01/30/87 display_comp_dsm, dcdsm


Syntax as a command:  dcdsm path {font} {-control args}


Function:  displays selected information from a compose device
description table, device.comp_dsm.


Arguments:
path
   is the pathname of a device description table.  The entryname must
   end with the suffix comp_dsm but the suffix need not be given in the
   command line.  The star convention is not supported.  If this is the
   only argument given, summary information on all devices defined in
   the table is displayed.
font
   is the external name of a font defined for the device.  It may be
   given as family or family/member.  If this argument is given, then
   all the graphics (Multics characters) for the named font with their
   widths are displayed; otherwise, information on the device is
   displayed.


Control arguments:
-device, -dv
   displays information on the named device only (including all defined
   fonts).
-linelength n, -ll n
   sets the line length for the display to N.  The default value is the
   system defined linelength for the user's terminal.
-long, -lg
   displays detailed information.  If FONT is given, then display all
   the graphics (Multics characters) for the font with the width and
   replacement output string for each.  If FONT is not given, then
   display all the defined parameters for the named device.


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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. 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., 
as successor in interest by change in name only to Honeywell Bull Inc. and Honeywell Information Systems Inc. .

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