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--- tss-8_user_tutorial [2021/04/02 01:36] – [Documentation] Deleted ALGOL and Lisp (not available on SDF TSS/8) and unnecessary detail on basic commands papa
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 Detailed documentation for BASIC is available at [[http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp8/tss8/DEC-T8-KJZA-D-TSS-8_BASIC_8_Programming_Manual_Mar1969.pdf]].
+===== PUTR (Print/copy/delete/... files) =====
+Files can be listed with the library program CAT, and other library programs (such as BASIC and EDIT) provide limited file manipulation functions. However, the library program ''PUTR'' ("**P**eripheral **U**tility **T**ransfer **R**outines") provides general file manipulation functions like printing file contents and copying and deleting files. (Similar functions are also provided by the older library programs COPY and PIP.)
+(In the following example, ''*'' is the PUTR command prompt, and text following the ''*'' is input by the user followed by the ''Enter'' key.)
+<code>
+.R PUTR
+*DIR
+BOTTLE.BAS   1  3/14/74
+OCT .BAS   2  3/14/74
+HOLA  .ASC   1  3/14/74
+.25,2.FCL   2  3/14/74
+COWGEN.FCL   2  3/14/74
+FIBCOW.BAS   1  3/14/74
+GUESS .BAS   1  3/15/74
+ADIEU .BAC   1  3/15/74
+TH    .BAS   1  3/15/74
+SCOUNT.ASC   2  3/18/74
+SXMPL .ASC   2  3/18/74
+SACTST.ASC   1  3/18/74
+COUNT .BIN   1  3/18/74
+EXAMPL.BIN   1  3/18/74
+SPOLY .ASC   3  3/18/74
+MISS  .BAS   1  3/18/74
+RPS   .BAS   4  3/18/74
+TMP   .ASC   1  3/18/74
+BAFFA2.      1  3/18/74
+BAFFA1.ASC   1  3/18/74
+ZMP   .ASC   1  3/18/74
+SPOLY2.ASC   3  3/18/74
+POLY2 .BIN   1  3/18/74
+SBLINK.ASC   1  3/18/74
+BAFFA3.ASC   1  3/19/74
+BAFFA4.ASC   1  3/19/74
+BAFFA5.ASC   2  3/19/74
+BBIN  .BIN   1  3/19/74
+BAFFA6.ASC   1  3/19/74
+RUL110.BAS   1  3/25/74
+ELCOTT.BAS   1  3/25/74
+HELLO .BAS   1  3/26/74
+EINTR .BAS   1  3/26/74
+ELCOT1.BAS   1  3/26/74
+AGE   .BAS   2  3/26/74
+PAPA  .ASC   1  3/26/74
+*COPY VERBUM.ASC=PAPA.ASC
+PAPA  .ASC
+*DEL PAPA.ASC
+PAPA  .ASC
+*TYPE VERBUM.ASC
+VERBUM.ASC
+IN PRINCIPIO ERAT VERBUM
+*E
+^BS
+.
+</code>
+**Notes**
+|DIRECTORY (DIR)|List files (similar to the library program CAT)|
+|COPY|Syntax is ''COPY <new name>=<source file>''|
+|DELETE (DEL)|Delete file (rename file by copying then deleting original file)|
+|TYPE|Print file contents|
+|END (E)|End PUTR session and return to Monitor|
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 Using the I command you can enter text, with a CTRL+L you exit insert mode. Save your file with E.