17 Sep
2018
17 Sep
'18
3:01 p.m.
On Sep 14, 2018, at 5:26 PM, Keith Halewood
<Keith.Halewood at pitbulluk.org> wrote:
Hi,
I?ve been playing with RSTS/E for a short while, particularly BASIC PLUS. I?ve noted
that, logged into account [1,2] I can issue HELP from within BASIC and it?s all fine. From
a non-privileged account I created, HELP within BASIC gives me a ??Protection violation?
but it seems that all the .HLP files relevant to BASIC have the correct <40> file
protection. Am I missing something? Any help would be appreciated.
Regards,
Keith
"help" is most likely a CCL command -- a command defined, typically at startup,
that is handled by executing a program.
You're right that the actual content in in the *.hlp files, and they need to be
protected <40> for that to work. But in addition, the program that handles the
command has to be executable by non-privileged users. So look in [0,*] or [1,2] for a
help.* file (help.tsk, help.bac, help.sav perhaps). It has to be executable (64 bit set
in the protection code). So a typical protection code would be 104.
paul