DF files: AlpineUser.df

Documentation: AlpineDoc.tioga, WalnutOnAlpineDoc.tioga

Maintainer: Kolling, Taft

The basic interface for programs using the Alpine file server. Some user commands are accessible through interpreter calls.

DF files: AMEvents.df

Documentation: AMEvents.mesa, FastBreak.mesa | see maintainer

Maintainer: Birrell, Rovner

AMEvents is the part of the Cedar abstract machine concerned with interaction between executing programs and the debugger: uncaught signals, breakpoints, and interpreted procedure calls. Normal access to these facilities is through the InterpreterTool. Consult a wizard before calling AMEvents directly.

DF files: AMModel.df

Documentation: AMModel.mesa, AMMiniModel.mesa

Maintainer: Rovner

AMModel.df includes the components of the Cedar "abstract machine" that deal with loaded programs, frames, their object modules and source modules, and interdependencies. Its major public interfaces are AMModel.mesa and AMMiniModel.mesa.

DF files: AMProcess.df

Documentation: AMProcess.mesa | see maintainer

Maintainer: Birrell, Rovner

AMProcess is the component of the Abstract Machine that manipulates processes.

DF files: AMTypes.df

Documentation: AMTypesDoc.tioga (out of date) | AMTypes.mesa, AMBridge.mesa

Maintainer: Rovner

AMTypes.df includes the part of the Cedar "abstract machine" that deals with types, values and variables. Its major public interfaces are AMBridge.mesa and AMTypes.mesa.

DF files: BasicLoadState.df

Documentation: BcdDefs.mesa, BcdOps.mesa, Table.mesa, TimeStamp.mesa | see maintainer

Maintainer: Levin

New for Cedar 5.0 (no catalog entry).

DF files: BasicPackages.df

Documentation:

Maintainer: Atkinson, MBrown, Rovner, Stewart

BasicPackages is a bootfile component that combines several unrelated components. All of them were present in earlier releases, and all but Random and RopeFile were part of the boot file in earlier releases. Combining things in this way may not be a good idea, for several reasons, and we may split them apart in some later release. You may avoid some df-file editing by referring to the pieces of BasicPackages via LifeSupport.df.

DF file: BasicTime.df

Documentation: BasicTime.mesa | see maintainer

Maintainers: Birrell, Levin

BasicTime provides access to the various kinds of system-maintained time, such as time of day and high resolution time. Conversions to and from Pup (Alto) time format and NS (product standard) time formats are provided.

DF file: BCDStuff.df

Documentation: see maintainer

Maintainers: Levin, Maxwell, Rovner

New for Cedar 5.0 (no catalog entry).

DF file: Binder.df

Documentation: Mesa 5.0 language manual (outdated)

Maintainer: Rovner

The Mesa Binder.

DF file: BootTool.df

Documentation: see maintainer

Maintainer: Levin, Rovner

This tool provides a means to checkpoint or rollback, or to boot other volumes using button clicks. For those with special needs, a more elaborate tool is provided to support booting different files, or booting with unusual parameters.

DF file: BTree.df

Documentation: BTreeDoc.tioga

Maintainer: Taft

This Cedar package maintains an ordered collection of objects as a BTree. The objects may be of different sizes, and there may be a large number of them (tens or hundreds of thousands). The amount of virtual memory required does not depend on the size of the BTree, and the cost of finding, inserting, and deleting objects increases only very slowly as the BTree gets larger. The package makes very few assumptions about the representation of the objects being stored or about the properties of the storage itself.

DF file: BTreeTest.df

Documentation: BTreeDoc.tioga

Maintainer: Taft

A test and performance measurement program for the BTree package.

DF file: Celtics.df

Documentation: CelticsDoc.tioga

Maintainer: Atkinson

The Celtics package contains two debugging tools: Celtics and BreakTool. Celtics is used to set low-cost counting breakpoints. These breakpoints can even be set in very sensitive code, such as the allocator or page fault handling, since incrementing the count is entirely performed with resident code. BreakTool, on the other hand, permits the setting of conditional or logging breakpoints, where an expression is evaluated at every breakpoint. These breakpoints are much more powerful, but the user is cautioned against setting them in places required for the handling of breakpoints.

