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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
&QBOL QBOL.SV @CALLING COMMANDS: .QBOL DEV:NAME.QS /1. COMPILE SOURCE FILE 'NAME.QS' FROM DEV: /2. CREATE LOAD FILE 'NAME.QB' ON DEV: /3. LIST SOURCE ON LPT: .QBOL NAME.QS / DEFAULT DEVICE IS DSK: .QBOL DEV:NAME.QB /1. EXECUTE LOAD FILE 'NAME.QB' ON DEV: .QBOL NAME.QB / DEFAULT DEVICE IS DSK: @SWITCHES: .QBOL DEV:NAME.QS/SWITCH/SWITCH..... /L LIST SOURCE /N DO NOT LIST SOURCE /Q USE PRINTER (LPT) /U USE TERMINAL (TTY) /S SHOW STORAGE REQUIRED /V DO NOT SHOW STORAGE /M PRINT MAP OF VARIABLES /R PRINT CROSS REFERENCE /O PRINT OBJECT LIST .HELP QBOLERR WILL SHOW ERROR CODES.
&QBOLERR QBOL EXECUTION ERRORS CODE REASON CODE REASON ------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- 1 READ PAST EOF 17 COULD NOT CREATE NEW FILE 2 ILLEGAL DECIMAL=ALPHA 20 NO MORE FILES IN EXECUTE LINE 3 MORE RETURNS THAN CALLS 21 NO DEVICE FOR 'OPEN' 4 TOO MANY NESTED SUBROUTINES 22 'OPEN' FOR ALREADY OPENED FILE 5 BAD OPCODE. CHECK ARRAYS 23 UNIMPLEMENTED OPCODE 6 I/O ON UNOPENED FILE 24 'READ' OR 'WRITE' ON ASCII FILE 7 TOO MANY FILES OPEN 25 BACKWARDS DOUBLE SUBSCRIPT 10 FILE NOT FOUND IN 'OPEN' 26 WRONG LENGTH RECORD 11 I/O BEYOND FILE LIMITS 27 BAD RECORD NUMBER 12 I/O ERROR WHILE READING 30 ILLEGAL SYSTEM CALL 13 I/O ERROR WHILE WRITING 31 BAD LOADER DATA 14 I/O BUFFER TOO SMALL 32 NO LOAD (OBJECT) FILE 15 DIVISION BY ZERO 33 UNKNOWN DEV: IN EXECUTE LINE 16 COULD NOT CLOSE TENTA. FILE 34 ZERO SUBSCRIPT USER ERROR 1 AT 16722 MEANS THAT THE SYSTEM DATE HAS NOT BEEN ENTERED.
&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



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