EVERHART%ARISIA.DECnet@GE-CRD.ARPA (05/14/88)
The following are two DECUS library status reports showing new programs available from the DECUS library. To reach the DECUS library, use the address: DECUS Program Library 219 Boston Post Road Marlboro, Mass. 01752-1850 USA 617-480-3418 Programs are distributed for media/copying charges that are more or less in line with what universities charge. This is needed because they have to pay some fulltime staff, pay for machines & maintenance, and the costs of catalogs, etc. Not cheap. They get partial subsidies from DEC to help with this, so costs aren't as high as they could be. However, Columbia charges $100/tape for Kermit, you pay $50 for PMDF, and so on; DECUS charges are comparable. Also, SIG tapes can be obtained free from your LUG as well as the DECUS library. This information is provided so if you want any of these programs, you don't have to wait for a catalog to appear. Glenn Everhart (Everhart%Arisia.decnet@GE-CRD.arpa) ------------------------------------------------------ TO: Distribution FROM: Betty Cadieux DATE: May 02, 1988 SUBJECT: DECUS PROGRAM LIBRARY STATUS REPORT MAY 02, 1988 PROGRAM AVAILABILITY Following are the new or revised (R) programs since the distribution of the 1987/1988 catalog. The * indicates revisions to new programs that have been announced through these status reports. PROGRAM NO. TITLE VAX-286(R)* VIEW VAX-318 Micro-FLX VAX-329 SVIEW/SCOPY VAX-330 VTCALC VAX-332 Menu Branch VAX-333 VT100KEYS VAX-334 LASER_FORMAT VAX-335 DBAG - Data Base System VAX-336 FTX 11-462(R) TERM.FOR 11-901 TIDY DIRECTORY PROGRAM Revision VAX-286 VIEW Version: 5.1, March 1988 Submitted by: C.J. Chapman, Philips Defence Systems MEL, Crawley, Sussex, England, RH10 2PZ Operating System: MicroVMS V4.7, VAX/VMS V4.6 Source Language: MACRO-32 Memory Required: 13.8KB Virtual Allocation Keywords: System Management - VMS Abstract: The VIEW utility is a system management tool that enables the Systems Manager to obtain information on system processes or user processes. VIEW is very useful for taking a snapshot look at your system to establish what images are currently executing. VIEW executes on Digital Equipment Corporation VT200 Series terminals continuously displaying the following information: . User Name or Process Name, Image Name, Process Id. . Login Time, Uic, Process State/Type, CPU Min/Sec. . Base Priority, Current Priority, Working Set Size. . Image Activation Count, Disk I/O, Buffered I/O. . Page Faults, VMS Release, Balance Set, Node Name. . Idle Time and Uptime since boot time, Date Time. . Process alternate, device, directory and terminal. VT220 Terminal Keypad Functions: . Process User or Process Name (Select) . Increase Interval Time (Up_Arrow) . Decrease Interval Time (Down_Arrow) . Increase Page Number (Next_Screen) . Decrease Page Number (Previous_Screen) . Clear Page (Do) . Enable/Disable Highlight (Find) . Process Alternate (Select) . Highlight Process (Up/Down_Arrow) . Delete Process (Remove) . Increase Base Priority (Right_Arrow) . Decrease Base Priority (Left_Arrow) . To Exit type Ctrl_y, Ctrl_c or (F6). To continuously VIEW Balance set, Idleup, and Date Time, use the following procedure: . Decrease Interval Time to zero. . Clear Page using the (Do) key. Release Notes are distributed with each order. Notes: Operating system VAX/VMS V4 or later is required. Changes and Improvements: Minor code changes. Media (Service Charge Code): 600' Magnetic Tape (MA) Format: VMS/BACKUP, or order VAX-LIB-8 New VAX-318 Micro-FLX Version: 1.2, February 1988 Submitted by: Trevor Taylor, Microcomputer Technology, Chatswood, NSW, Australia 2067 Operating System: MicroVMS V4.4 - 4.6, VAX/VMS V4.6 Source Language: C, VAX FORTRAN Hardware Required: RX33 or RX50 Floppy Diskette Drive Keywords: Data Communications, Utilities - VMS Abstract: Micro-FLX is a file transfer program designed to allow VAX users to read and write CP/M and MS/DOS floppies. It handles RX50 diskettes in either CP/M or MS/DOS format from a Rainbow or RX33 diskettes in MS/DOS format from a VAXmate. Floppies can be mounted in an appropriate disk drive on either a VAX or a MicroVAX, and files can then be copied to and from them using commands similar to DCL. There is also built-in help. Release notes are distributed with each order. Sources not included. Media (Service Charge Code): One RX50 Diskette (JA) Format: VMS/BACKUP, 600' Magnetic Tape (MA) Format: VMS/BACKUP VAX-329 SVIEW/SCOPY Version: 1.0, March 1988 Submitted by: John T. Carroll III, Columbus, IN Operating System: MicroVMS V4.6 Source Language: VAX FORTRAN Hardware Required: VT200, VT300 Terminals Keywords: FORTRAN, Graphics, ReGIS Abstract: SVIEW is a FORTRAN program that displays screen images saved by the SCOPY subroutine on Digital Equipment Corporation's VT200 and VT300 series graphics terminals. Once invoked, SVIEW prompts the user for commands to READ a plot file, VIEW a screen image, PLOT a screen image, and EXIT the program. SCOPY is a FORTRAN subroutine that transfers images displayed on Digital Equipment Corporations's VT200 and VT300 series graphics terminals to a plot file. The transfer is accomplished by initiating a remote screen copy and redirecting the screen image from the printer port to the host. The resulting plot file can be printed on any one of Digital Equipment Corporation's graphics printers or rapidly redisplayed at the terminal using the SVIEW program. Media (Service Charge Code): One RX50 Diskette (JA) Format: VAX/ANSI, 600' Magnetic Tape (MA) Format: VAX/ANSI New VAX-330 VTCALC Version: 1.0, April 1988 Submitted by: Michael Chamsay Operating System: VAX/VMS Source Language: VAX BASIC Hardware Required: VT100 or VT220 Terminal Keywords: Calculators Abstract: VTCALC is an easy to use, simple calculator program that does basic calculations. All input is done via the keypad and arrow keys which are diagrammed on the screen using the line drawing character set. Like many simple calculators it has one memory cell which is displayed on the screen and updated whenever the store key is pressed. This program was developed and tested on a VT220 look alike in VT100 mode. One of the future enhance- ments will be to include scientific functions such as trigonometic, and log functions. Media (Service Charge Code): 600' Magnetic Tape (MA) Format: VAX/ANSI New VAX-332 Menu Branch Version: 1.1, April 1988 Submitted by: Bob Bruhin, Advanta, Building Five, Horsham, PA Operating System: VAX/VMS V4.7 Source Language: MACRO-32 Memory Required: 25.6KB Keywords: Menu Control, Tools - Applications Development Abstract: This tool takes the form of a MACRO-32 program which can replace the display and selection portions of a captive menu command procedure. Using this tool, captive menus are still DCL command procedures (like at most installations). However, the burden of coding the routines to display the menu, accept a user selection and execute the appropriate DCL code to perform the selected action is removed from the designer of the menu. The menu program can perform all these actions from within the command procedure. The menu program may be considered a multi-way DCL branch statement. The command procedure calls the menu program using the DCL RUN command. A menu description is included in-line in the command procedure, following the activation of the menu program. Media (Service Charge Code): 600' Magnetic Tape (MA) Format: VMS/BACKUP New VAX-333 VT100KEYS Version: 1, March 1988 Submitted by: Ronald William Burke, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Baltimore, MD Operating System: Micro/VMS V4.X, VAX/VMS V4.X Source Language: DCL, VAX FORTRAN Keywords: Terminal Handler Abstract: VT100KEYS shows users how to use the keypad on a VT100 terminal. It allows you to lock or unlock terminal or console from unauthorized access. It includes a pair of DCL commands (LOCK.COM and CLOCK.COM) which approximate VT100KEY's locking capabilities on terminals and consoles. Media (Service Charge Code): 600' Magnetic Tape (MA) Format: VMS/BACKUP New VAX-334 LASER_FORMAT Version: 2, April 1988 Submitted by: Dr. David W. Burgess, RAF Institute Of Aviation Medicine, Farnborough, Hants, England, GN14 6SZ Operating System: MicroVMS V4.7, VAX/VMS V4.6 Source Language: VAX FORTRAN Hardware Required: Postscript Laser Printer Keywords: Text Formatting Abstract: LASER-FORMAT is a file interpreter to modify either Bonner RUNOFF, WPS, or Normal text listings for output on a PostScript Laser printer. Command files exits to catch files for listing from a directory [LASER] for automatic printing on a laser print queue. Using escape codes additional postscript commands can be added to the files to produce pretty output of desk top publishing quality. Codes exist for full support of the technical character set in WPS. Wordstar files can also be printed on this package over DECnet. The package contains three demonstration manuals for output either as a straight text file, a RUNOFF file or via WPS-PLUS if this program is available. Package also contains an updated version of DECUS Program No. VAX-212, "PLOT_IT and SPELL: Interactive Dicionary", a Graph plotting program. Media (Service Charge Code): Five RX50 Diskettes (JE) Format: VMS/BACKUP, 600' Magnetic Tape (MA) Format: VMS/BACKUP New VAX-335 DBAG - Data Base System Version: 1.0, January 1988 Submitted by: Luis Arriaga Da Cunita, Laboratorio Nacional De Engenharia Civil, 1799 Lisboa Codex, Portugal Operating System: VAX/VMS V3.4 - V4.6 Source Language: VAX FORTRAN Memory Required: 1MB Keywords: Data Base Management Abstract: DBAG is a relational database system, implemented for VAX/VMS, similar in functionality and interactive interface, to the commercial product DBASE III. Some commands are actually the same, so users familiar with that popular