Decus Submission to the Fall 1989 VAX SIG Symposium Tape.

		Andrew W. Potter
		Information Systems and Computing
		Ross Memorial Building
		Rochester Institute of Technology
		P.O. Box 9887
		Rochester New York, 14623-0887
		(716) 475-6994

		Internet:   awpsys@ultb.isc.rit.edu
		Bitnet:     awpsys@ritvax.bitnet


		All files in this directory are VMS save sets
		backed up with /group:0 to keep the size down.

		Example of how to restore a kit.

		   $ Create/dir [.net_what]
		   $ backup net_what.bck/save [.net_what]



	1) DCL_PIPE    This is a resubmission of a simple unix like
		       pipe facility.  I'm sure there are better ones.
		       This one creates two subprocesses and pipes the
                       output of one process to the input of the other via
                       a mailbox.

        2) DECNET_COPY A preprocessor for COPY to allow you to
                       securely type the password into the decnet
                       the access control string.


	3) LAT_HOST_HELP

		       This is an example of what you can do with
		       lat dedicated application ports.  We use it
                       to provide a service called HELP on the LATs
		       that users can connect to for more detailed info

        4) NET_WHAT    The newest version of NETWHAT.  A network wide
                       show users, finger-like, system status reporting
                       facility.   Works to VMS 5.2.  A small bug is that
                       VMS 5.2 stopped reporting NULL as a process in
                       $GETJPI.   This means that WHAT drops the first
                       process after the swapper.  Its an easy fix.

		       NETWHAT would like to have (not required) the
                       Load Average Driver written by Dave Kashtan and
		       submitted to the info-vax mailing list by Ken
		       Adelman.


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	 5) RENAME_BY_FID

		       A simple utility to rename a file by its file
		       id.  This is very handy if you have an orphaned
                       file on a disk and you don't want to lock up the
                       disk with ANAL/DISK/REPAIR for 30 minutes.  What you
                       do is ANAL/DISK /NOrepair the disk which does NOT
                       lock the volume, but WILL report the file ids
                       of lost files.   You then use RENAME_BY_FID to
                       enter the file into a directory again.

			
          6) SETUSER   The ever present SET Username facility.   This
                       one changes the Username, UIC, default directory
                       and device and Job Table ownership.  It uses a kluge
                       to find the VMS kernal routine LMN$SEARCH_LOG.  It
		       works fine through VMS V5.2.

	  7) TAIL      A Fast tail utility for VMS.  ex:

			Tail/Last=30 filename 

		       will dump last 30 lines of "filename".  It does
                       NOT read the entire file so it is VERY fast.

          8) VMS_COMPRESS

		       A VMS file compression facility based on the
                       P.D unix "compress" program.  It can UNcompress
                       files compressed on Unix.   It can compress any
                       RMS File format except for Indexed.


	  9) WHERE_AM_I

		       A simple report of system status of the machine
                       you are on, where you came from and what the loads.


	 10) ACL_SCRUB

		      A very handy utility that will scrub a disk volume
                      of any acl entrys on any files that no longer
                      point to a valid identifier.  This is very useful
                      to run on a disk after you have removed a lot of
                      user accounts.

		      Do NOT run this program on a system where you do
                      not have a VMS RIGHTSLIST file. If you do, you will
                      nuke all your UIC based ACLs.

		      This program also REPORTS  any files belonging
                      to a UIC that does not have an identifer.

		      This program is a modification of the INDEX program
                      written by Joe Meadows and submitted to previous
                      decus tapes.