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1.0  SYSTEM CAPABILITIES                                                        
     RESPOND IS A REMOTE CONVERSATIONAL SYSTEM THAT DIRECTS THE FLOW OF DATA    
BETWEEN THE CDC 6400, AND A NUMBER OF REMOTE CHARACTER-MODE TELETYPES.          
THIS SYSTEM ALLOWS THE REMOTE USER TO CREATE FILES,COMPILE PROGRAMS, AND        
EXECUTE THEM FROM HIS TERMINAL.  HE MAY CHOOSE TO HAVE HIS OUTPUT PRINTED AT    
HIS REMOTE STATION OR HE CAN DIRECT IT TO THE CENTRAL SITE FOR PRINTING ON A    
HIGH SPEED PRINTER.                                                             
                                                                                
1.1  THE TELETYPE TERMINAL AND SPECIAL CHARACTERS                               
                                                                                
CERTAIN KEYS ON THE TELETYPE HAVE SPECIAL USES IN THE RESPOND SYSTEM.           
                                                                                
CARRIAGE RETURN-A KEY AT THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE KEYBOARD LABELED RETURN          
CAUSES A CARRIAGE RETURN.  THE CARRIAGE RETURN IS USED IN THE RESPOND SYSTEM    
AS A SIGNAL TO THE SYSTEM THAT THE USER HAS FINISHED TYPING THE CURRENT LINE.   
THEREFORE THE CARRIAGE RETURN SHOULD NOT BE USED TO RETURN THE CARRIAGE FOR A   
CONTINUATION LINE.  INSTEAD, WHEN YOU NEAR THE RIGHT MARGIN YOU SHOULD TYPE     
SLOWLY SINCE THE SYSTEM WILL SEND YOU AN AUTOMATIC LINE FEED AND CARRIAGE       
RETURN.                                                                         
                                                                                
BACKSPACE KEY-  THE UNDERLINE OVER THE LETTER O IS THE BACKSPACE KEY.           
WHEN THIS KEY IS DEPRESSED IT WILL PRINT AN UNDERLINE AND THE SYSTEM WILL       
RECOGNIZE THIS AS A BACKSPACE OVER THE PREVIOUS CHARACTER TYPED.                
THE PHYSICAL CARRIAGE POSITION WILL NOT BACKSPACE.  MULTIPLE BACKSPACES ARE     
ALLOWED.  ANY BACKSPACES PAST THE LEFT MARGIN ARE IGNORED.                      
                                                                                
TAB KEY-  IN ORDER TO INITIATE A TABULATION OPERATION THE USER SHOULD DEPRESS   
THE 'CTRL' KEY AND THE TAB KEY SIMULTANEOUSLY.  THIS WILL TRANSMIT A TAB COMMAND
                                                                                
BREAK CHARACTER- THE NUMBER SIGN IS USED AS A BREAK CHARACTER.  IN THIS         
DOCUMENT THE SYMBOL \ WILL BE USED.  THIS CHARACTER IS USED TO INTERRUPT        
CERTAIN SYSTEM ACTIVITIES.  VARIOUS USES WILL BE DESCRIBED WITH THE             
PERTINENT COMMANDS.                                                             
                                                                                
TO CANCEL A COMMAND BEFORE IT IS SENT YOU SHOULD TYPE THE BREAK CHARACTER       
FOLLOWED BY A CARRIAGE RETURN.  THE SYSTEM WILL NOT RESPOND WITH THE FOUR       
PERIODS BUT YOU ARE STILL READY TO TYPE  A NEW COMMAND.                         
                                                                                
                                                                                
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2.0  LOGIN                              S CHARACTER IS USED TO INTERRUPT        
CERTAIN SYSTEM ACTIVITIES.  VARIOUS USES WILL BE DESCRIBED W                    
     THE FIRST THING A USER MUST DO TO OBTAIN ACCESS TO THE CAPABILITIES OF THE 
RESPOND SYSTEM IS TO LOGIN.  THE FORMAT OF THE COMMAND IS                       
     LOGIN  {PASSWORD| {ACCOUNT NUMBER|                                         
IF THE PASSWORD WHICH YOU USE IS NOT REGISTERED WITH THE SYSTEM OR IS NOT       
PERMITTED ON THE TERMINAL YOU ARE USING THEN YOU WILL RECEIVE THE MESSAGE       
'ILLEGAL PASSWORD'.  IF SOMEONE ELSE HAS LOGGED IN ON ANOTHER TERMINAL WITH     
YOUR PASSWORD YOU WILL GET THE MESSAGE 'PASSWORD IN USE'.  IF YOU SUCCEED IN    
LOGGING IN YOU WILL RECEIVE THE DATE AND TIME AT WHICH YOU LOGGED IN FOLLOWED   
BY FOUR PERIODS.  THESE FOUR PERIODS ARE THE SIGNAL THAT YOU MAY PROCEED WITH   
YOUR NEXT COMMAND TO THE SYSTEM.                                                
     THE FIRST THING A USER MUST DO TO OBTAIN ACCESS TO THE CAPABILITIES OF THE 
2.1  LOGOUT                                                                     
                                                                                
