7 Mar
2008
7 Mar
'08
7:26 a.m.
paramucho wrote:
MACRO V5.05 crashed on 4-Mar-2008.
It's a coding bug. MACRO was bit clearing a 5-bit rather than 4-bit
field for the month. The fix:
Loc Old New
62160 177740 177760
For other versions you're looking for this sequence:
Old New
000315
006215
006215
042725
177740 177760
010015
Jerome Fine replies:
This post appeared on alt.sys.pdp11 and vmsnet.pdp-11 on
Monday, March 3rd, 2008. While it fixes the bug for the month,
the year is still incorrect.
By the way, I can make available a full Y2K fix for V05.05 of MACRO
which includes a 4 digit year - as opposed to DEC's version which only
supports a 2 digit year. Just over a dozen words need to be modified,
so an SLP file is probably the way to submit it. Naturally, the patch
includes the above modification along with checking the rest of the
year in the date word.
Is there sufficient interest in having the patch? I have not found any
interest in fixing bugs in RT-11, let alone in enhancements. Let
me know. I can also produce Y2K bug fixes for DIR, PIP, IND,
LINK, LIBR, etc.
I use a free read only server to monitor a few text only news groups.
Does anyone know of a free server that I can use to post a few times
a year to news groups? Can anyone forward a post for me instead?
I would request that you "modify" my e-mail address to prevent spam.
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine
7 Mar
7 Mar
2:05 p.m.
Jerome H. Fine wrote:
When I run my PDP-11s I set the date back in the late 80s or early
90s. It just seems much more appropriate.
paramucho
wrote:
MACRO V5.05 crashed on 4-Mar-2008.
It's a coding bug. MACRO was bit clearing a 5-bit rather than 4-bit
field for the month. The fix:
Loc Old New
62160 177740 177760
For other versions you're looking for this sequence:
Old New
000315
006215
006215
042725
177740 177760
010015
Jerome Fine replies:
This post appeared on alt.sys.pdp11 and vmsnet.pdp-11 on
Monday, March 3rd, 2008. While it fixes the bug for the month,
the year is still incorrect.
By the way, I can make available a full Y2K fix for V05.05 of MACRO
which includes a 4 digit year - as opposed to DEC's version which only
supports a 2 digit year. Just over a dozen words need to be modified,
so an SLP file is probably the way to submit it. Naturally, the patch
includes the above modification along with checking the rest of the
year in the date word.
Is there sufficient interest in having the patch? I have not found any
interest in fixing bugs in RT-11, let alone in enhancements. Let
me know. I can also produce Y2K bug fixes for DIR, PIP, IND,
LINK, LIBR, etc.
I use a free read only server to monitor a few text only news groups.
Does anyone know of a free server that I can use to post a few times
a year to news groups? Can anyone forward a post for me instead?
I would request that you "modify" my e-mail address to prevent spam.
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine
3:27 p.m.
Don North wrote:
Jerome Fine
replies:
By the way, I can make available a full Y2K fix for V05.05 of MACRO
which includes a 4 digit year - as opposed to DEC's version which only
supports a 2 digit year. Just over a dozen words need to be modified,
so an SLP file is probably the way to submit it. Naturally, the patch
includes the above modification along with checking the rest of the
year in the date word.
Is there sufficient interest in having the patch? I have not found any
interest in fixing bugs in RT-11, let alone in enhancements. Let
me know. I can also produce Y2K bug fixes for DIR, PIP, IND,
LINK, LIBR, etc.
When I run my PDP-11s I set the date back in the late 80s or early
90s. It just seems much more appropriate. 
3:40 p.m.
Jerome H. Fine wrote:
I think that VMS has sufficient capacity until about
the
year 24,000.
There was an SPR raised (apparently) for the 4-digit year field that
permeates much of the code. "Will be fixed some time before
31-DEC-9999" was the gist of the answer!
Actually I think there are other buglets that bite before then.
When DECnis was being tested for Y2K, they also had to
do some testing for Y3K and I think they didn't do Y4K
because of some issue or other that cropped up.
Has anyone setup OpenVMS on SIMH, set the date to
27-FEB-4000 and rebooted?
Antonio
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2:14 p.m.
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 4:26 AM, Jerome H. Fine <jhfinedp3k at compsys.to> wrote:
I use a free read only server to monitor a few text only news groups.
Does anyone know of a free server that I can use to post a few times
a year to news groups? Can anyone forward a post for me instead?
I would request that you "modify" my e-mail address to prevent spam.
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine
http://dotsrc.org/usenet/
John
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