Re: DEC OS/8 Question (getting an error TOO BIG INIT)

2020-04-12 Thread Rick Murphy via cctalk
On 4/9/2020 6:10 PM, Bill Degnan via cctech wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2020, 6:01 PM David Gesswein via cctech < cct...@classiccmp.org> wrote: Thank you David. I was able to load the .SV file instead, but I am glad I now know what was needed. I think in my pdp 11 I have the same issue. Bill

Re: DEC OS/8 Question (getting an error TOO BIG INIT)

2020-04-09 Thread David Gesswein via cctalk
On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 03:34:18PM -0400, Bill Degnan wrote: > Hi, > . FRTS > > ..dumps me to the * prompt ... > > *RKB0:ADVENT.LD [return] > * [esc] > > rather than loading ADVENTURE I get the following result: > > D.F. TOO BIG INIT > MAIN 1740 > . > You need to specify the

Re: DEC OS/8 Question (getting an error TOO BIG INIT)

2020-04-09 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
On Thu, Apr 9, 2020, 6:01 PM David Gesswein via cctech < cct...@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 03:34:18PM -0400, Bill Degnan wrote: > > Hi, > > . FRTS > > > > ..dumps me to the * prompt ... > > > > *RKB0:ADVENT.LD [return] > > * [esc] > > > > rather than loading ADVENTURE I

Re: DEC OS/8 Question (getting an error TOO BIG INIT)

2020-04-09 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
On Thu, Apr 9, 2020, 11:05 PM Rick Murphy via cctalk wrote: > On 4/8/2020 6:58 PM, Richard Sheppard via cctalk wrote: > > I’m just going to guess (I have no experience with this architecture) – > would that mean either file corruption – or possibly the last record needs > to be padded out with

Re: DEC OS/8 Question (getting an error TOO BIG INIT)

2020-04-09 Thread Rick Murphy via cctalk
On 4/8/2020 6:58 PM, Richard Sheppard via cctalk wrote: I’m just going to guess (I have no experience with this architecture) – would that mean either file corruption – or possibly the last record needs to be padded out with “empty” blocks to be the same size as the others? What are you

Re: DEC OS/8 Question (getting an error TOO BIG INIT)

2020-04-09 Thread Richard Sheppard via cctalk
I’m just going to guess (I have no experience with this architecture) – would that mean either file corruption – or possibly the last record needs to be padded out with “empty” blocks to be the same size as the others?

Re: DEC OS/8 Question (getting an error TOO BIG INIT)

2020-04-08 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
On Wed, Apr 8, 2020, 7:15 PM Vincent Slyngstad via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 4/8/2020 12:34 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: > > . FRTS > > > > ..dumps me to the * prompt ... > > > > *RKB0:ADVENT.LD [return] > > * [esc] > > > > rather than loading ADVENTURE I get the

Re: DEC OS/8 Question (getting an error TOO BIG INIT)

2020-04-08 Thread Vincent Slyngstad via cctalk
On 4/8/2020 12:34 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: . FRTS ..dumps me to the * prompt ... *RKB0:ADVENT.LD [return] * [esc] rather than loading ADVENTURE I get the following result: D.F. TOO BIG INIT MAIN 1740 . Have you seen this?

Re: DEC OS/8 Question (getting an error TOO BIG INIT)

2020-04-08 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 2:54 PM Eric Smith wrote: > That stands for "data field too big", i.e., too much data to fit in 4KW. > That's as opposed to "instruction field", which if too big would mean that > there's too much code. > Although I used OS/8 Fortran in the distant past, I never tried to

DEC OS/8 Question (getting an error TOO BIG INIT)

2020-04-08 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
Hi, I am sure this question has come up before, but can anyone advise an OS/8 change I can run to avoid the following issue (below)? I am unsure if I need to fix my simh INI file or make more space for the program from the OS/8 dot prompt, or FORTRAN * prompt. Running pidp-8i (simh PDP 8i kit)

Re: DEC OS/8 Question (getting an error TOO BIG INIT)

2020-04-08 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 1:34 PM Bill Degnan via cctech wrote: > D.F. TOO BIG INIT > I'd really like to understand what this error means if > anyone knows. > That stands for "data field too big", i.e., too much data to fit in 4KW. That's as opposed to "instruction field", which if too big