File: HELP78.HL of Tape: OS8/OS8-V3D/al-4697c-sa-os8-v3d-7
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&
 
			    OS/78 V1
 
			 COMMAND SUMMARY
 
ASSIGN	ASSIGN NAME TO DEVICE		LOAD	LOAD FILE
BASIC	ENTER BASIC SYSTEM		MAP	PRINT BITMAP
COMPARE	COMPARE SOURCE FILES		MEMORY	RESTRICT MEMORY USAGE
COMPILE	COMPILE FILE			ODT	RUN OCTAL DEBUGGER
COPY	COPY FILE			PAL	ASSEMBLE FILE
CREATE	OPEN EDIT FILE			R	RUN PROGRAM FROM SYS
CREF	ASSEMBLE AND CREF		RENAME	RENAME FILE
DATE	SPECIFY DATE			RUN	RUN PROGRAM
DEAS	DEASSIGN LOGICAL DEVICES	SAVE	SAVE MEMORY IMAGE
DELETE	DELETE FILE			SET	ALTER DEVICE
DIRECT	PRINT DIRECTORY			SQUISH	SQUISH DEVICE
DUPLIC	COPIES DISKETTES		START	START PROGRAM
EDIT	EDIT FILE			SUBMIT	START BATCH
EXECUTE	COMPILE AND RUN			TERMIN	ENTER TERMINAL MODE
GET	GET MEMORY IMAGE		TYPE	TYPE FILE
HELP	LIST HELP INFORMATION		U[A-C]	STORE COMMAND
LIST	LIST FILE			ZERO	ZERO DEVICE

&ABSLDR
	ABSLDR.SV
 
@CALLING COMMANDS:
.LOAD DEV:BINFILE.BN,...
.LOAD BINFILE.BN,...	/FROM DSK

@SWITCHES:
/8	PROG DOESN'T USE BELOW 02000
/9	PROG DOESN'T USE BELOW 12000
/G	GO
/I	MEMORY IMAGE FILE
/R	RESET
/S	MULTIPLE BINARIES/FILE
/N	FORCE LOADING TO FIELD N (N IS AN OCTAL DIGIT)
=FNNNN	SET STARTING ADDRESS

&BASIC
	BASIC.SV
 
@CALLING COMMANDS:
.BASIC
 
@INTERNAL COMMANDS:
BYE	EXIT FROM BASIC
LIST	LIST CURRENT PROGRAM'S STATEMENTS
NAME	RENAME CURRENT PROGRAM
NEW	PREPARE FOR A NEW PROGRAM
OLD	RETRIEVE AN OLD PROGRAM
RUN	RUN CURRENT PROGRAM
SAVE	SAVE CURRENT PROGRAM
SCRATCH	DELETE CURRENT PROGRAM
 
.HELP BCOMP	PRINTS BASIC COMPILER ERROR MESSAGES
.HELP BRTS	PRINTS BASIC RUN-TIME ERROR MESSAGES

&BCOMP
	BCOMP.SV	(ERRORS)
 
@ERRORS:
CH	ERROR IN CHAIN STATEMENT	NM	MISSING LINE NUMBER
DE	ERROR IN DEF STATEMENT		OF	OUTPUT FILE ERROR
DI	ERROR IN DIM STATEMENT		PD	PUSHDOWN STACK OVERFLOW
FN	ERROR IN FILE NUMBER OR NAME	QS	STRING LITERAL TOO LONG
FP	INCORRECT FOR STATEMENT		SS	BAD SUBSCRIPT OR FUNCTION ARG
FR	ERROR IN FUNCTION ARGS		ST	SYMBOL TABLE OVERFLOW
IF	ERROR IN IF STATEMENT		SY	SYSTEM INCOMPLETE
IO	I/O ERROR			TB	PROGRAM TOO BIG
LS	MISSING EQUALS SIGN IN LET	TD	TOO MUCH DATA IN PROGRAM
LT	STATEMENT TOO LONG		TS	TOO MANY CHARS IN STRING
MD	MULTIPLY DEFINED LINE NUMBER	UD	ERROR IN UDEF STATEMENT
ME	MISSING END STATEMENT		UF	FOR STATEMENT WITHOUT NEXT
MO	OPERAND EXPECTED, NOT FOUND	US	UNDEFINED STATEMENT NUMBER
MP	PARENTHESIS ERROR		UU	USE STATEMENT ERROR
MT	OPERAND OF MIXED TYPE		XC	CHARS AFTER END OF LINE
NF	NEXT STATEMENT WITHOUT FOR

