VAX SIG Spring 1988 SIG tape Contents ------------------------------------- ================ WARNING ================ The VAX SIG tape copy people, the DECUS staff, and DEC are all in complete ignorance of what's on this tape (we know what's in the readme files only). While we know of no problems with any of this code, if it tries to crash your system, insert backdoors in your logins, destroy your files, or anything else, it's YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to be sure none of this can happen. Be warned. If you DO find anything suspicious (any Trojan horses, worms, viruses, etc.), PLEASE do your fellow users a favor and contact the DECUS office and let them know immediately. The most reliable security we have is that we each protect each other's backs. Calling the program author is a good idea also, to find out if a problem is some version dependency which he didn't know. ========================================= The following are the contents of the Spring 1988 VAX SIG Tapes. This year there are three tapes in the VAX collection plus one tape in a mixed VAX/PC/RSX collection which will be described separately. VAX88A1 Tape ======= ==== [.ABEL] Editing interface built on top of EVE. ABEL is the output of an L&T Sig effort to merge the many EVE supersets of recent years. From Jef Kennedy. [.ANUNEWS] Geoff Huston's Un*x NEWS rewrite for VMS. Allows any VMS site to participate in Usenet NEWS networks and manage newsgroups. [.ATTC] Cluster management tools. From Martin Brunecky. [.BRYANT] TPU enhancements (APLTPU). GBLSUBS - global substitute strings. GBLSEARCH - search for pattern in files. [.BZL] LSE templates for Runoff. Spell dictionary with most MACRO-32 instructions defined. From Bart Lederman. [.COY] DM - Directory manager, windowing dir. management. SD - revised Set Default. WPE - WPS-Plus emulator for TPU. COLORS- Reset VTx4x colors. SHOWME - system or user status report. VAXNotes enhancers. Improved MON PROC/TOPC display. From Dale Coy. [.CSDHBO] XSHOW - Show many things across cluster. (Files, holders of IDs, terminals, users, etc. From Jonathan Welch. [.DINKIN] NAME - Find what terminal server and port a terminal is on. [.DMILLER] TPU enhancement. ALOCWAIT - allocate/wait. BBS - full function bulletin board system. CB - VAX CB radio simulator. ETAPE - Convert to/from EBCDIC etc. tape. From Dale Miller. [.DOLGEN] Proc to reorganize a whole disk and maintain master indexed files created with exact positioning. From William Baker [.DUMPER] Utility to read TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 DUMPER tapes on VMS. Handles versions 5 and 6 DUMPER tapes now too. From James Harvey. [.FINGER] Local or remote Show System/Users, name server, and mail querier. Major update of mail items. From Rand Hall. [.FLOWERS] Security audit on wildcard files. Checksums on sys$system. Account summary. Check login time. Allow use of old shared images. [.GAMES] Cribbage and poker games. Various authors. [.GHC] Rewrite of LIST/RSX for native mode VMS. Super multicolumn lister, many options. From Gerson Cohen. [.GNUSOFTWARE] Numerous GNU utilities including BISON (a YACC superset), AWK, Emacs, C++, Assembler, GDB, and Gnu C. Gnu C binaries for VMS are present also, providing a FREE, NATIVE-MODE C compiler for VMS. This compiler generates code which is generally superior to VAX11 C's. It is however a beta version (until it finishes compiling all of Berkeley Un*x) and may still have some bugs. Even so it is quite usable. VAX88A2 Tape ======= ==== [.CAROSSO] Kevin Carosso's latest PTY driver for VMS V4 and V5 plus a working PHOTO program using it. [.DISM32] Disassembler, converts .EXE to .MAR. Really works! From Andy Pavlin. [.ISPELL] Interactive spelling corrector for VMS. Extremely fast and powerful. From John Sherling. [.JLP] William Wood's LIST file display/search utility updated for newer VMS versions. Zmodem code for VMS. From Jon Pinkley. [.JMEADOWS] STATUS monitor/finger type user/system display program. Will work over DECnet. Also SDL un-do'er for C and re releases of VERB, FILE, and FIND for decompiling DCL tables, changing RMS attributes, or finding files in indexf.sys [.JPRIGOT] Master_Dist generates a mailing list of everyone in the UAF file. From J. Prigot. [.JSCLUG] MTG - meeting announcment bulletin board. USERLIST - several new format lists from SYSUAF.DAT. VC - Vax Calculator. Mail util - examine if someone has read your mail. Calendar of events program. Compress someone else's mail. Front end to make remote network mail address fruit-salad invisible to users. WHOIS manager. PRIOMGR - adjust prio of compute bound jobs. From William Baker. [.LILUG] IDXTEX - Create index files from .IDX files. Grant ACL to others easily. WIN - multiple windows on screen. Test if your mail was read. REMINDOLD - Tells if you have reminders outstanding. Group quota system. From John Hasstedt. [.LOMASKY] The "ultimate" Set Default. Password change enforcement. SYSUAF