[Simh] macro11

[Kevin Handy]

A quick fix to make PAGE a no-op, would be to add a line in assemble.c
right after the line
   case P_PRINT:
and add the line
   case P_PAGE:

I don't think that much of the listing ops really work anyway.

On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 7:45 PM Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, Kevin, Rhialto,
>
> This thread gave me a good reason to check out cross-compiling some
> macro-11 code and I threw the first thing in my PDP-11 projects
> directory at it, and got this...
>
> $ macro11  DQ614P.MAC
> DQ614P.MAC:53: ***ERROR Unimplemented directive .PAGE
> DQ614P.MAC:133: ***ERROR Unimplemented directive .PAGE
> DQ614P.MAC:403: ***ERROR Unimplemented directive .PAGE
>
> I know this has nothing to do with the rt11/rsx11 changes but I
> thought I'd bring this up since, as they say, the hood is open.
>
> I was kind of surprised this would be an issue - back when we
> typically printed listings out on greenbar paper, we used .PAGE
> directives for a fresh page.  I guess it matters less when we just
> look at the output on gargantuan bitmapped displays.
>
> -ethan
>
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