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C00003 00002	The command TTY WIDTH ddd, where 128≤ddd≤255, completely suppresses the
C00070 00003	∂29 July 1979	ME	ESC/BREAK .
C00079 00004	∂10-Oct-79	ME	new DMs with the WAITS keyboard
C00089 00005	∂20-Mar-80	ME	changing UDPs, the RIGHT way
C00092 00006	∂19 Apr 80	ME	NODM option for LOGOUT
C00094 00007	∂7 May 80	ME	local ATTACH
C00099 00008	∂20 Sep 80	ME	LOGIN option CHRMAC defines terminal-input macros
C00108 00009	∂8 Mar 81	ME	FRAID monitor command
C00110 00010	∂4 May 81	ME	NAME monitor command
C00114 00011	∂8 Sept 81	ME	Ethernet mail from/to SAIL
C00119 00012	∂5 Feb 82	ME	ESC ! and ESC n !
C00122 00013	∂13 Feb 82	ME	Setting CONTROL/META with ESC ↑, ESC ~, ESC %
C00126 00014	∂25 Feb 82	ME	SUPDUP
C00130 00015	∂30 Mar 82 -- All previous updates have been incorporated in the
C00133 ENDMK
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The command TTY WIDTH ddd, where 128≤ddd≤255, completely suppresses the
monitor's normal insertion of CRLFs for long lines on the TTY.

LOGIN option BBOARD and E/COPY filehack \BBOARD just like GRIPE but
for file BBOARD.TXT[2,2]  Also MAIL BBOARD forwards there.  For
allowing users to flame off harmlessly.

FTP/Q in one-liner means don't ask for confirmation when overwriting file.

Replace all occurances of "SAIL" refering to the name of the monitor in
the network section (TELNET, SUPDUP) with "WAITS".

Monitor error messages are all wrong for the IMP.  Also still contains
some DAC devices.

TTY BLINK (or BOLD) only affects the line editor display, and causes
the boldness (blinking) of characters to be inverted.

MAIL accepts a dot (.) as part of the name of a user at a remote host
without quoting.  I.e., MAIL STAN.K%AI works but MAIL S1.DIS still
gives the message about using @ or # as desired.

Include ACCESS[3,2] and blather about how it works (source is on [S,MRC]).

Typo, A4.1 "a <bs> is seem in a ..." → "seen"
Also, table of contents, A8.2 needs more tab stops.
Also, sec. 6, ATT priv only allows attaching phantoms, not all jobs.
A5, PUMPKIN, "10/4/78" should be "/10/4/78"

∂04-Sep-78  0417	DON  	Monitor manual
A few errors of commission/omission in the manual...
On page 100 (xspool switches), it says that in /FONT#n n can be
from 0 to 127.  But then it says only 16 such switches can be
given.  I think the latter statement is incorrect.

Also, when you mention partial font loading, you should probably
include a sentence referring to XPART.

On page 50, it says the NOGAG login option is "Like TTY GAG"!

WHO login option must be after DM and friends to work on a DM.
HIDE and UNHIDE options refer to "DD channel" should just be "TTY"

MAIL accepts USER@HOST iff no space before the atsign.  Also, there
is a bug in the table of contents macros for appendices. (fixed in source)
DISABLE ALL tuns off all but LUP and LIV.

SEND to a user who is logged in at a gagged tty and an ungagged tty
returns a reassuring message to offset the TTY gagged message.  If the
recipient is logged in only at a gagged tty (or the TTYMES fails for
some other reason), the user is given the opton of mailing the message,
as if the recipient were not logged in at all.  Note that none of this
applies to the nonstandard page printer warning.


The TTY CONVERT bit is ignored for PTYs.  Conversion is always done for
IMP PTYs when written by the owning job, i.e. the telnet server, and is
never done for other PTYs.  For real TTYs, conversion applies only to
characters physically typed by a non-display TTY, e.g., not by PTY-write
to a physical TTY number.

When you delete a reminder or queued mail with CANCEL, the text of the
message is now mailed back to the message's originator.  Typing Q (instead
of Y) deletes the entry and suppresses the mail-back.

Non-dpy buckification by ↑←C etc quotes a character which is quoted by
↑←, e.g., ↑← C ↑C means control-beta, like ↑← C ↑← ↑C.  However this
doesn't apply to buckification of ↑← itself.

The "DET DDn!" command makes DD channel n unavailable nohow, unlike the
non-! version which just makes it unpreferred.  ATT DDn undoes both kinds
of detach.

Audio switch command changes: ESC/BRK n B gets n mins silence with/without
paging allowed.  Beep disposition same as before the command.  BREAK U to
flush a single page works even if ESC U in effect, selecting channel 16.

∂3 Oct 78 -- ME
The WHO option in LOGIN is no longer a no-op, but turns on the wholine only if
you don't already have a wholine.  NOWHO is still required to suppress wholine.

∂23 Oct 78 -- ME
BREAK CLEAR now disavows responsibility and homeness for the line you
are tied to (i.e., viewing) rather than the one you are mapped to.

∂8 Nov 78  MRC
HOST command runs HOST program.

PLIST, UNPUMPKIN commands to list and delete PUMPKIN requests.  See NOTICE.

WHO uses @ for a host name, & for a filename like FINGER.  See NOTICE/265P.
Actually @ runs "smart algorithm" (5/28/79).

∂29 Nov 78 -- ME
The switch /UIGNORE tells COPY to ignore UFDs that are read-protected from
the user; that is, for such UFDs no message is typed out and no
confirmation is required to continue.  This applies to all commands, such
as DIR *.ZXC[*,*]/UIGNORE and COPY FOO←*.ZXC[*,*]/UIGNORE.


Blather about P2LOAD.

CKMAIL command.

Channel 12 is KYUU now.  17 is KSAN.

∂24 Jan 79 -- ME
EDIT-CLEAR on a DM (actually CONTROL-≡) flushes all the output queues
(wholine, user program, piece of paper, line editor, and special) and
generates the INTFOP interrupt for the job controlling the PTY which
the DM is, if any.

