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CMDTAPE - Wish me luck, I'm going in....

John Palmer All Messages By This Member #81 开云体育 Keep getting annoyed by CMDTAPE asking for tapes, so I started poking around the source code on SYSU.?? Now its all messed up because I gave it a mislabeled tape and it demands that I “call a systems programmer”. ? Looks like Boettner wrote it in assembler. ?I used to know that stuff in my sleep when I was an MTS hacker back in the 1980’s, but I’m rusty now and have to get back up to speed. ? My pie in the sky goal is to rewrite it in PLUS, if possible. Doing it more to re-acquire my skills than anything else. ? Any tips or pointers would be appreciated.
Mike Alexander All Messages By This Member #82 开云体育 You probably don't need to write anything in either assembly language or Plus. When the CmdStat programs fills a file it starts another MTS job from some public file. Unfortunately I can't recall the name of that file, but if you can find it you can probaly change it to just empty the old CmdStat file without saving it. I think that's what I did with my copy of MTS. Mike toggle quoted message Show quoted text On 12 Jan 2023, at 3:34, John Palmer wrote: Keep getting annoyed by CMDTAPE asking for tapes, so I started poking around the source code on SYSU.?? Now its all messed up because I gave it a mislabeled tape and it demands that I “call a systems programmer”. ? Looks like Boettner wrote it in assembler. ?I used to know that stuff in my sleep when I was an MTS hacker back in the 1980’s, but I’m rusty now and have to get back up to speed. ? My pie in the sky goal is to rewrite it in PLUS, if possible. Doing it more to re-acquire my skills than anything else. ? Any tips or pointers would be appreciated.

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