Tips for Downloading the CMS Pipelines Runtime Library Distribution

Be sure to read Tips for Installing for considerations about the PIPE MODULE.

You should obtain pipeline.pdf; right click on the link to download.

Transferring via VM-to-VM FTP

The files in the CMS Pipelines Runtime Library Distribution are all available by anonymous FTP from vm.marist.edu (cd academ:pipeline.eweb.), which is a VM system. If you have the ability to FTP from your own VM system, that may be the easiest way to transfer the files, as the record structure will be preserved if the correct FTP commands are used. For example, to FTP the main runtime library files to your B-disk:

ftp vm.marist.edu
cd academ:pipeline.eweb.
mode b
ebcdic
get pipe.module       pipe.module.b
get pipeline.module   pipeline.module.b
get pipeline.book     pipeline.book.b
get pipeline.helplib  pipeline.helplib.b
quit

Note "mode b" (where the "b" stands for "block") and "ebcdic", both of which are necessary to leave the files unmangled.

Transferring via the Web in VMARC Format

If you wish to transfer the entire runtime distribution, you may find it convenient to download the two VMARC-format files, RUNTIME VMARC, which contains all of the executables, and RTDOC VMARC, which contains all of the documentation. VMARC files should be uploaded in binary mode, reblocked using an "fblock 80" stage, and then unpacked using the VMARC command.

Transferring Individual Files via the Web

The files are also stored in formats that are suitable for transferring individually via the Web. Be sure that all transfers are done in binary mode. Once you have the files on your CMS system, commands such as the following can be used to restore their record structure:

pipe < pipeline bookbin  | fblock 4096 |          > pipeline book     b fixed
pipe < pipeline modpack  | fblock 1024 | unpack | > pipeline module   b
pipe < pipe     modpack  | fblock 1024 | unpack | > pipe     module   b
pipe < pipeline hlibpack | fblock 1024 | unpack | > pipeline helplib  b fixed

The files marked as "packed" should be uploaded in binary mode, reblocked using an "fblock 1024" stage, and then unpacked using an "unpack" stage or the UNPACK option of the CMS COPYFILE command.
The BOOK file should be uploaded in binary mode and reblocked using an "fblock 4096" stage.
The HELPLIB file and the BOOK file should be written as RECFM F (use the FIXED option on the ">" stage).

Melinda Varian / Office of Computing and Information Technology / Princeton University / melinda.varian@me.com

May 21, 2002

Revised 2010-03-01 jph.