Re: TIMEPROMPTWAIT problem

Bob Koehler wrote:

VAX 11/785 VMS4.7, so scratch your grey matter deep.

I have a problem with the TOY clock. To work around it I want to
set TIMEPROMPTWAIT to always prompt for time.

My documenation says I need to set it to a value greater than 32767
(it seems to be 16 bit). I've tried 65535, 32768, 0, 1, 32767, and
lot of other values.

This doesn't seem to work. What I get is a system that prompt only
if it thinks they TOY value is bad.

The system has a habit of coming up from power off with a TOY value in June, which doesn't cause a prompt since the value on disk is
in April.

Is this a bug in 4.7 or misdocumentation (I'm using the grey wall)? The last time I had to use this wwas on 11/780 under VMS 3.6 and it worked as advertized.

IIRC, VMS 4.7 was "Orange (Chinese Red) Wall" not "Gray Wall". Aren't we reaching back pretty close to twenty years here?

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