The Merrimack College submission to the Fall '87 SIG tape contains: [.HACKS] Miscellaneous hacks BATCH Command procedure and associated help file that writes simple batches interactively. Good for introducing the braindead to batch jobs. GRANTALL/REVOKEALL Two lame, buggy command procedures that somewhat(disclaimer, disclaimer, disclaimer) provide for transparent directory access by >=two accounts. Developed for faculty too lazy to read up on VMS protection. CHECKMAIL Hack to check mail (obviously). Runs mail if you have newmail, else it quits. Some find this usefull for LOGIN.COMs, checking for newmail if broadcast is disabled, and for checking mail upon connecting to a process. [.INTRO] This directory contains a couple of things that can let you the unprivileged user poke around the system. The nefarious among us copy .com files containing these things into the default DECnet account of machines run by hostile system managers and execute them as DECnet tasks. Great fun can be had by doing this and then mailing a message to the system manager suggesting ways to tune the system. |-) [.LATHACK] This directory contains code that shows you how to decipher what the physical location of a LAT terminal is. [.PANDORA] Pandora - (Not Just) Another Tpu Editor --------------------------------------- M.P.Gerlek @ Merrimack College 2 Robinson Drive Bedford, MA 01730 It is essentially a collection of many different procedures gleaned from many different DECUS Library tapes by many different authors, too numerous to mention (though often referred to in comments here and there). (Suffice it to say I gleefully acknowledge their rights to authorship and appreciate it greatly, especially). Description ----------- The commenting of the source code is perhaps a bit wifty at times; apologies to those concerned, but all is still in testing stages and I tend to change lines at whim. I submit this more as an example than as a "better" editor; you are strongly urged to customize the system to fit your own needs. [.TAIL] Tail simply dumps the last 1K of a file to sys$output. Flames, bricks, and cash awards to: Rand P. Hall rand@merrimack.edu (csnet) Director, Academic Computing 617.683.7111 Merrimack College 315 Turnpike Rd. "There is elegance in simplicity." North Andover, Mass. 01845 - Kimball S. Maddocks