Specifications

Table of Contents
CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION 6
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Functional Description 7
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~esignscope 8
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Requirements 8
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Goals 8
Non-aoals ................... 9
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MODELS 9
Relationship to DIGITAL Network Architecture ... 9
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SimplifiedNetworkModel
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Low Level Maintenance Operation Model
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INTERFACES
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Data Link Interface 13
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Maintenance-check 15
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Open 15
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Close 16
Transmit
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Transmit-poll 17
Receive ................... 18
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Receive-poll 19
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Receive-abort 19
User Level Maintenance Operation Interface
... 20
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Dump/Load Functions 21
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Loop Test Functions 29
Remote Console Functions
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Network Management Interface
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Set-state 45
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Read-state 46
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Add-dump/load-entry 47
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Remove-dump/load-entry 48
........... Set-dump/load-parameter 48
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Read-dump/load-list 49
Read-dump/load-parameters .......... 49
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Set-console-parameter 50
........... Read-console-parameters 51
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Interface Usage Examples 51
............ A System Boot Monit0.r
52
A Minimal ASCII Console Carrier
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.................... OPERATION 54
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Common Algorithms 54
................... Dump/Load 55
Dump/Load Server
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Dump/Load Requester
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Loop Test
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Loop Server
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LoopRequester
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Remoteconsole
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Console Server
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Console Requester
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