DETEF - DECtape File-Handling System

8-546

Dr, Carl Reutersward, Research Institute of National Defense,

Sundbyberg, Sweden

The DETEF system comprises:

1. A keyboard monitor similar to the Disk/DECtape Monitor,

but better suited to tape operation, Programs are loaded,

saved and recalled as named files made up of sequences of

contiguous blocks. Files of many type-designations may be

allocated and deleted by monitor commands, The resident

DECtape handler operates in the continuous mode (core

locations, not pages, are specified),

2. Utility programs for reading file directory, for packing

and copying files, etc,

3. A modification of FOCAL W: Segmented program and

data files accessed by programmed saving and loading operations;

variables not erased by loading of programs; two data

buffers for economic storage of floating point numbers and

12-bit integers.

4. An adaption of EDIT: DECtape files for input and output;

multiple inputs; input used for output; listing 1:if line numbers,

5. An adaption of PALD: control of extent of assembly listing;

symbol table expansion through storage on DECtape,

Minimum Hardware:
4K PDP-8/I, EAE, TC01, one

TU55; Optional: HSR/P, 32K,

eight TU55's, AX08

Storage Requirement:
7600 to 7777 (Monitor loader

and DECtape handler)

Catalog: July 1973

Minimum Hardware:	4K PDP-8/I, EAE, TC01, one TU55; Optional: HSR/P, 32K, eight TU55's, AX08
Storage Requirement:	7600 to 7777 (Monitor loader and DECtape handler)
Catalog:	July 1973