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TOPS20.DOC TOPS-20 Release 4.1
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SUMMARY
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Version 4.1 is a maintenance release of the TOPS-20
operating system and its associated utilities. Its target
audience is any TOPS-20 site running on a KS (2020) or on a
KL Model A (2040/2050). It is not intended to run on a KL
Model B processor. The number of specific new features in
this release is less than those in TOPS-20 Version 4. Many
of the changes in Version 4.1 relate to minor enhancements
which fix problems that were discovered in Version 4.
The TOPS-20 documentation has been updated in several places
in order to provide complete information on the new features
in Version 4.1. The following documents are especially
important sources of information relating to Version 4.1.
1. TOPS-20 Commands Reference Manual (update)
Provides changes to the TOPS-20 EXEC.
2. TOPS-20 User's Guide (update)
Describes the usage of the system from a user's
point of view. This update includes miscellaneous
improvements.
3. TOPS-20 LINK Reference Manual (revision)
Provides information on LINK Version 5 features.
4. TOPS-10/20 SPEAR manual (new)
Provides information on the system error reporting
program, SPEAR.
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NEW FEATURES IN Version 4.1
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Some specific new features in Version 4.1 are as follows:
1. SPEAR support
SPEAR is an error reporting and analysis mechanism
which is being released and supported with Version
4.1. SPEAR replaces the program SYSERR which was
included with TOPS-20 Version 4. There have been a
few changes within TOPS-20 in order to actually
support the functionality of SPEAR, but all of
these changes are transparent to the user. SPEAR
will continue to read the ERROR.SYS file found in
<SYSTEM>.
Refer to the SPEAR Manual for complete information
on the use of this product.
2. Miscellaneous EXEC enhancements
There are several miscellaneous commands that have
been added to the EXEC in Version 4.1. Please
refer to the TOPS-20 Commands Reference Manual
update for full details of these new commands.
3. Autobaud Detect
TOPS-2020 systems now have the ability to determine
baud rates of remote terminals, up to a speed of
1200 baud
PACKAGING FOR TOPS-20 VERSION 4.1
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There are some minor differences in the packaging of Version
4.1 in comparison to the packaging of Version 4.
Specifically, the following packaging changes have been
made:
1. The Version 4.1 Installation tape for the 2020
contains all supported TOPS-20 monitors. That is,
there is no separate ARPA monitor tape as there was
in Version 4. Any non-ARPA 2020 sites can delete
any ARPA related files contained on the
installation and distribution tapes. The following
is a list of the ARPA utilities
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FTP FTPSER NETSRV NETSTA TN
NMAILR REL1 SNDMSG TELNET
2. The Galaxy included on this tape is Version 4.2
Galaxy. This is a new release of Galaxy which is
also being packaged with Release 5.1 of Tops-20.
See the file GALAXY.BWR for more information on
Galaxy. The following is a list of the Galaxy
components.
BATCON CDRIVE GALGEN GLXLIB LPTSPL
OPR ORION PLEASE QMANGER QUASAR
SPRINT SPROUT
OTHER INFORMATION FOR VERSON 4.1
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1. Updated Utilities
The following utilities have been updated. Most of the
updates will be transparent to the user. However, for some,
such as TV, this may not be the case. See the related
source file for the edit history. The octal edit level
reflects what you would see if you used the Exec
"Information Version" command, the decimal value may be used
when referring to SPRs or Autopatch documentation.
Updated utilities:
Octal Decimal
value value
ACTGEN 5(7) 5(7)
ARMAIL
CHECKD 4(53) 4(43)
CHKPNT 5(166) 5(118)
DLUSER 5(10) 5(8)
EDIT 5(244) 5(164)
LINK 5.1(2030) 5(1048)
MAPPER 5(5) 5(5)
PA1050 5.1(627) 5.1(407)
PLEASE 104(112) 104(74)
PTYCON 5(17) 5(15)
REAPER 5(204) 5(132)
RMS 1.1(60) 1.1(48)
SETSPD 4.1(41) 4.1(33)
SYSJOB 5(20) 5(16)
TV 5.1(1001) 5.1(513)
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ULIST 5(10) 5(8)
WATCH 4(14) 4(12)