From: MERC::"uunet!asc-yf.WPAFB.AF.MIL!nieland_t" 18-NOV-1992 19:54:19.76 To: DECUS-PORTERS@asc-yf.wpafb.af.mil, feb@tntech.edu CC: VMS-EXEC@asc-yf.wpafb.af.mil, VMS-CPARTS@asc-yf.wpafb.af.mil Subj: Updated copy of the AAAREADME for the AXP CD Here is the latest copy of the AAA_README.TXT file for the Alpha AXP Compact Disc. In the last few days some of the hardworking porters have added fully working copies of ZDEC, VERB, and FILE to the list. ---------------------------------- The software and information on this Compact Disc is a result of the VAX-to-Alpha Systems Transition (aka VAST) Initative Porting Team. The team of volunteers have put a lot of time to looking at what was required to get these programs ported and tested. The VAST Porting Team: Tom Allebrandi, Inland Steel Research Labs Glenn Everhart, Raxco Inc. Hunter Goately, Western Kentucy University Jamie Hanrahan, CMKRNL Consulting David Hittner, Projects Unlimited Inc. Matt Madison, TGV, Inc Pat Mahan, TGV, Inc Robert McQueen, Knoll Pharmaceuticals Joe Meadows, Boeing Corporation Kathy Morse, Digital, DEC Advisor Ted Nieland, HCST, Inc, Team Coordinator David Schmidt, Management Science Associates [.ANALY] This directory tree contains the complete distribution of AnalyRIM and AnalytiCalc, a spreadsheet and database system for various systems including the OpenVMS for AXP. [.BAT] Submit multiple commands to a batch queue without a .COM file. Ported. [.BOSS...] The BOSS multisession monitor; allows up to 8 terminal sessions on a single terminal, logging, playback and capture of sessions (with variable timing), cut/paste, repaint on switch, etc. etc. Ported. [.CKERMIT] Version of KERMIT written in C. Native mode for AXP. [.CLRREF] A program to clear reference counts to devices. Ported. [.COMPRESS] The LZW Compress and Decompress programs. Ported. [.CSWING] A graphical interface to VMS. VESTed [.DRIVERS] Examples of some driver code for a virtual disk driver/ Executables are not provided, code is example only. [.FGREP] GNU fgrep v1.1 for VMS. Ported. [.FILE] Modify the file attributes for any file without touching the data. Ported [.FREE] Show disk use for mounted disks (free blocks, used, total). Ported. [.GCOMPRESS] The GNU Compress program. Compatible with UNIX compress Ported. [.GETCMD] Show the DCL command recall buffer for another process. Ported. [.GREP] GNU grep v1.6 for VMS. Ported. [.INVISIBLE] Hide interactive processes as non-interactive. Ported. [.KERMIT] The BLISS Version of Kermit. This has been VESTed. [.MAILUAF] VMSMAIL_PROFILE manager. Ported. [.MFTU] Encode binary files as ASCII files. VESTed [.MOST] A MORE/LESS like file viewer. Ported. [.NEWSRDR] An NNTP client (USENET news reader). Ported. [.NOTICE] Display login notices. Ported. [.NSQUERY] A utility for interrogating Internet Domain Name Servers. Ported. [.PASSPOL] A VMS password policy module. Prevents users from selecting "poor" passwords. [.PHONE] Hint on PHONE for OpenVMS AXP. [.PROFILE] A SMG-based interface to Authorize. Easy to check accounts add new accounts, etc. [.RCARD] Display DECW$CARDFILER files on VT terminals. Ported. [.SED] GNU sed v1.8 for VMS. Ported. [.SEDT] Distribution of SEDT editor, a superset of EDT, with translated Alpha executable. (Uses all of large windows/screens, multifile editing, much more.) [.SEND] Program to send messages to terminals. [.SETDEF] An intelligent Set Default utility for [.SETUSERNAME] Change username for a process. Ported. [.SET_PRCNAM] Change process name for any process. Ported. [.SPELL] The DECUS/VASSAR SPELL program. VESTed [.SWIM] Windowed multisession monitor. Allows many windows on a terminal, each emulating VT100 (but may have bigger or smaller screens), over one connection. Windows may be moved/resized/journalled/backscrolled and unlike BOSS, in which one of the processes is "connected" at a time, in SWiM several may be visible as