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TOPS-20 Beware File
Apr-05-83
VERSION 4.1(5471)
Release 4.1
COPYRIGHT (C) 1976,1978,1979,1980,1981,1982,1983 BY DIGITAL
EQUIPMENT CORPORATION, MAYNARD, MASS. THE SOFTWARE
DESCRIBED IN THIS DOCUMENT IS FURNISHED UNDER A LICENSE AND
MAY BE USED AND COPIED ONLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS OF
SUCH LICENSE AND WITH THE INCLUSION OF THE ABOVE COPYRIGHT
NOTICE. THIS SOFTWARE OR ANY OTHER COPIES THEREOF MAY NOT
BE PROVIDED OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE TO ANY OTHER PERSON.
NO TITLE TO AND OWNERSHIP OF THE SOFTWARE IS HEREBY
TRANSFERRED.
THE INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE
WITHOUT NOTICE AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT
BY DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION.
DIGITAL ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE USE OR RELIABILITY
OF ITS SOFTWARE ON EQUIPMENT WHICH IS NOT SUPPLIED BY
DIGITAL.
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1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Function
This document supplements the TOPS-20 manuals by pointing
out hints and potential problems that may have been
discovered at the last minute.
2.0 INSTALLATION INFORMATION
The installation of this release is almost identical to the
installation of the Release 4. The only difference is the
names of two files. In the manuals, these files are
referred to as n-CONFIG.CMD and n-SETSPD.EXE, where n is the
number of the release. For Release 4.1, n is 4-1, so the
names of the two files are 4-1-CONFIG.CMD and
4-1-SETSPD.EXE. 4-1-SETSPD is supplied on the installation
tape. Each site supplies its own CONFIG file, tailored to
its needs. The easiest way to create this file is to copy
the 4-CONFIG.CMD file to 4-1-CONFIG.CMD. Leave the
4-CONFIG.CMD file in case you decide to go back to the
previous release. To create a new 4-1-CONFIG.CMD file, see
the TOPS-20 INSTALLATION GUIDE, Chapter 3.
On page 4-5 of the TOPS-20 Software Installation Guide there
is an error. In step 122 after the error "UFD -- DIRECTORY
ALREADY EXISTS" the recovery procedure is wrong. If this
error occurs and you are positive that you have performed
step 116 on page 4-4, then the front-end file system is
irrepairably damaged. You will have to start building your
pack from scratch after you have reformatted it. If you are
not sure that you performed step 120, you can start the
procedure from step 113 on page 4-3.
If you don't know how to format a disk pack you should have
your DIGITAL Field Service Representative format the pack
for you. If you are updating an existing pack (which is
probably the case if you received the "DIRECTORY ALREADY
EXISTS" error) you should be sure to save any files from the
disk that you don't want to lose before you reformat the
pack. You can boot and run the system from the floppy
drives until you format the pack. Once the pack is
reformatted you can restart the installation by returning to
step 3 on page 2-2 of the INSTALLATION GUIDE
3.0 EXEC
3.1 Exec
The EXEC that is included in this release is based on the
Release 5 EXEC. The version of the EXEC is 5.1(1354). It
contains a few more edits than the Release 5 EXEC to make it
transportable between a 4.1 system and a 5.0 system. Any
new features to the Release 5 EXEC falls under one of three
categories under Release 4.1. The new feature is fully
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functional under Release 4.1; it is meaningless under 4.1
(i.e. DECNET ACCESS in a directory); it is not implemented
under 4.1 (i.e. extended address switches to EXEC
commands). The TOPS-20 USER'S GUIDE and the TOPS-20
COMMANDS REFERENCE MANUAL have been updated to indicate
which category the new features fall under.
3.2 Directory
Directory commands now have more descriptive guide words.
Users must change any DIRECTORY command guide words used in
control (.CTL) files. Otherwise, the command will be
rejected by the EXEC with the error "?Invalid Guide Word".
