ITS – thinking of making a video

I can’t think of anyone less qualified or knowledgeable than me about the PDP-10 OS… ITS. Then why make a video about it?

Maybe because I’m stupid. But I found the instructions unclear and confusing.

For example, creating a user directory. I’m told…

type ^R NAME; ..NEW. (UDIR)

So is that uparrow R NAME; ..NEW. (UDIR)
or
<Ctrl>R NAME; ..NEW. (UDIR)

Turns out it’s the second one. OK, I assume I replace NAME with my name. But since UDIR, like NAME is also capitalized, Do I also use name? So create directory bill for user bill.

No the correct command is

<Ctrl>R

bill; ..NEW. (UDIR)

So I would have written the instruction: <Ctrl>R name; ..NEW. (UDIR)
maybe even added… where name is the username

The I found some instructions on creating a file, because ITS will delete empty directories. But for some reason, I had to do it twice. It got an error trying to create it the first time. But the instructions don’t tell you you have to do it twice!

Then there’s a whole thing about playing Space War. Not clear