.,----. / `. ' /.-. | // \ ` / \ /.---..-----..--------. \ `. `-'/ || \\ \ `. `. | || __\\___ \ `. \ | || | ___\ \ \ `| || | .' \ ` || || | / ^ \ .^. ; || || |' / \ \ / `.__.' ;| || || / \ ` < / | || || \___/ | `. .' | || | \ _ | `-._____,-' `____'`____' `.____,-' \____' UK SIG TAPE SUBMISSIONS ----------------------- Submitted by: Chris Doran Date: September 1988 Sira Ltd., South Hill, Chislehurst, Kent, BR7 5EH, England Tel: +44 1 467 2636 Telex: 896649 FAX: +44 1 467 6515 This kit contains assorted utilities which have been written at Sira, extracted from SIG tapes, or obtained from the DECUS program library (in the last two cases, with local bug-fixes and enhancements). Some of it will reach the main DECUS library one day, when I have time (sic!). This software is provided under the usual all-EXclusive standard terms and conditions for free software, viz:- If it doesn't function, crashes your system, erases your life's work, deletes YOUR personal entry in the payroll database (or worse still, your boss's), or otherwise behaves obnoxiously -- TOUGH!!!! i.e. Sira offers no guarantee that any of it works as documented (or at all), takes no responsibility whatever for any damage caused by its use or misuse, and does not provide a free software maintenance service! Having said all that, I WOULD like to hear about bugs (bug-fixes are better) and suggested or implemented enhancements. Listings or machine-readable patches as SLP correction files (with checksums, please) are appreciated. Media will be returned, probably with some updates. Building Notes: --------------- RUNOFF sources are usually suitable for either Digital Standard Runoff, or Bonner Lab Runoff, but not necessarily both! (Re-)submissions This Tape -------------------------- I am resubmitting entire directories, even where only a few files have changed. This makes it easier to be sure you get everything. This list is a description of the changes made since last time. [.BEGIN] Minor edits. [.CAI] Minor improvements to DISPLAY program. [.COMMAND] Minor corrections and bug fixes. Reply labels generator. [.EDTINI] Allow CR as well as ENTER to prompts. VT2xx/VT3xx function keys. [.FORMS] Now includes copies of all the Readers' Comments pages I have ever sent in, to save you finding things the hard way I did! [.HELP] Updated RS232. [.HEX] Manual and help file reformatted for Bonner Lab Runoff. [.OPERATOR] Bug fixes to printer control. More BACKUP options. [.SCREEN] SMG-based forms entry package. [.SYSMGR] Checklist for updating to VMS V4.7. [.WSMITH] Big (and embarrassing!) bug fix to HELP & .H file generator. Submitted to Previous Tapes --------------------------- The following is a list of everything I have ever submitted to any UK SIG tape, and the date I sent it in (I don't know if/when the tape(s) are produced). Get them from the previous tape, or contact me if you can't. Items marked * are in current Sira use, and hence regularly updated. Others are probably "dead", and support is therefore questionable. [.3DPLOT] Oct 86 Some 3-D plotting routines. [.BEGIN] * Jan 88 Handouts and other information for new VMS users. [.BRUDIR] * Sira version of Richard Kirkman's BRUDIR BRU tape directory lister. Some minor mods + a way to save 47 blocks of task file! [.CAI] * Apr 88 Menu-driven Computer Aided Instruction course package. [.COMMAND] * Sep 88 What site doesn't have a set of their own command files? [.EDTINI] * Sep 88 Language-specific EDT .INI files. [.FORMS] * Apr 88 Template Readers Comments page and SIR form. [.FPODT] * Oct 86 Floating-point additions to ODT. [.GREP] * Oct 86 Sira version of GREP, extended from DECUS tape versions. [.HELP] * Sep 88 Some general HELP text. [.HEX] * Sep 86 HEX -- extended hexadecimal file editor (Decus 11-480). [.HPX] Jan 88 HPX -- transfers files to/from the screen and tape/printer devices of the Hewlett-Packard 2648a terminal. [.LISTRS] * Oct 86 Sira version of LISTRS multi-column file lister and paginator, which appears on several DECUS SIG tapes, + some extra features. [.MAR] Oct 86 Experimental facility for transmigrating programs between MACRO-11 and MACRO-32. Basically, an assembler recognising (some) MACRO-32 instructions but producing PDP-11 object code. [.OPERATOR] * Sep 88 Captive login command procedure for a menu-driven system operator account. [.ORCAM] * Oct 86 ORCAM -- extended and debugged PDP disassembler (DECUS 11-413). [.PCDRIV] * Oct 86 Paper tape driver for VAX/VMS V4.n, and read/write utilities. [.PFLOAD] * Jan 88 Program to load the shift/Fn keys on a VT2xx/VT3xx. [.RECOVERY] * Oct 86 Some disk and tape recovery programs for ODS-1 disks. [.RTSIM] Jan 88 RT-11-type EMT handler which can be built into a task made from object files assembled as for RT-11. Poor man's RTEM. [.RUNMAC] Oct 86 $R and $M versions of RSX executive macros. [.RUNOFF] * Jan 88 Device control files for Bonner Lab Runoff. [.SCREEN] * Apr 88 Screen forms entry package, with editing facilities. This is a SMG'd, and extended version of [VAX85A.SCREEN]. [.SPELL] * Apr 88 An English English dictionary. [.SYSMGR] * Apr 88 Site-specific files from our SYS$MANAGER. [.WLDCRD] * Oct 86 Wildcard filename handler plus $ENTAB routine (convert blanks to tabs) for HPX, GREP, LISTRS, ORC, etc.. [.WSMITH] * Jun 88 Patches for Whitesmiths' C and Pascal compilers, HELP files and some miscellaneous C utilities.