DECUS Heritage

Version: Fall 1996
Submitted By: Frank Bush
Operating System: OpenVMS
Changes & Improvements: New and Updated programs from the 1995 version.

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Abstract: This collection contains a set of programs, tools, utilities and tips that will be of immediate use on any OpenVMS system. In almost all cases, each directory contains both the VAX and Alpha AXP executable images, as well as AAAREADME.* files and complete sources.

Organization of this collection
Each tools is in its own directory. In most cases, files that are specific to Alpha AXP contain the substring "alpha" in the file extension. For example, in the directory [BAT],

 	BAT.EXE		is the executable for OpenVMS VAX, and
 	BAT.ALPHA_EXE	is the executable for OpenVMS AXP.
 

In the following list, the status of each entry is indicated by "New" for a new entry, "Updated" for an updated entry. All others have not been changed since the 1995 version of the Essential Tools Collection.

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Contents by Category

• System Management Tools
• General Tools
• Editors
• File Archivers/Compressers/Encoders
• File Transfer Utilities
• GNU Utilities
• Internet Utilities
• Printer Symbionts
• Miscellaneous

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System Management Tools:

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[.APFRAG]

Page/Swap File usage display (Alpha only)

[.BLISS]

BLISS compilers for Alpha and VAX

[.BOOKMAN]

Select On-line Doc file to copy from CD

[.CHOWN]

New: UNIX-like Change Owner utility

[.CLRREF]

Clear the owner fields for a device

[.COMPARE_DIR]

New: Compare the contents of two directories

[.CTRL-VERIFY]

Toggle SET VERIFY using CTRL-V (AXP P1-space demo)

[.DCL_RECALL]

Patch to allow recall of more than 20 commands

[.DSNLINK_NEW]

Updated: Automatically retrieve titles of new DSN ITS articles

[.EPM]

Disk I/O Perfomance Monitor (VAX only)

[.ESET]

New: Set process attributes

[.ETHERMON]

Ethernet Monitor (VAX only)

[.EXECSYMB]

VMS symbiont for execution queues

[.FAL]

Information on FAL logging

[.FILE]

Manipulate VMS file attributes

[.FILES_INFO]

Display all processes that have a certain file open

[.FLORIAN]

A file undelete utility

[.GETCMD]

Display the recall buffer of another process

[.GETUAI]

Updated: Place User Authorization Information into DCL symbols

[.GLOGIN]

Log in as another user without a password

[.HPWD]

Portable C source for VMS password hashing algorithm

[.IMGID]

New: Display image header information area

[.INVISIBLE]

Hide your process

[.JUMP]

New: Become another user

[.KILL]

Delete/FORCEX processes by username or process id

[.LAST]

Display last login information for accounts

[.LASTCMD]

Display last command from terminal typeahead buffer

[.LIST]

Maintain user information associated with a username

[.MAILUAF]

Manage the VMS Mail profile file

[.MBOX]

Peek at mailbox messages with removing them

[.MLU021]

Media Loader Utility -- DCL access to media loaders

[.MWAIT]

Determine why a process is in MWAIT (VAX only)

[.NOTICE]

Utility for managing login notices v2.0

[.ODS-2-READER]

Read VMS files from ODS-2 disk under UNIX, VMS, OSF/1

[.PASSWORD]

Save and Restore a password

[.PASSWORD_POLICY]

VMS password policy module

[.PERF_METER]

Motif-based graphical performance meter for OpenVMS

[.PERMANENT]

Create permanent DCL symbols (can't be deleted, etc.)

[.PROBE]

New: Network monitoring tool for Ethernet traffic

[.PROFILE]

Screen-oriented interface to AUTHORIZE

[.PROJECT]

Manage project access with multiple users

[.PSTAT]

Show process status for all or selected processes

[.QUE_MON]

Display print queues

[.QUOTA]

Get diskquota information DCL symbols

[.SCANUAF]

Scan SYSUAF for accounts matching specified criteria

[.SETUP]

Centralize symbols, etc., for third-party products

[.SETUSER]

Become another user (Alpha only)

[.SETUSERNAME]

Change username for a process

[.SET_PRCNAM]

Change process name for any process

[.SLMOD]

Search List Modification utility

[.SORT_DISKQUOTA]

Sort diskquota file and reload in alphabetical order

[.SUPERVISOR]

Terminal monitoring and logging (VAX only)