DF file: Chat.df

Documentation: ChatDoc.tioga

Maintainer: Stewart

Tool for talking to file servers. A command line of simply "Chat" will create an iconic Chat viewer. A command line like "Chat maxc" will create an open chat viewer, connect to Maxc, and log in the current Cedar user.

DF file: Clock.df

Documentation: see maintainer

Maintainer: Atkinson

Clock is a graphic display of the current time. It uses Graphics and Viewers to present a circular clock face with hands. It is a good example program as well as an attractive timepiece. The ChangeOffset button now changes the time by hours (left-click), minutes (middle-click) or seconds (right-click). Holding the Shift key during the mouse click causes the time to appear to go forward, otherwise time appears to go backward. Holding Control for any click causes the displayed time to be the actual time.

DF file: CoFork.df

Documentation: CoForkDoc.tioga

Maintainer: Sturgis

Provides for the convenient start up and shut down of coroutines that use Mesa PORTS.

DF file: CollectibleVM.df

Documentation: CollectibleVM.mesa

Maintainer: Taft

CollectibleVM is a package for obtaining chunks of raw VM that are reclaimed automatically. This is useful for applications requiring storage that is page-aligned or has other properties obtainable from VM but not from the normal Cedar allocator.

DF file: ColorPackage.df

Documentation: ColorWorld.mesa, ColorMap.mesa | see maintainer

Maintainer: Wyatt

This package is the set of programs outside of CedarGraphics and Viewers required to run color viewers. It exports:

DF file: CommandTool.df

Documentation:

Maintainer: Stewart

The CommandTool has been extensively rewritten for Cedar 5. You are strongly encouraged to read CommandToolDoc.tioga. CommandToolStructureDoc.tioga is less interesting.

The Cedar 5 CommandTool is a stream-oriented "glass teletype" command-line processor. It is a place to invoke Cedar subsystems. It is sufficiently like any other executive so that you can probably get by, but you should read CommandToolDoc.tioga and some of the documentation files for the various commands.

Interesting interfaces:

DF file: Communication.df

Documentation: see maintainer

Maintainer: Birrell, Levin

The Pilot communication package implements the basic communication protocols - up to the level of byte streams. There are two flavors of protocol available: "OISCP," described in the Pilot Programmers' Manual, and "PUP." At present, only the PUP protocols are used within CSL. These are all "unsafe" interfaces. See also the STP package for FTP transfers, and Lupine for remote procedure calls.

DF file: Compiler.df

Documentation: Mesa 5.0 language manual (outdated) | Cedar Language Reference Manual

Maintainer: Rovner

The Cedar language compiler.

DF file: CompNeeds.df

Documentation: CompNeedsDoc.tioga

Maintainer: Spreitzer

CompNeeds examines source files to determine compilation and binding dependencies and produces a command to compile and bind whatever is necessary to produce up-to-date BCDs for a given set of goal modules.

DF file: Cypress.df

Documentation: [Indigo]<CedarDocs>Database>CypressDoc.press

Maintainer: Cattell.pa

Cypress is the the database management package for Cedar. It is accessed through the interface DB.mesa, or via application programs such as Walnut. The Squirrel application (see separate catalog entry) provides some general-purpose database tools.

If interested in the Cedar data base work, use Maintain to place your name on the distribution list CedarDatabase^.

DF file: DebugTool.df

Documentation: see maintainer

Maintainer: Birrell

(no catalog entry).

DF file: Dependencies.df

Documentation: Dependencies.mesa

Maintainer: Rovner

The "Dependencies" command produces a cross reference that lists for each bcd file in or under a specified DF file the other bcd files that depend on it. Dependencies takes the name of a df file as a parameter and produces two text files: Dependencies.txt and Dependencies.log. Dependencies.txt has the cross reference; Dependencies.log contains a copy of the stuff printed on the commandtool typescript as Dependencies runs. This package was produced by copying Roy Levin's implementation of VerifyDF and modifying it.

