[comp.os.vms] VAX/L&T SIG Tape Reviews: VAX90B - ZEMPEL

ted@nieland.DAYTON.OH.US (Ted Nieland) (04/20/91)

Section:	VAX90B
Submission:	[.ZEMPEL]
Reviewer:	Marc Shannon


Ease of installation:	2
Documentation:		3
Intended audience:	General
Ease of use:		3
Usefulness:		3
Sources included:	Yes
	Language(s):	FORTRAN
Objects included:	No

This submission is broken up into three different parts: COOKIE -
a fortune cookie program for VMS (supplied with some sample data
files), KRONOS - a really good SMG based calendar program, and
TOOLS - various nifty tools to make life easier including an
editing/compiling environment and a "while you were out" message
taker.

KRONOS is truly the best thing from this submission.  I've been
using DECwindows CALENDAR for some time, and I had truly forgotten
that there was a world outside the 19" VAXstation monitor.  Now
people with terminals smart enough to be useable with SMG can have
their own calendar/reminder system.  COOKIE is yet-another-fortune
program without really sufficient documentation to give any clues as
to what COOKIE$DATA is supposed to be defined to be.  In the TOOLS
directory, there is a nice set of DCL command procedures to assist
programmers when editing and compiling the same programs by
defaulting a lot of the obvious (repeated) parameters.