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#PRO Questions

    03-Aug-90 18:52:02
Sb: #21147-#PRO Questions
Fm: Syndesis 76004,1763
To: Bill Mayhew [VAX/DECPC] 76702,502
It turns out one of our DECnet beta testers does a lot with Pros, and he works for DEC, so he's working on finding an Ethernet card. Installation has been a mystery so far. I got as far as reformatting and installing v3.2, but the "install" command from the P/OS menu doesn't really install things like DCL. I've got the four DCL disks, and I think the Toolkit is on some of them. However, when I select DCL from the menu, I get an error message stating that it can't find a .TSK file in a certain directory, and guesses that I should contact the system administrator, because this application needs special installation. I tried making the directories and copying the file(s) in question, and poked around in the .INB files, but it all came down to the same thing: it can't find "LB000:[zzprodcl] ca2.tsk" – but I made that directory, and copied that file there. I think I put it on the wrong volume. Which default volume name corresponds to LB000:? And thanks for the help so far… I looked into the PDP11 forum. Is the traffic there slower than here? About 1982 or so, I remember writing a report for the department at the university, recommending the Rainbox over the emerging IBM PC… so I'm at "home" here, too. Whoops, that's Rainbow. 🙂