Stupid RSX-11M questions

[Rob Brown]

If you were in DCL would you be able to do what you want?

MCR> SET /DCL=TI:

Anyway, for directory listing the entire disk, try:

MCR>PIP TI:=DL:[*,*]/LI
DCL>DIR DL:[*,*]

You may, or may not find something useful if you type HELP at the MCR or
DCL prompt. You may want to try both.

- Rob

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[Craig McCluskey]

Seth J. Morabito wrote:
> The question is, is there ANY way to get a catalog or directory of
> disk contents from this point? I'm in the MCR CLI I guess, and I've
> been able to do the following to get the system up (mostly run
> from the file LB:[1,2]STARTUP.CMD):

You might want to first get a listing of the UICs on the disk:

>DIR [0,0]

This will give a listing of the root of the disk and show all the UICs
plus the special files:

INDEXF.SYS;1 7512. 09-DEC-86 17:08
BITMAP.SYS;1 252. 09-DEC-86 17:08
BADBLK.SYS;1 1. 09-DEC-86 17:08
000000.DIR;1 5. C 09-DEC-86 17:08
CORIMG.SYS;1 0. C 09-DEC-86 17:08
RSX11.SYS;1 3. C 14-DEC-86 12:50

You can't SET /UIC [0,0] because there is no "there" there, but the list
will show all the places to which you can SET /UIC.

> Note: It's acceptable to call me an idiot at this point. But
> help is much more appreciated :)

No, not an idiot. You're just ignorant and uninformed, as we all are,
more or less.

Craig

P.S. I hope the spambots don't get you for having given a valid address.

[Rob Brown]

Seth J. Morabito (set...@ricochet.net) wrote:

: The problem turns out to be that I have a mangled distribution
: of RSX-11M. It is missing the DIRECTORY command, for one thing,
: which made matters rather confusing for me. Once in DCL, Typing
: >DIR
: Simply produces
: DIRECTORY -- Sorry, task not installed

Hmmm. Is DCL installed?

MCR> TAS DCL

Is PIP installed?

MCR> TAS PIP

The DIR command is part of DCL.TSK, (or not if DCL was modified to not
include DIR, which seems unlikely). I don't know if the CLI command would
succeed if DCL.TSK was not installed or not.

However, if PIP were not installed, you would get that exact message from
DIR. I know, because I just tried it on my M+ V4.3 system. PIP could
still work from MCR if the catchall task ...CA. is installed and
configured a certain way.

Install PIP and DCL like this:

MCR> INS $PIP
MCR> INS $DCL/CLI=YES/TASK=...DCL/PRI=160.

[Peter da Silva]

In article <35EE5ED7...@ricochet.net>,

Seth J. Morabito <se...@loomcom.com> wrote:
>The problem turns out to be that I have a mangled distribution
>of RSX-11M. It is missing the DIRECTORY command, for one thing,
>which made matters rather confusing for me. Once in DCL, Typing
> >DIR
>Simply produces
> DIRECTORY -- Sorry, task not installed

I recommend that you not try and do anything interesting in DCL in RSX. It's
not the native CLI, MCR is. PIP is your friend.

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