ted@nieland.DAYTON.OH.US (Ted Nieland) (04/15/91)
Tape: VAX90B Section: [.GRC] Reviewer: Dr. E. Loren Buhle, Jr. Installation: 4 Documentation: 3 Intended Audience: systems programmers, systems managers Ease of Use: 3 Usefulness: 4 Sources Included: FORTRAN, DCL, MACRO, ADA Source Languages: yes Objects Supplied: no There is quite a collections of useful utilities here. [.GRC] is divided into [GRC.DAVID] and [GRC.GREG], reflecting the first names of the contributing authors. The collection includes: - AUTOLOGIN, an example program to remotely log into a terminal - DEALLOC, a program using ASTs to a target process to force the target to deallocate a device. - DOC - documentation of analyses of systems crashes using SDA, analyzing any process on a running system using SDA, DCL from within a process using system services instead of SPAWNing, documentation regarding multi-dimensional array traversal in FORTRAN, as well as information regarding modem ports (pin-outs, signal on which pins, etc.) and a quote from Knuth regarding "random" numbers. - EDX - The very latest version of the EDX editor which now includes a built-in spelling checker and the ability to edit modules in VMS text libraries. - FRAGMENT/DEFRAG - are programs which assist in transferring very large files over flaky telephone lines. The routine creates a backup set of the sources, chops this backup set into pieces, uses KERMIT to copy over all the pieces, and puts it all back together again. - SHODIR - FORTRAN subroutine to do the same as the DCL command DIR/SIZE/DATE without spawning. - ZEROACC - used to play with the accounting system in VMS to allow system managers to give discount rates at specified times. This is an update of a previous submission. - EXCEPTION_INTERCEPTOR - an ADA routine to handle exceptions as they are intended to be handled under VMS using the VMS Condition Handling Facility.