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Neil Waldhauer:

--- Quote from: Dariusz Piatkowski on September 23, 2022, 09:11:24 pm ---It's been years since I have installed VAC here, but behind the GUI front end, isn't all this really just fed into a dynamically built CID?

Neil,
How did you end up building this CID?

I'm going to take a look through my original install CDs (as well as the DevCon CDs for this)...

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You can look at my REXX code, but all I did was look at the Feature Install documentation. As I recall it took some experimentation to get it working.

After installation, I remove a lot of stuff from Config.Sys. I prefer having a cmd file for compiler environment to having the environment in config.sys.

Dariusz Piatkowski:
Hi Andi,


--- Quote from: Andi B. on September 24, 2022, 03:17:38 pm ---
--- Quote ---Both VAC and C Set/2 can be installed by unpacking ...
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I think the problems start with VAC4.0 and it's help system which needs a server and a lot of settings in config.sys. Think the included 3.65 version needs the 'new' help system too.

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You are right in that the Help system was somewhat 'picky/fussy'....BUT...once configured (NetQ app) it is actually a darn good system.

I still have all my VAC stuff installed and configured (working), both the 3.6.5 as well as the 4.0 GUI, although I primarily use the 3.6.5 for compile duties, as the 4.0 GUI stuff always seemed too resource intensive.

Having said that, I did configure a project in 4.0 a few months ago (it was the DISKIO update I was working on) and in a SMP enabled box, with a sizable JFS cache and plenty of memory, boy, that thing absolutely rocked!!!

Anyways, for anyone trying to get that 3.6.5/4.0 Help thing working: if you are stuck, describe the problem and I'll be happy to help - at least we have a working environment to compare to!

Alex Taylor:
I wrote a couple of articles years ago on how to install FI based products without Netscape:

* Installing using desktop objects, demonstrated using VAC 3.65: http://www.os2voice.org/VNL/past_issues/VNL1007H/feature_2.html
* Installing using the command line, demonstrated using VAC 4.0: http://www.os2voice.org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0708H/feature_2.html

Lars:
Building upon what Alex mentioned, I have also written a "CD-ROM Update" to the VAC installation CD-ROM that builds upon "FI":

This is for the VAC 3.6.5 Compiler:

http://www.os2site.com/sw/dev/vacpp/vacinstfix2.zip

The ZIP contains a "addinfo.txt" that explains on how to use the contents of this ZIP file. Effectively, you save the CD-ROM contents to hard disk, dump the ZIP file over it and burn back to a CD-ROM. The rest is listed in "addinfo.txt", including all the steps needed to get the help system working.

Andreas Schnellbacher:
Lars, your original Hobbes upload was renamed:
https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/dev/proglang/cpp/VAC_3-6-5_InstallFix_2007-03-27.zip

(I've found it by searching for "vac".)

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