DF file: DFCommands.df

Documentation: BringOverDoc.tioga, SModelDoc.tioga, VerifyDFDoc.tioga

Maintainer: vanLeunen

DFCommands provides a command-line interface to the DFTool. These commands (BringOver, SModel, VerifyDF) do not interact with the user; that is, in terms of Cedar 4.4's versions of these commands, "/a" is now the only behavior available.

DF file: DFIncludes.df

Documentation: in catalog entry

Maintainer: MBrown

The command line "DFIncludes XXX.df" produces a file DFIncludes.txt with lines of the form "shortFileName containingDfFile directory", sorted by shortFileName. There is one line for each source file included (in the DF sense) in XXX.df. Both containingDfFile and directory are stripped of redundant information (like "/Indigo/Cedar/Top/") to keep the lines short. Warnings are written to DFIncludes.log.

DF file: DFPackage.df

Documentation: DFOperations.mesa | DFOperationsQueue.mesa | DFUtilities.mesa | see maintainer

Maintainer: Levin

DFPackage is the basic Cedar support for reading and writing DF files.

DF file: DFTool.df

Documentation: see maintainer

Maintainer: Levin

DFTool provides an interactive tool for BringOver, SModel, and VerifyDF commands.

DF file: Disk.df

Documentation: Disk.mesa | see maintainer

Maintainer: Birrell, Levin

New for Cedar 5.0 (no catalog entry).

DF file: DiskTool.df

Documentation: see maintainer

Maintainer: Birrell

New for Cedar 5.0 (no catalog entry).

DF file: ExecHacks.df

Documentation: See catalog entry.

Maintainer: Plass

A revival of a Scott McGregor hack to put some handy menu buttons in the CommandTool. Adds some handy menu buttons to CommandTool viewers: "Compile" and "Redo". "Compile" deduces a filename from the selection, and then does a "Compile", "Bind", or "@" with the root of the filename, depending on the extension. It is purely textual, and extracts just the root of the file name because the Compile command doesn't accept fNames (as of this writing). So watch your working directories. "Redo" is a simple replay of the last command.

DF file: File.df

Documentation: File.mesa | see maintainer

Maintainer: Birrell, Levin

New for Cedar 5.0 (no catalog entry).

DF file: FileStream.df

Documentation: FileStreamDoc.tioga

Maintainer: Hagmann

FileStream is a separate package for Cedar 5.0. It is a generic file stream package, and currently its clients are FS and Alpine file streams. It is a higher performance implementation of its predecessor, FileIO. All parameters in stream creation to FileStream are now used; previously some were ignored. Two streams (one read and one write stream) may now reference the same open file. Sequential reading of a stream will cause the package to pre-read data ahead when sufficient buffers exist. Write behind (the parallel writing of dirty buffers) is also performed.

DF file: FileStreamTest.df

Documentation: see maintainer

Maintainer: Hagmann

This is test software for the filestream package.

DF file: FormatDisk.df

Documentation: FormatDisk.mesa

Maintainer: Taft

Performs machine-dependent disk initialization operations, principally formatting and initial microcode installation. Iago is the only intended client.

DF file: Forms.df

Documentation: SampleSheet.tioga

Maintainer: Beach

This is the beginning of a collection of Tioga forms useful for the creation of various kinds of documents within Cedar. SampleSheet.tioga contains examples of all the principal Looks and Formats of Cedar.style. Form.memo approximates the old Bravo memo.form.

For Cedar 5.0 - New message forms: CSLNotebookMsg.form, LibraryRequest.form, PostCedarRelease.form, PreCedarRelease.form, BootFileRelease.form. New Mesa.form and Help.template. Minor updates to Slides.form, BlueAndWhite.Style and CSLBusinessLetter.form.

