On 11/18/11 12:48, Jim Meyering wrote: > For now, I suggest you download the tarball to some other system > and uncompress it before copying it to your ancient vax.
I expect he's running OpenBSD/vax under SIMH, rather than on honest-to-goodness VAX hardware. (I used to have a PDP 11/70 in my garage, so I know what that old DEC hardware is like: heavy!) Anyway, your suggestion sounds good.
