d This package contains various routines described in the talk "Software ,Aids for the VAX System Manager" presented at the Fall '83 Symposium.   USER.DAT store in SYS$MANAGER: is an informational file containing an entry Xfor each system user giving ID, name, UIC, other UICs which he is allowed to use, and parameters indicating acounting group, purge status, etc.   NEWUSER.COM is a command procedure for entering new users into the system.  L USER.COM cross references and displays information from USER.DAT   IMAGE.FOR displays a list of interactive and batch images which are running. x  MIDNIGHT.COM is an automatic scheduling routine. @  SCRATCH, WEEKLY, SCRLOG and WEEKLOG.COM are scratch area cleanup routines and usage report generators. l  DISKLOG.COM maintains a cumulative list of daily error counts and free space 4for each disk.   ACCOUNT.COM is a self scheduling monthly accounting report generator. ` SYHDIRALL.COM creates a directory file for an entire disk. SYHBIG.COM and ( SYHFIND.COM are two sample procedures which search this directory for specific types of files. T SEND.FOR is a message transmission routine which will send a one line message to a specified terminal. It may be used interactively or from a batch job .COM  file. (See PURGE.COM for example.) SHOWDEV.FOR displays the status (free or allocated) and owner if allocated H of certain commonly used devices.  WHO.MAR and USER.FOR are a user display command giving more infor- tmation than SHOW USER. They are modified from code submitted to DECUS by J.Thompson of INTERMETRICS. The modified version uses file USER.DAT. <  TERMINAL.COM uses informational file TERMINALS.LIS to give infor- mation about a user terminal. h r STARTMOD.LIS shows modifications to STARTUP.COM and SYSTARTUP.COM |which allow an offline startup when system work is being performed.   TRUNCATE.COM is automatically scheduled once a week to free allocated but unused blocks.   Please address any comments, questions, contributions to: 0  Thurston Carleton  Code 694 \ NASA/GSFC  Greenbelt, Md. 20771 Ph. 301-344-7623 $