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           AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER SERVICE CORPORATION
                Fall 1989 VAX SIG Tape Submission


                        Paul R. Sorenson
                        AEP/Engineering Computer Support Center
                        1 Riverside Plaza
                        Columbus, OH  43215


This is a maintenance release of AEPSC's Spring 1989 submission
containing:

  1) VDDRIVER - Virtual disk driver (no changes made).

  2) CDDRIVER - Disk data caching driver.  Bugs in the original
                submission have been fixed and the caching
                algorithm has been rewritten to use a "block-set
                associative-mapping" technique.

Consult the AAAREADME.TXT files in each subdirectory for more
information on the features of each driver.  Note that by
creating a virtual disk and creating the same sized cache for
the virtual disk, one can approach the I/O performance of a
memory disk while always maintaining an up to date copy of the
data on a physical disk.



                        DISCLAIMER

All programs, information, and copies are provided "As Is".  American
Electric Power Service Corporation and the contributor disclaim all
warranties on the programs, including without limitation, all implied
warranties of merchantibility and fitness.





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DECUS SUBMISSION OF UTILITIES WRITTEN AND USED BY:
    
   Cray and Minicomputer Systems Support
   Computing Services
   Arizona State University
   Tempe, Arizona 85287 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[.ASU.BTREE]

   B-PLUS TREE PACKAGE -------------------------------------------------------
  

   AUTHORS:      Greg Wilson 

   CREATION DATE: April 1989 

   PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:

   This is an B-PLUS TREE data structure package implemented  on disk
   with an index file and a data file.  

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
[.ASU.COM_KILLER]

   COM_KILLER

   AUTHORS: 
 
       Brent Dunlock
 
   CREATION DATE:       04-APR-87
 
   PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: 

   This program lowers the base priority of terminal users that have spent
   too much of their time in COM state.  At each interval it will lower
   their priority by one if they have spent MAX_CPUTIM percent of their
   time using the CPU.  Also, if they have been found more than MAX_COM_STATE
   times in COM or COMO state they will be lowered.  It will raise them back 
   up to their authorized priority if they have used less than MAX_CPUTIM of 
   their time using the CPU AND they are not currently in COM or COMO state.  
   This is designed to discourage terminal users from executing jobs at 
   their terminal that should really be done in a batch job. 

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
[.ASU.WORKSET]

   WORKSET.PAS
 
   Authors: Derwin Skipp
  
   Creation Date: 8-Sep-1988
 
   Program Description: Program to display process workset info
                                                                Page 2



------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
[.ASU.EMON]

   EMON

   Authors: Derwin Skipp
 
   Creation Date: 8-Sep-1988
 
   Program Description: 
 
   Emonitor is a collection of ethernet monitor programs used to identify
   and monitor ethernet devices on an ethernet network.  It is composed of
   an interactive ethernet monitor for dynamic monitoring, an ethernet listener
   for collecting traffic statistics, a report module for producing reports
   from data collected by the ethernet listener, and a maintence module for
   maintaining the system data files.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
[.ASU.QUEMON]
   
   QUEMON

   Authors: DERWIN SKIPP

   Creation Date: 18-July-1989

   Program Description: Interactive Queue Monitor.






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Submission from:

                Nick de Smith
                Applied Telematics Group Ltd.
                Telematics House
                Vale Avenue
                Tunbridge Wells
                Kent TN1 1DJ
                England

Voice:          +44 892 511000
PSI MAIL:       PSI%234213300154::NICK
Internet:       NICK@NCDLAB.ULCC.AC.UK

All programs and routines are (fully) tested, and believed working under V5.2.
This includes the device drivers and all KERNEL mode code.
I am always interested in (constructive) critisism and correspondance. Included
here is all I could prepare in time.
Languages used are generally C and MACRO. Object files are provided for all
layered product languages where needed.
All programs are fully commented and complete.


[.ATG_EDT]              (New)

        This module is a top level interface to callable EDT. It offers many
        extra features including SPAWNing and a sort of "poor man's LSE".

        /OUTPUT /COMMAND /JOURNAL /READ_ONLY /RECOVER /CREATE are the same as
        on EDIT/EDT.
        If /REMEMBER is used on the command line (the default), then ATG_EDT
        defines the following logical names:

        EDT$$GT_CURRENT_FILE            current output file name. This can be
                                        accessed in any spawned sub-process,
                                        or outside of ATG_EDT.

        If ATG_EDT is invoked without an input filename, the translation of
        EDT$$GT_CURRENT_FILE is used (if any), ie. the last file edited is the
        default file to edit. If there was no last file then you will be
        prompted for the file to edit.

        EDT$$GT_LANGUAGE_TEMPLATE       language template file in the form:
                                        ATG$EDT:language.EDT

        The "language" part of the initialiser is determined from the file type
        of the current file.

[.SIXEL_PRINT]  (New)

        Detached server that enables you to print screen dumps from a
        DECwindows (or VWS) workstation onto a standard HP LaserJet. All known
        sixel formats, including scaling, are supported.
        Interactive utility for converting sixel files to HP LaserJet format is
        also included.
                                                                Page 2


        The code should be fairly easy to modify for other output formats
        (eg. .PCX files).

[.H]            (Enhanced since last release)

        Automatic way of generating all possible VAX C header files (eg.
        PCBDEF.H) from the VMS supplied MACRO libraries. Extremely useful -
        just re-run when a new release of VMS is issued to generate a new
        STARLET.TLB and LIB.TLB.

[.LASER]        (Enhanced since last release)

        Complete VMS symbiont and forms library for driving an HP LaserJet+
        as an ordinary VMS print queue. Includes support for DEC Multinational
        Character set.

[.MACRO]        (Enhanced since last release)

        Lots of KERNEL and USER mode code for doing almost everything to
        someone else (or yourself). eg. create a process dump/traceback under
        program control, set process name, set DCL prompt, deallocate a device
        owned by someone else, change UIC, dismiss current ASTs etc.

        The utilities for creating a process dump (or traceback) from another
        process (without effecting the running process) are VERY useful if you
        write detached servers etc. I believe there is no other tool for doing
        this. This is the equivalent of $ DUMP/PROCESS/IDENT=xxx. The snapshot
        can be inspected with ANALYZE/PROCESS_DUMP file.dmp.

[.MAIL]         (Enhanced since last release)

        Complete MAIL alternate protocol routines as stubs for user
        modification.
        Run it and see. Makes writing your own protocol module for VMS mail much
        more simple. Enhanced to include full support for MAIL-11 V3.1 and
        protocol version 2.1. This means support for foreign format files is
        now included.

