rebuild RSTS/E monitor, was Re: [HECnet] RSTS/E 10.1 and OpenVMS via DECnet

[Cory Smelosky]

On Oct 28, 2012, at 7:11 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

On 10/28/2012 07:03 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
Yes, I started with RSTS/E ~25 years ago...but this is an extremely
simple setup, right off the install tape.   For the life of me I cannot
figure out why you don't have the stuff installed in sysgen$:

Oh wait...when you ran the install, did you select the prebuilt
monitor, or to build a monitor at that time?

Prebuilt, does choosing prebuilt not define certain logicals/install certain tools?

I have never in my life installed a pre-built monitor.   I suspect
what's going on here is that, when installing the pre-built monitor, the
sysgen components (contents of sysgen$:) might not get installed.

I will verify this here and get back to you shortly.

Yep, that was it.

Wow.

Re-run your installl and select 'A', to build a monitor at
installation time.   Then you should see more stuff when you do "dir
sysgen$:".   (and more importantly "run sysgen$:sysgen" ;))

That is really. really weird. I can't see the reasoning behind not installing the utils if you use a prebuilt monitor.


                    -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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