A full RSTS/E V10.0 documentation set in PDF format is now available

[terri-...@glaver.org]

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: A complete RSTS/E V10.0 documentation set, with entirely new scans by me, in both .tgz and .zip formats, is available from:

https://www.glaver.org/PiDP-11/tkrstsdocs/RSTS_E-V10.0-Doc-Set-TMK-Scans.tgz

https://www.glaver.org/PiDP-11/tkrstsdocs/RSTS_E-V10.0-Doc-Set-TMK-Scans.zip

It is organized into volumes, just like my original RSTS/E doc set it was digitized from. There's lots of info in the 0-FAQ.txt file included in the archives, but the major points are:

• All 7646 pages of RSTS/E V10.0 documentation (in 13 binders) plus an additional 255 pages of related material (in a 14th binder) now only take up 150MB of disk space for 38 PDF files, in full color where needed.
• Each individual manual has had a full set of page thumbnails and useful bookmarks added.
• This documentation is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND license and certain operations are disallowed by password protection. A regular user will not run into any issues because of those limitations. They're intended to keep the PDF files from being mangled or to remove the attribution that I did the work of digitizing them (including proofreading, re-doing scans as needed, shrinking the filesizes without loss of resolution, etc.). And yes, I know that PDF password protection can be removed with certain tools. But doing that and posting the results would show actual malice, as opposed to well-intentioned but non-useful attempts at changing the documentation to make it "better".
• Since I never released these with a date in the filenames, downloading these will always get you the latest version if I update them.
• I have a V10.1 manual set somewhere. When I started this digitization project, I thought this was a V10.1 set. If I find my V10.1 set, I will make it available as well. There are only minor documentation changes from V10.0 to V10.1, and none at all from V10.1 to V10.1A (the Mentec release).
• This will eventually be an installable option for the PiDP-11 once I finish the new installation script.

[Tony Nicholson]

Thank you for making these available Terri.

I fetched the .tgz version - and I discovered the retrieved file is a gzipped gzipped tar file (i.e. it's been gzipped twice).

Everything extracted fine.  Saved me from re-downloading the .zip version.

