All OpenVMS Freeware V8.0 Abstracts This file contains single-line abstracts from all FREEWARE_README.TXT files from all Freeware V8.0 volumes. For additional and more detailed information, please see [000000]AAAREADME.TXT for an aggregate list of each FREEWARE_README.TXT file for each package present. The package name may or may not match the actual directory name. The contents of this file are generated by CREATE_FREEWARE_PACKAGE.COM Abstracts for Volume DISK$FREEWARE80_1 000TOOLS Various Useful Tools A2PS Convert text to PostScript Ada Documentation Ada programming documentation in Bookreader Format ADV_PIPE V1.1 A PIPE command for VMS (emulates UNIX pipes) ADV_RUNUSR V1.0 A RUN/USER command with other enhancements ANTIWORD a MS Word document file reader/converter APRT System Memory Page Protection Tool Archie v1.4.1 An archie client for VMS (VAX and AXP) ASK Enhanced INQUIRE-like User-Prompting Tool ASTYLE_VMS Source Code Reformatting Tool ATG_EDT Nick de Smith's extension to EDT ATG_EVE Nick de Smith's EDT initializer for EVE ATG_FT_PATCH ATG FTDRIVER patch kit ATR_DAEMON ACMS Audit Trail Logger utilities AUTO A program to AUTOmatically expand DCL commands AXP-DRIVER-EXAMPLE Example device driver ported to OpenVMS AXP BAT Submit multiple commands to a batch queue from DCL Bison GNU Project parser generator for OpenVMS BITNET Tools Broadcast GRAB and listserv PUNCH tools Bliss Article ACM Article: BLISS: A Language for Systems Programming BLISS-ARTICLE Contains an article on Bliss Programming Bliss Intro Introduction to Bliss BLISS BLISS for OpenVMS BLOCKING Locates Holder of an RMS Record Lock BOOKMAN Processes DECW$BOOKSHELF Files BOSS BYACC Berkeley Yacc parser generator BZIP2 BZIP2 File Compression Tool for OpenVMS C-FORMAT C Source Code Beautifier Tool Callable Ping callable ICMP ping routine Cardreader Cardreader Server Symbiont CATDOC Convert Microsoft Word Documents into Text or TeX CD-ROM Read a High Sierra (ISO-9660) Disk CD A CD (Change Default) command for VMS CD_PLAYER Plays Audio CDs on OpenVMS Charm Disk Block Editor CHKLGI User Authentication CHOWN Unix-like VMS chown Facility CLAIM V2.0 Allows Users to Claim Ownership of Files CLEAR_ERRORS Clears the Device Error Count CLRREF Clear the Device Reference Count CLUE$SDA_VAX CLUE (Crash Log Utility Extractor) for OpenVMS VAX CMEM C Memory Allocation Debugger CMPDIR Compare two directories like DCL DIFFERENCES COMPARE_DIR Compare the contents of two directories compress GNU compress for OpenVMS VAX and OpenVMS AXP CRON VMS port of CRON utlity CRS A Norton Commander-style directory browser for VMS CSVSEARCH Search comma-separated-variable (CSV) data files CTRL-Verify Toggle DCL command procedure verification on and off. CURL CURL for OpenVMS CVTLIS V3.5 Convert Compiler Listings back to Source Code DATE Date Tools: Day of week; absolute date; Julian day DBS-BUILD_LIBRARIES RTL used by DBS tools DBS-ETHERWATCH Ethernet monitor DBS-LATWATCH Local Area Transport (LAT) Protocol Network Sniffer DBS-NETUTILS Utilities for Ethernet Network Monitoring DBS-NULLSYMBIONT NLA0: symbiont ODSM Online Disk Space Monitor DBS-PATCH file and disk patch utility DBS-SCANLOCKS Find lock information DBS-SYSRTL RTL used by DBS tools DBS-TAPEUTILS tape dump and tape exerciser tools DCL-EXPAND Self-Expanding DCL; lists; mail merges DCLCOMPLETE Automatically complete filenames in DCL commands DCLDBG Debugger for DCL command procedures DCLKEYS Routines to define DCL keys from a program DCL_CHECK Charlie Hammond's unsupported DCL checker DCL_DATABASE A DCL Database DCL_DIET Charlie Hammond's unsupported DCL dieter DCLPATCH Patch DCL.EXE to allow more than 20 commands to be REC DDCLIENT a Perl client for updating DynDNS information DECNET DECnet Programming Examples DECwindows_Cookbook DECwindows Documentation DELIVER Programmable Message Delivery System for VMS MAIL DELTREE Directory Tree Deletion DFIND Assign logical names to a wildcarded