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Tenex interface to UCSB's Simple-Minded File System

RFC 409       TENEX INTERFACE TO SIMPLE-MINDED FILE SYSTEM December 1972


      The following special symbols represent control characters entered
      by the user:

         CR  --carriage return or Telnet new-line
         SP  --space
         ESC --alt mode or escape

      Output from the system is distinguished by enclosing it in square
      brackets.

      Whenever an element in the user-system exchange can take more than
      one value, the alternatives are listed vertically in a column.

VII.  COMMAND DESCRIPTIONS

A. USER NAME AND ACCOUNT

      UCSB identifies users of its Simple-Minded File System by:

      (1) user name --

          a character string of from one to eight alphameric characters
          of SP, and

      (2) account --

          a character string of from one to four alphameric characters
          or SP.

   SMFS maintains internally a pair of accumulators.  One contains a
   user name, the other an account, each either a character string
   specified explicitly by the user or an SMFS-supplied default (the
   user's TENEX login directory name and 'l', respectively).  Both
   accumulators are set initially to their default values.

   Note:  If the user's login directory name exceeds eight characters in
   length, the user must explicitly supply a user name; no default is
   available.

   Whenever SMFS interacts with the server process at Santa Barbara on
   the user's behalf, it does so with the accounting parameters then in
   the accumulators.









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