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Product Information¶

Product name	Product number
SINTRAN III/VSX Patch File	250360M
Patch level 6500 for M-version

Notes Concerning the Product¶

Please observe that you now also get a list of Special Modification reports that have been included in earlier patch files. The heading tells which patch file the different reports was released in. Where the same report exists for SINTRAN-L, a reference to this report is given.

Table of Contents¶

Contents	Page
List of changed reports	2
Special Modification reports included in earlier patch files	7
Cross Reference List	11
How to install Special Modification reports	14

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SINTRAN III/VSX Version M¶

Patch File 006500¶

Software System Reports Included Since Patch File 005000¶

Report No: 161 A¶

Program: all
Subject: @DELETE-SPOOLING-FILE
Symptom: File is deleted from the queue, but is still marked as used.

Report No: 160 A¶

Program: ALL
Subject: Patch to speed up outbyte from ND-500 to MTAD's.
Symptom: Bad performance, especially when running X Window System.

Report No: 159 A¶

Program: All
Subject: Error in SMTRANS
Symptom: Read does not supply correct data when reading from disk unit >< 0.

Report No: 158 B¶

Program: All
Subject: Terminals looping after stop-terminal.
Symptom: MINBHOLD in output datafield has the value 100034.

Report No: 153 A¶

Program: all
Subject: @STOP-TERMINAL on a terminal with a 500-process, and TRUE termination handling enabled, may result in hang
Symptom: Hang on level 2

Report No: 149 A¶

Program: 500(0)
Subject: ND-500(0) TimeOut or hang in 500(0) when the command logout process or abort-process are used.
Symptom: All the 5000 processes will be waiting for the 5NAMS semaphore.
Logical device 1107b

Report No: 147 A¶

Program: 500(0)
Subject: Escape when starting a 500(0) domain
Symptom: System hangs with deadlock for system semaphores

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Software System Reports Included Since Patch File 005000¶

Report No: 146 A¶

Program: All
Subject: Background allocation system does not log out terminals.
Symptom: Terminals are not logged out, even if timeout is enabled.

Report No: 145 B¶

Program: 500(0)
Subject: Increase tolerance in ND-500(0) timer routine to reduce number of timeouts.
Symptom: ND-500(0) TIMEOUT (Error code 2000B).

Report No: 143 A¶

Program: VSX
Subject: Hang in DeletePage monitor call.
Symptom: If a file has pages within the last 512 possible in a sub-indexed file then the monitor call never completes.

Report No: 142 A¶

Program: All
Subject: Error return from MON MEXIT, MCALL and SGMTS giving run time error 42
- Overlapping segments
Symptom: The output value of the second segment number in the error message is wrong.

Report No: 139 B¶

Program: 500(0)
Subject: Error in 5000-systems if Local Memory >= 16Mbytes And 16 <= MF Multiport Memory <= 32Mbytes
Symptom: Overwriting in context block area leading to different traps from 500(0) Swapper.

Report No: 138 A¶

Program: VSX/500
Subject: Errors in ND-5850 Tracer operations.
Symptom: Unable to run tracer: Not allowed if users logged on. Wrong number of parameters and wrong copying of data for 'fast-dump' of trace memory.

Report No: 137 A¶

Program: 500(0)
Subject: Logout-process may result in hang
Symptom: Hang on level 1 in routine SPUSH

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Software System Reports Included Since Patch File 005000¶

Report no: 135 A¶

Program: VSX
Subject: MON FDINA (GetDirNameIndex) and 16 character directory names
Symptom: Some software (f.ex. Backup System) does not terminate the name string correctly resulting in the error ILLEGAL CHARACTER IN PARAMETER.

Report no: 134 A¶

Program: VSX/500
Subject: Wrong layout in MF-controller’s (and Double Bus c.) error message printed by SIII Watchdog. No JAMES corr. here.
Symptom: Errlog, Maint.stat etc. is rubbish unless you shift one line up.

Report no: 133 A¶

Program: VSX/500
Subject: Error in ND-5000 ACCP-communication function ReadAIB32. Significant for test systems only.
Symptom: Error when running test program SEMICS under SINTRAN M.

