My first steps with X86 OpenVMS

[afassl]

Hi all,

have managed to get the kit, installed, and all is fine.
Not sure, if you know this link, is a brilliant blog of all the required tasks.

https://raymii.org/s/blog/OpenVMS_9.2_f ... arted.html

currently transferring all our code from our Vax/Alpha/Itanium - source repositories.

Being curious - I've started with one of my favourite tools, CSWING.
For some reason, not sure why, the mms run was interrupted several times with this information
%MMS-F-ABORT, For target [.OBJ]SEARCH.OBJ, CLI returned abort status: %X10B91260.
%MMS-F-ABORT, For target SYSTEM, CLI returned abort status: %X10EE8034.


But , just entered
# mms
until all was done.

And .. it runs. WOW!

I'm really amazed, and keen to start to port more tools. If interested, I'll build an installation kit for this and others.

Thanks VSI - great job.


BR Andreas

[wademj]

That's great; CSWING is a favorite of mine too. Where do you find the source?

[arne_v]

That's great; CSWING is a favorite of mine too. Where do you find the source?

It is available on the internet.

One copy is here:

https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/decus/v ... rs/cswing/

I have no idea whether it is latest and greatest.

[wademj]

Got it; thanks. Also found v3.7.6 elsewhere. v3.7.6 will compile (with @COMPILE and then @LINK) ands despite warnings it works.

Thanks,
Malcolm

[sms]

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> [...] elsewhere. [...]

   Thanks for the helpful link.

> [...] warnings [...]

   And for the detailed report.

[starlet]

It is available on the internet. One copy is here:
https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/decus/vax92a/flowers/cswing/
I have no idea whether it is latest and greatest.

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The above sources say:
#define VERSION "C SWING v3.6.2 (S.J.Brown, M.Akerberg, H.Flowers & others)"

https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/decus/vax92b/flowers/cswing_v365.zip
This looks more recent:
#define VERSION "C SWING v3.6.5 (S.J.Brown, M.Akerberg, H.Flowers, F.Macrides & others)"

Is there a known maintainer? Those who have built it on X86, give us more details, please.
Has anyone added support for ODS5?

[arne_v]

We could really use a link for 3.7.6 as 3.6.5 does not compile at all.

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Link:

ftp://anonymous@ftp.process.com/delta_a ... are/narnia

The warnings are just typical old C code warnings like:

%CC-I-INTRINSICINT, In this statement, the return type for intrinsic "strlen" is being changed from "size_t" to "int".

%CC-I-INTRINSICCALL, In this statement, an apparent invocation of intrinsic function "strlen", argument number 1 is of type "int", which is not consistent with the expected type "long pointer to const char". It will be treated as an ordinary external call.

The should of course be cleaned up.

And besides that it needs to be ODS-5'ified, because it complains about filenames when they are too long.

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A quick glance suggest that besides some length issues then swing_31.c will need substantial changes.

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    /*
    **  make sure we're an ODS-2 disk
    */
    while(header[FH2$B_STRUCLEV] == 2)

[sms]

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> The should of course be cleaned up.

   I'd start with eliminating "/stand=vaxc".

[goathunter]

In addition to CSWING, there's my FLIST, which is a file and directory manager that's written in TPU and C. It also has been ported to X86_64 (all I had to do was build it there).

FLIST @ Process Software FILESERV

Hunter

[roberbrooks]

> I'd start with eliminating "/stand=vaxc".

Definitely always a good thing to do.