[HECnet] simh vax version

[Bill Cunningham]

On 11/14/2019 10:48 PM, Mark Pizzolato wrote:
> On Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 7:42 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>> Ok version number or "git commit id" On the version I am using is 178968a, the
>> version I downloaded from the link you sent me is bdc677b7.
>> They are indeed very different.
> Well, git commit ids are merely a hash value.  There is nothing sequential about them.  178968a is from some 11 days ago and should certainly be more recent enough to perform the steps I outlined, so you shouldn't need to rebuild the simulator.
>
>>> 	$ MOUNT/OVER=ID MUA0:
>>       The above gives me a list of errors. The OS does not like it at all and IDK how
>> to copy the errors to a file to post them. It wants
>> _BUC$MUA0: . Not MUA0: at all.
> 2 things:
>
> 1) Don't expect later commands to be even slightly useful until AFTER you get the earlier commands working as expected (i.e. the proper ATT TQ -F ANSI-VMS command).
>
> 2) Either _BUC$MUA0: or simply MUA0: will work once you've gotten far enough along.  If it doesn't then please show us exactly what error messages you are receiving.
>
> You seemed to suggest that you were working on a Linux environment, use cut and paste from the xterm session you are running under.  If that's not what you're using, then please explain exactly what's going on.  Since you don't seem to be that familiar with working in this environment, how did you manage to get the license file from where you received the email to the environment you're running simh in?
>
> - Mark

One thing I despise generally Mark is GUIs, I have been working from 
CLI. But I installed the LDXE desktop environment which I don't know 
much about but copy/paste should be simple. LDXE gave me one Hell of a 
time with copy/paste, and absolutely whatever I did would not let me 
select from xterm or the desktop the errors. So I wrote them down and 
will simply copy myself.

sim> att tq -f ansi-vms vmst /* the license file */

Can't open: //mst - no such file or directory.

Can't open tape image.

Of course there might be something I am forgetting and not doing here.

I also type at the prompt in all caps, same result. For example,

ATT -F ANSI-VMS  VMST

Same errors.

Bill