DF file: FS.df

Documentation: FSDoc.tioga

Maintainer: Schroeder

FS is a file system for use on a Cedar workstation. It provides access both to remote file servers and to the local disk. Remote files accessible from FS must reside on a file server that supports the FTP protocol, in particular IFS's and Alpine servers. These file servers may be accessed from many Cedar instances on different workstations at the same time. Local files are accessed through an abstraction called the local server. The local server is the set of logical volumes on the local disk of a Cedar instance. One of these logical volumes may be designated the system volume. FS provides a directory for each volume, and a cache for remote files on the system volume.

FS also defines a generic abstraction, the FS.OpenFile, of which the workstation file system is only one class. The generic operations provide access to the data pages and properties of files. Other packages may create their own classes of FS.OpenFile's, upon which these generic FS operations also may be performed. For example, direct page-at-a-time access to Alpine servers is provided through this mechanism.

FS also contains facilities for creating IO.STREAM's on files, for binding local names to remote files, for finding the version of a file that was created at a particular time, and for limiting the number of extant versions of local files.

DF file: FSUtil.df

Documentation: FSUtilDoc.tioga

Maintainer: Schroeder

This package includes commands for listing the set of FS.OpenFiles, FS.ActiveFiles, and IO.STREAM's of class $FileStream that exist in a Cedar instance. It also contains commands for listing the FS cache LRU chain, listing statistics of the FS cache flusher, exercising the cache flusher, and forcing FS.OpenFiles to be closed. All these commands will be of interest to experts only.

DF file: Germ.df

Documentation: see maintainer

Maintainer: Taft

(no catalog entry).

DF file: GoodTimes.df

Documentation: see maintainer

Maintainer: Atkinson

GoodTimes is a simple program that measures and reports elapsed times for various Cedar computations.

DF file: Graphics.df

Documentation: Graphics.mesa

Maintainer: Wyatt

The basic low-level display package; provides device independent graphics and text operations.

DF file: GrapevineUser.df

Documentation: see maintainer

Maintainer: Birrell, Schroeder

GrapevineUser is the package for interfacing to the Grapevine mail and registration services. The Cedar interfaces to Grapevine are GVBasics.mesa, GVNames.mesa, GVSend.mesa and GVRetrieve.mesa. GrapevineUser is included in the Cedar boot file.

DF file: HeadsCommon.df

Documentation: see maintainer

Maintainer: Taft

(no catalog entry).

DF file: HeadsD0.df

Documentation: see maintainer

Maintainer: Taft

(no catalog entry).

DF file: HeadsDorado.df

Documentation: see maintainer

Maintainer: Taft

(no catalog entry).

DF file: Iago.df

Documentation: see maintainer

Maintainer: Birrell

The Cedar replacement for Othello. This tool manages physical and logical volumes on the local system disk.

DF file: Idle.df

Documentation: Idle.mesa | see maintainer

Maintainer: Levin

Low-level support for putting Cedar to sleep.

DF file: IFSFile.df

Documentation: IFSFile.mesa | see maintainer

Maintainer: Atkinson

IFSFile supports Leaf protocol access to IFS. Leaf access is primarily useful for low overhead random access to pages of a file. There are no functional changes since Cedar 4.4, although there is a greater use of SafeStorage facilities.

DF file: Inscript.df

Documentation: InscriptDoc.tioga

Maintainer: Rovner

The basic keyboard input subsystem.

DF file: Installer.df

Documentation: see maintainer

Maintainer: Levin

New for Cedar 5.0 (no catalog entry).

DF file: Interpreter.df

Documentation: Interpreter.mesa

Maintainer: Rovner

The programming interface to the Cedar/Mesa expression interpreter. It is used by the InterpreterTool and by the "←" command.

DF file: InterpreterTool.df

Documentation: InterpreterToolDoc.tioga

Maintainer: Rovner

The user interface to the Cedar/Mesa expression interpreter.

DF file: IO.df

Documentation: IOConversionDoc.tioga, IODoc.tioga, EditedStream.mesa, IOClasses.mesa

Maintainer: MBrown

The IO component exports the IO, EditedStream, IOClasses, IOUtils, and Convert interfaces. The first four interfaces define the STREAM type and the generic operations on streams, contain procedures for creating streams from objects of other types, and provide stream-oriented scanning and printing. The Convert interface gives input/output conversions between several Cedar types and both ROPE and REF TEXT.

