The VAX is running

[Ian King]

Source files should not be giving you a 'record problem' (since they're text) - but there is another potential issue.  I downloaded some BASIC source files on a PC, zipped them up and transferred them over to a VAX.  I picked one to compile (this is BASIC we're talking about), and it failed with an error per line.  I opened up the file in TPU and discovered that there was a 'spurious' CR at the end of each line.  I removed those and everything compiled and linked.  Take a look at the line-level translation that may be happening.  -- Ian 
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From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of David Coolbear [david at thecoolbears.org]
Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 11:06 PM
To: cctech at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: The VAX is running

> Did you try this copy of the code?  It appears to have the data file
> in plain-text (atext.txt).
>
> <http://simh.trailing-edge.com/games/adventure.zip>

I tried that and atext.txt looks better, but the fortran source files are
still messed up some how - at least they won't compile and the error
messages imply that there is still a record problem. I also tried a
precompiled executable with the improved atext.txt, but that doesn't work
either.