CHARON Guest Utilities for OpenVMS

General Description

The "CHARON Guest Utilities for OpenVMS" package contains several utilities for managing virtual tapes, changing the emulator speed and creating useful definitions for that operations.

This set of utilities is located in the "charoncp011.vdisk" disk file in the "C:\Program Files\CHARON\Virtual Disk Images\Tape utilities package".

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Installation

Specify this image in the CHARON-AXP configuration file, boot from the system disk and mount the disk with the following OpenVMS command:

$ MOUNT <device name> /OVERRIDE=IDENTIFICATION

Issue the following commands to install the package:

$ @SYS$UPDATE:VMSINSTALL

* Are you satisfied with the backup of your system disk [YES]? YES
* Where will the distribution volumes be mounted: <device name>:[000000.CHARONCP011.KIT]

Enter the products to be processed from the first distribution volume set.
* Products: CHARONCP011

Select all the components included to the package:

Component Selection

Select the CHARONCP components you wish to install from the menu below.
An asterisk appears next to the packages that have already been
selected. You can remove a package from the list by selecting it
again. You may enter more than one selection by separating your
choices with commas.

1. [*] CHARONCP Guest Utility (REQUIRED)
2. [*] Compatability Utilities
3. [*] Install DCL Commands & Help

4. Exit

* Your choice [4]: 4

Proceed with installation using all the default options.

Once the installation is completed, update "SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM" file with the following line:

$ @SYS$STARTUP:CHARONCP_STARTUP

After that the package will be loaded automatically on startup.

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