[HECnet] RSTS/E 10.1 BASIC-2-PLUS problem

[Keith Halewood]

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the info. Other than help.hlp, there is only help.tsk in [0,2] and it has protection <232> (privileged, execute, world readonly, group+owner read/write)
After a backup, I’ll do some further experimentation.

Regards

Keith

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On Sep 14, 2018, at 5:26 PM, Keith Halewood <Keith.Halewood at pitbulluk.org<mailto:Keith.Halewood at pitbulluk.org>> wrote:

Hi,

I’ve been playing with RSTS/E for a short while, particularly BASIC PLUS. I’ve noted that, logged into account [1,2] I can issue HELP from within BASIC and it’s all fine. From a non-privileged account I created, HELP within BASIC gives me a ‘?Protection violation’ but it seems that all the .HLP files relevant to BASIC have the correct <40> file protection. Am I missing something? Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,

Keith

"help" is most likely a CCL command -- a command defined, typically at startup, that is handled by executing a program.

You're right that the actual content in in the *.hlp files, and they need to be protected <40> for that to work.  But in addition, the program that handles the command has to be executable by non-privileged users.  So look in [0,*] or [1,2] for a help.* file (help.tsk, help.bac, help.sav perhaps).  It has to be executable (64 bit set in the protection code).  So a typical protection code would be 104.

            paul


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