VAX SIG Spring 1988 SIG tape Contents ------------------------------------- This is the Spring 1988 DECUS VAX SIG symposium tape from the Cincinnati symposium. The tape this year is in two parts, spanning a total of four reels of tape. The first part, on 3 reels, is the "VAX SIG Tape", while the second part, one reel, is the "RSX/PC/VAX Collection", split off in order to make distribution of the VAX tapes reasonable on TK50 media or on 1600 BPI magnetic tape. The descriptions are by subdirectory within each VMS Backup saveset. VAX88A1 Tape ======= ==== [.ABEL] Editing interface built on top of EVE. ABEL is the output of an L&T Sig effort to merge the many EVE supersets of recent years. [.ANUNEWS] Geoff Huston's Un*x NEWS rewrite for VMS. Allows any VMS site to participate in Usenet NEWS networks and manage newsgroups. [.ATTC] Cluster management tools. [.BRYANT] TPU enhancements (APLTPU). GBLSUBS - global substitute strings. GBLSEARCH - search for pattern in files. [.BZL] LSE templates for Runoff. Spell dictionary with most MACRO-32 instructions defined. [.COY] DM - Directory manager, windowing dir. management. SD - revised Set Default. WPE - WPS-Plus emulator for TPU. COLORS- Reset VTx4x colors. SHOWME - system or user status report. VAXNotes enhancers. Improved MON PROC/TOPC display. [.CSDHBO] XSHOW - Show many things across cluster. (Files, holders of IDs, terminals, users, etc. [.DINKIN] NAME - Find what terminal server and port a terminal is on. [.DMILLER] TPU enhancement. ALOCWAIT - allocate/wait. BBS - full function bulletin board system. CB - VAX CB radio simulator. ETAPE - Convert to/from EBCDIC etc. tape. [.DOLGEN] Proc to reorganize a whole disk and maintain master indexed files created with exact positioning. [.DUMPER] Utility to read TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 DUMPER tapes on VMS. Handles versions 5 and 6 DUMPER tapes now too. [.FINGER] Local or remote Show System/Users, name server, and mail querier. Major update of mail items. [.FLOWERS] Security audit on wildcard files. Checksums on sys$system. Account summary. Check login time. Allow use of old shared images. [.GAMES] Cribbage and poker games. Various authors. [.GHC] Rewrite of LIST/RSX for native mode VMS. Super multicolumn lister, many options. [.GNUSOFTWARE] Numerous GNU utilities including BISON (a YACC superset), AWK, Emacs, C++, Assembler, GDB, and Gnu C. Gnu C binaries for VMS are present also, providing a FREE, NATIVE-MODE C compiler for VMS. This compiler generates code which is generally superior to VAX11 C's. It is however a beta version (until it finishes compiling all of Berkeley Un*x) and may still have some bugs. Even so it is quite usable. VAX88A2 Tape ======= ==== [.CAROSSO] Kevin Carosso's latest PTY driver for VMS V4 and V5 plus a working PHOTO program using it. [.DISM32] Disassembler, converts .EXE to .MAR. [.ISPELL] Interactive spelling corrector for VMS. Extremely fast and powerful. [.JLP] William Wood's LIST file display/search utility updated for newer VMS versions. Zmodem code for VMS. [.JMEADOWS] STATUS monitor/finger type user/system display program. Will work over DECnet. Also SDL un-do'er for C and re releases of VERB, FILE, and FIND for decompiling DCL tables, changing RMS attributes, or finding files in indexf.sys [.JPRIGOT] Master_Dist generates a mailing list of everyone in the UAF file. [.JSCLUG] MTG - meeting announcment bulletin board. USERLIST - several new format lists from SYSUAF.DAT. VC - Vax Calculator. Mail util - examine if someone has read your mail. Calendar of events program. Compress someone else's mail. Front end to make remote network mail address fruit-salad invisible to users. WHOIS manager. PRIOMGR - adjust prio of compute bound jobs. [.LILUG] IDXTEX - Create index files from .IDX files. Grant ACL to others easily. WIN - multiple windows on screen. Test if your mail was read. REMINDOLD - Tells if you have reminders outstanding. Group quota system. [.LOMASKY] The "ultimate" Set Default. Password change enforcement. SYSUAF report enhancements. [.MAQDEV] Queueing to/from global sections between processes, on either VMS or RSX11M+ and over DECnet. User written system services and queue managers. [.MCM] Code Management System to handle changes to any kind of source material. Also adds a BUILD facility. (a kind of free CMS/MMS). [.MNVAX] Force user to change his password. Become invisible to others on the system. Text library handling command proc, and editing/runoff control program. [.MOPAC] LSE Templates for Rdb/VMS and slides for two DECUS talks. [.NET_WHAT] FAST Cluster and network wide SHOW Users (and more) type command. [.NEWLON] Create orderly SYSTARTUP.COM files. [.NEWLZW] Current versions of LZW compress/decompress utilities for VMS. [.NFREED] AUTOLOGOUT - logout inactive terminals. CRON - issue commands based on time. EVEEDT - EDT keypad on top of EVE. NODECHECK - allow and disallow access to various nodes in cluster driven by identifiers. Convert ASCII to Postscript. (Also does .MEM files). MAKE - from Todd Aven. Like Un*x MAKE (works off MMS files.). [.NIELAND] BULLETIN - Mark London's BULLETIN, a VAXNotes - like utility. CMD - DCL buffer recall utility. MANUAL - online VMS manual file. MENU - SMG based menu driver. MODIFY - global search/replace utility. SPELL - correction to Vassar SPELL utility. ZDEC - zero device error counter. [.PAGESWAPPER] Pageswapper back issues through May 1988. [.PTIUTIUL] Generate a hard BREAK signal on VAX terminal. [.RAE] MLR Macro language, structured Macro-32. [.RHALL] MPA - analyze memory performance (tuning aid). [.RNOTODOC] DSRtoSDML - Convert Runoff files to VAX Document format. Output in LN03, Postscript, or plain text. VAX88A3 Tape ======= ==== [.DTRSIG] Datatrieve SIG items: Convert VMS Accounting to DTR format. Get DTR to access AI1 logging/data files. Corporate Phone directory. User defined DTR functions. Back newsletters. Additional DTR Plots. Command line recall. Symposium sessions. System mgr utils. [.RCAS88] AnalytiCalc spreadsheet update; now can call unchanged subroutines. DBAG - src only for dBaseIII clone. FORCE - force commands on other terminals. MENU building aids. PLOTIT - presentation graphics for AnalytiCalc or standalone. Search multiple words. Command frontend to VMS. NETS88 - MANY invaluable items from ARPAnet mail including BOSS (multiple sessions at a single terminal) and matching PTY drivers and MUCH, MUCH more. [.RPI] MODPARAMS manager - build MODPARAMS.DAT for a cluster. Screen Dump filter (VAXstation to print). SETUP - avoid zillions of DCL symbols at login. WATCHER - idle job killer; works with LAT. [.SDE] Software Development Environment complete procedure using CMS and MMS. [.SUM] SUM - Show Users More; shows users and LAT location info. [.TPUSPELL] Spell checker in TPU; check words in the editing buffer interactively. [.WENTZ] All-in-1 system mgt. utilities. BECOME another user utility. Utilities for developing BLISS source code. Show Proc/continuous which shows all quotas also. More. [.WORLTON] DOCUMENT - get documents from src files. GPLOT - routines to make it easier to use VAX GKS. MODIFY - replace strings, detab, etc. files; global search/replace. [.XEVE] Extended Eve with features from many of the EVE extended editors of earlier tapes. Spelling checker.