19 Nov
2019
19 Nov
'19
2:05 a.m.
On Monday, November 18, 2019 at 11:19 AM, Bill Cunningham wrote:
On 11/18/2019 1:53 PM, Mark Pizzolato wrote:
That was your typing error since I asked you enter "DO TQ_TEST.ini"
instead of "DO DQ_TEST.ini".
Hi Bill,
On Monday, November 18, 2019 at 10:40 AM, Bill Cunningham wrote:
having you summarize what happened into
phrases like "Your TQ method is
showing more than anything "//mst" when I would try the vmst license".
This
gives me no information and is at best a rumor of a problem. It is hard to
respond to rumors that lack any detail.
On 11/18/2019 1:10 AM, Mark Pizzolato wrote:
It is really frustrating for me
not be able to see what you are seeing and Where did you end up with this? Did you use a
newly built binary
from the
latest source and at least get reasonable error messages when it was
not able to access files you mentioned?
If so, were you able to actually attach the VMS
license file and
then access it
within a running VMS OS?
- Mark
I can't remember the source code really. I think it might have come
from the https://simh.trailing-edge.com website. That's all I
remember pulling any code from other than git. I believe their code
is older. I have not loaded my license because I would have to have
done it the old way which is fine with me. Thing is it's been so
long I forget how to do it and though I'm run into some old notes
over the last day or so, on paper, They aren't giving detail I need
now. I have been able to run genisoimage and load the license into a
ISO but forget vax's device names and such to load the ISO into the
vms simulated enviornment and change the attribs and run '@' to load
the license. I am just sure it would work. My memory is just gone :(
??? Your TQ
method is showing more than anything "//mst" when I
would try the vmst license . It's like it's not reading the first
char.? I know 'set <dev> cdrom' would be used. The <dev> and mount
<dev> and attrb switching I can't remember seems like it was as
simple as stm to stmlf. A simple line feed toggle.
1) Please save ALL of the following lines into a file on your Linux system called
TQ_TEST.ini in the same directory as your vmst file.
SET CONSOLE -N LOG=TQ_TEST.log
SHOW VERSION
DIR vmst
ATTACH TQ -FV ANSI-VMS vmst
EXIT
2) Please run your vax simulator (in the same directory as your vmst file).
Enter this command at the sim> prompt:
DO TQ_TEST.ini
3) When it exits, please send back 2 things:
a) The TQ_TEST.log
b) The configuration file you use when run VMS in this simulator.
Thanks.
- Mark
OK when I typed "do DQ_TEST.ini"
I got a file error, file does not exist. here, is the log file, DQ_TEST.LOG
Logging to file "TQ_TEST.LOG"
Logging to file "TQ_TEST.LOG" at Mon Nov 18 14:01:36 2019
sim> sho version
MicroVAX 3900 simulator V4.0-0 Current
??? Simulator Framework Capabilities:
??????? 64b data
??????? 64b addresses
??????? Threaded Ethernet Packet transports:PCAP:TAP:NAT:UDP
??????? Idle/Throttling support is available
??????? Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) support
??????? RAW disk and CD/DVD ROM support
??????? Asynchronous I/O support (Lock free asynchronous event queue)
??????? Asynchronous Clock support
??????? FrontPanel API Version 12
??? Host Platform:
??????? Compiler: GCC 8.3.1 20190223 (Red Hat 8.3.1-2)
??????? Simulator Compiled as C arch: x64 (Release Build) on Nov 16
2019 at 19:46:12
??????? Memory Access: Little Endian
??????? Memory Pointer Size: 64 bits
??????? Large File (>2GB) support
??????? SDL Video support: No Video Support
??????? RegEx support for EXPECT commands
??????? OS clock resolution: 1ms
??????? Time taken by msleep(1): 1ms
??????? Ethernet packet info: libpcap version 1.9.1 (with TPACKET_V3)
??????? Time taken by msleep(1): 1ms
??????? OS: Linux local 5.3.6-100.fc29.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Oct 14
21:48:12 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
??????? git commit id: 318b0e32
??????? git commit time: 2019-11-16T00:39:01-08:00
sim> dir vmst
?Directory of /
11/18/2019? 02:00 PM??????????? 79,508 mst
?????????????? 1 File(s)??????????? 79,508 bytes
?????????????? 0 Dir(s)
sim> att tq -fv ansi-vms vmst
Can't stat: //mst
Can't open ANSI-VMS format tape image: vmst
sim> ex
Too few arguments
sim> q
Goodbye
Log file closed
Very interesting. Of course, I've never sat and had a simulator mess with files in
the root directory (/) so I never saw this bug in the file scanning code. I suspect that
if you move the license file to another directory, things will work just fine. Now that
I've actually seen the failure it is easily reproduced (having nothing specific to do
with the ANSI-VMS logic - it was demonstrated by the DIR command which uses the same
internal file name scanning). If you pick up the latest code and rebuild the simulator,
you can keep your files in the root directory if you want. :-).
Once you get that far, the:
ATT TQ -F ANSI-VMS vmst
Will work, and then once VMS is running and you've logged in:
$ MOUNT/OVER=ID MUA0:
$ COPY MUA0:VMST. SYS$LOGIN:
$ @SYS$LOGIN:VMST.
This will install the licenses cleanly. It seems that VMS's DCL execution can't
handle command procedures run directly from magtape that have IF THEN ELSE statements in
them, hence the need to copy the file to disk first.
- Mark