[Simh] Interdata OS/32 - MTM

[Davis Johnson]

On 2/4/2016 10:27 AM, Don Stalkowski wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 08:24:36PM -0500, Davis Johnson wrote:
>
>> Hard to say. That is probably most of it.
>> Try this:
>> Type 'MTMSGN MAC' at the console prompt. That should create a new mtm using
>> parameters from MTMPARMS.MAC.
>>
>> The usual thing to do is copy MTMPARMS.MAC to your own file, say
>> MTMPARMS.001
> I got:
>
> *MTMSGN MAC
> *
>
> So, tried with MTMPARMS.001:
>
> *MTMSGN 001
> *09:47:13   .BG: CAL MACRO/32 03-339R00-00
> *09:47:13   .BG:  NO ERRORS
> *09:47:13   .BG:END OF TASK     0
> *09:47:13   .BG:CAL/32 03-338R00-00
> *09:47:13   .BG:SVC7 ERROR CODE = 03 FN = 4082 LU =05
> *09:47:13   .BG:TASK PAUSED
> *D TA
> PARM-ERR  POS=TA
> *CANCEL CAL32
> PARM-ERR  POS=CAL32
> *MARK DSC4:,OFF
> STAT-ERR  TYPE=PRIV  POS=OFF
> *
Try "D M" instead of "D TA"
CAL32 is loaded in a special partition named ".BG", so you needed to "CA 
.BG"
Then you should be able to mark off the disc.
This should be the same in 8.1

>
> I guess some useful commands are not in 6.2!
>
> The real issue for me is that in order for the system to be useful
> it should probably be able to execute a high level language like
> Fortran. The Fortran setup routines require MTM. I've tried getting
> some of the languages (Pascal and Fortran) from the Interchange
> tapes to work but concluded they're beyond my skill level.
>
> Don
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