file spec. DIRUTL Directory PUSHD POPD and PEEKD Navigation DISKBLOCK Editor amd performance tester for ODS and Foreign disk Disk_Test Time disk operations with precision. DISM32 OpenVMS VAX Disassembler DISPATCH Sample code for writing privileged shareable images in DIX A program to read/modify records in any RMS (seq/relat DRLOGIN DECnet rlogin-like Remote Login DTR_Rdb Datatrieve Rdb and System Management procedures. DVIDVI dvi file repagination tool DX Directory eXtension: VT-based Graphical Tools ED Portable EDT Editor emacs emacs 21.2.3 text editor port EPM Extensible Performance Monitoring - Monitor disk I/Os EPYT Backwards TYPE/PAGE (starts at the end of a file) ESET Set various attributes of a process that standard DCL ETHERMON Ethernet line activity monitor EXECSYMB Executive Symbiont DCL_Math DCL extended-precision muliply and divide EXTRACT Extract records from VMS file ezsave lightweight persistent objects for C++ FAL An introduction to DECnet FAL Logging FDEL Fast File Delete for OpenVMS Alpha fgrep GNU fgrep (file search and replace) for OpenVMS FILE Utility for modifying file attributes. FILES_INFO Shows Processes Holding a File Open FIND Find files on a disk by searching the file headers FLEX fast lexical analyzer generator for OpenVMS FLIST File and Directory Manager FLORIAN A File UNDELETE Utility for OpenVMS FRAGMENT Displays Disk Fragmentation FREE Display disk usage and free space summaries for mounte FreeType the FreeType Font Engine Libary for TrueType Fonts FREEWARE The Master OpenVMS Freeware README File FREE_RSN Attempts to Unwedge a Process in Mutex Wait (MWAIT) FTP_MIRROR Manage an FTP Mirror FTP_NEW Tracks an FTP Site for File Changes FTS do-everything utility for monitoring and controlling V GAWK-DOC GNU awk V3.0.3 documentation GAWK GNU awk for OpenVMS GBLSEC$SDA a SDA extension to display info about a global section GDChart chart creation library LibGD C library for dynamic image creation GETCMD Displays a DCL Command Recall Buffer GETLKI displays information retrieved from SYS$GETLKI GETUAI Extracts SYSUAF information into DCL Symbols GLOGIN Assume Another User's Login Identity GNM Generate Messages and SDML documentation GNU-ispell GNU ispell spelling tool GRAB An Enhanced SEARCH Utility GNU grep fast file search and replace tool GTM GT.M database and tools for OpenVMS (MUMPS) gzip-1-2-4 GNU zip file compression and decompression gzip-1-2-4b GNU zip file compression and decompression gzip-1-3-5-1 GNU zip file compression and decompression GZIP-1_3_5-1 gzip file compression HEADERS Header files used by Joe Meadows' C Code HELP$ROUTINE Fortran API for Help Library Access HEXIFY Convert to or from HEX (printable ASCII) file HGFTP FTP client and server HGLOGIN Assume Another User's Login Identity HGSD Hunter's SD: Fancy SET DEFAULT HINDEX Search an OpenVMS HELP library for keywords Hoffman_Examples Various C Source Code Examples HPLASER VMS print symbiont for HP LaserJet printers HPWD Portable C OpenVMS Password Hash (Purdy) HTDIG Web search engine HTTP_SERVER A DECthreads-based HTTP Web Server ICALC A portable infix calculator ICALCV a Portable Infix Calculator IDEZR Programs to reset SCSI bus devices and other similar t IMAGEMAGICK-6_2_8 The Imagemagick Graphics Suite IMGID Display image ident information InfoServer InfoServer Software INTERNET-MENU DCL-based menu for access to Internet stuff INVISIBLE Hides Interactive Process from SHOW USERS Itemlist OpenVMS Itemlist manipulation routines JED a portable EMACS/EDT-like editor JOBLOG Log terminal sessions using pseudo-terminals JOB_DAEMON Watch disks for files to trigger batch jobs JUMP Login as a different user without a password KEYS Process-Permanent Action-key routines: OpenVMS TSRs KFE Accessing Known Files via KFE Data Structures KILL Cluster-Distributed Process Deletion INTOUCH High-performance 4GL for OpenVMS VAX/AXP systems VMSFAQ The OpenVMS Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Abstracts