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I've written a few OpenVMS programs and
procedures that you may find interesting, or use as examples in OpenVMS
systems programming. Most are quite harmless, but SYSTAT, for
example, uses special kernel AST's and, as any OpenVMS systems programmer
can tell you, can cause spectacular crash dumps. While the program
runs fine on my machine, I take no responsibility for any problems it
may cause on your machine.
I also can't guarantee that the programs
will run on all machines and any release of OpenVMS as I only have V7.3
to test on. Source and binaries are provided. You will need
Info-Zip's
Unzip for OpenVMS
Alpha for Unzip
for OpenVMS VAX for OpenVMS/VAX to decompress the packages and may also
need the MadGoat Make utility
(MMK) to build the programs if you wish. |
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SYSTAT |
A kind of SHOW
SYSTEM utility on steroids. It will show open files,
recall buffers, command lines, default directory, etc. for
any or all processes.
(16-JUN-2003 - My 7.3 hobbyist kit showed up, so I updated
the GETCOMMAND module with the offset for the 7.3 command
buffer. If anyone knows how to calculate the offset in
a version independent fashion, please
e-mail me) |
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UTL$LIB |
A library of
routines you will need to build some of the following
packages. Unzip into the directory of choice and
define a logical name UTL$LIB that points to it. There
is a source directory provided for rebuilding the library. |
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PCU |
Printer
controller utility. You can start, stop, show, flush,
and otherwise modify print and batch queues with this
program. |
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TPUEDIT |
A front end to
EVE, or your favourite TPU editor. Remembers the last
file you edited and the position in the last file.
Will also spawn a kept editor to make editing start-up
faster. |
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VTEDIT |
An editor
written in TPU that is a kind of combination of EVE, EDT,
and the old TECO VTEDIT macro. There used to be help file
that went along with it, but I've misplaced it. Also
included is an compiled EVE section file that will search
and replace strings. However, I've lost the source for
that. |
| MAGTAPE |
A utility for
examining and manipulating magnetic tapes. This is
going to have to be translated to C as it is written in
PASCAL, and I don't have a PASCAL compiler anymore. If
anyone wants to fiddle with the PASCAL source, they are more
than welcome. You can find it
here. It may take a
bit of work since it's a pretty old program, though.
Please send me any results you come up with. |
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COMPILE |
A command
procedure to compile and link just about anything.
Best used with TPUEDIT to compile and link the last edited
file. |
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PROFILE |
A menu based
SYSUAF account manager. The original was written in
FORTRAN by John Howell and is still available
here. This one is re-written in C and has many
more features and options. |
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SETDEF |
A directory
navigation procedure. Everyone's written one, and I'm
no exception. |
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