This is a collection of miscellaneous utilities that you may (or may not) find useful. This collection includes: DEFAULT -- Default will set a terminal's temporary characteristics back to its permanent characteristics. Default needs to be installed with LOG_IO. DIRSET -- Dirset will set up logicals and symbols for each node in a directory tree. For example given the directory DISK$USER1:[FOO.BAR.TEST] A logical and a symbol will be created: "TEST" = "DISK$USER1:[FOO.BAR.TEST]" (LNM$PROCESS_TABLE) "TEST" = "SET DEFAULT DISK$USER1:[FOO.BAR.TEST]" One must be VERY careful on how this is used, since directorys with names like MAIL, HELP, PASCAL, etc will create all sorts of problems. FORCEX -- force another process to exit. useful for runaway programs that do control-y trapping, etc. Set up as a foreign command: FORC*EX :== $dev:[dir]FORCEX FORCEX process name FORCEX/ID=pid NOTIFY is a quick and easy way for a non-privileged user to send messages to himself from within a batch process. NOTIFY requires no privileges. Set up as a foreign command: NOTI*FY :== $dev:[dir]NOTIFY NOTIFY "Now proceeding to phase 3 at ''f$time()'" SCRUNCH and SCRUNCHD will remove debugger and traceback information from an image, turning it from a "LINKed" image to a "LINK/NOTRACEed" image. Very useful if you need to install something that you don't have source for (and if you are that brave). SCRUNCHD does some additional checking in the image header before it mungs it all up -- this is the recommended one to use unless you want to de-PCA images or if you use the LINK/DEBUG=filespec form to link in a debugger. SCRUNCHD correctly handles V4.4 shareable images. The command procedure GO.COM will compile and link the images. An object library UTILLIB.OLB is provided with the object files from the last compile of these utilities. GO.COM will use these object files if you do not have FORTRAN or BASIC compilers. Eric Richards Gould Ocean Systems Division 18901 Euclid Ave. Cleveland, OH 44117 216/486-8300 Ex. 3073 [01-Oct-1986]