Tony

tony@tweety:~/Downloads$ tar tvfz RSTS_E-V10.0-Doc-Set-TMK-Scans.tgz
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
tony@tweety:~/Downloads$ file RSTS_E-V10.0-Doc-Set-TMK-Scans.tgz
RSTS_E-V10.0-Doc-Set-TMK-Scans.tgz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 152046122 gzip compressed data, reserved method, was "", encrypted, from FAT filesystem (MS-DOS, OS/2, NT), original size modulo 2^32 152046122
tony@tweety:~/Downloads$ gunzip RSTS_E-V10.0-Doc-Set-TMK-Scans.tgz
tony@tweety:~/Downloads$ ls RSTS*
RSTS4B-CUSPS.TAP  RSTS_E-V10.0-Doc-Set-TMK-Scans.tar
tony@tweety:~/Downloads$ file RSTS_E-V10.0-Doc-Set-TMK-Scans.tar
RSTS_E-V10.0-Doc-Set-TMK-Scans.tar: gzip compressed data, last modified: Fri Mar  6 06:52:45 2026, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 157249024 gzip compressed data, reserved method, ASCII, has CRC, has comment, from FAT filesystem (MS-DOS, OS/2, NT), original size modulo 2^32 157249024
tony@tweety:~/Downloads$ mv RSTS_E-V10.0-Doc-Set-TMK-Scans.tar RSTS_E-V10.0-Doc-Set-TMK-Scans.tar.gz
tony@tweety:~/Downloads$ tar tvfz RSTS_E-V10.0-Doc-Set-TMK-Scans.tar.gz
dr-xr-xr-x root/wheel        0 2026-03-06 17:51 ./
dr-xr-xr-x root/wheel        0 2026-03-06 09:56 ./Volume 0/
-r--r--r-- root/wheel     9060 2026-03-06 17:27 ./0-FAQ.txt
dr-xr-xr-x root/wheel        0 2026-03-06 10:06 ./Volume 7B/
dr-xr-xr-x root/wheel        0 2026-03-06 10:07 ./Volume 9/
dr-xr-xr-x root/wheel        0 2026-03-06 09:58 ./Volume 3/
dr-xr-xr-x root/wheel        0 2026-03-06 10:01 ./Volume 4C/
dr-xr-xr-x root/wheel        0 2026-03-06 10:05 ./Volume 7A/
dr-xr-xr-x root/wheel        0 2026-03-06 10:19 ./Volume X/
dr-xr-xr-x root/wheel        0 2026-03-06 10:01 ./Volume 6/
dr-xr-xr-x root/wheel        0 2026-03-06 10:00 ./Volume 4A/
dr-xr-xr-x root/wheel        0 2026-03-06 09:57 ./Volume 1/
dr-xr-xr-x root/wheel        0 2026-03-06 11:17 ./Desktop/
dr-xr-xr-x root/wheel        0 2026-03-06 10:01 ./Volume 5/
dr-xr-xr-x root/wheel        0 2026-03-06 10:00 ./Volume 4B/
dr-xr-xr-x root/wheel        0 2026-03-06 09:58 ./Volume 2/
dr-xr-xr-x root/wheel        0 2026-03-06 10:06 ./Volume 8/
-r--r--r-- root/wheel  9991428 2026-03-06 17:46 ./Volume 8/RSTS_E Version 10 Internals and Data Structures Manual AA-PB60A-TC-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel 13235590 2026-03-05 21:27 ./Volume 2/RSTS_E System Manager's Guide AA-2762H-TC-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel 24352270 2026-03-05 17:41 ./Volume 4B/EDT Editor Manual AA-M476A-TK-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel  7373026 2026-03-05 17:07 ./Volume 5/BASIC-PLUS Language Manual AA-2623D-TC-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel     4305 2026-03-06 10:41 ./Desktop/Spike.png
-r--r--r-- root/wheel      247 2026-03-06 10:41 ./Desktop/rsts.desktop
-r--r--r-- root/wheel  7331928 2026-03-05 21:01 ./Volume 1/RSTS_E System Installation and Update Guide - AA-2669K-TC-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel  2193213 2026-03-06 05:51 ./Volume 1/RSTS_E Version 10.0 Release Notes - AA-5246H-TC-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel  1588406 2026-03-05 18:46 ./Volume 1/RSTS_E Maintenance Notebook - AA-L997E-TC-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel   641310 2026-03-05 18:28 ./Volume 1/RSTS_E Documentation Directory - AA-2642H-TC-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel  5107970 2026-03-05 17:49 ./Volume 4A/Introduction to the EDT Editor - AA-K443A-TC-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel  5881477 2026-03-06 03:59 ./Volume 4A/RSTS_E Utilities Reference Manual - AA-EZ11A-TC-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel  2385834 2026-03-05 18:25 ./Volume 4A/PDP-11 TECO User's Guide - DEC-11-UTECA-B-D-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel   595614 2026-03-05 20:14 ./Volume 4A/RSTS_E RUNOFF User's Guide - AA-3337B-TC-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel 10098066 2026-03-06 17:19 ./Volume 6/RSTS_E Programming Manual AA-EZ09B-TC-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel    35686 2026-03-05 17:42 ./Volume X/IAS_RSX-11 ODT Reference Manual replaced in V10_0 - AY-NY38B-TC-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel   381756 2026-03-05 20:15 ./Volume X/RSTS_E Software Product Description - SPD 13.01.35 - AE-DE58J-TC-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel    55479 2026-03-05 18:26 ./Volume X/RSTS_E 10.0 BIN UPD 16MT9 Software Bill of Materials WR430-WM10.0-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel    75822 2026-03-06 06:02 ./Volume X/VAX_VMS Compatibility Guides Offer AV-NB19A-TC-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel  1256347 2026-03-05 17:52 ./Volume X/LAT Protocol US Patent 4,833,122-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel    33421 2026-03-06 06:01 ./Volume X/Software Warranty Addemdum - SPD 01.10.00 - AE-NA50A-TK-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel  3385028 2026-03-05 17:59 ./Volume X/Local Area Transport (LAT) Specification - AA-NL26A-TE-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel   420416 2026-03-05 17:12 ./Volume X/DEC SPR Form EN-01044-07-Rev J (35C)-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel    68267 2026-03-05 17:09 ./Volume X/Change of Address EN-02512-05-Rev. A (COP)-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel    30726 2026-03-05 18:29 ./Volume X/RSTS_E Engineering Gag SPR Response Form-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel    25709 2026-03-05 18:47 ./Volume X/RSTS_E Optional Software Cross Reference Table - SPD 20.97.36 - AE-HP38K-TC-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel  1443065 2026-03-06 05:59 ./Volume 7A/RSX-11M-PLUS and Micro_RSX Debugging Reference Manual AA-JS09A-TC-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel 10060703 2026-03-05 20:44 ./Volume 7A/RSTS_E System Directives Manual - AA-EZ10B-TC-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel  1591101 2026-03-05 18:53 ./Volume 4C/RSTS_E Programmer's Utilities Manual AA-D749A-TC-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel  6963414 2026-03-06 07:38 ./Volume 4C/RSTS_E Task Builder Reference Manuall AA-5072D-TC-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel  2794989 2026-03-05 20:11 ./Volume 4C/RSTS_E RT-11 Utilities Manual AA-M213A-TC-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel  3300871 2026-03-05 18:17 ./Volume 3/PDP-11 SORT MERGE User's Guide AA-CI67B-TC-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel  7826003 2026-03-06 03:30 ./Volume 3/RSTS_E System User's Guide AA-EZ12B-TC-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel  3261141 2026-03-05 18:38 ./Volume 3/RSTS_E Guide to Writing Command Procedures AA-CF03A-TC-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel  2883264 2026-03-05 19:56 ./Volume 9/RSTS_E RMS-11 User's Guide AA-P510A-TC-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel   881007 2026-03-05 19:31 ./Volume 9/RSTS_E RMS-11 An Introduction AA-P508A-TC-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel  3886262 2026-03-05 20:05 ./Volume 9/RSTS_E RMS-11 Utilities AA-P509A-TC-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel  3971432 2026-03-05 18:10 ./Volume 7B/PDP-11 MACRO-11 Language Reference Manual - AA-KX10A-TC-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel  4767431 2026-03-05 19:47 ./Volume 7B/RSTS_E RMS-11 Macro Programmer's Guide - AA-P507A-TC-R.pdf
-r--r--r-- root/wheel  7018082 2026-03-05 19:28 ./Volume 0/RSTS_E Quick Reference Guide - AA-EZ13C-TC-R.pdf

