Freeware CD
The OpenVMS Freeware CD is a collection of OpenVMS free software started by Digital including tools written by enthusiasts and Digital legacy made public. At the moment, the Freeware CD is hosted on a few resources such as the Digiater website and includes a menu-based system for examining the contents of the CD-ROM, binaries, source code, and documentation of the freeware tools. Most software supplied on the Freeware CD is covered by the GNU license; the CD is provided as is with no warranties of any kind.
There have been 8 versions of the Freeware CD labeled FREEWARE10, FREEWARE20 etc.
Freeware Resources
| Name | Description | Author | Year | Appeared in Freeware CD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACM47, An aerial combat simulator for X11 mono/multi-user | ACM is a LAN-oriented, multiplayer aerial combat simulation written entirely in C, exploiting the programming features of Unix, X11, and the BSD socket interface. | Riley Rainey | 1994 | 20 |
| Adventure | A magic/exploration text-based simulation game. | Willie Crowther | mid 70s | 10, 20 |
| ANU-NEWS V6.0 | USENET News Client and Server | 2- | ||
| Archie | A client for querying the Archie anynymous FTP databases using Prospero. | 1992 | 10, 20 | |
| Askval | A C library to get values from the keyboard with full editing functions, with history | 20 | ||
| Banner | The DECwindows Banner displays information about the current state of the VMS host it is running on (VAX only). | Jim Saunders | 1990 | 10, 20 |
| Bat | A utulity that lets you submit multiple commands to a batch queue from the command line. | Hunter Goatley | 1994 | 10, 20 |
| BATCH.COM | A command procedure that lets you submit a single command to a batch queue. | 10, 20 | ||
| BIBLIO, Bibliographic References Manager | A full-featured bibliographic database system (need askval to be compiled and linked) | 20 | ||
| BISON | GNU bison -- parser generator (alternative to yacc) | 1995 | Sheldon Bishov | 20 |
| BLISS | BLISS-32 for the VAX and BLISS-32E for the Alpha AXP as well as a 1987 BLISS Language Reference Manual and BLISS-32 User Manual. | 10, 20 | ||
| BLOCKADE | X version of the `blockade' Macintosh game | Christer Ericson | 20 | |
| CALLBACK | A VAX callback utility for Hayes modems. This program fakes a normal hayes modem connected to a terminal server into calling you back. | Robert Eden | 20 | |
| CARDREADER011 | VAX/VMS server symbiont to provide a queue on the VAX that acts as a cardreader. A second queue is also available to mail output back to the original user. | Robert Eden | 20 | |
| CATCLOCK | A clock for X WINDOW that displays the time in analog, digital, or cat form. The time is continuously updated at a frequency which may be specified by the user. | 20 | ||
| CD_PLAYER | A utility to play music CD's on an OpenVMS workstation on an attached supported SCSI CDROM drive. The control panel is a Motif-based application. | 10 | ||
| CLUSTER_TOOLS | Three tools for cluster management:
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10 | ||
| CMUIP | A set of frequently asked questions about the CMU OpenVMS TCP/IP package designed to provide a full TCP/IP network transport for VAX systems | 10 | ||
| ColorMap | A demo that shows the current number of colors available in the colormap on AXP and VAX | 10 | ||
| ColorWheel | A demo that displays a multicolor wheel rotating in a resizable window. | 10 | ||
| COMPRESS_VMS | The UNIX compress/uncompress program, ported to VMS 5.2 | Doug Todyof | 10 | |
| CVTLIS | A tool that converts .LIS files from the VMS Source Listings on CD back to the appropriate source files. | Hunter Goatley | 1994 | 10 |
| DCLCOMPLETE | A utility that adds command completion and pipes to DCL | 10 | ||
| DECL (DEC C declaration interpreter) | DECL is a C declaration interpreter, copied from Kernigahn & Richie's book on C. | 10 | ||
| DELIVER | An adjunct to VMS MAIL which makes it possible for incoming mail messages to be handled and processed automatically based on information provided in a user-supplied file. Different actions can be taken based on a message's address, subject or contents. These actions include delivering the message, forwarding the message or even invoking a DCL command script to perform some complex operation. Any actions taken occur immediately upon receipt of the message; the user does not need to log in for DELIVER to operate. | 10 | ||