windows. Windows may even occlude one another. Ported. [.SWING] The old FORTRAN Version of SWING. Ported. [.TAIL] The unix TAIL program to display the last few lines of a file. Ported. [.TERM_LOCK] Program to LOCK a terminal from use until the account password has been entered. Ported. [.TEX] TEX, MF, WEAVE, and TANGLE. VESTed. [.UNZIP] UNZIP for OpenVMS. Ported. [.UUCODE] A version of UUENCODE/UUDECODE. Ported [.UUENC] Another version of UUENCODE/UUDECODE. Ported. [.VERB] The VERB Program. VERB can decode the DCL Tables and show you the command tables for the system. Ported. [.VFE] VMS File Editor, can edit any VMS file format in binary, hex, ASCII, etc., do fast searches, insert/delete records from any format, and much more. It is able to do much of what the PATCH utility does in VAX/VMS also. Partly translated sources (i.e., all but the lib$tparse calls) and a translated .EXE are present, tested on Alpha. [.VMSTPC] The Tape to Disk Container file and back program. Ported [.VMS_SHARE] OpenVMS for AXP Version of the SHARE packaging program. [.WATCHER] An idle terminal watcher/killer. Ported. [.XMODEM] Ported version of the X-Modem async trasnfer protocol. [.YMODEM] Ported version of the Y-Modem async trasnfer protocol. [.ZDEC] Zero Decive Error Counters. Can zero out the counts shown under SHOW ERROR. Ported. [.ZIP] Full Port of the ZIP archiving program. Handles VMS file types. [.ZMODEM] Ported version of the Z-Modem async trasnfer protocol. [.ZOO] Full Port of the ZOO archiving program. [.X11R4] X-Windows Clients and Demos that have been ported: Appres List Application Resources database for a given application. Bitmap The standard X11 Bitmap editor. Ico The bouncing Icoshedron Application. ListRes List a widget set's resources. This one only lists the resources understood by Xaw. OClock Round clock, that shows up as a square because Digital doesn't support the X11 Shape extension. Includes the use of the SHAPE extension. Xcalc X Windows Calculator. XClipboard X Clipboard application for use in cut and paste operations. Much like using the Mac's cut and paste operations. Xclock The standard X clock application. XdpyInfo List Information about the X Windows Server. Xedit Simple X Windows based text editor. Xfd X Windows Font Display application. Xfontsel A Simple Font selection application. Xkill Kill an X Windows Client application. Xload Display the load average of the VAX. Xlogo Display the X Windows Logo. Xlsatoms List the atoms currently registered with the X Windows Server. Xlsclients List the clients currently connected to an X Windows Server. Xlsfonts List the fonts currently available from an X Windows Server. Xlswins List all window ids currently active on an X Windows Server. Xmag Magnify a portion of the Display screen. Xmodmap Modify the input mapping table (keyboard, pointer, etc). Xpr Translate and print the output of Xwd. This allows the user to generate hardcopy from a screen dump. Supports LN03, PostScript, HP LJ and others. Xprop List the properties available on a given X resource. Xrdb Manipulate the Default Resource Database. Xrefresh Redraw the entire display. Xset Set options on the X Windows Server. Xsetroot Change the root window. Xstdcmap Build standard colormaps for the X Windows Server. Xterm X Windows VT102/Tek 4014 Terminal Emulator. Xwd X Windows Screen Dump application. Xwininfo Display information on a given X Window Window Id. Xwud X Windows Screen Dump Display application. X11 Contributed Clients Hexcalc Hexidecimal Calculator. PBMPlus Portable Bitmap Utilities. Allows for the conversion of different image formats to other image formats. SunClock Show the illuminated portion of the Earth. Use the -tz option to specify your timezone. Xcalendar X Windows based Calendar program. Xcolors Display the current named color database. Use -decw command line option to see the DECwindows named color database. Xcpustate