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A u s t r a l i a n R T - 11 S I G T a p e 1 9 8 8
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Contents:

PHIL Handful of interesting IND files from Phil Spencer.

NOTAIL Billy Youdelman's anti-tailgating programme.

FM Andy Stewart's instructions for building a 1meg ramdisc
out of a junked memory board.

TRAIN Elvy Grigolato's copying of all the examples from the
RT-11 training course onto machine readable media.

CHESTR A few strays from Chester Wilson: GETDAT, for initializing
date and time conveniently & with checking for before or
too long since last start-up (included as asked for at
DECUS and I can't remember those who asked), and a couple
of medical ones for vital capacity and gestation calculation.

HELP Upgraded HELP messages for RT & TSX - makes a HELP.MLB
of 273 blocks though! All sorts of interesting extras
which save you a lot of hunting through the books ...
(McClenahan, Heuer & Wilson)

DUCM Latest version of this handler for large DUs - mainly for
TSX-plus. This version copes with a nasty TSX bug OK.
Allows BYPASS under TSX; internally-queueing to allow
use of hardware seek optimization; may be mapped under
TSX to save low memory.
(Chester Wilson)

TSCLIB Library for DECUS C, to allow direct interfaces to
RT-11 and TSX EMTs, completion routines etc.
(Chester Wilson)

HVPLOT Elvy Grigolato's Regis Terminal or HP plotter adaptation
of Roger Caffin's graphics package.

BERT Chris Bertram's Apple Laserwriter adaptation of Roger Caffin's
graphics package.

RNC Assorted utilities from Roger Caffin:
WC Word, byte, line count, with
histogram facility
Clean Command file to tidy discs
Maint Directory maintenance programme
[rather smart - Ed]
Detjbs Two corrections for routines
Devalc in TSXLIB

SAVRES Backup & verify utility, designed with multiple buffering
to get maximum speed out of tape drives. (Format is NOT
BUP compatible.)

PAS1 NBS Pascal, tidied up by Earl Chew to make it actually
PAS2 useable.
PAS3
PAS4