Unanswered questions

Unanswered questions:

• Where did various sources/binaries live??

• Were there on-line manual pages??

• G2 keyboard character swapping (at rkbdi in s3.s)

• character shapes: loaded at 3K mark: How?

• character shapes: diagonal line handling

• pd: creates ".." (plain file) using creat?! or halts system?!!

• how were new directories created? superuser can call "creat" on existing directory files (truncates to zero length), but not new ones (creat masks permissions to 017)

• cold start:

  • how were paper tapes prepared?

• did the source files have spaces or tabs: aap reports ken said: we used tabs. dont know where spaces came. the pdp-7 did not have a printer. we used the remote- job-entry data set to submit batch jobs to the comp center big iron. to keep from being charged, we put a jcl syntax error followed by what we wanted to print. the syntax error would cause the job to be rejected -- but also printed.

• ".." is link to current directory? at https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!search/dsw$20pdp7/net.unix-wizards/1vc2i3Uf7NY/6kd5ePEPU5YJ dmr wrote: 'The name of the current directory was evidently ".."'