THE FORM OF THE COMMAND IS                                                      
     LOGOUT                                                                     
THIS COMMAND WILL SIGN YOU OFF THE RESPOND SYSTEM.                              
                                                                                
3.0  LIST COMMAND   RECEIVE THE DATE AND TIME AT WHICH YOU LOGGED IN FOLLOWED   
BY FOUR PERIODS.  THESE FOUR PERIODS ARE                                        
     INFORMATION PUT INTO THE RESPOND SYSTEM IS MAINTAINED IN STRUCTURES        
CALLED FILES.  THERE ARE TWO CLASSES OF FILES- PRIVATE (USER DEFINED) FILES     
AND PUBLIC FILES.  THE FILES WHICH A USER CREATES ARE CALLED HIS PRIVATE FILES. 
HE MAY READ, CHANGE, OR DELETE THESE FILES AS HE DESIRES.  PUBLIC FILES ARE     
AVAILABLE TO ALL USERS OF THE SYSTEM BUT THEY MAY NOT BE MODIFIED BY THE USERS. 
ONE OF THE FIRST COMMANDS YOU WILL NEED IS ONE TO DISPLAY YOUR FILES.THE FORM   
IS      LIST FILES    THIS WILL LIST ALL THE PRIVATE FILES WHICH A USER HAS     
DEFINED, GIVING THE FILE NAME, LENGTH, TYPE OF FILE (BINARY OR DISPLAY CODE),   
AMOUNT OF DISC SPACE OCCUPIED AND THE DATE OF CREATION.  TO LIST PUBLIC FILES   
THE FORM OF THE COMMAND IS    LIST PUBLIC FILES   THIS SUPPLIES THE SAME        
INFORMATION ABOUT PUBLIC FILES AS FOR PRIVATE FILES.        N STRUCTURES        
CALLED FILES.  THERE ARE TWO CLASSES OF FILES- PRIVATE (USER DEFINED) FILES     
     A SECOND CHARACTERISTIC OF THE FILES IN THE SYSTEM IS THAT THEY MAY BE     
IN SOME FORMAT SPECIFIED BY THE USER.  FOR EXAMPLE A FORMAT FOR FORTRAN MIGHT   
SPECIFY SEVERAL THINGS - A RECORD LENGTH OF 72 CHARACTERS, DISPLAY CODED FILE,  
AND PERHAPS A TAB TO COLUMN 7.  THERE ARE PUBLIC FORMATS JUST AS THERE ARE      
PUBLIC FILES.  AMONG THESE ARE SPECIAL FORMATS AVAILABLE TO EACH USER FOR       
ENTERING FORTRAN OR ASCENT PROGRAMS.  TO LIST PUBLIC FORMATS YOU WOULD TYPE     
LIST PUBLIC FORMATS.  INFORMATION PROVIDED INCLUDES THE NAME OF THE FORMAT,     
THE FIRST RECORD NUMBER, THE STEP SIZE BETWEEN RECORD NUMBERS, WHETHER THE      
RECORD NUMBER IS PART OF THE RECORD OR NOT, AND THE POSITIONING OF TABS AND     
SKIPS.  TO LIST PRIVATELY DEFINED FORMATS YOU WOULD TYPE  LIST FORMATS.         
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4.0  FORMAT                              OF 72 CHARACTERS, DISPLAY CODED FILE,  
AND PERHAPS A TAB TO COLUMN 7.  THERE ARE PUBLIC FORMATS JUS                    
     THE FORMAT COMMAND IS USED IN DEFINING FORMATS. ONE FORM OF THE COMMAND IS 
FORMAT {NAME| RECORD DIS {RECORD LENGTH|,{RECORD NUMBER| {OPTION| {STEP SIZE|   
TAB {POSITION|,{POSITION|,...SKIP {POSITION|,{POSITION|,...                     
NAME- ONE TO FOUR ALPHANUMERIC CHARACTERS DEFINING THE NAME OF THE FORMAT.      
RECORD LENGTH- THE NUMBER OF CHARACTERS IN THE RECORD OR THE LETTERS 'VL' IF    
THE RECORDS ARE TO BE OF VARAIBLE LENGTH.                                       
RECORD NUMBER- A ONE TO EIGHT CHARACTER NUMBER THAT YOU WANT ASSIGNED TO THE    
FIRST RECORD THAT YOU ENTER.                                                    
OPTION- THE WORD 'YES' OR 'NO' INDICATING WHETHER YOU WANT THE SEQUENCE NUMBER  
TO BE PART OF THE RECORD OR NOT.  IF YOU INDICATE 'YES' THE SEQUENCE NUMBER     
WILL BE APPENDED TO THE END OF EACH RECORD YOU ENTER.                           
STEP SIZE- THE AMOUNT BY WHICH THE THE RECORD NUMBER IS INCREMENTED FOR EACH    
RECORD ENTERED.                                                                 
TAB {POSITION|- THE USER MAY DEFINE UP TO FIVE TABS FOR INPUT.  WHEN THE        
TAB KEY IS HIT SPACES ARE SENT UNTIL THE NEXT TAB POSITION OR THE END OF RECORD 
IS FOUND.                                                                       
SKIP {POSITION|- WHEN A SKIP POSITION IS ENCOUNTERED A SPACE IS AUTOMATICALLY   
SENT.  SKIP POSITIONS 1 THROUGH 59 MAY BE DEFINED.                              
                                                                                