&BRTS
	BRTS.SV		(ERRORS)
 
@ERRORS:
BO	NO MORE BUFFERS AVAILABLE	GS	TOO MANY NESTED GOSUBS
CI	IN CHAIN,DEVICE NOT FOUND	IA	ILLEGAL ARG IN UDEF
CL	IN CHAIN,FILE NOT FOUND		IF	ILLEGAL DEV:FILENAME
CX	CHAIN ERROR			IN	INQUIRE FAILURE
DA	READING PAST END OF DATA	IO	TTY INPUT BUFFER OVERFLOW
DE	DEVICE DRIVER ERROR		LM	TAKING LOG OF NEGATIVE NUMBER
DO	NO MORE ROOM FOR DRIVERS	OE	DRIVER ERROR WHILE OVERLAYING
DV	ATTEMPT TO DIVIDE BY ZERO	OV	NUMERIC OR INPUT OVERFLOW
EF	LOGICAL END OF FILE		PA	ILLEGAL ARG IN POS
EM	NEGATIVE NUMBER TO REAL POWER	RE	READING PAST END OF FILE
EN	ENTER ERROR			SC	CONCATENATED STRING TOO LONG
FB	USING FILE ALREADY IN USE	SL	STRING TOO LONG OR UNDEFINED
FC	CLOSE ERROR			SR	READING STRING FROM NUMERIC FILE
FE	FETCH ERROR			ST	STRING TRUNCATION ON INPUT
FI	CLOSING OR USING UNOPENED FILE	SU	SUBSCRIPT OUT OF RANGE
FM	FIXING NEGATIVE NUMBER		SW	WRITING STRING INTO NUMERIC FILE
FN	ILLEGAL FILE NUMBER		VR	READING VARIABLE LENGTH FILE
FO	FIXING NUMBER > 4095		WE	WRITING PAST END OF FILE
GR	RETURN WITHOUT GOSUB

&COMPAR
	SRCCOM.SV
 
@CALLING COMMANDS:
.COMPAR DEV:OUTFILE.PA<DEV:INFILE1.PA,DEV:INFILE2.PA
.COMPAR OUTFILE.PA<INFILE1.PA,INFILE2.PA		/FILES ON DSK
 
@SWITCHES:
/B	COMPARE BLANK LINES
/C	DON'T COMPARE (SLASHED) COMMENTS
/S	DON'T COMPARE TABS AND SPACES
/T	CONVERT TABS TO SPACES ON OUTPUT
/X	DON'T COMPARE OR PRINT COMMENTS
 
@ERRORS:
?0	INSUFFICIENT MEMORY
?1	INPUT ERROR FILE 1 (OR LESS THAN 2 INPUT FILES)
?2	INPUT ERROR FILE 2
?3	OUTPUT FILE TOO LARGE
?4	OUTPUT ERROR
?5	CAN'T OPEN OUTPUT FILE

&CREF
	CREF.SV

@CALLING COMMANDS:
.CREF DEV:BINFILE.BN,DEV:LISTFILE.LS,DEV:TEMPFILE.TM<DEV:INFILE.PA
.CREF DEV:INFILE.PA	/LISTING TO LINE PRINTER ONLY
.CREF INFILE.PA		/LISTING TO LINE PRINTER, INPUT FILE ON DSK

@SWITCHES:
/E	DON'T DELETE CREFLS.TM
/M	MAMMOTH (TWICE AS MANY SYMBOLS, TWICE AS SLOW)
/P	NO PASS 1 LISTING
/U	NO LISTING OR SYMBOL TABLE
/X	NO LITERALS

&DIRECT
	DIRECT.SV

@CALLING COMMANDS
.DIR DEV:FILETYPE				/* IS WILD NAME OR EXTENSION
.DIR FILETYPE					/? IS WILD CHARACTER

@SWITCHES:
/B	INCLUDE STARTING BLOCK NUMBERS (OCTAL)
/C	LIST ONLY FILES WITH CURRENT DATE
/E	INCLUDE EMPTIES
/F	FAST MODE
/M	LIST EMPTIES ONLY
/O	LIST ONLY FILES WITH OTHER THAN TODAY'S DATE
/R	LIST REMAINDER OF FILES AFTER FIRST ONE (BUT USE /C,/O)
/U	TREAT EACH INPUT SPECIFICATION SEPARATELY
/V	LIST FILES NOT OF FORM SPECIFIED
/W	GIVE VERSION NUMBER
=N	USE N COLUMNS

