[Info-vax] EMU-vm follow-up

Paul Sture paul.nospam at sture.ch
Sun Aug 12 07:55:18 EDT 2012


On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 23:36:49 +0000, Vertis Sidus wrote:

> On 2012-08-09, Paul Sture <paul at sture.ch> wrote:
>> On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 18:17:29 +0200, Paul Sture wrote:
>>
>>>  I'll dig out the initialisation file Ihave for EDIT/TPU later
>>
>> In my LOGIN.COM
>>
>> $ define  eve$init sys$login:eveini.eve
>>
>> The relevant lines of eveini.eve
>>
>> DEFINE KEY=CONTROL-D DO DEFINE KEY=CONTROL-F FIND
>>
>> With this you can issue TPU commands (CTRL-D) and search (CTRL-F,
>> double CTRL-F to find again), without needing any function keys.
>>
>>
> This looks like it's exactly what I need. Unfortunately, the host I use
> for VAX and Alpha emulation died this week, so I'm not sure when I'll be
> able to test it.

That Murphy character is about.  I am familiar with Windows installations 
stomping on boot blocks and menus, but it appears that certain Linux 
distros exhibit the same behaviour :-(

Yes we have copious backups but the current challenge is to see if I can 
do a repair without restoring the lot :-)

-- 
Paul Sture



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