1. AVAILABILITY SHS is provided as a VMSINSTAL kit, and available for VAX/VMS 5.5, VAX/OpenVMS 5.5-2 and later, and Alpha/OpenVMS 6.0 and later. 2. HOW TO TRY Generally you have to install the kit in order to try the features and functions of SHS. However SHS may also be implemented as a foreign command(via DCLsymbols :== $SHS.EXE or DCL$PATH). The module to parse the DCL command qualifiers is built into the image. Users may use it as a way to exercise the utility without performing the VMS installation procedure. If you have DEC Fortran V6.2 or above (DEC Fortran V6.1 has a bug and it will crash while trying to handle a recursive rountine), you may simply use the DESCRIP.MMS or BUILD.COM and the rest of the source code attached with the kit to build the SHS image. Assign a symbol to it, and you are ready to go. If you do not have DEC Fortran V6.2 or above, you may have to alter the DESCRIP.MMS or BUILD.COM to simply link the object files in the save set SHS011.A. With some common system management knowledge, it should not be a big task to figure it out. 3. INSTALLATION To extract the SHS V1.1 on line release notes, login to a privileged account, and under DCL enter: $@SYS$UPDATE:VMSINSTAL SHS011 source OPTIONS N When VMSINSTAL procedure prompts you - "Do you want to continue the installation [N]:", you may answer NO to quit the installation. To install the SHS kit, login to a privileged account. You need 1400 blocks of disk space during the installation and 700 blocks net system disk space after installation. Make sure you have enough disk space before pursuing any furthter. Install time may vary depending on different hardware platforms, but on an AlphaStation 200 4/233, it takes about 3 minutes. To install, under DCL enter: $@SYS$UPDATE:VMSINSTAL SHS011 source [install-options] 4. POST INSTALLATION See SHS V1.1 on-line release notes which have been placed in SYS$HELP by the VMSINSTAL procedure. 5. HOW TO USE SHS includes a standard OpenVMS help file that explains all of the SHS functions and parameters. I believe it is pretty self- explanitory and ease to use.