DEC OS/8 Question (getting an error TOO BIG INIT)

Bill Degnan billdegnan at gmail.com
Thu Apr 9 17:10:53 CDT 2020


On Thu, Apr 9, 2020, 6:01 PM David Gesswein via cctech <
cctech at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 03:34:18PM -0400, Bill Degnan wrote:
> > Hi,
> > . FRTS
> >
> > ..dumps me to the * prompt ...
> >
> > *RKB0:ADVENT.LD  [return]
> > *   [esc]
> >
> > rather than loading ADVENTURE I get the following result:
> >
> > D.F. TOO BIG INIT  0000
> > MAIN 1740
> > .
> >
>
> You need to specify the datafiles to use.
>
> .R FRTS
> *RKB0:ADVENT.LD
> *RKB0:ADVENT.TX/1
> *RKB0:ADVENT.DA/2
> *$
> .
>
>
>
> http://www.pdp8online.com/pdp8cgi/os8_html/ADVENT.DC?act=file;fn=images/os8/diag-games-kermit.rk05;blk=2243,9,1;to=auto


Thank you David.  I was able to load the .SV file instead, but I am glad I
now know what was needed.  I think in my pdp 11 I have the same issue.
Bill

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