RSX/IAS SIG Tape Distribution - Spring 1987
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          This is the RSX/IAS SIG Symposium Tape from the Spring 1987 DECUS
     Symposium at Nashville.  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  3660 files requiring 59,000 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:  
     RSX87ATPE.DOC contains an abstract of the contents of the tape by UIC. 
     ALLREADME.87A  contains a concatenated list of all the README files on
        the tape.  
     RSX87ADIR.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.  
     BEGIN87A.DOC has a copy of this text.  
     UICSET87A.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.  Directories
        [5,*], [120,*], and  [356,*]  between  them  contain  about  10,000
        blocks and they may be pulled off in a separate pass.  If these are
        omitted, the rest of tape will fit  on  an  RK07.   A  second  pass
        through  the  tape  can  extract the other directories onto another
        device.  



                                        Glenn C. Everhart
                                        RSX/IAS SIG Tape Copy Coordinator
                                        RCA AD Technology, Bldg. 206-1
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                                        Rt. 38
                                        Cherry Hill, N.J. 08358
                                        (609)-486-6328
                                        Everhart%Arisia.decnet@GE-CRD.arpa