∂9 Feb 79 -- ME
XPART is now a monitor command that runs SYS:XPART.
Include XPART documentation.

∂11 Feb 79 -- ME
PDETACH monitor command is just like DETACH, except that it also makes the
detached job a phantom (JLOG off) so that it will go away if it encounters
an error.  There is no CPDETACH (nor PCDETACH) so if you want to continue
the job, you should do a CCONTINUE command first and then the PDETACH.

∂15 Feb 79 -- ME
The command TTY NO DELETE, given from a non-display, will make the system
interchange the two input characters 177 and 010 (WAITS and ASCII
backspaces, respectively).  TTY DELETE is the default.  The purpose of NO
DELETE is to allow the user to enter backspaces by using an ASCII
backspace key instead of a DELETE key (since on some terminals the DELETE
or RUBOUT key is not conveniently located).

In NO DELETE mode, to enter a DELETE (177) (e.g., to backspace over a
character in the input line), type a ↑H (i.e., ASCII backspace--010), and
to input the character ↑H (lambda on WAITS--010) type a real DELETE
character (i.e., RUBOUT--177).

NO-DELETE mode does not affect non-ARPA PTYs or displays.

The LOGIN options DELETE and NODELETE are also available to set the mode
automatically upon logging in.  DELETE is the default.

∂23 Feb 79 -- ME
RPPN being once again the default mode for FTP, you can now get LPPN mode in a
one-line FTP command by using the /L switch (e.g., start command with FTP/L).
For details of LPPN and RPPN modes, READ NOTICE/213P.

∂2 Mar 79 -- ME
WHO now runs only for 10 minutes after getting the "∞" command.  Also, the
"TV" column in the per-job display contains the number of the Data Disc
TV, if any, where the given job is being controlled.  Also, "@" command
now once again references following indirect file. [5/28/79 MRC - @ is now
smart about file and host, so everybody should be happy.  NOTICE/265P]

∂5 Mar 79 -- ME
The XGP spooler now checks every 40 pages (instead of 50) to see if there
is a higher-priority spooler listing to do.

∂10 Mar 79 -- MRC
VERIFY and PROVE commands

∂15-Mar-79  1331	DON
[1] Something about CKSUM program, since CKMAIL command may run it.
    See CKSUM.DON[UP,DOC].
[2] Note that /Q switch in COPY/DELETE/RENAME... commands now suppresses
    the "Type Y to go on" questions after most non-fatal errors, but the
    error messages themselves are still printed.  Thus DEL/Q FOO,BAR,BAZ
    can be used in BATCH and DO files to make sure the three files do
    not exist (formerly would hang if FOO or BAR were missing).

∂16 Mar 79 -- ME	DM width parameter
The command TTY DM n m<cr> tells the system that you are on a DM that
has n rows and m columns.  Similarly for TTY DM128 n m<cr>.  If m is not
between 16 and 96 inclusive (current limits), it will be ignored.  And
if n is not between 8 and 62 inclusive (current limits), it will be
ignored.  Thus to change only the number of columns the system thinks your
DM has, you can type TTY DM 0 96 (say).

Also, the LOGIN options DM, DM128, FDM and FDM128 all now accept both
a DM height and a DM width, in the form DM=n=m where n is the decimal
height (ignored if not in range) and m is the decimal width (ignored
if not in range).

NOTE: For now, the DM width MUST be a multiple of 8.  If it isn't, then
it is trunctated to the next lower multiple of 8.

∂20 Mar 79 -- ME	LOGIN
Message typed out when no such UFD (really want to create?) clarified
and shortened.  Also, when a new UFD is being created during login,
the user gets the NOMAIL and NONOTE options free.

∂27 Mar 79 -- ME
FINISH cmd can no longer be abbreviated F; note: beware of using FI to
abbreviate FINISH, because FI is really the FILES command.
TTY ENB cmd renamed TTY ENABLE, and legal with DEV priv as well as from CTY.
TTY EXIST nnn allows TTYnnn to exist; legal only from CTY or with DEV priv.

∂30 Mar 79 -- ME	DSKSIZ
New /A switch added to force listing of all of the user's files in PURDAT,
in order in which they would be purged.  For details, READ DSKSIZ.

∂31 Mar 79 -- DON	FIND
Program replaced by faster, more versatile version.  Entire section should be
replaced by all or part of new documentation file (READ FIND).  Also, DFIND
and OFIND commands added.

∂7 Apr 79 -- ME		Spooler priorities
The spoolers now keep track of the amount of time recently spent printing
listings for each of up to (currently) 11 different users.  In calculating
the priority for any file spooled by one of those users, the time spent
printing that user's recent listings is subtracted from the time the file
has spent waiting to be printed.  The intended effect of this is not to
credit any user's spooler request for time spent waiting for another
listing made for the same user.  The print time for any user is zeroed
when that user no longer has anything in the spooler's queue.  The QSPOOL
command lists the recent print times following the list of files in the
queue; the print times appear in order by size except that the current
user's print time is shown first.

∂8 Apr 79 -- MRC
ESC I B in SUPDUP toggles blinking.

∂12 Apr 79 -- ROB	Spacewar mode
Spacewar isn't run on P2 anymore.  P1 and P2 are KL10 and KA10.
Flush all references to PDP-6 (except to mention as P3).

∂29 Apr 79 -- ME
TALK command is no longer legal when not logged in; use SEND instead.

∂30 Apr 79 -- MLB	New DO
Lots of peculiar new features added to DO.  Details in DO.RPH[UP,DOC]/3P
et seq.  The only downwards incompatibility is that ?\ can no longer be
called as a "macro", as it is now used to enable the new features.

∂2 May 79 -- ME  	WHO
Four new commands have been added to the WHO program.  They are:
	D	Devices -- display only the Devices (e.g., files) open
	J	Jobs -- display Jobs (undoes D command) as well as devices
	O	Omit statistics (uptime, null time, etc.) from display
	I	Include stats (undoes O command)
Both D and J restore the position of the window back to the top of the
currently selected text.  All of these commands are orthogonal to the
commands that select which jobs to display.  For example, if you want
to see only files open for volleyball players, you can say WHO VD.

