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ND-10337F — Backup-System, version F

Status: STUB — no PD sheet, procedure inferred by pattern, NOT verified · Install source: [INF]

Field Value
Part number 10337F (as printed on the floppy volume label)
Base product ND-10337
Version F
Release date unknown
CPU target ND-100 (assumed, consistent with sibling versions)
OS requirement unknown

Description

A later revision than B, but no PD or PI sheet has been located for F specifically. Unlike B (ships as a :BPUN file needing a separate @DUMP-REENTRANT step) and I04/I05 (ship as a :PROG installer with a 3-question dialogue), F ships as a single already-linked :PROG file with no installer program at all — the simplest of the three shapes seen for this product.

Distribution media

Floppy volume Contents
ND-10337F single file: BACKUP-F00:PROG (106 pages), user FLOPPY-USER

Confirmed via directory listing only (temporary working reference, not committed to this repo).

Installation procedure — INFERRED, NOT CONFIRMED

No install text exists on this floppy to read (there is no :MODE script and no PD sheet). The following is inferred by pattern from the two sibling versions and should be treated as a starting point to verify live, not a confirmed procedure:

  1. Enter the floppy directory and copy BACKUP-F00:PROG to the user where you want the program to live (mirroring B's "copy to the user where you keep your files" step):
    @ENTER-DIRECTORY ND-10337F,FLOPPY-DISK-1,0
    @COPY-FILE "BACKUP-F00:PROG" (ND-10337F:FLOPPY-USER)BACKUP-SYSTEM:PROG
    
  2. Dump it reentrant so it is shared/callable by name, using DUMP-PROGRAM-REENTRANT (the :PROG-file form, since this file is already linked — not DUMP-REENTRANT, which is for raw :BPUN binaries like version B). This mirrors the I04/I05 installer's own final action (@DUMP-PROGRAM-REENTRANT BACKUP-SYSTEM-I, (UTILITY)BACKUP-SYS-I02:PROG):
    @DUMP-PROGRAM-REENTRANT BACKUP-SYSTEM-F,(BPUN-FILES)BACKUP-SYSTEM:PROG
    
  3. Persist across a cold start by appending the DUMP-PROGRAM-REENTRANT line to the DUMP-REENTRANT:MODE file called from HENT-MODE, per the generic pattern in ../../INSTALL-METHODOLOGY.md §4 step 5 and ../../../OS/SINTRAN-BOOT-AND-MODE-FILES-GUIDE.md §12.

Do not treat the above as verified. It has not been run, and no source document confirms the exact command names/addresses for this specific revision.

Configuration / post-install

Unknown — inferred to be none beyond the reentrant dump, consistent with the rest of this product's version history.

Documentation

  • PD-sheet: not located
  • PI-sheet: not located for this version (a later, general PI sheet exists under ND-210337)
  • Manual(s): presumed ND-60.151.xx SINTRAN III Utilities Manual, unconfirmed for this version
  • NDWIKI: not checked yet

Provenance & open items

  • Source: floppy directory listing only.
  • TODO (blocking): mount ND-10337F and confirm whether BACKUP-F00:PROG needs any companion install steps not visible from the directory listing (e.g. an embedded self-install routine) before trusting the inferred procedure above.
  • TODO: this install has not been run live in the emulator.

Parent: ../README.md (ND-10337 product overview)