3.3 Compile/Load
The version 5 EXEC also includes a change in the operation
of the COMPILE/LOAD commands which is intended to correct a
deficiency but which may possibly affect existing
procedures.
This situation arises on load-class commands if there is a
search list for the object (REL) files. For example,
@COMPILE PROG
where DSK: has a logical name definition including a search
list of two or more directories, or
@COMPILE AA:PROG BB:PROG
where the object file specification includes such a logical
name.
This situation usually exists where a user has a private
directory containing sources files he has modified, and
builds a program using RELs from a common library directory
as well. E.g.,
@DEFINE DSK: DSK:,PS:<LIBRARY>
The usual operation of COMPILE/LOAD is to compile a source
if there is no REL or if the existing REL is older than the
source (determined by date of last write). This is correct
when all sources and RELs are in the same directory, but it
can prevent the sources in the private directory from being
compiled, taking the library REL instead, thus building the
program without the user's version of the source.
To correct this, the Version 5 EXEC makes a further check:
the source file is found according to the given file
specification. If it is found in the connected directory,
then the lookup for the REL file will be limited to the
first item on the search list (if any) for the object file
specification. Thus, in the example above, if the source
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file is found in the connected directory, only the connected
directory will be checked for the REL. If the REL is not
found there, the source will be compiled and the REL put in
the connected directory. Any source found in <LIBRARY>, not
being the connected directory, will allow the REL to be
taken from the connected directory or <LIBRARY>. As with
usual search list rules, the search will stop at the first
directory in which the REL file is found.
3.4 LOGIN.CMD and COMAND.CMD
V4.1 now reads LOGIN.CMD before COMAND.CMD. Also, the
CSAVE, DEPOSIT, EXAMINE, SAVE, SET-ADDRESS-BREAK, SET
ENTRY-VECTOR, and START commands take symbolic expressions
in addition to octal numbers. See TOPS-20 Commands
Reference Manual.
3.5 Compiling Cobol Programs
The default compiler names for COBOL have changed in this
EXEC. The EXEC will look for CBL74.EXE when it is compiling
a file with type C74 or the /74-COBOL switch. It will look
for CBL68.EXE for file types of C68 or the /68-COBOL switch.
Finally, it will look for COBOL.EXE for types of CBL or the
/COBOL switch.
4.0 SOFTWARE
4.1 Dumper
The version of DUMPER that is on the distribution tape is
from Version 4. Due to some changes in the MACSYM macros,
this field-image version of DUMPER cannot be assembled with
the new version of MACSYM that is on this tape. Therefore,
in order for DUMPER version 4 to be re-built, the old
version of MACSYM must be used. Sites without this older
version should see their DEC Software Specialist for
details.
4.2 Utilities
The Utilities included in this release are the same as those
included in Release 5 except for BOOT and CHECKD. The
versions of these two programs are the same as Release 4,
including bug fixes that have been discovered since Release
4 has been in the field.
4.3 TV
TV has three new commands that will fail under 4.1. These
are WDELETE$, WFETCH$ and WSTORE$. If desired, these may be
removed from TV by setting MAXSEC to 0 and recompiling TV.
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4.4 RUNOFF
The Tops-10 style RUNOFF that used to be supplied on the
installation tape is not included in this release. Instead
a Tops-20 style RUNOFF is included on this tape. This
RUNOFF is based on the DSR that was previously included on
the Tools tape. This new RUNOFF has replaced both DSR and
the old RUNOFF.
4.5 LINK
The LINK that is on this tape is Version 5.1. This is a
maintenance version of the 5.0 LINK that was sent out with
Release 5.0 of TOPS-20. Note that the RMS on this tape was
built with a different LINK. If you need to rebuild RMS,
you will have to use a previous version of LINK.
