Today the CURL project at http://curl.haxx.se/ released curl 7.32.
The VMSPORTS team is pleased to announce that ZLIB 1.2.8 and Curl/libcurl 7.32 PCSI kits are now available for OpenVMS at https://sourceforge.net/projects/vms-ports/
These kits are compatible with GNV but do not require it.
If you do have GNV installed, make sure that the GNV$STARTUP procedure is run so that the [vms$common.gnv...] directories are visible.
You can find PCSI kits for these port at:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vms-ports/files/
or
ftp://encompasserve.org/gnv/ in the axp0830, i640840
or vax0730 directories.
The ZLIB 1.2.8 kit is upward compatible with both the previous JEM ZLIB PCSI kits and with the PCSI kits produced by Jean-Francois Pieronne.
As the producer is different, you have to uninstall the older JEM ZLIB package before installing the VMSPORTS ZLIB package.
This provides the libz library as a set of shared images, with both exact case and upper case symbols.
Thanks to Harmut Becker providing a patch to Macro32, we can now generate exact case transfer vectors on VAX.
The customizations that I did were the creation of the shared images and PCSI kitting procedures. The rest of the source is from the original ZLIB package.
The CURL 7.32 kit contains LIBCURL shared image and requires both the ZLIB 1.2.8 kit and the current CPQ (VAX Only) or HP OpenSSL kit.
The release notes describe how to obtain the OpenSSL kits from HP and how to use the HP OpenSSL 1.4 kit on a system with out replacing the older HP OpenSSL 1.3 kit.
For this reason, the PCSI installation procedure does not enforce a requirement for the HP OpenSSL version.
The Curl 7.32 kit contains fixes for the long standing form post bug and the upload files bug from using the Curl utility.
I have not run the curl test suite at this time, some work needs to be done to get it to run on VMS.
malmberg August 04 2022 No more VAX hobbyist licenses.
Community licenses for Alpha/IA64/X86_64 VMS Software Inc.
Commercial VMS software licenses for VAX available from HPE.
ozboomer July 20 2022 Just re-visiting.. No more hobbyist licenses? Is that from vmssoftware.com, no 'community' licenses?
valdirfranco July 01 2022 No more hobbyist license...sad
mister_wavey February 12 2022 I recall that the disks failed on the public access VMS systems that included Fafner
parwezw January 03 2022 Anyone know what happened to FAFNER.DYNDS.ORG?
I had a hobbyist account here but can longer access the site.
gtackett October 27 2021 Make that DECdfs _2.1A_ for Vax
gtackett October 27 2021 I'm looking for DECdfs V2.4A kit for VAX.
Asking here just in case anyone is still listening.
MarkRLV September 17 2021 At one time, didn't this web site have a job board? I would love to use my legacy skills one last time in my career.
malmberg January 18 2021 New Hobbyist PAKs for VAX/VMS are no longer available according to reports. Only commercial licenses are reported to be for sale from HPE
dfilip January 16 2021 Can someone please point me to hobbyist license pak? I'm looking for VAX/VMS 7.1, DECnet Phase IV, and UCX/TCPIP ... have the 7.1 media, need the license paks ... thanks!
