From: SMTP%"MEEHAN@decus.org" 23-NOV-1994 10:04:02.85 To: EVERHART CC: Subj: 11/22/94 DECUS LIBRARY UPDATE REPORT MR-Received: by mta TOPAZ; Relayed; Wed, 23 Nov 1994 09:54:18 +0000 Alternate-recipient: prohibited Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1994 14:53:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Tricia Meehan 508-841-2927 Subject: 11/22/94 DECUS LIBRARY UPDATE REPORT To: MEEHAN@NEMAIL.ENET.DEC.COM To: Joe Altomare To: feb@tntech.edu To: Flo Cussimanio To: Everhart@Arisia.GCE.Com To: Grace Fleming To: "Anne K. Foley" To: PAT GIROUARD To: Robert Hassinger To: JOHN.MANN@CC.MONASH.EDU.AU To: "Bart Z. Lederman" To: maytrott@eisner.decus.org To: nieland@DECUS.Org To: "Mary B. Oskirko" To: stevensjh=40boston#%forwarder@gillette.geis.com To: Sandra Wentzell Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="Boundary (ID fY7X3tAtTaRXRMTnT64h/g)" Posting-date: Wed, 23 Nov 1994 14:54:00 +0000 (GMT) Importance: normal Priority: normal UA-content-id: E430ZVMUE5R6G X400-MTS-identifier: [;81459032114991/403696@TOPAZ] A1-type: MAIL Hop-count: 0 --Boundary (ID fY7X3tAtTaRXRMTnT64h/g) Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII --Boundary (ID fY7X3tAtTaRXRMTnT64h/g) Content-type: MESSAGE/RFC822 Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1994 14:49:53 GMT Subject: 11/22/94 Sender: Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Importance: normal A1-type: DOCUMENT DECUS Library Update Report November 22, 1994 PROGRAMS BEING ANNOUNCED Following are the new or revised programs announced through the DECUS Library DECUS TITLE VERSION NEW OR NO. REVISED VS0174 DECUS Essential Tools Collection, 1994 1994 R GENERAL INFORMATION 1994 Update Reports to date: November 22, 1994 November 4, 1994 May 19, 1994 February 18, 1994 February 10, 1994 January 20, 1994 Revision VS0174 DECUS Essential Tools Collection for OpenVMS 1994 Version: 1994 Submitted by: Frank Bush Abstract: This collection contains a set of programs, tools, utilities and tips that will be of immediate use on any OpenVMS system. In almost all cases, each directory contains both the VAX and Alpha AXP executable images, as well as AAAREADME.* files and complete sources. Contents by Category: In the following list, the status of each entry is indicated by "N" for a new entry, "U" for an updated entry, and " " for an entry which has not been changed since the 1993 version of the Essential Tools Collection. System Management Tools: [APFRAG] Page/Swap File usage display (AXP only) [BOOKMAN] Select On-line Doc file to copy from CD [CLRREF] Clear the owner fields for a device N [CTRL-VERIFY] Toggle SET VERIFY using CTRL-V (AXP P1-space demo) [DCL_RECALL] Patch to allow recall of more than 20 commands U [DSNLINK_NEW] Automatically retrieve titles of new DSN ITS articles [EPM] Disk I/O Perfomance Monitor (VAX only) [ETHERMON] Ethernet Monitor (VAX only) N [EXECSYMB] VMS symbiont for execution queues N [FAL] Information on FAL logging [FILE] Manipulate VMS file attributes N [FLORIAN] A file undelete utility U [GETCMD] Display the recall buffer of another process [HPWD] Portable C source for VMS password hashing algorithm [INVISIBLE] Hide your process U [KILL] Delete/FORCEX processes by username or process id N [LAST] Display last login information for accounts N [LASTCMD] Display