for Volume DISK$FREEWARE80_2 000TOOLS Various Useful Tools FREEWARE The Master OpenVMS Freeware README File LABELS Tool to Resequence Macro32 Local Labels LASER A PostScript printer symbiont for VMS LAST Generate Last-Login Reports LASTCMD Grab and Display Last Terminal Command LAVDRIVER Load-Averaging Device Driver LCK Use the VMS lock manager from DCL sans programming LD Logical Disk Driver libbz2 block-sorting compression/decompression library LibImaging Image processing library LibJPEG image (de)compression library using the JPEG standard libpng Portable Network Graphics libraru for OpenVMS LibPNG_JFP image (de)compression library using the Portable Netwo libsdl Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) for OpenVMS LIBSEARCH a SEARCH command for OpenVMS libraries libxml2 XML programming library and tools Libxslt Libexslt Gnome XSLT XML transformations library LIST maintain user information associated with a username LISTEN listen to LAN and make a list of names and addresses LNMLOOKUP System service to look up logical names LNMTOOL Motif-based Logical Name Browsing Tool LN$SDA a SDA extension to display logical names LOGGER log terminal sessions using the FT pseudo-terminal dri LOGIN Fast LOGIN.COM for OpenVMS LOGINOUT-HOOKS Postscript LOGINOUT-HOOKS Documentation LOOK Fast File Viewer for OpenVMS LOOP Execute a Command Repeatedly or Against Multiple Files LWW-DECWDISP Display Info Similar to SHOW DISPLAY LWW-DIRSORT DIRECTORY command with sorting LWW-DORMANT Display SYSUAF info about inactive users LWW-FUNCT-KEYS Programs to Display Keymaps and to Define Function Key LWW-MODIFY-ATTRIB Modify File Attributes LWW-NEXT-UIC Report First Free Member in a UIC Group LWW-PERSONA-DECW Create DECterm under another user LWW-PERSONA Log in as another user (a rewrite of GLOGIN) LWW-REMTREE Deletes all subdirectories and files in a tree LWW-REVERT Changes file version numbers of files in a directory LWW-USERINFO Display user information from SYSUAF LWW-UTC Motif UTC clock LWW-VIEWXBM Motif XBM Bitmap Viewer LWW-XMEASURE Measures Motif-based Windows LYNX Text Web Browser MAIL Joe Meadows's Callable MAIL Examples MAILCOUNT Match MAIL$*.MAI external files with MAIL.MAI pointers MAILSHR_MX_PATCH Patch VMS Mail to Eliminate Need for Internet Transpor MAILSYM Symbiont for mailing files to yourself via PRINT MAILUAF Manages the system mail profile database VMSMAIL_PROFI MAILUAF_RLB View the system mail profile database VMSMAIL_PROFILE. PROTO MAIL Protocol (Transport) Stubs make GNU make v3.60 for VMS MAKE-GNU_3-60 GNU make MMK MMS-compatible make utility for VMS MAKE-Perry make tool for OpenVMS VAX and OpenVMS AXP MBMON Utility to capture messages written to a mailbox MBOX Peek at mailbox messages without removing them MBU Mailbox utility MD5 RSA Data Security MD5 message-digest algorithm MDMLIB Library of routines used by MadGoat Software products Menu Joe Meadows's MENU utility MFTU Mail File Transfer Utility for Text and Data Files MGBOOK Extracts and Displays Text from Bookreader Files MGPCX MadGoat PC Exchange: Microsoft Windows FAT Disk Tool MG_FINGER MadGoat FINGER client and server for VMS MLSEARCH Search VMS MAIL files and folders for strings MLU021 Media Loader Utility (MLU) V2.1 MODIFY Tool to Modify and Maintain ASCII text files (replace MONMODE DCL equivalent of MONITOR MODES/SMP MORE more and less tools for OpenVMS MOSAIC The Mosaic Web Browser MOST more and less file-paging programs for UNIX and VMS MP Postscript Pretty Printer MPEG_PLAY An MPEG (Movie File) Viewer for OpenVMS MTX SCSI Tape Medium Changer Control Program MWAIT Process Mutex-Wait Diagnostic Utility MX-DIGEST Create digests for Message Exchange (MX) mailing lists MXSUM Generate summaries from Message Exchange (MX) files MySQL MySQL database for OpenVMS NASM Portable Assembler for Intel IA-32 NBS Synchronize System Time With NBS (NIST) Atomic Clock NDS_VMSSERV Nick de Smith's