Wow! That is a lot of functionality packed into the PIP command! And here I
thought it was only for copying files :-)
Now I'm dying to go home and try these out. Thanks Megan.
I've pretty much figured out that Drive 1 on this machine is marginal. I'm
looking for a replacement.
--Chuck
At 09:08 AM 4/30/99 -0400, Megan wrote:
>Aha... found the problem with the boot command I gave earlier... it
>should have been
>
> .R PIP
> *DX1:A=DX1:MONITR.SYS/U
>
>*This* writes the bootstrap... /O actually does a boot.
>
>Just for completeness, the options for V2C PIP (and I would suspect
>V2B as well) are:
>
> /A Ascii file transfer
> /B Formatted binary
> /C Only include files with current date
> /D delete specified file
> /E list directory, include empty space
> /F list directory, short form (filenames only)
> /G Ignore input errors during file transfer
> /I Image mode (default)
> /K For bad block scan, list absolute block numbers
> /L list directory
> /M:n File position for magtape or cassette tape
> /N:n Number of segments (used with /Z)
> /O Bootstrap the specified device
> /R Rename file (new=old)
> /S Compress (squeeze) device - not the same as a
> file compress, which encodes the file, this simply
> moves the files to the beginning of a volume, and
> all the empty space toward the end (remember, RT-11
> file structure uses contiguous files)
> /T Extend number of blocks allocated for a file
> /U Write bootstrap to volume
> /V Print version number of PIP
> /W Include absolute starting block number for directory
> listings
> /X copy files individually without combining...
> /Y Must be used to perform operations on .SYS and .BAD files
> /Z[:n] Zero directory (with 'n' extra words per directory entry)
>
> Megan Gentry
> Former RT-11 Developer
>
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Received on Fri Apr 30 1999 - 13:22:16 BST