Welcome to the second part of Getting Started with OpenVMS and SIMH. This article assumes that you have already followed part 1 or have at least installed OpenVMS VAX 7.3 on a system, with dua0 containing the OS, dua1 containing user-directories, and TCP/IP services are functional. If in doubt, have a quick read over what we did in the first part. For this part, we will install and use UNZIP, wget, Compaq C and the WASD HTTP server.
Although I'd /love/ to throw you in at the deep-end, I think the transition to OpenVMS will be easier if we introduce a couple of utilities you may be familiar with and break you in gently. This is a bit of a 'ghetto' guide to OpenVMS 7.3, and is primarily for users learning through SIMH - so, we will use the easiest methods of retrieving and installing what we need (despite them not being the most traditional methods).
UNZIP & WGET
These two utilities, in my opini