Subject: RT-11 RUNOFF DATE: 30-Jan-84 FROM: Robert Walraven Multiware, Inc. 139 G Street, Suite 161 Davis, CA 95616 (916) 756-3291 At the Fall 84 DECUS symposium I volunteered to be the RUNOFF contact on the RT-11 Steering committee. In that capacity I intend to test each new version of RUNOFF that becomes available on the RT-11 symposium tapes, and to coordinate efforts to document and fix any bugs that are found. Watch the RT-11 Minitasker for future RUNOFF information. The Spring 84 RT-11 symposium tape contains a significantly enhanced version of RUNOFF from Bonner Labs that is almost a complete emulation of DSR (Digital Standard Runoff). In addition to providing some very nice features that were not available in the previous version of RUNOFF for RT-11, this new version of RUNOFF offers high compatability between RUNOFF files created on a VAX with DSR and RUNOFF files created on RT-11. Unfortunately the Spring 84 Bonner Labs RUNOFF contained two bugs in the RT-11 implementation: 1) on 11/73s it would sometimes crash the system, 2) on some systems it would not run after a certain date. The Fall 84 RT-11 symposium tape contains a revised and improved version of Bonner Labs RUNOFF that not only has the previous bugs fixed but has a substantial number of enhancements. If you are a RUNOFF user, I strongly recommend that you start using this version of Bonner Lab RUNOFF. I have tried the FALL 84 Bonner Lab RUNOFF on several 11/23 configurations, a micro-11 with a /73, a PRO-350 running TSX, and a PRO-380 running RT-V5.1. It performed well on all of these systems except the PRO-380. I think the problem on the 380 is tied up with the PRO/RT problem of running large jobs and is not a problem with Bonner Lab RUNOFF itself. I have found one minor bug that has an easy workaround: if the last line of a RUNOFF file is to be printed in 'fill' mode, it does not get written out. The workaround is: Create a one line file with '.NJ', and specify this file at the end of the command string. For example, if the file FIX.RNO contains the single line '.NJ', then the runoff file 'MYFILE.RNO' would be typed out correctly by giving RUNOFF the CSI string 'TT:=MYFILE,FIX'. If you encounter any problems with Bonner Lab RUNOFF, please send me a complete description of the problem preferably with the offending RUNOFF file. If I can verify the problem, I will work with the authors of Bonner Lab RUNOFF to see if it can be fixed by the next release.