Mark - we are in the dark ages as to up to date equipment - but I am
thinking tonight - always dangerous - that our 8mm DAT is one of the
earliest and possibly can't uncompress the patchix file created at HP on a
later DAT? That seems to make sense since it has no trouble with the first 7
files...

Bill

William L. Brandt
Sacramento, CA USA
.
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Bixby <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: getting new patchix from website - what am I doing wrong?


> william brandt wrote:
> >
> > HP3000-L Digest - 6 Jul 2000 to 7 Jul 2000 (#2000-62)I've tried this 3 =
> > times now from the HP website - bottom line, when I try to restore the =
> > downloaded patchfile (which is in a :store format) I get the following =
> > error: "Failed to Recover Portions of Compressed Data" (for the program
=
> > file PATCHIX).
>
> If your 3000 can ftp to the Internet, it's much simpler to obtain the
latest
> Patch/iX that way:
>
> :xeq ftp.arpa.sys
> File Transfer Protocol [A0009B02] (C) Hewlett-Packard Co. 1990
> ftp> open jazz.external.hp.com
> 220 HP ARPA FTP Server [A0009A02] (C) Hewlett-Packard Co. 1990
> Connected to jazz.external.hp.com (192.6.38.5).  (FTPINFO 40)
> Name(manager): anonymous
> 331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
> Password:
> 230 User logged on
> Remote system type is MPE/iX.
>
> ftp> cd dist
> 250 CWD  file action successful.
>
> ftp> dir
> 200 PORT command ok.
> 150 File: LISTFILE ./@,2 opened; data connection will be opened
>  PATH= /FTPGUEST/PUB/dist/
>
>  CODE  ------------LOGICAL RECORD-----------  ----SPACE----  FILENAME
>          SIZE  TYP        EOF      LIMIT R/B  SECTORS #X MX
>
>           16W  HBD          0   67107839   1       32  1  *  apache/
>           16W  HBD          0   67107839   1       32  1  *  cvs/
>           16W  HBD          0   67107839   1       32  1  *  java/
>  NMPRG   128W  FB         635        635   1      640  1  8  mover635.bin
>            1B  BA    11810048 2147483647   1    46144 26 32  mpekxr8.std
>            1B  BA     2129408 2147483647   1     8320  8  *
patchix55.store
>            1B  BA     2795520 2147483647   1    10928  9  *
patchix60.store
>            1B  BA         115 2147483647   1       16  1  *  testfile
>
>
> 226 Transfer complete.
> 749 bytes received in 0.19 seconds (3.79 Kbytes/sec)
>
> ftp> get ./patchix60.store;rec=128,,f,binary;code=store;disc=20000
> 200 PORT command ok.
> 150 File: ./patchix60.store opened; data connection will be opened
> 226 Transfer complete.
> 2795520 bytes received in 32.04 seconds (85.22 Kbytes/sec)
>
> ftp> quit
> 221 Server is closing command connection
>
> :file it=./patchix60.store,old;dev=disc
> :restore *it;@[log in to unmask]@;show;local
>           >> TURBO-STORE/RESTORE  VERSION  C.60.08  B5152AA  <<
>                     (C) 1986 HEWLETT-PACKARD CO.
>
> RESTORE  *it;@[log in to unmask]@;SHOW;LOCAL
>
> TUE, JUL 11, 2000,  1:56 PM
>
>
> WILL RESTORE       11 FILES          ; NUMBER OF FILES ON MEDIA       11
>
> FILENAME GROUP    ACCOUNT  VOLUME RESTRICTIONS            SECTORS CODE
MEDIA
> ABLDINTX.JUNK    .SYS      DISC                        :C     144 NMPRG
1
> ACSUMCAT.JUNK    .SYS      DISC                        :C     128
1
> ACSUMHLP.JUNK    .SYS      DISC                        :C    1408
1
> ACSUMLED.JUNK    .SYS      DISC                        :C    2960 NMPRG
1
> ALKEDCAT.JUNK    .SYS      DISC                        :C     144
1
> ALKEDHLP.JUNK    .SYS      DISC                        :C    1456
1
> AUTOCM  .JUNK    .SYS      DISC                        :C      48 PROG
1
> AUTOLED .JUNK    .SYS      DISC                        :C    2944 NMPRG
1
> AUTOSPTH.JUNK    .SYS      DISC                        :C     432 NMPRG
1
> PATCH000.JUNK    .SYS      DISC                        :C    1024 MGCAT
1
> PATCHIX .JUNK    .SYS      DISC                        :C    8864 NMPRG
1
>
> FILES RESTORED :                              11
>
> - Mark B.
>