WNA4-2 Diskette Information Last edit: 16-Feb-2015 cjl Type: OS/8 Format MDC8 Diskette Purpose: Source and [Font] Data Files for P?S/8 Appications; Help Files for P?S/8 as of 19-Nov-1989 Note: Some of the date information below may have been modified to correct for factual errors or design limitations of OS/8. Where applicable, authoritative date information has been obtained from reliable sources. As required, discrepancies regarding specific files and additional information about certain files will be provided. Directory Listing: ____________________________________________________________________________________ 19-NOV-89 FOCPQS.HL 0007 95 04-FEB-87 KL8PCH.HL 0146 50 08-APR-87 RT11 .HL 0230 5 27-DEC-86 BLKCPY.HL 0235 121 08-APR-87 RXAHND.HL 0426 13 08-APR-87 4PATCH.HL 0443 2 08-APR-87 8PATCH.HL 0445 2 08-APR-87 DPATCH.HL 0447 17 08-APR-87 CONSOL.HL 0470 67 08-APR-87 VT8PCH.HL 0573 21 08-APR-87 VT8E .HL 0620 17 08-APR-87 PQSDTA.HL 0641 33 08-APR-87 KL8 .HL 0702 37 08-APR-87 DIRECT.HL 0747 59 20-OCT-87 PRINT .HL 1042 16 03-JUL-87 FILMAN.HL 1062 157 20-OCT-87 HDSPLO.PA 1317 127 15-FEB-89 GOTH24.FN 1516 17 27-JUN-88 CONVRT.TE 1537 2 22-JUL-88 24GOTH.FN 1541 21 22-JUL-88 FONCON.PA 1566 54 29-JUL-88 DATA .PA 1654 108 25-FEB-88 SPANAL.PA 2030 207 06-APR-88 2347 825 825 FREE BLOCKS ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ File Information FOCPQS.HL Partial listing file abstract created by assembling FOCPQS.PA and retaining only a small section as a stop-gap documentation file [often known as a HELP file; in OS/8 terms, the extension must be reduced to .HL]. Full file name: FOCPQS.HELP. KL8PCH.HL Partial listing file abstract created by assembling KL8PCH.PA and retaining only a small section as a stop-gap documentation file [often known as a HELP file; in OS/8 terms, the extension must be reduced to .HL]. Full file name: KL8PCH.HELP. RT11 .HL Partial listing file abstract created by assembling RT11.PA and retaining only a small section as a stop-gap documentation file [often known as a HELP file; in OS/8 terms, the extension must be reduced to .HL]. Full file name: RT11.HELP. BLKCPY.HL Partial listing file abstract created by assembling BLKCPY.PA and retaining only a small section as a stop-gap documentation file [often known as a HELP file; in OS/8 terms, the extension must be reduced to .HL]. Full file name: BLKCPY.HELP. RXAHND.HL Partial listing file abstract created by assembling RXAHND.PA and retaining only a small section as a stop-gap documentation file [often known as a HELP file; in OS/8 terms, the extension must be reduced to .HL]. Full file name: RXAHND.HELP. 4PATCH.HL Partial listing file abstract created by assembling 4PATCH.PA and retaining only a small section as a stop-gap documentation file [often known as a HELP file; in OS/8 terms, the extension must be reduced to .HL]. Full file name: 4PATCH.HELP. 8PATCH.HL Partial listing file abstract created by assembling 8PATCH.PA and retaining only a small section as a stop-gap documentation file [often known as a HELP file; in OS/8 terms, the extension must be reduced to .HL]. Full file name: 8PATCH.HELP. DPATCH.HL Partial listing file abstract created by assembling DPATCH.PA and retaining only a small section as a stop-gap documentation file [often known as a HELP file; in OS/8 terms, the extension must be reduced to .HL]. Full file name: DPATCH.HELP. CONSOL.HL Partial listing file abstract created by assembling CONSOL.PA and retaining only a small section as a stop-gap documentation file [often known as a HELP file; in OS/8 terms, the extension must be reduced to .HL]. Full file name: CONSOL.HELP. VT8PCH.HL Partial listing file abstract created by assembling VT8PCH.PA and retaining only a small section as a stop-gap documentation file [often known as a HELP file; in OS/8 terms, the extension must be reduced to .HL]. Full file name: VT8PCH.HELP. VT8E .HL Partial listing file abstract created by assembling VT8E.PA and retaining only a small section as a stop-gap documentation file [often known as a HELP file; in OS/8 terms, the extension must be reduced to .HL]. Full file name: VT8E.HELP. PQSDTA.HL Partial listing file abstract created by assembling PQSDTA.PA and retaining only a small section as a stop-gap documentation file [often known as a HELP file; in OS/8 terms, the extension must be reduced to .HL]. Full file name: PQSDTA.HELP. KL8 .HL Partial listing file abstract