∂18 May 79 -- ME 	/END switch for .XGP file headers
The switch /END is allowed to occur in the header page of a .XGP file
along with other XGP spooler switches.  The /END switch means there
are no more switches in the header page and the rest of that page is
to be ignored (as comments) (up to the first formfeed following).

*18 May 1979	SNAIL changes	MJC

SNAIL no longer allows ambiguous option abbreviations.  For instance,
/SA used to be accepted for /SAIL, though it also abbreviates /SAVE.
An abbreviation which matches two or more options will now be rejected
with the error message "Ambiguous option."

SNAIL now accepts the NULREL option, which sends compiler output to
the NUL device.

The NOSAISEG option has been flushed, and replaced by the SAISEG option.
SAIL programs will now, by default, be executed in a single segment.
You may negate the SAISEG option; thus
	EX/SAISEG FOO
	  ...
	EX/-SAISEG
will load FOO completely into a lower segment before execution.  Note
that /SAIS is the shortest acceptable abbreviation of this option.
Note also that bugs have been noted with LOADER in connection with 
using library routines and not using an upper segment (viz. the gripes
file); I think you can win by using LINK, i.e. by saying /LINK.

Incidentally, you may negate any SNAIL option.  I'm not sure everyone
knew about this (or cared).

∂28 May 79 -- MRC	WHO
WHO A runs IMPSTA, WHO L runs DLNSTA.  See NOTICE/265P

∂25 June 1979	Spooling [*,DOC] files	ME
The spoolers no longer assume /NOHEADING for *.DOC or [*,DOC] files,
but /NOHEADING is still the default for *.LST files.

∂19 July 1979	DON  	REMIND option in LOGIN  
If you have REMIND among the options on the LOGIN line in OPTION.TXT, then
LOGIN will look for the file ∂.RMD and, if found, will print it and then
delete it.

∂29 July 1979	ME	ESC/BREAK .
The escape command ESC . will put your terminal into monitor mode.  Thus
this command allows you to type a monitor command without even
temporarily stopping any program you are running.  BREAK . will return
the terminal to user mode so that the program can read input from the
terminal.  ESC . will type a CRLF and a dot (unless the terminal is
already in monitor mode), and BREAK . will type just a CRLF (unless the
terminal is already in user mode).  BREAK . will do nothing if your
program is in STOPQ or NULQ.

∂20-Aug-79	DON	WHERE and WHEN
If WHERE can't find the PPN or Programmer name requested, it swaps to
WHEN, which will then try to report when the given PPN or Programmer last
logged out.  (This does not apply to the jobname feature of WHERE.)

∂23 Aug 79	ME	META-BS and line editor insert mode
The command META-BS will no longer clear insert mode in the line editor.
Thus, in insert mode, META-BS will thus behave just like BS.  This was done
so that RUBOUT on a no-edit-key display will not take the user out of
line editor insert mode.

∂26 Aug 79	ME	SPOOL/XSPOOL cmds and filehacks
The SPOOL program now understands filehacks just like E does, including
the form \MAIL:PRG to specify PRG's mail file.

∂26 Aug 79	ME	META-BS and insert mode
The line editor command META-<bs> no longer clear line editor insert
mode.  This allows NO-EDIT-KEY display users to type RUBOUT (which
turns into META-<bs>) while in insert mode, just like DD users type BS,
without clearing the insert mode.  This is the only META command which
doesn't clear insert mode.

∂26 Aug 79	ME	VERify
The VERIFY monitor command cannot be abbreviated to anything shorter than VER.

∂27 Aug 79	ME	ESC/BRK . and ↑←.
The command ↑←. on non-displays is just like ESC . on displays, namely,
it puts the terminal into monitor mode.  ↑←-. is like BREAK . and puts
the terminal into user (program) mode.

All of these commands, GIVEN WITHOUT ANY NUMERIC ARG, clear the TTY input
buffer and the line editor, even if the TTY was already in the desired
mode.  The reason for clearing typeahead is that it was probably intended
for the destination that the TTY is being taken away from, and so it should
not be given to the other destination (monitor or user program).

But WITH A NUMERIC ARG OF 1, the commands ESC 1 . and BRK 1 . (and of
course ↑←1. and ↑←-1.)  will set the monitor/user mode state of the
terminal without clearing either the input buffer or the line editor.
(Numeric args other than 1 will give undefined results and are reserved
for future use.)  These commands which don't clear typeahead may be
particularly useful for a program (via TTYSET UUO) which itself has
created the typeahead.

∂31 Aug 79	ME	XGP spooler /NOWRAPAROUND and /WRAPAROUND switches
The spooler switches /NOWRAPAROUND and /WRAPAROUND select the option for
what should happen to text that occurs in a line after the right margin
has been reached.  In /NOWRAPAROUND mode, all such text beyond the right
margin is ignored, until an explicit absolute column is selected, for
instance with a CR.  In /WRAPAROUND mode (the default and formerly the
only mode available), a CRLF is inserted and the text continues on the
next line.

The switch /NOWRAP can appear on the header page of an .XGP file.  The
/WRAPAROUND switch CANNOT appear on the header page, but it should not be
so needed since wrap-around mode is the default.

∂16-Sep-79  1614	BH  	sticky hosts now obey block structure
Sticky hosts specified in indirect files to MAIL do not
apply to any destinations outside the file.  That is, with
the command "MAIL W,@FOO,X,Y,Z", any sticky host named in
the distribution file FOO.DIS is not applied to X, Y or Z.

Further, a sticky host specified before an indirect file doesn't apply to
the file (i.e., with "MAIL %AI X,Y,Z,@ABC,W", all of X,Y,Z,W are at AI but
the people inside ABC.DIS aren't).

