[HECnet] TOPS-10 D-Day, DECnet failure on November 9th is less than six days away

I have been working with Bob recently to bring the fix up on VENTI:: to prevent the imminent COM911 BUGHLT. We've both been hampered by some domestic duties and what I refuse to call "forgetfulness" in the particulars of generating a Tops-10 monitor.? Neither one of us has done it in ...'awhile'... It turns out that a MONGEN is unnecessary because the system configuration doesn't need to change.? You do need to rebuild TOPS10.REL, however.? Fortunately, with a small hack, the fix can be directly patched the monitor with FILDDT. You want to modify two instructions at NMXTIM+13 from: NMXTIM+12/?? IDIV T3,TICSEC *NMXTIM+13/?? SKIPL T2** **NMXTIM+14/?? TDNE T1,COMCAW+10* NMXTIM+15/?? XCT COM911 ?To: NMXTIM+12/?? IDIV T3,TICSEC *NMXTIM+13/?? MOVMS T2****NMXTIM+14/?? TDZA T1,COMCAW+10* NMXTIM+15/?? XCT COM911 So doing that will keep you from crashing.? You can probably even deposit them right into the running monitor, if you're careful enough (one hesitates to say, 'toggle'...)