From RSG at MIT-ML Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 1981 From: RSG at MIT-ML (RSG at MIT-ML) Date: 30 Sep 1981 00:00 Subject: No subject Message-ID: I tried to copy a file from ML to MC. What got created on the MC directory is a locked file (multiple copies with the same name and a * in leftmost column of the directory listing). The file in question is MC: EF; RSG LISPIN . ... rsg From ZvonaatMIT-AI Mon Sep 28 00:00:00 1981 From: ZvonaatMIT-AI (David Chapman) Date: 28 September 1981, 00:00 Subject: No subject Message-ID: I did a pdset on ai since the system seemed to think it was 11/11/81. Probably some files will have this creation data so maybe users should be warned in system msg. From EAKatMIT-MC Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 1981 From: EAKatMIT-MC (Earl A. Killian) Date: 27 September 1981, 00:00 Subject: [DCP: forwarded] Message-ID: Date: 25 September 1981, 00:00 From: David C. Plummer To: BUG-CRTSTY I think this is your fault: I am on a HEATH19 running under a CRTSTY. It looks like I got the TTYSMT variable of the last person to use this sty. It would be a good idea for CRTSTY to set that value to zero (or whatever is the right thing for the various terminal types) before shoving the ^Z down it. You should probably do this even if you think it is ITS's responsibility to set it to zero when the sty gets opened for the first time. From RMSatMIT-AI Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 1981 From: RMSatMIT-AI (Richard M. Stallman) Date: 27 September 1981, 00:00 Subject: No subject Message-ID: My XX job became hung permanently in CHAOSO because its CHSNOS was 0. The net appeared to be working; I was able to make new connections to XX and MC. The connection state was still OPEN, according to PEEK. The "flag" was 20003. Ibf, Pbf and Ack were 0; both window sizes were 5. At the time the problem began, the fair share moved up to 120% and stayed there for several updates of the who line. Then it came back to a legitimate value. The problem was worse because this happened with SUPDUP at interrupt level and it would not recognize Break. Can Moon say what other info to look for if this happens again? From GRENatMIT-MC Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 1981 From: GRENatMIT-MC (Ian G. Macky) Date: 22 September 1981, 00:00 Subject: [RLB: jobdev / ITS bug, I guess] Message-ID: Ancient mail from my jobdev munging days, never had any more problems once I got my act together... probably should have just thrown this away, but dunno, maybe someone loves bug mail. ----- Date: 06/17/81 01:11:15 From: RLB Re: jobdev / ITS bug, I guess As best as I can determine, the system crashed doing a JOBRET for your JOB.07 returning whatever to your job FOO. At the point of the crash, the system is hacking FOO on behalf of JOB.07, and hence requires that FOO be (internally) stopped. But FOO was not stopped, which is ostensibly an impossible condition, do it halted. I randomly tried continuing at the location after the check, guessing that only FOO or JOB.07 would be screwed, but I didn't understand the clock interrupt level logic the system was up to, so it couldn't continue. I suggest that you try to recover as best you can the circumstances of what you were doing and the state of the code, and ship it off along with your munging of this note to BUG-ITS. From DEFBOB at MIT-MC Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 1981 From: DEFBOB at MIT-MC (DEFBOB at MIT-MC) Date: 17 Sep 1981 00:00 Subject: No subject Message-ID: I don't know where to send this message so I'll send it here. If a user detaches his tree at 4:00 p.m. with the intention of attaching it a few hours later, say 8:00, is the tree nevertheless destroyed (?chopped down?) automatically by someone between those particular hours or between any other particular hours? From DEFBOB at MIT-MC Thu Sep 17 00:00:00 1981 From: DEFBOB at MIT-MC (DEFBOB at MIT-MC) Date: 17 Sep 1981 00:00 Subject: No subject Message-ID: From DCP at MIT-MC Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 1981 From: DCP at MIT-MC (DCP at MIT-MC) Date: 15 Sep 1981 00:00 Subject: CNSGET symbolic system call extension Message-ID: Now that there are a few places that use SUPDUP Graphics, might it be the right thing to include the SMARTS (or TTYSMT) variable in the CNSGET and CNSSET symbolic system calls. It is much easier to do (syscall 7 'cnsget tyo) and get all the necessary info than to do (syscall 1 'ttyvar tyo (car (pnget 'TTYSMT 6))) to recover the SMARTS variable. From GJC at MIT-MC Sun Sep 13 00:00:00 1981 From: GJC at MIT-MC (GJC at MIT-MC) Date: 13 Sep 1981 00:00 Subject: No subject Message-ID: For something really impressive, try :XFILE out of an archive! Incredibly SLOW, even on MC with fair-share=50% Almost as impressive is running LMODEM out of an archive. From BARKANatMIT-AI Tue Sep 8 00:00:00 1981 From: BARKANatMIT-AI (Jeremy Barkan) Date: 8 September 1981, 00:00 Subject: No subject Message-ID: When using :dover, the its can't differeniate between the underscore in file name and underscore that is the antecedent in the font name specifier. Does it not quote underscore