Cedar 5.0 - There have been many changes in IO; see IOConversionDoc.tioga for a description of interesting changes since Cedar 4.4. The IO, EditedStream, IOClasses, IOUtils, and Convert interfaces are exported by this component.

DF file: IOTest.df

Documentation: see maintainer

Maintainer: MBrown

IOTest is a test program for the IO package.

DF file: Lister.df

Documentation: ListerDoc.tioga

Maintainer: Atkinson

The Cedar 5.0 Lister is a major rewrite of the old Lister.

Lister is a program to produce human readable files from bcd files produced by the Compiler and Binder. Lister registers a variety of commands, each of which produces a different set of information from a given list of bcd files. These commands include:

DF file: Loader.df

Documentation: Loader.mesa | see maintainer

Maintainer: Levin, Schroeder

The basic program loader.

DF file: LoadState.df

Documentation: LoadState.mesa | see maintainer

Maintainer: Birrell, Levin, Rovner

New for Cedar 5.0 (no catalog entry).

DF file: Lupine.df

Documentation: LupineUsersGuide.press

Maintainer: Birrell

Lupine is a program that allows you to make inter-machine "Remote Procedure Calls" ("RPC"). This allows you to write what look like ordinary Mesa procedure calls to invoke operations on another machine on the Pup internet. Lupine and its supporting RPCRuntime are intended to make network communication very easy, very fast, and very cheap. Secure communication facilities are included.

DF file: Maintain.df

Documentation: see maintainer

Maintainer: Birrell, Schroeder

Maintain provides a tool for interrogating and updating the Grapevine registration database.

DF file: MCross.df

Documentation: MCrossDoc.tioga

Maintainer: Rovner

Creates a textual cross-reference for the identifiers that appear in a specified collection of Cedar source files. It is happy to accept other source files (like .cm and .config ) too.

DF file: MesaRuntime.df

Documentation: see maintainer

Maintainer: Levin

Runtime support for the Mesa language. Exports these interfaces: Basics, MesaRuntimeInit, PrincOps, PrincOpsUtils, Process, ProcessExtras, RuntimeError.

DF file: MicrocodeD0.df

Documentation: see maintainer

Maintainer: Fiala

This component consists of microcode files that Dolphin users must install on their disk in order to run Cedar. The installation is ordinarily done automatically by Iago when you create your Cedar world. If you issue the Iago commands manually, the files you install are:

Cedar 5.0 - This version implements new reference counting and storage allocation opcodes used by Cedar 5.0. This version is not upward-compatible from the 4.4 version.

DF file: MicrocodeDorado.df

Documentation: [Indigo]<DoradoDocs>DoradoBooting.press

Maintainer: Taft

This component consists of microcode files that Dorado users must install on their disk in order to run Cedar. The installation is ordinarily done automatically by Iago when you create your Cedar world. If you issue the Iago commands manually, the files you install are:

Cedar 5.0 - Names have changed since Cedar 4.4 in order to conform to the standard <componentName><machineName>.<extension> style.

DF file: OnlineMergeSort.df

Documentation: ListSort.mesa

Maintainer: MBrown

A very efficient "polymorphic" list-sorting package. Sorts LISTs of T, where T (and a procedure for comparing two Ts) is defined in a DEFs module that parameterizes the ListSort interface. The package's implementation uses the "online merge sort" algorithm to sort an n-item list in time O(n log n). A user of the package creates a suitable DEFs module to parameterize ListSort, then compiles ListSort and OnlineMergeSortImpl.

DF file: Peanut.df

Documentation: see maintainer

Maintainer: Wyatt

New for Cedar 5.0. A Tioga-based mail reading and sending package.

DF file: PeekMail.df

Documentation: see maintainer

Maintainer: Birrell

New for Cedar 5.0 (no catalog entry).