AN EXAMPLE OF A FORMAT DEFINITION FOR FORTRAN WOULD BE                          
     FORMAT FORT RECORD DIS 72,10 NO 10 TAB 7                                   
THE NAME OF THE FORMAT IS FORT.  IT ALLOWS INPUTTING OF 72 CHARACTER RECORDS    
WITH SEQUENCE NUMBERS STARTING AT 10 AND GOING UP BY INCREMENTS OF 10.  THE     
SEQUENCE NUMBER IS NOT PART OF THE RECORD.  THERE IS A TAB SET IN COLUMN 7.     
A FORMAT FOR ASCENT MIGHT BE                                                    
     FORMAT ASCE RECORD DIS VL,1 NO 1 TAB 11,18,35 SKIP 1,10                    
THE NAME OF THE FORMAT IS ASCE, IT IS VARIABLE LENGTH, SEQUENCE NUMBERS START   
AT 1 AND GO UP BY STEPS OF 1.  THE SEQUENCE NUMBERS ARE NOT PART OF THE RECORD. 
TABS ARE SET IN COLUMN 11,18, AND 35.  WHEN COLUMNS 1 AND 10 ARE ENCOUNTERED    
THEY ARE AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPED OVER.                                            
                                                                                
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5.0  ENTER          S STARTING AT 10 AND GOING UP BY INCREMENTS OF 10.  THE     
SEQUENCE NUMBER IS NOT PART OF THE RECOR                                        
     IN ORDER TO CREATE A FILE YOU MUST USE THE ENTER COMMAND.                  
THE MOST FREQUENTLY USED FORM IS                                                
ENTER {FORMAT NAME|                                                             
FORMAT NAME- THIS SPECIFIES A PUBLIC OR PRIVATE FORMAT.  WHEN THIS COMMAND      
IS GIVEN THE SYSTEM RESPONDS WITH THE FIRST SEQUENCE NUMBER AS DEFINED IN THE   
FORMAT.  THEN THE USER SHOULD TYPE THE CARD IMAGE WHICH HE WISHES TO ENTER.     
WHEN HE HAS COMPLETED THIS CARD IMAGE HE SHOULD HIT THE CARRIAGE RETURN KEY.    
THIS WILL ENTER THE FIRST LINE WHICH HE HAS JUST TYPED.  THE SYSTEM WILL THEN   
TYPE BACK THE NEXT NUMBER IN SEQUENCE AND THE USER MAY ENTER HIS NEXT CARD      
IMAGE.  THIS PROCESS IS CONTINUED UNTIL THE USER HAS ENTERED ALL THE INFORMATION
HE DESIRES TO ENTER.  THEN TO GET OUT OF THE ENTER MODE HE SHOULD TYPE \EXIT.   
AFTER TYPING THIS HE SHOULD RECEIVE FOUR PERIODS INDICATING THAT HE IS BACK     
IN COMMAND MODE.                                                                
     IF IN ENTERING A LINE YOU SHOULD MAKE A MISTAKE AND NOT NOTICE IT UNTIL    
YOU HAVE SENT THE CARRIAGE RETURN, IT IS STILL POSSIBLE TO CORRECT IT.  WHEN    
THE COMPUTER GIVES YOU THE NEXT SEQUENCE NUMBER JUST TYPE THE BREAK CHARACTER   
FOLLOWED BY THE SEQUENCE NUMBER THAT YOU WANT TO CHANGE AND AN EQUAL SIGN.      
THEN TYPE THE CORRECTED FORM OF THE LINE AND ENTER A CARRIAGE RETURN.  THIS     
