ASNLIB user's guide. [In assembly language for PDP-11]

Technical Report · Wed Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1980

OSTI ID:6754330

Allen, R

The ASNLIB (Asynchronous Library) software package is a library of procedures and functions, callable from OMSI Pascal programs running under RT-11 on the LSI-11 computer. The library provides many commonly needed capabilities to programs that control multiple asynchronous tasks or processes. The library was implemented specifically as an aid to the COMSYS (Communications System) teleconferencing system, but is intended to be general purpose enough to be an aid to other multi-tasking applications. ASNLIB is written in assembly language. The library makes heavy use of facilities provided by four other software packages, FILELIB, QMSLIB, and UTLLIB. ASNLIB combines the low-level capabilities of these four packages (i.e. device interface with serial devices, disk I/Q) with the multi-tasking capabilities provided by Procedure Queues. The routines in ASNLIB provides facilities to programs which are written using procedure queueing. For example, ASNLIB has a single routine which a host program can call to cause multiple lines from a terminal to be read in and stored in a queue of lines. Another routine will take an entire queue of lines and write a text file from them. (RWR)

• Research Organization: California Univ., Livermore (USA). Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 6754330
• Report Number(s): UCID-18872(Vol.2)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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