Display the state of the cpu. Xdaliclock A transforming digital clock. Includes the SHAPE extension. Xdir A simple X Windows based directory browser. Xfed X Windows Font editor for BDF (Binary Distribution Format) based fonts. Xfig A very good drawing tool for X Windows. Xfishtank Background display of different species of marine life in motion. Very good when used as the login background of a VAXstation. Still running way to fast under ALPHA!. Xless X Windows based file viewer. Xloadimage Another root window image loader. Xlock A "pause screen" X Windows based application. Locks out your display until your password is entered. Xmessage Display a simple message with a selection of buttons to press. Xmoon Display the moon in the root window. Xpostit Simple note taking application. Xscope A poor man's X protocol analyzer. Supports both TCP/IP and DECnet. The TCP/IP version is built with TGV's MultiNet, but is easily ported to another vendor's. Very helpful is debugging what's happening between the client and server. DNXSCOPE is the DECnet version of XScope and IPXSCOPE is the TCP/IP version. WARNING: You will need SYSNAM, TMPMBX andNETMBX in order to run DNXSCOPE. Under ALPHA, IPXSCOPE has not yet been ported. Xshowcmap Shows the standard colormap. Xskel Simple X Windows based sketcher. Xtalk X Windows based "phone" utility. XV X Windows based Image application. Supports the standard formats (TIFF, JPEG, GIF, etc). XV comes complete with its own documentation, in [.XV.DOC]. X11 Contributed Window Managers TEKWM Tektronix's Window Manager. The ICCCM version of AWM (Another Window Manager which was written by Digitial). Not very user friendly, but better than no window manager at all. TWM Tab (or Tom's) Window Manager. The current standard window manager supported by MIT. Very userful and interactive. Supports user configurable root menu. UWM Universal Window Manager (or Ugly Window Manager, again written by Digital). Very UN-friendly window manager with no support for title bars, everything is done from the root window. X11 Demos Maze X Windows based maze. Muncher Draws interesting patterns into a window. Plaid Draws plaid patterns into a window. Puzzle Puzzle similar to the puzzle as shipped with DECwindows. Wframe A 3D Wireframe viewer. The example wireframe data files are in X11Data:*.dat. Supports various shading methods. Very hard on low memory systems. Currently the display of the image doesn't work. X3d Another 3d viewer. Views wireframes (in stereo if available). Example files reside in X11Data:*.Objects. Xev X Event Display. Displayes keyboard, mouse and other X Server events. Xeyes X Windows based eyes. They follow the mouse around. Includes the SHAPE extension. Xgc Very good example for demostrating the different capabilities of Xlib's GC (Graphic Contexts). Xmpdraw X Motif Map Drawing application. Example maps are found in X11Data:*.amb. X11 Athena Examples Popup Example of doing popups using the Athena Widget set. XBoxes Example of using the Athena Box Widget. XButtonBox Example of using the Athena Button Box Widget. XCommand Example of the Athena Command Widget. XCommand2 Another example of the Athena Command Widget XHw Example of the different Athena Widgets. XLabel Example of the Athena Label Widget. XList Example of the Athena List Box Widget. XMenu1 Example of using the Athena Menu Widgets. XMenu2 Example of using the Athena Menu Widgets. XScroll Example of using the Athena Scroll Widget. XText Example of using the Athena Text Widget. XWidgets Example of using most of the Athena Widgets. X11 Games Ishido Ancient Solatiare Game. JetPack Basic adventure game. Xast X Windows based asteroids game X4war X Windows game of strategy X11 Libraries Xaw The Object library for the Athena widget set. Xmu The Object library for the X Miscellaneous routines. XVMSUTILS The Object library for the VMS/Unix Emulation routines.