NEW ENTRY WILL REPLACE THE OLD ONE THAT HAS THE SAME SEQUENCE NUMBER.  THE      
SYSTEM WILL THEN REPEAT THE SEQUENCE NUMBER WHERE YOU INTERRUPTED.  THIS        
PROCESS MAY BE REPEATED TO CORRECT OR CHANGE SEVERAL LINES OR EVEN THE SAME     
LINE REPEATEDLY.  IF YOU HAVE LEFT SUFFICIENT SPACE BETWEEN YOUR SEQUENCE       
NUMBERS (A STEP SIZE OF 10,PERHAPS),THEN YOU CAN INSERT LINES BY THE SAME       
METHOD AS THAT USED TO CORRECT THEM.                                            
     IF YOU WISH TO CHANGE THE SEQUENCE NUMBER DEFINED BY THE FORMAT YOU MAY    
TYPE \CHANGE {SEQ. NO.| {STEP SIZE| AND THE SEQUENCE NUMBER WILL BE SET TO      
THE NEW VALUE AND IT WILL BE INCREMENTED BY  THE NEW SEQUENCE NUMBER.           
A TYPICAL ENTRY SEQUENCE MIGHT BE AS FOLLOWS.                                   
                                                                                
....ENTER FORT                                                                  
00000010=       PROGRAM FORTRN(INPUT,OUTPUT)                                    
00000020=       DIMENSION A(20)                                                 
00000030=       DO 1, J=1,20                                                    
00000040=1      A(J) = J                                                        
00000050=\30=       DO 1 J=1,20                                                 
00000050=       PRINT 2,A                                                       
00000060=2      FORMAT(10I4)                                                    
00000070=\21=       INTEGER A                                                   
00000070=       STOP                                                            
00000080=       END                                                             
00000090=\EXIT                                                                  
....                                                                            
                                                                                
IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SPECIFY A FORMAT YOU MAY JUST TYPE 'ENTER'.  THE SYSTEM    
WILL REPLY WITH ****.  THEN YOU SHOULD TYPE THE SEQUENCE NUMBER FOLLOWED BY AN  
 EQUAL SIGN AND THEN THE LINE YOU WANT TO ENTER TERMINATED WITH A CARRIAGE      
RETURN.  THE SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO REPLY WITH **** UNTIL YOU TYPE \EXIT.      
THEN YOU WILL BE PUT BACK INTO COMMAND MODE.  THE UNFORMATTED ENTER MODE IS     
USEFUL FOR ENTERING LIMITED AMOUNTS OF DATA WITHOUT SPECIFYING A FORMAT.        
THIS FORM SHOULD NOT BE USED TO CREATE FILES OF ANY GREAT SIZE.                 
                                                                                
