3 Sep
2026
3 Sep
'26
8:42 a.m.
Jon,
If the task isn't installed (INS $BRU for example) you have to use run. If
the task has been installed, you don't.
I believe it is the same in RSX-11M, at least from my limited experience
with it.
So for example, I modified my TSTBLD.CMD to test if my task has been
installed in the beginning, and if so remove it.
Then at the end I do INS TEST and since I have TASK=...TST in the TKB file,
it becomes accessible just as TST, no run needed anymore.
- Peter
On Thu, Sep 3, 2026 at 11:33 AM Jon Elson via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On 9/2/26 21:40, Chris Elmquist via cctalk wrote:
Do you need to,
run test.tsk
as opposed to,
run test
?
What if you “run foo” and foo is nowhere to be found, does it complain
or just silently return to the prompt?
I haven’t been on RSX since about 1981 so be gentle HA HA
I have never used RSX-11M+, but used RSX-11M for a number of
years. I don't remember having to type "run" to run a
program. I think executables were XYZ.EXE and you just
typed the XYZ at the prompt and the OS ran it.
Jon