Index of files in /pub/vax

/u/ftp/pub/vax/index, Sat Sep 20 18:35:53 1997
Edit by Nelson H. F. Beebe <[email protected]>

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 [email protected]. 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.
>> ...