MOON 1150 EST Thursday, 13 November 1975 TO ASSEMBLE MICROCODE, USE :MICRO COMMAND LINE IS OUTPUT FILE NAME, EQUAL SIGN OR BACKARROW, LIST OF INPUT FILES SEPARATED BY COMMAS. FILE NAMES ARE IN USUAL ITS FORMAT. DEFAULTS ARE AS USUAL; SAME AS E.G. MIDAS. IT TAKES EITHER JCL OR TY INPUT. DEFAULT SECOND FILE NAME FOR THE OUTPUT FILE IS MCR. DEFAULT FOR THE INPUT FILES IS >. NAMING CONVENTIONS FOR RAMS. THE FOLLOWING RAMS PRESENTLY EXIST: U DEC STANDARD MICROCODE. SACRED. U1 "INSTALLED" ITS UCODE. SEMI-SACRED. U2 TEMPORARY ITS UCODE FILE. UJPC TEMPORARY ITS UCODE FILE, FOR JPC DEBUGGING. UJPCR TEMPORARY ITS UCODE FILE, FOR JPC DEBUGGING. UMN MIKE NEWMAN MICRO APPARENTLY A TEMPORARY DEC UCODE FILE. EBOX DEC DIAGNOSTICS. SACRED. MBOX DEC DIAGNOSTICS. SACRED. USAVE BACKUP COPY OF U. U1SAVE BACKUP COPY OF U1. TO CONVERT THINGS TO KLDCP 'ASCIIZED' FORMAT, USE :UCNVRT FOR MICROCODE :MCNVRT FOR MIDAS BINARY CODE (SBLK FILES) :PCNVRT FOR PALX BINARY CODE (-11 ABS TAPE) THE COMMAND LINE IS THE NAME OF THE FILE (EITHER JCL OR TTY INPUT). DEFAULT SECOND FILE ON INPUT IS MCR, BIN, OR BIN (RESPECTIVELY). THE OUTPUT FILE GOES TO THE SAME DEVICE AND DIRECTORY AND THE SECOND FILE NAME IS RAM, A10, OR A11 RESPECTIVELY. TO MANIPULATE THE KLDCP FILE SYSTEM, USE :KLFEDR. IT TAKES EITHER ONE COMMAND FROM JCL OR A SERIES OF COMMANDS FROM THE TTY. ? GIVES HELP. CMD? GIVES HELP ON THE CMD COMMAND. AT PRESENT THE SOURCE FOR ALL THESE PROGRAMS RESIDES IN THE SYSENG DIRECTORY. 4078 k|I