Now available, the VM/370 "SixPack" version 1.0 rolls up all of the modifications posted on the H390-VM and Hercules-os380 Yahoo groups since the "5-pack" system was released in 2006.
The base operating system is IBM's VM/370 Release 6 operating system, the last unlicensed version of VM/370. It is designed to run on the Hercules Emulator.
New features of the "SixPack" include:
o The Gnu C Compiler, with both a "traditional" runtime library
(PDPCLIB) and a "native CMS" runtime library (GCCLIB).
Type HELP GCC for information on compiling C programs.
o An up-to-date, accurate, and fairly complete help system.
o Enhancements to the CP, LISTFILE and QUERY commands to support
placing output of those commands on the CMS stack.
o Extended parameter list support, meaning it is possible to pass
mixed-case parameters to EXECs and C programs. The EMIT
command lets you type messages from within EXECs without
truncation at 8 characters.
o Current line highlighting and multifile editing in EDIT.
o Other programs such as DIFF, FLIST, RESLIB, SCAN, VMARC are all
available on the CMS Y disk.
o A 3270 terminal emulator is included in case you don't already
have one.
This version now occupies six 3350 disk packs. The sixth pack is entirely devoted to CMSUSER (password of CMSUSER), where we suggest you login to do your work. Thus you can backup by simply copying the shadow file for the sixth pack.
This version of VM/370 is brought to you by Robert O'Hara, Paul Edwards, and Dave Wade. It is based on earlier versions of VM/370 for Hercules developed by Andy Norrie and Paul Gorlinsky.
vm370sixpack-1_0.zip is available for download from
http://www.open-bpm.org/index.php/mainframes.htmlRegards, Bob O'Hara