        Also includes:
        a)      a fully documented MAIL.COM (DCL implementation of
                MAIL-11 V3.1) and PHONE.COM that uses the PHONE protocol.
        b)      CHECK_NEWMAIL, a procedure for checking multiple accounts
                on multiple machines for new mail, and then mailing specific
                users with summary information. This is done automatically at
                user defined intervals. Handles wildcard users. Works via
                VMSMAIL_PROFILE.DATA. Very useful for checking a (large) number
                of maildrops efficiently and in a non-intrusive fashion.
        c)      ZERO_NEWMAIL.COM, a procedure to zero the "new mail" counter
                for selected users. Can be very useful.
        d)      PROFILE, a procedure to analyze all known VMSMAIL_PROFILE.DATA
                records for selected users. Handles all formats up to and
                including VMS V5.1.
        e)      MAIL$EDIT, a procedure for appending MAIL signatures to
                messages.

                                                                Page 3


[.PDINIT]

        Utility to manipulate the VMS pseudo disk driver. Simple to use,
        comprehensive and effective. I know there are loads of these, but
        this is my offering.

[.SHOW]

        Example programs that talk to NETACP directly to obtain a SHOW NET
        listing.
        Uses the undocumented QIO interface to NETACP, not NML.
        Oh, all right...I've included an example program that uses the NICE
        protocol via NMLSHR. This is the correct way to talk to DECnet for
        network management, but the documentation is really hard to come by.
        Note that under Phase V DECnet, NICE will not be used except for
        compatability with Phase IV nodes.

[.SYMBIONT]

        Example C VMS server symbiont that implements a simple REMIND utility.
        Quite fun and totally open to abuse! Complete with VMS HELP files and
        CLI utility.

[.TOOLS]        (Enhanced since last release)

        Some tools. Things of note are some command files to look at
        the UAF to see if it has been attacked by hackers; a routine to disable
        the CTRL/Y AST trap in DCL (see code for reasons); a PATCH file for
        MONITOR to enable concealed classes; and a command file that sorts your
        QUOTA.SYS file into alphabetical order (safely! - using DISKQUOTA) to
        aid disk maintenance (may be used as a basis for a disk usage reporting
        tool). Utility to maintain the VMS auto-login file (support added for
        incoming X.29 calls, PCSA, SET HOST via CTERM and LAT

[.TPU]          (Enhanced since last release)

        Complete V5.x version of the EDT initialiser, plus a few extras.
        Brings up EVE (quickly) looking just like good-ol' EDT, complete with
        keypad.
        Many extra features, such as SPAWNing processes, including the output
        from DCL commands in buffers, a very nice way of selecting buffers,
        and all of EVE there too if you want it, including multiple windows
        and fully integrated help. Look at the start of ATG_EVE.TPU for a
        complete description.
        This module is constructed as a "Real EVE Product", and is layered on
        EVE and built with EVE$BUILD as per all VMS V5 requirements. It
        therefore should be compatable with all future versions of EVE/TPU.
        Fully commented and easy to extend.
        All our editing is done with this TPU section.

[.UWD]

        Template User Written Debugger for VMS. From an idea in (I think)
        VAX Pro, but totally re-written to fix many bugs, ommissions and heavy
        duty over-coding.
                                                                Page 4



[.XE]           (Enhanced since last release)

        MONITOR like utility that displays Ethernet Line Counters via an
        undocumented $QIO interface to the Ethernet 802 drivers. Very useful
        for looking at the results of flood testing or general analysis of
        Ethernet activity. Runs on any VAX with one or more (DEC) Ethernet
        port drivers. All known problems now fixed in this release.
[end]





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This directory contains COMMAND FILES & BASIC SOURCE FILES

FILES                   DESCRIPTION
-----                   -----------
DIR_NAMER.COM           SHORTENS COMMAND FOR CHANGING DEFAULT, AND CHANGES
                         THE PROMPT EACH TIME TO SHOW THE DEFAULT DIRECTORY
                         AND NODE

HELLO.COM               COMPUTER CONVERSATION, COULD BE USED TO REPLACE A MENU
                         STYLE ACCESS TO PROGRAMS.

TASK.COM                I USE THIS COM FILE TO COMPILE THE CURRENT BASIC SOURCE
                         FILE I'M WORKING WITH.  WILL CALL TRANSFER IF DESIRED.

TRANSFER.COM            THIS COM FILE TRANSFERS THE CHANGED SOURCE CODE FILE TO
                         THE DIRECTORY WHERE WE KEEP OUT SOURCE CODES AND THE   
                         EXECUTABLE FILE TO THE DIRECTORY WHERE OUR EXE FILES
                         ARE AND CLEANS UP THE CURRENT DEFAULT DIRECTORY.

NUMBER.BAS ¹            THIS PROGRAM DOES BASIC NUMBER CONVERSION FOR PROGRAM-
                         MING.

HIGHIQ.BAS ¹            THIS IS THE GAME HIGHIQ WHICH SHOWS WHAT CAN BE DONE
                         WITH VT220 GRAPHICS AND THE BASIC COMMAND INKEY$.



1. TASK.COM

Command syntax  @TASK [filename] [T] [source code sub-directory]
  Example - @TASK PROG T OTHER

This would compile and link the program PROG.BAS, purge all PROG.* files,
delete PROG.OBJ file and call TRANSFER.COM passing [filename] and [source code
sub-directory].

2. TRANSFER.COM

Command syntax  @TRANSFER [filename] [source code sub-directory]
  Example - @TRANSFER PROG OTHER

This would put the the file PROG.EXE in directory CALIB$DUA0:[CALIB], the
new source code file PROG.BAS in CALIB$DUA0:[STORAGE.OTHER] and delete those
files in the current default directory

3. DIR_NAMER.COM

Command syntax  @SYS$LOGIN:DIR_NAMER [directory]
  Example - @SYS$LOGIN:DIR_NAMER CALIB$DUA0:[STORAGE.OTHER]

This changes your prompt to indicate what directory you are in.  To shorten the
command include the following comand in your login.com file.

                                                                Page 2


             sd:==@sys$login:dir_namer.com

Then use sd [directory name] instead of SET DEFAULT [directory name] or define
a logical to point to the your used directorys.

             hom*e:== @sys$login:dir_namer "sys$login"
             lib:== @sys$login:dir_namer "sys$library"
             exa:== @sys$login:dir_namer "sys$examples"
             sub1:== @sys$login:dir_namer "$disk1:[blosser.sub1]"

The logical PREV*DIR is defined to return you to your previous directory and
key F17 is defined to do the same.