created by assembling KL8.PA and retaining only a small section as a stop-gap documentation file [often known as a HELP file; in OS/8 terms, the extension must be reduced to .HL]. Full file name: KL8.HELP. DIRECT.HL Partial listing file abstract created by assembling DIRECT.PA and retaining only a small section as a stop-gap documentation file [often known as a HELP file; in OS/8 terms, the extension must be reduced to .HL]. Full file name: DIRECT.HELP. PRINT .HL Partial listing file abstract created by assembling PRINT.PA and retaining only a small section as a stop-gap documentation file [often known as a HELP file; in OS/8 terms, the extension must be reduced to .HL]. Full file name: PRINT.HELP. FILMAN.HL Partial listing file abstract created by assembling FILMAN.PA and retaining only a small section as a stop-gap documentation file [often known as a HELP file; in OS/8 terms, the extension must be reduced to .HL]. Full file name: FILMAN.HELP HDSPLO.PA Source file for a plotting utility for the HDS3200 graphics terminal operating under P?S/8. Note: File date corrected. Full file name: HDSPLOT.PAL. GOTH24.FN Fancy-Font file converted to text format by using CONVRT.TE in OS/8 or equivalent. Full file name: GOTHIC24.FON. CONVRT.TE TECO macro to convert Fancy-Font files to text files in preparation for processing with the FONCON program in P?S/8. Fancy-Font files are usually obtained from MS-DOS systems using Kermit-12 or an equivalent process. Once converted to printable text, the files can be converted to P?S/8 text files using the P?S/8 OS8CON program. The resultant files are then processed by FONCON. Full file name: CONVERT.TEC. 24GOTH.FN Fancy-Font file converted to text format by using CONVRT.TE in OS/8 or equivalent. Full file name: 24GOTHIC.FON. FONCON.PA Fancy-Font -> P?S/8 text file converter program. Seven-bit font files are converted to six-bit P?S/8 text format without line numbers intended to be an extended-length file in the extended file directory. The output file is oriented towards DEC sixel format. This allows trivial output programming in a variety of languages to output custom font text messages to label plots printed on a variety of DEC printers that support plotting data points and also sixel graphics that can be used to form characters. The converted files are then passed to the printing/plotting program along with data points created elsewhere. Any standard Fancy-Font font file can be used as input after conversion by CONVRT.TE in OS/8 or equivalent. Full file name: FONCON.PAL. DATA .PA Complex real-time data acquisition program for the LAB-8/e or PDP-12 to collect data at regular intervals and write the data on DECtape [or LINCtape if PDP-12] that can run for a lengthy time period; the tape buffering must not interfere with the data rate; certain unusual techniques are used to prevent device interaction. [Note: The program was debugged with an oscilloscope to determine sources of data time-sync jitter; instruction times in certain key program sections must be carefully accounted for, etc.] This program was refined over a period of about 15 years to deal with certain neurological data and the study of eye motions with timing accuracy to within a very small percentage error. Because it uses a pair of dismountable tapes, experimental data can be extended arbitrarily. Note: OS/8 File date is more authoritative than the file internal date; however, the specific date has meaning with respect to the recovered MDC8 disketts; the probable correct date likely to be as much as two years earlier [but is still much closer than the internal date comment field which was not updated by various program maintainers]. Full file name: DATA.PAL. SPANAL.PA Display-oriented real-time data analysis program that operates under P?S/8. Can be assembled to display on either the LAB-8/E or a home-brew 12-bit D-A converter board patterned after the DEC AA01A. Real-time data is read from either TC01/TC08 DECtape or MDC8 HD Diskette [FLP] media in the format defined in the DATA program described elsewhere. Various one-character keyboard commands control what data is displayed. The entire program can be run unattended through the use of P?S/8 text files instead of the console input. Requires a minimum of 20K memory depending on features assembled into a working binary version. Note: File date corrected. Full file name: SPANAL.PAL. [End-of-file]