RSX/IAS SIG Tape Distribution - Spring 1986
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          This is the RSX/IAS SIG Symposium Tape from the Spring 1986 DECUS
     Symposium at Dallas.  The tape contains material submitted by the user
     community for the tape at that meeting.  

          The  programs  on this tape are from user submissions.  The DECUS
     staff, the RSX & IAS SIG staffs, and DEC are all in complete ignorance
     of  the  contents of the tapes.  No warranty of any kind is implied in
     the distribution of these tapes.  The programs may or may not be  well
     documented, they may or may not work, they may even crash your system.
     If you have a problem with the  contents  of  the  tape,  contact  the
     author  of  the program.  Do not contact DECUS, DEC, or the RSX or IAS
     SIGs.  

          The  tape  contains  about  2846 files requiring 61,000 blocks of
     disk space.  Since this will fit on a single 2400 foot  tape  only  in
     BRU  at  1600  bpi,  it  is  being  distributed  as such.  To simplify
     distribution and production, the tape is a single BRU  container  file
     followed (for the LUG distribution only) by several extra files.  

          Directory  [300,1] contains the files documenting the contents of
     the tape.  The following files are present:  
     RSX86ATPE.DOC contains an abstract of the contents of the tape by UIC. 
     ALLREADME.86A  contains a concatenated list of all the README files on
        the tape.  
     RSX86ADIR.LIS  contains  a directory of all the files on the tape (BRU
        does not produce nice directories).  This is a brief  listing  with
        UICs and filenames only for space reasons.  
     SUBMIT.DOC contains guidelines for submissions to the RSX/IAS Sig Tape
        collection.  This is MUST  reading  for  everyone  who  desires  to
        submit a program to the SIG tape.  
     BEGIN86A.DOC has a copy of this text.  
     UICSET86A.CMD contains the UFD commands to create all the needed UIC's
        on a device whose name is asked for in the command file.   Edit  it
        to  match your needs before using BRU to extract the tape contents.
        A word of caution:  under at least  some  circumstances,  11M  V4.0
        BRU's  /UFD  switch  creates  directories  even when it doesn't put
        anything in them.  
     If  your  disk  is  smaller than an RM03, you may want to exclude some
        files from the copy in order to have a backup set that  fits  on  a
        smaller  disk.  Copy these off in separate passes.  The directories
        [5,*] contain 5247 blocks in 2 directories and 197 files  and  have
        tools  from  DECUS C with some utilities needed to decompress a few
        files  elsewhere  also  (See  [5,14]lzpdp11.arc  for  these).   The
        directory [70,101] has a rerelease of "Swedish" PASCAL and occupies
        2131 blocks, and the directory [150,1] contains some utilities  for
        Commodore  Amiga  containing 4114 blocks.  Also, directory [356,40]
        contains several Kermit packages occupying a total of 7587  blocks.
        If  these  are  omitted,  the  rest of tape will fit on an RK07.  A
        second pass through the  tape  can  extract  the  [5,*]  and  other
        directories onto another device.  



                                        Glenn C. Everhart
                                        RSX/IAS SIG Tape Copy Coordinator
                                        RCA A&D Engineering MS 206-1
                                        Rt. 38
                                        Cherry Hill, N.J. 08358
                                        (609)-338-6022