BRIAN-JIM-MIKE

	 These subdirectories contain BLISS programs that were used as
	examples in the DECUS pre-symposium seminar 'BLISS for Macro users'.
	They are very well documented, so there is no external documentation.

[.HELLO]	VERY remedial BLISS program. This just barely qualifies as a
		program. Displays the message 'Hello BLISS user' on the terminal

[.CONVERT_VA]	This program will convert a virtual address to it's corresponding
		physical address. The main routine isn't very useful, but the
		routine GET_PHY_ADDR is very generic, and can be incorporated 
		into another program very easily.

[.MANDELZOOM]	This directory contains three programs: 
			COMPUTE		Which is used directly in the seminar,
					will compute the image of any region
					of the Mandelbrot set

			DISPLAY		Provided here for completeness, reads
					the image output by COMPUTE, and the
					color table output by COLOR_TABLE, and
					displays the image on a graphics device

			COLOR_TABLE	Provided here for completeness, creates
					the color table file used by DISPLAY.
					This color table is very striking, and
					can be used to create many beautiful
					pictures.

[.CONSOLIO]	This directory contains routines that allow the user to do I/O
		to the console when running at any IPL, and on any stack. These
		are ideal when writing standalone code, or drivers.


[.NODUMP]	This directory contains a program that will inhibit the system 
		from writing a dump file when doing an operator requested 
		shutdown. This will allow shutdowns, and reboots to be done in 
		a fraction of the time it would normally take, since all of
		memory isn't being written out to the dump file.

[.SSDRIVER]	This directory contains a DR11-C driver completely written in
		BLISS. I haven't had time to go through it to make sure it will
		work on V5.x, or even compile under V5.x. However, it's here,
		and provides a good example of writing drivers in BLISS.

[.USRLIB]	This directory contains programs, and macro libraries for BLISS
		users to help make using BLISS easier.




			Brian Catlin	Jim Gray
				4-MAY-1990