DF file: PlotPackage.df

Documentation: Plotter.mesa, RealEvent.mesa, RealVec.mesa, RefAnyStream.mesa, Timer.mesa | see maintainer

Maintainer: Rovner

A Viewers-based facility for dealing with vectors of REALs, clock-driven interval timers, streams of "events", and simple 2-d graphs of (x,y) coordinate sequences. It features automatic axis labelling and repainting. It provides a good prototype showing how fairly impressive graphic applications can built quickly and easily using existing packages.

DF file: PrintTV.df

Documentation: PrintTV.mesa, BackStop.mesa

Maintainer: Rovner

PrintTV provides for textual output of Abstract Machine values.

DF file: ProcessProps.df

Documentation: ProcessProps.mesa

Maintainer: Atkinson

ProcessProps provides a safe association of <key, value> pairs with processes. It is similar to LISP-style dynamic binding.

DF file: Pup.df

Documentation: see maintainer

Maintainer: Birrell, Levin

This implements the basic PUP communication protocols - up to the level of byte streams. Most public interfaces are in Communication.df, but EFTP is in Pup.df. Higher level protocols are available through the STP package (for file transfer) and Lupine (for remote procedure calls).

DF file: PupWatch.df

Documentation: see maintainer

Maintainer: Birrell

Running Pupwatch.bcd from Pupwatch.df creates a viewer that allows you to watch Pup packets in transit on the local Ethernet. Pupwatch will display packets from or to a particular host, which you specify by NLS name or network address. The pupwatch viewer gives you a brief summary of each packet. The "Write Log" button writes a file giving more details about each packet. Pupwatch understands most common Pup packet types. If you run Pupwatch on a Dolphin, it is liable to miss packets because of lack of processing power; on a Dorado it should miss no packets.

DF file: ReadEvalPrint.df

Documentation: ReadEvalPrint.mesa | see maintainer

Maintainer: Stewart, Rovner

ReadEvalPrint provides a framework for programs that interactively execute commands, interpret expressions, or otherwise use the form of {accept input line; perform action based on the input; print the results; repeat}.

DF file: Real.df

Documentation: MesaFloat60.bravo | Real.mesa | Ieee.mesa | see maintainer

Maintainer: Levin, Stewart

Real is the Cedar support for IEEE 32-bit floating point numbers.

DF file: RedBlackTree.df

Documentation: OrderedSymbolTable.mesa

Maintainer: MBrown

A package for maintaining symbol tables with an ordering among keys. The ordering allows the table to perform searches such as "find the smallest item in the table that is larger than this one," as well as exact-match searches. A table stores items of type I with keys of type K, where I and K are defined in a DEFs module that parameterizes the OrderedSymbolTable interface. The package's implementation uses a binary tree representation of 2-3-4 trees, called "red-black" trees; this means that any search, insertion, or deletion from a table of n items takes O(log n) time. A user of the package creates a suitable DEFs module to parameterize OrderedSymbolTable, then compiles OrderedSymbolTable and RedBlackTreeImpl.

DF file: RedBlackTreeRef.df

Documentation: OrderedSymbolTableRef.mesa

Maintainer: MBrown

A variant of the above package that stores items of type REF ANY, and takes a item-comparison procedure as a parameter at the time a table is created.

DF file: ReleaseTool.df

Documentation: see maintainer

Maintainer: Atkinson

The ReleaseTool is a new component for Cedar 5.0. The ReleaseTool is used to verify the completeness and consistency of releases, and to ship the files from the staging directory (normally [Indigo]<PreCedar>) to the release directory (normally [Indigo]<Cedar>).

DF file: Reminder.df

Documentation: Reminder.mesa

Maintainer: Rovner

This is a simple program for managing a personal reminder calendar, in lieu of the more complete facilities of Hickory, which is not yet released.

DF file: Rollback.df

Documentation: see maintainer

Maintainer: Birrell

New for Cedar 5.0 (no catalog entry).