4. HELLO.COM

Command syntax  @HELLO
  Example - @HELLO

Execute the file and anwser the questions.



1. NUMBER.EXE

Command syntax  RUN NUMBER

Execute the program and enter number or command as desired.

2. HIGHIQ.EXE

Command syntax  RUN HIGHIQ

Execute the program and enter the number of the square of the piece you want
to move then enter the number of the square you want to move it to.  You do
not use the 'RETURN' key.  There isn't any to stop the program in the middle
other than Ctrl C.  You can only move horizontal and vertical and a piece 
must be jumped each time.  The object is to remove as many piece as posible
and only be left with 1 piece.


Comments and suggestions to:
        Victor Blosser
        Beech Aircraft Corp
        9709 E. Central, MS 90-406
        Wichita, Ks 67201
        (316)689-6979

¹ THE SOURCE, OBJECT & EXECUTABLE FILES ARE INCLUDED.  V3.3 BASIC AND V5.0 VMS
WERE IN USED.





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Program BRUREAD : read BRU files        
                                                
Written by Adrian Weiler 1986/87 Non-commercial use is OK.  Feel
free to give this program to anybody that can use it, as long as
you don't do that for profit. Please don't remove this heading.         

Sorry for the bad docs & for the lots of hacks in this code. I
didn't write this program for profit either...  

BRUREAD consists of:                    
BRUREAD.PAS     ( this file )           
BRU.CLD         ( Set Command BRU )     
BRUMSG.MSG      ( Message/OBJ )         
BRU.TXT         ( short doc )           

Link: Link BRUREAD,BRUMSG               

If anybody makes improvements, please let me know. My address
(snail mail):   
Adrian Weiler                           
Hennentalweg 12                         
7400 Tuebingen                          
W-Germany                               
Phone (49)(7071) 45054                  
Note: Decimal 45054 = Hex AFFE = Monkey 
BITNET: MIWE001@DTUZDV5A (until Mar'89) 
After Apr'89, I probably won't have that account anymore, so you
could contact a friend: ZRKH001 (ZR?HK?) or CFKS001 @ the same
node.           





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B. Z. Lederman
System Resources Corp.
128 Wheeler Road
Burlington, MA 01803
(617) 270-9228

   There are three sub-directories to this submission:

[.MAIL]     has programs which use the MAIL call interface, including:
            a list of all users with unread mail (and the mail count),
            a program to trace messages you've sent to another user,
            a program which exits with your unread mail count as the
               exit status so you can automatically run MAIL,
            a C language definition of call parameters,
            a program which lists all users and forwarding addresses.

[.NETWORK]  contains some DCL procedures for keeping our network
            running, and to pick up error counts from DECnet and
            LAT facilities at regular intervals so we can track
            down times when the network isn't working right.

[.COMMANDS] contains a number of command files and one TPU file which
            does stuff I've found useful one way or another.
            There is a command file to rebuild Rdb databases, a CRT
            clearer, a file to display $STATUS as text (on the 25th
            line of a VT300 if you are using one), a memory monitor,
            a library compressor, 'everything' you can get from
            F$ENVIRONMENT, F$GETDVI, F$GETJPI and F$GETSYI, and how
            I converted my EVE$INIT.EVE to TPU$COMMAND.TPU so that
            TPU will start up a lot faster on a Micro-VAX II

            There may be V5.2 improvements to the lexicals which I
            haven't added yet, but everything there works under V5.2





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CD-ROM access routines for VAX/VMS                      29 November 1989
------------------------------------------------------------------------ 


The programs in this directory were developed by:

     United States Geological Survey
     Branch of Astro Geology
     2255 N. Gemini Drive
     Flagstaff, AZ  86001

for the purpose of reading the CD-ROMs produced in the ISO 9660 format 
standard (or in the "High Sierra" standard) on a VAX/VMS computer
system.  Permission has been obtained from the U.S.G.S. to place
these programs on the VAX SIG tape.  The programs are in the public
domain, and are provided for use with the following disclaimer:

        "Although these programs have been used by the United
        States Geological Survey no warranty expressed or
        implied is made by the USGS as to the accuracy and
        functioning of the programs and related program
        materials, and no responsibility is assumed by the
        USGS in connection therewith."

The programs were produced to read the Voyager CD-ROMs to be read on VAXes.


* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

The programs allow a file on an ISO 9660 format CD-ROM to be opened, and
512 byte blocks of data read from the file relative to the beginning of
the file.

The original files from the U.S.G.S., as downloaded from the SPAN network,
are   CDVMS2.TXT;2   and   CDVMS3.TXT;1.

All other files were extracted from these .TXT files, with the exception
of the B2B.MAR program which was not in the original files and was sent
in hardcopy by U.S.G.S. and rekeyed.  All programs work with either
ISO 9660 or "High Sierra" format CD-ROMs.  Main programs provided are:

     CDDIR     Do a directory listing of a CD-ROM
     CDCOPY    Copy a file from a CD-ROM to another device
     CDTYPE    Type the contents of a file on a CD-ROM


The original version of CDDIR (CDDIR.ORIGINAL) was modified at ICDD to
default to a 3 character file extension since the LENOSP routine used
in CDDIR was missing.  The original version of CDOPEN (CDOPEN.ORIGINAL)
was modified at ICDD to correctly find and report the contents of the
extended attribute record (XAR).  The following subroutines are provided:

     CDOPEN    Find and open a CD-ROM file, returning the offset of
               the start of the file
     CDREAD    Read 512 byte block records relative to the beginning
                                                                Page 2


               of the file
     CDCLOSE   Close a CD-ROM file
     CDSTAND   Determine if the CD-ROM is ISO 9660 or "High Sierra"
     CDATT     Obtain extended attribute record (XAR); CDATT is an
               ENTRY point within CDOPEN
     B2B       Move bytes


All executables were produced on a VAX/VMS V5.2 system.


* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

These routines have been made available to the VAX SIG tape by:

     Mark A. Holomany
     JCPDS-International Centre for Diffraction Data
     1601 Park Lane
     Swarthmore, PA  19081  U.S.A.
     (215) 328-9403

The disclaimer that appears at the beginning of this file applies also to
Mark A. Holomany and the JCPDS-International Centre for Diffraction Data
(also known as ICDD).

These routines were described in the session "CDROM Use on a VAX/VMS System"
(VA076) given at the Fall 1989 DECUS Symposium in Anaheim by Mark A. Holomany.
The session was taped.

