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From: "Hunter Goatley, WKU" <goathunter@ALPHA.WKU.EDU>
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 1994 10:50:39 CST
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The following package has been added to FILESERV@WKUVX1.WKU.EDU and
ftp.spc.edu:


   o EXECSYMB  (New)

	EXECSYMB V3.5.2 is John Osudar's server symbiont that allows
	you to implement exection queues under VMS.  From the
	AAAREADME:

	EXECSYMB is a VMS server symbiont that feeds queue entry
	information to detached processes that are designed to execute
	specific operations (hence the name, Executive Symbiont).  It is
	multi-threaded (it can handle up to 32 queues at the same time);
	it requires one detached process and one mailbox for each queue,
	plus one mailbox for status information and one for detecting
	process exit status for each copy of EXECSYMB (i.e. one per 32
	queues).

	EXECSYMB can be used to implement a wide variety of VMS queue-based
	operations.  Among its present applications are:

        (1)  Remote queuing of print jobs (and limited remote queuing
	     of batch jobs)
        (2)  Pre-processing and post-processing of jobs destined
	     for other server symbionts (e.g. performing MFENET gateway
	     operations on files queued to MFENET inbound-file symbionts)
        (3)  Queued file transfer for DECnet and other networks

	EXECSYMB runs on both OpenVMS VAX and OpenVMS AXP.

You can get it via anonymous ftp from ftp.spc.edu; you'll need:

        [.MACRO32]UNZIP.EXE or UNZIP.ALPHA_EXE
        [.MACRO32.SAVESETS]EXECSYMB.ZIP

To get it via e-mail, send the following commands in the body of a
mail message to FILESERV@WKUVX1.WKU.EDU:

SEND EXECSYMB		!Comes as 19 60-block files
SEND FILESERV_TOOLS     !Needed if you don't have MFTU and UNZIP

Including the command DIR ALL on a separate line will return a brief
listing of all the packages available from FILESERV@WKUVX1.WKU.EDU.


Hunter
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Hunter Goatley, VMS Systems Programmer, Western Kentucky University
goathunter@ALPHA.WKU.EDU (or goathunter@WKUVX1.BITNET)