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Subject: RE: VMSINSTAL warning (a work-around)
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Date: Thu, 4-Apr-85 15:24:21 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr  4 15:24:21 1985
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From: Denny_Thury <thury%ti-eg.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa>


I too have experienced the problem with the VMSINSTAL GET option.

My fix was to edit SYS$UPDATE:VMSINSTAL.COM adding 
1 line to "STEP_13" (before line #1227).  An excerpt of the corrected
version follows:

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$13n: letter = f$ext(saveset,1,"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ")
$if saveset .ge. 26 then letter = f$string(saveset+1)
$vmi$callback RESTORE_SAVESET 'letter
$if .not. $status then goto 13p
$saveset = saveset + 1
$on error then goto 13s
$if f$length(letter) .gt. 1 then -
letter = f$fao("VMI_!4ZL",f$integer(letter))
$!##########################################################################
$!
$! 1 line Added to fix severe DEC bug
$!			12-MAR-1985  by DLWT
$IF F$SEARCH ("VMI$KWD:VMIBCKERR.TMP") .NES. ""  THEN -
 	DELETE VMI$KWD:VMIBCKERR.TMP;*
$!
$!##########################################################################
$backup/interchange/verify vmi$kwd:*.*;* -
'get_dir''vmi$product.'letter/save_set 'vmi$p6
$on error then goto error_done
$vmi$p6 = ""
$w = f$search("vmi$kwd:*.*")
$if w .nes. "" then set prot=s=rwed vmi$kwd:*.*;*
$if w .nes. "" then delete vmi$kwd:*.*;*
$w = f$search("")
$goto 13n
$13p:
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I have also submitted an SPR defining the problem and included the above
fix as a proposed solution..

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			Denny Thury