Works great – thank you!

Bob

From: Keith Halewood [mailto:Keith.Halewood@pitbulluk.org]
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2024 11:08 AM
To: bob@jfcl.com; The Hobbyist DECnet mailing list
Subject: [HECnet] Re: Algol 68 RS at last

Hi,

There’s a saveset named DUNE::ALGOL68RS.SAV. Extract it into your target directory. There’s a README.TXT file there. I believe there’s a dependency on Fortran (6.6) mainly because it apparently slips an update/upgrade of the maths library without which the compiler/runtime has issues. The ‘startup’ command procedure (to be run as part of sys$manager:systartup_vms.com) is very important – a number of logical names are defined, though the image installation as known/shareable is optional.

I’ll generate a .HLP file at some point. It looks as though there wasn’t one.

Keith

From: Robert Armstrong [mailto:bob@jfcl.com]
Sent: 21 January 2024 16:44
To: 'The Hobbyist DECnet mailing list' <hecnet@lists.dfupdate.se>
Subject: [HECnet] Re: Algol 68 RS at last

Keith,

  Do you have savesets?  Can you make them accessible via HECnet?

Thanks,

Bob Armstrong

From: Keith Halewood [mailto:Keith.Halewood@pitbulluk.org]
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2024 4:16 AM
To: The Hobbyist DECnet mailing list
Subject: [HECnet] Algol 68 RS at last

Hi,

Just thought I’d mention that I managed to contact someone who was able to package up and send me a copy of the Algol 68 RS compiler and runtime for VAX/VMS. It works very well under 7.3 and has everything,

including the idiosyncrasies that I remember. Every time I compile something I keep thinking “at last!”

So happy.

Keith