Feel free to contact me at the above number should you have any comments on
these programs, or if you have any questions on CD-ROMs in general.

[End of AAAREADME.TXT]





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SUBMISSION:  VARIOUS SOFTWARE ITEMS FROM COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL
             03-Nov-1989

Submitted by:

        Ken Richardson
        Compassion International
        PO Box 7000
        Colorado Springs, CO  80933

        Phone:          (719) 594-9900
        FAX:            (719) 594-6271
        TELEX:          (025)910-380-9380 (CMPASHUN)
        Easylink:       62868920

        This software is made available to the public with no warranties,
        guarantees, or liability for its use or any consequences thereof.
        After all, it's free.  However, I wouldn't submit it if I didn't think
        it worked correctly.  And the code written at our site tends to be
        well-structured, efficient, clean, and debugged.

        If you have any questions or comments, you can find me at the address or
        phone number listed above.  I generally don't mind brief phone calls.
        However, I'm not easy to get by phone.  Leave a message.

        This submission contains my "standard" DECUS contribution.  Some items
        have been upgraded since the last Fall DECUS tape.  Some have not.


CLOSE_VMS_ACCT.COM

        We use this command procedure to close our VMS accounting files every 
        month.  This facilitates usage analysis and archiving of accounting data
        by month.  Nothing fancy, but if you don't have it, here it is.

CONCATENATE_SIXEL.COB

        This is a new program this year.  It concatenates SIXEL graphs
        side-by-side.

        At our site, we do Datatrieve graphs of CPU performance statistics.
        Lots of them.  So I wrote this program to minimize paper by printing
        these graphs in two columns.  First we run our REGIS graphs through
        RETOS, which gives us SIXEL graphs.  Then we run the SIXEL graphs
        through this program.

CONCATENATE_SIXEL.EXE

        This is the executable version of CONCATENATE_SIXEL.COB.

CONCATENATE_SIXEL_EXAMPLE.COM

        This little command procedure shows the basics of using
        CONCATENATE_SIXEL.

                                                                Page 2


COUNTREC.EXE

        I got tired of copying files to the null device in order to find out how
        many records they contain (copy/log file.dat nl:), which can be quite
        slow and resource-intensive with large files, so I wrote this simple
        record-counting program.  If you define it as a foreign command, you can
        specify the input file on the command line.  Otherwise, it prompts you.
        Wildcards are not implemented yet; however, COUNT_RECORDS.COM provides
        this.

COUNT_RECORDS.COM

        This procedure allows wild-carded counting with COUNTREC.EXE.  We have a
        COUNT command defined as @CI$COMMAND:COUNT_RECORDS.COM, which lets us
        type "COUNT filespec" to count records in a bunch of files. 

DIALUPINI.EXE

        We use US-ROBOTICS hayes-compatible modems on our dialups (the kind that
        use the AT command set).  They work fine; we use the same lines both for
        dialing in and for dialing out.  However, when the modems power up, they
        default to sending extra information to VMS (like "RING<CR>" and
        "CONNECT<CR>") every time someone dials in.  This causes VMS to complain
        that username RING is trying to break in.  So we run DIALUPINI.EXE to
        tell the modems to be quiet, and everything works much better.

        DIALUPINI.EXE expects a logical name (DIALUP) to point to the port that
        needs to be reset, and it expects you to already have allocated the port
        and set the appropriate speed (assuming you are using autobaud on the
        port).  You might need a privilege to allocate the dialup port,
        depending on how your ports and system parameters are set.  I think it's
        SYSPRV.  For more info about DIALUPINI.EXE, see INIT_DIALUPS.COM.

DROIDS.EXE

        This game lets you get chased by robots on a 24x40 field.  Only in a
        weak moment will I confess who wrote it.  It runs efficiently, using
        only one QIO per screen update and one per input.  It requires write
        access to a CI$GAMES directory, which is where it stores the "droids
        champions" list (droids.dat).  If more than one player will be using the
        same droids.dat file, you need to SET FILE/PROT=W:RW to the file after
        the first player creates it.

EMPTY.SIXEL

        This "empty" sixel graph is used by CONCATENATE_SIXEL_EXAMPLE.COM.  It
        is used as the "left-hand" graph in a concatenation operation in order
        to indent a SIXEL graph.  It has the minimum SIXEL codes needed by
        CONCATENATE_SIXEL for a successful concatenation operation.

ENPAGE.DOC

        ENPAGE.DOC is a documentation file describing the ENPAGE utility.
        For more info, see ENPAGE.EXE or read ENPAGE.DOC.

                                                                Page 3


ENPAGE.EXE

        When we got our nifty new LN03 laser printers, we needed a way to put
        all that power in the hands of our office staff.  ENPAGE is how we did
        it.

        ENPAGE reformats a text document, adjusting margins (left, right, top, &
        bottom), pitch (both vertical & horizontal), orientation (portrait or
        landscape), point-size, and stuff like that.  It compensates for
        embedded tabs regardless of the left margin you specify.  If you've never
        encountered that problem, please ignore the previous sentence.

        For people who write letters, ENPAGE can optionally output the first
        page separately from the rest of the document.  We use this feature
        because we have one printer loaded with letterhead and one loaded with
        plain-bond.

        ENPAGE output can be directed either to devices or to files.  ENPAGE
        output is suitable primarily for LN03 laser printers (it inserts LN03
        control sequences into the results).  To use the output on some other
        printer, you'd probably have to edit the device control sequences out of
        the first and last lines of the output files.

FORCEX.EXE

        Have you ever had a program get into an infinite loop?  Well, neither
        have I, but just in case it ever happens, this program will exercise the
        VMS system services just enough to list out all the processes on the
        system and ask you if you want to force-exit any of them.  It's not any
        fantastic new discovery, but it does have the advantage of stopping just
        the current image rather than the entire process.  The process returns
        to the $ if it's interactive, or to the next line in the command
        procedure if it's batch.  FORCEX requires WORLD privilege, GROUP
        privilege, or the same username, depending on the target process.

INIT_DIALUPS.COM

        We have three dialup lines; they are known by system-wide logicals
        ci$dialup_1, ci$dialup_2, and ci$dialup_3.  We initialize the modems on
        those lines during system startup and once per hour (in case someone has
        been using a modem and left it in a non-standard condition).

        The INIT_DIALUPS.COM command procedure looks for all devices pointed to
        by ci$dialup_n.  For each such unallocated device, INIT_DIALUPS.COM
        allocates the device, sets the speed, initializes the modem (using
        DIALUPINI.EXE), and deallocates the device.

