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Article: 12550 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.aos,comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Building C-Kermit on AOS/VS
Date: 30 Jun 2001 21:09:22 GMT
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I don't know if anybody cares any more, and if nobody does it's one less
thing for me to worry about, but... Data General, when it still lived,
was kind enough to donate an MV2500 to the Kermit Project, and I've used
it to build each new release of C-Kermit and make the AOS/VS binary
available:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit.html
For the past couple years, the MV's disk has been deteriorating. At first
this only affected the Kermit builds -- i/o errors while writing object
files, etc (which I could recover by renaming the file that had the bad
spot and recompiling). But now I can't boot the OS any more.
Well, I know beans about AOS/VS; the DG people set it up for me and I just
log in to it, run the build process, test the result, and transfer the
binary out. The DG people have the startup script doing all kinds of fancy
stuff, like starting INFOS and CEO. I'm not sure what INFOS is, but I know
I don't need CEO (The Original Microsoft Office :-) running, and that's where
the trouble seems to be:
-- Starting the CEO Server Processes --
AOS/VS II FATAL ERROR: 00000026000 on 30-Jun-73 16:23:38
(register dump...)
I assume it's hitting bad spots on the disk while loading CEO.
At this point it offers to write a dump so I can send a Software Trouble
Report to DG :-) Then it runs Emergency Shutdown and prints the SCP-CLI>
prompt, which offers no help. The only command that seems to work here
is "boot" which only repeats the above sequence.
I would like to be able to bring the system up without CEO, but for that
I'd need to edit the startup script (if I knew how to find it), and I can't
do that unless the system is up. Is there a trick to this?
Alternatively, if somebody has an AOS/VS-II system with TCP/IP that I can
have Telnet and FTP access to, I can move the builds to there. (Or maybe
I already had the last operational AOS/VS system!)
Otherwise, AOS/VS Kermit remains frozen at 7.0 in the Kermit Project
virtual software museum :-)
- Frank