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Tenex interface to UCSB's Simple-Minded File System

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Network Working Group                                           J. White
Request for Comments: 409                                        SRI-ARC
NIC: 12401                                               8 December 1972
Related RFCs: 122, 399


          TENEX Interface To UCSB's Simple-Minded File System

I.  PREFACE

   A subsystem for TENEX called SMFS has been written to interface
   ARPANET TENEX users to the Simple-Minded File System at UCSB-MOD75
   (see NIC 5834 / RFC 122 and NIC 11917 / RFC 399).  The Simple-Minded
   File System is a resident server process at UCSB which currently
   manages approximately 10K pages of on-line, direct-access storage.

   Using the simple command language or the subsystem here described,
   the user can transfer files to and from UCSB, and delete and rename
   them while they reside at Santa Barbara.  Files stored at UCSB may be
   read and/or write protected, and a file archived to UCSB from the
   TENEX system can be retrieved from another.

   This document is intended to provide users with the information
   necessary to use SMFS from a terminal; the reader is assumed familiar
   with TENEX.

   SMFS is currently installed at SRI-ARC (note in particular that the
   ARC EXEC WILL NOT give the user any 'GENERAL SUBSYSTEMS NOT AVAILABLE
   FOR NIC USE' flack about invoking SMFS).

   Copies of the source file are available upon request from the NIC.
   Bug reports and comments upon the code and documentation are
   solicited by the author, and may be sent to JEW through the Journal.

II.  LIMITATIONS

   SMFS can archive at Santa Barbara any file resident in a TENEX file
   system except:

      (1) Long files (in the strict, TENEX sense), and

      (2) Files whose directory name, filename, or extension contains
          other than alphameric characters, or whose combined length
          exceeds 32 characters (this limitation arises because of
          naming restrictions imposed at UCSB).






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