        The maximum speed for each modem must be specified by the logical
        ci$dialup_max_speed_n (e.g. ci$dialup_1 = "TXA0" and
        ci$dialup_max_speed_1 = "2400").

LASER2.COM

        This is the procedure that drives the ENPAGE utility.  Actually, at our
        site we have another procedure that provides novice users with somewhat
                                                                Page 4


        simple access to rather sophisticated printer characteristics on several
        printers throughout the office, including our plain-bond laser printer.
        However, LASER2.COM shows the basics of using ENPAGE.EXE when driving a
        letterhead/plain-bond printer combination.

LOCK_TERMINAL.EXE

        This is a simple program that accepts and verifies a password, then
        locks your terminal until you type the password again.  Useful for
        leaving an account logged in while you go away for a couple of minutes.
        It traps CONTROL-C and CONTROL-Y.  However, if you are logged-in
        remotely using $SET HOST, CONTROL-Y could still be used by a malicious
        user to return to your original process on the local node.  For this
        reason, I use it mainly on local nodes.

REMINDPRT.COM

        This is a simple command procedure to provide access to REMINDPRT.EXE.

REMINDPRT.EXE

        We are using a REMINDER utility that came from a DECUS tape a few years
        ago.  It was written by someone at AT&T.  If you are using the same
        REMINDER program, you might find REMINDPRT.EXE useful.  It is NOT
        compatible with other reminder programs from more recent DECUS tapes!

        We needed more flexibility in printing out reminders, so we wrote this
        program to print simple calendars from the reminder file.  No REMINDER
        user should be without it.  Output goes to CI$OUTPUT.

REMRESCHD.EXE

        One of the annoying things about that AT&T REMINDER utility is that it
        deletes old reminders automatically, even if you never got to see it.
        Well, every night right after midnight I run REMRESCHD.EXE to reschedule
        old reminders up to today.  That way REMINDER becomes a to-do list that
        won't let me forget a reminder unless I explicitly delete it.

        Caution:  If your login.com automatically displays your reminders
        ($REMIND ME) like mine does, you need to jump over that line when f$mode
        is "BATCH" so your midnight rescheduling job can run REMRESCHD on your
        reminder file before REMINDER gets to it.

SHUT_LOGS.COM

        We use this command procedure to close our OPERATOR.LOG file nightly and
        open a new one.  It also closes our database monitor logfiles, which are
        produced by VAX DBMS.  It resubmits itself nightly, skipping weekends
        automatically.  Again, nothing fancy, but if you don't have it, here it
        is.

        For some reason, the VMS developers wrote the $REPLY/LOG command to
        require a terminal as its sys$command device.  Therefore, in order to
        shut OPERATOR.LOG, this procedure temporarily grabs the operator console
        as its sys$command device.  Back when I wrote this procedure, it
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        wouldn't work from batch unless it did some sort of trick like this.  I
        haven't checked to see if VMS has lifted this requirement since.

SYSTATUS.EXE

        This is SYSTATUS version 5.2 for VMS version 5.2.  It's a system status
        monitor with some interesting display flexibility.  We use it
        constantly at our site.

        I frankly don't know how people can manage a VAX without being able to
        see the info that SYSTATUS provides (like which program everyone is
        running).  One of the most useful features is the ability to limit the
        display just to busy processes (this can reduce a 100-process display
        down to 20 or so processes).  To try this feature, run SYSTATUS and type
        the three letters SAD (Select Attribute Dormant).

        To use SYSTATUS, you just type RUN SYSTATUS at the $ (we have a STATUS
        foreign-command defined to do this).  Most commands are one character
        (no <CR>).  On-line help is available by typing the letter "H" while
        SYSTATUS is running.

        Changes since SYSTATUS version 5.0 (on the Fall '88 DECUS tape):

                SYSTATUS V5.1:  Support for VMS V5.0 (this required a new
                technique for determining null time).

                SYSTATUS V5.2:  Support for VMS V5.2 (the GETJPI system service
                changed behavior slightly).

        We have SYSTATUS installed SHARED.  It needs GROUP or WORLD privilege to
        look at processes other than your own.  We install it without these, so
        that only users who normally have these privileges can watch other
        users' processes.  If you want everyone to be able to look at other
        processes in their UIC group, install it with GROUP.  If you want
        everyone to be able to look at all other processes, install it with
        WORLD.

        If you also give it ALTPRI, it temporarily boosts its own priority to 16
        during each brief data-collection interval, thus improving the accuracy
        of the results.  It disables control-y before boosting the priority, and
        restores the previous state of control-y (usually enabled) after
        dropping back down to the original base priority.  If you're running any
        realtime stuff on your system at priority 16, I suppose you wouldn't
        want to install SYSTATUS with ALTPRI (nor run it from an account with
        ALTPRI turned on).  For the other 99% of VAX sites, I do recommend that
        you install it with ALTPRI for the most accurate results. 

        SYSTATUS automatically senses your terminal width and height.  If your
        terminal is in 132-column mode, you get more info than in 80-column
        mode.  If you have a terminal with more or fewer than 24 lines, the
        display will scroll correctly.  This all assumes that you have done a
        $SET TERMINAL/WIDTH=n/PAGE=n type of command.

        SYSTATUS does screen output with as few QIOs as possible, usually just
        one.  If it can't display its buffer with one QIO, it tells you why and
                                                                Page 6


        exits.  The reason for the QIO failure is usually EXQUOTA.  This can be
        corrected by increasing the SYSGEN parameter MAXBUF, which I have set at
        something like 10000 for our systems.

SYSTATUS_VMS_V3.EXE

        This is an older version of SYSTATUS for VMS version 3.

SYSTATUS_VMS_V4.EXE

        This is SYSTATUS version 5.0 for VMS version 4.






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                   DECUS Fall 1989 Submission

                          John Claxton
                     Collier-Jackson, Inc.
                       3707 W. Cherry St.
                      Tampa, Florida 33607
                        (813) 872 - 9990
                      Easyplex 70003,4140

              This submission is the copyrighted property of
              Collier-Jackson and may not be used for any
              commercial reason.  

              The programs, command files, and all listing given
              here are examples only and carry no warranty for
              accuracy whatsoever.  The are meant solely as
              examples as THE ARE TO BE USED AT YOUR OWN RISK.

              --------------------------------------------------

              [.CJFRAG]

                Command files for evaluated fragmentation of
                disk(s) and file(s) with sample reports.  Command
                files for examining the effects of fragmentation
                on Split I/Os and Window Turns are included.


