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[VAX82A.BATTELLE]AAAREADME.TXT
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.c;Battelle Columbus Laboratories Submissions
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.c;coordinated by:  
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.c;Gary L. Grebus
.c;Battelle Columbus Laboratories
.c;505 King Avenue
.c;Columbus, Ohio  43201
.c;(614)424-7156
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This submission is a collection of small tools we have found useful.  Apologies
for some of the documentation.  As usual, it is getting written on the day
before the Symposium.
A brief overview of the directories:
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.le;FTP 
 is a menu driven utility for copying files over DECnet.  It allows 
specification of file protections and ownership (if suitably privileged).
It is particularly useful for doing system manager work on multiple machines
connected by DECnet.
.le;RETAB 
 is yet another utility for adding and removing tabs from a file.  
It is run as a foreign command and can handle wildcard input files.
.le;TREEDEL 
 is a utility for deleting files, particularly directory trees.  When 
processing a directory tree, it saves deleting the directories until last to
avoid creating lost files.
.le;VARY 
 is a privileged utility for making a device unavailable for allocation.
It is useful for preventing a dual ported device from mounted from two
systems at once.
.le;IDXDUMP 
 is a utility for generating an unformatted dump of an INDEXF.SYS file.
It extracts the most useful information into a more easily used form suitable
for analysis with DATATRIEVE.
.le;SMAC 
 is a set of structured programming macros needed to assemble the other
programs in this submission.
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