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PDP-10 / klh10

Community maintained version of Kenneth L. Harrenstien's PDP-10 emulator.
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Confused installing kl, ks, and ks-its simultanously #46

Closed DavidGriffith closed 3 years ago

DavidGriffith commented 4 years ago

The instructions and Makefile seem fuzzy on the notion of having all three emulators: kl, ks, and ks-its installed at the same time. In doc/install.txt, I read that I should do make -C bld-<model> install. But for each successive run of that for a different model, the previous install gets thrown into $KLH10_HOME/flushed. The instructions aren't clear how that directory is used. It seems that it be easier if we could install the assorted binaries to $KLH10_HOME/<model>/.

Am I missing something really obvious here?

larsbrinkhoff commented 4 years ago

My random thought is that it looks like installing multiple emulators under a single KLH10_HOME isn't supported. Or maybe it was in a previous version, and bitrot set in.

Rhialto commented 4 years ago

I have to admit that I hardly ever "install" the emulators.

And indeed, there is lots of bitrot in things like building instructions. Patches welcome.

DavidGriffith commented 4 years ago

What is the purpose of $KLH10_HOME/flushed?

larsbrinkhoff commented 4 years ago

I would guess it's to backup the previous installation.