DECUS Heritage

Version: 1.2
Submitted By: P.R. Smith, NYU Medical Center
Operating System: VAX/VMS V5.0, OpenVMS V1.0
Source Language: VAX FORTRAN
Keywords: Data Base Management, Utilities - VMS
Software Requirements: FORTRAN compiler required.

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Abstract: This is the V1.2 version of the NYU Medical Center NIH-Guide reading program for OpenVMS. The main change from the V1.1 version is the port to AXP/OpenVMS V1.0. This code is Alpha-ready.

The purpose of the Guide Reader is to provide a user friendly tool to search or browse the NIH-Guide, as distributed electronically via BITNET. It is designed to allow the NIH-Guide database to be updated automatically as new Guide information is distributed, allowing administrative overhead for database management to be significantly reduced, if not eliminated. Although the current version is VMS specific, the design is such that the database can be accessed from UNIX (via NFS), Macintosh (via AppleShare) and IBM-PC (via PCSA or Novell file service) platforms. A single database should then be available to a majority of potential users irrespective of platform.

The program consists of two main components. The Guide-Reading program itself, and the Guide-Formatting program. The Guide-Reading program is the component used by the user. This program reads the Guide database and presents the Guide items to the user for inspection. The program is driven by single key strokes using programmed keys on the VT100 or VT200 style keyboard, or alphanumeric keys for other terminals. The user can print items of interest to an attached printer, or to a VMS printer queue.

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Last Update: Thu Jan 11 18:48:28 1996