[HECnet] installing LPs on RSX

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-04-28 00:48, Mark Matlock wrote:
> Dave,
>     If you are using the RSX11M+ V4.6 distribution tape, there is a copy of F77 (V5.4 I think) on it already. Look in [246,246]. Also, that tape has DECnet on it as well that works fine with Johnny's TCP/IP software.

Cool. Did the person setting that up also include the layered product 
patches that are included with RSX?

>     Unfortunately, the DECnet on that tape is for non routing nodes, so that complicates direct connection to HECnet. I have not found a RSX11M+ V4.6 routing DECNet distribution.

It don't really complicate any connection to HECnet. You do not need a 
routing node for that, and unless you have some very specific needs, 
routing nodes just means it requires way more CPU and memory usage.

>     You are right on BP2 V2.7 being corrupted. The V2.5 is good though. On the PDP-11 the latest one is corrupt but the earliest one is ok.

V2.7 have some improvements that would be really nice to have, such as 
split I/D space capability...

I have been trying to repair the tape on trailing edge, but there is a 
big library file in there which is just way complicated to figure out...

	Johnny

>
> Mark
>
>> On Apr 27, 2015, at 3:22 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 04/27/2015 06:04 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>>>    Uh-oh...That "HDR1" business looks like part of an ANSI tape label,
>>>> not a filename.  What do you think?
>>>
>>> Definitely a corrupted tape.
>>
>>   Yup...After testing several other images from the trailing-edge
>> archive, I'm finding the same sort of mess.  I knew the BP2 v2.7 image
>> was trashed, but it looks like quite a few others are as well.  The
>> f77_v5_4.tpc one is corrupt too.
>>
>>   What a mess.
>>
>>   Thanks for your help in diagnosing this.
>>
>>   At least some earlier releases are intact, but do you know if any of
>> those newer ones have been archived intact anywhere?  Do you have them?
>>
>>                -Dave
>>
>> --
>> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
>> New Kensington, PA


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