Eye Research Institute Submissions coordinated by: Bob Goldstein, Daniel P.B. Smith Bob Goldstein, Daniel P.B. Smith Eye Research Institute of Retina Foundation 20 Staniford Street Boston, MA 02114 (617) 742-3140 This our first VAX DECUS SIG tape submission. It consists of some system management utilities and a program for using Macintosh Computers with VAX/VMS. The system utilities consist of a command procedure to automatically queue nightly processes and a set of programs that logs interactive response time and reports the results. MACSNVAX is a program that allows VMS to emulate a Macintosh for the purpose of file transfer and storage. MACSNVAX has been used on several VMS systems, but the system manager utilities have not. These are all VMS version 3 programs and we do not know their behavior under version 4. 1. SYSMGR.DIR 1. Nightjob - Command procedure that automatically queues nightly, monthly, half-monthly processes. 2. UNITS - Program that replaces VAX logout, but eventually does chain to the VAX logout. Before logging out, the user is queried for his opinion of the response time during the session, and his response is logged. The program also generates accounting info for the user. 3. Resprept - Program that reads the response log generated by UNITS and reports on the results. 2. MACSNVAX.DIR MACSnVAX is a complete utility for uploading, downloading, and transferring Macintosh files via a VAX. o MACSnVAX is a VAX/VMS-hosted utility that serves Macintosh users running MacTerminal. It provides for transfers of any Macintosh file by emulating the modified version of XMODEM that MacTerminal use for "MacTerminal to MacTerminal" Page 2 transfers. o All Macintosh files, including applications, formatted MacWrite files, MacPaint files, fonts, etc. can be successfully transferred. o MACSnVAX is intended for end-users and is reasonably easy to use. It presents a standard VMS interface, with features like wildcarding supported where appropriate. o MACSnVAX can catalog the Macintosh files stored in a VMS subdirectory, presenting the full Macintosh name, type, creation date, etc. o In the case of Macintosh text files, MACSnVAX can present the information directly to the screen without downloading, and can convert between VMS and Macintosh text formats. Portions of MACSnVAX version 3.4 are copyright (c) 1985 by Eye Research Institute of Retina Foundation; all rights reserved. Eye Research Institute licenses MACSnVAX version 3.4 for use by DECUS members at no charge provided they register with us. 3.4 is a fully functional, useful utility. An improved version may be distributed on a "shareware" (donation requested) basis.