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Jul 2023 630.01 Update for MCP 63

Mar 2019 600.01 Update for MCP 60

Uddate for MCP 60

Mar 2017 590.01 Update release level

Cosmetic change only

Jun 2013 560.01 Detaour Algol constant precedence bug

Some versions of the Algol compiler had a bug which gives bad results for some expressions involving numeric constants. This change avoids the bug.

Aug 2010 540.01 Update for MCP 54.1

Internal change only.

Nov 2008 530.02 Remove Include and Clean Up

Waitwatcher no longer uses any Includes.

Dec 2007 530.01 Internal change

Use INCLUDE/META

Jul 2005 510.02 FIX FOR BIG MIX NUMBERS

The previous version introduced a but that prevented Waitwatcher working for large mix numbers (i.e. > 9999).

As far as can be determined the Family substitution code hase never worked for big mix numbers.

Mar 2005 510.01 MCP 5.1 UPDATE

Confirm compatibility with MCP 5.1

Feb 2004 500.01 FIX SETSTATUS COMMAND ERRORS ON OP+MORETASKS SET

On systems running with OP+MORETASKS set, WAITWATCHER was failing to process operator commands such as FA and IL because of an error in the SETSTATUS command format. This problem, which led to WAITWATCHER errors such as 'CANNOT FIND VALID REPLY' being seen, is now fixed.

Oct 2003 490.01 MCP 49.1 AND MAX UNITNO TO 65535

WAITWATCHER will now detect unit numbers greater than 4095 for commands such as HO and FP. The internal version number has also been changed for 49.1 compatibility.

Mar 2002 480.01 CHANGE VERSION TO 48

This change is only to change the version number to 48. Version 470.03 is valid on MCP 4.8.

Jan 2001 470.03 FIX INTEGER OVERFLOW FROM 470.02

Patch 470.02 inadvertently caused WAITWATCHER to unconditionally F-DS with integer overflow when checking MCP levels. This fault has now been fixed.

Jan 2001 470.02 PROTECT AGAINST MCP GETSTATUS BUG

MCP 46.189.8633 introduced a bug in the MCP Getstatus procedure. This change detours the bug.