| DFU (High Performance Disk/File Utility) | A utility developed to perform routine maintenance and special purpose operations on disks, files and directories:
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10 | ||
| HSCLOAD010, HSC and HSJ disk load balancing tool | A tool that uses a list of how disks are cabled (which CAN be obtained from HSCs during the install) and the actual disk usage obtained from DECps or F$GETDVI to determine the optimal loading given the wiring constraints. This information can be used to perform either manual loading or automatic loading using PREFER. | 10 | ||
| DISKM010, Disk and File Fragmentation management tool | Produces reports at several different levels:
History files showing the state of disks and files over time are updated as reports are produced. |
10 | ||
| DISKBLOCK | A low level disk block editing tool which can be used to read, modify and write LBNs on a disk or VBN's in a file. | 10 | ||
| DISKMAP | A utility which plots BITMAP.SYS (small disks only) as a bitmap to allow you to assess fragmentation. | 10 | ||
| DISTRIBUTE | A utility that allows embedded distribution lists within the body of a document that you want to mail. | 10 | ||
| DOCTOR | DOCTOR is a collection of seven tools working on different files used or produced by VAX DOCUMENT:
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10 | ||
| DQDRIVER | IDE Disk Driver Example for OpenVMS/AXP | 10 | ||
| DTDRIVER | Device driver for TC-11/TU56 DECtape | 10 | ||
| DUNGEON | The original Dungeon adventure game, a development prototype of the game ZORK(tm), which is
available commercially from Infocom, Inc, on most personal computers. |
10 | ||
| DW_NEWMAIL | DECwindows program which monitors new-mail count and pops up a window when it is non-zero. | 10 | ||
| DWAUTH, DECWindows Authorize Utility | Performs many of the common functions available in the standard AUTHORIZE utility, except a Motif interface, on most OpenVMS VAX Version 5 and all OpenVMS VAX and AXP version 6 systems. | 10 | ||
| GNU EMACS 19.22 | GNU EMACS text editor built with OpenVMS/VAX V6.1 with VAX C V3.2, DECwindows V1.2 OpenVMS/AXP V6.1 with DEC C T1.4, DECwindows V1.2 | 10 | ||
| EMON V2.1-2 | An Ethernet sniffer that allows tracing and user-defined filtering and analysis of ethernet frames | 10 | ||
| FINGER | A user-information query service that displays information about the users in passwd file. The finger command displays user information only if the specified host has a fingerd server running or inetd is configured to start fingerd. | 10 | ||
| FLIGHT | Real-time multi-user flight simulator | 10 | ||
| FLIST | FLIST is a file and directory manager for VMS that lets you view, delete, rename, etc., files and includes support for tagging groups of files for deletion, renaming, etc. | Hunter Goatley | 10 | |
| GCML | A command-line routine, similiar to LIB$GET_COMMAND but with additional capabilities | 10 | ||
| GETCMD | GETCMD displays the DCL command recall buffer for any interactive process on the system. Unlike DCL's RECALL command, GETCMD will display all of the commands stored in the buffer, not just the most recent 20 or 255. | 10 | ||
| GLOB | A utility to read symbols from .OBJ and .STB files and turn them into source files for various languages. | 10 | ||
| GMAKE | GNU make for POSIX for OpenVMS | 10 | ||
| GOPHER | Gopher Client & Server for OpenVMS | 10 | ||
| GZIP | GNU Zip application for compressing and decompressing files | Free Software Foundation | 10 | |
| HTML | Beginner's Guide to HTML | 10 | ||
| ICO | A Rotating Icosahedron Demo | 10 | ||
| IMAGEMAGICK | An X11 package for display and interactive manipulation of images. The package includes tools for image conversion, annotation, compositing, animation, and creating montages. ImageMagick can read and write many of the more popular image formats (e.g. JPEG,
TIFF, PNM, XPM, etc.). |
10 | ||
| IMAKE | Makefile generator built on an OpenVMS VAX 5.5-2 system with VAXC | 10 | ||
| INFO-ZIP | A utility to compress files to .ZIP format and decompress them. Although highly compatible both with PKWARE's PKZIP
and PKUNZIP utilities for MS-DOS and with Info-ZIP's own Zip program, the primary objectives have been portability and non-MSDOS functionality. |
10 | ||
| InfoServer Monitor | InfoServer Monitor will keep CDs and hard disks on InfoServers mounted properly. | 10 | ||