              --------------------------------------------------

              [.PSS_COBOL]

                Sample programs from the Pre-Symposium Seminar
                "Utilizing VMS From COBOL".

              --------------------------------------------------

              [.VA103]

                Command files for the session VA103 - VBN errors,
                Patching The Disaster.





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                      CTLSMB 1.2


                                 Gregg Wonderly
                             Mathematics Department
                            Oklahoma State University

                                   8-Dec-1987

        1  Introduction

        CTLSMB  was  developed  by  Gregg  Wonderly  of  the  Mathematics
        Department  at  Oklahoma  State  University.   CTLSMB is a server
        symbiont whose intended use is to allow the VMS queuing mechanism
        to be used to execute programs on behalf of other users.  The big
        difference between using CTLSMB and normal batch jobs is that the
        processes  created  by CTLSMB are cached, and therefore reusable.
        This makes it possible to  use  very  periodic  batch  jobs  with
        smaller overhead due to the elimination of process creation.

        CTLSMB was originally written to be used in  the  VMS  PMDF  mail
        project.  Its purpose then (and now) was to alleviate the problem
        of process creation overhead due to  mass  batch  job  submission
        (for  each  mail  message  comming  into a system, PMDF creates a
        batch job to deliver that mail message to its  next  destination.
        During peak times, an extremely large number of batch jobs can be
        started.  The first few will end up delivering the mail, but  all
        jobs must run to completion).

        It was soon discovered that CTLSMB had much  wider  applications,
        because  of  it's  interface  to the VMS queuing system.  Besides
        PMDF, CTLSMB is currently being used to  serve  a  generic  queue
        that provides RJE access to an IBM mainframe.  The user can issue
        the command "submit/queue=ibm$batch" to submit the batch job, and
        the  command file used to process tasks for that queue takes care
        of  packaging  the  file  so  that  it  can  be  processed.   The
        possiblities are endless.





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                A Practical Guide to the SYSMAN STARTUP Utility

                                Session VA300
                       DECUS Fall 1989 Anaheim Symposium

                               Richard J. Faust
                        E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.

        The System Management Utility (SYSMAN) is Digital's first effort
        at a bundled tool which centralizes the management of VMS nodes
        and clusters. The STARTUP command set of SYSMAN provides a
        standard interface to configure a data-driven system startup
        mechanism. This session presents advantages, limitations,
        undocumented features, gotchas, and suggestions for improving
        the functionality of the STARTUP portion of the SYSMAN utility.
        Specific topics include features of the STARTUP data files,
        controlling order of execution, debugging techniques, minimizing
        STARTUP execution time, notes on batch mode files, and hints and
        kinks for the user interface to the SYSMAN utility.

        This information is based on experience gained from a full
        implementation of a STARTUP database on an 8-node production
        cluster.

                           =========================

        Submitted by:   Rich Faust
                        E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.
                        609-540-4358

        Documentation and files discussed at the above session are
        included.  See the SYSMAN*.* files for a complete description.
        A short description of each follows.

        SYSMAN_SESSION_NOTES.DAT        ASCII text of session notes

        SYSMAN.SDML                     VAX Document source code for
                                        documentation.

        SYSMAN.PS                       PostScript document and index
        SYSMAN_INDEX.PS

        SYSMAN.LN03                     LN03 document and index
        SYSMAN_INDEX.LN03

        SYSMAN.TXT                      ASCII document and index
        SYSMAN_INDEX.TXT

        OA_STARTUP.COM                  Example of combining several
                                        procedures into one to guarantee
                                        order of execution within a
                                        single phase.

        REDEFINE_SYS$STARTUP.COM        Allows startup files to be
                                        located in directories other than
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                                        the default definition of
                                        SYS$STARTUP.

        STARTUP$INTERACTIVE_LOGINS.COM  Add this file to the startup
                                        database to enable logins when
                                        you're ready, not when DEC says
                                        so...

        STARTUP_SHELL.COM               Template procedure to allow
                                        startup jobs to be submitted to
                                        a queue other than SYS$BATCH

        RS1_STARTUP_SHELL.COM           Sample use of STARTUP_SHELL.COM

        SYSTARTUP_V5.COM                Start queue manager and batch
                                        queue example.

        SORT_VMS$LAYERED.COM            Procedures to sort
        VMS$LAYERED.SRT                 STARTUP$STARTUP_LAYERED to
                                        guarantee batch and spawn
                                        startup jobs are the first
                                        to be executed in each phase.
        
        VMS$LAYERED.DAT                 Sample startup database





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Finger V51_1_22

VMS V5 required. The supplied images were linked under V5.1-1 and will need
to be re-linked if you are running an earlier V5 release. The object  files
are supplied to do this for those without the VAX Fortran compiler.

Major changes:

o    None

Minor changes:

o    Code to report the originating node and username for RTAnnn: terminals
     has been added. This replaces the old TT_UCB code with a method  which
     will  be far more robust across future VMS versions. [Thanks to  Frank
     Nagy of Fermilab]

o    All known problems with array subscripting have been fixed. The  image
     now  compiles  and runs properly when compiled /CHECK.  In  fact,  the
     supplied objects are compiled that way.

o    A  long-standing problem with /SORT used in conjunction with jnet  has
     been corrected. In short, duplicate or garbled output would be emitted
     for  all but the first jnet finger command, and the first jnet  finger
     command would not return any user information.

o    Jnet  code  and installation procedures have been  modified  for  jnet
     V3.3.

o    Added display of forwarding address if mail is being forwarded, unless
     forwarding is to PMDF's DELIVER% protocol.

o    Corrected problem where HELP would go to useless places (for jnet, the
     bit  bucket; for DECnet, NETSERVER.LOG) instead of being delivered  to
     the requester's terminal.

o    Corrected problem with not finding our help library.

o    Corrected problem with mail messages not displaying if the user  being
     fingered did not explicitly declare a mail directory.

o    Corrected problem with /SORT=LOGIN_TIME.

o    Display an error message if sorting on an unknown field.

o    Added /SORT=CPU_TIME subqualifier.

o    Cleaned up error message, all are now in standard VMS format.

o    Disconnected  virtual terminals are now displayed as VTAnnnn:  instead
     of _VTAnnnn: so as to fit in the field width.

o    Terminal types are now inquired from VMS if the terminal is not in the
     Finger Common Block (FCB) or if the FCB contains the string  "Unknown"
     for the terminal type.
                                                                Page 2



o    The CPU type is now reported a little differently.

o    A problem with the host name was fixed -  if the FCB contained a blank
     or null hostname, the DECnet node was not being used instead.

o    Unread mail information  is now shown to the sender,  even if across a
     DECnet or Jnet link.  An option for treating DECnet as a common envir-
     onment was also added.

o    Idle times are back! Thanks to Ted Nieland, Joe Meadows, and Ken Adel-
     man for their work on this.

o    Bypass logic over DECnet has been cleand up.

o    FINGMAINT  will now display an error message if an attempt is made  to
     add an item which will not fit in the FCB.

o    Added  SHOW/STATISTICS to FINGMAINT to show the number of  items  used
     and  left, as well as percentage of utilization, for each of the  item
     types.

