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Overview of Differences: MPE V/E and MPE XL You can use commands and intrinsics to get system information. You can find out about system configuration, file structure, and whether a process is executing properly. The MPE V/E programmer will not find major changes in information retrieval processes in MPE XL. The FREE5 utility has been replaced by the DISCFREE utility. MPE V/E is based on a 16-bit word; MPE XL is based on a 32-bit word. Dumps and other readouts that were octal in MPE V/E are likely to be hexadecimal in MPE XL. Data requirements for command and intrinsic parameters may have change because MPE XL uses a 32-bit virtual addresses for files. Some NM intrinsics have a status parameter, a 32-bit signed integer passed by reference, which replaces condition codes for error checking For more information about the status parameter, see Chapter 2, Preparing a Program for Execution. New MPE XL features that are not available on MPE V/E include: * DISCFREE Utility Changed Existing MPE V/E features that have been modified on MPE XL include: * System Logging Facility * The following intrinsics: FFILEINFO FGETINFO FLABELINFO * The following commands: LISTACCT LISTF LISTFTEMP LISTGROUP LISTUSER REPORT SHOWCATALOG Not Used Existing MPE V/E features that are not supported on MPE XL include: * FREE5 Utility Unchanged Existing MPE V/E features that are the same on MPE XL include: * The following intrinsics: CALENDAR CLOCK DATELINE FCHECK FERRMSG FINDJCW FMTCALENDAR FMTCLOCK FMTDATE FRELATE GETJCW JOBINFO PRINTFILEINFO PROCINFO PROCTIME PUTJCW SETJCW TIMER WHO * The following commands: LISTEQ RESUMELOG SETJCW SHOWALLOW SHOWDEV SHOWIN SHOWJCW SHOWJOB SHOWLOG SHOWME SHOWOUT SHOWTIME SWITCHLOG