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. White
