Fwd: RSTS strange problem

[Ron Hudson]

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 at sbcglobal.net>
> Date: September 17, 2004 10:01:06 PM PDT
> To: Classic Computers <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Subject: RSTS strange problem
> Reply-To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" 
> <cctalk at 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?)
>