GOULD submissions

					Eric Richards
					Gould Ocean Systems Division
					18901 Euclid Ave.
					Cleveland, OH 44117
					216/486-8300 Ex. 3073

AUTH_ID
	This directory contains AUTH_ID, a program to allow a non-privileged
user the restricted capability to grant and revoke identifiers to other
users.   This is useful for allowing a project team leader control who on
his team can touch what files.   Security conscious system managers will note
that audit messages are sent to the security operators when anything "drastic"
is done with AUTH_ID.

AUTOMOUNT

	This is AUTOMOUNT, a program to emulate the non-existent DCL
	command, $ MOUNT/NOASSIST/SYSTEM/OVER=ID *.  This is the
	first stage of an eventual system to allow disk compressions
	via BACKUP/IMAGE to run without operator intervention. Yes,
	I'm crazy.

EYE

	This directory contains	the programs DISKMON, POS, and LOGINWARN.

	DISKMON	runs detached, and notifies of disk space becoming
short.

	POS tells you the status of all Files-11 disks, mounted read/write.
	The information is: Number of blocks on the disk, the number free,
	the percentage free, and the totals for all disks on the system.

	LOGINWARN was never finished -- I think it works -- if you want to
	play with it, have fun.  Its purpose is to warn the user about disk
	problems at login time.  For example, put it in the SYLOGIN.COM file
	to notify a user as he logs in about the space problems.

MISCSUBS

This is a directory of quick and dirty subroutines that could make your
life easier when you write your new software.  They are all Macro source
files.

MISCUTIL

	This is a collection of miscellaneous utilities that you may
	(or may not) find useful.  This collection includes:

	DEFAULT -- Default will set a terminal's temporary characteristics
	back to its permanent characteristics.  Default needs to be
	installed with LOG_IO.

	DIRSET -- Dirset will set up logicals and symbols for each node
	in a directory tree.  For example given the directory

		DISK$USER1:[FOO.BAR.TEST]

	A logical and a symbol will be created:

		"TEST" = "DISK$USER1:[FOO.BAR.TEST]" (LNM$PROCESS_TABLE)

		"TEST" = "SET DEFAULT DISK$USER1:[FOO.BAR.TEST]"

	One must be VERY careful on how this is used, since directorys
	with names like MAIL, HELP, PASCAL, etc will create all sorts
	of problems.

	FORCEX -- force another process to exit. useful for runaway
	programs that do control-y trapping, etc.  Set up as a foreign
	command:

		FORC*EX :== $dev:[dir]FORCEX

		FORCEX process name
		FORCEX/ID=pid

	
	NOTIFY is a quick and easy way for a non-privileged user to send
	messages to himself from within a batch process.  NOTIFY requires
	no privileges.  Set up as a foreign command:

		NOTI*FY :== $dev:[dir]NOTIFY

		NOTIFY "Now proceeding to phase 3 at ''f$time()'"


	SCRUNCH and SCRUNCHD will remove debugger and traceback information
	from an image, turning it from a "LINKed" image to a "LINK/NOTRACEed"
	image.  Very useful if you need to install something that you don't
	have source for (and if you are that brave).

	SCRUNCHD does some additional checking in the image header before
	it mungs it all up -- this is the recommended one to use unless
	you want to de-PCA images or if you use the LINK/DEBUG=filespec
	form to link in a debugger.

	SCRUNCHD correctly handles V4.4 shareable images.

	The command procedure GO.COM will compile and link the images.
	An object library UTILLIB.OLB is provided with the object files
	from the last compile of these utilities.  GO.COM will use these
	object files if you do not have FORTRAN or BASIC compilers.

SETTERM

	At our site, we have all of our terminal lines connected to
	the VAXen via a data switch.  Almost all of the terminals
	connected with the switch are VT100 compatible, so, instead
	of setting all of the terminals one-at-a-time, we decided
	to set them via the SYSGEN parameters TTY_DEFCHAR, TTY_BUF,
	and TTY_DEFCHAR2.  There is, however, one small problem with
	doing that:  While all of the characteristics of the terminal
	lines are set, the TYPE field (i.e. VT100, LA36, etc.) cannot
	be set by SYSGEN.  Because of that "feature," SETTYPE was born.

	SETTYPE sets all terminals at boottime to VT100 characteristics.
	It does this all in one shot in kernel mode.  I would NOT recommend
	running it interactively.

	SETTYPE was fine and dandy until V4.4 came along, and the terminal
	driver decided that it knew better than SYSGEN when it came to
	the terminal characteristics.  SETTERM was written to work around
	that particular deficiency -- it reads the SYSGEN parameters, then
	does $QIOs on each terminal line on the system to set the permanent
	characteristics.  Like SETTYPE, SETTERM should not be run anytime
	other than at system boot.
