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    [335,30]README.1ST 

                         Spring 1983 RSXSIG Tape
                        St. Louis DECUS Symposium


                              T. V. Atkinson
                         Department of Chemistry
                        Michigan State University
                          East Lansing, MI 48824
                               517-353-4511


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         This account contains tutorial units on RSX that  we
    have  used  for several years in our graduate course in electronic
    instrumentation for scientists.


     RSX-1  -  A tutorial unit on RSX-11M.  Introduces the student  to
               various   concepts  of  using  a  modern  well  endowed
               operating  system.   Included  are   such   topics   as
               on-line-HELP,   system   facilities,   private   device
               maintainence, program development, file  manipulations,
               and  editing.   The idea is to expose a student with no
               assumed computer  background,  well  actually,  FORTRAN
               might  be helpful, to the facilities needed for program
               development and file maintainence.   The  unit  assumes
               MCR,  DIR  (Paul Sorenson's), and CCL and is compatible
               with Version 3.2 and 4.0.  The unit  uses  a  group  of
               write  protected  files in a write protected directory.
               The student must also have access to a  private  device
               and  a  write  enabled  public device.  This version is
               written to use DP0:  for  the  write  protected  files,
               DP1:   as the write enabled public device, and DX:  for
               the private device.  Other configurations can be easily
               utilized.   The  file RSX1BLD.CMD can be used to set up
               the write protected files.

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