DF file: Rope.df

Documentation: RopeDoc.tioga | see maintainer

Maintainer: Atkinson

The Rope package, which is new for Cedar 5.0, exports the familiar old interfaces Ascii, ConvertUnsafe, RefText, and Rope. The most notable changes for Cedar 5.0 are

DF file: RPCRuntime.df

Documentation:

Maintainer: Birrell

Runtime support for Remote Procedure Call.

DF file: SafeStorage.df

Documentation: SafeStorage.mesa, SafeStorageDoc.tioga (outdated) | see maintainer

Maintainer: Rovner

Cedar runtime support for reclaimable reference-counted storage. The SafeStorage package exports the interfaces Atom, List, SafeStorage, and UnsafeStorage.

DF file: Scaled.df

Documentation: Scaled.mesa

Maintainer: Plass

Supports scaled fixed-point numbers.

DF file: Sequin.df

Documentation: Sequin.mesa | see maintainer

Maintainer: Atkinson

Sequin supports a full-duplex sequential stream of packets on the Ethernet. It is primarily used to support IFSFile (Leaf access to IFS). There are no functional changes since Cedar 4.4, although there is a greater use of SafeStorage facilities.

DF file: Set.df

Documentation: SetDoc.tioga

Maintainer: Rovner

This package is intended for dealing with "sets" of REFs, i.e., variable length collections of elements in which there are no duplicates. Elements are REF ANYs

DF file: ShowPress.df

Documentation: see maintainer

Maintainer: Beach, Wyatt

(no catalog entry).

DF file: SimpleTerminal.df

Documentation: SimpleTerminal.mesa

Maintainer: Levin

New for Cedar 5.0 (no catalog entry).

DF file: SirPress.df

Documentation: SirPress.mesa | see maintainer

Maintainer: Plass

SirPress is a module for writing Press files.

DF file: SpellingTool.df

Documentation: SpellingToolDoc.tioga

Maintainer: Nix

The Spelling Tool is an efficient, lightweight tool for checking spelling in text. It is used much like a string search command; however, rather than locating the next piece of text that matches a particular pattern, it locates the next misspelled word. The Tool also provides facilities that assist in correcting misspelled words and that retrieve definitions from the Dictionary Server.

DF file: Spy.df

Documentation: SpyDoc.tioga

Maintainer: Maxwell

The Spy is the standard performance tool. It allows the programmer to monitor CPU usage, page faults, allocations, or user defined resources.

DF file: Squirrel.df

Documentation: SquirrelDoc.tioga

Maintainer: Cattell, Donahue

Squirrel provides general-purpose database tools. It is intended for debugging database applications, and for building special databases for which no special application code is necessary or desirable. Squirrel implements whiteboards, used for Cedar documentation. Experimental whitepages facilities are now available, as well.

DF file: STP.df

Documentation: STP.mesa | see maintainer

Maintainer: Birrell, Levin

No known changes (no catalog entry).

DF file: StructuredStreams.df

Documentation: StructuredStreams.mesa | see maintainer

Maintainer: Spreitzer

This is a kind of output stream. It is a filter that inserts white space to do pretty-printing. StructuredStreams.Mesa defines the calls peculiar to pretty printing. This is an IO.STREAMs interface to Greg Nelson's UnparserBuffer, which is also in the DF file.

DF file: Tentacles.df

Documentation: see maintainer

Maintainer: Birrell, Levin

New for Cedar 5.0 (no catalog entry).

DF file: Terminal.df

Documentation: see maintainer

Maintainer: Levin

Terminal provides a facility for multiplexing virtual terminals on a single physical terminal.

DF file: Tioga.df

Documentation: TiogaDoc.tioga

Maintainer: TiogaImplementors^.pa

The standard Cedar text editor.

DF file: TIP.df

Documentation: TIPDoc.tioga

Maintainer: TiogaImplementors^.pa

TIP is the middle-level keyboard and mouse event parser. TIP is the source of input events for Viewers and Tioga. The source of primitive events for TIP is Inscript.