&DUPLIC
	RXCOPY.SV
 
@CALLING COMMANDS:
.DUPLIC OUTDEV:<INDEV:
 
@SWITCHES:
/M	MATCH WITH NO IMPLIED COPY
/N	COPY WITH NO IMPLIED MATCH
/P	PAUSE BEFORE AND AFTER ACCESSING DISK
/R	READ OUTPUT DEVICE WITH NO IMPLIED COPY OR MATCH
/V	PRINT VERSION NUMBER

&EDIT
&CREATE
	EDIT.SV

@CALLING COMMANDS:			INTERNAL COMMANDS:
.EDIT DEV:OUTFILE.PA<DEV:INFILE.PA	A	APPEND TEXT
.CREATE OUTFILE.PA			B	LIST # LOCATIONS LEFT

					C	CHANGE TEXT
@SWITCHES:				D	DELETE TEXT
/A	RETURN TO EDITOR ON CLOSE	E	TRANSFER REST OF DATA,CLOSE
/B	CONVERT SPACES TO TAB		F	AFTER J,RESUME SEARCH
/D	PREDELETE			G	GET AND LIST TAGGED LINE
 					I	INSERT TEXT 
@ERRORS:					J	INTER-BUFFER SEARCH
?0	INPUT ERROR			K	KILL BUFFER
?1	OUTPUT ERROR			L	LIST TEXT
?2	CLOSE ERROR			M	MOVE TEXT
?3	OPEN ERROR			N	WRITE TEXT,READ NEXT PAGE
?4	COULDN'T LOAD HANDLER		P	WRITE BUFFER TO OUTPUT
					Q	IMMEDIATE END OF FILE
					R	READ FROM INPUT DEVICE
					S	CHARACTER SEARCH
					V	LIST ON LINE PRINTER
					Y	INPUT PAGE,NO OUTPUT

&FORTRAN
&F4
	F4.SV

@CALLING COMMANDS:
.COMPILE DEV:RALFFILE.RL,DEV:LISTFILE.LS,DEV:MAPFILE.MP<DEV:INFILE.FT
.COMPILE INFILE.FT		/FROM DSK
  
@SWITCHES:
/N	SUPPRESS INTERNAL STATEMENT NUMBERS
/Q	OPTIMIZE
 
.HELP F4ERR	PRINTS FORTRAN ERROR MESSAGES

&F4ERR
					MK	MISSPELLED KEYWORD
AA	TOO MANY ARGS ARE ARRAYS	ML	MULTIPLY DEFINED LINE NUMBERS
AS	BAD ASSIGN STATEMENT		MM	MISMATCHED PARENTHESIS
BD	BAD DIMENSIONS			MO	EXPECTED OPERAND MISSING
BS	BAD STATEMENT IN BLOCK DATA	MT	MIXED VARIABLE TYPES
CL	BAD COMPLEX LITERAL		OF	ERROR WRITING OUTPUT FILE
CO	SYNTAX ERROR IN COMMON		OP	ILLEGAL OPERATOR
DA	BAD SYNTAX IN DATA STATEMENT	OT	WRONG OPERAND TYPE
DE	ILLEGAL STATEMENT AT END OF DO	PD	COMPILER STACK OVERFLOW
DF	BAD DEFINE FILE STATEMENT	PH	BAD PROGRAM HEADER LINE
DH	HOLLERITH FIELD ERROR		QL	NESTING ERROR IN EQUIVALENCE
DL	WRONG DATA/VARIABLE LIST LENGTH	QS	SYNTAX ERROR IN EQUIVALENCE
DN	DO-END MISSING			RD	REDEFINING VARIABLE DIMENSIONS
DO	SYNTAX ERROR IN DO		RT	REDEFINING VARIABLE TYPE
DP	BAD DO LOOP PARAMETER		RW	SYNTAX ERROR IN READ/WRITE
EX	SYNTAX ERROR IN EXTERNAL	SF	BAD ARITHMETIC FUNCTION
GT	SYNTAX ERROR IN GOTO		SN	ILLEGAL NAME IN CALL
GV	VARIABLE NOT INTEGER OR REAL	SS	SUBSCRIPT EXPRESSION ERROR
HO	HOLLERITH FIELD ERROR		ST	SYMBOL TABLE FULL
IE	ERROR READING INPUT FILE	SY	SYSTEM ERROR
IF	IMPROPER STATEMENT		TD	BAD SYNTAX IN TYPE DECLARATION
LI	BAD ARG TO LOGICAL IF		US	UNDEFINED STATEMENT NUMBER
LT	INPUT LINE TOO LONG		VE	VERSION ERROR