| JED | An editor that contains EDT, Emacs, and Wordstar key mappings. | 10 | ||
| JPEG | JPEG release 5 Image Compression/Decompression | 10 | ||
| JPI | An OpenVMS wide-area network tool which is used to create a one line per process static information display for all processes matching specified selection criteria, displaying the output according to display criteria. JPI utilizes the $process_scan and $getjpi OpenVMS System Services to accomplish the scanning. Scanning can be targeted to a local node, a remote node, a local OpenVMS Cluster or a remote OpenVMS cluster or any combination of these. JPI V2.1 will execute on OpenVMS VAX V5.3 and later and OpenVMS AXP V6.1 and later. | 10 | ||
| KERMIT | Kermit communications and file transfer software notable for VTxxx emulation and the implementations of the
Kermit file transfer protocol. |
10 | ||
| MadGoat KILL | Lets you delete or $FORCEX other processes anywhere on aVMScluster. KILL accepts usernames on the command line; each process running under that username is displayed and you are given the chance to kill it or force an exit for the process. Includes the ability to kill only disconnected processes, processes on a particular node, etc. | Darrell Burkhead | 10 | |
| KILL_NODE V 2.0 | This program and driver allow you to crash a hung vmscluster member, without having to have to find the system and use the console. | 10 | ||
| LASER | This symbiont is a modification of the texas laser symbiont written by Rick Watson, Computation Center, University of Texas at Austin. Works with many types of printers, handles LAT devices, page accounting, flag and trailer pages, Ascii and Postscript files. | 10 | ||
| LDDRIVER | A VAX Virtual disk driver used for controlling logical disk usage, testing out things like volume shadowing, striping, host-based
raid, or software which does dangerous things to disks without disturbing a real disk. |
10 | ||
| LSTMAIL | Multi-folder mail directory listing utility. This utility generates 'mail directory'-styled listings of a mail file.
Messages to be listed can be selected based on from, to, subject, date or folder name. Messages from more than one folder can be listed. |
10 | ||
| COMPRESS_LZ, TOOLS, Tool to compress and decompress files | The COMPRESS command invokes a utility to copy a file, generating a file with (usually) fewer bytes. Files compressed by COMPRESS are recovered by DECOMPRESS. | 10 | ||
| MAIL_SIGNATURE | This freeware explains how to implement Internet style signature files on OpenVMS Mail. It also does automatic commenting (>) for replies/forwards. And it has a TPU routine to do rot-13 encryption. | 10 | ||
| MadGoat FINGER V1.2 | A FINGER client and server for OpenVMS VAX and OpenVMS AXP that works with virtually every implementation of TCP/IP for VMS. | Hunter Goatley | 1995 | 10 |
| MadGoat FTP | An FTP client and server for OpenVMS VAX and OpenVMS AXP that works with virtually every implementation of TCP/IP for VMS. | Hunter Goatley | 1994 | 10 |
| MGSD 01-007 | A SET DEFAULT replacement that provides shortcuts for changing directories, as well as a stack of previous directories visited. This is a MACRO rewrite of an SD originally submitted to an ancient DECUS SIG tape by Alan Zirkle. | Hunter Goatley | 10 | |
| MMK V. 3-31, Matt's MaKe Utility, a CMS-like MAKE | A MAKE utility for OpenVMS used for building software systems based on a "description file" (or "makefile") youcreate that lists the sources and objects of a system and the dependencies between them. MMK provides a subset of the functionality of Digital's DEC/Module anagement System (DEC/MMS); the description files MMK uses are syntactically compatible with DEC/MMS. MMK runs on VAX/VMS, OpenVMS VAX, and OpenVMS AXP systems. It requiresVAX/VMS V5.0 or later, or OpenVMS AXP V1.0 or later. | Matt Madison | 10 | |
| MPEG_PLAY, MPEG Video Player | MPEG_PLAY reads compressed motion picture video in the MPEG format, decompresses in software and displays on a standard X11 display. | 10 | ||
| MultiHelp Y020, Complete HelpDesk Automation Software | MultiHelp is a fully integrated robust problem management and resolution system which automates the key operations of a Customer Support or Internal Help Desk organization. It was created by support professionals with over 50 years combined experience engineering, architecting, and implementing customer support and help desk automation solutions. | SIO Technologies Corporation | 10 | |