[.SYMBOL]

Set or delete DCL symbols for another process

[.SYSALF]

Same as SYSMAN ALF, but a lot friendlier

[.TESTDEV]

New: Disk exerciser and read-performance measurer

[.VAX_STRIPE_DRIVER]

Disk striping driver (VAX only)

[.VDDRIVER]

Virtual Disk drivers for OpenVMS AXP and OpenVMS VAX

[.VDSTEP2]

A Step 2 Virtual Disk Driver for OpenVMS AXP

[.VERB]

View/modify DCL command definitions v2.2

[.VFE]

VMS File Editor, can edit any VMS file format

[.VMSTPC]

Tape copy program (to/from a container file)

[.VQM]

Visual Queue Manager

[.WATCHER]

Idle terminal monitor

[.ZDEC]

Zero Device Error Counters

[.ZT]

Serve tape drives over DECNET

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General Tools:

[.ANALY]

AnalyRIM and Analyticalc, DBMS and spreadsheet system

[.BAT]

Execute multiple commands in a batch queue

[.BOSS]

Updated: Multi-session terminal monitor

[.CD]

New: Change Default command for VMS

[.CLAIM]

Assume ownership of files in your directory

[.CRS]

Norton Commander-style directory browser for VMS

[.CSWING]

Graphical directory and file manager v3.7.5

[.CVTLIS]

Updated: Convert source listings to source files

[.DATE]

Show day of week, date, Julian day, and week number

[.DCL_DATABASE]

DCL-based database manager

[.DELIVER]

General mail delivery manager for VMS Mail

[.DELTREE]

Delete all files in a directory tree

[.DRLOGIN]

RLOGIN (remote login) for DECNET

[.ETAPE]

General-purpose tape handling program

[.EXTENDED_MATH]

Multiply or divide two character strings in any radix

[.FLIST]

TPU-based directory and manager

[.FREE]

Show space utilization on all mounted disks (AXP only)

[.JOBLOG]

Record terminal output, w/ secure mode

[.LIBSEARCH]

SEARCH command for VMS text and help libraries

[.LOGIN]

MACRO program to replace most of LOGIN.COM

[.LOGGER]

Log terminal sessions using FT pseudo-terminal driver

[.LOOK]

Updated: Fast file viewer

[.MAILCOUNT]

Match external MAIL$*.MAI files with MAIL.MAI pointers

[.MAKE-PERRY]

MAKE from Jesse Perry

[.MAKE]

MAKE v3.4-2 from Todd Aven, Ned Freed

[.MGBOOK]

Updated: MadGoat BOOK, a .DECW$BOOK reader for terminals

[.MGSD]

MadGoat SET DEFAULT replacement, with stack, etc.

[.MMK]

Updated: MadGoat MAKE Utility v3.4-3, compatible with DEC MMS

[.MODIFY]

Modify ASCII files (replace strings, detab, etc.)

[.MOST]

File viewer, similar to UNIX more utility

[.MP]

A PostScript pretty printer

[.MPEG_PLAY]

MPEG (movie) player for OpenVMS and Motif

[.PACKASM]

VMS Mail and Usenet News package assembler/decoder

[.PARALYZE]

Terminal locking program

[.PCAL]

PostScript calendar generator v4.5

[.PSUTILS]

Postscript utilities

[.RCARD]

Display DECwindows CardFiler info on VT terminals

[.REMOTE]

Execute commands on remote DECNET nodes

[.SCAN4]

Scan DCL command output for text strings

[.SEND]

Updated: Send messages to terminals

[.SHELP]

Screen-oriented interface to VMS HELP

[.SLAVE]

Keep a subprocess for executing background commands

[.SMORE]

New: UNIX more utility for output of any DCL command

[.SPELL]

Encompass Spell

[.SPELL_DICTIONARY]

Dictionaries for Encompass Spell

[.STRINGS]

Search for printable characters in a file

[.SWIM]

Multi-session windowing terminal utility

[.SWITCH]

Enhanced SET DEFAULT with partial name matching

[.TAIL]

Display the last line of a file

[.TERM_LOCK]

Lock a terminal using the account password

[.VTBOOK]

A bookreader for character-cell terminals

[.X11]

Xaw3d, Xmu, Ghostview-VMS, XFig

[.X11R4]

Client and demos for DECwindows/Motif

[.XAUTOLOCK]

