command with a DOS disk in the floppy drive (I have DOS 3.3).
	pcsim -A 3 -C [filename]
(where filename is the name of the file where DOS is to be loaded (i.e. the
C drive)).
This failed.
I did a man page on pcsim and it showed that the -A and -C  options are not 
defined, and that I should use something like
	pcsim -Adiskette 3 -Cdrive [filename]
I tried both with no success, getting the following every time:
ERROR: NLS message catalog missing.
ERROR: NLS message catalog missing. -A

ERROR: NLS message catalog missing.
	Trying just pcsim without any options results in booting with BASIC.
The /usr/lpp/pcsim directory seems OK:
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bin      bin          315 Nov 30 16:43 copyright*
drwxr-xr-x   2 bin      bin          512 Nov 30 16:44 lib/
-rw-r--r--   1 bin      bin         8782 May 29 1990  lpp.README
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bin      bin         2120 Nov 30 16:43 lpp.X11*
-rw-r--r--   1 bin      bin        66048 Nov 30 16:44 lpp.bios
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bin      bin          852 Nov 30 16:43 lpp.cleanup*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 bin      bin       668810 Nov 30 16:45 lpp.simulator*
drwxr-xr-x   2 bin      bin          512 Nov 30 16:44 samples/
drwxr-xr-x   2 bin      bin          512 Nov 30 16:44 tty/
The /usr/lpp/pcsimmEn_US directory looks like:
-rw-r-----   1 root     system       270 Nov 30 16:42 copyright
-rwxr-x--x   1 root     system      1148 Nov 30 16:42 lpp.cleanup*
It seems to me that something is wrong here.  I followed the install
procedure correctly for this disk, or did I?  Anyone have any clues?

Thanks in advance.

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