& Spring 2005 VMS/LT SIG Tape Collection& ------ ---- ------ --- ---- ----------  * This material is all freely distributable.    A Once again the VMS and L&T SIGs present their semiannual software G collection, this one for Spring 2005. The following are brief abstracts 
 of the areas.   A (Note: Since the distribution is getting pretty varied, the split C  between "VMS" and "L&T" parts is not done this time. It was always 
  artificial.)   F The L&T and VMS Systems SIGs are again producing a combined collection for Spring 2005   = The tape is in VMS Backup format in three areas: one each for > [05AVMSLT...], [VMSLT05A...], and [DECUSLIB...].  The first isH the index saveset (05AVMSLT), comprising around 20000 blocks.  The otherF is the DECUS library catalog in machine readable format (DECUSLIB) andE the VAX/L&T collection for Spring 2005 [VMSLT05A...] comprising about  1350000 blocks.    INDEX Directory ([05AVMSLT]) ----- ---------  ---------- ; 	Indices and descriptions of what is on the tapes. [.tools] ; 	subdirectory contains tools needed to decompress or unpack  	some packed items.   ) DECUS LIBRARY CATALOG ONLINE ([DECUSLIB]) ( ----- ------- ------- ------  ----------; 	Current machine readable catalog of DECUS library contents 6 	as straight text. The BROWSER fulltext retrieval tool7 	is included. Also the DECUS Catalog Information System  	tool is included.  ? The following are contents of the respective directories in the  [VMSLT05A...] Directory Tree   ------------- --------- ----  H [EMULATORS...]  Alpha emulators (such as are available). None vms ready.  F [GNU...]        Gnu C, Emacs, Gnumeric, Gnunet, etc. new free software  C [NET...]        This directory contains code which might be of some H                 interest, off the net. CDRTOOLS in particular is used toG                 write CD (and by rumor DVD) on other OSs. Some versions H                 work on VMS. UUCP is a copy of vms uucp, and new zip andB                 unzip sources here should build on VMS and add newI                 abilities and better compression. Botan is a crypto tool. K                 Bochs is an x86 emulator for generic machines and WINE is a I                 windows emulator that runs on x86. Some versions of Bochs E                 have been reported to work on VMS in the past, albeit .                 slowly. XPDF is a .pdf viewer.  K [SAMBA...]      SAMBA is a system which allows systems to communicate using E                 SMB or CIFS protocols (used by MS Windows for network D                 communication) thus permitting sharing either way ofH                 printers and disks with such systems. (The VMS client is?                 however a utility, not a mountable filesystem.)   C [TK...]         Files recently added to Hunter Goatley's collection F                 CSVSEARCH - search comma separated variable data filesH                 FLIST - File and directory manager (fullscreen oriented)C                 GBLSEC_SDA_VMS - global section info MAILSYM - mail F                 symbiont for mailing files to yourself via PRINT MBU -E                 mailbox utility. Manipulate VMS system mailboxes from J                 command line RSYNC_2_5_6_PRE_1_SRC - synch class libs from                  CMS (VMS pieces)  C [VU...]         VMS things off the net This area has lots of useful K                 material that builds on VMS with sources and binaries where I                 possible.  Among the items here:  Antiword - read MS Word K                 documents AUTOCONF - configuration generator like unix one, I                 for VMS BLISS- partial Bliss compiler from FreeVMS effort G                 BZIP2- better compress utility, compresses smaller than I                 gzip CURL - get ftp or http served files off web, restart K                 partial transfers till done GNV - unit / gnu like tools for I                 VMS Ghostscript - display Postscript on screen or printer I                 for non postscript devices FreeVMS - VMS rebuilt for x86, H                 partial effort so far. Based on Linux sources but buildsI                 VMS APIs.  Imagemagick - displays / manipulates images in B                 many formats Mac64 - macro64 (assembler for alpha)K                 (freeware) MySQL - relational DBMS, built for VMS OpenSSL - J                 lots of cryoto routines and certificate generation abilityK                 WGET - get http or ftp served data, remote mirror of sites, J                 will keep trying till it gets all of a file (picks up fromG                 where a transfer failed).  Xscreensaver - lots of great I                 display hacks and screen saver for Xwindows including VMS E                 (obviously many others. Documents present generally.)   F [WWW...]        WASD web server and utils This area contains a VMS webE                 server and associated utilities, recent distribution. 