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6.0  FILE                                                                       
                                                                                
     THE FILE COMMAND PERMITS THE USER TO CREATE A NEW FILE.  THIS NEW FILE     
MAY BE COMPOSED OF LINES GENERATED WHILE IN THE ENTER MODE OR PARTS OF OLD      
FILES WHICH WERE PREVIOUSLY CREATED.  IF THE NEW FILE HAS THE SAME NAME AS AN   
OLD FILE ALREADY IN THE FILE CATALOGUE, THEN THE NEW FILE WILL REPLACE THE      
OLD ONE.  THE FILE COMMAND CREATES AN ENTRY IN THE USER'S FILE CATALOGUE        
AND TRANSFERS THE FILE FROM CENTRAL MEMORY TO DISC.                             
THE SIMPLEST FORM OF THE FILE COMMAND IS                                        
     FILE {FILE NAME|                                                           
FILE NAME- A ONE TO SIX CHARACTER ALPHANUMERIC NAME,THE FIRST CHARACTER MUST BE 
ALPHABETIC.  THIS IS THE NAME UNDER WHICH THE DATA ENTERED IS STORED.           
AN ALTERNATE FORM OF THIS COMMAND IS                                            
     FILE {FILE NAME|,{REC. NO.| TO {REC. NO.|                                  
INFORMATION FROM THE FIRST RECORD NUMBER TO THE SECOND IS FILED                 
IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A MODIFIED COPY OF A FILE OR TO RENAME A FILE             
THEN THE FOLLOWING FORMAT WILL BE USEFUL.                                       
     FILE {FILE NAME 1|,FILE {FILE NAME 2|                                      
   IF FILE NAME 2 HAS BEEN LOADED AND MODIFIED, THEN FILE NAME 1 IS CREATED     
CONTAINING THE MODIFIED FORM OF FILE NAME 2.  FILE NAME 2 IS UNCHANGED.  IF     
FILE NAME 2 HAS NOT BEEN MODIFIED IT IS RENAMED FILE NAME 1.  THEREFORE         
ANY OTHER FILE WHOSE NAME IS FILE NAME 1 WILL BE DELETED.                       
IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A NEW FILE FROM TWO PREVIOUSLY DEFINED FILES              
YOU WOULD TYPE THE FOLLOWING                                                    
     FILE {FILE NAME 1|,FILE {FILE NAME 2|,FILE {FILE NAME3|                    
FILE NAME 1 IS CREATED FROM THE RECORDS OF FILE NAME 2 FOLLOWED BY THOSE        
OF FILE NAME3.  THE SECOND AND THIRD FILE ARE UNCHANGED BY THE OPERATION.       
FINALLY,IF YOU WISH TO RESEQUENCE A FILE YOU WOULD USE THE FOLLOWING FORM.      
     FILE {FILE NAME 1| {FORMAT NAME|                                           
THE RECORDS WHICH ARE LOADED ARE FILED IN FILE NAME 1 ACCORDING                 
TO THE SEQUENCING SPECIFIED BY THE FORMAT NAME.                                 
                                                                                
7.0  CLEAR                              O PREVIOUSLY DEFINED FILES              
YOU WOULD TYPE THE FOLLOWING                                                    
     THIS COMMAND RELEASES ALL CENTRAL MEMORY ASSOCIATED WITH THE USER'S        
FILES.  THIS COMMAND SHOULD BE GIVEN BEFORE THE USER ENTER RECORDS TO BE        
FILED.ANY RECORDS NOT FILED WILL BE LOST WHEN USING THIS COMMAND.  PLEASE       
USE THIS COMMAND OFTEN BUT BE CAREFUL.   YOU WOULD USE THE FOLLOWING FORM.      
     FILE {FILE NAME 1| {FORMAT NAME|                                           
8.0  LOAD                                                                       
THE FORM OF THE LOAD COMMAND IS                                                 
     LOAD {FILE NAME|,{FILE NAME|,...                                           
     THIS COMMAND BRINGS THE DIRECTORY OF THE SPECIFIED FILE INTO CENTRAL       
MEMORY.  WHEN THE DIRECTORY IS IN CENTRAL MEMORY THE FILE IS SAID TO BE LOADED. 
A USER MAY NOT HAVE MORE THAN SIX FILES LOADED AT ONE TIME.  A BINARY FILE      
CANNOT BE LOADED.  A FILE MUST BE LOADED IF IT IS TO BE MODIFIED, DISPLAYED,    
OR IN MOST INSTANCES FILED.                                                     
TO GET RID OF ALL FILES WHICH HAVE BEEN LOADED JUST TYPE THE CLEAR COMMAND.     
                                                                                