&LOAD
	LOAD.SV

@CALLING COMMANDS:
.LOAD DEV:OUTFILE.LD<DEV:INFILE1.RL,...
 
@SWITCHES:
/C	MORE INPUT TO LOAD
/G	CHAIN TO RUN-TIME SYSTEM
/L	ACCEPT LIBRARY FILE
/S	SYMBOL MAP

&MAP
	BITMAP.SV
 
@CALLING COMMANDS:
.MAP MAPFILE.MP<INFILE.BN,...
 
@SWITCHES:
/N	FORCES MAPPING OF ALL FILES TO FIELD N (0-7)
/R	RESET INTERNAL MAP
/S	ALLOW MULTIPLE BINARIES PER FILE
/T	INVERT TTY-STYLE OUTPUT SWITCH

&ODT
	ODT
  
@CALLING COMMANDS:
.ODT
  
@INTERNAL COMMANDS:
NNNNN/	OPEN LOC			N+	OPEN CURRENT LOC+N
/	REOPEN LAST OPENED LOC		N-	OPEN CURRENT LOC-N
NN	DEPOSIT NN IN OPEN LOC		NNG	GO
<CR>	CLOSE PREVIOUSLY OPENED LOC	NNB	ESTABLISH BREAKPOINT
<LF>	CLOSE LOC, OPEN NEXT LOC	B	REMOVE BREAKPOINT
^	CLOSE,OPEN LOC ADDRESSED	A	OPEN AC
_	CLOSE,OPEN LOC POINTED TO	L	OPEN LINK
M	OPEN SEARCH MASK		C	CONTINUE FROM BREAKPOINT
 <LF>	OPEN LOWER SEARCH LIMIT		NNC	CONTINUE NN TIMES
 <LF>	OPEN UPPER SEARCH LIMIT		D	OPEN DATA FIELD
NNW	SEARCH FOR NN IN LIMITS		F	OPEN FIELD FOR ^,_, W
^O	SUPRESS PRINTING

&PAL
	PAL8.SV

@CALLING COMMANDS:
.PAL DEV:BINFILE.BN,DEV:LISTFILE.LS,DEV:TEMPFILE.TM<DEV:INFILE.PA/C
.PAL INFILE.PA

@SWITCHES:
/B	TREAT ! AS BYTE SHIFT			/K	USE EXTRA MEMORY
/C	CHAIN TO CREF				/L	LOAD
/E	ENABLE ERROR MSG ON LINK GENERATED	/N	NO LISTING
/F	DISABLE 0-FILL IN TEXT			/O	DISABLE ORIGIN 200
/G	GO					/S	NO SYMBOL TABLE
/H	NON-PAGINATED OUTPUT			/T	NO FORM FEEDS
/J	DON'T LIST LINES CONDITIONALIZED OUT	/W	DON'T REMEMBER LITERALS
 
.HELP PALERR	PRINTS PAL8 ERROR MESSAGES

&PALERR
	PAL8.SV		(ERRORS)

@ERRORS:
BE	TABLES OVERLAPPED
CF	CREF.SV NO ON SYS:
DE	DEVICE ERROR
DF	DEVICE FULL
IC	ILLEGAL CHARACTER
ID	ILLEGAL REDEFINITION
IE	ILLEGAL EQUALS
II	ILLEGAL INDIRECT
IP	ILLEGAL PSEUDO-OP
IZ	ILLEGAL PAGE ZERO REF
LD	SYS:ABSLDR.SV NOT FOUND
LG	LINK GENERATED
PE	PAGE EXCEEDED
PH	END OF SOURCE CONDITIONALIZED OUT
RD	REDEFINITION
SE	SYMBOL TABLE EXCEEDED
UO	UNDEFINED ORIGIN
US	UNDEFINED SYMBOL
ZE	PAGE 0 EXCEEDED