On Saturday, March 7, 2026 at 2:18:38 PM UTC+11 terri-...@glaver.org wrote:

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: A complete RSTS/E V10.0 documentation set, with entirely new scans by me, in both .tgz and .zip formats, is available from:

https://www.glaver.org/PiDP-11/tkrstsdocs/RSTS_E-V10.0-Doc-Set-TMK-Scans.tgz

https://www.glaver.org/PiDP-11/tkrstsdocs/RSTS_E-V10.0-Doc-Set-TMK-Scans.zip

[snip]

[terri-...@glaver.org]

[I didn't realize this was a reply to the group, so I'm posting my email reply to you here.]

On Friday, March 6, 2026 at 11:24:08 PM UTC-5 agn...@gmail.com wrote:

Thank you for making these available Terri.

  

You're welcome!  

I fetched the .tgz version - and I discovered the retrieved file is a gzipped gzipped tar file (i.e. it's been gzipped twice).

Everything extracted fine.  Saved me from re-downloading the .zip version.

Tony

tony@tweety:~/Downloads$ tar tvfz RSTS_E-V10.0-Doc-Set-TMK-Scans.tgz
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

  What platform are you trying this on?

  I built it with "tar -czvf ../RSTS_E-V10.0-Doc-Set-TMK-Scans.tgz ." on
FreeBSD.

  And I just checked it on an ancient FreeBSD 10 as well as a modern
Raspberry Pi OS (Debian) Bookworm:

(0:292) gate:/var/www/docs/PiDP-11/tkrstsdocs# uname -a
FreeBSD gate 10.4-STABLE FreeBSD 10.4-STABLE #0 r363674: Wed Jul 29 17:36:37 EDT 2020
(0:293) gate:/var/www/docs/PiDP-11/tkrstsdocs# tar --version
bsdtar 3.4.3 - libarchive 3.4.3 zlib/1.2.11 liblzma/5.2.3 bz2lib/1.0.8
(0:294) gate:/var/www/docs/PiDP-11/tkrstsdocs# tar -tvf RSTS_E-V10.0-Doc-Set-TMK-Scans.tgz | head
dr-xr-xr-x  0 root   wheel       0 Mar  6 01:51 ./
dr-xr-xr-x  0 root   wheel       0 Mar  5 17:56 ./Volume 0/
-r--r--r--  0 root   wheel    9060 Mar  6 01:27 ./0-FAQ.txt
dr-xr-xr-x  0 root   wheel       0 Mar  5 18:06 ./Volume 7B/
dr-xr-xr-x  0 root   wheel       0 Mar  5 18:07 ./Volume 9/
dr-xr-xr-x  0 root   wheel       0 Mar  5 17:58 ./Volume 3/
dr-xr-xr-x  0 root   wheel       0 Mar  5 18:01 ./Volume 4C/
dr-xr-xr-x  0 root   wheel       0 Mar  5 18:05 ./Volume 7A/
dr-xr-xr-x  0 root   wheel       0 Mar  5 18:19 ./Volume X/
dr-xr-xr-x  0 root   wheel       0 Mar  5 18:01 ./Volume 6/

pi@spc11d-host:~ $ uname -a
Linux spc11d-host 6.12.62+rpt-rpi-2712 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.12.62-1+rpt1~bookworm (2026-01-19) aarch64 GNU/Linux
pi@spc11d-host:~ $ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.34
Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
pi@spc11d-host:~ $ tar -tvf RSTS_E-V10.0-Doc-Set-TMK-Scans.tgz | head
dr-xr-xr-x root/wheel        0 2026-03-06 01:51 ./
dr-xr-xr-x root/wheel        0 2026-03-05 17:56 ./Volume 0/
-r--r--r-- root/wheel     9060 2026-03-06 01:27 ./0-FAQ.txt
dr-xr-xr-x root/wheel        0 2026-03-05 18:06 ./Volume 7B/
dr-xr-xr-x root/wheel        0 2026-03-05 18:07 ./Volume 9/
dr-xr-xr-x root/wheel        0 2026-03-05 17:58 ./Volume 3/
dr-xr-xr-x root/wheel        0 2026-03-05 18:01 ./Volume 4C/
dr-xr-xr-x root/wheel        0 2026-03-05 18:05 ./Volume 7A/
dr-xr-xr-x root/wheel        0 2026-03-05 18:19 ./Volume X/
dr-xr-xr-x root/wheel        0 2026-03-05 18:01 ./Volume 6/

  Is it possible your system insists on an extension of .tar.gz instead
of .tgz? Alternatively, I've never used -z on an extract - both bsdtar
and GNU tar figure that out themselves.

-- 
        Terri  

[Tony Nicholson]

On Saturday, March 7, 2026 at 3:47:34 PM UTC+11 terri-...@glaver.org wrote:

[I didn't realize this was a reply to the group, so I'm posting my email reply to you here.]

