[Info-vax] OpenVMS.Org quick pool

[Paul Sture]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:52:08 -0700, John Wallace wrote:

> On Aug 22, 4:27 pm, Paul Sture <nos... at sture.ch> wrote:
>>
>> The RSX Task Builder, which was the equivalent of the LINK command on
>> RT-11 and VMS.
>>
>> On both RT-11 and VMS, LINK was usually quite swift.  TKB was like
>> watching paint dry in comparison.
>
> Hidden in a dark corner away from the innocent and naive, RSX/IAS also
> had SLOTKB (as in "slow TKB"), which was in use at my employers back
> then for some complex builds which the usual TKB couldn't manage due to
> running out of some resource or other.

SLOTKB rings a faint bell here.  I certainly recall trying combinations 
of programs installed or not in an effort to get TKB tasks done.
 
> Still, hardware and software's moved on a lot since then. Allegedly.
> These days when an app runs out of resources, unlike TKB which told you
> why it was exiting, your shiny modern app probably just hangs in the
> background whilst leaving pretty "work in progress" videos still
> playing, which is exactly what "EasyDuplicateFinder" and Windows Defrag
> both did on my Window box yesterday (at which point I found out the
> non-toy version of EasyDuplicateFinder costs loadsamoney).

Or even the sequence of events today where a SuSE system lost its network 
connection but wouldn't complete YAST because it was trying to download 
some dialup component or other.

For finding duplicate files on Windows, I have had a fair amount of 
success with Auslogics Duplicate File Finder, which is free:

http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/duplicate-file-finder/

It does have the annoying habit of varying folder orders in the results 
though.
E.g.

folder1\a.txt
folder2\a.txt
folder3\a.txt

followed by

folder2\b.txt
folder3\b.txt
folder1\b.txt

so concentration is required to pick the desired entries to delete. My 
approach was to use it to identify duplicate folders, zap the ones I 
didn't want, then start the search again.

> Somewhere on the Internerd a week or two back I wandered across a LiveCD
> (for x86) which boots straight into (some OS) running SIMH running RT11,
> no geekery required. I haven't really tried it proper (other things to
> do) but maybe I'll get something like it running on my phone when the
> winter comes (or maybe not)...
> http://www.codehosting.net/blog/BlogEngine/post/PDP-11-RT-11-Live-CD-
with-Basic-11.aspx

Thanks. I'll have a play with that.

-- 
Paul Sture