DECUS South Pacific Chapter Symposium Tape 1990.

This tape was compiled from submissions gathered at the DECUS South Pacific
Chapter Symposium, Canberra, August 19-24, 1990. Each submission is gathered in
a separate directory labelled according to the contributor. A brief description
of the contents follows this notice.

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	WARNING: The production of this tape involves only the collection and
	assembly into the current format. NO testing has been done so the risks
	of using code submitted to this tape are YOURS. You should test
	programs yourself to determine what risks they may pose.

	None of this code contains any known problems within the above
	mentioned limits. If you notice anything unusual about any DECUS
	program we ask that you attempt to help by reporting the problem to the
	DECUS office immediately in as much detail as possible.

	In using this code, please be aware that privileged code may contain
	operating system version dependencies whose effects should be assessed
	before use. Please exercise due caution.

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[ACTEW] Wayne Myles, ACT Electricity & Water, Canberra, ACT.

[ACTEW] Cookie v3.5, a fortune cookie program, with database.
[ACTEW.PC] PC version of Cookie v3.5
[ACTEW.VAX] VAX version of Cookie v3.5


[AZTECH] John Wolnisty, A-Z Tech P/L, Brisbane, QLD.

[AZTECH] Broadcast of running batch job information to console.


[CSIROCR] Christopher Nutt, CSIRO Cotton Research, Narrabri, NSW.

[CSIROCR] Diskspace scanning program, working but incomplete.


[JDUFF] Jim Duff

[JDUFF] A bug-fixed version of V00429 Encryption Routine


[NOTES] NOTES.BCK, a saveset containing the NOTES files from the Symposium.

 
[PCS] Craig McGill, Pagefile Computing Services, Woden, ACT.

[PCS] Example programs from Craig's paper, showing how to set up a privileged
      shareable image.


[PRAXA] Trevor Taylor, Praxa

[PRAXA.PBMPLUS] Extended Portable Bitmap Toolkit
[PRAXA.PBMPLUS.PBM] Tools for manipulating bitmaps
[PRAXA.PBMPLUS.PGM] Tools for greyscale images
[PRAXA.PBMPLUS.PPM] Tools for full-colour images
[PRAXA.PBMPLUS.PNM] Tools for content-idependent manipulations on any of the
                    three formats
[PRAXA.XAQ] Turn your workstation into an aquarium (DO NOT fill with water ;-)
[PRAXA.XCHOMP] X Window Pacman
[PRAXA.XGIF] Display GIF images on 8-plane X11 display. Allows image rescaling.
[PRAXA.XGIF.PIC] A few GIF images
[PRAXA.XINVAD] X Window Space Invaders
[PRAXA.XLOAD] X11 Image Loading Utility
              Will view several image formats or load images onto the root
              window. Supported image formats are:
                    Faces Project
                    GIF
                    Portable Bitmap (PBM)
                    Sun Rasterfile
                    X11 Bitmap
                    X Pixmap
[PRAXA.XSWARM] A swarm of little line segments chase a bigger one - cute.
[PRAXA.XTERM] X Window terminal emulation


[SPES] Paul Hogwood, Siemens Plessey Electronic Systems, Belconnen, ACT.

{SPES] A collection of VAX goodies
[SPES.ABBA]      - Abbrevation/acronym store
[SPES.BITS]      - Miscellaneous goodies for VAX user
[SPES.JPI]       - Shows info about VAX processes
{SPES.LTMONITOR] - Yet another Idle-Terminal-Killer
[SPES.REMINDER]  - Manages reminders for VAX users 
[SPES.X]         - VAX users inter-communication