package should "feel at home" with little effort. The editor of records (and commands) departs from a WordStar-like approach and emulates VAX's EDT thus again saving extra learning effort. The system also provides a complete library of subroutines, FORTRAN 77 callable, for those who need/want to write their own program to handle the database. Media (Service Charge Code): 2400' Magnetic Tape (PA) Format: VMS/BACKUP New VAX-336 FTX Version: 4.5, April 1988 Submitted by: C.J. Chapman, Philips Defence Systems MEL, Crawley, Sussex, England, RH10 2PZ Operating System: MicroVMS V4.7, VAX/VMS V4.5 Source Language: MACRO-32 Memory Required: 60KB Virtual Allocation Keywords: System Management - VMS, Utilities - VMS Abstract: FTX - Foreign Tape Extension utility is a systems management tool that enables ASCII or EBCDIC data files to be written, or read from magnetic tape using any combination of block and record format. The utility uses VMS command definition language. Features include: . Automatic tape mount and dismount with no unload. . Forward tape mark skipping before read begins. . Full wild card file processing. . Record padding and stripping. . Read while spooling option. . Data I/O CHECKING.* Release notes are distributed with each order. Notes: Operating System VMS V4.0 or later is required. Media (Service Charge Code): 600' Magnetic Tape (MA) Format: VMS/BACKUP Revision 11-462 TERM.FOR Version: 5.1, April 1988 Submitted by: Richard Desper, U.S. Army Materials Technology Lab., Watertown, MA Operating System: RT-11 V5.0 Source Language: FORTRAN IV Memory Required: 56KB Software Required: RT-11 Sysgened for Multi-terminal support. Hardware Required: DLV-11J Quad Serial Interface Keywords: Data Communications, Emulators Abstract: TERM is written in FORTRAN to convert a PDP-11/23 with a DLV-11J Quad Serial Interface into a smart terminal. The program allows the PDP-11/23 console terminal to converse with a remote computer. Disk files on the PDP-11/23 may be accessed as either sources or sinks for ASCII data files. File transfer is limited to ASCII files and is not automatically checked for errors, but is quite reliable at speeds up to 2400 baud. (A second speed limitation is that the remote computer baud rate must be slower than the PDP-11/23 console terminal rate, 9600 baud at this installation.) TERM is sufficiently transparent to the user to allow editing operations on the remote computer, e.g. VAX/VMS EDT using VT100 or VT200 terminal support. For possible use with a remote VAX, a VMS file TERM.COM is also provided to facilitate file transfer. Further details are in the file TERM.DOC and as comments in TERM.FOR. Notes: Operating system RT-11 V5.0 or higher is required. Changes and Improvements: Control Z from either the terminal or the remote host stops all file transfer. Restrictions: Console terminal baud rate must be faster than "Modem" (connected to remote host) baud rate. Media (Service Charge Code): One RX01 Diskette (KA) Format: RT-11, 600' Magnetic Tape (MA) Format: RT-11 New 11-901 TIDY DIRECTORY PROGRAM Version: January 1988 Submitted by: Sanjay Dasgupta, Gas Authority of India Ltd., New Delhi, India, 110021 Operating System: RSX-11M-PLUS V2.1 Source Language: FORTRAN 77, MACRO-11 Memory Required: 40KB Software Required: Device independent cursor positioning option of full duplex terminal driver (RSX Sysgen option). Hardware Required: VT100 Compatible Terminal Keywords: Utilities - RSX-11 Abstract: The TIDY DIRECTORY PROGRAM (TDP) is a screen-based utility that helps you to keep your directory tidy. TDP shows you summary information about your files, calling attention to those that exist in multiple versions, and provides single- key-stroke purging and deleting capability. You can also examine the contents of any file before deciding to purge or delete it. All these functions are available from within TDP, and you never have to use PIP, TYPE, DELETE, PURGE, or PRINT. TDP presents summaries grouped by file type, so you are always aware of the file groups in your directory. At the author's installation every user who uses TDP has invariably found (and deleted), groups of files whose existence they would not have otherwise known. This is particularly true of active users who always examine directories by selective wildcarding. Because TDP exploits VT100 video features and the applications key-pad, the file directory is never more than a few key strokes away from a file-contents display, and PURGING and DELETING tools. This makes it a particularly effective and fast way of hacking away the dead wood from your directory. Restrictions: The RSX operating system must be sysgened with the device independent cursor positioning option. Documentation available in hardcopy only. Complete sources not included. Media (Service Charge Code): User's Manual (EA), One RX01 Diskette (KA) Format: FILES-11, 600' Magnetic Tape (MA) Format: FILES-11