terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr) (06/16/90)
Big John from MEGATRONICS <GEREMIN@decus.com.au> sent me mail to remind me that a month ago, I said: > And lots of other stuff. I'll post a complete summary when I get back >to the office... Well, I forgot. But here's the list, as compiled from the Symposium session RS006 - RSTS/E V10.0 Overview: o RA70, RA90 disks supported o Command line editing and recall (a la VMS) o Characters echoed when read instead of as typed (if typed ahead) o Host initiated LAT connections (for modem pools, PBS printers on servers) o Extended logicals (up to 100 user logicals, up to 15 characters long) o Operator Message Services (OMS) (like OPCOM on VMS, OMS+PBS replaces OPSER) o PRINT/NOTIFY, SUBMIT/NOTIFY o BACKUP/IMAGE (fast on-line SAVRES IMAGE, also optimizes disks, supports dissimilar media types for input, output disks) o BACKUP/COPY - like PIP, but uses asynchronous I/O for speed o Larger BACKUP blocksizes (28K, default is now 16K) o Faster BACKUP operation o New file attributes: NOBACKUP (like VMS), IGNORE o Job headers - where the command recall and logicals live - adds 2Kw to swap max, does not detract from job size) o Login enhancements - non-interactive time also kept, login by name o New OPER priv (to control OMS) o New MSDS$ directive - maps supervisor-mode D-space o Batch job exit status enhanced o New F$ENVIRONMENT lexical - returns lots of stuff o Lots of new commands and qualifiers to support the above o COPY now determines correct transfer mode for DECnet copies - may be over- riden by user at the DCL level o Auto-update of Basic-Plus runtime systems (including debug mode) o New Sort/Merge (V3.1) - bug fixes, new manual o RSTS Internals Manual now supplied in doc set o REORDR allows sorting by filename/filetype If you want more info on any of these enhancements, or have general ques- tions, just post a followup here... Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing terry@spcvxa.bitnet St. Peter's College, US terry@spcvxa.spc.edu (201) 915-9381