27 May
2019
27 May
'19
7:26 p.m.
On May 27, 2019, at 2:15 PM, Glen Slick via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 10:37 AM Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
It appears that the first two errors are related to a Y2K issue.
The third error appears to be related to "OMS$:REQLOG.OMS". I barely
know my way around RSTS/E and don't know what that might be without
further investigation.
From start.log:
$ ! *** Start Operator/Message Services ***
$ !
$ OMS_ON := FALSE
$ _write 0 f$time()+ " Starting Operator/Message Services"
27-May-19 11:04 AM Starting Operator/Message Services
$ Today = F$Left(F$CVTime(), 8)
$ Today = F$Left(F$CVTime(), 8)
?Invalid time
Looks like f$cvtime is failing, that's presumably a Y2K issue.
Proceed with system startup? <YES>
Beginning RSTS/E system startup...
19.05.27 09:50 Installing monitor overlays
19.05.27 09:50 Mounting disks
19.05.27 09:50 Assigning logical names
19.05.27 09:50 Starting error logging
19.05.27 09:50 Setting system characteristics
27-May-19 09:50 AM Installing run-time systems and libraries
27-May-19 09:50 AM Starting Operator/Message Services
?Invalid time
?Undefined symbol
?Undefined symbol
This says there's some stuff in your start.com that RSTS is not happy with, but
it's not clear what that might be. It doesn't seem to cause any real problems.
$ File = F$Left(Today, 2) + F$Mid(Today, 4, 2) +
F$Right(Today, 7)
$ File = F$Left(Today, 2) + F$Mid(Today, 4, 2) + F$Right(Today, 7)
^
?Undefined symbol
"today" is undefined because the previous line was supposed to define it but
failed.
$ _if F$Search("OMS$:REQLOG.OMS") .nes.
"" Then -
Continue: _Rename/NoWarn OMS$:REQLOG.OMS 'File'
$ _if F$Search("OMS$:REQLOG.OMS") .nes. "" Then
_Rename/NoWarn
OMS$:REQLOG.OMS 'File'
^
?Undefined symbol
"file" is undefined because the line that defined it got an error.
So it looks like an error cascade started with a Y2K bug. You might try starting with a
20th century date like 1999, I'd expect it to be clean then.
paul