[VAX82A.BATTELLE]AAAREADME.TXT


                   Battelle Columbus Laboratories Submissions


                                coordinated by:

                                 Gary L. Grebus
                         Battelle Columbus Laboratories
                                505 King Avenue
                             Columbus, Ohio  43201
                                 (614)424-7156


     This submission is a collection of small tools we have  found  useful.
     Apologies  for  some  of  the  documentation.  As usual, it is getting
     written on the day before the Symposium.   A  brief  overview  of  the
     directories:

     1.  FTP

              is a menu driven utility for copying files over  DECnet.   It
         allows   specification  of  file  protections  and  ownership  (if
         suitably privileged).  It is particularly useful for doing  system
         manager work on multiple machines connected by DECnet.

     2.  RETAB

              is yet another utility for adding and removing  tabs  from  a
         file.   It  is  run  as  a foreign command and can handle wildcard
         input files.

     3.  TREEDEL

              is a  utility  for  deleting  files,  particularly  directory
         trees.   When  processing  a directory tree, it saves deleting the
         directories until last to avoid creating lost files.

     4.  VARY

              is a privileged utility for making a device  unavailable  for
         allocation.  It is useful for preventing a dual ported device from
         mounted from two systems at once.

     5.  IDXDUMP

              is a  utility  for  generating  an  unformatted  dump  of  an
         INDEXF.SYS  file.   It extracts the most useful information into a
         more easily used form suitable for analysis with DATATRIEVE.

     6.  SMAC

              is a set of structured programming macros needed to  assemble
         the other programs in this submission.