...DFX IS AN RSX PROGRAM TO DO ABSOLUTE DISK PATCHES ON TO YOUR CURRENT SY: DISK. CALLING SEQUENCE IS VIA A MCR>DFX IN RESPONSE TO "ENTER DISK BLOCK #" TYPE BLOCK NUMBER IN OCTAL OR "E" TO EXIT TO RSX. THE BLOCK WILL BE READ IN AND CAN BE DISPLAYED BY THE "L" COMMAND. DISPLAY IS ON LUN 6 NOTE THAT LUN 2 IS USED FOR DISK READS AND LUN 4 FOR DISK WRITES, AS A PROTECTIVE MEASURE LUN 4 IS ASSIGNED TO PSEUDO DEVICE XX: AND MUST BE RE-ASSIGNED BY THE USER BEFORE TO ENABLE WRITE-BACK ALSO NOT THAT LUN 6 IS USED FOR FULL BLOCK LISTINGS. IT IS INITIALLY SET TO TI: BUT CAN BE RE-ASSIGNED TO A DISK, AND WILL BE IN THE USERS UIC AS "DFX.DAT" IN RESPONSE TO "DFX>" PROMPT, TYPE L TO LIST REFERENCED BLOCK W TO WRITE THE CURRENTLY REFERENCED BLOCK BACK ONTO DISK N TO READ THE NEXT BLOCK R TO REREAD THE CURRENT BLOCK (OVERWRITING CURRENT BUFFER) B TO READ THE PREVIOUS BLOCK F FOR FULL-WORD ADDRESSES (DEFAULTS TO BYTE ADDRESSES) H FOR HALF-WORD (BYTE) ADDRESSES IN BLOCK T TO TYPE OUT THE BLOCK AS ASCII TEXT S TO SET/CLEAR FLAG FOR SPOOLING OUTPUT FILE TO LP IF LUN 6 IS A DISK, THE FILE WILL BE SPOOLED ON EXIT OR WHEN THE SPOOLING FLAG IS CLEARED BY THE OPERATOR K TO CALCULATE CHECKSUM OF FIRST 255. WORDS OF BLOCK E TO EXIT TO THE MONITOR THERE ARE 4 M(ODIFY) TYPE COMMANDS, WHERE M=THE BYTE OFFSET OF THE BUFFER WORD TO BE LISTED/MODIFIED NOTE THAT FOR M COMMANDS, M MUST BE EVEN, 0 <= M < 1000 M/000000 CHANGE BUFFER WORD TO THE OCTAL VALUE 000000 M,LLL CHANGE BUFFER WORD TO RAD50 VALUE OF "LLL" M;AA CHANGE BUFFER WORD TO ASCII VALUE OF "AA" M: DISPLAY BUFFER WORD IN OCTAL, RAD50 AND ASCII THERE ARE 4 COMMANDS WHICH ALTER THE ABLSOLUTE BLOCK NUMBER D,N TO CHANGE DEFAULT BLOCK NUMBER FOR READ AND WRITE TO N WITH- OUT CHANGING THE CONTENTS OF THE BUFFER IN CORE. THIS SHOULD PERMIT MOVING DATA FROM ONE BLOCK TO ANOTHER. A,N TO READ AND LIST BLOCK N (N ABSENT IMPLIES NEXT BLOCK) C,N TO READ AND LIST ALL BLOCKS UP TO AND INCLUDING BLOCK N. (N ABSENT IMPLIES TO END OF DISK.) P,N CHANGES THE HIGH-ORDER BLOCK NUMBER FROM THE DISK. NO I/O WILL BE DONE, BUT THE BLOCK NUMBER WILL BE COPIED FROM THE HIGH-ORDER AND LOW-ORDER BLOCKS TO RELATIVE WORDS 400 & 401 (BYTE OFFSET 1000 & 1002) PAST THE IO BUFFER WHERE THE SINGLE-WORD EXAMINING COMMANDS CAN SEE THEM.