Monthly Archives: June 2023

Check whole record = ” ” rather than just account number. Using more than one FIELD statement, made this easier. I thought I tried this before, guess some old Basic-Plus knowledge is clawing it’s way out of the recesses of my brain. Push change to GitLab.

Thank goodness there was instructions because it seemed totally different than when I pushed TAPE05. Something Like…

Like TAPE05 except more complete and handles incomplete blocks. I used maketape to create a new “tape” that had an final block that wasn’t filled. For some reason I can now detach/attach the tape to start at the beginning and I’m not getting the… That caused me to exit without a SHUTDOWN, as happened in …

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I realized (on my own) my program would not work so well if the last block was incomplete. My test had 1000 records, blocked by 100, so every block filled. So more work needed.

Created small Basic-Plus program to print out AWS tape header records

I couldn’t run it well on my old 2014 Pi, until I disabled the server. I was able to start RSTS/E in around 1 minute.

Yep. After installing Raspberry Pi OS (32bit) Desktop. Runs a tad faster than my 2014 single core 512K Pi 🙂

Old 32GB microSD was almost full. Got new 64GB card copied over files and replaced.

Went to Jay Moseley’s website to download the latest awsutilc which includes tapedump. This fixed the “error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory” error I was getting.

Like a lot of dinosaurs I like to relive my computer past. My first job which I sought was on a DEC PDP-11/70 running the RSTS/E OS. We received alot of IBM customer tapes which we would read/process and add to our database. So since I already had many AWS tapes from my Hercules MVS …

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