[Simh] os8 simh getting space.pa running

[Christian Buchegger]

Rob,

find below an except,  from my personal notes I have taken when compiling 
the Pascal compiler mentioned below.
Tha major issue was a CR/LF mismatch I faced because I used windows as host 
system.

As an explanation to the symptom you are seeing is that the os8 editor 
manages big source codes in units of pages marked by <FF>.
This requires special treatment on every page end.

Hope this helps,
Christian


Pascal Compiler

Sources for the compiler can be found at: http://www.dbit.com/pub/pdp8/.
A PAL8 version is 
http://www.dbit.com/pub/pdp8/nickel/langs/pascal/ascii/pascal.pa.

It can be read into the simultor by attaching this ascii file to the PTR 
device:

att ptr pascal.pa

--

.R PIP
*PASCAL.PA<PTR:

.R PAL8
*PASCAL<PASCAL


However at the present I receive a compiling error: PH 0200.
Answer: 
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp8/os8/AA-H610A-TA_os8errMsg_mar79.pdf 
... non matching angle brackets "<" ">"

resolved: The issue was likely caused by missing/wrong line terminators; a 
simple save by the editor resolved the issue.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <rob at merrittnet.org>
To: <simh at trailing-edge.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 12:29 AM
Subject: [Simh] os8 simh getting space.pa running


> Hi All,
>
> I have a LINUX machine running os8 via simh pdp8 and I tried
>
> .CREATE SPACE.PA
> #A
>
> then just pasted the input into the screen eventually it overflows so I 
> can
> get a "big" PAL program like spacewar into the filesystem what are my
> options?
>
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