[02Avmslt]0README.ALSO INFORMATION REGARDING THE VAX SIG DECUS TAPES VAX Systems SIG DECUS Symposia tapes have come out of every symposium since the Spring of 1979: directory contents - - number of - - size directories files [VAX000] General information x xx xxxx [VAX79A] Spring 1979 tape 19 516 9486 [VAX79B] Fall 1979 tape (San Diego) 9 148 1762 [VAX80A] Spring 1980 tape (Chicago) 19 421 5259 [VAX80B] Fall 1980 tape (San Diego) 19 294 6945 [VAX81A] Spring 1981 tape (Miami) 27 513 8650 [VAX81B] Fall 1981 tape (Los Angeles) 67 1255 20218 [VAX82A] Spring 1982 tape (Atlanta) 72 1230 27838 [VAX82B] Fall 1982 tape (Anaheim) 147 2711 54668 [VAX83A] and [VAX83B] Spring 1983 tapes (St.Louis) 96099 [VAX83C] and [VAX83D] Fall 1983 tapes (Las Vegas) 165 2804 73568 [VAX84A] AND [VAX84B] Spring 1984 tapes (Cincinnati) 299 5629 109703 [VAX85A] Spring 1985 tapes [VAX85B] (New Orleans) 128 4824 63086 [VAX85C] Fall 1985 tapes 157 2445 57549 [VAX85D] (Anaheim) 85 2166 60828 [VAX86A] Spring 1986 tapes 193 2561 54037 [VAX86B] (Dallas) 69 2171 59647 [VAX86C] Fall 1986 tapes 277 2815 47330 [VAX86D] (San Francisco) 151 2498 54048 [VAX87A] Spring 1987 tapes 262 3608 50342 [VAX87B] (Nashville) 60 1107 62579 [VAX87C] Fall 1987 tapes 176 2490 42295 [VAX87D] (Anaheim) 62 1571 61340 [VAX87E] (3 reels) 126 1985 54020 [VAX88A1] Spring 1988 tapes 61 1052 49077 [VAX88A2] (Cincinnati) 133 1728 50273 [VAX88A3] (4 reels) 70 1557 50621 [VAX88A4] 31 1015 66196 [VAX88B1] Fall 1988 tapes 91 2028 43744 [VAX88B2] (Anaheim) 134 1571 48726 [VAX88B3] (5 reels) 138 1956 43188 [VAX88B4] 20 303 55000 [VAX88B5] 38 1515 55852 [LT89A] Spring 1989 tapes 37 788 57832 [VAX89A1] (Atlanta) 122 2074 42948 [VAX89A2] (4 reels) 163 2439 56448 [VAX89A3] (with L&T Sig) 85 1405 58031 [DECUSLIB] Fall 1989 Tapes 3 52 5618 [LT89B1] (Anaheim) 34 790 63116 [LT89B2] (4 reels) 27 464 60742 [VAX89B1] (With L&T Sig) 82 1607 49367 [VAX89B2] 151 2342 61732 [LT90A] Spring 1990 Tapes 92 969 144128 [VAX90A] (New Orleans, 2 reels) 257 3257 121739 [DECUSLIB] (With L&T Sig) (6250BPI) 3 22 2854 [LT90B1] Fall 1990 Tapes 88 1180 132542 [LT90B2] (Las Vegas, 2 reels @6250) 12 171 85133 [VAX90B1] (With L&T Sig) 187 2191 133871 [VAX90B2] 180 2498 119564 [LT91A] Spring 1991 Tapes 204 3553 250965 [VAX91A] (Atlanta; with L&T Sig) 268 4354 209224 [DECUSLIB] and [91AVAXLT] 12709 [LT91B] Fall 1991 Tapes 39 532 260051 [VAX91B] (Anaheim: With L&T Sig) 361 4134 267044 [91BVAXLT] and [DECUSLIB] 8 204 13551 [LT92A] Spring 1992 Tapes 207 3353 266512 [VAX92A] (Atlanta; with L&T SIG) 220 3579 261401 [92AVAXLT] and [DECUSLIB] 11 224 24208 [LT92B] Fall 1992 Tapes 143 3137 262126 [VAX92B] (Las Vegas; with L&T SIG) 274 3977 250021 [92BVAXLT] 5 189 10272 [DECUSLIB] (with VMS tape) 4 41 21001 [DECUSLIBLT] (with L&T tape) 4 40 8976 [LT93A] Spring 1993 Tapes 81 1633 262721 [VMS93A] (Atlanta; with L&T SIG) 89 1847 255830 [93AVMSLT] and [DECUSLIB] 9 257 33930 [LT93B] Fall 1993 Tapes 78 1017 279243 [VMS93B] (San Francisco; w/L&T SIG) 93 1687 258762 [93BVMSLT] and [DECUSLIB] 8 252 32379 [LT94A] Spring 1994 Tapes 11 148 268868 [VMS94A] (New Orleans; w/L&T SIG) 41 1064 272990 [94AVMSLT] and [DECUSLIB] 8 252 20335 [LT94B] Fall 1994 Tapes 17 307 260074 [VMS94B] (Anaheim; w/L&T SIG) 45 1395 258744 [94BVMSLT] and [DECUSLIB] 8 252 20335 [LT95A] Spring 1995 Tapes 7 83 279990 [VMS95A] (Washington DC; W/L&T SIG) 36 691 268705 [95AVMSLT] and [DECUSLIB] 9 258 20071 [VMS95B] Fall 1995 Tapes 24 660 263781 [LT95B] (San Francisco; w/L&T SIG) 8 63 233239 [XTRA95B] 2 39 93335 [95BVMSLT] and [DECUSLIB] 9 259 20268 [96AVMSLT] Spring 1996 tapes 6 229 16949 [DECUSLIB] (St. Louis; W/L&T SIG) 3 33 3514 [VMSLT96A] 50 1540 663214 [96BVMSLT] Fall 1996 Tapes 6 232 17397 [DECUSLIB] (Anaheim; W/L&T SIG) 3 33 3514 [VMSLT96B] 51 1612 687932 [97AVMSLT] Spring 1997 Tapes 6 237 18547 [DECUSLIB] (Cincinnati; W/L&T SIG) 3 33 3514 [VMSLT97A] 44 1339 637124 [97BVMSLT] Fall 1997 Tapes 6 237 18331 [DECUSLIB] (Anaheim; W/L&T