freebsd-ports/emulators/its/files

Consider adding firewall protection for the KLH-10 emulator before
ever running it.  See @PREFIX@/share/doc/its/pubits/adm directory for
samples.

To setup the emulator you must run the its-user-install(1) command.
It takes no arguments.  It is best to run it as a regular (non-root)
user.  Once that has been done to start ITS run the its(1) command.
It also takes no arguments.

The first time the ITS boots it will not know the time of day.  ITS
will display this message:

The time could not be set because:
No host responded.
It will be necessary for someone to set the time
manually by logging in and running :PDSET.

Tell ITS to activate the apex procedure, DDT, by typing a Ctrl-Z.
When you type that you will see:

KN ITS.1647. DDT.1545.
TTY 0
You're all alone, Fair share = 0%

(ITS does not know the date, so messages cannot be reviewed right now.)

Then run PDSET by typing (colon and all)

:pdset

ITS will suggest that you log in but you don't have to.

(Please Log In)
___002 PDSET  IOTLSR  

Now enter the time and save it.  First the century:

20C

Next the YYMMDD:

020219D

Then the HHMMSS (try to time it so you have some lead time because it
will become active when you save it.)

235115T

Now save the time:

!.

Now exit PDSET

X

You will have no feedback from the exit operation except that new
commands will be echoed in lower case.  Now bring down ITS so you can
start it without being root:

:lock
(Please Log In)
 LOCK.154  
_

the _ is a prompt, do not type it.  Type

5down

LOCK is very picky about typos so be careful.  It does not need the
Enter key so don't use it.

DO YOU REALLY WANT THE SYSTEM TO GO DOWN?

Type "y"

y
___004 
       PLEASE ENTER A BRIEF MESSAGE TO USERS, ENDED BY ^C
LOCK   SYS    DOWN   MAIL   WRITE  21:13:17

Just type Ctrl-C for the message unless you have a burning desire to
talk to yourself via ITS.

KN ITS going down in 5:00
CULPRIT =  ___004 LOCK   21:13:38


_
KN ITS 1647 NOT IN OPERATION 21:13:38
PFTHMG DRAGON CHANNA _DRGN_ TIMES  WRITE  21:13:38
PFTHMG DRAGON CHANNA LOGOUT TIMES  DELRNM 21:13:38

After the "NOT IN OPERATION" message only very special programs like
the accounting dragon, PFTHMG DRAGON, may run.  Be patient and it will
finish with:

SHUTDOWN COMPLETE  
PI LEVEL 7 BUGDDT.  TYPE <ALTMODE>P TO CONTINUE.
YOU ARE NOW IN DDT.
BUGPC/   CAIA COFFI4+1   $Q-2/   JRST COFFI7   

If ITS gets stuck shutting down for more than five minutes just
continue from here:

At this point type Ctrl-\ to abort KLH10 back to the monitor.

[HALTED: FE interrupt]
KLH10> 

and quit KLH10

KLH10> quit
Are you sure you want to quit? [Confirm]y
Shutting down...Bye!
$ 

ITS uses DEL for erasing characters.  ITS defaults to dumb hardcopy
terminal settings.  This is a pain so you want to configure ITS to
use something nicer.  ITS knows about VT52.  If you are using xterm
from XFree86 you can get into VT52 mode by running a script like this:

#! /bin/sh

awk 'END {printf "%c[?2l", 27}' </dev/null

From ITS run
:tctyp vt52

On your VT52 mode terminal emulator.

An alternative is that you can use vt100 mode via the CRTSTY program
which is a bit like window(1) in that you end up on something like a
pty but only one full screen window is available and it does terminal
emulation on it.  You will be automatically logged in a second time on
the same terminal as a crufty side-effect.

:crtsty vt100 speed 9600

Run :info and look at the introductory information about the
filesystem.  I did not find that it covers directory operations very
well so here is what I have found out.  ITS does have a process tree
(try the PEEK command) but does not have a directory tree.  There is a
Master File Directory MFD (try DSKUSE * or DIRED and then MFD.  Use
"Q" to quit after either of those.) and User File Directories UFDs one
level deep only.  The only way to remove a directory is to delete its
contents and run the salvager. The salvager is the ITS equivalent of
fsck and will automatically be run at boot time.  To create a new
directory provide certain options to the open UUO (ITS equivalent of
system call; try the DOC UUO command.)  Since the PRINT command calls
the open UUO you can create a directory using print:

:print ..new. (udir) dirnam;

Where dirnam; is the name of the directory to be created.  Directory
names are limited to six characters.

Missing from this ITS distribution is the INQUIR database.  It
contains user information.  There were too many personal details in it
and no one has been able to scrub it so it was left out.  This means
you cannot have a complete user account yet.  The best you can do is
to pick a user name and make yourself a directory with that name and
put a login script in it.  In this example the user "user" is created:

:login user
:print ..new. (udir) user;
:emacs login user
[add startup code like ":tctyp vt52" and ^X^S to save ^X^C to exit]

You log out with <ALTMODE><ALTMODE>u which is [Esc][Esc]u and
represented in the documentation as $$u

The ITS equivalent of $PATH is implemented by scanning all
directories for files for files with TS as the first name and
the second name set to the command you issued.  By convention
most commands are in the SYS; SYS1; ... SYSN; directories.
ITS supports symlinks via the LINK command and TS name is often
a symlink.

ITS equivalent of job control works by typing ^Z to interrupt the
current program.  To get back to the DDT prompt "*" use $^K

Don't like DDT as the shell?  Try MONMOD to use monitor mode where the
colon is printed for you.  DDTMOD gets you back.  Or try SHELL to
bring up a UNIX-like shell.

Zork was developed in MDL (muddle) on an ITS system but apparently it
suffered from being too popular.  Try the ZORK command to see what
happened.  A scrap of MDL source code is left (:find @muddle) but I
don't know how to MIDAS it.