[Simh] TOPS-10 question

[Rich Alderson]

> From: Quentin North <quentin at quentin.org.uk>
> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 22:15:05 +0000

> Im trying to get the BCPL compiler on TOPS-10 going and I have the install CTL
> file which sets out the following pre-requisites:

> ; THE FOLLOWING MODS TO THE SYSTEM/CUSPS ARE ESSENTIAL TO THE SMOOTH  ;
> ; RUNNING OF BCPL PROGRAMS:                                           ;
> ;                                                                     ;
> ; 1. CHECK THE CODE IN LINK RECOGNISES COMPILER CODE #13 AS REQUIRING ;
> ;    SYS:BCPLIB.REL AS THE DEFAULT LIBRARY. CODE IS IN LINK V2 ONWARD.;
> ; 2. CHECK COMPIL RECOGNISES THE EXTENSION .BCL AND .BCP AS REQUIRING ;
> ;    THE BCPL COMPILER. COM22C.SCM IS A FILCOM FILE OF NECESSARY MODS.;
> ; 3. GET A BCPL LIBRARY AREA BCL: ALLOCATED AND KNOWN TO THE MONITOR.

> Items 1 & 2 are relatively straight forward, but Im a complete novice on
> tops-10 and cannot seem to find out how to set up a new library as BCL: and
> known to the monitor. Can anyone familiar with the o/s give me any pointers?

You have to add an entry to the "Level D GETTAB Table" in COMMOD.MAC and build
a new monitor.  However, there is a place to do this in the MONGEN dialog, so
it's not too onerous.

                                                                Rich