8 Jul
2020
8 Jul
'20
6:45 p.m.
MIM to the rescue! -- or, sort of..
On the MIM manuals page, there is the Fortran-77 T5.4 installation
manual. As it turns out, this update needs to be installed from tape
using the auto-instal mechanism.
The first step in this procedure, according to the manual, is to restore
the auto-installer script from the tape using BRU. But-? BRU is not
present on my V10.1 system.
I thought BRU would be part of the "RSX Utilities" package, but it is not.
So, the question has changed to "Where is BRU when you need her?"
/*Wilm*
Wilm Boerhout schreef op 7-7-2020 om 13:48:
In the meantime, I succesfully installed Fortran 77
V5.3 on RSTS 10.1
The tape file has the same origin as the V5.4 tape,
ftp://ftp.trailing-edge.com/pub/rsts_dists/
As it turns out, the V5.4 tape file is neither an INSTAL nor an UPDATE
tape image. (@[0,1]UPDATE FRTRN77 fails with the same error message).
/Wilm
Wilm Boerhout schreef op 6-7-2020 om 16:09:
I'm trying to get the Fortran-77 compiler
installed on PIRSTS:: ,
which is a working system on HECnet.
I have a TPC-formatted tape image with the name fortran-77_v5_4.tap
When I mount that tape, these are the contents:
$ mount mu0: F77504 %Device is write protected Density is 135 Tape is
in ANSI format $ dir mu0: Name .Typ Size Name .Typ Size Name .Typ
Size MU0: AUT101.A * 244 P AUTVER.BCK* 1 P F77F77.BCK* 3 P
F77REL.BCK* 7 P F77504.A * 407 P Total of 662 blocks in 5 files in MU0:
Also, during the installation I copied all layered product patches to
PATCH$, including what looks like patches for this version of
Fortran-77:
$ dir patch$:f*.*
Name .Typ Size Prot Name .Typ Size Prot SY:[0,200] FALDBG.TSK 225C
<232> FALOVL.TSK 213C <232> FALRLB.TSK 80C <232> FEDLIB.OLB 118 <
60>
FEDTKB.CMD 1 < 60> FEDTKB.ODL 2 < 60> FMS .01L 0 < 60> FMS .COM 38 <
60> FMS .DOC 3 < 60> FORTRA.01L 0 < 60> F77 .DOC 6 < 60> F77504.DAT
3
< 60> F77COM.OBJ 24 < 60> FRTRN7.01L 0 < 60> Total of 713 blocks in
14 files in SY:[0,200]
However, when I try to instal Fortran-77 (@[0,1]INSTAL FRTRN77) at
some point the installer ties to mount the tape and fails with:
?ID labels don't match
Looking at the INSTAL.COM script, I believe it expects a label
"FRTRN7", whereas the tape is labeled F77504.
This string also appears as a file name in the PATCH$ directory and
as a file on the tape itself.
Clearly, there is a mismatch between the installer and the tape image
(but more likely, in my head)
Did anybody successfully install Fortran-77 on RSTS V10.1L ? How, and
using what tape image?
*/Wilm*