RSX/IAS SIG Tape Distribution - Spring 1990
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This is the RSX/IAS SIG Symposium Tape from the Spring 1990 DECUS
Symposium at New Orleans. The tape contains material submitted by the
user community for the tape at that meeting.
The programs on this tape are from user submissions. The DECUS
staff, the RSX & IAS SIG staffs, and DEC are all in complete ignorance
of the contents of the tapes. No warranty of any kind is implied in
the distribution of these tapes. The programs may or may not be well
documented, they may or may not work, they may even crash your system.
If you have a problem with the contents of the tape, contact the
author of the program. Do not contact DECUS, DEC, or the RSX or IAS
SIGs.
The tape contains about 275 files requiring 4700 blocks of disk
space. This will fit on a 600 foot reel of tape in BRU format at 1600
BPI, and so is being distributed in this way. To simplify
distribution and production, the tape is a single BRU container file
followed (for the LUG distribution only) by several extra files.
Directory [300,1] contains the files documenting the contents of
the tape. The following files are present:
RSX90ATPE.DOC contains an abstract of the contents of the tape by UIC.
AAAREADME.90A contains a concatenated list of all the README files on
the tape.
RSX90ADIR.LIS contains a directory of all the files on the tape (BRU
does not produce nice directories). This is a brief listing with
UICs and filenames only for space reasons.
SUBMIT.DOC contains guidelines for submissions to the RSX/IAS Sig Tape
collection. This is MUST reading for everyone who desires to
submit a program to the SIG tape.
BEGIN90A.DOC has a copy of this text.
UICSET90A.CMD contains the UFD commands to create all the needed UIC's
on a device whose name is asked for in the command file. Edit it
to match your needs before using BRU to extract the tape contents.
A word of caution: under at least some circumstances, 11M V4.0
BRU's /UFD switch creates directories even when it doesn't put
anything in them.
Glenn C. Everhart
RSX/IAS SIG Tape Copy Coordinator
GE Aerospace Technology Operations
GE Corp.
Bldg. 100, Room U3040
230 Goddard Blvd.
King of Prussia, PA 19406
215-354-7610
Everhart@Arisia.dnet.ge.com
US Mail address:
25 Sleigh Ride Rd.
Glen Mills, PA 19342
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[MCE] - slightly modified MCE from DECUS Europe F'89
The latest version of MCE from DECUS Europe is as good a command line editor
as has appeard for RSX. I have put in a very minor hack to add a 'PAUSE'
command. This command causes MCE to detach the terminal and execute a STOP.
You UNSTOP it to resume MCE. This is very useful for those situations where
MCE gets in the way of other things you're trying to do.
Thanks to DECUS Europe for producing the MCE program!
Jim Bostwick
Cargill Inc.
Research Bldg.
Applied Math and Instrumentation
P.O. Box 9300
Minneapolis, MN 55440
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GREP V2.00
Bruce R. Mitchell
Machine Intelligence and Industrial Magic
Consultants to the RSX Community
390 North Shore Drive
RR #1, Box 216
Fountain City, WI 54629
(608) 687-4015
This is the distribution kit for GREP V2.00.
GREP (Get Regular Expression) has been around in the RSX
community for many years. While working on a project which
demanded much searching of poorly documented source modules, I
pulled GREP source off an old SIG tape.
After diddling with it some time, it became apparent some
things should have been done differently. In particular, I/O
buffering should have been faster.
This new version of GREP is the result. It supports the
following features:
- Decimal file version number handling
- Adjustable input file multi-big-buffering
- Brightness bolding of located text on DEC_CRT terminals
- Generic or optional exact searching
- Optional located text pointers below located record
- Optional identification of build parameters
- Correct handling of wildcarded searches for ;0 and ;-1
- Optional leading record numbers on located record
The multibuffering big buffer size is tunable by changing
the value BBCT in the source file. 16 seems to work well. The
bigger BBCT, the faster the program runs.
Systems without decimal version numbers or the FEAT$
directive should comment the definition of R$$FEA, which controls
automatic handling of decimal version numbers.
I like it. Why not? I wrote it. I think you will like it
too. Please send any suggestions or bug fixes to the address
above.
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TEM - Terminal EMulator for RSX -- Version: 90.012 Page 1
Author: T. R. Wyant III, E. I. DuPont de Nemours, Richmond,
VA.
Operating System: RSX11M+ V2.0 forward, RSX-11M V4.0 forward,
RSX-11S V4.0 forward, VAX-11 RSX V2.0 forward.
