The VAX Programs List
(last updated: 24 Apr, 1990)
The following programs are available as described below. If you have additions or corrections to make, please contact me at RIC@RML2.SRI.COM. Please submit ALL applications-specific questions to the originators of the codes. Availability codes are at the end of the list.
NOTE: A current version of this file may be retreived by sending a ONE LINE
mail message to: NETSERVER@RML2.SRI.COM. The one line should say:
?PACKAGE*VAX_LIST
I will also try to keep a current version of VAX_LIST.TXT (this
file) available via anonymous FTP from: rml2.sri.com (128.18.22.20).
NOTE 2: Many people cannot access files via FTP. It would be nice if more
sites obtained VMSSERV and/or NETSERVER and helped distribute some
of these utilities.
I have been informed that a BITNET FTP server exists. Allegedly
it will provide help if you send a one-line message containing the
word HELP. The server is: BITFTP@PUCC.BITNET.
NOTE 3: Servers can be ugly. There are some directions for using VMSSERV
at the end of this message. If you have trouble using VMSSERV or
other mail servers, you might try to contact the author via email,
or, if necessary, send a message to: POSTMASTER@HOST or
SYSTEM@HOST. That ought to get someone's attention. %-)
ANU NEWS A news program for VMS. For the usenet system of news msgs.
Get 000_readme.ascii first. (1) See also NNTP_NEWS and UUCP.
Availability: F1, D1
BECOME Allows you to "become" another user, if you're privileged.
Availability: S10
BOSS Allows user to run several interactive processes at once.
Availability: E1
BULLETIN Bulletin board SW for VMS systems.
Availability: S1
CLAIM Allows users to become owners of files placed in their
directory by other users.
Availability: F11, S12
DELIVER PD tools to allow forwarding of VMS mail to multiple users.
Other utilities as well.
Availability: F14, F25, S11
DOE-MACSYMA Symbolic math package with numeric and plotting capabilities.
Availability: M1 (cost for media and distribution, etc.).
DVIDIS Utility to allow previewing of DVI files on VAX workstations
using VWS (not DECwindows). Get DVIDIS.A and fixrec.exe
and/or fixrec.c. Use fixrec to modify backup record size.
Use binary mode FTP on DVIDIS.A and fixrec.exe.
Availability: F18
DVI drivers Converts DVI files to formats that various printers can use.
Availability: F2
DVI2PS Converts DVI (usually TEX or graphic) output to Postscript.
Availability: F3 (1)
ETAPE EBCDIC-ASCII tape reader-writer.
Availability: S8
FILE Changes attributes of a file.
Availability: S5
FIND Searches through index file of a disk to locate a file
matching specific conditions.
Availability: S5
FINGER Utility to provide info about users on local or remote systems.
Availability: S2, S3, F10, S10
GNU Emacs Popular screen-oriented editor. Runs on a variety of
computers. Developed at MIT.
Availability: F4, F5 (COMPRESSED VMS-BACKUP FILE), F6
MG, formerly MicroGnuEmacs, is a smaller version of
GNU emacs, and is available from: F17 (in pub/mg2a.tar.Z).
Versions for VMS, UNIX, Amiga, and MSDOS may be available.
A VMS backup saveset is available at: F10 (VMSD only).
You may also need reblock.exe to fix backup record size.
F26.
GNU C C compiler for VMS and other computers. ANSI plus extensions.
Compatible with other VAX languages, but no VMS debugger
records produced. GNU debugger (GDB) can be used for this.
Availability: F4 (1), F7, F26
GNU C++ GNU version of C++ compiler. C++ is to ANSI C what ANSI C
is to C. Check it out. (2 good books: C++ Primer by Lippman,
and C++ Programming [The Waite Group] by John Berry)
Availability: F24
KERMIT Popular file transfer utility. Often used to transfer files
between two different computers. Versions for VAX, IBM-PC,
MAC, UNIX, TOPS-20 and many other machines.
Availability: F8
LIBSEARCH Searches through HELP and other libraries for a specific
topic. Lists commands relevant to that topic.