SIG) 3 33 3514 [VMSLT97B] 42 2453 780943 [98AVMSLT] Spring 1998 Tapes 6 237 18331 [DECUSLIB] (Phila,not held ) 3 33 3514 [VMSLT98A] 42 2453 800000 [98BVMSLT] Fall 1998 Tapes 6 237 18331 [DECUSLIB] (Los Angeles; W/L&T SIG) 3 33 3514 [VMSLT98B] 51 1854 1100000 [99AVMSLT] Spring 1999 Tapes 6 237 18331 [DECUSLIB] (Providence; W/L&T SIG) 3 33 3514 [VMSLT99A] 48 2260 1095000 [99BVMSLT] Fall 1999 Tapes 6 246 19123 [DECUSLIB] (Los Angenes; W/L&T SIG) 3 33 3493 [VMSLT99B] 29 2266 1195808 [00AVMSLT] Spring 2000 Tapes (no conf) 6 248 19220 [DECUSLIB] 3 33 3493 [VMSLT00A] 25 1461 1123861 [00BVMSLT] Fall 2000 Tapes (Los Angeles) 6 254 19947 [DECUSLIB] 3 33 3506 [VMSLT00B] 22 1402 1180721 [01AVMSLT] Spring 2001 Tapes (no mtg) 6 254 19960 [DECUSLIB] 3 33 3506 [VMSLT01A] 24 1245 1165042 [01BVMSLT] Fall 2001 Tapes (Los Angeles) 6 259 20341 [DECUSLIB] 3 33 3506 [VMSLT01B] 19 1016 1274733 [02AVMSLT] Spring 2002 Tapes (no mtg) 6 253 20019 [DECUSLIB] 3 33 4331 [VMSLT02A] 29 1403 1257430 The sizes given are the approximate total size after the directories listed in SUPERCEDE.TXT have been deleted. (Note that SUPERCEDE.TXT has not been updated since the Fall of 1981.) On a disk with a cluster factor of 3 the allocated size will be about 10% higher. Also note that the sizes of the more recent tapes are deceiving because of the extensive use of compression. You are free, of course, name the root directories anything you want to. The above names were chosen to put the creation date in the name and at the same time make the lexical order of the names correspond to their calandar order. Note that as of Spring 1990, a severe space crunch with no clean way to split the distribution into 1600 BPI sized pieces led to directory trees being sized for TK50. The collection in Spring 1991 is in an L&T part and a VAX part, each of which fits on one reel at 6250, but the combined collection requires two reels at 6250 BPI. Somewhat less compression than was done in Spring 1990 was done for Fall 1990. The collections are now sized for a CD-R since that has become the main distribution medium. A description of some of the files contained in [02BVMSLT] 000README.TXT - General information about this tape. 0README.ALSO - This file. AAAREADME.02A - The AAAREADME.TXT files from the [VMSLT02A] tree respectively concatenated into one file per tree. By convention, the AAAREADME files provide an overview of the contents of each top level directory. Almost every submission has additional documentation in AAAREADME.DOC or .1ST or somethingelse.DOC, .TXT, .MEM (or a .RNO which can be made into a .MEM with RUNOFF), or a .1ST. ABSTRACT.TXT - A short description of the submissions on this tape. (The abstract submitted to the DECUS Library.) BUILDREADV.COM - A command file to build one large AAAREADME.nnnn_VAX file from all the AAAREADME.TXT files on the directory tree. This command file checks file attributes and creates a uniform output file. BUILDREADL.COM builds the AAAREADME.nnnn_LT files; the first is for [VAXxxx...] trees and the second for [LTxxxx....] trees. They are almost identical. COPYTREES.COM - An easy (and consistent) way to copy a VAX SIG tape (or tapes) from disk to tape. COPYTREES uses TREESIZE.COM and TREETAPE.COM. It uses VAXyys.SIZ if it exists or creates a new one if it does not. Note: the preferable way to arrange to copy VAX SIG tapes is by using the BACKUP utility. COPYTAPES.COM - An easy (and consistent) was to copy VAX SIG tapes from tape to tape. This procedure generally will fail now due to large block sizes needed to fit everything on tape. Use of VMSTPC or TCOPY (on [01Avmslt.tools]) is recommended for copying VMS SIG tapes now. [.OLD_AAAREADME] - AAAREADME.TXT's for the last several tapes. SUBMIT.TXT and TEMPLATE.RNO - Useful information for preparing a submission to a symposium tape. Glenn C. Everhart Everhart@GCE.Com 156 Clark Farm Road Smyrna, Delaware 19977 302 659 0460