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9.0  DISPLAY                                                                    
     THIS COMMAND IS USED TO DISPLAY ALL OR PART OF A FILE.  BEFORE THE FILE    
CAN BE DISPLAYED IT MUST FIRST BE LOADED.  ONE FORM OF THE COMMAND IS           
     DISPLAY FILE {FILE NAME|                                                   
THIS WILL DISPLAY THE ENTIRE CONTENTS OF THE FILE SPECIFIED.  EACH RECORD       
THAT IS TYPED WILL BE PRECEDED BY ITS SEQUENCE NUMBER.  IF YOU WISH TO SUPPRESS 
THE TYPING OF THE SEQUENCE NUMBER, THE FORM OF THE COMMAND WOULD BE             
     DISPLAY SUPPRESS FILE {FILE NAME|                                          
TO DISPLAY A RECORD OR A SECTION OF RECORDS FROM A FILE YOU WOULD USE           
     DISPLAY FILE {FILE NAME| {REC. NO.|,...     OR                             
     DISPLAY FILE {FILE NAME| {REC. NO.| TO {REC. NO.|                          
IF ONE OF THE SPECIFIED RECORD NUMBERS DOES NOT EXIST, THE SYSTEM WILL USE THE  
RECORD WITH THE NEXT HIGHER NUMBER.  IF THE REQUESTED NUMBER IS LARGER THAN ANY 
RECORD NUMBER IN THE FILE YOU WILL GET THE MESSAGE                              
'UNDEFINED OR NOT AVAILABLE {REC. NO.| '                                        
     IF THE USER WISHES TO STOP THE DISPLAY AT ANY TIME, HE SHOULD HIT THE      
BREAK CHARACTER.  THIS WILL CAUSE TYPING TO STOP.  IF HE THEN HITS THE RETURN   
KEY OR TYPES 'CONTINUE' AND A RETURN THE DISPLAY WILL BE RESUMED. IF HE TYPES   
'STOP' AFTER THE BREAK CHARACTER HE WILL BE PLACED BACK INTO THE COMMAND MODE.  
IF THE FOLLOWING FORM OF DISPLAY IS USED THE SPECIFIED RECORDS WILL BE DISPLAYED
FROM THE FIRST FILE LOADED.  IF NO FILES ARE LOADED IT WILL DISPLAY LINES       
CREATED BY AN 'ENTER' COMMAND.                                                  
     DISPLAY {REC. NO.| TO {REC. NO.|                                           
     DISPLAY {REC. NO.|,{REC. NO.|,...                                          
                                                                                
10.0 DELETE                                                                     
                                                                                
     THIS COMMAND IS USED FOR DELETING PRIVATE FILES, PRIVATE FORMATS AND       
RECORDS FROM PRIVATE FILES.  IF AN ENTIRE FILE IS TO BE DELETED IT DOES NOT     
HAVE TO BE LOADED.  TO DELETE RECORDS THE FILE MUST BE LOADED.  WHEN CORRECTIONS
ARE COMPLETE IT MUST BE REFILED, IF THE CORRECTIONS ARE TO BE EFFECTIVE.  TO    
DELETE A FORMAT YOU WOULD TYPE                                                  
     DELETE FORMAT {FORMAT NAME|,{FORMAT NAME|,...                              
TO DELETE AN ENTIRE FILE                                                        
     DELETE FILE {FILE NAME|,{FILE NAME|,...                                    
TO DELETE RECORDS FROM A FILE                                                   
     DELETE FILE {FILE NAME| {REC. NO.| TO {REC. NO.|    OR                     
     DELETE FILE {FILE NAME| {REC. NO.|,{REC. NO.|,...                          
NOTE - THE FILE MUST BE LOADED TO DELETE RECORDS AND REFILED TO MAKE THE CHANGES
PERMANENT.  A FINAL FORM OF THE DELETE COMMAND IS                               
     DELETE {REC. NO.|,{REC. NO.|,...  OR                                       
     DELETE {REC. NO.| TO {REC. NO.|                                            
THIS FORM CHANGES THE FIRST FILE LOADED.  IN THE EVENT THAT NO FILES ARE        
LOADED IT REFERENCES RECORDS CREATED BY AN ENTER COMMAND.                       
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11.0 COMPILE/ASSEMBLE                                                           
                                                                                
