Editing OS/8 (section)

==OS/8 CUSPs (Utility Programs)==
The CUSPs (Commonly-Used System Programs, that is utilities) supplied with OS/8 include:
* BUILD (the program to install a configured OS/8 system onto mass storage)
* [[dir (command)|DIR]] (the directory-listing program)
* EDIT (A line-oriented editor)<ref>For a programmer's overview of OS/8 EDIT, see {{cite web
|url=https://bigdanzblog.wordpress.com/2014/05/23/editing-files-on-a-pdp-8-using-os8-edit
|title=Editing Files on a PDP-8 using OS/8 EDIT|date=24 May 2014 }}</ref>
* MACREL (A relocating assembler that, unlike PAL, implements macros. Written by Stanley Rabinowitz of DEC's Small Systems Group. Stan had an ASCII-artwork picture of a fish in his office that said "MACREL IS A FISH"){{Citation needed|date=September 2022}}
* FLAP (An absolute assembler derived from RALF)
* {{anchor|FORTRAN II}}[[FORTRAN]]-II.<ref>{{cite web  |url=https://www.grc.com/pdp-8/docs/4K_FORTRAN_Programmers_Reference_Manual.pdf
    |title=4K Fortran programmer's reference manual}}</ref>
* FOTP (File-Oriented Transfer Program, an alternative to PIP)
* PAL (The assembler)
* [[Peripheral Interchange Program|PIP]] (the Peripheral Interchange Program, used to copy files)
* [[Peripheral Interchange Program|PIP10]] (a version of PIP used to copy files to from PDP-10 DECtapes)
* RALF (Another relocating assembler for the FPP)
* [[Text Editor and Corrector|TECO]] (Text Editor and COrrector, a sophisticated editor). The MUNG command runs TECO macros.
* CCL, the [[command line interpreter]], supplied in source form and user-extensible.