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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:29:00 EST
- Sender: BITNIC JNET-L List <JNET-L@UGA.BITNET>
- From: Lee Schultz <SCHULTZ@WOOSTER.BITNET>
- Subject: Another minor problem witn jnet_images_to_install logical
- Lines: 64
-
- A short time ago I posted the following message from Wingra:
-
- >Lee,
-
- >Thank you for finding the error with the JAN_IMAGES_TO_INSTALL logical
- >and the release notes. Thank you, too, for agreeing to post this to
- >JNET-L. We appreciate your help in this matter. Following is text that
- >explains the error.
-
- >===============================================================================
- >In section 1.3 in the New and Enhanced Features section of the JNET036 release
- >notes, the logical JAN_IMAGES_TO_INSTALL is incorrectly described. An
- >examination of JANSTART.COM will show that the logical that is looked for is
- >not JAN_IMAGES_TO_INSTALL but actually JNET_IMAGES_TO_INSTALL. When
- >defining the logical to re-install images please use JNET_IMAGES_TO_INSTALL
- >for now. This will be corrected to JAN_IMAGES_TO_INSTALL in the next release
- >of Jnet.
- >
- >The release notes also say to place the logical definition in JANCOMMON.COM.
- >This should read JANSITECOMMON.COM.
-
- >We apologize for any inconvenience or confusion that this may have caused.
- >===============================================================================
-
- >Lee, thank you again for your time and patience.
-
- >Regards,
-
- >Mike V.
-
-
- Since I have been in the process of installing a new VAX 4000-500 (replacing
- 2 VAX 11/750s 8{) ), I did not have much of a chance to really test it out.
-
- I just checked this morning (Friday, Jan 22), it does not work! The images
- are NOT installed with the requested privileges.
-
- After poking around in JANSTART.COM, I believe I have discovered a minor bug
- in the procedure. JANSTART.COM does a test to determine if there are images
- being requested to be installed. The test performed is
-
- $ if f$type(jnet_images_to_install).eqs. "" then goto INSTALL_SITE2
-
- The DCL Dictionary says that F$TYPE returns the data type of a SYMBOL. Since
- jnet_images_to_install is a LOGICAL NAME and not a symbol, the requested
- file(s) are not processed.
-
- I installed the following line just above the test and everything appears to
- work as expected (the image is installed with the proper privilege).
-
- $ jnet_images_to_install = f$trnlnm("jnet_images_to_install")
-
-
- I hope this information is of some help to some of you out there.
-
- Please note that I am in the process of moving the last of everything to the
- new system beginning Monday morning. I probably will not be able to respond
- and/or reply to any messages until sometime late next week.
-
- *****************************************************************************
- Lee Schultz
- Assistant Director, Systems and Networking (216) 263 - 2242
- Academic Computing Services, College of Wooster SCHULTZ @ WOOSTER.bitnet
- Wooster, Ohio 44691 USA SCHULTZ @ acs.WOOSTER.edu
-