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                    Volume Two, Issue Ten, Phile #4 of 9



                           A Beginner's Guide to:

                               The IBM VM/370

                   (or what to do once you've gotten in)



                       A monograph by Elric of Imrryr

                    Presented by Lunatic Labs UnLimted.



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       PREFACE: What this guide is about.

This was written to help Hackers learn to basics of how to function on an

IBM VM/370. Not as a guide on how to get in, but on how to use it one

you have gotten in.

Comments on this are welcome at RIPCO 312-528-5020.

Note: To VM/370 Hackers, feel free to add to this file, just give myself

& Lunatic Labs credit for our parts.

















































































       PART 1: Logging in & out

When you connect to a VM/370 system hit RETURN till you see:



VM/370

!



To logon you type:

logon userid ('logon' may be abbreviated to 'l')

If you enter an invalid userid, It will respond with a message:

'userid not in cp directory'.

If it is valid you with get:

ENTER PASSWORD:

Enter your password, then your in, hopefully....



Logging Out:

Type:

log



       PART 2: Loading CMS & Getting set up

When you logon, if you do not see the message 'VM/SP CMS - (date) (time)

you will need to load 'CMS' (CMS in a command interpreter).

Type:

cp ipl cms

You should then see something like this:

R; T=0.01/0.01 08:05:50



Now you will be able to use both CP & CMS commands...

Some system my think you are using an IBM 3270 Terminal, if you can

emulate a 3270 (for example with Crosstalk) do so, if not type:

set terminal typewriter or set terminal dumb



       PART 3: Files

You can list your files by typing:

filelist



Wildcards can be used, so:

filelist t*

list all files beginning with a 't'.

Filenames are made up of a FILENAME and FILETYPE



You can list a file by typing:

listfile filename filetype



Other file commands are: copyfile, erase, and rename, they all work with

FILENAME FILETYPE.



       PART 4: Editing your files

I'm going to keep this down to the basics and only discuss one editor

XEDIT. To use XEDIT type:

xedit filename filetype

Once in XEDIT, enter the command 'input' to enter text, hit a RETURN on

a blank line to return to command mode, then enter the command 'FILE' to

save your file.



       PART 5: Communicating with others on the system

Sending & receiving 'NOTES':

To send a 'NOTE' to another user type:

note userid



You will then be in the XEDIT subsystem, see PART 4.

Once you are done writing your NOTE, save the file and type:

send note



This will send the NOTE to userid.

You can also use the SEND command to send other files by typing:

send filename filetype userid.



Sending messages:

You can use the TELL command to communicate with a user who is current

logged on, type:

tell userid Help me!



       PART 6: Getting Help

Type:

help



       That's it, good luck.

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