dave@rosevax.UUCP (04/29/87)
In article <8704280659.AA13103@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> McGuire_Ed@GRINNELL.MAILNET writes: >If you want more, piping for example, you may be interested in the Software >Tools package for VMS, which includes a shell supporting UNIX-style I/O >redirection. I hope someone else on this list can give you more information >about Software Tools. We have an old release, but I don't know where to get >it. Still, I use it fairly frequently. So, does anyone have some recent, accurate information about the Software Tools User Group? I had an addres and phone number which I tried, but I've never received any response. Can anyone help? Dave -- Dave Marquardt dave@rosevax.Rosemount.COM {cbosgd,ihnp4,uiucdcs}!rosevax!dave
WILLIAMS_B@svax05.pfizer-central-research.co.UK (07/24/87)
How can I get the Software Tools package? Brian Williams (address above)
PJS@naif.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter Scott) (03/22/88)
Years ago, there lived on our machine a directory tree called [TOOLS...] (it might even have been [DECUS.TOOLS...], which contained a bunch of programs and libraries which I later recognize as being VMS FORTRAN emulations of Unix commands and software tools routines. I modified the WC (Word Count) program heavily for use in various lexical analysis procedures of ours, but in time, the library disappeared and only the .EXE file was left. Now no-one here knows where to get those tools back. This means that if the image is ever lost or becomes incompatible with a future release of VMS (I think it was linked under 3.7!), we will lose all of the utilities that depend on it. I am looking for those tools: specifically I want SOURCE CODE for routines with names like PUTCH, INDEXX, PUTLIN, GETCH, etc, and all routines they depend upon. FORTRAN was the original language and would be best; however C will do. Can anyone help? Peter Scott (pjs%grouch@jpl-mil.jpl.nasa.gov)
schwartz@gondor.cs.psu.edu (Scott Schwartz) (03/28/88)
In article <880321082824.00000618071@naif.JPL.NASA.GOV> PJS@naif.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter Scott) writes: >Years ago, there lived on our machine a directory tree called [TOOLS...] >(it might even have been [DECUS.TOOLS...], which contained a bunch of >programs and libraries which I later recognize as being VMS FORTRAN >emulations of Unix commands and software tools routines. Sounds like you had the sources presented in "Software Tools" by Brian Kernighan & P.J. Plaugher, Addison Wesley, 1976. In the 1981 update, "Software Tools in Pascal" it says that all the code in the book is available from the publisher in machine readable form. -- Scott Schwartz | Your array may be without head or schwartz@gondor.cs.psu.edu | tail, yet it will be proof against | defeat. -- Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"
pierre@acf8.UUCP (pierre landau) (03/29/88)
You might also look in the DECUS catalog at VAX-14, which is the LBL software tools distribution, not updated recently, and typically known as [TOOLS]. Good luck.