[HECnet] installing LPs on RSX

[Mark Matlock]

Johnny,
   I don't recall if the layered product patches were there or not. I am on the road and I was able to verify the F77 compiler version:
>F77 /ID                                                                       F77 -- PDP-11 FORTRAN-77 V5.4-26      

Does the -26 indicate a patch level?

  Thanks for the info on non-routed DECnet and HECnet. I may have had some other issue going on and need to work on getting connected again.

   BP2 with I/D space would be worth some effort to bring back from extinction. With the high speed of Simh and E11 with modern CPUs, if one could figure out a way to reassemble the tape blocks in the various combinations the see if BRU could read it successfully or not in some automated way, then just let the CPU have at it. It can't be worse than breaking the Enigma code in World War II.

    Also, I meant to say that the PDP-11 C V1.2 is corrupt but the V1.1 is okay as I recall. Also, DECUS C works quite well, but I don't recall which DECUS tape it is on.

Mark

> On Apr 27, 2015, at 4:02 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
>> 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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