     THESE COMMANDS ARE USED TO REQUEST THE COMPILATION OF A FORTRAN PROGRAM    
OR THE ASSEMBLY OF AN ASCENT OR ASPER PROGRAM.  THE COMPILATION PROCESS MAY     
CREATE AS MANY AS THREE FILES, A DAYFILE, A SOURCE OUTPUT LISTING, AND IF THE   
COMPILATION IS SUCCESSFUL, A BINARY FILE.  RESPOND CREATES THE CONTROL CARDS FOR
THE USER AND HIS JOB IS ENTERED INTO THE INPUT STACK EXACTLY AS IF IT HAD       
BEEN READ THROUGH THE CARD READER.  TO FIND OUT IF A COMPILATION IS COMPLETE    
A USER MAY LIST HIS FILES.  WHEN THE DAYFILE IS FOUND AMONG THEM THEN THE       
COMPILATION IS COMPLETE.  THERE ARE TWO ALLOWED FORMS FOR THE COMPILE COMMAND.  
     COMPILE {FILE NAME 1|      OR                                              
     COMPILE {FILE NAME 1| LIST {FILE NAME 2| BIN {FILE NAME 3|                 
IN EACH CASE FILE NAME 1 IS THE FILE WHICH IS COMPILED.  IN THE SECOND FORM     
FILE NAME 2 SPECIFIES THE LIST FILE AND FILE NAME 3 GIVES THE BINARY FILE.      
IF THE LIST PARAMETER IS OMITTED THE LIST FILE NAME IS CREATED BY TAKING THE    
FIRST FIVE CHARACTERS OF FILE NAME 1 AND APPENDING A SPACE AND AN 'L'.  FOR THE 
BINARY FILE A SPACE AND A 'B' ARE ATTACHED.  FOR THE DAYFILE A SPACE AND A 'D'  
ARE USED.  ASSEMBLE IS IDENTICAL TO COMPILE EXCEPT FOR THE REPLACEMENT OF       
THE WORD COMPILE WITH ASSEMBLE.                                                 
                                                                                
12.0 EXECUTE                                                                    
                                                                                
     THIS IS USED TO EXECUTE A BINARY OBJECT PROGRAM.  THE COMMAND STRUCTURE IS 
     EXECUTE {FILE NAME| INPUT {FILE NAME OR ,| OUTPUT {FILE NAME|              
IF THE INPUT FILE IS NOT NEEDED THEN A COMMA SHOULD BE USED INSTEAD OF THE      
FILE NAME.  WHEN THE USER IS ABLE TO LOAD HIS OUTPUT FILE, THIS IS A SIGNAL     
THAT HIS EXECUTION IS COMPLETE.                                                 
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13.0 COPY                                                                       
                                                                                
     THE COPY COMMAND IS USED TO SEND FILES TO THE CENTRAL SITE OR GET FILES    
FROM THE CENTRAL INSTALLATION.  THE FOLLOWING FORMS ARE ALLOWED METHODS OF      
OUTPUTTING A FILE AT THE CENTRAL SITE.                                          
     COPY {FILE NAME| TO CARDS                                                  
     COPY {FILE NAME| TO PRINTER                                                
     COPY {FILE NAME| TO TAPE   (THIS ASSUMES BINARY)                           
     COPY {FILE NAME| TO BCD TAPE                                               
                                                                                
TO GET A FILE INTO RESPOND FROM A TAPE YOU WOULD TYPE                           
     COPY BINARY TAPE TO {FILE NAME|                                            
     COPY BCD TAPE TO {FILE NAME|                                               
                                                                                
TO LOAD A CARD DECK IN AT THE CENTRAL SITE AND GET IT INTO RESPOND REQUIRES THE 
FOLLOWING STEPS.                                                                
     (1) THE USER MUST HAVE SUBMITTED A NORMAL JOB TO CREATE A COMMON FILE      
         CONTAINING THE DESIRED CARDS.                                          
     (2) THE NAME OF THE COMMON FILE IS COMPOSED AS FOLLOWS- THE FIRST THREE    
         CHARACTERS ARE THE SAME AS THE FIRST THREE CHARACTERS OF THE NAME      
         THE USER WANTS TO CALL HIS FILE IN RESPOND,FOLLOWED BY THE LETTER 'X', 
         AND THEN THE USER'S THREE DIGIT PASSWORD INDEX.  THUS IF YOU WANTED    
         TO CREATE A FILE IN RESPOND CALLED 'DATA' AND YOUR PASSWORD NUMBER WAS 
         009 THE COMMON FILE WOULD BE NAMED DATX009.                            
     (3) AT HIS TERMINAL HE WOULD TYPE                                          
         COPY BCD CARDS TO DATA     OR POSSIBLY                                 
         COPY BINARY CARDS TO DATA                                              
AFTER THE INITIAL COPY THE COMMON FILE WILL NOT BE IN COMMON AND THEREFORE      
CAN NOT BE USED IN FURTHER COPIES FROM CARDS.                                   
14.0 MSG                                FIRST THREE CHARACTERS OF THE NAME      
         THE USER WANTS TO CALL HIS FILE IN RESPOND,FOLLOWED                    
     BY TYPING MSG THE USER MAY SEND UP TO A 60 CHARACTER MESSAGE TO THE CENTRAL
OPERATOR.  WHEN MSG IS TYPED, FOLLOWED BY A RETURN THE SYSTEM RESPONDS WITH     
'ENTER MSG'.  THE MESSAGE SHOULD BE TYPED AND FOLLOWED BY A RETURN. MESSAGES    
FROM THE CENTRAL OPERATOR SHOULD BE ANSWERED OR COMPLIED WITH IMMEDIATELY.      
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15.0 ERROR MESSAGES                                                             
ILLEGAL PASSWORD -  PASSWORD GIVEN IS NOT IN PASSWORD LIST. RE-ENTER COMMAND    
WITH A LEGAL PASSWORD.                                                          
                                                                                
