[HECnet] "illegal record size" in RSX?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-04-15 19:39, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons wrote:
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>> By the way, I hope you know that the BP2 V2.7 tape on trailing-edge is corrupt... The V2.5 tape is OK though.
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> IIRC it is necessary to hack a little bit the install command procedure of 2.5, since it invokes a small task builder which is not present in 4.6 M+.

Thanks for that reminder.
Yes, it probably uses STB, which is not the "small task builder", but 
the "slow task builder". And, while being slow, it can also deal with 
larger tasks.
The "small" task builder would be FTB, which is the "fast task builder", 
which have a somewhat more limited capability, but works fine for most 
normal tasks.

STB was dropped at some point, as the normal TKB started having the same 
capacity. And in M+ V4.6 you also have HFT, which is the hyper fast task 
builder. This one consumes much more memory, but have the same 
capabilities as TKB, but is much faster.

For BP2 V2.5, it might be enough to just install TKB (or HFT) with the 
task name of ...STB, and you'd be good. I haven't check if that is 
enough, though. Depends on if the installation tries to do something 
clever or not...

	Johnny