[Simh] TOPS-10 question

[Timothe Litt]

On 20-Feb-18 21:46, Rich Alderson wrote:
>> 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
>
Or, on a reasonably recent monitor, create a pathological name.

.path bcl:=dskf:[66,667]

This is per-job, but may be easier as it avoids learning to do a
mongen/monitor build.  You would have to put it in any batch job that
runs bcpl.

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