∂22-Sep-79	ME	RSL
It is NOT true that you must reserve SL in order to reserve a device at
the same time.  (The manual say it is true, in the RSL appendix.)  And
the PLTR is no longer the same device as the PTP.  Also, all the prices of
SL in bams/hour are now double what the manual says; that is, SL is either
2, 4 or 6 bams/hour, depending on the time of day and day of week, but
there is no longer a reduction in service level based on your job's core
size.  The system now sells no more than 50% of the machine at any given
hour.  Finally, jungle time in the evening is now from 5pm to 8pm.

∂25-Sep-79	ME	BREAK F on displays
Displays that are not in Full-Character-Set mode (FCS bit off in line
characteristics) no longer get output converted from lower to upper case.
There is now no way to force output to upper case on displays.  On
non-displays, output is still converted to upper case if the FCS bit is
off.  This change is to facilitate the use of ESC F and BREAK F as a
software SHIFT-LOCK mechanism (affecting only letters and then only on
type-in).

Non-FCS (BREAK F) mode on displays now changes the case of every letter
typed in, instead of just forcing letters to upper case.  This makes it
easier to type one or a few lower case letters (by holding down SHIFT
while you type them!) when in non-FCS mode ("SHIFT-LOCK" mode).  This will
undoubtedly take a little getting used to.

∂10-Oct-79	ME	new DMs with the WAITS keyboard
(For more details about using a WAITS DM, read DM.ME[UP,DOC]/5P.)

If you are using one of the new DM 3025s modified with the WAITS keyboard,
tell the system about your terminal by giving the monitor command
	TTY DMWAITS
(the command TTY DM is not quite sufficient, although most things will
work that way -- use TTY DMWAITS instead).  TTY DMWAITS implies TTY DM but
also marks your terminal as slightly special.  TTY NO DMWAITS will leave
you a TTY DM (assuming you already were one) but will clear the special
marking of the WAITS DM.  (As in the other TTY DM... commands, you can
specify a non-standard height and width of your DM by giving the command
	TTY DMWAITS hh ww
where hh is the height in lines and ww is the width in columns.)

If you want LOGIN to automatically tell the system that you're on a WAITS
DM, use the FDMWAITS login option; that will mark you as on a WAITS DM
only when you dial up on a Fast (150/1200) phone line.  Alternatively,
the DMWAITS option (no leading "F" in this name) will make you known as a
WAITS DM any time you log in (except when you are obviously on a Data Disc
or III).  Like the other DM login options, these two also accept height
and width specifications following the option, in case you have by some
weird chance a Simulated WAITS DM!  (E.g., FDMWAITS=24=80 means 24 lines
and 80 cols.)

∂12 Oct 79	ME	WHO, display of big files only
The WHO command B (for Big) makes WHO suppress the display of all files
that are not disk (or UDP) files at least 16K in size.  If the B command
is preceded by a digit (one digit only), then the minimum size is set to
16K times that digit.  A digit of 0 restores the device display to normal
(all devices and files, regardless of size).  The B command can be used
with the D command (devices only) to see only big files that are currently
being referenced, and/or it can be used with the R command (Running jobs
only) to see the big files of any jobs that are running, and so forth.

∂21 Oct 79	ME	extended display service support for new terminals
See DISPLAY.ME[UP,DOC] for a description of the extended display service
support for various terminals and how to set parameters for your display.

The former TTY subcommands DMBAUD and DMPAD have been renamed to the new
TTY subcommands PADBAUD and PADCHAR, respectively.

∂29 Nov 79	ME	autologout of long-idle jobs
Any job that has been idle for over two hours will be logged out whether
or not there is a resource (DD or job slot) famine, except, of course, if
the job has LIV enable, in which case it will only be detached.
(Actually, the long-idle-time threshold is currently 2 hours more than the
normal autologout time, which is 10 mins during prime time and 20 mins
during non-prime time.)

Also, autologout no longer applies to any job that owns a PTY that has
a job logged in.  Of course, autologout still applies to the job that is
on the PTY, if that job becomes idle.  And if that job gets logged out,
then autologout becomes applicable to the PTY's owner, since the PTY will
then no longer have a job on it.

∂9 Dec 1979	WHO holding command	ME

There are two changes to the WHO program.

(1) The H command Holds the display, after updating it once more,
so that you can read it without having it change constantly.  To
resume normal updating, use the αH (CONTROL-H) command.  While you
are holding, any command that affects what is displayed will also
update the display once with the new text, but holding will remain
in effect.  The N command (normalize) as well as αH will unhold
text displaying.

(2) Undefined commands no longer cause WHO to exit.  They are ignored.
To force WHO to exit normally, you must now type either SPACE, CR, or LF.

∂11-Jan-80  1832	ROB  

New version of SRCCOM up.  Minor changes to make the header line filename
format suitable for the αXPOINTER command in E.
  before change:
  **** File 1) SIM004.ACR[ACR,BIS], Page 3 line 1
  after:
  **** File 1) SIM004.ACR[ACR,BIS]/3P/1L

∂3 Feb 80  DQAVG	ME
New monitor command DQAVG types out various averages of the disk queue size.

∂15 Feb 80	TTY [NO] EXIST	ME
The following TTY commands are intended for wizards and their apprentices
when working on terminals connectd to the DCA TTY scanner.  However, these
commands are not privileged; please be careful not to affect the working
terminals of other users.

The command
	TTY NO EXIST t1,t2,...
disables all the TTYs whose numbers are given in the list "t1,t2,...",
turning off the corresponding DCA scanner ports and preventing anyone from
using the given TTYs.

The command
	TTY EXIST e1,e2,...
re-enables all the TTYs whose numbers are given in the list "e1,e2,...",
turning on the corresponding DCA scanner ports and re-setting them to
their default speeds.

If TTY EXIST or TTY NO EXIST is given with no argument (or with the last
argument followed by a comma), then the list of TTYs that "exist" or
"don't exist", respectively, is typed out.

PTYs and the CTY are not affected by these commands since they are not on
the DCA scanner.  For DDs and IIIs, only the keyboard of the given number
is affected (the system normally disables and re-enables DD/III keyboards
automatically, within about a minute of the keyboard being unplugged or
plugged back in).