On Friday, March 6, 2026 at 11:24:08 PM UTC-5 agn...@gmail.com wrote:

Thank you for making these available Terri.

  

You're welcome!  

I fetched the .tgz version - and I discovered the retrieved file is a gzipped gzipped tar file (i.e. it's been gzipped twice).

Everything extracted fine.  Saved me from re-downloading the .zip version.

Tony

tony@tweety:~/Downloads$ tar tvfz RSTS_E-V10.0-Doc-Set-TMK-Scans.tgz
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

  What platform are you trying this on?

It's Ubuntu WSL2 on Windows on an old laptop.  My 35-or-so years of Linux finger memory using GNU tar has me specifying a z for compressed files to tar (and leaving off the '-') because it usually works for me!

tony@tweety:~$ uname -a
Linux tweety 6.6.87.2-microsoft-standard-WSL2 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Jun  5 18:30:46 UTC 2025 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
tony@tweety:~$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.30
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.

tony@tweety:~$

 

If the file is ok.. it must be a symptom of my using Firefox under Windows to download the .tgz file, then using the WSL2 command line to extract things.  Usually I'm at my desk on my mac.. but it's cooler here in the living room lounging on the sofa catching up with messages.

Tony

[terri-...@glaver.org]

A number of people have reported an issue where both this documentation kit and the (not yet in general release bootable generic RSTS/E V10.1 kit) .tgz versions appeared to be "double compressed".

This was a result of my web server and various user clients (browsers, curl, wget and so on) disagreeing about whether my web server should compress data to optimize bandwidth. Obviously, my web server should never offer to provide a compressed version of already-compressed data. This has been fixed. If you were unable to use the .tgz version you had downloaded, re-download it and everything should work. The .zip version was not affected.

Please accept my apologies for the inconvenience.

[For Apache web server nerds - I removed "LoadModule deflate_module" from my httpd,conf]

[Lawrence Fisher (RealTimeCat)]

I would like to thank Terri for the effort involved in this task!

These new docs are fully indexed PDF files, and with the reduced size are much easier to navigate and faster loading. 

I am already enjoying the benefits of Terri's undertaking!

[terri-...@glaver.org]

On Tuesday, March 10, 2026 at 6:25:59 PM UTC-4 Lawrence Fisher (RealTimeCat) wrote:

I would like to thank Terri for the effort involved in this task!

These new docs are fully indexed PDF files, and with the reduced size are much easier to navigate and faster loading. 

I am already enjoying the benefits of Terri's undertaking!

Thank you so much for your kind words! 

[DR]

The scanning process is of some interest to me (who knows why) and the
provided info on how this whole thing got done provide info on the Xerox
scanner.

Here is a little peek into how fast the thing is, although more would be
nice to see.


Ignore the guy's clothing color selection:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQsdGY-JLno

[terri-...@glaver.org]

On Tuesday, March 10, 2026 at 7:39:04 PM UTC-4 daleea...@gmail.com wrote:

The scanning process is of some interest to me (who knows why) and the
provided info on how this whole thing got done provide info on the Xerox
scanner.

Here is a little peek into how fast the thing is, although more would be
nice to see. 

It is indeed a very nice scanner. It has some foibles related to the way it feeds, and

when scanning manuals that haven't been opened in 30+ years it can double- or

multi-feed (it reduced a whole chapter to just 2 pages!). I got more practice with it

as time went on.

The black holes are part of the multi-feed detection (DEC used 5-hole punching).
It uses the black area outside the document for determining document size and

possible skew. However, DEC used some divider "tabs" which were just pages

with a 1/2" black border, and the scanner decided to make those under-sized. 

Those were among the things (like the actual divider tabs, manual covers, and

fold-out pages) that I re-scanned on other equipment.

Speaking of fast equipment, in the 1980's I worked at a place that had a Kodak

Ektaprint 250. That was a photocopier that was faster than a lot of printing pres-

ses (250 sheets a minute, double-sided and optionally bound). It was about the

length of a living room!