Rsx Multi-Tasker

This document is the September 1984 edition of the "RSX Multi-Tasker," a newsletter for users of Digital Equipment Corporation's (DEC) RSX operating systems. The contents include:

• Symposium News: Information regarding upcoming pre-symposium seminars in Anaheim, focusing on industrial automation, public domain software, and RSX system internals.
• Technical Discussions: A reader-submitted "Modest Proposal" session for RSX users to provide feedback to DEC, and a guide on "Crash Dump Analysis for Rookies."
• Software Contributions: Source code and descriptions for two user-developed utilities: "WAK," an alarm clock program, and "FRC," a tool to execute MCR commands on other terminals.
• Working Group Reports: Updates from various DECUS working groups, including reports on unsupported versions of RSX, system performance, SIG tape collections, and networking tools.
• Q&A Session: A summary of questions and answers from a session with a panel of DEC experts covering various technical issues, including memory allocation, task builder errors, and device support.
• Conversion Guides: Articles discussing the challenges and considerations for converting RSX-11M Fortran programs to VMS and managing software catalogs under RSX-11M.
• Command File Scripts: Detailed technical code and documentation for utility scripts, such as UICLIB.CMD for creating object module libraries and GRPCOP.CMD for copying group files between UICs.