First VAX-11/730 VMS Boot! (was: Re: VAX-11/730 %BOOT-F-Unexpected Machine Check)

[Mark J. Blair]

Thanks! I'll look up all of those commands to understand them better. 

^Y looks familiar. I think this is the second time I have learned about it. :)

> On Jun 13, 2015, at 18:40, Jerry Weiss <jsw at ieee.org> wrote:
> 
> If you are running backup and it is asking for additional tapes, then I believe you can do the following
> 
> ^Y
> $spawn
> $
> $reply/enable=all
> 
> initialize additional tapes as needed  (prior tape should have rewound…)
> mount tape
> 
> $reply/to=MESSAGEID
> $exit
> $continue        
> 
> 
> 
> Jerry Weiss  WB9MRI
> jsw at ieee.org
> 
> 
> 
>> On Jun 13, 2015, at 8:04 PM, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks! I will try that out. 
>> 
>>>> On Jun 13, 2015, at 18:01, Glen Slick <glen.slick at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:
>>>> Thanks, I will read that. But how do I enter the reply command when the BACKUP program is hogging the console? Is there a VMS equivalent to the way a task can be suspended in UNIX with ^Z?
>>> 
>>> I'm no expert, but I think you can sometimes do ^Y, and then CONTINUE,
>>> but only if you only execute built-in commands between the ^Y and the
>>> CONTINUE.
>