Index of files in /pub/vax

/u/ftp/pub/vax/index, Sat Sep 20 18:35:53 1997
Edit by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@chamberlin.math.utah.edu>

This directory collects a small number of utilities that are useful in
the VAX VMS environment for dealing with archive files fetched from
Internet ftp sites.
  


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00dir.cmd
-- FTP command file in alphabetical order
00dir.lst
-- verbose alphabetical directory listing
00tdir.cmd
-- FTP command file in reverse-time order
00tdir.lst
-- verbose reverse-time order directory listing

M

MD5SUM
-- MD5 128-bit checksums
MD5SUM.asc
-- digitally-signed MD5 128-bit checksums

S

SHA1SUM
-- SHA1 160-bit checksums
SHA1SUM.asc
-- digitally-signed SHA1 160-bit checksums

a

arcvms.uue
-- Arc for VMS -- uuencoded
arc
-- part of a VAX VMS implementation of the PC DOS arc utility

c

compress
-- subdirectory with source, object, and executable files for VAX VMS version of GNU compress
compress.bck-lst
-- contents listing of compress.bck_z
compress.bck_z
-- GNU compress for VAX VMS (fetched from ftp.spc.edu [.macro32.savesets]compress.bck_z on [08-Jul-1992]; also available via e-mail by sending the command SEND COMPRESS in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@WKUVX1.BITNET. To recover the original saveset, do $ run lzcdmp Decompress: compress.bck_z $ backup /list compress.bck/save
compress.com
-- VAX VMS DCL script to unbundle source code of compress into [.unix_compress]; you can use this instead of the compress.bck* files
compress.tar-lst
-- contents listing of compress.tar
compress.tar
-- UNIX tar file of compress sources, objects, and executables for VAX VMS
compress.zip-lst
-- contents listing of compress.zip
compress.zip
-- Info-ZIP file of compress sources, objects, and executables

i

index
-- this file

l

lzdcmp.exe
-- VAX VMS executable for compression utility

v

vmsbackup.tar.gz
-- UNIX implementation of VAX VMS BACKUP reader
vmsbackup.tar-lst
-- contents of vmsbackup.tar.gz
vmstar
-- subdirectory with VMS implementation of UNIX tar utility

NB: The Free Software Foundation prep.ai.mit.edu archive file vmstar.README 
notes:

>> ...
>> We don't have the sources presently, but a precompiled VMS tar
>> binary is on mango.rsmas.miami.edu in pub/VMS-gcc/tools.  The gzip
>> sources are available [here] on prep.ai.mit.edu.  The program on mango
>> is *only* able to read tar archives, not write them.
>> ...