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Submissions from Harvey Mudd College
coordinated by: Chris Yoder (HMC Math)
Chris Yoder
Harvey Mudd College
Claremont, CA 91711
(714) 621-8000 x3619
email to: CHRIS@YMIR.BITNET
The following submissions were either written or modified by Chris
Yoder.
1. Autologout -- A utility to disconnect or log out users who have
(potentially) wandered away from their terminal. Each user is
allowed to set the length of time before Autologout takes action
on a per-process basis. (The system manager has control of these
limits and users with EXQUOTA can override them.) All processes
logged onto the console terminal of a Vaxstation are grouped
together in terms of how much idle time they acquire. This is a
new submission.
2. CRON -- A table driven system utility that allows system managers
to perform tasks repeatedly, once an hour, daily, weekly, monthly,
and many other combinations. Once you get the hang of Cron, it's
a lot easier (on the system manager AND the system) than creating
batch jobs that resubmit themselves. Chris Yoder was just the
latest in a long line of modifiers to this program. The original
version was written by Rick Cabral (HMC) with modifications by
Kevin Quick (HMC) and Doug Pollard (HMC) while they were working
for HMC Computing Services as student programmers.
3. EVEEDT -- An EDT keypad on top of EVE. Also includes thing n
window capability (where n is equal to (the number of lines on the
screen - 2) / 2), rectangular cut and paste, and more. This
submission replaces EVEEDT that was submitted on the Spring 87
tape under Hughes Aircraft (or perhaps under Kevin Carosso).
4. NODECHECK -- A utility to ALLOW and DISALLOW access to various
nodes in a cluster that is driven by the Identifiers that the user
holds. Written by Chris Yoder of Harvey Mudd College, new
submission, send mail to CHRIS@YMIR.BITNET.
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5. FUN -- Included are a POKER program that I wrote from scratch and
used to learn SMG and a version of CRIBBAGE that I got from the
net and modified to learn curses and C.
The following submissions have proven to be very useful pieces of
software. The authors have granted me permission to submit these
utilities.
1. PS -- PS converts normal ascii text files to postscript (PS) files
that may be printed on the Apple LaserWriter. This new and
improved translator has many features including allowing the user
to choose any of the built-in LaserWriter fonts. Users may also
adjust margins, and set the size of the chosen font.
PS also can translate RUNOFF .mem files. And yes! That
means you can have underlining and boldfacing on the
LaserWriter!!!! Please look at the the additional information on
RUNOFF to find the RUNOFF specific commands.
This is a new submission. Bug reports to DOUG@HMCVAX.BITNET.
2. MAKE -- MAKE was written by Tod Aven. It is currently included on
the PMDF and Mathlib distributions, but MAKE itself is in the
public domain so I offered to submit it for him so that the DECUS
community at large would have access to it.
For those in the dark about what MAKE is, MAKE allows users to
perform application rebuilds by rebuilding only the portions of
the application that need to be rebuilt. Users specify which
portions of the application are dependant upon other portions
being rebuilt first.
NOTE: You will find both MAKEFILE.; and DECSRIP.MMS files in this
directory tree. The MAKEFILE.; are completely MAKE compatible.
The .MMS files are MMS compatible and might be MAKE compatible.
Tod says that he's working on MMS compatability, weak depenancies
and CMS compatability (among other things) for the next release.
Bug reports to:
Todd Aven
165 East Broadway, Suite 3B
Long Beach, NY 11561
(516) 432-3002
Net addresses:
Internet: todd@cincom.umd.edu
Bitnet: todd@umcincom