Re: [Simh] vector images

2015-07-17 Thread Christian Brunschen
From the link I posted http://superuser.com/questions/307678/how-to-extract-files-from-msi-package, Lessmsi http://lessmsi.activescott.com/ seems to be a good solution. Requires a Windows system to run, but isn't going to be overwriting anything. // Christian On 17 July 2015 at 15:41,

Re: [Simh] vector images

2015-07-17 Thread Armistead, Jason BIS
Surely it is possible to extract files from SETUP.MSI without running the installer. Someone must have the tools to do this (either commercial or freeware perhaps ?). Another alternative is to run a virtual Windows OS image inside something like VirtualBox, thus avoiding any problems

Re: [Simh] vector images

2015-07-17 Thread Ken Cornetet
msiexec /a pathtoMSIfile /qb TARGETDIR=pathtotargetfolder From: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Armistead, Jason BIS Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 9:41 AM To: simh@trailing-edge.com Subject: Re: [Simh] vector images Surely it is possible to extract files from SETUP.MSI

Re: [Simh] vector images

2015-07-17 Thread Dave G4UGM
Well the simplest way is to use the installer service and tell it to extract but not install as that doesn’t require any additional software. Its called an “administrative install” but really it just unpacks.. msiexec /a pathtoMSIfile /qb TARGETDIR=pathtotargetfolder A quick google brought

[Simh] DEC floppy disk interleave questions

2015-07-17 Thread Hans-Ulrich Hölscher
That sounds like the really easy way to do it. Does it copy track 0 of RX01/02 floppies? I had some experience with RX01/02 floppies when reviving LSX using logical copies of the disks. Track 0 will be logically at the very end. The problem is with media size 256256: if the logical

Re: [Simh] Simh Digest, Vol 138, Issue 37

2015-07-17 Thread Leo Broukhis
On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 11:18:34 +0200, Hans-Ulrich Hölscher hoelscher-kirchb...@freenet.de wrote: That sounds like the really easy way to do it. Does it copy track 0 of RX01/02 floppies? I had some experience with RX01/02 floppies when reviving LSX using logical copies of the disks. Track 0

Re: [Simh] Off topic: ULTRIX question

2015-07-17 Thread Clem Cole
The Intel C/C++ and Fortran Compiler is available for free for Open Source Contributors: https://software.intel.com/en-us/qualify-for-free-software/opensourcecontributor I was just in a meeting with some folks and I verified that an open source project that wants to use the Intel tools may do so.