[Simh] DZ and VH device oddities under RSTS/E 10.1

[Wilm Boerhout]

Christian Gauger-Cosgrove mentioned  on 3-6-2011 19:22:
> Hello fellow SIMH users:
>
> I'm having an odd issue running RSTS/E under the PDP-11 emulator. I'm
> using the current version, with the interim corrections added. When I
> have the '11 running with the VH or DZ devices, if a connection drops
> and a user remains logged in, I can reconnect and be placed on the
> non-logged out user's session. I am assuming that I might have to edit
> the START.COM file in RSTS/E but I am unsure. The VH devices is set to
> modem mode though I am unsure of whether to use DHU or DHV mode. The
> DZ unit is attached for modem control and auto-disconnect (i.e.
> "attach -am dz<port num>").
>
> The START.COM file in RSTS/E 10.1 currently has - in the system config
> portion - "SET SYSTEM/HANGUP=IMMEDIATE" so it's not that RSTS/E is
> waiting forever for the connection loss timer to timeout, it's either
> ignoring the lost connection or not getting the information from the
> device. The terminal characteristics section of the START.COM file
> only has the operator console and batch pseudo-device configured, none
> of the other lines are set up.
>
> Any on have any suggestions as to how to correct this behaviour?
>
>
> ...Also does any one have a printset for RSTS/E 10.1, as well as the
> documents on how to install the layered products (specifically BP2,
> MAIL and FORTRAN 77)? When I installed BASIC-PLUS 2 it installed and
> ran perfectly. When I rebooted it "lost" the BP2 commands which I had
> to manually re-install. Is there some way of permanently installing
> the commands? (Same happened with MAIL. ...And I can't get the
> FORTRAN-77 compiler to install either... mostly because I don't know
> the tape label. And it won't let me mount it without the tape label.)
> This isn't that high a priority.
>
>
> Thanks and cheers to everyone.
>
> -- Christian M. Gauger-Cosgrove
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I'm not too familiar with V10 of RSTS/E, but have encountered a similar 
problem with V9. I believe it's even in the SIMH arcvhives somewhere.

Modem support has to be built in when generating the RSTS/E monitor SIL. 
If you don't answer "YES" to the relevant question in the SYSGEN 
dialogue, RSTS will never know that it should pick up modem signals.

/Wilm