∂08-Mar-80  1641	MRC	FTPing from from another host
When FTPing to SAIL from another host, if you want to do a multiple file
transfer away from SAIL, you must either (1) login (through FTP) on the
directory you want to transfer from or (2) do a CWD command to that
directory.  CWD is like ALIAS on WAITS.  You cannot just specify the SAIL
PPN in the MULTIPLE GET command because, for complex reasons involving
TENEX filename scanning, the FTP commands NLST and LIST are responded to
with filenames that do not include the PPN.

∂20-Mar-80	ME	changing UDPs, the RIGHT way
It is physically easy to change UDPs while the one mounted is STILL IN USE
(INITed by some program or merely still ASSIGNed by monitor command).
This is an almost unforgivable sin.  If the RESOURCES monitor command
(RESO) does not say that the UDP is free, then the UDP should not be
changed; RESO indicates that a particular UDP is free by listing the
device name (e.g., UDP1) all by itself on a line.  The system does not
realize that you have changed packs, so it continues writing on the new
pack assuming it is the old one, thus clobbering the new one.

If you do manage to clobber a UDP by removing a pack that is still in use,
immediately stop all programs using the UDP, remove the UDP (without
mounting a new one), and DEASSIGN the UDP and RESET all jobs using it so
that it now appears free in RESO.  Then put a sign on the UDP saying
"Clobbered!  Do NOT Use!" and mail a note to a system wizard reporting
what happened.  With some amount of effort, and depending on the amount of
clobberage, the UDP can probably be fixed up.  If you repeatedly get the
error "BAD RETRIEVAL" when trying to read a UDP, then it is probably
clobbered and should be dismounted and reported.


Another quick note, on physical mounting of UDPs:

    When a pack is mounted it should be, "tightened snugly, but
    not too tight".  Too loose can lead to difficulty removing the
    pack.  Extreme tightening can damage the securing mechanism.

∂15 Apr 80	ME	BBOARD option obsolete
The BBOARD option in LOGIN is no longer supported.  Use CKSUM and/or
E to read the BBOARD.  READ CKSUM for details.  (CKSUM to be documented
in next edition of MONCOM.)

∂19 Apr 80	ME	NODM option for LOGOUT

If the LOGOUT: line in your OPTION.TXT file contains the option
	NODM
then when you logout other than with the KLOG or KATTACH commands,
LOGOUT will tell the system to consider your terminal no longer a
DM-type display.  On real DMs, this turns on Roll mode.  The switch /N
(for No display) given in the KJOB command (e.g., K/N) has the same
effect, and the switch /D (for Display) given in the KJOB command
suppresses any NODM switch appearing in OPTION.TXT.

∂5 May 80	SEND LOCAL, SEND ARPA, SEND *	DON
The command SEND LOCAL (or SEND LOCAL*) can now be used to send a message to
all "local" users, i.e., those logged in on DataDisc and III displays.  The
command SEND ARPA (or ARPA*) sends to all users connected via the Arpanet
(this isn't new, but not many people are aware of it).  If you do a SEND *,
you'll get a brief reminder concerning SEND LOCAL and SEND ARPA, in case you
want to reconsider who would be interested in seeing your message.  If you
think the matter through ahead of time and know that you want to send to
absolutely everyone, you can spare yourself the reminder by using SEND **.

∂7 May 80	ME	local ATTACH
The feature of being able to attach any unprivileged detached job from a
local terminal has been discontinued.  Attaching a detached job is now
basically just like trying to log in under the PPN of the detached job --
if that PPN has a remote only password and if you are attaching from a
local terminal and if the detached job is not privileged, then you won't
have to give a password.

Of course, if you are already logged in under the same PPN as that of the
job you are trying to attach, and if the detached job doesn't have more
privileges than your job, then you won't be asked for a password.

A remote user must always give a password except when attaching own
detached job (same PPN, no extra privileges).

∂10 May 80	ME	WHO and NSL
The NSL privilege (see NOTICE[UP,DOC]/273P) is displayed, if present,
by WHO in the SL column.

∂4 Jul 80	ME	CLRUWP, SETUWP
The commands CLRUWP and SETUWP can no longer be abbreviated; they must
be typed in full to be obtained.

∂05 Aug 80	ROB	DIAL
DIAL understands special names for a number of TTYs, including
LOTS, DIABLO, TI990, CANON, LSI, and TIP.  These names are fairly
volatile and are subject to change.

DIAL also now does an automatic TTY EXIST when DIALing to the Canon
(TTY57) or to Diablo (TTY27), and a TTY NO EXIST when "hanging" up from
those TTYs, since those TTYs need to be left disabled when not in use.

∂21 Aug 80	ME	EOT cmd in DART
Positions the tape between the two consecutive EOF marks that denote
the logical end of tape.

∂22 Aug 80	ME	PJOB command and generic device names
The PJOB command now accepts a generic device name, like UDP or MTA, and
types out the status of all such devices, including all their users' wholines.
Thus the command PJ UDP now entirely replaces the UDPUSE program.

Generic names possible currently are UDP,DLN,DTA,MTA and any 3-character
name of a sharable device (DSK,PUP,IMP,ELF,NUL).

In the lines typed out, a number-sign (#) means the device is ASSIGNed
by monitor command.

∂22 Aug 80	ME	decimal record numbers
The record numbers displayed by the FILES command, and by the filestatus
part of the wholine, and by the WHO program now are all decimal instead
of octal as they used to be.

∂20 Sep 80	ME	LOGIN
The RUN=<filename> option for LOGIN now correctly parses filenames
with extensions.  Also, various messages typed out immediately after
LOGIN has logged the job in are now delayed until after any DISPLAY
or FDISPLAY option has taken effect, in order to avoid having such
an option obscuring those messages.

