	[VAX000]SUBMIT.TXT


SUGGESTIONS REGARDING THE SUBMISSION OF SOFTWARE FOR THE VAX SYSTEMS SIG TAPE

These suggestions are not to be considered as requirements for the acceptance 
of software for the tape.  They are intended to help make the structure of
the submissions somewhat more consitent.

1.  If your submission is large or naturally fits into several directories
submit it as a directory tree.

3.  There should be ONE AAAREADME.TXT with each submission.  The following
information should be included for each program or group of programs:

	a.  A brief description of the program or group of related
	programs.  

	b.  The names of previous submissions which this submission
	replaces.

	c.  The name of the person primarily responsible for putting
	the submission together.

	If you use RUNOFF to generate this file don't hide the source 
under another name, use AAAREADME.RNO.  TEMPLATE.RNO contains the primary
runoff commands needed to generate this type of file.

4.  There should be sufficient documentation for each program or group of
programs.  The file containing or pointing to this documentation should 
have a .DOC extension.  If your documentation is somewhere else, say, as 
comments in the program, a .DOC file is still useful to tell people where 
to find the it.  This is good place to put the name of the author, whether 
or not he is interested in bug/improvement reports, and, if he is willing 
to take telephone inquiries, his phone number.

5.  The intent of the above paragraphs is to provide two levels of 
documentation - one very brief which is available in each submission as 
AAAREADME.TXT or collectively in [VAX000]AAAREADME.yyy and another with 
more detail in files with a .DOC extension.  The first idea is enforced on 
most of the recent tapes with AAAREADME.TXT's added by the librarian as 
necessary.  The second part is more a request than a requirement but some 
file renaming has been done to fit into this pattern.

6.  Making and submitting the tape.

	a.  If you are submitting a single directory use either COPY
	or BACKUP.  BACKUP is preferred.  For multiple directories 
	use BACKUP.  If you must use some other format, please CLEARLY 
	indicate the format on the tape label and, if possible, the 
	commands necessary to copy the tape on a VAX.  

	b.  Do not be too restrictive with file protection.  BACKUP can 
	make things difficult. Also please try to make your tapes using
	the /INTERCHANGE switch of BACKUP (at least on the first copy
	of what you submit) so that ACLs will be stripped. These can
	produce all kinds of weird collisions.

	c.  Use a density of 1600 or 6250 bpi and be aware that 1600 is
	not always the default.  Use the /DENS=1600 qualifier in your
	BACKUP command to insure that the density is correct.

	d.  Take or send the tape to the next symposia and submit it at 
	the DECUS Library booth on Monday or Tuesday or send it, with a 
	signed release form to:

		Glenn Everhart
		25 Sleigh Ride Rd
		Glen Mills, PA 19342
		(215 358 3866)
		Everhart@raxco.com

		(Tapes mailed can be accepted at 1600, or 6250. We
		 will contrive to read almost anything a VAX or PDP11
		 can write, but only 1600 or 6250 BPI tape can be read
		 at the symposium and returned. We will try to read TK50
		 or TK70 on the floor, but cannot guarantee this. 8mm
		 can be read offsite, but generally not on the floor
		 at a symposium. We will however try to read anything a
		 VAX can write.)

	e.  Pick up your tape at the Library booth later in the week.  
	They are usually available on Thursday.

	f.  Submissions at symposia should be in by mid afternoon (4PM
		or so) on Tuesday if at all possible; the merger process
		sometimes is started early and adding late submissions
		is difficult. 

		Late submissions may have to be taken away from
		the symposium and returning media will be harder
		to arrange. 
