[HECnet] Getting openvms going

[Bill Cunningham]

On 11/14/2019 10:17 PM, Mark Pizzolato wrote:
> On Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 5:12 PM, Bill Cunningham wrote:
>> On 11/13/2019 5:28 PM, Mark Pizzolato wrote:
>>> ...
>>> There are many ways to skin a cat.  Some of these ways have
>>> complicated steps and some have fewer.
>>>
>>> The latest simh has support to simplify the import of licenses,
>>> source code files and other data from the host system environment
>>> using:
>>>
>>> 	1) Extract the license files from the email you received
>>>                       and save them somewhere in your local file system
>>>                      (say Hobbyist-USE-ONLY-VA.TXT and Hobbyist-USE-ONLY-I64.TXT)
>>> 	2) Start the VAX simulator and enter this command:
>>> 		sim> ATTACH TQ -F ANSI-VMS Hobbyist-*
>>       The command above Mark does not seem to work on my VMS at all. I
>> can get it to accept this,
> Notice the "sim> " prompt.  Hopefully that you realize that this
> isn't a VMS command, but a simh command which could either
> be entered manually or be part of your configuration file.
>
>> att tq -F FIXED vmst  /* vmst is a rename of the Hobbyist VA.TXT
>> license, tried the original name it didn't work either */
> I don't know where you got the source code you've compiled into
> the simulator, and you've not show the output of:
>
> 	sim> SHOW VERSION
>
> The latest simh code is available at https://github.com/simh/simh
> which is a git repository.  If you want a zip download, that can be
> had from https://github.com/simh/simh/archive/master.zip
>
>>> 	3) Boot VMS and login on the console and then execute the following
>> commands:
>>> 		$ MOUNT/OVER=ID MUA0:
>>> 		$ @MUA0:Hobbyist-USE-ONLY-VA.TXT
> Once you get the earlier commands correctly (with "ATT TQ -F ANSI-VMS vmst"),
> Since you've renamed the file you're putting on the tape, the above VMS commands will then be:
>
> 	$ MOUNT/OVER=ID MUA0:
     The above gives me a list of errors. The OS does not like it at all 
and IDK how to copy the errors to a file to post them. It wants 
_BUC$MUA0: . Not MUA0: at all.
> 	$ @MUA0:VMST.
>
> Note the trailing period will be required since it seems you renamed
> the "Hobbyist-USE-ONLY-VA.TXT" file "vmst"
>
>>       The OS request I mount the following name,
>>
>> mount /over=id _BUC$MUA0:  /* That it takes but it doesn't work */
>>
>> Ha I am stumped here. I can't remember what all the $ and : mean. And
>> the [] I think mean directory. The numbers after ; I remember are
>> version numbers and that's what purge is for.
> Like, above where I prefixed simulator commands with "sim> ", the
> VMS commands are prefixed with "$ ".  Both are the default prompts
> from the respective environments.
>
> - Mark
>