RFC 409 (rfc409) - Page 4 of 8
Tenex interface to UCSB's Simple-Minded File System
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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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