| MX 4.1, E-mail message exchanging software | Message Exchange (MX) is electronic mail software for OpenVMS VAX systems running VMS V5.0 or later, including OpenVMS V6.0, and OpenVMS AXP systems running OpenVMS AXP V1.0 or later. It supports Internet mail over CMU-OpenVMS TCP/IP, VMS/ULTRIX Connection, TGV MultiNet, Process Software's TCPware, and Wollongong's WIN/TCP and PathWay; BITNET mail over Wingra's Jnet; and UUCP mail over DECUS UUCP. Also included is support for SMTP message transfers over DECnet and X.25 (using VAX P.S.I) and L-Soft International's LISTSERV software. MX uses VMS Mail for local message entry and delivery, and includes support for mailing lists and mail-based file servers. | Matt Madison | 10 | |
| MXRN | MXRN is an X-based interface to the USENET news system that uses the NNTP remote news server for accessing newsgroups and articles. By using the NNTP server, users can read news from personal workstations with the program accessing the news groups and articles from a central repository on the local area network. | 10 | ||
| NETLIB V2.0C, Vendor-Independent TCP/Ip Routines | NETLIB consists of routines for interfacing with any of the following TCP/IP packages:
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Matt Madison | 1995 | 10 |
| NEWMAIL | This utility quickly generates a directory listing of new mail messages. Alternately, it displays your new message count. | 10 | ||
| NEWSRDR V. 4.8-1, A VMS Mail-like USEnet NEWS reader | An NNTP client program for VMS systems running CMU-Tek TCP/IP, TGV MultiNet, DEC's VMS/ULTRIX Connection, or any TCP/IP package supported by the NETLIB network interface library. | Matt Madison | 10 | |
| Nmail, queued DECnet mail system for use with VMS Mail | Nmail works in conjunction with the VMS MAIL utility to implement queued transmission of mail. This allows you to queue up mail to nodes that are currently unreachable, for example, or to transmit long documents without needing to wait until transmission is complete. | 10 | ||
| NMLPHASEV, Phase IV NML listener for Phase V systems | This utility helps for the transition to phase V in a phase IV network by providing a reduced NML able to process simple commands such as show node show kno node, show executor. | 10 | ||
| NOTICE V1.10 | NOTICE informs users of important (?) notices when they log in to a VMS system such as system changes (new software, new operating hours, etc.). When a user logs in, he/she is informed of any new notices added to the system since his/her last interactive login. | Hunter Goatley | 1994 | |
| NSquery V3.0-3, Query Internet domain name servers | NSQUERY issues a query to an Internet domain name server and displays the resultant reply. | Matt Madison | 1994 | 10 |
| OpenVMS FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions about OpenVMS | 10 | ||
| ORPHANS | Orphan is a mail tool that checks for mail message files with no pointers from MAIL.MAI. It also checks for pointers in MAIL.MAI with no mail message files. | 10 | ||
| OSU HTTPD 1.8,OSU DECthreads HTTP Server Version 1.8 | This is an updated version (1.8) of the multi-threaded World Wide Web server (HTTPD) from OSU. | 10 | ||
| PAN, Professional Adjunct to vaxNotes | The Professional Adjunct to Notes (PAN) is a utility which provides added value features to those provided by Digitals standard VAXNOTES product. | 10 | ||
| PBMPLUS, Portable Bit Map Toolkit (10dec91 version) | PBMPLUS is a toolkit for converting various image formats to and from portable formats, and therefore to and from each other. In addition to the converters, the package includes some simple tools for manipulating the portable formats. | 1991 | 10 | |
| PDP_SIMULATORS | PDP-8 and PDP-11 simulators | 10 | ||
| PERIODIC | Front-end procedure for resubmitting batch jobs | 10 | ||
| PERL | A port of PERL5 to VMS. | 10 | ||
| PINE | A tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages. It was designed specifically with novice computer users in mind, but can be tailored to accommodate the needs of "power users" as well. Pine uses Internet message protocols (e.g. RFC-822, SMTP, MIME, IMAP, NNTP) and runs on Unix and MS-DOS. | Pine is the work of Mike Seibel, Mark Crispin, Steve
Hubert, Sheryl Erez, David Miller and Laurence Lundblade* at the University of Washington Office of Computing and Communications |
10 | |