DF file: TSetter.df

Documentation: TSetterDoc.tioga

Maintainer: Beach, Plass

The TSetter tool provides a convenient way of driving the Tioga typesetter or creating press files to containing the current contents of the screen. Start it with the TSetter command, and use the middle mouse button on the menu items to find out what they do. The first parameter to the TSetter command is the server, and the rest of the line is a list of files to typeset.

DF file: UserCredentials.df

Documentation: UserCredentials.mesa | see maintainer

Maintainer: Levin

UserCredentials provides centralized management of the credentials of the user at the terminal.

DF file: UserProfile.df

Documentation: UserProfileDoc.tioga

Maintainer: Donahue

UserProfile provides centralized user option handling for the rest of Cedar.

DF file: VersionMap.df

Documentation: VersionMap.mesa, VersionMapDefaults.mesa | see maintainer

Maintainer: Atkinson

VersionMap provides two fast maps: from version stamps to long names, and from short names to long names. This facility is used for debugging.

DF file: VersionMapBuilder.df

Documentation: see maintainer

Maintainer: Atkinson

VersionMapBuilder provides facilities for building version maps from DF files. The Cedar 5.0 VersionMapBuilder is a major rework of the way that version maps are built.

DF file: Viewers.df

Documentation: ViewerDoc.tioga

Maintainer: Wyatt

The Cedar window package.

DF file: ViewRec.df

Documentation: ViewRecDoc.tioga | see maintainer

Maintainer: Spreitzer

ViewRec is intended for quick and easy user interface construction. Given a record, or the name of a DEFINITIONS module, it will construct a Viewer on the components of that record that are simple enough (numbers, ROPEs, enumerations, subranges of simple enough, records of simple enough stuff, procedures that take simple enough stuff, or explicitly bound by the client). The procedures may be invoked, and the data may be edited.

Cedar 5.0 - You now have the option of allowing your RecordViewers to dynamically relayout to fit the current viewer width. More Cedar aggregate classes supported (ARRAYs and SEQUENCEs). Numerous small changes.

DF file: VM.df

Documentation: VM.mesa, VMStatistics.mesa | see maintainer

Maintainer: Birrell, Levin

New for Cedar 5.0 (no catalog entry).

DF file: VTables.df

Documentation: VTables.mesa | see maintainer

Maintainer: Atkinson

VTables is a package that provides a Viewer class for tabular organization of viewers. It supports rectangular organization with optional borders, automatic sizing, and addition, deletion, and swapping of rows and columns of viewers.

DF file: Walnut.df

Documentation: WalnutDoc.tioga

Maintainer: <Willie-Sue> Orr

This is the mail system for Cedar. Please read the documentation before trying to use Walnut.

Cedar 5.0 - A major change is that the user's mail database must be on Alpine. Please see the documentation for details.

DF file: Watch.df

Documentation: WatchDoc.tioga

Maintainer: Atkinson

This Tool runs in background and cheaply monitors various kinds of resource usage (storage allocation, CPU load, page fault rate, free VM pages, largest run of free VM pages, free MDS pages, etc.) The VM run is calculated twice per minute, but will be calculated immediately if you click the "Sample" button. Other information is sampled at a rate given after the "Interval" button. Red-clicking the "Interval" or "GC Interval" button doubles the parameter associated with the button, blue-clicking halves the parameter.

Cedar 5.0 - Watch has been changed to give better statistics on the inner workings of the system. The DiskIO line in the bar graph now indicates what percentage of the time there was a queued disk request. The extensive WatchDoc.tioga is new.

DF file: Waterlily.df

Documentation: help message in the UserExec or Commander

Maintainer: Kolling

Waterlily compares two (local or remote) source files. Various switches are available to specify the format of the source files and other options, but in most cases the defaults will be sufficient. The long help message via the CommandTool describes the switches. Comment nodes are not seen when input files are specified to be Tioga format (the default).

DF file: WorldVM.df

Documentation: AMProcessBasic.mesa, WorldVM.mesa | see maintainer

Maintainer: Birrell

Provides low-level access to address spaces for local, world-swap, and remote debugging.