Language: MACRO-11
Memory Required: 16KW
Other Hardware Required: Dial-out Modem
Keywords: RSX-11; Communications; Terminal Emulator
Abstract:
TEM provides "dumb" terminal emulation over a full duplex TT:
line. It allows the user to "become" a terminal on a remote
system, and to do ASCII file transfer between systems. TEM has
been used to communicate with RSX, VMS, RSTS, and TOPS-20 sys-
tems, as well as non-DEC equipment. It requires no software on
the remote system (and therefore has no error checking).
In addition to the basic functionality, TEM can automati-
cally issue canned commands to smart modems at the beginning
and end of a session. The user can also select from the fol-
lowing features:
* Local Echo.
* Automatic linefeed on carriage return.
* Passthru of control/s, control/q, control/o and control/x
to the remote system.
* User selectable attention and end-of-file characters.
* Inbound and outbound character mapping.
* Specifiable record delay and prompt character for file
transfer.
* Parity generation and checking.
* Eight-bit character support.
* Input line analysis, in ASCII, binary, octal, decimal, or
hex.
TEM requires at least RSX-11M+ V2.0, VAX-11 RSX V2.0,
RSX-11M V4.0, or RSX-11S V4.0. If running under RSX-11M or
RSX-11S, it requires the full-duplex TT: driver, get/set mul-
tiple characteristics, and unsolicited input AST's. Correct
access of named directories and files numbered in decimal re-
quires the FEAT$ directive. The GIN$ directive is used to pre-
vent nonprivileged users from using TEM to read files that are
none of their business (eg: LB:[0,0]RSX11.SYS). An attempt
has been made to conditionalize TEM for RSX-11M V3.2, but I
have no way to check it. TEM can be initiated from and commun-
icate with any reasonable serial device, but there may be res-
trictions if not being used on a TT:-type device.
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[AMIRTR] - Cargill AMI Message Router
This directory contains sources and some test programs for the message router
program. Allong with [MESSAGE] and [DECNET], this directory comprises a
system for extending M-PLUS Variable Send Data directives across DECNET.
These programs are written in a combination of MACRO-11 and Oregon (ne' OMSI)
Pascal. They require our utility library in addition to OMSI Pascal. Our
library has been on several recent SIG tapes. Both it, and a refined version
of the message software will be on the Fall '90 RSX SIG tape.
Jim Bostwick
Cargill Inc.
Research Bldg.
Applied Math and Instrumentation
P.O. Box 9300
Minneapolis, MN 55440
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[DECNET] - Oregon Pascal DECNET interface routines
This directory contains a set of routines to allow programs written in
Oregon (ne' OMSI) Pascal to access DECNET intertask communication facilities.
Some test and demonstration programs are also included.
In addition to the compiler, our utility library is also required. The utility
library has been on several recent RSX Sig tapes. Both it, and a revised
version of this software, will be on the F'90 tape.
It should be relatively easy to adapt this code for use with Pascal-11.
Jim Bostwick
Cargill Inc.
Research Bldg.
Applied Math and Instrumentation
P.O. Box 9300
Minneapolis, MN 55440
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[MESSAGE] - Cargill AMI Message Router
This directory contains sources and some test programs for the message router
program. Allong with [AMIRTR] and [DECNET], this directory comprises a
system for extending M-PLUS Variable Send Data directives across DECNET.
These programs are written in a combination of MACRO-11 and Oregon (ne' OMSI)
Pascal. They require our utility library in addition to OMSI Pascal. Our
library has been on several recent SIG tapes. Both it, and a refined version
of the message software will be on the Fall '90 RSX SIG tape.
Jim Bostwick
Cargill Inc.
Research Bldg.
Applied Math and Instrumentation
P.O. Box 9300
Minneapolis, MN 55440
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This directory contains a symbolic debugger which runs on RSX-11M-PLUS.
Complete details may be found in DBG.DOC.
A program to symbolically examine and modify non-overlaid task images (KTZ) may
be built from these sources using TSKIMG.MAC and KTZBLD.CMD. Commands are
identical to those for the debugger except execution is not possible. Assemble
and build KTZ using the following MCR commands. Replace [DBG] with wherever
you put the code.
MAC @DBGASM ! Sorry, this takes a while.
MAC TSKIMG=LB:[1,1]EXEMC/ML,SY:[DBG]DBGPRE/PA:1,TSKIMG
TKB @KTZBLD
KTZ command line format:
KTZ taskimage[.TSK][/RO]
Submitted by Dave Mischler to the RSX BBS (612/777-7664), for inclusion on the
S'89 RSX Sig Tape. Also available for download from the BBS.
Jim Bostwick