last command from terminal typeahead buffer N [LIST] Maintain user information associated with a username [MAILUAF] Manage the VMS Mail profile file N [MBOX] Peek at mailbox messages with removing them N [MLU021] Media Loader Utility -- DCL access to media loaders [MWAIT] Determine why a process is in MWAIT (VAX only) U [NOTICE] Utility for managing login notices N [ODS-2-READER] Read VMS files from ODS-2 disk under UNIX, VMS, OSF/1 N [PASSWORD] Save and Restore a password [PASSWORD_POLICY] VMS password policy module N [PERMANENT] Create permanent DCL symbols (can't be deleted, etc.) [PROFILE] Screen-oriented interface to AUTHORIZE N [PROJECT] Manage project access with multiple users U [PSTAT] Show process status for all or selected processes [QUE_MON] Display print queues [QUOTA] Get diskquota information DCL symbols N [SCANUAF] Scan SYSUAF for accounts matching specified criteria N [SETUP] Centralize symbols, etc., for third-party products [SETUSERNAME] Change username for a process U [SET_PRCNAM] Change process name for any process N [SLMOD] Search List Modification utility N [SORT_DISKQUOTA] Sort diskquota file and reload in alphabetical order U [SUPERVISOR] Terminal monitoring and logging (VAX only) N [SYMBOL] Set or delete DCL symbols for another process N [SYSALF] Same as SYSMAN ALF, but a lot friendlier N [VAX_STRIPE_DRIVER] Disk striping driver (VAX only) N [VDDRIVER] Virtual Disk drivers for OpenVMS AXP and OpenVMS VAX N [VDSTEP2] A Step 2 Virtual Disk Driver for OpenVMS AXP U [VERB] View/modify DCL command definitions [VFE] VMS File Editor, can edit any VMS file format [VMSTPC] Tape copy program (to/from a container file) [VQM] Visual Queue Manager U [WATCHER] Idle terminal monitor [ZDEC] Zero Device Error Counters N [ZT4AXP020] Serve tape drives over DECNET! (AXP and VAX version) General Tools: [ANALY] AnalyRIM and Analyticalc, DBMS and spreadsheet system U [BAT] Execute multiple commands in a batch queue U [BOSS] Multi-session terminal monitor [CLAIM] Asuume ownership of files in your directory U [CSWING] Graphical directory and file manager [CVTLIS] Convert source listings to source files N [DATE] Show day of week, date, Julian day, and week number N [DCL_DATABASE] DCL-based database manager [DELTREE] Delete all files in a directory tree U [DRLOGIN] RLOGIN (remote login) for DECNET N [EXTENDED_MATH] Multiply or divide two character strings in any radix U [FLIST] TPU-based directory and manager [FREE] Show space utilization on all mounted disks (AXP only) N [LIBSEARCH] SEARCH command for VMS text and help libraries [LOGIN] MACRO program to replace most of LOGIN.COM N [LOGGER] Log terminal sessions using FT pseudo-terminal driver [LOOK] Fast file viewer [MAKE-PERRY] MAKE from Jesse Perry [MAKE] MAKE v3.4-2 from Todd Aven, Ned Freed N [MGSD] MadGoat SET DEFAULT replacement, with stack, etc. U [MMK] Matt's MAKE utility, compatible with DEC MMS N [MODIFY] Modify ASCII files (replace strings, detab, etc.) U [MOST] File viewer, similar to UNIX more utility N [MPEG_PLAY] MPEG (movie) player for OpenVMS and Motif U [PACKASM] VMS Mail and Usenet News package assembler/decoder U [PARALYZE] Terminal locking program [PSUTILS] Postscript utilities [RCARD] Display DECwindows CardFiler info on VT terminals U [REMOTE] Execute commands on remote DECNET nodes