rod@CHEETA.ISI.EDU.UUCP (04/16/87)
I'm looking for some things to run on a Vaxstation II running uVMS 4.4 and DEC's window software (VWS). The three items I'm most interested in: 1) A lockscreen program. 2) A magnifying glass capable of expanding and examining anything on the screen. 3) A recall command that allows the user to repeat the same command in separate windows, without having to retype. Currently recall buffers are process-specific, as in normal VMS. It should be possible (though maybe hard) to do this across all windows. Pointers to any such software would be most welcome. Public domain or other freeware preferred. When X windows finally comes in, it should be fairly easy to produce these from existing stuff, right? Anybody know when we can expect X for VMS? I assume these already exist in the X environment; I know they do in Sun's. If X is soon (<1 yr.) pointers to X stuff appreciated. Making little windows and drawing pretty pictures is easy; DEC has even taken out much of the tedium with the programming interface. However, affecting the overall environment seems to be much more difficult; pointers to documentation on such things welcome. ----------------- I have an Ethernet monitor that runs on a Vaxstation and draws a graph indicating the number of packets floating past. It's still kind of buggy (I'm having trouble making it run in parallel with DECnet). It's in a sort-of-almost-ready-to-be-passed-around state right now. I haven't tried the undocumented monitor stuff yet, so I don't know if I've even been wasting my time. Any way about it, I'm willing to share. Many thanks to Gerard Newman, from whom I swiped much of the Ethernet stuff. --Rod Van Meter rod@ISI.Edu