5 Nov
2021
5 Nov
'21
11:59 a.m.
FWIW, you don't actually need to do a MONGEN in
this case, assuming you've previously done one and you're not changing any
selections. Just skip straight to relinking...
Yup! Those instructions were originally written for someone doing a new
installation, hence the need to run a MONGEN too as they had to setup several
parameters. For example, I have used it to configure DECnet and LAT, change
the default buffer size and hello timer, and so on... :)
12. Copy the
new monitor to the system directory giving it some unique name:
.COPY SYS:MYMON.EXE=DSK:SYSTEM.EXE
This works fine, however the other common option is to copy your new monitor to [1,5].
On TOPS-10, [1,5] is NEW:, [1,4] is SYS: and [1,3] is OLD:. At the BOOT> prompt you
can simply type "[1,5]" (assuming you used the name SYSTEM.EXE) and BOOTS will
load the new one. If all is well, then you rename the [1,4]SYSTEM.EXE to [1,3], and then
[1,5]SYSTEM.EXE to [1,4]. In the future BOOTS will load the one from [1,4] by default,
and if you ever find that you need to go back then you can tell BOOTS "[1,3]"
and it'll load the old one.