There are two new switches to LINK that will not work under
this release because they deal with extended addressing
features. The two switches are:
/PVDATA /PVBLOCK
5.0 EDIT NUMBERS
5.1 Exec and Monitor
Be aware that all patches that have been applied to this
Monitor and EXEC have been assigned decimal edit numbers
which have appeared with the patches that have been
published. This is true even though the EXEC's INFO VERSION
command outputs edit numbers in octal. In order to
determine if a particular edit is included in this version
of the software, it is necessary to convert the edit number
to octal and compare it to the edit number printed out by
the EXEC. If the edit number is less than or equal to the
edit from INFO VERSION, then the patch of interest is in
this version of the software.
6.0 FLOPPIES
6.1 Updating RSX20F from V14-45 to V14-45G
For those customers who have a KL Model A, release 4.1
includes V14-45G of RSX20F contained on floppies A and B.
Floppy C has not been included in the release 4.1 update
because the RSX20F.MAP file that is on the floppy has not
changed from RSX20F V14-45. Version V14-45G is the
maintenance release RSX20F V14-45 with edits C, D, E, F and
G installed as patches (edits A and B were not applied as
edit A does not currently apply to TOPS20 and edit B was
superseded by edit D). The floppies also contain a patched
PARSER.TSK that has edit A installed.
The file RSX20F.PCO lists the edits that have been
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installed, the following is a brief description of each:
Edit C fixes a problem of spurious modem interrupts for
local lines. These interrupts have been the cause of
severly degraded performance. This will also prevent error
logs for local lines reporting "Lost Interrupt" for DM11's
in SPEAR after front-end reloads.
Edit D fixes a hung line problem where all terminal input
gets responded to with a <BELL>.
Edit E makes RSX20F more forgiving when connecting modems.
This edit removes the necessity of installing the two
unsupported patches that have been widely distributed to
make modems work with V14-45. In particular RSX20F will now
accept interrupts with secondary receive high and RSX20F
will check for carrier when a ring interrupt occurs.
Edit F fixes a problem of the CTY hanging when the KLINIK
line is accessed in USER mode while enabled for REMOTE
access.
Edit G fixes a problem of RSX20F appearing to lose an XON
from a terminal when running programs loaded with PA1050.
PARSER edit A fixes the EXAMINE PI command so that it
returns valid data for PI GEN and PI HOLD.
If you are updating from a release prior to release 4, you
MUST follow the instructions for building a working
front-end file system as described in Notebook 14 in the
TOPS-20 Software Installation Guide, Chapter 4, Creating
Front End File System.
To update your release 4 front end you can save some steps
and install V14-45G by doing the following with TOPS20
shutdown (via PAR>SHUT):
Put the V14-45G floppies A and B in the floppy drives 0 and
1 respectively.
Put 3 (switches 0 and 1) in the console switches and push
ENABLE SWITCH.
RSX-20F VB14-45G 14:48 23-Nov-82
[SY0: redirected to DX0:]
[DX0: mounted]
[DX1: mounted]
Type a "^\" (control backslash).
PAR%mcr mou
MOU>db0:
MOU -- MOUNT COMPLETE
MOU>^z
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^\
PAR%mcr red
RED>db0:=sy0:
<will not return>
^\
PAR%mcr pip
PIP>DB0:RSX20F.SYS;*/DE
PIP>DB0:RSX20F.SYS;1445=DX1:RSX20F.SYS
PIP>DB0:PARSER.TSK;*/DE
PIP>DB0:PARSER.TSK;2=DX1:PARSER.TSK
PIP>^z
^\
PAR%mcr sav
SAV>sy0:/wb
[DB0: dismounted]
[DX0: dismounted]
[DX1: dismounted]
RSX-20F VB14-45G 14:48 23-Nov-82
[SY0: redirected to DB0:]
[DB0: mounted]
7.0 RSX20F DEPOSIT COMMAND
The RSX20F DEPOSIT command has changed its delimiter. The
old delimiter was a ":". The new delimiter is a "=". The
format of the DEPOSIT command is now as follows:
DEPOSIT ADDR=DATA