!!![VAX88A.HMC]AAAREADME.TXT! BUILDREAD.COM NOW DOES THIS AUTOMATICALLY. Submissions from Harvey Mudd College coordinated by: Chris Yoder (HMC Math) Chris Yoder Harvey Mudd College Claremont, CA 91711 (714) 621-8000 x3619 email to: CHRIS@YMIR.BITNET The following submissions were either written or modified by Chris Yoder. 1. Autologout -- A utility to disconnect or log out users who have (potentially) wandered away from their terminal. Each user is allowed to set the length of time before Autologout takes action on a per-process basis. (The system manager has control of these limits and users with EXQUOTA can override them.) All processes logged onto the console terminal of a Vaxstation are grouped together in terms of how much idle time they acquire. This is a new submission. 2. CRON -- A table driven system utility that allows system managers to perform tasks repeatedly, once an hour, daily, weekly, monthly, and many other combinations. Once you get the hang of Cron, it's a lot easier (on the system manager AND the system) than creating batch jobs that resubmit themselves. Chris Yoder was just the latest in a long line of modifiers to this program. The original version was written by Rick Cabral (HMC) with modifications by Kevin Quick (HMC) and Doug Pollard (HMC) while they were working for HMC Computing Services as student programmers. 3. EVEEDT -- An EDT keypad on top of EVE. Also includes thing n window capability (where n is equal to (the number of lines on the screen - 2) / 2), rectangular cut and paste, and more. This submission replaces EVEEDT that was submitted on the Spring 87 tape under Hughes Aircraft (or perhaps under Kevin Carosso). 4. NODECHECK -- A utility to ALLOW and DISALLOW access to various nodes in a cluster that is driven by the Identifiers that the user holds. Written by Chris Yoder of Harvey Mudd College, new submission, send mail to CHRIS@YMIR.BITNET. Page 2 5. FUN -- Included are a POKER program that I wrote from scratch and used to learn SMG and a version of CRIBBAGE that I got from the net and modified to learn curses and C. The following submissions have proven to be very useful pieces of software. The authors have granted me permission to submit these utilities. 1. PS -- PS converts normal ascii text files to postscript (PS) files that may be printed on the Apple LaserWriter. This new and improved translator has many features including allowing the user to choose any of the built-in LaserWriter fonts. Users may also adjust margins, and set the size of the chosen font. PS also can translate RUNOFF .mem files. And yes! That means you can have underlining and boldfacing on the LaserWriter!!!! Please look at the the additional information on RUNOFF to find the RUNOFF specific commands. This is a new submission. Bug reports to DOUG@HMCVAX.BITNET. 2. MAKE -- MAKE was written by Tod Aven. It is currently included on the PMDF and Mathlib distributions, but MAKE itself is in the public domain so I offered to submit it for him so that the DECUS community at large would have access to it. For those in the dark about what MAKE is, MAKE allows users to perform application rebuilds by rebuilding only the portions of the application that need to be rebuilt. Users specify which portions of the application are dependant upon other portions being rebuilt first. NOTE: You will find both MAKEFILE.; and DECSRIP.MMS files in this directory tree. The MAKEFILE.; are completely MAKE compatible. The .MMS files are MMS compatible and might be MAKE compatible. Tod says that he's working on MMS compatability, weak depenancies and CMS compatability (among other things) for the next release. Bug reports to: Todd Aven 165 East Broadway, Suite 3B Long Beach, NY 11561 (516) 432-3002 Net addresses: Internet: todd@cincom.umd.edu Bitnet: todd@umcincom