DECUS Tape Submission
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VAX VMS V4
September 4, 1985
Joe Meadows
Timeline/WHY Systems
10607 N.E. 38th Place
Kirkland, WA  98033
   (206) 822-3140


This tape contains a potpourri of utilities to enhance VMS V4.  The
utilities are for those wishing to examine information that is usually
internal to VMS.

The main objective was to provide a public domain utility called
VERB which is similar the CLEX (allows you to extract/list verb
definitions from the command or process tables).  While compiling
this utility (no pun intended) I ran across other things that make
life livable.  All sources are provided along with command procedures
to aid in compiling and linking.

Utilities and command procedures included are:
	Compile (only compiles if source date has changed from object
		file date).

	Compress (example from the Fortran manual for compressing and
		uncompressing files, similar to squeeze and unsqueeze
		in the MS-DOS and CP/M world).

	Edit	(shows callable EDT off, spawns a subprocess from
		within EDT- with output deverted to screen or buffer)

	Info	(displays a mirrage of information on selected
		processes- you may select formatting, sorting,
		parameters, etc.)

	Unmessage (takes a system message file and decompiles so
		that you may edit and recompile).

	Psm	Example of a modified print symbiont.

	Verb	Extract verb definitions from command or current
		process table.

	Misc.	Some other executables, from my college hacking
		days, source code is all jumbled up and inaccesible
		currently. Included are programs to dump object files,
		(usefull for dumping SYS.STB), a program to search through
		the index file (it gets confused on extents, doesn't
		know about multiple volumes, but, still darn good)
		A program to examine memory, another to modify creation,
		modification, backup and expiration dates, and a program
		to broadcast messages to terminals.