Automatically lock inactive X window screen

[.XDVI]

TeX .DVI previewer for DECwindows

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Editors:

[.ATG_EVE]

EDT emulator for EVE

[.EMACS]

Updated: GNU emacs v19.28

[.JED]

VMS/UNIX/DOS emacs/EDT editor v0.96

[.SED]

GNU sed v2.03 (stream editor)

[.SEDT]

SEDT editor, a superset of EDT

[.TPU]

A collection of utilities written in TPU

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File Archivers/Compressers/Encoders:

[.GZIP]

GNU zip v1.2.4

[.HEXIFY]

Hexify/Dehexify (binary <-> ASCII converters)

[.LZCOMPRESS]

LZW compress and decompress programs

[.MFTU]

Mail File Transfer Utility (binary <-> ASCII converter)

[.UNARJ]

Unpack ARJ archive files

[.UNZIP]

Updated: Unpack ZIP archive files (see also ZIP)

[.UUCODE]

Updated: UUENCODE and UUDECODE utilities

[.VMSTAR]

Read/Write UNIX tar files v3.3-4

[.VMS_SHARE]

Packages source file into files suitable for mailing

[.VMS_UNSHARE]

Unpack VMS_SHARE files without executing them

[.ZIP]

Updated: Build ZIP archive files (see also UNZIP)

[.ZOO]

ZOO v2.1 file archiver

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File Transfer Utilties:

[.C-KERMIT]

C-Kermit 5A(190) file transfer & communication program

[.KERMIT]

BLISS Kermit v3.3.126 (see also C-KERMIT)

[.XMODEM]

X-Modem file transfer protocol

[.YMODEM]

Y-Modem file transfer protocol

[.ZMODEM]

Z-Modem file transfer protocol

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GNU Utilities:

[.EMACS]

Updated: GNU emacs v19.28

[.FGREP]

GNU fgrep v1.1

[.FLEX]

GNU flex v2.3.7

[.GAWK]

GNU gawk v2.15.6

[.GREP]

GNU grep v2.0

[.GZIP]

GNU zip v1.2.4

[.SED]

GNU sed v2.03 (stream editor)

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Internet Utilities:

[.ANUNEWS]

Usenet News Server and Client v6.1b10

[.ARCHIE]

Archie client for VMS (MultiNet, UCX, TWG)

[.GOPHER_CLIENT]

Gopher client for VMS v2.1.2

[.GOPHER_SERVER]

Gopher server for VMS v1.2VMS-1

[.HTTP_SERVER]

Updated: A DECthreads-based HTTP server (World-Wide Web) v1.9

[.LYNX]

World-Wide Web Browser for terminals v2.4-2

[.MGFTP]

Updated: MadGoat FTP client and server for VMS (NETLIB) v2.1-2

[.MG_FINGER]

Updated: MadGoat FINGER client and server for VMS (NETLIB) v1.2

[.MOSAIC]

World-Wide Web Browser for DECwindows Motif/VMS v2.4

[.MX]

Updated: Message Exchange (MX) Mailer v4.1 for SMTP, Jnet, UUCP

[.NEWSRDR]

NNTP client reader for Usenet News v4.8-6

[.NSQUERY]

Utility to query Internet domain name servers v3.0-3

[.PH_CLIENT]

Phone Book client v4.10 (CCSO Nameserver)

[.QI]

Updated: Phone Book server v3.08 (CCSO Nameserver)

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Printer Symbionts:

[.HPLASER]

Symbiont for HP LaserJet printers

[.LASER]

Symbiont for Postscript printers

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Miscellaneous:

[.AXP-DRIVER-EXAMPLE]

Example VAX VMS device driver ported to OpenVMS AXP

[.BULLETIN]

Bulletin Board Usenet News reader (Source only)

[.CD_PLAYER]

Audio CD player/manager for VMS and Motif

[.CMEM]

Tool for debugging C memory allocation routines

[.EncompassLIB]

Encompass Library information and browsable catalog

[.MDMLIB]

A library of routines used by MadGoat software

[.NETLIB]

Updated: TCP/IP library routines v2.0E

[.SIGTAPEINDEX]

Encompass SIG Tape information

[.UUCP]

Encompass UUCP v2.0 (VAX only)

[.VMSSERV]

Mail-based file server (in DCL)

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Last Update: Fri Dec 20 13:18:16 1996