FIDO IS A WATCHDOG, SOMEWHAT LIKE A DISOWNED MINI-PEEK, WHICH WILL SEND YOU A MESSAGE WHENEVER AN 'OBJECT' OF INTEREST APPEARS ON (OR DISAPPEARS FROM) THE SYSTEM. TYPING '?' AT FIDO WILL PRODUCE THE FOLLOWING SUMMARY OF COMMANDS: ***** HOW-2 TRAIN FIDO: GIVE FIDO UP TO 10 THINGS TO WATCH FOR, SEPARATED BY COMMAS, BLANKS, OR CARRIAGE RETURNS. THERE ARE FIVE TYPES OF OBJECTS: 1) USER JUST GIVE THE UNAME, E.G.'LOSER' 2) TTY GIVE 'T' FOLLOWED BY 2-DIGIT OCTAL TTY #, E.G. 'T04' 3) HOST GIVE 3-DIGIT OCTAL HOST NUMBER,FOLLOWED BY 'H'. 4) JOB GIVE 'J=' FOLLOWED BY THE NAME OF THE JOB TO WATCH FOR. 5) DEVICE GIVE: '*LPT*' FIDO BARKS IF PRINTER USED '*DIS*' DITTO FOR 340 DISPLAY '*SIX*' DITTO FOR PDP-6 - A MINUS SIGN PREFIXED TO ANY OF THE ABOVE WILL MAKE FIDO BARK IN THE ABSENCE (NOT PRESENCE) OF THE OBJECT FOLLOWING. Z PREFIX BY DECIMAL # TO SET SLEEP TIME IN SECS (DEFAULT 10 SEC) ^L LISTS OBJECTS THUS FAR, CLEARS SCREEN IF DATAPOINT ^G KILLS THE CURRENT LINE, STOPS TYPEOUT IF ANY RUBOUT--AS USUAL FINALLY, TO USE YOUR WATCHDOG, GIVE ^S WHICH WILL START FIDO PROWLING THE GROUNDS. ****** AFTER LEARNING WHAT YOU WANT IT TO WATCH FOR, FIDO WILL DISOWN ITSELF AND WAKE UP EVERY 10 SECONDS OR SO TO CHECK THE SYSTEM STATUS; IF IT FINDS SOMETHING, IT WILL BARK AT YOU IN THE FOLLOWING FASHION: 'WOOF!! WOOF!! HERE BE: T23 RWG HACTRN' FIDO WILL BARK ONCE FOR PRINTING TERMINALS, THRICE FOR DATAPOINTS. (IF FOR SOME REASON IT CANNOT SEND THE MESSAGE, FIDO WILL SIMPLY GO BACK TO SLEEP AGAIN.) AFTER IT HAS BARKED ABOUT AN OBJECT, FIDO WILL NEVER LOOK FOR THAT OBJECT AGAIN, BUT WILL CONTINUE SEARCHING FOR ANY OTHERS IT WAS GIVEN. IF ALL ARE GONE, FIDO WILL GO AWAY. BEING DISOWNED, FIDO WILL SURVIVE A LOGOUT OF ITS CREATOR; YOU MAY LOG IN ANYWHERE ELSE AND FIDO WILL STILL WORK FOR YOU IF YOU HAVE THE SAME UNAME. HOWEVER, BEING DEVOTED, FIDO WILL DIE OF LONELINESS IF ITS CREATOR'S UNAME DISAPPEARS FROM THE SYSTEM FOR LONGER THAN 5 MINUTES; THUS, ONE NEED NOT WORRY ABOUT LEFTOVER FIDOS. A DISOWNED FIDO USES ONLY ONE PAGE OF CORE AND ROUGHLY ONE SECOND COMPUTE TIME PER HALF-HOUR, SO THE NEIGHBORS SHOULD NEVER HAVE REASON TO COMPLAIN....