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There are currently no mirror sites available. I welcome offers, but request
that we keep in touch for updates.
You need this file, even if you intend not to build the Python interpreter
yourself, but download the pre-compiled object modules!
Keep the [.VMS.DOC] tree intact, because there are hyperlinks between the
'manuals'.
All three manuals are separately available:
All 3 manuals are stored in an OpenVMS text library. The library contains
a file (README_TLB.TXT) with detailed instructions how to extract the manuals
from the library, how to re-apply the correct record attributes to the '.MEM'
and '.TXT' files and how to convert a '.MEM' file to a '.TXT' file to get the
'simple text format' mentioned above.
Start at:
Note that the PYVMS documentation only describes OpenVMS specifics. You should
download the Python documentation, too.
Start at http://www.decus.de/~zessin/py_obj.html to see if and
what versions are available.
I appreciate feedback and offers for other versions.
These are:
Explaining these tools in more detail is beyond the scope of this guide, sorry.
You should be able to get along with them if you follow the instructions in the
'building' section of the
'General Manual'.
I have made available executable files of the tools that I use.
They can be downloaded from:
http://www.decus.de/~zessin/py_tools.html
Of course, there is NO guarantee that they work for you. The
'General Manual' of the PYVMS
documentation has pointers
where more up-to date versions (perhaps including source) can be found.
the> PYVMS source kit
You always need to download the PYVMS 'source kit'.
It is currently available from:
about 2000 blocks
the PYVMS documentation
The documentation is available in different forms:
http://www.decus.de/~zessin/docu/startgde/pyvmsstartgde.txt
about 30 blocks
http://www.decus.de/~zessin/docu/genman/pyvmsgenman.txt
about 30 blocks
http://www.decus.de/~zessin/docu/refman/pyvmsrefman.txt
about 1020 blocks
This file can be converted to the 'simple text format' mentioned above.
However you do need access to an OpenVMS system to do that.
about 1590 blocks
$ LIBRARY /EXTRACT= README_TLB.TXT -
/OUTPUT= README_TLB.TXT -
PYVMS1_5_1-V008DOC.TLB
precompiled object code
For very specific configurations I MIGHT make precompiled object code
available. They may NOT work on your configuration! I'm sorry, but that
is the best you can expect from a 'hobby project'.
tools to build Python on OpenVMS
You need some tools that, unfortunately, are not build into the
OpenVMS operating system.
(de)compress a single file.
Decompressing single or multiple files from a '.ZIP' archive.
TAR (Tape ARchive) is used to store multiple files (with their
directory path) in a single file (the archive) and later retrieve them.