DCL version of VMSSERV: a VMS file ser NETLIB V2.1B Library of Routines for TCP/IP Programming NETLIB V2.2 Library of Routines for TCP/IP Programming NETLIB V2.3 Library of Routines for TCP/IP Programming NETLIB V2.4 Library of Routines for TCP/IP Programming Newsletter TeX macros for producing newsletters NEWSRDR NNTP News Reader Client for OpenVMS NOPE Simulate a PURGE to see what would be deleted NOTICE Display Notices at Login Time NSQUERY Issue a name service query Object Display OpenVMS VAX Object File Details ODS-2-READER-FOR-OSF-1 Read ODS-2 copy files on OSF/1 Unix ODS-2-READER Portable ODS-2 file structure reader ODS2 Portable ODS-2 file structure reader OMI Oscar's (DCL) Menu Interface osCommerce php Web eCommerce Storefront VMSFAQ The OpenVMS Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Abstracts for Volume DISK$FREEWARE80_3 000TOOLS Various Useful Tools FREEWARE The Master OpenVMS Freeware README File PACKASM Usenet News PACKASM (PACKage ASseMbler) Utility PAKGEN Generate PAKs and License Software Applications Paralyze Terminal Lock and Automatic Logout Tool PASLIB Library of Pascal Declarations for OpenVMS APIs PASSWORD Save modify and restore user passwords PBM_TEX Converts Public Bitmap (.PBM) files to TeX fonts Pcal Postscript-format Calendar Generator PC_DCL A DCL-like command interpreter for Windows PCs PDUMP Interprocess Forced Process Dump Tool PERF_METER Motif-based graphical performance meter for OpenVMS Perl/Tk Perl/Tk-804.026 for OpenVMS perl Perl (5.8.6) programming language PERMANENT Define permanent DCL symbols PFM Monitor system performance and alert anomolies. PF$SDA a SDA extension to detetermine which processes are usi phpBB php-based web bulletin board phpBB Blog php-based web blog PINE PINE NetNews and Mail Client POSTMAN Manage incoming mail via DELIVER PPPD Point-to-Point Protocol Daemon for OpenVMS PQM Print Queue Manager for Users and Operators PRCPRV Grant privileges to another process PRIVDCL Allow non-privileged execution of DCL procedures with PROBE Alpha & VAX Ethernet monitor / statistics / capture / ProcessView Qt-based UI for SCADA applications tool PROFILE Menu-based SYSUAF Management Tool PROJECT Manage Project Access PSTAT Display process status for all or selected processes PSTOTEXT Extract Text from Postscript PSUTILS Angus Duggan's PostScript Utilities PWAIT$SDA a SDA extension to display info about a waiting proces Python Python Language for OpenVMS Python_JFP Python Language for OpenVMS QLOGIN LOGINOUT-time display of run-time info QUE_MON SMG print queue manager for OpenVMS QUOTA DISKQUOTA info for users/devices under OpenVMS RAMDRIVER RAM Disk Driver for OpenVMS VAX RCARD Display Cardfiler Cards outside DECwindows REMIND-DCL simple reminder system written in DCL REMIND A simple reminder utility for OpenVMS REMOTE Execute DCL commands on remote DECnet nodes RF Apply DCL command(s) to multiple files RMS_INTERFACE Comprehensive interface to RMS for HLLs S-Lang C-like language interpreter to embed in C programs SAFETY File system additions for OpenVMS Samba Windows File and Print Services SCAN4 DCL Command Output Scanning Facility SCANUAF Search SYSUAF for accounts matching specified criteria SCREEN Load the output of a DCL command into an editor SD Joe Meadows's SD simple SET DEFAULT SDA_EXTENSIONS_DOC A manual for writing SDA callout extensions SDCL Structured DCL compiler SDL Data Structure/Interface Definition Language sed GNU sed text editor for OpenVMS SEND Jnet-style message SEND tool SESSION_NOTES TeX Macros for Presentation Session Notes SETUP Per-user or per-login product setup manager SETUSER Become Another User SET_EXE Display or Modify Image DEBUG or Traceback Settings SET_PRCNAM Set the process name for any process SHELP screen-oriented interface to OpenVMS HELP SHOWCUSERS Cluster-wide Graphical SHOW USERS SHRCOMMON Subroutines to allow sharing of COMMON PSECTs among pr SHS Enhanced SHOW SYSTEM-like