Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!anu-news!list From: CC007001@WVNVMS.BITNET (Doug Saunders) Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: Re: Problem installing ANU-News V5.8 & 5.9 under VAX VMS 5.2 Message-ID:Date: 25 Sep 89 17:22:00 GMT Sender: ANU-NEWS Discussion Reply-To: Doug Saunders Lines: 20 X-VMS-To: IN%"anu-news@ndsuvm1.bitnet" Comments: Warning -- RSCS tag indicates an origin of CC007001@WVNVAXA >We are in the process of putting Annual News on a MicroVAX II >running VMS Version 5.2 and C version 3.0. We have attempted to >install both versions 5.8 and 5.9 with the same results. The >system comes back with an "Invalid internal file identifier" >Msg upon start up. This error occurs while the program is >executing within the NEWSUTILITY program. >Has anyone else seen this problem? I would appreciate your >help in solving this problem. Is this problem unique to sites >running VMS 5.2? I am getting this same message when excuting NEWS. I am right now in the process of sorting through the source code to see if I can locate the problem, but have not found it as yet. In answer to your question about VMS 5.2, we are running VMS 5.1. Thanks to all who sent a reply to my problem with GETHOSTBYNAME and HTONS. Doug Saunders