[Info-vax] Webinar "AUTOGEN and SYSGEN"

[Paul Sture]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:56:25 -0700, Ken Fairfield wrote:

> On Monday, April 23, 2012 4:54:27 AM UTC-7, Paul Sture wrote: [...]
>> 
>> I've always considered "ACTIVE" to be the in-memory copy of the
>> parameters, and that is why there is no "USE ACTIVE".
> 
> What do you mean there's no "USE ACTIVE"?  Of course there is! As well
> as a "WRITE ACTIVE".  How else would you change an active parameter
> without rebooting?
> 

I've just re-read what I wrote and I was thinking in the context of 
SYSBOOT.

>From HELP at the SYSBOOT> prompt (this with VAX/VMS):

USE           - Set parameter file name 
    USE file_spec.PAR 
       Reserved filespecs are:
         DEFAULT     Use permanent defaults
         CURRENT     Use current values

SYSBOOT>  USE ACTIVE

%SYSBOOT-E-SYNTAX, syntax error

I would not have been surprised to see file not found there. Let's check.

SYSBOOT>  USE FRED

%SYSBOOT-E-Unable to locate file FRED

Yes, with VAX/VMS at least, SYSBOOT flags USE ACTIVE as an error.


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Paul Sture