report enhancements. From Brian Lomasky. [.MAQDEV] Queueing to/from global sections between processes, on either VMS or RSX11M+ and over DECnet. User written system services and queue managers. From Neal Schmidt. [.MCM] Code Management System to handle changes to any kind of source material. Also adds a BUILD facility. (a kind of free CMS/MMS). From Wren Hunt. [.MNVAX] Force user to change his password. Become invisible to others on the system. Text library handling command proc, and editing/runoff control program. From MNVax LUG. [.MOPAC] LSE Templates for Rdb/VMS and slides for two DECUS talks. From Jim McIlvaine. [.NET_WHAT] FAST Cluster and network wide SHOW Users (and more) type command. From Andrew Potter. [.NEWLON] Create orderly SYSTARTUP.COM files, from J. Newlon. [.NEWLZW] Current versions of LZW compress/decompress utilities for VMS, from Martin Minow. [.NFREED] AUTOLOGOUT - logout inactive terminals. CRON - issue commands based on time. EVEEDT - EDT keypad on top of EVE. NODECHECK - allow and disallow access to various nodes in cluster driven by identifiers. Convert ASCII to Postscript. (Also does .MEM files). MAKE - from Todd Aven. Like Un*x MAKE (works off MMS files.). From Ned Freed. [.NIELAND] BULLETIN - Mark London's BULLETIN, a VAXNotes - like utility. CMD - DCL buffer recall utility. MANUAL - online VMS manual file. MENU - SMG based menu driver. MODIFY - global search/replace utility. SPELL - correction to Vassar SPELL utility. ZDEC - zero device error counter. From Ted Nieland. [.PAGESWAPPER] Pageswapper back issues through May 1988. From Larry Kilgallen. [.PTIUTIUL] Generate a hard BREAK signal on VAX terminal. From Howard Halstead. [.RAE] MLR Macro language, structured Macro-32. From Rod Eldridge. [.RHALL] MPA - analyze memory performance (tuning aid). From Rand Hall. [.RNOTODOC] DSRtoSDML - Convert Runoff files to VAX Document format. Output in LN03, Postscript, or plain text. VAX88A3 Tape ======= ==== [.DTRSIG] Datatrieve SIG items: Convert VMS Accounting to DTR format. Get DTR to access AI1 logging/data files. Corporate Phone directory. User defined DTR functions. Back newsletters. Additional DTR Plots. Command line recall. Symposium sessions. System mgr utils. From Bart Lederman and the DTR SIG. [.RCAS88] AnalytiCalc spreadsheet update; now can call unchanged subroutines. DBAG - src only for dBaseIII clone. FORCE - force commands on other terminals. MENU building aids. PLOTIT - presentation graphics for AnalytiCalc or standalone. Search multiple words. Command frontend to VMS. NETS88 - MANY invaluable items from ARPAnet mail including BOSS (multiple sessions at a single terminal) and matching PTY drivers and MUCH, MUCH more. From Glenn Everhart [.RPI] MODPARAMS manager - build MODPARAMS.DAT for a cluster. Screen Dump filter (VAXstation to print). SETUP - avoid zillions of DCL symbols at login. WATCHER - idle job killer; works with LAT. From Matthew Madison. [.SDE] Software Development Environment complete procedure using CMS and MMS. From Kevin Angley. [.SUM] SUM - Show Users More; shows users and LAT location info. From Michael Kimura. [.TPUSPELL] Spell checker in TPU; check words in the editing buffer interactively. From Dilip Jain. [.WENTZ] All-in-1 system mgt. utilities. BECOME another user utility. Utilities for developing BLISS source code. Show Proc/continuous which shows all quotas also. More. From Eric Wentz. [.WORLTON] DOCUMENT - get documents from src files. GPLOT - routines to make it easier to use VAX GKS. MODIFY - replace strings, detab, etc. files; global search/replace. From T.G. Worlton. [.XEVE] Extended Eve with features from many of the EVE extended editors of earlier tapes. Spelling checker. From Tom Wolfe RSX/PC/VAX Tape ========== ==== [VAX88A4...] Directory Tree [.SOFTWARE_TOOLS] Software Tools User Group multinetwork mailer, in C, last PD version. Does multinetwork, store/forward mail and gateways, and has its own user interface if desired (much more powerful/complete than VAX Mail). From Ken Adelman. [.TECOC] Complete rewrite of TECO in C for VMS, by Pete Siemsen. [.PCSIG_DECUS] Large collection of MS-DOS and CP/M utilities contributed by the DECUS PC SIG. Many for Rainbow but many for IBM PC or generic MS-DOS or CP/M also. RSX88A Tape directories Submitter [UIC] Contents ---------- --------- ------------------------------------- Alan Frisbie [265,20] MCE Command Line Editor from Hans Hamakers, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Alan Frisbie [373,310] Files-11 ODS1 & ODS2 specifications, including RMS-11 Internals manual. Thomas Wyant [351,144] LBC - Logical Block Copy (disk-file, disk-disk, file-file). Thomas Wyant [351,145] TEM - Terminal Emulator. L.M. Cartwright [300,201] 11M+ Queueing & Routing Software. William Crocker [300,210] LZYCLI - Command-line recall/edit and VMS-style symbols. Frank Borger [311,*] LN03 control, COOKIE, DAMMIT, and other sayings; ECR - Command-line editing for IAS.