D. E. Wrege and J. C. Alderman, Georgia Institute of

Technology, Atlanta, Georgia

A dialect has been developed utilizing the disk (DF32 or

RF08) for both text and variable storage in a 4K PDP-8.

Variable storage is via the arrayed function FNEW, while

text is stored via the LIBRARY command which has been pre-

empted for the purpose. Limitations of programming complexity

in the current version limit the user to about 6 complete

FOCAL program images and 1320 DISK FNEW variables (8K

of the disk). A trivial modification to the coding will allow

the user to expand the disk area. The package was written

for the DF32, but changes required for the RF08 are easily

made by a user of such. The Disk/DECtape Monitor does not

protect the user's files generated by the use of the package,

but a program to implement the protection is under development.