This is the RSX/IAS SIG Symposium tape from the 1980 FALL DECUS meeting in San Diego, CA. The tape contains material submitted by the user community to the SIG at the FALL DECUS meeting. The programs on this tape are from user submissions. The DECUS staff,the RSX/IAS SIG staff, and DEC are all in relative 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 contact the author of the program. Do not contact DECUS,DEC, or the RSX/IAS SIG. The tape contains approximately 35,000 blocks of software. Since 35,000 blocks would require three 2400 ft. reels of tape in FLX format at 800 BPI, we elected to distribute the tape in BRU format. The distribution fits on one 2400 ft. tape in BRU format at 800 BPI. If you are an IAS site and cannot read the tape in BRU format, please contact George Hamma at the following address: George Hamma Synergistic Technology, Inc. 20065 Stevens Creek Blvd. suite 106 Cupertino, CA. 95014 (408) 253-5800 If you are a VAX site and cannot read the tape in BRU format (i.e. you have no friends with 11M who could put it in Backup and Restore format) please contact Philip Cannon. The UIC [300,1] contains several files of interest. The file RSXFALL80.DIR contains a directory of the contents of the tape (BRU does not produce nice directories). The file RSXF80.UIC contains a brief abstract on the contents of the tape. The file ALLREADME.1ST contains a concatenated list of all of the README files on the tape. A copy of this letter appears in the file BEGIN.TXT. The file UICSETUP.CMD contains the UFD commands to create all the needed UIC's on device XX:, edit it to match your needs before using BRU to recover the tape contents. The UIC [300,2] contains the program that is used to make a copy of the tape. The program name is "TPC". This is a new version of TPC which can copy a BRU tape. To use TPC one needs a disk with at least 35,000 blocks of free space. To put a copy of the tape on your disk one enters the following command: RUN BIGTPC TPC> DN:80FSD.BRU=MT: To make a copy of the tape for someone one enters the following command line: RUN BIGTPC TPC> MT:=DN:80FSD.BRU For you old timers, TPC does NOT require the 35,000 blocks to be contiguous. This year we are distributing the tape in a different manner. A tree structure has been created to distribute the tape. The idea is very simple. Each LUG makes a few copies of the tapes and sends them on to other LUGS who in turn make a few copies of the tape and send them on to other LUGS, and so on. I hope this will result in users getting a copy of the tape relatively soon (lets try for January 1981). It also should eliminate the need for anyone to make a huge number of copies. There has been no great effort to coordinate the tree structure. Everyone will receive a copy of the tree. They should find their place and contact their "parent" to arrange for the transfer of their copy. I have choosen (selected at random) the nodes on the tree. In the interest of saving time I have not contacted the people. I am relying on their enthusasium for the product to motivate them in participating in the tree scheme. Lets get copies of the tape out QUICKLY. If anyone cannot participate in the scheme please notifiy Philip Cannon at ONCE. A copy of the tree will be mailed to LUG CHAIRMAN under separate cover. The tree structure is NOT on the tape. The idea of the "tree" scheme is to decentralize the effort of getting out copies of the tape. The master distribution will be at 800 BPI in BRU. If you need 1600 BPI, please try to contact someone in the tree who can provide it. If in desparation you cannot find anyone, call Philip Cannon. I can provide a limited number of 1600 BPI copies. This year I was unable to attend the DECUS meeting due to the birth of my son (Benjamin Philip Cannon). George Hamma took over the job of building and editing the SIG tape for the San Diego meeting. This masterpiece of 35,000 blocks is the product of many hours of work by George and his good friend Wayne Graves. Many thanks from me to them for their fine effort. If you have comments or complaints please feel free to write to me and share your thoughts. respectively submitted, Philip H. Cannon Science Applications, Inc. 1211 West 22 nd Street suite 901 Oakbrook, Il. 60521 (312) 655-5960 RSX/IAS SIG LIBRARIAN