&SET
	SET.SV
 
@CALLING COMMANDS:
.SET DEV PARAMETER(S)
.SET DEV NO PARAMETER(S)
 
@PARAMETERS:
READONLY	DECLARE DEVICE TO BE READ ONLY
WIDTH N		SET WIDTH OF LINE PRINTER OR TTY
LC		DECLARE LINE PRINTER OR TTY TO HAVE LOWER CASE
ECHO		RESTORE TTY CHARACTER ECHOING
PAGE		RESTORE TTY ^S AND ^Q FACILITIES
SCOPE		ERASE CHARACTER ON TTY RUBOUTS
ESC		DISPLAY ESC(ASCII 033) WITHOUT CONVERTING IT TO $ SIGN
ARROW		DISPLAY CONTROL CHARACTERS WITH UP ARROW (E.G. ^C, ^S)
HEIGHT [M]	SET TTY SCREEN HEIGHT
PAUSE [N]	SET TTY PAUSE TIME
COL N		SET DIRECT TO USE N COLUMNS (.SET TTY COL 2)
INIT XXXXX	CAUSE SYS TO EXECUTE XXXXX ON BOOTSTRAPPING

&SUBMIT
	BATCH.SV
 
@CALLING COMMANDS:
.SUBMIT SPOOLDEV:<INPUTDEV:FILE.BI
 
@SWITCHES:
/E	DON'T ABORT ON MONITOR, CD AND CCL ERRORS
/Q	NO BATCH LOG
/H	HUSH
/T	OUTPUT TO TTY
/U	UNATTENDED

&LIST
&COPY
&RENAME
&DELETE
&TYPE
	FOTP.SV
 
@CALLING COMMANDS:
.COPY DEV:OUTFILE.EX<DEV:INFILE.EX	/* IS WILD NAME OR EXTENSION
.REN DEV:NEWFILE.EX<DEV:OLDFILE.EX	/? IS WILD CHARACTER
.DEL DEV:FILE.EX
.LIST DEV:FILE.EX			/= .COPY LPT:<DEV:FILE.EX
.TYPE DEV:FILE.EX			/= .COPY TTY:<DEV:FILE.EX
 
@SWITCHES:
/C	MATCH ONLY FILES WITH CURRENT DATE
/F	REQUEST NEW DEVICE IF OUT OF ROOM
/L	TYPE LOG OF INPUT FILENAME MATCHES
/N	NO PRE-DELETE
/O	MATCH ONLY FILES WITH OTHER THAN TODAY'S DATE
/Q	QUERY USER ABOUT FILE BEFORE OPERATION
/T	USE TODAY'S DATE
/U	TREAT EACH INPUT SPECIFICATION SEPARATELY
/V	MATCH FILES NOT OF FORM SPECIFIED
/W	PRINT VERSION #

&ASSIGN
&DATE
&DEASSIGN
&GET
&MEMORY
&R
&RUN
&SAVE
&START
&SQUISH
&TERMIN
&UA
&ZERO
	KEYBOARD AND OTHER COMMANDS
 
@CALLING COMMANDS:
.ASSIGN DEV NAME		/ASSIGN NAME TO DEVICE
.DAY DD-MON-YY			/ENTER DATE INTO SYSTEM
.DEASSIGN			/DEASSIGN LOGICAL DEVICE NAMES
.GET DEV FILE.EX		/LOAD MEMORY IMAGE
.MEMORY N			/SPECIFIES HIGHEST FIELD AVAILABLE
.R FILE				/EXECUTE FILE.SV FROM SYS
.RUN DEV FILE.EX		/EXECUTE FILE.EX FROM THE DEVICE
.SAVE DEV FILE.EX		/SAVE MEMORY IMAGE
.SQUISH DEV:			/COMPRESS FILE STORAGE ON DEVICE
.START FNNNN			/START EXECUTION
.TERMIN				/ENTER TERMINAL MODE
.UA COMMAND			/SAVE COMMAND(.UA<CR> EXECUTES IT)
.ZERO DEV:			/ZERO DEVICE'S DIRECTORY