DECUS Heritage

Version: Spring 1995
Author: Various
Submitted By: Glenn Everhart Ph.D
Operating System: LINUX, OpenVMS, OpenVMS AXP, OpenVMS VAX, ULTRIX
Source Language: C, DCL, MACRO-32, PASCAL, VAX FORTRAN, OTHER

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Abstract: These are in VMS Backup format in four save-sets: one each for [95AVMSLT...], [LT95A...], [VMS95A...], and [EncompassLIB...]. The first is the index saveset (95AVMSLT), comprising around 17000 blocks. The other is the Encompass library catalog in machine readable format (EncompassLIB).

Following is a brief summary of highlights:

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[.95AVMSLT]

Indices and descriptions of what is included. [.tools] subdirectory contains tools needed to decompress or unpack some packed items.

[.EncompassLIB]

Current machine readable catalog of Encompass library contents as straight text. The BROWSER fulltext retrieval tool is included. Also the Encompass Catalog Information System tool is included. Also present is a BROWSEable file EncompassALL.TXT which has the BROWSER indices pre-built.

[.LT95A.]

[.GNUSOFTWARE]

Gnu software new since Fall 1995 tapes. Includes G77, Gnu C, Gnu Emacs, Diff, grep, CVS, Postscript, BISON, and more.

[.LINUX-ALPHA]

Linux (beta) distributions for Alpha AXP platforms. Includes sources and binaries

[.VMS95A.]

[.ANTIVIRUS]

Antivirals for PC and Mac plus various security tools for mostly Unix systems.

[.ANUNEWS]

ANU News 6.1 beta 10 release. This allows a VMS (Vax or AXP) platform to fully handle net news as client or server. Patch to fix scrolling problem here too.

[.DFWLUG]

MPEG player for Windows. Image conversion for Windows on PC. Cracker text files FYI. Frequently Asked Questions lists for many topics.

[.DSJ]

Listings from Digital Systems Journal magazine (and also how to subscribe).

[.GCE95A]

Virtual disk drivers; striping, normal, and a template driver for I/O interception. New AXP version support is illustrated. BULLETIN news reader and messaging system. Patch for CMU TCP/IP FTP. JED editor, an EDT like editor for VMS, MSdos, Unix, etc.

[.GLE]

Graphics Language Editor. Almost WYSIWYG.

[.GNUSOFTWARE]

Items logically part of the gnu software collection in the L&T tree moved for reasons of space.

[.GOPHER]

VMS Gopher client and server

[.JONES]

HTTP server (for WWW clients like Mosaic or Netscape)

[.LANGUAGES]

Pointers to many free language processors (compilers, interpreters, etc.) plus the SUIF compiler exploration suite.

[.MAILNEWS]

TIN and FNEWS newsreaders for VMS

[.MONTAGAR]

Prototype VMS management station that runs on PCs. Papers from many Encompass talks by Dave Cathey

[.MOREAU]

A large collection of X utils and games is included. Present are a Tetris-alike, GhostScript for VMS, MPEG movie players, chess, updated Xlock screen locker, Xrobots game, XV image viewer (MANY formats), Imagemagick image editor, XWpick menu pick system, moonclock, blockade, xtartan, xtiff, xwit, and more.

[.MRICHMOND]

LHARC, LZCOMP, and ZOO versions with VMS improvements (so file dates are preserved etc.) and compiled on Alpha.

[.NET95A]

Articles from the net, largely Info-Vax, plus sources from here and there. Most sources submitted to info-vax or pointed to there are present. Highlights include Bliss-11 pdp11 BLISS compiler, JOBLOG session logger, unix login enhancements,Freestone net firewall system SDCL structured DCL update, pdp11 cross assembler, Secure Telnet, Extended FTP daemons for unix, Graphics viewer, Topview VMS graphics package, Terminal intercept for Alpha VMS, ZIP library (so programs can call zip compress & decompress), WXWindows - MS Windows - alike for VMS, library etc., Many FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) files, Change to allow "passive" FTP (useful for firewalls), pdp11 emulators for Intel., Updates for CMU TCP/IP SLIP support, PC ethernet monitors, HTML editor, AXP terminal intercept, and many more.

[.NETPBM]

Successor to PBM allowing conversion of images between many formats.

[.NETSRC]

Items from various *source* newsgroups. Included are automatic structured diagrammers for C, Fortran, the TSCREEN screen intercept for unix (which uses streams and provides "watch someone's terminal" facilities and "control someone else's terminal" facilities. Also various fixes for news, and some XV mods which allow reading and access by XV of photo CDs.

[.OSUDAR]

SETUSER to "become" someone else on AXP, DVI to Postscript convert, program to clear mount verify timeout, cluster show system

[.PERL]

PERL report and utility language, V5.001, with later patches and VMS improvements.

[.READVMSBACKUP]

Read VMS Backup tapes on unix boxes. Skips XOR blocks and can be built for big-endian (e.g. Sun) boxes or little-endian (e.g. Intel, DEC) boxes.

[.REMTAPE]

Remote magnetic tape. Makes tapes located on one machine on your net look local to another. Works on VAX or Alpha AXP, and works across architectures too...uses DECnet transport.

[.TANNER]

QI nameserver for network servers

[.TK]

Items from WKU archives. Ada docs in Bookreader, find who has ISAM record locked, set default, debug C memory allocation, remote login over DECnet (like rlogin), Gnu AWK for VMS, login as someone else, DECthreads HTTP server, log session to file, text iewer, show other process' saved commands, get unread mail count for someone, manage mail profile file, view Bookreader files on VTs, finger server, MAKE utility (build files, like MMS), Postscript pretty printer, create digests for MX mailer, latest NETLIB (uniform interface for all TCP/IP pkgs), VMS news reader, find IP sites, graphical performance meter, handle cmds in a kept "slave" subprocess, BSD sockets for VMS TCP/IP (anyone's), find strings in binary files, TCP/IP print symbiont for VMS, disk drive tester, X 3D widgets, utils, and Ghostcript.

[.VAJHXJ]

Convert binary files to hex. Font editor for VT220+

[.VMSGCC]

VMS binaries for Gnu C 2.6.3 and Gnu Emacs 19.28 and more.

[.WWW]

Mosaic, Lynx WWW browsers for VMS. Also current CERN WWW code.

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Last Update: Thu Jul 25 13:33:19 1996