editors note: Some of this material was submitted in chicago 1980. I am assuming that the files with the same name were to superseed the files submitted in San Diego 1979. The author did NOT include a README.1st for the Chicago material. end note ROBERT WATSON CISCO, INC. (918)665-2110 4135 S. 100TH E. AVE. TULSA OK 74145 THIS TAPE CONTAINS THE MODULES FOR TWO TASKS. 1. TASKER IS COMPOSED OF TASKER.CMD (TASKBUILD COMMAND FILE, MCR MODE) TASKER.FTN OP.FTN DOIT.FTN REG.FTN OCTL.FTN BAD.FTN FILL.FTN INIT.FTN BRA.FTN CHANGE.FTN SRCH.FTN OTHER.FTN HDR.FTN 2. SEE IS COMPOSED OF SEE.CMD (TASKBUILD COMMAND FILE, MCR MODE) SEE.FTN GETSYS.MAC HOLE.MAC *** THESE TWO TASKS ARE USABLE ONLY ON AN IAS VERSION 3.0 SYSTEM *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TASKER IS A UTILITY FOR EXAMINING AND MODIFYING TASK IMAGE FILES ON DISK. IT HAS FOUR FUNCTIONS: UPDATE REPORT SEARCH HEADER UPDATE MODE ALLOWS THE USER TO DISPLAY ANY WORD OF THE TASK (AS AN OCTAL NUMBER) BY VIRTUAL ADDRESS, AND ENTER NEW CONTENTS IN IT. THE NEW CON- TENTS CAN BE TYPED IN AS OCTAL, ASCII, OR ASCII TO BE CONVERTED TO RAD50. REPORT MODE ALLOWS THE USER TO DISPLAY (OR PRINT) ANY WORD OR SECTION OF WORDS OF THE TASK AS OCTAL, ASCII, RAD50 CONVERTED TO ASCII, OR AS MACRO SOURCE CODE. SEARCH MODE ALLOWS THE USER TO ENTER ONE OR TWO WORDS AS OCTAL, ASCII, OR ASCII TO BE CONVERTED TO RAD50. THEN TASKER REPORTS THE VIRTUAL OF EVERY OCCURENCE OF THIS WORD (OR WORDS) WITHIN A SPECIFIED ADDRESS RANGE. HEADER MODE DISPLAYS (OR PRINTS) INFORMATION FROM THE TASK HEADER IN AN EASILY READABLE FORMAT. RELATIVELY SIMPLE CHANGES CAN BE MADE IN PLACE TO LARGE OR INSTALLED TASKS BY USING THIS UTILITY. DATA AND/OR CODE CAN EASILY BE CHANGED IN FORTRAN-WRITTEN TASKS BY USING TASKER IN CONJUNCTION WITH AN F4P LI:3 LISTING AND A TASKBUILD MAP. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SEE DISPLAYS THE SYSTEM STATUS ON A VT52 OR VT100. IT TELLS THE TIME, THE NUMBER OF FREE NODES, THE SIZE OF THE LARGEST HOLE, AND THE CON- TENTS OF THE ATL AND MRL. PARAMETERS CAN BE SET PRIOR TO COMPILE TO DETERMINE SEPARATELY THE UPDATE INTERVALS OF TIME-NODES-HOLE, AND ATL-MRL. ALSO, PARAMETERS DETERMINE HOW MANY TIMES THE SCREEN UPDATES BEFORE THE PROGRAM TIMES OUT, AND HOW LOW SYSTEM RESOURECES CAN GO BEFORE THE PROGRAM BEGINS TO SOUND WARNING BELLS. SEE CAN BE TERMINATED AT ANY TIME BY TYPING ANY PRINTABLE CHARACTER. SEE HAS SOME ADVANTAGES OVER POOL, SYS, AND DEMO. POOL DOESN'T GIVE THE ATL AND MRL. SYS DOESN'T GIVE THE NODES OR HOLE. IF THE DEMO SCREEN IS ADJUSTED TO DISPLAY ALL OF MEMORY, THEN SOME SMALL TASKS MAY NOT BE DIS- PLAYED. ALSO, SYS AND DEMO NEVER SHOW TIMESHARING TASKS AS BEING IN THE MRL. SEE SHOWS ANY TASK WITH A STATUS OF 'MRL', 'MRE', OR 'MRR' AS BE- ING IN THE MRL, WHETHER THE TASK IS TIMESHARING OR REALTIME.