[VAX81B.WASHLUG]AAAREADME.TXT


                         Washington DC LUG Submissions


                          coordinated by:  Joe Bingham



          The programs on this directory are submitted by  members  of  the
     Washington, DC, Local VAX Users Group.

     1.  DEFAULT (on [.DEFAULT], others on [.NIH2])

              A versatile substitute  for  typing  "SET  DEFAULT"  and  the
         square brackets around the directory name.

     2.  PLOTTER QUEUE MANAGER

              A package for managing a  queue  of  requests  to  a  special
         device.

              Required files:

          o  PLOT.COM

                  The user interface.  Accepts commands from the world  and
             composes proper messages for the Queue_manager.

          o  PLOTQMAN.*

                  The program and command files to link it.

          o  IFERR.MAR

                  copied directly from the spring 1981  DECUS  contribution
             in the subdirectory NCAR.

          o  PLOTIT.COM

                  The command procedure which gets used by  the  subprocess
             submitted from the queue_manager.

          o  RUNPLTQMN.COM

                  The procedure by which the queue_manager is started.


     3.  Miscellaneous utilities

              Two subroutines which do a search and insert operation  on  a
         table  of  item  having  (one) fixed or (the other) floating keys.
         The  subroutines  are  found  in  the   files:    UTL901.MAR   and
         UTL903.MAR.
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     4.  DISPLAY for ADM-3A and TeleVideo 920

              PATCH utility command files are given  which  will  transform
         the  VMS  version  2  DISPLAY program to enable DISPLAY to produce
         readable output  on  the  Lear-Seigler  ADM-3A  or  TeleVideo  920
         terminals.