∂20 Sep 80	ME	LOGIN option CHRMAC defines terminal-input macros
The LOGIN option CHRMAC allows the user to have terminal-input macros
defined automatically upon login.  (For more details on terminal-input
macros, including how to define and call them, READ MACROS.)  The form
of this LOGIN option is:
	CHRMAC=<filename>
where <filename> is the name of the macro definition file from which the
macros are to be loaded.  If "=<filename>" is omitted completely, then the
default filename is used.  If a filename with no extension is given, then
the default extension is used.  The default filename and extension are the
same as for the system program CHRMAC (which is used to define macros),
namely, CHRMAC.CHR.  Thus the following LOGIN option lines have the same
effect.

LOGIN:WHO,CHRMAC;
LOGIN:WHO,CHRMAC=CHRMAC;
LOGIN:WHO,CHRMAC=CHRMAC.CHR;

The format of the macro definition file is exactly that which is used by
the CHRMAC program.  Thus you should use the CHRMAC program (R CHRMAC) to
create the macro definition file that you want LOGIN to read.

Note:  It is possible to have LOGIN load macros from two or more such files:
simply include two CHRMAC options, one or both followed by a filename.  The
files will be read in the order given.

Further note:  Any NOEDIT macros to be loaded must come from a CHRMAC
option that occurs AFTER any DISPLAY (or FDISPLAY) option that marks the
terminal as a NOEDIT display.  NOEDIT macros cannot be defined on a
terminal that is not a noedit display; such definitions will simply be
ignored.

∂16 Oct 80	ME	PJ UDPn command now same as PJ UDP
The specific command PJ UDPn, where n is any number, now gives the same
result as the generic command PJ UDP (note no number given).  Either of
these commands types out ALL the users of ALL UDPs.

∂22 Oct 80	ME 	WHERE
WHERE no longer lists jobs just because their ALIASes match the PPN
given in the WHERE command.  Only the logged in PPN is now checked.  Thus,
if someone is really not logged in (even if someone else is aliased to one
of that person's areas), WHERE will swap to WHEN to let you know when the
given person logged out.

∂22 Aug 78	bh	forwarded SEND
SEND to not-logged-in user which turns to MAIL, when the user is
forwarded to the net, tries network SEND then MAIL if necessary.

∂11 Nov 80	ME	ESC n CR  vs.  ESC n " CR  on quote-mode noedit displays
It is no longer necessary to include the double-quote character " when
calling an ESC n CR macro on a noedit display that is in any of the
quote modes.  This change was possible since CR is not allowed to be
redefined but always means just CR on a noedit display.  READ NOEDIT/4P
for details.

∂17 Dec 80	ME	Dialer TTY
The autodialer (run by the DIAL program) has been on TTY37 since
the move to MJH.

∂17 Dec 80	ME	default TTY width
...has been changed to =80 (from =84).

∂20 Dec 80	DON	/replyto switch in MAIL
The MAIL command (and SEND and GRIPE and REMIND) now accepts a switch telling
it to include a "Reply-To" field in the message header.  Mail programs at
many other sites, as well as the REPLY macro in EINIT.CMD[1,3], recognise
this field as overriding the sender's name when determining where to send a
reply.  The form of the switch is /REPLYTO"arbitrary text".  The switch name
can as usual be abbreviated to any unambiguous prefix (currently, /R happens
to be enough!).  If the arbitrary text includes quotes, use the alternate
form /REPLYTO↓arbitrary text with quotes↓; if the text is just a different
SAIL user address, you can use /REPLYTO=name.

∂21 Jan 81	ME	wholine
ATTACHing a job to a display that had no job logged in and no wholine going
will now automatically start the wholine.  Soon, the TTY DM (etc.) commands
(and equivalent UUOs) will start a wholine going if there isn't one already.

∂6 Mar 81	ME	DOVER spooler
READ DOVER for details on the Dover spooler and defaults

The monitor command DOVER now runs the SPOOL program to spool a request for
the Dover printer.  Monitor command Q/D shows the Dover queue, and UNSPOOL/D
allows unspooling from the Dover queue.  The following spool switches
apply to Dover spoolings (this list can be obtain by R PRESS and HELP EMPRESS).

Switches are:
  /NoHeader	  suppress heading at top of each page (default for .LST files)
  /Header	  put heading at the top of each page (normal default)
  /Font=<name>	  use named font (default is SAIL) (name can include size)
  /FSize=n	  set font size to n (default is 8)
  /LHeight=n      set line height (vert distance per line) to n (default 133)
  /NChars=n       set max number of chars per line to n (default 95)
  /NLines=n       set number of lines/page to n (sets LHeight implicitly)(68)
  /TMargin=n	  set top margin to n (default 1092)
  /BMargin=n	  set bottom margin to n (default 950)
  /LMargin=n	  set lefthand margin to n (default 1070)
  /Rotate	  rotate listing 90 degrees counter-clockwise.
		  Rotated defaults: Font=SAIL8(rot90); NChars=132; NLines=58;
				    TMar=1070; LMar=950; BMar=850; LHeight=115.
  (Margins and line height above are specified in thousandths of an inch.)

None of the above switches applies if the file being spooled is already a
Press file, since Press files contain complete formatting information.

Other normal spooler switches can also be used with Dover listings, e.g.,
/Repeat=n can be used to make n copies.  The /Octal switch is NOT
implemented for the Dover, nor is the /PLimit=n switch.

∂8 Mar 81	ME	FRAID monitor command
The program FRAID is a version of the RAID debugger (READ RAID for
complete documentation) for looking at and/or modifying disk files
(instead of core images, which normal RAID handles).  To run FRAID, give
the monitor command:

FRAID <filename><optional switches>

The <optional switches> can include any of the following:
  /D  the file is a DMP-format file (this is the default)
  /N  the file is Not a DMP file
  /R  open the file only for Reading (this is the default)
  /W  open the file for Writing
With the (default) /D switch, the extension .DMP is assumed.  With
DMP files, locations 0 through 73 cannot be viewed since they are not
stored in the DMP file.

If FRAID is run in /W (file writable) mode, all changes made in the core
version of the file are immediately written onto the disk.