Availability: E4
LZCOMP And LZDCMP. Lempel-Ziv file compression and decompression
utilities. Allegedly allows exchanges with Unix Compress
program.
Availability: F1
MAINT A utility to maintain/update/control directories and the
files that reside in them.
Availability: F9 (in pub/maint).
MAKE A program maintainer. Can be used to recreate a program
by only recompiling source programs that are out of date.
Analogous to "make" on UNIX systems. Two versions exist,
at least: 1 very similar to the Unix make; 1 specifically
for VMS.
Availability: MAKE/VMS v3.4 from F10 (Read make.doc first),
F19
MAKEINDEX Indexer for LaTeX.
Availability: F2
MESSAGE Utility that logs all messages to a file.
Availability: S7
MORE A unix-like file display tool.
Availability: E6 (Shan Xuning version), F19 (Corbet version)
MPMGR Modparams.dat file manager for large clusters.
Availability: F11, S12
NANNY A set of useful tools and an environment sourrounding VMS
(will do autologouts, for example).
Availability: E7 (get permission to copy), F20
NEWSRDR An nntp client package systems with CMU-Tek TCP/IP or
VMS/ULTRIX Connection.
Availability: F11, S12
NNTP_NEWS nntp newsreader for VMS. See also ANU NEWS.
Availability: F12
NSQUERY Name server query program for CMU/Tek TCP V6.3 and later.
Availability: F11, S12
PHOTO Uses pseudo terminal driver to "capture" a terminal session.
Everything typed between PHOTO and LOGOUT is captured in
a file.
Availability: F10, F23
PIPE Utility that provides UNIX-style piping and redirection for
a VMS environment.
Availability: E10
PMDF General purpose system for delivering computer-based mail.
Send a request for info to E8 before attempting to access
this product.
Availability: M2, E8 (queries only)
PROFILE Screen-oriented user account add/modify utility.
Availability: F12
PTDRIVER Pseudo terminal driver.
Availability: F10
REPLY Logs messages to a file; replies to user messages.
Availability: S7
SDFILTER Screen Dump Filter. Allows VMS Workstations running VWS/UIS
more control over VWS screen dump output options.
Availability: F11, S12
SERVERS (MAIL) Utilities that will check for incoming mail and respond to
requests (for files or information).
Availability: Form: (COMMAND_TO_USE) SITE_NAME
(SEND VMSSERV.PACKAGE) VMSSERV@UBVMSA.CC.BUFFALO.EDU
and UBVMSB,UBVMSC,UBVMSD
(?PACKAGE*NETSERVER) NETSERVER@VAXMFG.TECH.NWU.EDU
(INDEX) VMSSERV@NCDLAB.ULCC.AC.UK
SETUP Package to allow system managers to centralize the per-user
and per-setup administration of many third-party SW products.
Availability: F11, S12
SNAP/WATCH Displays statistics about system processes. Allows
various levels of detail, modification and observation
by privileged users.
Availability: E11, F10
SPELL Spelling checker (source in Pascal, exe in Decus TEX).
The dictionaries are large indexed files.
Availability: F16 (Part of Decus TeX)
STATUS Utility that provides considerable detailed information
about a VMS system and it users and resources. Needs DECNET.
Availability: S5
SUM (Show Users More). Like DCL Show Users, but with addition
of LAT Server and port name for LTAnnn: terminals.
VMS V5.2 SHOW USERS/FULL now does the same thing.
Availability: E5
SWING A wonderful screen-oriented directory and file maintenance
tool. Allows for directory creation, moving, deletion,
and displays. A bargain at half the price.
Availability: F12
TALK Interactive conferencing system.
Availability: E14, P1
TAR A UNIX-like tar utility for VMS. Extracts or writes UNIX
tar archives on disk or tape. Handles VMS files with fixed-
length records, and preserves file modification times.
Proper DCL interface.
Availability: F14, S11, E12 (Australia only for E12)
TAR2VMS A UNIX-like tar utility for VMS. Can convert tar tapes and
files to VMS files. VMS2TAR does the reverse.
Availability: F10, F14, E9, S11
TeX/LaTeX Text formatting package developed by Donald Knuth.
Produces DVI files.
Availability: F13, F16 (Decus TeX), F21
UAF Searches through SYSUAF.DAT for users that match certain
criteria.
Availability: S5
UNMACRO Disassembler for MACRO language.
Availability: S9
UNSDL Utility to aid in creation of include files from system
definitions given in SYS$SHARE:STARLETSD.
Availability: S5
UUCP Unix file data transfer utility for VMS. Includes ANU News.
Availability: F14, D1, M4, S11
VACATION Program to periodically check for incoming mail messages
and let sender know that you're on vacation (or otherwise
unable to respond) by sending back a message that you specify.
Warning: Be careful if you subscribe to mailing lists.
Availability: F12
VERB Inverse of VMS's SET COMMAND.
Availability: S4 ("SEND VERB.PACKAGE"), S5
VI A TPU emulation of the UNIX VI editor.
Availability: S6 (SEND [vi_v5]vitpu.1)
. . .
(SEND [vi_v5]vitpu.36)
S4
F22
Information/help: E13
VMS_SHAR Tool to distribute ascii source files that allows recipient
to confirm files were properly received (with no errors).
Availability: E3, F10
WATCHER Configurable idle-job killer. Knows about LAT, DECwindows.
Availability: F11, S12
WILD Wildcard (i.e., with * and %) version of DCL SEARCH.
Availability: E1
XMODEM File transfer program with checksums and error correction.
Compatible with CP/M MODEM7. XMODEM is program VAX-96 of
the DECUS library. Author: J. James Belonis II.
Availability: S13, E2, F27
ZOO File compressor/decompressor/archiver.
Archiver: F15
(1) Requires compress/decompress and/or tar2vms or a tar utility. Most
sites supplying compressed files also supply decompressing tools. Not all compress/decompress utilities are equal! The version from MIT will not work without modifications. Charles Karney of Princeton University (see BOSS, above) was kind enough to send me a difference file between a working VMS version and the MIT distribution. Probably MIT should fix their compress to work as well on VMS as it does on every other OS and computer (MIT, are you listening?).
SOURCES: F → Anonymous FTP, E → EMAIL to person, S → SERVER
M -> Postal Service, D -> DECUS tape, P -> Packet radio
Be sure to use BINARY mode on FTP of executables and backups.
D1 Spring 89 VAX SIG tape
E1 KARNEY@CCC.NMFECC.GOV Charles Karney E2 BELONIS@PHAST.PHYS.WASHINGTON.EDU J. James Belonis E3 A.HARPER%OAK.CC.KCL.AC.UK@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Andy Harper E4 KEVIN%NCDLAB.ULCC.AC.UK@NSFNET-RELAY.AC.UK Kevin Ashley E5 MNK@RDAC.DNET.HAC.COM Michael Kimura E6 INS_BXS@JHUVMS.BITNET Shan Xuning E7 ZAR@XHMEIA.CALTECH.EDU Zar the Great (really!) E8 QPMDF@YMIR.BITNET (PMDF queries) E9 PENSTONE@QUCDNEE.EE.QUEENSU.CA Sid Penstone E10 KENW%NOAH.ARC.CDN@RELAY.UBC.CA Ken Wallewein E11 GRAHAM@DRCVAX.AF.MIL Daniel Graham E12 TIMCC%VICCOL.EDU.AU@UUNET.UU.NET Tim Cook E13 STEVE@NEMO.MATH.OKSTATE.EDU Steve Koinm
GOOG@A.CS.OKSTATE.EDU
E14 75146.3122@COMPUSERVE.COM Bob Lafleur
F1 KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU F2 SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU F3 JUNE.CS.WASHINGTON.EDU F4 PREP.AI.MIT.EDU F5 MIRIAM.UTAH.EDU F6 CC.UTAH.EDU F7 UMIGW.MIAMI.EDU F8 WATSUN.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (128.59.39.2) F9 GUMBY.CC.WMICH.EDU F10 VMSA.OAC.UCI.EDU, VMSD.OAC.UCI.EDU F11 VMS.ECS.RPI.EDU, VMS2.ECS.RPI.EDU F12 KRYPTON.ARC.NASA.GOV F13 LABREA.STANFORD.EDU F14 ACFCLUSTER.NYU.EDU F15 WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL F16 POWER.EEE.NDSU.NODAK.EDU F17 EMX.UTEXAS.EDU F18 VENUS.YCC.YALE.EDU F19 STOUT.UCAR.EDU F20 HAMLET.CALTECH.EDU F21 SUN.SOE.CLARKSON.EDU F22 VMS1.UCC.OKSTATE.EDU (192.31.83.2) F23 USC.EDU F24 MANGO.MIAMI.EDU F25 CISCO.NOSC.MIL F26 RIGEL.EFD.LTH.SE (130.235.48.3) F27 PHAST.PHYS.WASHINGTON.EDU
M1 National Energy Software Center
9700 South Cass Ave.
Argonne, IL 60439
Ordering info: 312-972-7250
(As of 6/26/89: Cost for VAX/VMS version of DOE-MACSYMA is $3110,
$2500 for prime contractors)
M2 The PMDF Project
Innosoft International, Inc.
250 W. First St., Suite 240
Claremont, CA 91711
(714) 624-7907
M3 M4 c/o Simpact Associates
9210 Sky Park Court
San Diego, CA 92123
(619) 565 1865 (x1116)
jeh@crash.cts.com Jamie Hanrahan
M5 DECUS Program Library
219 Boston Post Road
Marlboro, MA 01752-1850
(508) 480-3418
P1 NQ1C@W1NY.MA Bob Lafleur
VMSSERV sites use the following syntax: DIR for program listing, SEND PGM to
get a specific program.
S1 (SEND ALL) BULLETIN%MIT.MFENET@CCC.MFECC.LLNL.GOV S2 (SEND FINGERV5) VMSSERV@UOFT02.UTOLEDO.EDU S3 (SEND FINGER.PACKAGE) VMSSERV.SPCVXA.BITNET S4 VMSSER@UBVMSD.CC.BUFFALO.EDU S5 VMSSERV@FHCRCVAX.BITNET, VMSSERV%FHCRCVAX.BITNET@OLY.ACS.WASHINGTON.EDU S6 MAILSERV@NEMO.MATH.OKSTATE.EDU S7 (SEND VMSDUMP REPLY.*) KERMSERV@UOFT02.BITNET
(SEND VMSDUMP MESSAGE.*)
S8 (SEND [ETAPE]ETAPE.SHARE_1_OF_5) MAILSERV@UALR.BITNET
( . )
( 5_OF_5)
S9 (?PACKAGE*UNMACRO) NETSERVER@VAXMFG.TECH.NWU.EDU S10 (SEND FINGER.1_OF_7) MAILSERV%FALCON@AAMRL.AF.MIL
.
( 7_OF_7)
(SEND BECOME.1_OF_1)
S11 VMSSERV@NYUACF.NYU.EDU (send xxx) S12 FILESERV@VMS.ECS.RPI.EDU (see directions below for FILESERV) S13 VMSSERV@PHAST.PHYS.WASHINGTON.EDU, VMSSERV@UWAPHAST (Bitnet)
Since so many sites offer VMSSERV, I am including the following set of instructions for reference.
——————————————————————————-
VMSSERV is a program which permits a user on a remote node to retrieve
publicly available files. VMSSERV requires VAX/VMS 4.+ and Jnet V2 or
later.
The user communicates with VMSSERV using a small vocabulary of commands.
These commands can be sent to VMSSERV either as interactive messages or via valid RFC822 format memos. Commands sent via mail are included in the body of the memo, not in the Subject: line. A memo may contain more than one command as long as there is only one command per line.
VMSSERV provides file service similar to that provided by LISTSERV on
IBM VM systems. Currently, VMSSERV acts only as a file server. There are no plans at this time to include any list serving features.
Commands
VMSSERV currently understands the following commands which may be
abbreviated to the upper case portion in this list:
DIRectory [file-spec] Return a list of files available
GET [file-spec] Synonym for SENDME
HELP Return a list of valid commands
INDex [file-spec] Return a files called 'file-spec' FILELIST
SENdme [file-spec] Return a file
STATUS Return status information (Interactive only)
VMSdump [file-spec] Return a file in VMSDUMP format. Recommended
for transferring files (especially binary)
to another VAX/VMS system running
Jnet V2 or later.
PUNch [file-spec] Return a file in IBM Punch format
? Synonym for HELP
Please note that VMSDUMP and PUNCH within the body of a mail message will not send the file in VMSDUMP or PUNCH format, the file will be mailed back.
Transferring Binary Files
You can transfer binary files (.EXE, .TSK, .SAV) to a remote system only
if you are running Jnet V2 or later system. These files must be transferred with the VMSDUMP command. For example,
$ SEND VMSSERV@FHCRCVAX VMSDUMP FILE.PACKAGE
VMSDUMP is recommended for all requests from Jnet nodes as it protects
you from any non-standard character set conversion.
VMS File Specifications
Filenames on DEC systems use a DOT ('.') to separate the filename from
the filetype. For example,
SEND FILE PACKAGE Is INCORRECT
SEND FILE.PACKAGE Is CORRECT
Large Files
Files larger than 200 blocks will not be sent until after 20:00 PST
$PACKAGE files
Files with the type of .$PACKAGE simply contain a list of files
that belong together (i.e. part of acomplete package). If you request the file Utility.PACKAGE, the file Utility.$PACKAGE will be read, and all the files it describes will be sent to you. Note that there is not really a file called Utility.PACKAGE, however that is what you should request!
For example, part of a DIR listing includes something like:
HEADERS.$PACKAGE
HEADERS.1_OF_2
HEADERS.2_OF_2
If you request HEADERS.PACKAGE, the file HEADERS.$PACKAGE will be read (which simply contains the names of the HEADER.n_OF_n files), and the two files HEADERS.n_OF_n will be sent to you.
—————————————————————————
FILESERV information - 12 Jan 1990
FILESERV is a file distribution service that uses electronic mail facilities to deliver files. To communicate with FILESERV, send an E-mail message to:
FileServ@vms.ecs.rpi.edu
Commands are sent in the body of the message you send to FILESERV. Several commands may be sent at one time; just put one command per line.
FILESERV Commands:
SENDME package Sends all parts of the specified package.
SENDME package.n Sends part 'n' of the specified package.
LIST [pattern] Gives brief description of all packages
matching "pattern". If pattern is omitted,
a description of all packages is sent.
HELP Sends this file.
Commands may be abbreviated. DIRECTORY is a synonym for LIST.
For each request you make, a transaction log is returned to you indicating the status of the request. The status report will indicate whether the request was successfully completed, and when the file was or will be sent. Large files are sent only during off-peak hours.
All packages on vms.ecs.rpi.edu are for VMS systems. They consist of VMS_SHARE files containing compressed BACKUP save-sets that have been hexified. To de-hexify and de-compress the save-sets you first need the programs DEHEXIFY.MAR and LZDCMP.EXE. DEHEXIFY.MAR is part of the VMS Kermit distribution and LZDCMP.EXE is available on most of the more recent DECUS VAX SIG tapes. Both programs are available from this FILESERV as package FILESERV_TOOLS. «←———-
Problems, questions, and comments about FILESERV service on this system should be directed to FileServ-Mgr@vms.ecs.rpi.edu.
Questions about the FILESERV software should be directed to the author of FILESERV, Matthew Madison (madison@vms.ecs.rpi.edu).
—————————————————————————
The information in this list is deemed to be accurate. I attempt to make additions/corrections only when I am informed by others (i.e., you).
Ric Steinberger SRI International 333 Ravenswood Ave. Menlo Park, CA 94025
(415) 859 - 4300
Cyberspace: ric@rml2.sri.com
% Downloaded From P-80 International Information Systems 304-744-2253