SECTION 2 HIGHLIGHTS OF MR12.2 This section contains a brief summary of the most important items in this release. Refer to Section 3 for a more detailed description. A brief description of known bugs fixed in this release is available in the segment >doc>MR12.2>TRs_fixed_in_MR12.2. _S_O_F_T_W_A_R_E _C_H_A_N_G_E _P_R_O_P_O_S_A_L_S ox SCP 6326, provides line numbered dprints ox SCP 6331, modified the enter_abs_request command to use search paths ox SCP 6338, raises the limit on disk_stat ox SCP 6339, increases the length of Fortran character variables ox SCP 6340, modifies dial_out to work in absentee or exec_com ox SCP 6341, provides additional control arguments for the enter_imft_request command ox SCP 6342, increased the ASYNC terminal autobaud rate detection range from 110 and 1200 to 300 and 9600 baud ox SCP 6348, modified the canonicalize command to support canonicalization of MSFs ox SCP 6349, modified the mail system to use search paths to locate existing entities ox SCP 6350, lengthens tty special character sequences Highlights 2-1 SRB12.2 ox SCP 6351, added new control arguments to add_search_rules and add_search_paths ox SCP 6352, makes search paths understand search rules ox SCP 6355, modifies the find_rpv_ subsystem support of boot_without query ox SCP 6356, modifies the basic compiler to associate severity levels with error messages ox SCP 6357, minor changes to the fast subsystem ox SCP 6361, adds memory features to the change_wdir, cwd, command ox SCP 6365, adds two control arguments, -inhibit_error and -no_inhibit_error, to the where_search_paths command/active function ox SCP 6366, modifies dsl_$open to use mrds search path ox SCP 6367, modifies the enter_abs_request command to support standard control arguments ox SCP 6373, provides a new MRDS query language parser ox SCP 6374, provides a quiet mode for LINUS ox SCP 6375, provides new control arguments to LINUS requests to control printing of warning and progress messages ox SCP 6377, adds the command set_lisp_temp_dir to allow a user to specify a directory for temporary segments created during a lisp environment by commands such as emacs or lisp_compiler ox SCP 6378, modifies the display_ttt command to accept starnames for either the -terminal_type or -table options ox SCP 6379, modifies the display_ttt command to allow complete expansion of a like definition ox SCP 6380, allows accesses to be audited for specific file system entries ox SCP 6384, adds a new initializer (Operator) command list_lv_attachments ox SCP 6385, adds the field "Reply-To" in the header built by the send and reply editors of executive mail Highlights 2-2 SRB12.2 ox SCP 6391, adds the new request_info command/active function to provide specified information on any request queued in absentee, output, retrieval, imft, and specific request type message queues ox SCP 6401, Multics Inter-System Mailer (Available as RPQ Only) ox SCP 6402, Multics TCP/IP (Available as RPG Only) _A_D_D_I_T_I_O_N_A_L _H_I_G_H_L_I_G_H_T_S ox allow the attachment of laser printers as remote devices ox Added new audit keywords to switch_on and switch_off commands to manipulate a file system entry audit switch ox modified enter_abs_request_ subroutine and enter_abs_request command to use exec_com search paths and added several control arguments to the command ox Changed emacs rmail and extended mail system to use the search list named "mlsys" ox Ported AT&T System V LINT command and AT&T System V Release 2.0 MAKE command to Multics. The probe command may now be used on C programs when properly compiled. Highlights 2-3 SRB12.2 ----------------------------------------------------------- Historical Background This edition of the Multics software materials and documentation is provided and donated to Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Group BULL including BULL HN Information Systems Inc. as a contribution to computer science knowledge. This donation is made also to give evidence of the common contributions of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bell Laboratories, General Electric, Honeywell Information Systems Inc., Honeywell BULL Inc., Groupe BULL and BULL HN Information Systems Inc. to the development of this operating system. Multics development was initiated by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Project MAC (1963-1970), renamed the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence in the mid 1970s, under the leadership of Professor Fernando Jose Corbato. 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