[HECnet] simh vax version
Paul Koning
paulkoning at comcast.net
Fri Nov 15 11:27:42 PST 2019
> On Nov 15, 2019, at 2:05 PM, Bill Cunningham <bill.cu at suddenlink.net> wrote:
>
> ...
> sim> att tq -f ansi-vms vmst /* the license file */
>
> Can't open: //mst - no such file or directory.
>
> Can't open tape image.
>
> Of course there might be something I am forgetting and not doing here.
>
> I also type at the prompt in all caps, same result. For example,
>
> ATT -F ANSI-VMS VMST
>
> Same errors.
>
> Bill
I wonder if the SIMH command parser gets confused by the hyphen in the file name. The message makes it look like it's mistaking -v for a switch, so it's parsing it as if it were:
sim> att tq -f ansi -v ms vmst
which would of course be a problem. Try removing the - or replacing it by an underscore.
paul
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