more RSTS/E strangeness....

[Ron Hudson]

On Sep 17, 2004, at 6:58 AM, Paul Koning wrote:

>>>>>> "Ron" == Ron Hudson <ron.hudson at sbcglobal.net> writes:
>
>  Ron> ooh no it's that Hudson fellow again. Someone take his PDP 11
>  Ron> away, he don't know how to use it..
>
>  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.
>
>     paul
>
>
I have used clean $onlcln while booted to another pack.

I think it's something in the way I use teco or pip...