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C00002 00002 This is a file of known SAIL manual defects (mainly typos) that
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This is a file of known SAIL manual defects (mainly typos) that
are not already noted in the preface or covered by the "incremental"
SAIL manual. It is primarily an internal document for the SAIL
hackers, put is being provided here as a stopgap measure pending
a full new edition for the manual. This list is, however, not
complete in that it does not include a number of typos that do
not change the meaning. If, however, you discover any defects
in the manual or in the update, please notify your friendly local
SAIL representative.
99R KVL The synonym for "SUCH THAT" is "|" and not "↓"
32R KVL APPENDIX 5 has nothing to do with the
bits for IO errors or mode enablings
43L RHT FILEINFO documentation is a lie. You usually get:
FILENAME
EXT,,DATE
prot(9)Mode(4)time(11)date(12)
negative swapped word count (if did a lookup).
0 (unless you opened device in magic mode)
0
The whole point is that what you get is the six words
from the last lookup or enter. For details see the
monitor manual.
58R JRL if a designated bracketed triple is not found
then bindit is returned and no error message is given
33L JRL release now takes a second defaultable value integer
argument, the close inhibit bits (see RELEAS in UUO
manual). These are defaulted to zero when unspecified.
72R KVL TELLALL does not do an implicit RESCHEDULE as the
description implies -- it just sets the status of
the concerned processes to "ready".
102R RFS "33 through 36" S/B "33 through 35"
105R RFS ". her are several" s/b " . There are several"
79R,L KVL JOBTPC should be loaded with the location of a CALL to
a non-simple procedure.
92R JRL 20F will in future surround macro expansions with
"<>" not "⊂⊃".
38R RHT The description of INCHWL is wrong. Actually, the
activation character is never included in the string
and is always put into _SKIP_. (<crlf> puts a <cr>
into _SKIP_ & throws away the <lf>).
24L RHT The compiler will not in fact turn division by a power
of two into an ASH.
90L REG "... See section 19 about these [compilation errors] "
should be section 20.
90L REG 19.1.3 "boundary" is misspelled.
41R RHT CVSIX left-justifies the sixbit value it builds.
43L RHT In POINT, it is "a PDP-10 byte pointer".
45R RHT FORC syntax should be "FORC <identifier> ← ... "
57R RHT " ... methods of searching the associative store ..."
had "store" missing before.
105L RHT "omaname" should be "the symbolic name"
110L RHT added reference:
Harvey, Brian "Monitor Command Manual" SAILON 54.3
(Dec 1973)
Also, there is a more current SOS manual: SAILON 50.3
76L RHT Should be "REF_ITEM(VALUE <expression>)"
43L RFS For FILEINFO, also should have a note to export users
like "FILEINFO fills the array with the results of the
last LOOKUP or ENTER (DEC 10-50 systems). Consult your
local monitor manual for the format of these entries."
28L JRL CALLING PROCEDURES FROM INSIDE CODE BLOCKS
"... procedure is typed, it will return is value in
AC 1 (a pointer to the second word if the procedure is
a string procedure)." should be
" procedure is typed and not a string procedure it will
return its value in AC 1. String procedures push the
two word string descriptor corresponding to the result
on the SP stack."
23L RHT The table of precedence for ∧ & ∨ is misleading. ∧ has
higher precedence than ∨.
26R JRL ARRYIN. No indication of how many words were actually read
is given if EOF is encountered while reading a file in
DUMP mode.
25L RHT The description of the MEMORY[x,<type>] construct is very
misleading. There is no restriction on the use of this
construct as the left hand side of an assignment statement.
In fact, MEMORY[x,<type>] may be used anywhere a simple
variable of type <type> may be used.