[comp.os.vms] VAX SIG tapes are released

EVERHART%ARISIA.DECnet@GE-CRD.ARPA (06/11/88)

Folks -
This is to inform you that I have just dropped the Spring 1988 VAX
SIG tapes and RSX SIG tapes into the mail to the DECUS office for
the library, and to Bob Perry, for the National LUG council
distribution. I will be sending tapes to other top level contacts
as fast as I can produce them. The regional NLC tape copy people should
get their tapes within a few days, and LUG librarians can get tapes
in turn from them. People on the old trees can deal with top level
tree folks, who get the next few copies, OR with NLC distributions,
or both. 
  Since people who want the tapes have to contact people who have them,
this will inform you to start bugging those who should have the tapes
soon.
  The following is a brief abstract of the stuff on the tapes:
(there are a total of 4 in the collection; the Library version has a 
3 reel set (at 1600) and a 1 reel set, so they can be fit onto a TK50.
The NLC gets it all on one reel at 6250, but it fits on 4 reels of tape
at 1600 BPI.)

VAX88A1 Tape
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[.ABEL]			Editing interface built on top of EVE. ABEL is the
			output of an L&T Sig effort to merge the many EVE
			supersets of recent years. From Jef Kennedy.
[.ANUNEWS]		Geoff Huston's Un*x NEWS rewrite for VMS. Allows any
			VMS site to participate in Usenet NEWS networks
			and manage newsgroups.
[.ATTC]			Cluster management tools. From Martin Brunecky.
[.BRYANT]		TPU enhancements (APLTPU). GBLSUBS - global substitute
			strings. GBLSEARCH - search for pattern in files.
[.BZL]			LSE templates for Runoff. Spell dictionary with most
			MACRO-32 instructions defined. From Bart Lederman.
[.COY]			DM - Directory manager, windowing dir. management.
			SD - revised Set Default. WPE - WPS-Plus emulator for
			TPU. COLORS- Reset VTx4x colors. SHOWME - system
			or user status report. VAXNotes enhancers. Improved
			MON PROC/TOPC display. From Dale Coy.
[.CSDHBO]		XSHOW - Show many things across cluster. (Files,
			holders of IDs, terminals, users, etc. From
			Jonathan Welch.
[.DINKIN]		NAME - Find what terminal server and port a terminal
			is on.
[.DMILLER]		TPU enhancement. ALOCWAIT - allocate/wait. BBS - full
			function bulletin board system. CB - VAX CB radio
			simulator. ETAPE - Convert to/from EBCDIC etc. tape.
			From Dale Miller.
[.DOLGEN]		Proc to reorganize a whole disk and maintain master
			indexed files created with exact positioning.
			From William Baker
[.DUMPER]		Utility to read TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 DUMPER tapes on
			VMS. Handles versions 5 and 6 DUMPER tapes now too.
			From James Harvey.
[.FINGER]		Local or remote Show System/Users, name server, and
			mail querier. Major update of mail items. From
			Rand Hall.
[.FLOWERS]		Security audit on wildcard files. Checksums on
			sys$system. Account summary. Check login time.
			Allow use of old shared images.
[.GAMES]		Cribbage and poker games. Various authors.
[.GHC]			Rewrite of LIST/RSX for native mode VMS. Super
			multicolumn lister, many options. From Gerson Cohen.
[.GNUSOFTWARE]		Numerous GNU utilities including BISON (a YACC
			superset), AWK, Emacs, C++, Assembler, GDB,
			and Gnu C. Gnu C binaries for VMS are present also,
			providing a FREE, NATIVE-MODE C compiler for VMS.
			This compiler generates code which is generally
			superior to VAX11 C's. It is however a beta version
			(until it finishes compiling all of Berkeley Un*x)
			and may still have some bugs. Even so it is quite
			usable.

