NOTE: THIS CORE DUMP ANALYZER SHOULD WORK ON EITHER AN RSX-11D OR IAS SYSTEM. IT HAS BEEN USED SUCCESSFULLY ON AN IAS SYSTEM FOR SOME TIME, AND THE RSX-11D COMPONENTS ARE A SUBSET OF THOSE USED BY IAS. IF IT DOES NOT WORK, TRY BUILDING IT (RSX-11D SYSTEM) USING THE CDA LIBRARY WHICH WAS DISTRIBUTED WITH THE SYSTEM. AN INPUT FILE IS OBVIOUSLY REQUIRED FOR THIS VERSION OF CDA. THIS IS UP TO THE USER TO SUPPLY, BUT A TYPICAL METHOD (CURRENTLY USED BY THE LIBRARIAN) IS AS FOLLOWS: -GET A CRASH DUMP ON MAGTAPE (OR OTHER CRASHDUMP DEVICE) -WRITE A FORTRAN OR MACRO PROGRAM TO: 1) REWIND THE TAPE & SET CHAR TO 800BPI, ETC 2) READ THE TAPE (MOUNTED FOREIGN) VIA QIO'S AS AN INDETERMINATE NUMBER OF 512. BYTE RECORDS TERMINATED BY AN EOF. (CDA REALLY WRITES AN EOF!) 3) OPEN A DISK FILE, RECORD SIZE = 512., FIXED LENGTH (UNFORMATTED, RANDOM ACCESS FOR FORTRAN) 4) WRITE THE 512. BYTE RECORDS TO THE FILE UNTIL EOF ON THE INPUT TAPE. -RUN THE NEW CDA AND SPECIFY THE FILE AS INPUT. E.G.: CDA>LP:=[NNN,MMM]FILENAME.EXT/SWITCHES ; NOTE: A CDA DUMP HAS CDA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION IN THE FIRST RECORD, AND THE REMAINDER OF THE FILE IS AN EXACT CORE IMAGE IN 512. BYTE BLOCKS.