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<p>VMS testing is largely complete and resulted in a number of
tweaks. This was particularly the case for logging as VMS
appeared to be more productized in this area. I picked up a
number of good ideas, most of which I've implemented. I also had
a rather glaring omission; I had completely forgotten to implement
restrictions on <font size="+1"><tt>PRINT</tt></font>... There
was also a problem of properly reporting error codes; in some
cases, a wildcard request could come back from the 20 with no
indication whatsoever that all the candidate files were rejected
due to lexical restrictions. The workaround gives a result, but
apparently imperfectly (see below).<br>
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<p>RSX testing has been quite interesting. It seems that the 20
doesn't appear have <u>ever</u> reported month formats properly.
The DAP 5.6 specification appears to be neutral in certain areas
as to case sensitivity. Most importantly, the case of a month is
not made explicit, although the abbreviations are uppercase. The
20 uses a monitor call (<font size="+1"><tt>ODTIM%</tt></font>) to
convert from the 36 bit internal format to text, yielding
capitalized months. So, instead of <b><font size="+1"><tt>DEC</tt></font></b>
for a month, you get <b><font size="+1"><tt>Dec</tt></font></b>.
RSX is sensitive to this and reports all dates and times as zero.
It was an easy fix to uppercase everything. Kudos to Johnny for
an amazing guess in that area.</p>
<p>Of more concern is the fact that certain results from the 20 can
cause the RSX DAP client (NFT) to go into an Infinite Loop,
necessitating an abort! This is suspected to be incorrect error
reporting on the 20's side. So I've got some digging to do in
that area. I'll get to that in a few days; I had a few more
access restrictions that I wanted to implement to give additional
granularity.</p>
<p>I'm hopeful for some RSTS results in the not too distant future.<br>
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