New for V51.1.20:

o    A bug with displaying the  mail forwarding information has been fixed.
     Previously forwarding would not display in some cases.

o    The NONODE message has been corrected. A previous attempt at a fix had
     the side effect of not signalling the error if Finger was not local.

o    Add display of jnet "receive" file count.

o    The interpretation of "default" qualifiers has been corrected.  Previ-
     ously if nothing  was specified or defaulted in the CLD,  Finger would
     assume a set of qualifiers.  Now if nothing is  specified or defaulted
     in the CLD, only interactive jobs will be displayed.

o    Two new qualifiers (DISSUBJREP and DISMAILREP) have  been added to the
     CLD to allow sites to  customize the amount of Mail information Finger
     displays without having to re-compile.  See the FINGER_CUSTOM.TXT file
     for more information.

o    The process type (Bat, Net, Sub) is now displayed in the terminal name
     field for non-interactive processes.

o    Terminal servers may now be Fingered if you have TSM on your system or
     any other system on your network  also running this version of Finger.
     Finger spawns TSM in a subprocess and displays the output. This change
     requires  Finger to have OPER  privilege.  The new START_FINGER  files 
     have been changed to reflect this.

o    Fingmaint now emits the proper error message if a user executes a com-
     mand such as ADD/UAF instead of ADD/USER/UAF.

o    Personal names are now  stored as the full 31 characters.  This allows
                                                                Page 3


     people with long names (bosses, typically) to have  their name display
     properly  when Fingered.  The name length when  /PERSONAL is given re-
     mains at 25, and can be changed by editing the source.

     *** NOTE: THIS CHANGE REQUIRES THE FINGER COMMON BLOCK (FCB) TO BE RE-
     *** BUILT AND RE-LOADED WITH THE NEW FINGMAINT !!!

New for V51.1.21:

o    A typo in the non-default site-specific section of decnet_finger would
     prevent compilation if selected. This has been fixed.

o    Output would  be truncated if the user  being fingered was  running an
     image which had an extremely long file specification  (greater than 64
     characters). This has been corrected.

o    If the  site-specific option to  'pretty' personal names was selected,
     an access violation would occur. This has been corrected.

o    A problem when the site-specific "commonly administered DECnet" option
     was selected has been corrected. Previously, selecting this option did
     not properly  display mail sender information.  (It also wouldn't com-
     pile properly).

o    Finger was erroneously  propagating the /IAM qualifier onto non-DECnet
     networks under  the following  circumstance:  If VMS Finger received a
     DECnet  request for a non-DECnet host,  it would propagate  the entire
     command line without inspection. In this situation, the /IAM qualifier
     should have been removed. It is now properly removed in this case.

o    Minor cosmetic changes have been made to the header.

New for V51.1.22:

o    The ADD/USER/UAF command in Fingmaint is now *much* faster.  Thanks to
     Craig Watkins of PSUECL for this fix.

o    A spurious error message was generated if you fingered a  user who was
     in the process of logging in on an RTA device.  This has been correct-
     ed.  Thanks to Craig Watkins (PSUECL)  and Frank Nagy (FNAL)  for this
     fix.

o    Some data structures were erroneously left in the  Finger common block
     which pertained to the obsolete TT_UCB code. They have been removed in
     this release. Thanks to Frank Nagy of FNAL for this fix.

o    If the port name (SET PORT NAME) of a  DECserver port is "DIALUP.some-
     thing" it will now be reported as a location of "Dialup something" in-
     stead of "SERVER DIALUP.so", which was the previous action.

o    Users may now individually prevent  others from seeing their count and
     subjects of unread mail.  This is accomplished by having a Mail folder
     named "F_PRIVACY".  If Finger detects this folder,  it will print  the
     message  "Mail: Permission refused by owner"  instead of the usual in-
     formation.
                                                                Page 4



     Editorial comment:  My dead body must be  around here somewhere,  as I
     have been known to say that this feature would be implemented obver my
     dead body.  However,  as the alternative  to this is  the few militant
     users forcing a system-wide default of /DISREPMAIL, this is probably a
     smaller lossage.  I seriously thought about checking for the F_PRIVACY
     folder  before fingering another user,  and refusing to print any mail
     information if  the person doing the finger  had F_PRIVACY set,  but I
     decided it was unfair to  penalize the vast majority.  Feel free, how-
     ever,  to make snide comments  to anyone you obsserve using  Finger if 
     you know s/he has F_PRIVACY set.

Terry Kennedy                                terry@spcvxa.bitnet
Operations Manager, Academic Computing       (201) 435-0252
Saint Peter's College
2641 Kennedy Blvd.
Jersey City, NJ 07306





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re:Member Data Services, Inc.                  Fall 1989 DECUS Submissions

Neither myself nor re:Member Data Services accepts any responsibility
for the use or reliability of these submissions.  They may not be sold for
profit, but may be distributed freely otherwise.  Enjoy!

                                               Harry Flowers
                                               re:Member Data Services, Inc.
                                               1780 Moriah Woods Blvd. #6
                                               Memphis, TN  38117
Contents:
AAAREADME.TXT - This submission documentation file

System management utilities:
DISK_WATCHER.COM - Command file to run detached and monitor available disk
        space on all disk drives.  You set red and yellow alert levels, the
        interval to wait between checks, and who to notify and what action
        to take, if any.
CHKFRAG.COM - Check fragmentation for a specific file.
CHKPAS.COM - Check passwords for user accounts.  Requires you to restore
        VMS$SECUREPWD.EXE from a VMS distribution (VMS050.A has one).
KILLER.COM - An early version of a command-file driven idle process killer.
        Not throughally tested.  I want to change the PID to the INDEX to
        reduce the number of symbols defined over time.  But, it's a place
        to start if someone else wants to tackle it.
OPENFILES.COM - Check all open files on a system.

