The VMSnet Working Group (U.S. VAX Systems SIG) Submissions

                                coordinated by:

                       Jamie Hanrahan, Simpact Associates
                    9210 Sky Park Court, San Diego, CA 92123
                    +1 619 565 1865 X1116    jeh@simpact.com

     This directory tree contains Version 1.3 of DECUS uucp (formerly
     "VMSnet software"), a package which allows VMS systems to exchange
     mail and network news with other systems (including Unix systems, and
     VMS systems running this software) using the uucp "g" protocol.  Geoff
     Huston's ANU News, Version 6.0-2, with several minor additions (for
     uucp integration), is included.  (Future versions of ANU News should
     work with DECUS uucp with no problems.)

          Everything here has been compiled and linked under VMS V5.2.

          Full documentation is in [UUCP.DOC]USRGD13.MEM, and in other
     files described therein.

          Several groups of files in the [UUCP...] tree have been placed in
     compressed savesets, in order to save space on the ever-growing
     Symposium tapes.  After all of these have been decompressed and
     restored, the total space required for the [UUCP...] tree is about
     48,000 blocks.

          If you have no plans to work on the software, you can eliminate
     about 30,000 blocks of this by not restoring the development saveset
     (which includes source files, object files, and development tools) to
     disk.  Use a qualifier such as /EXCLUDE=DEVEL.BKP on your backup
     command.

          The command procedure [UUCP.BIN]DECOMP_TAPE.COM will decompress
     the compressed savesets, restore the files from the savesets, and
     delete the savesets (including the development saveset, if found).  It
     requires COMPRESS.EXE, MODATT.CLD, MODATT.EXE, and USERCMDS.COM (all
     in [UUCP.BIN]).  Decompressing DEVEL.BKP-Z on a MicroVAX 3600 takes
     about 40 minutes of CPU time; the others are much shorter.  33,000
     blocks of scratch space are needed if the development saveset exists,
     or 10,000 blocks of scratch space without it.

          Other contacts, in case Jamie can't be reached:

     Tom Allebrandi II                                       Mark Pizzolato
     Inland Steel Research Labs                        1558 Fernside Street
     East Chicago, IN                                 Redwood City CA 94061
     +1 219 399 6306                                        +1 415 369 9366
     allebrandi@inland.com                                 mark@infopiz.com
     ..decwrl!simpact!inland!allebrandi             ...!decwrl!infopiz!mark