<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Hi Guido and Roar,</span><span class="im" style="font-size:12.8px"><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">>> Is it possible to build software for FreeVMS?<br></span><span style="font-size:12.8px">>Yes, it is buildable from Debian.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"></div><div><br></div></span><div style="font-size:12.8px">You mean that I would be able to compile on a Debian an executable that would run in the FreeVMS environment?</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">...an ftp server or apache... or even a gcc?</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">This sounds very dummy to ask, but are the QIOs implemented in FreeVMS...if yes are they similar to OpenVMS?</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Thank you.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Regards,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Z</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 11:10 PM, Guido <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:guidoj2269@gmail.com" target="_blank">guidoj2269@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hi Zoltan,<br>
<br>
Thanks for your interest in FreeVMS!<br>
<br>
As Roar mentioned I try to continue the FreeVMS 0.3.x branch. It is
based on a rather old, no longer maintained Linux 2.4 kernel and a
lot of VMS related code and documentation coming from various
sources on the internet. Most of my work so far has been to improve
maintainability of the code base: recent Debian build host, less
compiler warnings, more consistent type definitions and coding
style, removal of unused code, a simple automated test framework,
etc. I use Bugzilla from <a href="http://freevms.net" target="_blank">freevms.net</a> in an effort to maintain a list
of tasks that I try to work on. It may not be complete, but can be
found here: <a href="https://www.systella.fr/bugzilla3/" target="_blank">https://www.systella.fr/bugzilla3/</a><br>
<br>
I hope you are still willing to contribute. All help is welcome!<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Guido<div><div class="h5"><br>
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<div>On 12/06/2015 10:04 PM, Zoltan Arpadffy
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<div>Hi Roar,</div>
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<div>thank you for the information and the links.</div>
<div>I was able to come to the DCL prompt for the very first
time on FreeVMS.</div>
<div>This is a great success.</div>
<div>...but a hedonistic lifestyle learned me to be greedy.</div>
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<div>I wonder is there any C compiler that would work within
the FreeVMS?</div>
<div>Is it possible to build software for FreeVMS?</div>
<div>What about the network support?</div>
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<div>Please understand - I am not demanding. I am just a VMS
freak who would like to contribute.</div>
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<div>Thank you.</div>
<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Z </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Roar
Thronæs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roart@nvg.ntnu.no" target="_blank">roart@nvg.ntnu.no</a>></span>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 12:08:25PM +0100, Zoltan
Arpadffy wrote:<br>
> I tried to use FreeVMS earlier but it failed with the
pager.sys.<br>
> I see that this bug is fixed in 2013 and I gave a new
try.<br>
><br>
> Downloaded the git repository. Configured the kernel
and built all without<br>
> any problem.<br>
><br>
> The make image failed because it expected files from
a different<br>
> directories.<br>
><br>
</span><span>> I wonder what I am doing wrong?<br>
><br>
> I am very curios to see FreeVMS in action. If anybody
has a working image<br>
> to share it would be also highly appreciated.<br>
<br>
</span>I am sorry, but the <a href="http://freevms.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">freevms.net</a>
page is referring to another type of<br>
FreeVMS development that never had an operational system and
is no longer<br>
in development, as far as I know.<br>
<br>
But there is a working FreeVMS with source at<br>
<a href="https://github.com/rroart/freevms" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/rroart/freevms</a>.<br>
<br>
The current development is for getting Debian 8 support, in
the guido branch.<br>
(Many thanks to Guido for continuing the work.)<br>
<br>
I am pasting from the newest working release:<br>
<br>
There is a new release 0.3.17.<br>
<br>
Disk images are available from:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.pvv.org/%7Eroart/a.img.gz" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.pvv.org/~roart/a.img.gz</a>
(Boot floppy)<br>
<a href="http://www.pvv.org/%7Eroart/c.img.gz" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.pvv.org/~roart/c.img.gz</a>
(Disk image, 64-bit)<br>
<a href="http://www.pvv.org/%7Eroart/c.img.32.gz" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.pvv.org/~roart/c.img.32.gz</a>
(Disk image, 32-bit)<br>
<br>
Typically run with<br>
qemu-system-x86_64 -fda a.img -hda c.img -boot a -monitor
stdio -net none<br>
<br>
For more about usage, see<br>
<a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rroart/freevms/master/USE" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rroart/freevms/master/USE</a><br>
<br>
and which user features are tested in<br>
<a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rroart/freevms/master/TESTING" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rroart/freevms/master/TESTING</a><br>
<br>
News for 0.3.17:<br>
Support for ODS-2 boot partition and use has been reenabled.<br>
Support for CMUIP (TCP/IP) has been reenabled.<br>
Critical/major bugfixes.<br>
Cleanup of dead/unused source code.<br>
<br>
See <a href="https://github.com/rroart/freevms" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/rroart/freevms</a> for
current source.<br>
<br>
More info on <a href="http://www.pvv.org/%7Eroart/freevms.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.pvv.org/~roart/freevms.html</a><br>
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-Roar<br>
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(The first attempt at mailing did not get through, so am
retrying.)<br>
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