David Mathog's ftp site material. Most of the material described here is present. Questions about this FTP site should be directed to system@ftp.bio.caltech.edu. Anonymous uploads ("put") to this site are blocked. Directory contents as of 18-APR-1995: GIBBS.ZIP VMS port of the NCBI's Gibb's software. Contains .exe for VMS/AXP 6.1 + DECC 4.1, also source code, demo, build instructions, and porting notes. Use BINARY FTP to transfer. ICALCV.ZIP Slightly modified version of the ICALC program. On VMS systems it will put the results of up to 10 calculations, specified on the command line, into a symbol ICALC_OUT (comma separated, if more than one result). For the interactive mode, it will only put the LAST result into that symbol. MMAIL.COM Demo procedure demonstrating how to send MIME mail messages (as generated by mpack) via MULTINET. Use ASCII FTP to transfer. OPENVMS.DIR Directory containing a bunch of OpenVMS utilities in DCL. PESTFIND.ZIP ANSI C port of M. Rechsteiner's PESTFIND program. Test files. DCL procedures to wrap it for use with GCG package. PSCAL.ZIP VMS port of PCAL program - prints nice monthly calendars in POSTSCRIPT. PKZ204G.EXE MSDOS zip program, from Oak.Oakland.edu Simtel mirror site. Use BINARY FTP to transfer. RFINDPATTERNS.FOR,.TXT,.CMD Findpatterns variant - it extracts the pieces it finds into separate files. Only sites with valid GCG licenses should retrieve this program! Use ASCII FTP to transer. RTFTOHTML.ZIP VMS port of Chris Hector's RTFtoHTML software. Contains .exe for VMS/AXP 6.1 + DECC 4.1, also source code, docs, and build instructions. Use BINARY FTP to transfer. XBIN.ZIP Port to OpenVMS of a Unix (de)binhex program. Useful for extracting RTF files and others that don't have anything important in the resource fork. Use BINARY FTP to transfer. Assorted OpenVMS utility procedures. Routines for moving around easily. These ALL keep track of the last directory visited, storing it in the logical LASTDIR. CD.COM "cd subdir" (=set def [.subdir]) DOWN.COM "down" (pick from list of subdirectories) HOME.COM "home" (return to sys$login) LAST_DIR.COM "last" (return to last directory) SET_DEF_DIR.COM "setdef disk:[dir]" (like set def) TO_DIR.COM "to dir" (like set def, but no [] needed) UP.COM "up 3" (like set def [-.-.-]) of last Miscellaneous routines CHANGEALL.COM Makes global substitutions across text files (has serious limitations - it cannot deal with "/" in substitutions!) DEFINE_UNIX.COM Put posix commands into DCL symbols FAKE_UNIX.COM Define a large subset of Unix commands, requires POSIX FIELDEXTRACTOR.COM Extract line/position/width fields and write to a file FIX_UNIXNAME.COM Fixes horrific Unix names, can also do very complex name substitutions and rearrangements. FULL_FAKE_UNIX.COM Like FAKE_UNIX, but defines more commands PAGEIT.COM Breaks a text file into fixed length pages and puts a header line on top.