10/17/84  copy_dump

Syntax as a command:  copy_dump


Function: copies a dump image taken by BCE out of the DUMP partition
into the Multics hierarchy.  It creates as many segments (up to 10) in
>dumps as necessary to hold the dump image.

The name of each segment has the form
   mmddyy.tttt.s.eee
where:
mmddyy
   is the date the dump was taken.
tttt
   is the time the dump was taken.
s
   is a sequence number (0, 1, 2,...9).
eee
   is the error report form (ERF) number used in reporting this dump.




Entries: copy_dump$set_fdump_num, copy_dump$sfdn


Syntax as a command:  copy_dump$sfdn erfno


Function: This entry point sets the value of the next dump to be taken
by changing the value associated with the ERF number in the DUMP
partition.


Arguments:
erfno
   is the ERF number for the next dump to be taken.


Access required: This command uses hphcs_$copy_fdump and
hphcs_$set_fdump_num and, thus, requires access to hphcs_.


Notes: The DUMP partition is modified only after the last dump taken
has been copied.  If you attempt to change the ERF number before a dump
has been copied, an error message is returned.

This command does not allow a particular dump to be copied twice;
therefore it returns an error code if you attempt to recopy a dump.


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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. Users consider that Multics provided the best software architecture 
for managing computer hardware properly and for executing programs. Many subsequent operating systems 
incorporated Multics principles.
Multics was distributed in 1975 to 2000 by Group Bull in Europe , and in the U.S. by Bull HN Information Systems Inc., 
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