10/20/86  print_wordlist, pwl


Syntax as a command:  pwl path {-control_args}


Function:  displays (prints) the words contained in a wordlist segment
in a multiple column format.


Arguments:
path
   is the pathname of a wordlist segment.  If path does not have the
   suffix wl, one is assumed; however, wl must be the last component of
   the segment name.


Control arguments:
-brief_errors, -bfe
   suppresses error messages when no words are generated in the
   wordlist (see -output-file).
-columns n, -cols n
   specifies that the output is to contain n columns.  (The default
   number of columns depends on the line length and the column width.
-column_width n, -cw n
   specifies that the column width is n characters.  (The default
   column width is 20.)


-output_file path, -of path
   directs the output to the segment specified by path in a format
   suitable for printing on a line printer.  If there are no words in
   the wordlist, the following error message is provided.  There are no
   words in the <wordlist name> wordlist and an empty wordlist is
   created unless -brief_errors was also provided.
-page_length n, -pl n specifies that the page length is n lines.  (The
   default page length is 60 if -output_file is specified; otherwise,
   it is 66.)
-vertical_margin n, -vm n
   specifies that the vertical margin size is n lines.  (The default
   vertical margin size is 0 if -output_file is specified; otherwise,
   it is 3.)


Notes:  The default number of columns is the maximum number of columns
that fit within the line length.  If the -output_file control argument
is specified, a line length of 136 is assumed.  Otherwise, the line
length defined for the user_output switch is used.  If none is defined,
a line length of 72 is assumed.


If the length of a word is greater than or equal to the column width,
the word is truncated.  An asterisk (*) is appended to such words to
indicate truncation.


Output is divided into pages.  Each page has a top and bottom vertical
margin consisting of n blank lines where n is the vertical margin size.
These lines are included in the page length.  The column height on a
page is equal to the page length minus twice the vertical margin size.
In the default case, the column height equals 60 lines whether or not
the -output_file control argument is specified.  On the last page of
output, the column height is reduced to the minimum height needed to
accommodate remaining words.  If the -output_file control argument is
specified, each page is terminated by an ASCII new page character
(octal 014).







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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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