This is BOSS version 2.5 (July 22, 1988).  It consists of 6 files
    BOSS.README	      This file
    BOSS.HLP	      The user help file
    BOSS.C	      The source code
    BOSS_CLD.CLD      The command language definitions
    BOSS_BUILD.COM    The procedure for compiling and linking BOSS
    BOSS_INSTALL.COM  The procedure for installing BOSS

BOSS requires that pseudo TTY (PTY) drivers be installed on your system.
This should be the latest version posted to INFO-VAX by Kevin Carosso in
August 1988.  This is recommended version for both VMS 4.x and VMS 5.0.
Contact me if you need a copy of the PTY drivers.

If you plan to use BOSS/UW (to get multi-window operation on a Macintosh),
you will need the UW terminal emulator.  I can send you that too.

You should edit BOSS_INSTALL.COM to refer to the directory where BOSS.EXE
resides.  BOSS should be installed with both PHY_IO and OPER privileges.
You can get by without these privileges--see the comments in BOSS.C.

BOSS needs to be defined as a foreign command, i.e.,
    $ BOSS == "$<dev>:[<dir>]BOSS"
BOSS.HLP tells the user to do
    $ SETUP BOSS
before running BOSS.  SETUP on our system runs a .COM file which does the
necessary initialization for various utilities.  You will probably need to
edit BOSS.HLP to insert the incantation appropriate for your site.
BOSS.HLP should of course be installed in some easily accessible help
library.  Something like
    $ LIBRARY/HELP/REPLACE HLP$LIBRARY_1 BOSS
should do the trick.

    Charles Karney
    Plasma Physics Laboratory	Phone:	 +1 609 243 2607
    Princeton University	MFEnet:	 Karney@PPC.MFEnet
    PO Box 451			ARPAnet: Karney%PPC.MFEnet@NMFECC.ARPA
    Princeton, NJ 08543-0451	Bitnet:	 Karney%PPC.MFEnet@ANLVMS.Bitnet

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The remainder of this file is specific to people running BOSS/UW.

The user documentation is in HELP BOSS Windows and its subtopics.

You will get a separate mailing containing the three files
    UNIX-UW-42.HQX	The UW terminal emulator and documentation
    UWPROTO.TXT		Internal documentation on UW protocols
    MACMOUSE.EL		Mouse support for Gnu Emacs

UNIX-UW-42.HQX should be downloaded to a Mac as a text file and run through
the BinHeX and Packit programs to give uw (the terminal emulator) and
uw.doc (the documentation in MacWrite format).

UWPROTO.TXT describes the protocol used by UW and BOSS/UW.  Can be ignored
if you like.

If you have Gnu Emacs:

MACMOUSE.EL should be moved to EMACS_LIBRARY:[LISP].
Add a uw entry in EMACS_LIBRARY:[ETC] with:

# Macintosh/UW termcap  (same as Mac without the cs, and has km = meta)
d0|uw|uw-am|unix-windows:\
	:cr=^M:do=^J:nl=^J:bl=^G:co#80:li#24:cl=50^O\E[;H\E[2J:\
	:le=^H:bs:am:cm=5\E[%i%d;%dH:nd=2\E[C:up=2\E[A:\
	:ce=3\E[K:cd=50\E[J:so=\E[7m:se=\E[m:us=\E[4m:ue=\E[m:\
	:md=\E[1m:mr=\E[7m:mb=\E[5m:me=\E[m:is=\E[1;24r\E[4l\E[24;1H:\
	:rs=\E>\E[?3l\E[?4l\E[?5l\E[?7h\E[?8h:\
	:ks=\E=\E[?1h:ke=\E>\E[?1l:\
	:ku=\EOA:kd=\EOB:kr=\EOC:kl=\EOD:kb=^H:\
	:ho=\E[H:k1=\EOP:k2=\EOQ:k3=\EOR:k4=\EOS:ta=^I:pt:sr=5\EM:vt#3:xn:\
	:ic=7\E[1@:dc=7\E[1P:al=9\E[1L:dl=9\E[1M:\
	:sc=\E7:rc=\E8:\
	:IC=7\E[%d@:DC=7\E[%dP:AL=3*\E[%dL:DL=3*\E[%dM:km:

Postscript:

I still prefer VersaTerm PRO to UW, even though it doesn't have multi-
window support.  There are too many VersaTerm features that I need which
are absent in UW.

I've only implemented the most basic level of UW service under BOSS
(protocol 1 in UWPROTO.TXT).  The next level allows windows to be retitled
from the VAX, as well as setting many of the other attributes of windows.
This will most likely not get implemented, unless multi-window support
appears in VersaTerm.

The main reason for implementing the UW features in BOSS was to show that
the Macintosh can provide a multi-window enviroment for the VAXes.  Now we
have to get Lonnie Abelbeck to modify VersaTerm to support the UW
protocol...