VAX88A2 Tape
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[.CAROSSO]		Kevin Carosso's latest PTY driver for VMS V4 and V5
			plus a working PHOTO program using it.
[.DISM32]		Disassembler, converts .EXE to .MAR. Really works!
			From Andy Pavlin.
[.ISPELL]		Interactive spelling corrector for VMS. Extremely fast
			and powerful. From John Sherling.
[.JLP]			William Wood's LIST file display/search utility
			updated for newer VMS versions. Zmodem code for 
			VMS.  From Jon Pinkley.
[.JMEADOWS]		STATUS monitor/finger type user/system display
			program. Will work over DECnet. Also SDL un-do'er
			for C and re releases of VERB, FILE, and FIND for
			decompiling DCL tables, changing RMS attributes, or
			finding files in indexf.sys
[.JPRIGOT]		Master_Dist generates a mailing list of everyone
			in the UAF file. From J. Prigot.
[.JSCLUG]		MTG - meeting announcment bulletin board. USERLIST -
			several new format lists from SYSUAF.DAT. VC - Vax
			Calculator. Mail util - examine if someone has read
			your mail. Calendar of events program. Compress someone
			else's mail. Front end to make remote network 
			mail address fruit-salad invisible to users. WHOIS
			manager. PRIOMGR - adjust prio of compute bound
			jobs. From William Baker.
[.LILUG]		IDXTEX - Create index files from .IDX files.
			Grant ACL to others easily. WIN - multiple windows
			on screen. Test if your mail was read. REMINDOLD -
			Tells if you have reminders outstanding. Group
			quota system. From John Hasstedt.
[.LOMASKY]		The "ultimate" Set Default. Password change
			enforcement. SYSUAF report enhancements.
			From Brian Lomasky.
[.MAQDEV]		Queueing to/from global sections between processes,
			on either VMS or RSX11M+ and over DECnet. User
			written system services and queue managers. From
			Neal Schmidt.
[.MCM]			Code Management System to handle changes to any kind
			of source material. Also adds a BUILD facility.
			(a kind of free CMS/MMS). From Wren Hunt.
[.MNVAX]		Force user to change his password. Become invisible
			to others on the system. Text library handling
			command proc, and editing/runoff control program.
			From MNVax LUG.
[.MOPAC]		LSE Templates for Rdb/VMS and slides for two DECUS
			talks. From Jim McIlvaine.
[.NET_WHAT]		FAST Cluster and network wide SHOW Users (and more)
			type command. From Andrew Potter.
[.NEWLON]		Create orderly SYSTARTUP.COM files, from J. Newlon.
[.NEWLZW]		Current versions of LZW compress/decompress utilities
			for VMS, from Martin Minow.
[.NFREED]		AUTOLOGOUT - logout inactive terminals. CRON - issue
			commands based on time. EVEEDT - EDT keypad on top of
			EVE. NODECHECK - allow and disallow access to
			various nodes in cluster driven by identifiers.
			Convert ASCII to Postscript. (Also does .MEM files).
			MAKE - from Todd Aven. Like Un*x MAKE (works off
			MMS files.). From Ned Freed.
[.NIELAND]		BULLETIN - Mark London's BULLETIN, a VAXNotes - like
			utility. CMD - DCL buffer recall utility. MANUAL -
			online VMS manual file. MENU - SMG based menu driver.
			MODIFY - global search/replace utility. SPELL -
			correction to Vassar SPELL utility. ZDEC - zero
			device error counter. From Ted Nieland.
[.PAGESWAPPER]		Pageswapper back issues through May 1988.
			From Larry Kilgallen.
[.PTIUTIUL]		Generate a hard BREAK signal on VAX terminal. From
			Howard Halstead.
[.RAE]			MLR Macro language, structured Macro-32. From Rod
			Eldridge.
[.RHALL]		MPA - analyze memory performance (tuning aid). From
			Rand Hall.
[.RNOTODOC]		DSRtoSDML - Convert Runoff files to VAX Document
			format. Output in LN03, Postscript, or plain text.

VAX88A3 Tape
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[.DTRSIG]		Datatrieve SIG items: Convert VMS Accounting to DTR
			format. Get DTR to access AI1 logging/data files.
			Corporate Phone directory. User defined DTR functions.
			Back newsletters. Additional DTR Plots. Command
			line recall. Symposium sessions. System mgr utils. From
			Bart Lederman and the DTR SIG.
[.RCAS88]		AnalytiCalc spreadsheet update; now can call unchanged
			subroutines. DBAG - src only for dBaseIII clone. 
			FORCE - force commands on other terminals. MENU building
			aids. PLOTIT - presentation graphics for AnalytiCalc
			or standalone. Search multiple words. Command frontend
			to VMS. NETS88 - MANY invaluable items from ARPAnet
			mail including BOSS (multiple sessions at a single
			terminal) and matching PTY drivers and MUCH, MUCH
			more. From Glenn Everhart
[.RPI]			MODPARAMS manager - build MODPARAMS.DAT for a cluster.
			Screen Dump filter (VAXstation to print). SETUP -
			avoid zillions of DCL symbols at login. WATCHER - idle
			job killer; works with LAT. From Matthew Madison.
[.SDE]			Software Development Environment complete procedure
			using CMS and MMS. From Kevin Angley.
[.SUM]			SUM - Show Users More; shows users and LAT location
			info. From Michael Kimura.
[.TPUSPELL]		Spell checker in TPU; check words in the editing
			buffer interactively. From Dilip Jain.
[.WENTZ]		All-in-1 system mgt. utilities. BECOME another user
			utility. Utilities for developing BLISS source
			code. Show Proc/continuous which shows all quotas
			also. More. From Eric Wentz.
[.WORLTON]		DOCUMENT - get documents from src files. GPLOT -
			routines to make it easier to use VAX GKS. 
			MODIFY - replace strings, detab, etc. files; global
			search/replace. From T.G. Worlton.
[.XEVE]			Extended Eve with features from many of the EVE
			extended editors of earlier tapes. Spelling checker.
			From Tom Wolfe

RSX/PC/VAX Tape
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[VAX88A4...] Directory Tree
[.SOFTWARE_TOOLS]	Software Tools User Group multinetwork mailer, in
			C, last PD version. Does multinetwork, store/forward
			mail and gateways, and has its own user interface if
			desired (much more powerful/complete than VAX Mail).
			From Ken Adelman.
[.TECOC]		Complete rewrite of TECO in C for VMS, by Pete
			Siemsen.
[.PCSIG_DECUS]		Large collection of MS-DOS and CP/M utilities 
			contributed by the DECUS PC SIG. Many for Rainbow
			but many for IBM PC or generic MS-DOS or CP/M also.

RSX88A Tape directories

Submitter		[UIC]		Contents
----------		---------	-------------------------------------
Alan Frisbie		[265,20]	MCE Command Line Editor from Hans
					Hamakers, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Alan Frisbie		[373,310]	Files-11 ODS1 & ODS2 specifications,
					 including RMS-11 Internals manual.

Thomas Wyant		[351,144]	LBC - Logical Block Copy (disk-file,
					 disk-disk, file-file).

Thomas Wyant		[351,145]	TEM - Terminal Emulator.

L.M. Cartwright		[300,201]	11M+ Queueing & Routing Software.

William Crocker		[300,210]	LZYCLI - Command-line recall/edit
					 and VMS-style symbols.

Frank Borger		[311,*]		LN03 control, COOKIE, DAMMIT, and
					 other sayings; ECR - Command-line
					 editing for IAS.



Respectfully submitted,
Glenn C. Everhart
VAX and RSX SIG tape librarian
Everhart%Arisia.decnet@ge-crd.arpa