VAX SIG Fall 1986 Tapes Initial Documentation This directory contains general documentation for this and previous tapes and an index. It is intended to replace previous distributions of [VAX000...] but there may be some older files you want to keep. The top level description summary to the Fall '86 VAX SIG tapes is contained in VAX86CD_BRIEF.SUMMARY and VAX86CD_TAPECOPY_USERS_FORUM.HANDOUT in this directory. For a longer description see AAAREADME.86C and .86D, the concatenated AAAREADME.TXT files from the respective submissions. AAAREADME.TXT's back through the Fall 1984 tape are in a sub-directory [.OLD_AAAREADME]. The tapes are in VMS Backup format in three save-sets - one each for [VAX000...], [VAX86C...] and [VAX86D...]. As usual VAX000 and VAX86C will fit on one 2400 foot tape at 1600 bpi. Many of the filenames violate VMS version 3.x naming conventions so you will get RMS errors if you try to load the tape on a version 3 system. Since most people are on version 4 by now no attempt has been made to make the names compatible with version 3. Many larger files are compressed (such as [VAX86D.SPELL.SPELL]- COMMON_WORDS.DAT) and some directories and directory trees are compressed backup save-sets (such as [VAX86D.RCAF86.DSTGNUEMX]). In most cases restoration procedures are given in the local AAAREADME.TXT file. In some cases a command procdure is provided. More detailed information about LZCMP and LZDCM can be found in [VAX86D.LZW]. Extensive use of this utility allows us to fit the material on two reels of tape. We have tried to use compression without hiding the contents of the submission. That is the AAAREADME.TXT's are not compressed and in most cases an uncompressed directory listing is provided. All areas have ONE AAAREADME.TXT (and possibly many AAAREADME.- something_else) file. This is done to ensure that the summary is short enough to be useful. Be sure and look through the tapes for all backup sets present. Note that we again have an index of the tapes. In order to minimize the preparation time of this tape we have not put its index on, we have, however included the index for the Spring 1986 tape and a composite index for all the tapes. The composite index is quite large and has been compressed. This tape was put together from submissions at the Fall 1986 DECUS Symposium, San Francisco, California, by Joe Bingham Glenn Everhart Librarian, VAX Systems SIG RCA A&D Engineering ManTech Services Corporation and Rt 38, Bldg 206-1 2320 Mill Road Cherry Hill Alexandria, VA 22314 New Jersey 08358 (703) 838-5600 (609) 486-6328