[HECnet] SCSISE adapter -> listings

[Cory Smelosky]

On 14 Jan 2013, at 11:51, lee.gleason at comcast.net wrote:

   I wrote the original patches for Monitor that enabled those hidden classes, and the Pagewapper article that detailed how to apply them

   I haven't had an opportunity to check on newer versions of VMS, but it's trivial to see if at least some   support is still there for them.

   On a VMS system, try  

$ MON ETHERNET

or any of the other undocumented monitor classes. Then try   a command that definitely isn't going to be there

$ MON NOTTHERE

   If the error messages are different - then at least some of the support for the undocumented classes is still there.


MISSY::SYSTEM$ monitor ethernet
MONITOR> exit
MISSY::SYSTEM$ monitor notthere
%MONITOR-E-INVCLSNM, class-name "NOTTHERE" is invalid or not uniquely identified

This is on VMS 8.4.

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From: "H Vlems" <hvlems at zonnet.nl>
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 2:21:30 PM
Subject: RE: [HECnet] SCSISE adapter -> listings

Brian,
Speaking of source listings, VMS V4.<mumble> had a "secret" patch for
MONITOR.EXE. It enabled the monitor class Ethernet. Is that code still
hidden in MONITOR?
The MONITOR utility was written in PL/I at the time. Probably rewritten,
right?
Hans

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