If any error occurs in parsing the command line or in opening the file,
then FRAID reverts to asking explicit questions about the modes and
filename.

Note that FRAID does not allow a device to be specified for the file.  To
FRAID a file on a UDP, you must assign the UDP as DSK.

∂4 May 81	ME	NAME monitor command
The monitor command NAME takes a programmer name as argument and tells
you who that person is (tell you the user's real name).  It also tells you
(1) if that programmer name has its mail forwarded somewhere and (2) if
there are no file directories for the given programmer name.  Thus, the
command NAME XYZ will tell you if XYZ is a completely non-existent
programmer name.  This command runs the MAIL program and can be given
without logging in.

∂29 Jul 81	ME	QUIT monitor command
The monitor command QUIT can be given from a network PTY to make the SAIL
server close the network connection.  If you are still logged in when you
give the QUIT command, your job will be detached; so you should normally
log out first.

This connection closing command is implemented at SAIL for the four telnet
servers, namely the ARPA Telnet, ARPA Old Telnet, ARPA SUPDUP, and
EtherNet Telnet servers.

(This command generates the INTQUIT interrupt on the server, which sees it
and then closes the connection.)

∂5 Aug 81	ME	automatic network CLOSE option by LOGOUT
When you log out from SU-AI while telnetted from some other host,
the LOGOUT program now automatically closes your network connection
unless you specifically ask for it to be kept open.

You can specify keeping the connection open by either of two means:
(1) logout with the /O (for Open) switch, as in K/O<cr>, or
(2) include the option OPEN in a LOGOUT: line in your OPTION.TXT file
    (e.g., if you have no other LOGOUT options, have a line that says
LOGOUT:OPEN;
    in your OPTION.TXT file).  If you have the OPEN option, you can
    override it on individual logouts by using the /C (for Close) switch,
    as in K/C<cr>.

Anytime you logout with either the KLOG or the KATTACH command, your
network connection will be kept open no matter what, since you are
starting up, or attaching to, another job.

Another new logout option is the HANGUP option, which will make LOGOUT
hang up your phone line as you log out (usually before all the typed
output from logout has come out).  This option can be gotten on individual
logouts by using the /H (for Hangup) switch, as in K/H<cr>.  To override
the HANGUP option on a particular logout, use K/O<cr>.

∂27 Aug 81	ME	QUIT, Q and QSPOOL
The monitor command Q is identical to the QSPOOL command, to allow this
one-letter command to continue abbreviating QSPOOL despite the addition
of the new command QUIT (which closes network connections).

∂8 Sept 81	ME	Ethernet mail from/to SAIL
It is now possible to send mail from SAIL to an Ethernet host or from an
Ethernet host to SAIL.  However, Ethernet host name scanning for mail from
SAIL is currently done in a temporary manner which recognizes only the
following Ethernet host names: Shasta, Diablo, IFS, Tamalpais.  Ethernet
destinations are specified to MAIL the same way ARPAnet destinations are:
e.g., FROST % DIABLO or FROST@DIABLO (note absence of spaces in the "@"
form).  Bug reports about the Ethernet mail service on SAIL should be
mailed to BUG-MAIL at SAIL (type GRIPE MAIL<cr>).  Please bear with us
while we try to clean up the host name parsing.

Note: MAIL forwarding to Ethernet hosts from SAIL is now possible.  If you
want your SAIL mail forwarded somewhere, then mail a message to FORWARD at
SAIL explaining what forwarding you would like.

(Ethernet mail is up on SAIL because of the work of MRC, TVR and BH.)

∂11 Sept 81	ME	Tamalpais mail
Ethernet mail can now be sent to TAMALPAIS, as well as to those hosts
listed above.  Mail to DSN (or SU-DSN) is also possible, but will go only
via the ARPAnet.  Mail is no longer accepted for Helens, since it has no
mail server.

All these Ethernet host names can currently be abbreviated to two letters,
e.g., Di for Diablo.

∂12 Oct 81	ME	TTY SAIL, SAIL option in login
The following display features should not normally be needed, but are
made available especially for testing out terminals similar to known
supported terminals.

For display types for which the system knows how to do it, TTY SAIL will
tell the system to display control characters (SAIL graphics) as
themselves, instead of a bold letters.  TTY NO SAIL turns off this mode
without otherwise affecting your display type.  Thus, the display-type
DM128 is exactly the same as DM2500 with TTY SAIL added.  The login
options DISPLAY and FDISPLAY have new corresponding suboptions SAIL and
NOSAIL (e.g., LOGIN:DISPLAY=DMWAITS(NOSAIL);).

[The above entry is now obsolete.  See the entry dated 30 Mar 82. -- ME]

∂28 Nov 81	ME	LOGOUT types downtime forecast, if new
LOGOUT will now type out the system downtime forecast (the file \DOWN) if
if it has been written since you last saw it, provided that you are not
still logged in elsewhere.  This applies even if you log out with K/F.

∂5 Feb 82	ME	MAIL to non-servers
MAIL will now accept mail to non-server hosts, although if such a host
really has no mail server, then the mail will not get through but will
eventually be returned to the sender.

∂5 Feb 82	ME	ESC ! and ESC n !
Tired of waiting for a DD channel in a long queue?  Need to get something
done in a hurry?  Willing to put up with a horribly streaking DD channel?
Well, here's the command for you!  ESC ! will get you a DD channel from
the rubbish heap (pile of detached DD channels) and let you use it just
like you would a normal channel (except that the streaks may give you a
headache).  When you free up the horrible channel, it is automatically
re-detached so that no one else will get it by accident.  And if you don't
like the first horrible channel you get with ESC ! then you can type ESC !
again and see what the next detached channel looks like.  However, don't
expect subsequent ones to be much if any better.  The detached channels
currently given out first tend to be the most palatable of the bad
channels.  While you're using a horrible channel, there is no reason not
to be waiting in the normal DD queue (with ESC CALL) for a good channel
and then moving your job there when you finally get one.

