[HECnet] Swedish Pascal under RSX-11M-Plus?

[Supratim Sanyal]

Dave - I have a SIMH Pdp-11/24 RSX-11M-Plus doing nothing - if you want I can give you the system password to do whatever you like if you want to try stuff - I have a backup. 

Best,

Supratim
Germantown, MD

> On Oct 30, 2017, at 9:29 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>  Hey folks.  I'm trying to get "Swedish" Pascal v6.3 running under
> RSX-11M-Plus v4.6, and have hit a problem.  The created PAS.TSK crashes
> on invocation, and I suspect it may be due to a patch that gets applied
> to a library during the build process.  This appears in PAS.BLD:
> 
>        ;
>        ; The above GBLPAT statement patches a branch instruction
>        ; into the system overlay autoload routine AUTO.
>        ; The last few releases of most operating systems have had
>        ; different versions of AUTO.  The proper GBLPAT statement
>        ; to use above depends on which AUTO routine you have on
>        ; your system.  You can identify which one you have by
>        ; examining the object module ident of module AUTO in
>        ; the system object library, SYSLIB.  Use a command such as
>        ; "LBR LB:[1,1]SYSLIB/FU" to do this.  The GBLPAT statements
>        ; to use with each AUTO routine are:
>        ;
>        ;    AUTO ident         GBLPAT statement
>        ;   ============       ==================
>        ;    ??early??         GBLPAT=ROOT:$AUTO+34:437
>        ;      08              GBLPAT=ROOT:$AUTO+34:435
>        ;      09.08           GBLPAT=ROOT:$AUTO+36:441
>        ;      10.02           GBLPAT=ROOT:$AUTO+36:431
>        ;
> 
>  The ident of AUTO in my system is 10.05, making that patch potentially
> land at the wrong address.  However, that's just my suspicion.  Has
> anyone gotten Swedish Pascal v6.3 running under RSX-11M-Plus v4.6?
> 
>            -Dave
> 
> -- 
> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA