SYSMSH@ULKYVX.BITNET.UUCP (05/14/86)
We used to be a DEC-10 shop and have a lot of users who grew up on SOS and refuse to convert to EDT. (The TECO people seem to migrate to TPU easily!). The RSX version of SOS was distributed on the version 3 VMS tapes when the RSX emulation was standard. When they unbundled RSX we went ahead and kept it for the SOS alone....but I was shocked when I saw that the SOS image wasn't even on the distribution tape. I restored SOS from our version 3 backups and found that it would work for me on the SYSTEM account, but if an ordinary user tried to run it a bizarre error would result. What a bummer, I didn't want to have to fall back to version 3 just because SOS didn't work!! You have to change the world protection of the SOS image from world execute to world read+execute. The V3.x installation tapes loaded it with (w:e). I haven't heard of a native mode SOS. I'd like to see it, especially for the microvax (rsx is not very good there). Mind you, its only because of the years our users invested in TOPS-10. For myself, I've decided to break down and force myself to migrate to TPU. Mark Hittinger/systems programmer iv/OCIS south center University of Louisville/Louisville, Ky 40292 sysmsh%ulkyvx.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu