The Aviation Research and Technology Activity (ARTA) at NASA Ames Research
Center has developed a variety of tools and utilities, some of which are
included herein.  All data, code, and documentation in this release are subject
to the following provisos:  They are the property of the United States
government; they may be distributed, used, and modified in any manner desired
except that the author's information must be retained at all times and no
charge may be made for them or that portion of any code which is based upon
them; and finally, neither ARTA nor any branch of the United States government
is responsible for the performance or accuracy of these codes or any damage
caused by them, even if due to bugs in the code.  (Although none are known as
of the release date).

Dependencies upon operating system version have been minimized, but some of the
more mystical programs may have to be relinked for different versions of VMS. 
Many of the programs require the MERLIB library, which is included in the
[.FPT] subdirectory.

The following are included:

[.FPT] - release III.7 of the FORTRAN Programming Tools.  Numerous tools, 
library routines, procedures, etc. usable to increase the efficiency of code
development and normal system usage.  See REVISIONS.TXT for changes since last
release.

[.KERMIT_STUFF] - Kermit script files and VAX procedures and programs to ease
access to the VAX from PC's with the public domain Kermit program.  Examples of 
printing on a VAX printer, checking for new mail, and sending mail are
provided.  These tools allow simple and CHEAP access to capabilities that would
otherwise require a LAN.

[.KRONOS] - Flexible, powerful batch scheduling utility with batch jobs for
security monitoring, resource monitoring, and system integrity checking.

[.MISC] - miscellaneous utilities and system management tools.

[.VG] - Viewgraph generation program.  Update to version released on Fall 88
tape.  Requires DISSPLA or can be adapted to other package.