Article 59978 of comp.os.vms: Path: jac.zko.dec.com!quark.enet.dec.com!LIONEL From: lionel@quark.enet.dec.com (Steve Lionel) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: How to extract files from Polycenter PRODUCT files? Date: 30 Apr 1995 22:48:34 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - Nashua, NH Lines: 47 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3o1442$q3j@jac.zko.dec.com> References: <1995Apr29.215415.1746@vms.huji.ac.il> Reply-To: lionel@quark.enet.dec.com NNTP-Posting-Host: quark.zko.dec.com In article <1995Apr29.215415.1746@vms.huji.ac.il>, yehavi@vms.huji.ac.il (Yehavi Bourvine (58-4279)) writes: > I need to extract a file from the DECNET/OSI installation (to be sepcific - I >need the DMB sync driver and do not want to install DECNET/OSI just for that). >the problem is that this installation is not done by VMSINSTAL but by >PolyCenter PRODUCT command with which I am not familiar. How can I list the >files in the .PCSI file and extract specific ones? You can't list or selectively extract the files - you can extract all of them. See the following which is taken from the OpenVMS FAQ: MGMT4. How do I extract the contents of a PCSI kit? A growing number of OpenVMS products are being provided in PCSI (POLYCENTER Software Installation) kits which are installed using the PRODUCT INSTALL command. These are alternatives to or replacement for VMSINSTAL kits which were BACKUP savesets. PCSI kits are not BACKUP savesets and are structured differently from VMSINSTAL kits. If you want to extract product files from a PCSI kit, create a directory into which the kit should be expanded and use the following command: $ PRODUCT COPY prodname /SOURCE=[where-the-kit-is] - /DEST=[destination-directory] /FORMAT=REFERENCE A PCSI kit file has a file specification of the following form: DEC-VAXVMS-FORTRAN-V0603-141-1.PCSI In this example, "FORTRAN" is the "prodname". PCSI will expand the kit files into the directory you specify and subdirectories beneath such as [SYSEXE], [SYSLIB], etc., reflecting the eventual destination of files found there. Most of the actual product files (images, etc.) will be in the subdirectories. In the top-level directory will be a file with the file type PCSI$DESCRIPTION that specifies where various files should go. For more details, see the POLYCENTER Software Installation Developer's Guide for OpenVMS, which can be found in the OpenVMS documentation on the Consolidated Online Documentation CD-ROM. Steve Lionel Mail: lionel@quark.enet.dec.com DEC Fortran Development WWW: http://www.digital.com/info/slionel.html Digital Equipment Corporation CompuServe: 75263,3001 110 Spit Brook Road, ZKO2-3/N30 Nashua, NH 03062-2698 "Free advice is worth every cent" For a summary of Digital's Internet services, send mail to info@digital.com