Report no: 129 A¶

Program: ALL
Subject: Error in file page allocation. (OUTSIDE DEVICE LIMITS)
Symptom: OUTSIDE DEVICE LIMITS when writing to a file which have to be expanded.

Report no: 128 A¶

Program: ND-5000
Subject: SWAPPER STOPPED ERROR CODE : 132B
Symptom: Swapper stops with error code 132b when using WordMode 6 and Swapper-LO1.

Report no: 127 A¶

Program: ALL
Subject: TAD timeout routine
Symptom: System hangs on level 1.

Report no: 122 A¶

Program: ALL
Subject: STC 1950 or 2922 mag tape and 3600 foot tape Same problem as Sin-L report 297.
Symptom: Some functions may give "device error". One example is a list-volume command when the volume covers all or most of a 3600 foot tape.

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Software System Reports included since Patch File 005000¶

Report no: 120 A¶

Program: all
Subject: Short time-out on floppy DMA device
Symptom:
- The following message is printed on the error device FALSE INTERRUPT
- LEVEL 11 Identification code 21b

Report no: 119 A¶

Program: All
Subject: Error in HDLC driver for BSC/DMA.
Symptom: System stops on level 14D with memory out of range.

Report no: 118 A¶

Program: ALL
Subject: Monitor Call GetErrorDevice (MON 254 GERDV)
Symptom: 'OUTSIDE SEGMENT BOUNDS' Page number 762

Report no: 117 A¶

Program: ND-500(0)
Subject: MON RFILE/WFILE FROM ND-500(0)
Symptom:
1. Error message from ND-500(0): "TOO MANY FIXED MEMORY PARTS"
2. Update of MFTABLE(local fix table) went wrong.

Report no: 114 A¶

Program: VSX/500
Subject: Multi-CPU 5850 processor allocation. A process should be bound to the allocated CPU.

Report no: 111 A¶

Program: ND500(0)
Subject: System crash when using RFILE/WFILE from ND500(0) with 0 bytes to read/write.
Symptom: Errfatal on level 3 in routine LINKOVER

Report no: 24 C¶

Program: VSX
Subject: Mon RFILE/WFILE from ND-500(0) to/from a scratch segment
Symptom: Fatal error from the ND-100 segment administration. A fixed segment will be linked to the 100 swapping queue.

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Software System Reports included since Patch File 005000¶

Report no: 10 C
Program: All
Subject: Taking a memtof of more than 32 Mbytes memory
Symptom: Not possible to dump to the first floppy diskette.

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Patch File 006500¶

Special Modification Reports Included in Patch File 006500¶

Report No: 151 A¶

Program: 5000
Subject: The LOOK-AT-HARDWARE commands can be used even when other 5000 processes are logged in. It needs report 150.

Report No: 150 A¶

Program: 5000
Subject: Master Clear function in 5000 systems will not clear the FERROR flag if FERROR=2000 (5000 Timeout)

Report No: 140 D¶

Program: 500(0)
Subject: Rfile/Wfile to/from several address areas on 500(0) segment. Error: Too many fixed parts or Error in monitor call

Report No: 130 A¶

Program: ALL
Subject: Error in allocating a page in file system from the Swapper. Fatal error from swapper. Error 47b

Report No: 116 A¶

Program: all
Subject: Special patch for COMTEC Switzerland. Setting of XOFF for specific terminal.

Report No: 115 A¶

Program: All
Subject: Batch output file opened for "overwrite" and not "write-append".

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Special Modification Reports Included in Patch File 6500¶

Report No: 83 A¶

Program: All
Subject: Reduce maximum length of mail messages to 160 characters, to fit into X29-buffer.
Reference: SIN-L 305A (PN305)

Report No: 79 A¶

Program: NOTS
Subject: Error in VTM using 8 bits I/O on NOTS terminals. Error returned: "Illegal device type".
Reference: SIN-L 4A (PN004)

Report No: 78 A¶

Program: All
Subject: Problems with 8 bits IO on terminals.
Reference: SIN-L 193A (PN193)

Report No: 77 B¶

Program: All
Subject: Patch to remove the form feed after the spooling trailer.
Reference: SIN-L 171A (PN171)

Report No: 76 B¶

Program: All
Subject: Patch to remove the form feed at the end of the spooling print if the spooling trailer is present.
Reference: SIN-L 170A (PN170)

