[VAX85C.NSWC]AAAREADME.TXT



    SCHEDULER UTILITY
    -----------------

	Did you ever forget to set or reset Daylight Savings Time?  Do
	you have weekly or monthly tasks  to do  or meetings to attend
	that you need to be reminded about every time?  Then SCHEDULER
	is for you.   A procedure runs every  midnight, reading a file
	of events (DCL commands), each with an expression telling when
	it should be run.  Expressions can be complex, like:

	* Run the next-to-last business day of every month

	* Run the day after the fourth Monday of every month (which
				 could be the fourth or fifth Tuesday)

	* Run the day before every holiday occurring on a weekday

	* Run every Monday, every day, every business day, every week-
	day (i.e. every business day plus weekday holidays), the third
	of every month, every day in March, etc.

	SCHEDULER.COM will need to be configured to your site, and you
	will have to create a SCHEDULER.DAT file with your events.   A
	sample SCHEDULER.DAT file is included to show some of the cap-
	abilities.   See  notes in  SCHEDULER.*  for more information.
	SCHEDULER is really powerful when used with REMINDER.



    REMINDER UTILITY
    ----------------

	This is yet another  appointment-reminding utility.   This one
	reminds you when you log in, and 'tickles' you at fixed inter-
	vals as the time  of an appointment approaches.   The reminder
	message  tells  you  when  the appointment is, and what it is.
	The message is formatted in reverse video for VT100+ terminals
	and the bell rings.   It is very easy to add, remove, and show
	appointments.   For  further  information,  see  REMINDER.HLP.
	See REMINDERS.DOC for installation instructions.  This utility
	uses a detached process (which is usually hibernating) to send
	the 'tickler' messages. Use BLDREMIND.COM to rebuild the pack-
	age from its sources.

	This product has appeared on previous SIG tapes.   It has been
	updated extensively  to work correctly on VAXclusters, to eas-
	ily allow users to give other users permission to access their
	appointment data, to allow all inputs on the command line, etc.



    SUBMIT_IF and FINDJOB
    ---------------------

	SUBMIT_IF  is a command procedure which  SUBMITs  a job if the
	job is not already in an input queue.  I use  SUBMIT_IF  in my
	SYSTARTUP.COM to ensure that  important batch jobs are queued,
	but not more than once.  I also use it in some of my SCHEDULER
	events (see SCHEDULER above).  FINDJOB is a program which will
	search  the input queues  for a given jobname.   It is used by
	SUBMIT_IF, but can be used independently for other uses.   Run
	BLDFINDJOB.COM to recompile and relink FINDJOB.



   NOTIFY COMMAND
   --------------

	This is a general message-sending utility.   It can be used in
	a batch process to send a message to the submitting user.   It
	can  be used in  an interactive command procedure  to format a
	message on the screen  (centered, bold reverse video,  bells).
	It can be used by the system managers to send messages to ter-
	minals (either by terminal name or by user name);  it produces
	a more readable message than REPLY.   See  NOTIFY.HLP  and the
	comments in  NOTIFY.FOR  for more information.   Use procedure
	BLDNOTIFY.COM to recompile and relink NOTIFY.   The SYSTEM.DIS
	file contains a list of system managers to whom users can send
	messages.  NOTIFY works cluster-wide.



    NSWC1LIB.OLB
    -------------

	Object library used in building the above programs.  This lib-
	rary is built from LIB1.FOR and LIB*.MAR. Some of the routines
	may be useful to you;  they are documented by prologues in the
	sources.



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	Everything was built with FORTRAN V4.3 and VMS V4.1


	Submitted by:  Alan L. Zirkle     Naval Surface Weapons Center
					  Code K53
		       Fall 1985	  Dahlgren, Virginia  22448