[HECnet] Getting openvms going

[Bill Cunningham]

On 11/14/2019 12:14 AM, Mark Pizzolato wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 13, 2019 at 4:46 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>> On 11/13/2019 7:18 PM, Mark Pizzolato wrote:
>>>> On 11/13/19 6:31 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>>>>>> The "HELP TQ ATTACH" command should help with more detail.
>>>>> I tried "H tq att". Didn't work, humm I think I have 3.9. I will
>>>>> look for a newer version.
>>>>      You may need to build from source; I suspect that new tape mode
>>>> is a fairly recent addition.  Package repositories are notorious for
>>>> lagging months or years behind, and simh is under fairly rapid
>>>> development these days.  (thanks Mark!)
>>>>
>>>>                 -Dave
>>>> Hum ok I compiled simh-master.zip. The source I had I compiled using
>>>> gcc was from http://simh.trailing-edge.com so it might've been old.
>>>> This newer one is slower but I see the new help tq attach options.
>>> What do you mean by "slower".  Slower by a second  or so to get to an
>>> initial sim> prompt, or slower to execute instructions?
>>>
>>> - Mark
>> Running on linux starting it up all kinds of printing binary you are running.
> What does "printing binary" mean?

"You'll now notice that later attach operations of
VMS (and most other OS disk images) will announce the disk label
and it's file system size when you attach a disk that has a ODS1,
ODS2, RT11, Ultrix partition table, on it."

This is what I meant by "printing binary". This above is a quote from later in your message. I meant the binary, the compiled executable, now prints these things you mentioned. Printing "announcements" of the compiled binary executable, compiled in ELF in my case.

HTH

Bill

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