Help is available for the following topics: 1022 4UP ADUMP AJ APLBAS ARP ASSIGN ATTACH BACKUP BRACK CALCOM CALEND CANCEL CDCEOF CHANGE COBOL COMMAN COMPIL CONTRO COSTS COUNT CPUNCH CREATE DATESW DDT DEBUG DECLAR DELETE DEMOS DETACH DIRECT DISK EBCDIC ECHO EMPIRE FAILSA FAL FILES FORDDT FORFLO FORTH FORTRA FROM10 GCS GENCOM GLIM GRIPE GT40 HELP HLPALL HLPSQZ HOLIDA HPPLOT IMSL INDEX JOB KDPLDR KERMIT KILL KJOB LABDMC LASER LIBRAR LINED LINK LOGIN LSTMAI MAKVIR MASTER MCROSS MONITO MOUNT MS MTA MTTOPT MUPPET NAME NCP NETWOR NFT NOTICE NYPLAN OLDNOT OMNIGR OPR PACMAN PAL10 PASSWO PASWRD PHONES PLOT POUT PUB QUEUE REATTA REDUCE RENAME RENBR RERUN RSXFMT RSXRED SAAM SAVE SDPL SED SEDONL SEDOTH SEE SEND SEWER SIXPRT SMALL SORT SPACIN SPIKE STAFF STATIS STREK SUPCAL SUPSUB SYSDPY SYSTEM TAPCOP TECMAC TEK TEKVEW TERMIN TIME TIP TO10 TOPS TREK TREND TYPFIL USERS USNMRG VAXTAP VERIFY WHO XVFU .KJOB ECHO is what happens when you type a character on the terminal. The character is "echoed" to your output (screen or paper). ******************************************************** * * * Advertisement for the program ECHO - * * See Description at end of this Help file * * * ******************************************************** The DECsystem-10 operates in a "FULL DUPLEX" mode, which means that characters can go from you and to you at the same time. That's how you are able to 1. type ahead while typing is still coming at you 2. type ^O to stop and start output 3. type ^C^C to abort the currently running program IF you type TTY NO ECHO you will silence the DECsystem-10 echo of the characters you type. IF you get ddoouubbllee characters on your terminal, you can either: 1. switch your equipment to FULL DUPLEX (best solution) or 2. give the TTY NO ECHO command IF you dial-up and get no characters when you type, then the previous user of the phone line must have set TTY NO ECHO. To correct that, and other weird settings he may have made, give the INITIA command by just typing I (followed by hitting the RETURN key) at the beginning of the line. That will reset the TTY setting to normal. Another good help file to see is: HELP TTY ========================================================================== ECHO - A program to eecchhoo characters Have you ever wondered what all those fancy 'extra' keys did on your terminal? Well, wonder no more. ECHO is a program that will actually send back to your terminal the characters these keys transmit, instead of just sending them to the computer. ECHO has 2 modes of operation: It will either send the actual character to your terminal, or echo back the representation of that character. Here's an example: In the first mode, (end mode - echo back the character) hitting the COTROL-T key combination will send an actual Control-T to your terminal. An alternate way to accomplish this would be to set some switches to LOCAL or HALF DUPLEX (some switches are hard to get to) and pulling out your terminal's manual to see what's going on (some manuals are confusing, to say the least). In the second mode (Display mode - echo back the name of the key hit) hitting the CONTROL-T combination echoes back as " CONTROL-T(024) ", informing you that CONTROL-T was transmitted, and (024) being the octal representaion of Control-T. Note that in this mode, a control-T is NOT sent to your Terminal. Some 'special' keys transmit nothing to the computer, and are local to your terminal. ECHO cannot intercept these commands. To startup the ECHO program, type at monitor level: .R ECHO Display character name (D) or send it (S) ? [S]: You now enter an S or a D, for the mode you want to operate in. note that ALL characters are legal, AND TWO (2) CONTROL-C's IN SUCCESSION ARE NEEDED TO EXIT THE PROGRAM ! --------------------------------------------------------- ------------- [End of Both ECHO's HELP] .KJOB .