18 Sep
2004
18 Sep
'04
9:49 p.m.
More info..
I can edit files if I am logged in as 100,1 but if I change files in
1,2 they disappear at running $shutup. I visited the computer history
museum today and showed someone there the problem, and they
suggested I "crash" the system instead of running shutup... tty.cmd
remained afterward. It seems
like shutup is doing somthing to try to protect the system by deleteing
an edited system file.
Other History...
Ron> There is a problem when I am logged to my
RSTS/E(simh) in as
Ron> [1,2].
Ron> I recently have been trying to edit my tty.cmd file, I am using
Ron> teco, I edit the file making a change, I save the file with the
Ron> teco command ex$$, ($=escape). Once out of teco I type tty.cmd
Ron> to verify my changes. I then use pip to copy tty.cmd to tty.bak
Ron> and tty.old .
Ron> Then I shutdown RSTS/E and restart - to make sure my changes
Ron> work.
Ron> On reboot RSTS can't run tty.cmd - claims it can't even find it.
Ron> Of course the startup procedure stops at that point so a lot of
Ron> other things don't get done (loading error managers, spool
Ron> managers, batch manager and defining CCL are the main things)
Ron> While in this state directory (run $direct) cant find tty.* none
Ron> of the tty files I copied remain..
Ron> I even tried saving a file named cmd.tty and it vanished too.
Ron> I type a new tty.cmd from scratch (using teco or pip) and reboot
Ron> and now **all** of them are back.
Ron> 8^P What's up?
Sounds like a corrupt file structure.
Try the "clean" option in INIT (Refresh command) at boot.
I did try this, it does not seem to help.
paul
Begin forwarded message:
From: Ron Hudson <ron.hudson(a)sbcglobal.net>
Date: September 17, 2004 10:01:06 PM PDT
To: Classic Computers <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Subject: RSTS strange problem
Reply-To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Ok,
I have repeated it again... and typed out all the files before I
rebooted - they disappeared again.
I ran option:RES Clean then booted again. They were still gone.
It's funny that all the files I touched disappeared..
Perhaps this is a clue... What is SY0: as contrast to SY: and DL0:
(all the same drive?)