harper@csc.fi (09/21/90)
In article <3009A2B47FBF00160E@NRCNET.NRC.CA>, JRR@NRCCAD.NRC.CA writes: > I received program ZOO from the EMBL server, but it does not work on our > VAX (VMS 5.1). It seems that we have to re-compile it, but unfortunately > we do not have the source code. We need this program urgently to de-archive > all the others, so any help on getting the source code of ZOO (VMS version) > will be very much appreciated. > > Daping Tan > JRR@NRCCAD.CA > Health and Welfare Canada Quite recently I have been using ZOO from EMBL to unarchive all the stuff from the VAX_SOFTWARE directory. I has given me no troubles. Perhaps you have not defined a foreign command for it. For example in my LOGIN.COM I have the following line. $ z :== $"userdisk6:<harper>zoo.exe" What this does is this. Every time you open a session on the VAX your LOGIN.COM is executed... it is something like an AUTOEXEC.BAT under MSDOS, and that one line then prepares the machine by telling it that the ZOO.EXE programme can be found on USERDISK6: and in directory HARPER and that I can call it into action simply by typing Z at the vax $ prompt. I expect that if you edit your login.com and put in an appropriate line which reflects were you keep ZOO.EXE then it should begin to work for you. Rob "at your service" Harper.