Report No: 75 A¶

Program: All
Subject: Patch to remove form feed at the start of the spooling print if the spooling header is present.
Reference: SIN-L 169A (PN169)

Report No: 74 A¶

Program: All
Subject: Patch to remove the form feed after the spooling header.
Reference: SIN-L 168A (PN168)

Report No: 73 A¶

Program: All
Subject: Patch to treat empty spooling form as normal string.
Reference: SIN-L 156B (PN156)

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Patch File 006500¶

Special Modification Reports Included in Patch File 006500¶

Report no: 72 B¶

Program: ALL
Subject: Spooling header with rotating alphabetic characters (instead of *) gives more even wear on character set.
Reference: SIN-L 154A (PN154)

Report no: 70 A¶

Program: All
Subject: How to remove one formfeed between each document on printer with tractor feed.
Reference: None

Report no: 69 A¶

Program: ALL
Subject: Removes 'END OF FILE' message after @COPY command.
Reference: SIN-L 283A (PN283)

Report no: 68 A¶

Program: VSX
Subject: Reduce interrupt load from HDLC connected to digital line (f.ex. British Telecom's Kilostream). See text for details.
Reference: SIN-L 189B (PN189)

Report no: 67 A¶

Program: all
Subject: Make monitor call Exabs (335) available on ND-500(0).
Reference: SIN-L 180A (PN180)

Report no: 62 A¶

Program: all
Subject: Patch to include terminals using 3270- or VIP-emulator in @TERMINAL-STAT list, or when Mon TERST is used.
Reference: None

Report no: 43 A¶

Program: vsx
Subject: Restart after buffer full on internal devices. For implementation and use see report 44.
Reference: SIN-L 284A (PN284)

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Special Modification Reports Included in Patch File 006500¶

Report no: 36 A¶

Program: All
Subject: Patch to reset the Error Device to terminal 1 when logging out from the terminal which is the Error Device.
Reference: SIN-L 252A (PN252)

Report no: 35 A¶

Program: BP-2000 printer
Subject: Paper Instruction Command and Character conversions on BP-2000 printer. For implementation and use: see report 33
Reference: SIN-L 248A (PN248)

Report no: 34 A¶

Program: All
Subject: Patch to obtain Remote-Form-Feed on Versatec plotter without "print option", connected to ND-100 with a DMA interface
Reference: SIN-L 235A (PN235)

Report no: 32 A¶

Program: DMA-printer
Subject: Paper Instruction Command and character conversions on DMA printers. For implementation and use: see report 33
Reference: SIN-L 214A (PN214)

Report no: 31 A¶

Program: All
Subject: How to drop DTR (Data Terminal Ready), when logging out. This applies to special devices not supplied by ND.
Reference: SIN-L 119A (PN119)

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Cross Reference List¶

X-origin.....Patch File
Y-origin.....Software System report (SSR)
>............SSR-revision
*............Preliminary SSR

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How to install Special Modification reports¶

Customer-specific modification patches (Referred to as Special Modification or SM) are stored on this patch file diskette, but they will not be automatically installed when running the patch file, unless specified. Each SM report is identified by a special symbol called a library mark. The library mark consists of the letters PN and the report number.

If you want to install SM reports on a system the first time patch file 3200 is run, the file PF-MODIF-M:FADM must exist under user area SYSTEM. The library marks for the SM reports wanted must be written to the file before running the patch file.

Example:¶

You want to install SM reports SSR-31 and SSR-35 together with the patch file.
@CREATE-FILE PF-MODIF-M:FADM 0
The file PF-MODIF-M:FADM should look like this (REMEMBER 7 BITS FORMAT):
```
PN031
PN035
@
```
Install SINTRAN from diskette and run the patch file.

If you don’t want any SM reports, install SINTRAN and run the patch file as usual. The file PF-MODIF-M:FADM will still exist under user area SYSTEM. This file will only contain the @ character, and should be kept for future use.

When an SM report is wanted later on, the library mark for the corresponding SM report has to be written to the file PF-MODIF-M:FADM before SINTRAN is installed from diskette together with the patch file.

Example:¶

Edit the file PF-MODIF-M:FADM so it contains the library mark for the wanted SM-report.
Install SINTRAN from diskette, and run the patch file.

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