PASSWORD IN USE - ANOTHER USER HAS ALREADY LOGGED IN WITH GIVEN PASSWORD.       
                                                                                
PLEASE LOGIN - USER NOT LOGGED IN. LOGIN                                        
                                                                                
FORMAT NAME TOO LARGE. PLEASE ENTER AGAIN - FORMAT NAME EXCEEDS THE MAXIMUM     
LENGTH OF FOUR CHARACTERS.  RE-ENTER COMMAND WITH LEGAL FORMAT ID.              
                                                                                
ILLEGAL SYNTAX, PLEASE ENTER AGAIN - COMMAND ENTERED IS NOT IN CORRECT FORMAT.  
                                                                                
UNDEFINED OR NOT AVAILABLE (FOLLOWED BY A LIST OF UNDEFINED TERMS) - ITEMS      
GIVEN IN COMMAND (DISPLAY,DELETE, OR FILE) ARE NOT RECOGNIZED BY COMPUTER SYSTEM
OR ARE NOT ON FILE.                                                             
                                                                                
COMMAND UNRECOGNIZED - COMMAND ENTERED IS NOT LEGAL COMMAND.                    
FORMAT NOT ON FILE, PLEASE ENTER AGAIN - FORMAT NAMED DOES NOT EXIST.           
                                                                                
FILE NOT LOADED, PLEASE ENTER AGAIN - FILE REFERENCED MUST BE LOADED. LOAD      
FILE AND RE-ENTER COMMAND.                                                      
                                                                                
TOO MANY CHARACTERS IN RECORD ID OR NO EQUALS SIGN - ENTER COMMAND--RECORD ID,  
INCLUDING EQUAL SIGN, EXCEEDS 9 CHARACTERS. RE-ENTER WITH LEGAL RECORD ID.      
                                                                                
CP XXX.XX.XXX TOTAL YY YY YY - MESSAGE RECEIVED IN RESPONSE TO LOGOUT COMMAND.  
XXX.XX.XXX IS AMOUNT OF CENTRAL PROCESS OR TIME USED AND YY.YY.YY IS TOTAL      
AMOUNT OF TIME BETWEEN LOGIN AND LOGOUT.  CP TIME IS IN MINUTES, SECONDS, AND   
MILLISECONDS, TOTAL TIME ON LINE IS IN HOURS, MINUTES, AND SECONDS              
                                                                                
FILE NOT BINARY - EXECUTE COMMAND -- PROGRAM TO BE EXECUTED IS NOT BINARY.      
                                                                                
ODD BUFFER IS FULL.  LAST ODD RECORD WAS IGNORED - ENTER COMMAND--USER INPUTS   
MORE THAN 30 RECORDS IN NONFORMATTED MODE.  ALL RECORDS EXCEEDING 30 ARE LOST.  
                                                                                
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NON FORMAT INPUT, \EXIT ONLY - ENTER COMMAND--USER ENTERS SOMETHING OTHER       
THAN EXIT AFTER THE \ COMMAND.  EXIT IS THE ONLY VALID WORD AFTER \ IN THE      
NON-FORMATTED INPUT MODE.                                   ECONDS              
                                                                                
SOURCE FILE NOT IN CATALOGUE - ASSEMBLE/COMPILE COMMAND                         
                                                                                
FILE NAME PREVIOUSLY USED -  ASSEMBLE/COMPILE, COPY,EXECUTE COMMANDS. RESULTANT 
FILE NAME IS ALREADY IN CATALOGUE.                                              
                                                                                