N [SCAN4] Scan DCL command output for text strings U [SEND] Send messages to terminals [SHELP] Screen-oriented interface to VMS HELP [SPELL] DECUS Spell [SPELL_DICTIONARY] Dictionaries for DECUS Spell [SWIM] Multi-session windowing terminal utility U [SWITCH] Enhanced SET DEFAULT with partial name matching [TAIL] Display the last line of a file [TERM_LOCK] Lock a terminal using the account password N [VTBOOK] A bookreader for character-cell terminals [X11R4] Client and demos for DECwindows/Motif U [XAUTOLOCK] Automatically lock inactive X window screen N [XDVI] TeX .DVI previewer for DECwindows Editors: [ATG_EVE] EDT emulator for EVE N [EMACS] GNU emacs v19.22 U [JED] VMS/UNIX/DOS emacs/EDT editor v0.96 [SED] GNU sed v2.03 (stream editor) [SEDT] SEDT editor, a superset of EDT U [TPU] A collection of utilities written in TPU File Archivers/Compressers/Encoders: [GCOMPRESS] GNU compress v4.0 [HEXIFY] Hexify/Dehexify (binary <-> ASCII converters) [LZCOMPRESS] LZW compress and decompress programs [MFTU] Mail File Transfer Utility (binary <-> ASCII converter) [UNARJ] Unpack ARJ archive files U [UNZIP] Unpack ZIP archive files (see also ZIP) U [UUCODE] UUENCODE and UUDECODE utilities U [VMSTAR] Read/Write UNIX tar files U [VMS_SHARE] Packages source file into files suitable for mailing N [VMS_UNSHARE] Unpack VMS_SHARE files without executing them [ZIP] Build ZIP archive files (see also UNZIP) [ZOO] ZOO v2.1 file archiver File Transfer Utilties: [C-KERMIT] C-Kermit 5A(189) file transfer & communication program [KERMIT] BLISS Kermit v3.3.126 (see also C-KERMIT) [XMODEM] X-Modem file transfer protocol [YMODEM] Y-Modem file transfer protocol [ZMODEM] Z-Modem file transfer protocol GNU Utilities: N [EMACS] GNU emacs v19.22 [FGREP] GNU fgrep v1.1 [FLEX] GNU flex v2.3.7 U [GAWK] GNU gawk v2.15.5 [GCOMPRESS] GNU compress v4.0 U [GREP] GNU grep v2.0 [GZIP] GNU zip v1.2.4 [SED] GNU sed v2.03 (stream editor) Internet Utilities: U [ANUNEWS] Usenet News Server and Client v6.1 N [ARCHIE] Archie client for VMS (MultiNet, UCX, TWG) N [GOPHER_CLIENT] Gopher client for VMS N [GOPHER_SERVER] Gopher server for VMS N [HTTP_SERVER] A DECthreads-based HTTP server (World-Wide Web) N [LYNX] World-Wide Web Browser for character cell terminals N [MGFTP] MadGoat FTP client and server for VMS (NETLIB) N [MG_FINGER] MadGoat FINGER client and server for VMS (NETLIB) N [MOSAIC] World-Wide Web Browser for DECwindows Motif/VMS U [MX] Message Exchange (MX) Mailer v3.3 for SMTP, Jnet, UUCP U [NEWSRDR] NNTP client reader for Usenet News U [NSQUERY] Utility to query Internet domain name servers N [PH_CLIENT] Phone Book client (CSO Nameserver) Printer Symbionts: [HPLASER] Symbiont for HP LaserJet printers [LASER] Symbiont for Postscript printers Miscellaneous: [AXP-DRIVER-EXAMPLE] Example VAX VMS device driver ported to OpenVMS AXP [BULLETIN] Bulletin Board and Usenet News reader (Source only) N [CD_PLAYER] Audo CD player/manager for VMS and Motif U [DECUSLIB] DECUS Library informatin and browsable catalog N [MDMLIB] A library of routines used by MadGoat software U [NETLIB] TCP/IP library routines U [SIGTAPEINDEX] DECUS SIG Tape information [UUCP] DECUS UUCP v2.0 (VAX only) U [VMSSERV] Mail-based file server (in DCL) Media (Service Charge Code): Compact Disc (CD) --Boundary (ID fY7X3tAtTaRXRMTnT64h/g)--