EVERHART%ARISIA%rca.com@RELAY.CS.NET (09/18/86)
I just got some DECUS library updates and thought I'd pass one or two on... DECUS # VAX-174 is a whole set of PLA tools from Berkeley; looks like a complete system for designing PLAs, plus manuals. Manual code is EB, tape (600') is code MA, VMS Backup format. DECUS # VAX-181 is a VT200 toolkit with font editing, dithering, key defs, new character set files and more. Media code MA (600' Ansi tape). DECUS # VAX-180 is V2 of the Parallel Library DEC spoke of at the last DECUS symposium for writing parallel code. Media is 600' tape (MA), Backup format. DECUS # VAX-183 is Mike Levine's JUICER program. This is an inplace disk compression facility for ODS-2 plus a bunch more utilities. Order code is MA (600' tape), Ansi format. This looks like it could make it unnecessary to buy the $3000 or so commercial disk squeezer... and given Mike's track record (look at INDEX sometime if you want a really FINE static analyzer for Fortran) it should be an excellent item. The above should be sufficient info to order from the Library. I intend to... By the way, I just got my virtual disk driver VDDRIVER working yesterday. It's a bit crude but will let you use contiguous files as volumes on a VAX/VMS system, just like the old RSX VD: driver. Handy for multiple cluster factors, handling foreign file structures (or keeping some ODS-1 things around without dedicating a whole RA81...), or providing a place for reading in tapes off other sites. I find it lots easier to read a tape onto a virtual disk, pick off what I want, and then just delete the container file when done. I've been using a commercial driver but want to have a more portable toolset, which required writing my own. I expect it'll get on the SIG tapes next time. If anyone wants to help distribute it and knows how a MAILnet site like mine can do so, I'd be inclined to help and send them a copy. I don't want to copy dozens of folks though, to avoid swamping our system. The package could use some smoothing of rough edges (noted in the manual file). Glenn Everhart CSnet: Everhart%Arisia@RCA.COM Phone: 609 338 6022