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System Debug Enhancements by Patrick Murphy Commercial Systems Division System Debug includes two new enhancements. The first of these involves the recognition of Hierarchical File System (HFS) file names in a limited number of System Debug commands and functions. As a general rule, the commands that accept HFS file names are those that access files for utility purposes. Examples are the commands LIST, LOG, and USE. Commands that do not accept HFS file names are those that deal with loaded code. For a complete discussion of all commands, functions and environmental variables that are affected, please refer to the MPE/iX Reference Supplement (32650-90353). The second enhancement to System Debug involves changes to SAT required by the AutoRestart/iX facility. These changes include several new commands that allow SAT command input and output to be read from and written to virtual memory in the failed machine being analyzed by SAT. By permanently mapping disk files in virtual memory as part of the system startup process, it is now possible for SAT to conveniently access commands stored in failed systems, and to save command output in permanent disk files for analysis when the system is rebooted. Using a similar mechanism, a SATINIT feature is also now available on the SAT command at the ISL prompt. Please refer to the article entitled "SAT Enhancements" in the "Technical Articles" section in this Communicator for additional details of these SAT enhancements and how the AutoRestart/iX product uses them.