MUDMAN - Muddle documentation

[atsampson]

INFO; INTRO > says:

The MUDMAN directory is the place to look for documentation on MDL. There are two separate "manuals" on this directory. The larger is an on-line copy of the printed "The MDL Programming Language". It is contained in the file DM:MUDMAN;REFERENCE MANUAL. Its separate chapters are in the ARChive file DM:MUDMAN;ARC MANUAL. You can "step through" it a chapter at a time by

:PRINT MUDMAN;ARC:CHAP01 >

and incrementing the chapter number until you run out of them.

jxself has a really nice transcription of a printed copy of this manual in Markdown: https://jxself.org/git/?p=mudman.git

We could install that as MUDMAN; REFERE MANUAL directly. Or, since the original manual was written in PUB (#841), and we have other examples of PUB manuals (e.g. FAIL), we could do an automated translation into PUB, and eventually reformat the original manual...

[larsbrinkhoff]

There's also TJ6 which is a native ITS program. It was made by Greenblatt to prepare his paper on the chess program.

RUNOFF is another option.

[larsbrinkhoff]

But yes, that manual in any format would be a welcome addition.

Also update the INTRO to drop the DM device. Unless someone is planning to revive it...?

[larsbrinkhoff]

MUDMAN found on ToTS tape 9005196. Listing from ARC MANUAL:

File name       Words  Modified            Referenced    Byte
!FRONT MATTER    1719  1977-08-11 11:53:32(1977-12-14)  36
"CHAP  LIST       159  1977-08-11 11:53:38(1977-12-10)  35
"SECT  LIST      2870  1977-08-11 11:53:42(1977-12-10)  35
CHAP01 BASIC     1553  1977-08-11 11:53:57(1977-12-10)  36
CHAP02 REP       3098  1977-08-11 11:54:10(1977-12-10)  35
CHAP03 SUBRS     1279  1977-08-11 11:54:31(1977-12-10)  36
CHAP04 VALUES    1255  1977-08-11 11:54:38(1977-12-10)  36
CHAP05 FUNCTS    2920  1977-08-11 11:54:49(1977-12-10)  36
CHAP06 TYPES     2902  1977-08-11 11:55:09(1977-12-10)  35
CHAP07 STRUCS    7450  1977-08-11 11:55:35(1977-12-10)  35
CHAP08 TRUTH     3001  1977-08-11 11:56:02(1977-12-10)  36
CHAP09 ARGLIS    5209  1977-08-11 11:56:13(1977-12-10)  36
CHAP10 LOOPS     4234  1977-08-11 11:56:26(1977-12-10)  36
CHAP11 I/O       8479  1977-08-11 11:56:44(1977-12-10)  36
CHAP12 LOCS      1484  1977-08-11 11:57:15(1977-12-10)  36
CHAP13 ASOCS     1531  1977-08-11 11:57:21(1977-12-10)  36
CHAP14 DECLS     5631  1977-08-11 11:57:31(1977-12-10)  36
CHAP15 OBLIST    3771  1977-08-11 11:57:52(1977-12-10)  36
CHAP16 FRAMES    2150  1977-08-11 11:58:00(1977-12-10)  35
CHAP17 MACROS    3071  1977-08-11 11:58:12(1977-12-14)  36
CHAP18 BITS      1219  1977-08-11 11:58:31(1977-12-10)  36
CHAP19 RSUBRS    2781  1977-08-11 11:58:40(1977-12-10)  36
CHAP20 PROCES    3354  1977-08-11 11:58:58(1977-12-10)  36
CHAP21 INTRPT    5881  1977-08-11 11:59:18(1977-12-10)  36
CHAP22 AGC       3895  1977-08-11 11:59:29(1977-12-10)  36
CHAP23 ITSJOB    1135  1977-08-11 11:59:46(1977-12-10)  36
CHAP24 TASTE     2516  1977-08-11 11:59:50(1977-12-10)  35
PENDX1 INSIDE    6579  1977-08-11 11:59:56(1977-12-10)  36
PENDX2 MICRO     6338  1977-08-11 12:00:23(1977-12-10)  36
PENDX3 TYPES      802  1977-08-11 12:00:53(1977-12-10)  36
PENDX4 ERRORS    2296  1977-08-11 12:00:58(1977-12-10)  36
PENDX5 INIT       245  1977-08-11 12:01:12(1977-12-10)  36
REFER  ENCES      305  1977-08-11 12:01:16(1977-12-10)  36
\TOPIC INDEX     1027  1977-08-11 12:01:21(1977-12-10)  36
_TOKEN INDEX     5552  1977-08-11 12:01:29(1977-12-10)  36

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