Warning: A few of the bad channels don't just streak, they don't work at
all, so you may not see anything if you get such a channel.  In that case,
you should just forget the channel (with BREAK CLEAR for example), unless
you just wanted to type blindly one or two quick monitor commands without
seeing the results!!

For wizards who are working on adjusting a particular channel, the ESC n !
command can be given in order to get DD channel n for normal use, whether
it was previously detached or not.  If it was previously detached, it will
be detached again when you free it up.

∂13 Feb 82	ME	Setting CONTROL/META with ESC ↑, ESC ~, ESC %
For EDIT-key displays that have programmable function keys which cannot
store the EDIT (parity) bit, three new escape commands have been added to
allow such programmable keys to set the CONTROL and/or META bits (which
previously required the EDIT bit).  These new bucky-bit-adding escape
commands are:

	ESC ↑	sets the CONTROL bit on the next character typed,
	ESC ~	sets the META bit on the next character typed, and
	ESC %	sets both CONTROL and META on the next character typed.

Thus ESC ↑ x generates CONTROL-x, ESC ~ y generates META-y, and ESC % z
makes CONTROL-META-z.  These three escape commands will automatically
quote any following character except NULL or EDIT-NULL while adding
CONTROL and/or META.  In particular, ESC ↑ (say), followed by β (↑C, 003
octal, normally CALL) makes CONTROL-β, not CONTROL-CALL; similarly the
characters ≡ (normally CLEAR) and ∨ (normally HOLD) are automatically
quoted by any of these three bucky-bit adding escape commands.  The EDIT
bit on the character following any of these three escape commands is
ignored, unless the character with the EDIT bit is NULL (see next
paragraph).

If the character following any of these is NULL (ESCAPE) or EDIT-NULL
(add META), then the ↑, ~, or % escape command is ignored and the
NULL or EDIT-NULL takes over (affecting the following character).
Thus ESC ↑ ESC P is the same as ESC P, and ESC % EDIT-NULL x is the
same as EDIT-NULL x.

The three escape characters ↑, ~ and % were chosen as slightly mnemonic
for the commands, like this: ↑ often represents ASCII control and here is
used for SAIL CONTROL; ~ almost looks like an M as in META; and % has two
little circles, thus representing double bucky, or CONTROL-META.  I know
these aren't great mnemonics, but they can be useful for remembering the
commands, and anyway usually only a program that is loading your 7-bit
programmable function keys on an EDIT-key display needs to remember these.

These three escape commands are no-ops except on EDIT-key displays.  They
don't work on DDs, IIIs, NOEDIT displays or non-displays.

∂25 Feb 82	ME	SUPDUP
SUPDUP now supports displays up to about 70 lines high (by swapping to
SUPDUP.BIG if the terminal has more than 40 lines).  Thus it can be used
from an Alto connected to SAIL with a big window, but it doesn't screw
up on DDs.  For displays taller than 70 lines, SUPDUP will only use the
first 70, but it should no longer crash like it used to in this case.

Also, three new commands have been added to SUPDUP to make it easier to
transmit ESCAPE, BREAK and CLEAR to the remote host.

  ESC 1 I	transmits ESCAPE (just like ESC I α)
  ESC 2 I	transmits BREAK (just like ESC I β)
  ESC 3 I	transmits CLEAR (just like ESC I ε)

These have the advantage of not requiring TOP in the new three character
sequence needed to send these commands.

∂19 Mar 82	ME	TTY ALTOTALK
ALTOTALK is a new EDIT-key type display available for use with the TALK
program on ALTOs.  READ DISPLAY for the default parameters for this new
display type.  READ DMCHAT for some info on the TALK program (whose use of
the blank keys is planned to be changed shortly).

∂19 Mar 82	ME	holding on non-displays
The system now accepts the standard characters ↑S for holding and ↑Q for
unholding of typeout on a non-display.  To input either of these to a user
program, you must quote it with ↑← (just like for other special
characters).  The old hold/unhold character ↑B currently still works, but
will be flushed shortly, at which point it will become a normal input
character.  Note that all of this applies only to non-displays.

∂22 Mar 82	ME	αT doesn't clear insert mode any more
The line editor command CONTROL-T no longer takes you out of insert mode
in the line editor.  This allows you to correct an inserted piece of text
and continue inserting further text without re-typing CONTROL-I.

30 Mar 82	ME	TTY WAITS for individual displays
The command TTY SAIL has been renamed to TTY WAITS.  This command is only
relevant if you are on an individual display (DM, C100, etc.)  which might
be able to display the WAITS extended character set (namely, the ASCII
control characters).  TTY WAITS says your terminal can; and TTY NO WAITS
says it can't.  This display parameter can be set automatically by the
LOGIN display options -- READ DISPLAY for details.  Note that if there is
no defined way of displaying the control characters on your type of
display, then TTY WAITS will not be accepted by the system.

∂30 Mar 82 -- All previous updates have been incorporated in the
Fifth Edition of the Monitor Command Manual, soon to be available
in print, and already available online in MONCOM.BH[S,DOC]
(please don't print the disk version -- it's huge!).

(When updating the manual, don't forget to include any documentation from
NOTICE[UP,DOC] that is newer than the printed manual edition.)

∂10 Apr 82	ME	LISP monitor command line
Section 5.12 says that the LISP command takes no arguments.  This is true,
but it is also common to say LISP;FOO to have LISP read a file FOO.INI
(instead of LISP.INI) when it starts up.

∂8 May 82	ME	new dialup lines
Three new dialup lines are now available on SAIL for either Bell 1200/1200,
Bell 110/150/300, or Vadic 1200/1200 modems.  The phones numbers currently
working are 324-9030, -9032, and -9034.  Eventually this will be a hunt group
of about 7 lines, but for now these lines do not hunt.  When calling any of
these numbers, you should type carriage return as the first character after
establishing carrier, in order for the system to figure out your baud rate.
That first carriage return will not echo, but a second one should echo and
type out the monitor's prompt of a dot.

Please report any problems with these new lines to ME.