General utilities:
MENU.COM - DCL menu system; understands captive accounts, should work with new
        VMS V5.2 restrictions without further modification.  See beginning of
        command procedure for directions.  Probably the closest thing to a
        general user production DCL program I have written.  A modification
        history and documentation may be found at the end of the procedure.
      o One-file menu - the command file is the only one which is needed.
        It is very easy to modify the menu options for anyone with a basic
        knowledge of DCL command procedures.  There is a small amount of
        error checking for consistent menu setup (for descriptions).
      o Arbitrary DCL commands - any non-captive user may issue arbitrary DCL
        commands from the command line.  This can happen in one of two ways:
        1) Precede the command by an "@", or 2) Enter an "@" and be prompted
        for the DCL command.  One advantage of method #2 is that INQUIRE is
        used instead of READ, so the full command recall handling is available.
      o Automatic logout - users are logged out after 45 minutes of inactivity.
        The READ used has a 3 minute timeout.  When the timeout occurs, the
        time on the menu is updated as well as the timeout counter.  After 15
        timeouts (45 minutes), the process is logged out unless it has a
        subprocess which might be active.  NOTE: Broadcast messages seem to
        re-start the time for the read timeout (VMS V4.7).  This would extend
        the time a process would wait before automatically logging out.
      o Captive account handling - captive accounts are handled specially.  In
        particular, exiting the menu always logs out a captive account.  Also,
        captive accounts are not allowed to issue arbitrary DCL commands with
        the "@" on the command line.  A captive account is one authorized with
        the Captive flag set in the user authorization file (with AUTHORIZE).
        It is assumed that Ctrl/Y has been disabled for captive accounts, and
                                                                Page 2


        that they have not been allowed to get to the VMS prompt.  Normally,
        the menu would be called directly from the account's login command
        procedure.
      o Error message display - if a fatal error occurs during the execution
        of an option, the menu waits for a carriage return allowing the user
        to see the error.  It is also displayed below the input line on the
        menu screen.
      o Scrolling region for broadcast messages - while the menu is on the
        screen, the scrolling region is re-defined to be after the last line
        of options.  This causes broadcast messages to scroll in this window
        and not mess up the menu display.
      o "Self" customized - the second line of the display is whatever the
        system manager has defined for SYS$ANNOUNCE, the announcement message
        a user gets before the "Username:" prompt when logging in.  This will
        generally have the name of the installation, and in a VAXcluster
        environment, the system node name as well.  This can easily be changed
        by defining a process logical SYS$ANNOUNCE (which will not effect the
        system definition used at login) if you are unhappy with the contents
        of SYS$ANNOUNCE.  For example: $ DEFINE SYS$ANNOUNCE "My Own Computer"
CVTHLPTEX.COM - Help convert HLP files to TEX files for LaTeX.
CVTTXTTEX.COM - Help convert TXT files to TEX files for LaTeX.





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Directory Movement command Files and FORTRAN INCLUDE library
------------------------------------------------------------

Submitted by:

James Fullerton
Cessna Aircraft Co.
Wallace Div., Dept. 178
Wichita, KS  67277


Files in this directory:
------------------------

README.1ST      this file
README.TXT      more detailed description of directory contents

FORUSRDEF.TLB   FORTRAN text library
MYHELP.HLB      HELP library of FORUSRDEF plus some character sets

BROTHER.COM     move to a subdirectory at the same level in a tree
CHILDREN.COM    list subdirectories at next level down in a tree
FATHER.COM      move to next higher level in a tree
FORGET.COM      pop the stack (in SYS$LOGIN) of saved defaults
NODE.COM        search the current directory tree for a subdirectory
REMEMBER.COM    push the current default on the stack (in SYS$LOGIN)
ROOT.COM        move to the root (highest level) of the current tree
                (NOTE:  ROOT will NOT let anyone get to [000000])
SIBLINGS.COM    list subdirectories at the same level as the current level
SON.COM         move to a subdirectory at the next lower level
TREE.COM        list the current directory (sub)tree in indented form





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        GCE Fall 1989 Cornucopia

                Submitted by Glenn C. Everhart
                                25 Sleigh Ride Rd.
                                Glen Mills, Pa 19342
                                215 358 3866 home

        work: GE Aerospace Technology
        Everhart%Arisia.decnet@crd.GE.com
        215 354 7610

        The following items are present:

[.ANALY...]     AnalytiCalc spreadsheet update. Some new addressing modes
                and features are added, and the documentation has been
                upgraded, I hope noticeably. Tha Amiga version has been
                seriously upgraded and is presented in source and exe also.
[.AMIGAUUCP]    UUCP 1.0 for Amiga, with all sources (in C). Implements
                UUCP G protocol and works very nicely; zoo'd.
[.NET89B...]    Numerous items from Internet sources. Both programs and
                arcane knowledge are present. Items such as a laserwriter
                symbiont and IBM tape readers, REMOTE VIRTUAL MAGTAPE,
                mail tools, vms MORE, Sixel, TAR, snap, vms Share, and
                much more are included. ZT*.* is the remote tape.
[.VAXNET...]    Latest VAXnet with Gerson Cohen's Xmodem-CRC patch added
                and rebuilt. Presented here so that the complete package 
                can be conveniently obtained.
[.VMSVD...]     Major bugfixes and extensions to VD: drivers and FD: driver.
                I now use vddriver4a in production, and fddrv6. Drivers
                are reliable and usable. Provided functionality includes
                contiguous file virtual disks (vd:) with easily controlled
                geometry to match disk size to DEC disks; memory disk in
                process memory; crypto disks which encrypt all data prior
                to storage; file disks where a NONcontiguous file can be
                a disk; file disks backed by memory disks, so that reads
                occur with the speed of memory disk, but writes are done
                to a file so the disk is nonvolatile; and remote virtual
                disks over DECnet. Remote disks over asynch lines and
                compressing disks are partially present. A preliminary
                shadowing virtual disk is present. (Extension to support
                a striping disk driver shouldn't be that hard if there's
                any great interest in it...just copy the IRP, ship all
                copies out, then complete the I/O when all are done.)
[.MDDUPD]	Updates to John Osudar's old memory virtual disk (in
		nonpaged pool) for V5; V4 version from old VAX tapes
		also present for completeness.
[.CKSLID...]    C Kermit with sliding windows, and improved VMS support.
                By Colette Yanosov, sent to me for inclusion on the tapes.
                (It has been sent to Columbia also for merging with the
                official C kermit.)
[.PGPLOT...]    Device independent plotting package from Caltech; useful for
                drawing graphs on VAX display devices. T.J. Pearson.
