bingham%artic.DECnet@ARI-HQ1.ARPA.UUCP (04/07/87)
Several questions have come up recently on the net which have answers or at least some relavant information on the Fall 1986 VAX Systems SIG DECUS Symposium Tape. The tape is available through your local DECUS LUG Librarian or from the DECUS Program Library (Order number V-SP-61). Like previous tapes it contains a LOT of public domain software for the VAX. I do not want to make it available for FTP because it's size (over 100,000 disk blocks) and because it is available from other sources. For instance: 1. Several people have asked questions about or discussed the command recall buffer. The tape has a program in [vax86c.battelle.flush] which will flush the command recall buffer. The tape also has a program in [vax86c.recall] which will save the buffer to a file and anther one which will read the saved commands back into the buffer. This is handy if you don't want to lose your buffer but have to log out. I find it useful for issuing the same commands from another node of the VAXcluster without having to retype them. 2. Someone asked about JUICER and SCAN. I don't know about SCAN but JUICER is in [vax86d.levine.juicer]. FRAG is also in that directory. Maybe that does what you are looking for. 3. There is a WPS-like TPU section file in [vax86c.tpuwps.vax]. These things only scratch the surface - I picked them out because of the recent inquiries. Old VAX SIG tapes are also available from your local LUG Librarian or from the DECUS Library. (Someone asked about the Vassar spelling checker which is not on the most recent tape but is on several earlier tapes.) (There is at least one spelling checker on all of the tapes put together in the last several years.) The Nashville DECUS Symposium is less than three weeks away. If you have something worthwhile to put on the tape please bring or send it. There is a tapecopy submission form in the registration booklet which you can fill out ahead of time if you like. Please fill the form out carefully - the list (or at least number) of files is helpful to in insuring that we have copied your submission completely and the brief description is helpful in making up the initial list of the contents of the tape. Also please include a short AAAREADME.TXT file for a brief description of your submission and other documentation as necessary. Drop your tape off (1600 bpi, 2400' reel, backup format preferred) at the Library Booth on Monday or Tuesday and pick it up on Thursday or Friday. (Please do pick up your tapes, we do not try to return tapes not claimed by the time the exhibit hall closes on Friday.) If you submit something to the tape and/or are interested in hearing what others have submitted come to the Tapecopy User's Forum at 1400 Thursday April 30 in Centennial A. joe bingham VAX Systems SIG Librarian bingham@ari-hq1.arpa ------