display SIXEL_PRINT Converts SIXEL output to HP LaserJet graphics SKL DECnet-Plus Show Known Links display SLAVE Maintain a slave subprocess to execute background comm SLMOD Logical Name Searchlist Modification Utility SMORE UN*X-like more command for DCL command output SOCKETSHR TCP/IP product-independent BSD socket library SPELL an OpenVMS Spell-Check Tool: DECUS SPELL SPLOIN File splitting & joining tool SPOP3_SRV OpenVMS POP3 Server (per RFC1939 and RFC2449) SQuirrel_SQL_Client JDBC-based graphical SQL client STATUS Joe Meadows's monitor/finger/whatever STB Dump VAX STB Symbol Table Files STRINGS Search for Printable Characters Within a File SUPERVISOR Monitor control and manage terminal sessions (SUPERVIS SWiM multi-session windowing terminal application for OpenV SWISH-E Web page indexing tool Switch Extended Switch SD SET DEFAULT replacement SYMBOL Sets Deletes and Shows Symbols across Processes SYMBOLS Extract symbols from Object (OBJ) and Image (EXE) and SYSALF Same as SYSMAN ALF -- only better SYSLOGD OpenVMS port of syslogd and logger SYSTEM_REPORT.COM Generates textual- and HTML configuration report T4$UNIX_COLLECT Tru64 COLLECT data to T4 format. TACC Using DCL to do time accumulations for a routine TAIL Performs a Variation of TYPE/TAIL on a File TAPE Fortran routines to manipulate tapes Tcl/Tk Tcl/Tk 8.0.5 for OpenVMS TCPIPSYM TCP/IP Print Symbiont for OpenVMS Terminals Periodic Terminal Usage Statistics TESTDEV (VAX & Alpha) Disk exerciser and read-performance meas TIFF-3_8_2 library for manipulating tiff images TIFF library for manipulating tiff images TM Turing Machine Interpreter and Debugger TNIMAGE-3_5_2-VMS Image Measurement and Analysis Tool TO enhanced SET DEFAULT program TPU-C-EXAMPLE DEC C source code example for calling TPU TQE Display Timer Queue Entries (TQEs) TRF-LIB$SEARCH lib$search - a C routine to simply calling $SEARCH TRIM File processor similar to the ALL-IN-1 utility. TSCON Communicate with DECserver terminal servers INTOUCH High-performance 4GL for OpenVMS VAX/AXP systems Turbo Locks OpenVMS VAX Images into Memory UAF Searches UAF; dictionary-attack password-guessing tool UNARJ Unpack PC .ARJ files under OpenVMS UNMACRO OpenVMS VAX Interactive Disassembler UNMESSAGE Decompile OpenVMS MESSAGE File Tables Unrar Multi-format Archiving and Unarchiving Tool UnZip Info-ZIP's portable UnZip version 5.52 UUCODE UUENCODE and UUDECODE for OpenVMS UUNUKE Kill a disconnected UUCP process VAX_STRIPE_DRIVER Disk Striping Driver (RAID) for OpenVMS VAX VDDRIVER 64 Virtual disk driver for OpenVMS Alpha VDS_VAX Virtual Disk drivers for OpenVMS VAX VERB Extract .CLD definitions of DCL verbs VERSION Display version info for OpenVMS VAX images ViewFile Motif-based file viewer/browser VILE VI-LIKE-EMACS text editor VIRTUAL Enable/disable DISCONNECT setting on terminal template VMSFAQ The OpenVMS Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) VMSTAR Read and Write Unix TAR archives VMSTPCE Tape Copy that can Ignores Tape Errors VNC333R1VMS010 VNCviewer for OpenVMS VAX and Alpha VNC333R1VMS011 VNCviewer for OpenVMS VAX and Alpha VOIT VMS Objects and Images Tools for Alpha and I64: shiml VQM Visual Queue Manager for OpenVMS VTfm OpenVMS File Manager for VT-series terminals VTTEST VT100/VT220 Terminal/emulator test program Watcher An Idle Terminal Monitor and Timeout/Logout Tool Webware Python Web Development Suite Who4VMS Unix-like who for OpenVMS VAX X11KIT X11 R5 kits and utilities for OpenVMS Xautolock Automatically lock idle Motif sessions Xdvi X11 TeX DVI previewer for OpenVMS XE Ethernet monitor Xfig and Transfig Xfig 2.1.6 and Transfig 2.1.6 for VMS zdec Zero Device Error Counts Zip Portable File Compression Tool zlib-1_2_3 zlib data compression library for OpenVMS zlib zlib data compression library for OpenVMS zlib_jfp compression and decompression library ZMENU Menu Utility Zoo Rahul Desi's ZOO V2.10 archive program ZT Serve tape drives over DECnet