The 1991 DECUS South Pacific Symposium

                          Symposium Collection




This tape contains submissions made to the DECUS South Pacific Symposium,
held in Auckland, New Zealand during August 1991. 

Much of the material has been sourced from existing DECUS tapes, but has been
updated to the latest versions.

The following is a brief rundown of the contents of the directories.  

[.BATE_T]       Trevor Bate, Dept. of Road Transport, Adelaide, South Australia

                A collection of GIF files and the XLOADIMAGE program to
                display them on a VAXstation screen. 

[.BUTLER_C]	Chris Butler, NZ Forest Research Inst., Rotorua, New Zealand

                CSWING          Directory and file management utility
				(This is the latest version, as at 17/10/91.)
                SNAP            Process control utility, lets you 
                                kill, suspend, watch processes etc
                TSCON           Terminal server management program
                WATCHDOG        Idle process killer

[.DUFF_J]       Jim Duff, EPL Kone Pty Ltd, Sydney, New South Wales

                TIME_PROMPT "utility", puts current time in your prompt.
                Useful code to play with for you kernel hackers out there!

[.GRANT_A]	Alistair Grant, University of Melbourne, Victoria

                MITS DECUS Contribution, includes:
                        HPGL to Postscript converter.  
                        LHarc file compression utility.  
                        MEMTRIM memory reclaimer
                        The PSROFF distribution, especially PK2PS.
                        GNU Smalltalk for VMS (with DECwindows interface)

[.STOKES_D]     Don Stokes, GP Print Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand

                Miscellaneous homebrew stuff, includes:
                        Console log file reader for 85xx etc VAXes
                        Disk accounting file analysis programs
                        Fast disk usage by directory program
                        CPU time by account/user/priority etc monitor
                        Priority manager for overloaded systems
                        Graphics for VT220/VT320 terminals
                        Tape cataloguing system
                        EDT with extra features (spawn etc)
                        XMODEM file transfer
                        Lots more tiddlers, toys etc...

[.TAYLOR_T]     Trevor Taylor, Praxa Limited, Brisbane, Queensland

                MIT Release 4 Clients, Demos and Examples.  Lots of good 
                X-windows/DECwindows stuff, also the Unix compress, 
                diff/patch utilities and an "unsharer".

[.VAXNOTES]     Digital Equipment Corporation

                This is the text version of the VAX NOTES conferences 
                carried out during the Symposium.


All directories have a file called AAAREADME.TXT containing further 
information.

Compiled by: Don Stokes, GP Print Ltd
Date:        17-Oct-1991




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