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From: Ken Wallewein <kenw%noah.arc.cdn@relay.ubc.ca>
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Subject: The other half of VMS: The Tally

  A while back I posted an offer to collect votes for the top 20 non-
commercial VMS utilities.  Ted Nieland <TNIELAND@AAMRL.AF.MIL> and DECUS
Public Domain Working Group are now doing a more official version, to be
followed up by a collection tape. As well, Ric Steinberger <RIC@RML2.SRI.COM>
has put together a similar sort of thing using a list of utilies with
descriptions and how/where to get them via the net. 

  Through all of this, I have not yet posted the results of the original
tally; I will do so now.  

  First, though, I'd like to remind you to vote in official DECUS poll.  Here 
is an extract from Ted's message, for details:

>The voting for the programs is open to all people (even if your aren't a
>DECUS member [and why aren't you?]).  We are asking for you to vote for your
>top three favorite public domain programs.  Voting is being accepted from the
>Internet, on DCS, on DECUServe, and through the U.S. Mail.  An article has
>also been submitted to the Pageswapper announcing the vote. 
>
>To vote on the internet, send a message containing three lines with the name
>of your top three programs in order to "VMS_VOTE%FALCON@AAMRL.AF.MIL".  For
>example, a message would like:
>
>        TEX
>        FINGER
>        BULLETIN
>
>and would indicate the number one program for a person is TeX, the number two
>program is FINGER, and the number three program is BULLETIN.  PLEASE VOTE BY
>AUGUST 1, 1989.  If possible, we will try have the tape available at
>symposium or right after it. 
>
>If your DECUS LUG would like to notify it's members about the vote, feel free.
>Votes via US Mail should be sent to:
>
>        Ted Nieland
>        Systems Research Laboratories, Inc.
>        2800 Indian Ripple Road
>        Dayton, OH  45440-3696
>...

  And, finally, the tally.  Note that some of these have have descriptions,
while others do not.  I pretty much used what I was sent, where it was
concise.  I don't have the time to research them all; it wasn't always clear
which utility was intended, and I'm not expert enough to make asssumptions. 

The other half of VMS: The Tally
================================

Votes	Item
-----	----
9	VERB (9)
6	FILE (6)
5	BULLETIN (5)
5	VI in TPU (5)
4	FINGER (4)
4	MAKE (4)
4	VFE (4)
4	ZOO (4)
3	ANU NEWS (3)
3	CRON (3)
3	DM (3)
3	GNU EMACS (3)
3	LZCOMPRESS and LZDECOMP (3)
3	MTEXCH (3)
3	SWING (3)
3	VAXNET (3)
3	VMS_SHARE (3)
2	ANALYTICALC (2)
2	ARC (2)
2	FIND (2)
2	INDEX (2)
2	MORE (2)
2	PIPE (2)
2	PTY drivers (2)
2	SD (2)
2	TAR (2)
2	TeX/LaTeX (2)
2	VMSSWEEP (2)
2	ZDEC (2)
1	AKCOUNT
1	ARGUS - Idle process zapper based on my controlling parameters
1	BATCH - Quicky batch submit of DCL commands
1	BECOME
1	BOSS
1	COMPARE - Compare and generate a 'differences' report of files in directories
1	COMPILE - Poor man's MMS, for conditional compilation/linking and execution
1	COMPILERS (PD) - C, Snobol, etc.
1	DIAL out modem program (COM file)
1	EDTPLUS
1	ETAPE 
1	GBLSUBS/GBLSEARCH - Mass modification of text files based on text string matc
h
1	GCC (GNU C compiler)
1	GENPAR - Bulk creation of MODPARAMS.DAT files based on control file
1	GMAIL, etc.
1	H_EDIT
1	IDLE job killer (Whichever is the current rage)
1	Juicer from Michael Levine
1	KRON
1	Kermit
1	LAV - load average driver, real useful...
1	LIST - Super fast file lister/extractor/modifier
1	MAINT
1	MENU - General purpose captive menu system
1	MFTU   (I'm not sure it's on the tapes yet... but if it is...)
1	MODIFY
1	MT_SCAN (SCAN?)
1	Mailuaf 
1	Moria
1	NETWHAT
1	PMDF (not decus, I guess...)
1	POPUP (menus)
1	Pfrag
1	Printer forms control libraries for DEC and NON-DEC printers
1	RAMDISK drivers (various)- I guess the G. Newman one is the best...
1	READTAR
1	RIM (Database manager in FORTRAN)
1	Rogue
1	SCANUAF
1	SEDT
1	SEND (Broadcast message to certain user or terminal)
1	SPELL (now included with the TeX Collection)
1	SYMBIONTS (various, user written) - the execsymb (?) looked good...
1	Share
1	Showuaf
1	Software Tools utilities
1	Status
1	TAIL
1	TECO
1	TPC - tape copy
1	TREEDEL - Mass file deletion of entire directory tree structure
1	Tar2VMS/VMS2tar
1	The TeX Collection (Typesetting)
1	Tickler
1	UNDEL - recover a deleted file
1	VPW (VAX Professional Workstation)
1	Vassar spelling checker - Used a lot here, people like it, what the hey.
1	Watchdog
1	XMODEM


/kenw

Ken Wallewein                                                     A L B E R T A
kenw@noah.arc.cdn                                               R E S E A R C H
(403)297-2660                                                     C O U N C I L


