On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 5:14 PM, Robert Armstrong <b...@jfcl.com> wrote: >> I might have a DCL script to build a console floppy from files on the system >> volume > > FWIW, on the 7xx machines there was a DCL script provided by DEC called > CONSCOPY.
Yes. I recall it. > It used EXCHANGE to copy the console media to a disk container and vice > versa. Yep. > Can't remember if the 8200/8300 machines had the same thing, but I wouldn't > be surprised. I'm pretty sure the 8200/8300 console floppies were in RT11 > format, so EXCHANGE would do the job. IIRC, yes, the floppies are in RT-11 format, and on a true random-access device like a floppy, CONSCOPY or anything else should just do the job. What I started with, though, was managing 11/730s in the mid-80s and was optimizing the order of files on the console tape to be in the order they were requested, so a 30-minute boot process fell to under 5 minutes... nearly all the time spent was doing serial transfers with far, far less tape motion. This optimization wasn't required with RX50 console media, but I still likely backed things up out of deeply-ingrained habit. Have to fire up that box and check. -ethan _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
