Workbook for SLD Offline Users - To Do

Whole Sections Still to be Written

• Finish "Physics at SLD"
• Finish "The Monte Carlo"
• Finish "PAW"

A One Day Tour of the SLD Offline World

• Have one of the display jobs use DSP INT and pick.

Information Resources

• Recommend that users monitor the General Software discussion.

Handling Files on VMS

• Mention the RECALL command and up arrow.
• Mention that a block=512 Bytes.
• Discuss use of synonyms.

DUCS

• Discuss frozen DUCS versions, how to find them and how to use them.

The Data

The Tape System

• When Tony has finished OUTPUT$STAGE, document it in the Workbook.
• In section on WRITE USING, mention that IEVENTH is always written out. See Tom's notes in ALL NOTEBOOK for his way of describing this and a related output bug.

Batch Processing

IDA Structure

• Discuss GO TO.
• Check where IDA continuation character (dash) is introduced.

IDA Continued

• Discuss use of the INTERP command.
• Warn users against redefining key system variables such as Weight.
• Discuss use of $RETURN IDA$ABORTGO (use FINDWAB IDA B as example)
• Include Tom Junk's notes on IDA. Notes are in SLACVX::DISK$SLD_USR0:[PERL]TRJIDA.NOTE.

IDA Processors

• Check how underscore pointer convention is introduced.
• Introduce concept of CONTEXT with more detail,

Writing Code

• Discuss IDALVARs.
• Under Handypak calls, discuss how to include FORTRAN routines.
• Put in more discussion of how to create a template.

Compile, Link and Run

A Project Management System

Debug

• Discuss AUTO DEBUG.
• Discuss now to set up a canned debug routine.
• Discuss how to access Jazelle information from the debugger.
• Discuss how to force load of an image so that you can set breakpoints on the init section of a processor or cmdproc. Trick is to set break in the utility that loads processors.

MIDAS: the Motif Interactive Data Analysis System

Unix

Bug Handling

Help Wanted