More RT-11 questions

From: CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com <(CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com)>
Date: Fri Apr 30 15:01:05 1999

>Maybe early versions of RT11 choke if given disks which contain extra
>words in the directory entries...

No, *shouldn't* happen. This is said about PIP in the first version
of RT-11:

"The /Z switch clears and initializes the directory... the form of the
command is: /Z:n where n is an octal number specifying the number
of extra words per directory entry."

All the RT-11 utilities have always gone to great pains to be compliant
with directory entries that have extra words. On the other hand, some
third party software hasn't been so kind, and my experience with HT-11
has been that there are some intentional and some unintentional
incompatibilities.

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