| POVRAY, Persistence of Vision Raytracer | Persistence Of Vision (POV) is a widely used raytracer. This version has been modified to display it's preview window on 24-plane systems, as well as 8-plane systems. It is also "quiet" by default (does not print information messages). | 10 | ||
| POVUTILS, Utilities for POVRAY | Two utilities are provided for displaying the output from POVRAY:
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10 | ||
| PROBE, VAX Ethernet monitor / statistics / capture / playback | A network monitoring tool which allows the real-time capture and/or graphical display of Ethernet traffic activity and the tabular formatting of previously collected frame and/or data. | 10 | ||
| PROCLIST | This utility generates a list of all processes for the current username on the system/cluster. | 10 | ||
| PRODUSE010, Product Usage by Imagename and Username | This tool uses data collected by DECps or VPA to build an array of Imagenames and Usernames run on different Cluster nodes over the time specified (one month is the minimum suggested interval). The report produced lists all images run on the systems sorted by product name (if known) and imagename with the maximum number of concurrent users and the number of different usernames running the product on each node. The /user=username qualifier produces a report showing all images run by a single user and the /image=imagename qualifier produces a report showing all users of an image. | 10 | ||
| PSICOPY V.3.1-4, File Transfer via X.25 | This program allows the transfer via X.25 of any kind of VMS files, including file attributes, transfert restart, crc checks, authentication, and more. | 10 | ||
| RAID Evaluator | A copy of the StorageWorks(TM) RAID Evaluator program, V1.9, an experimental version of the program. It contains new features, but has not been thoroughly tested. | StorageWorks | 1993 | 10 |
| RAMDISK | Fast RAMDISK driver for OpenVMS VAX | Gerard K. Newman | 1993 | 10 |
| ROUTINE ANALYZER, | Routine call analyzer for C and BLISS source code | Steve Branam | 10 | |
| RCARD V1.3, Read Cardfiler cards on VT Terminal | Displays DECwindows/Motif Cardfiler cards on regular VT terminals. Only text-only card files are supported. | Hunter Goatley | 10 | |
| RELOAD | Reloads DECW$XDEFAULTS into the root window dynamically so that the changes have immediate effect. | 10 | ||
| RMS_STATS | A collection of RMS tools:
|
Hein van den Heuvel | 10 | |
| RMS_JRNL_SNAP | RMS After-Image Journal Snapshot Utility allows RMS after-image journal files to be copied and truncated in place with concurrent online access. This utility allows non-stop application operation where it might otherwise be unavailable due to having to create new RMS after-image journal files on a periodic basis. | 10 | ||
| PCM, POLYCENTER Console Manager | POLYCENTER Console Manager allows you to monitor console activity and manage any device that sends and receives data via RS323 link in ASCII format. | 10 | ||
| SDL, Data Structore/Interface Definition Language | SDL is both a data structure and interface definition language and a utility/compiler to convert those definitions into language output for a number of different languages. | 10 | ||
| MadGoat SEND V1.0 | MadGoat SEND lets users send interactive messages to other users on the same system, clusterwide, and via DECnet to remote notes. MadGoat SEND is patterned after the Jnet SEND command for BITNET sites. | Darrell Burkhead | 1994 | 10 |
| SHOW_GBLSECTION_USERS | This software accepts a global section name, eg LIBRTL_001 or SYSXQP_000 etc. It then interrogates all processes on the system in order to find which processes have the given global section mapped. (VAX only) | 10 | ||
| SHOW_QUOTA | This procedure shows the given quota and the remaining quota of a process.
It uses the process id as first parameter. |
A.Schwarz | 1990 | 10 |
| STRINGS | Finds likely printable strings in .exe files | 10 | ||
| SunClock, XWindow SunClock Display | This demo is a clock that shows which portion of the Earth's surface is illuminated by the Sun. | 10 | ||
| SUPERFRACTAL | A fractal utility (game) | 10 | ||
| TCPFILTER022 | TCPFILTER is an utility that allows the filtering of outgoing UCX TCP /IP calls each attempt to open an outgoing call is verified with a table of addresses. | 10 | ||
| INTOUCH 4GL | INTOUCH 4GL is the high-performance 4GL for OpenVMS VAX and AXP systems. INTOUCH 4GL runs on all versions of OpenVMS -- VAX/VMS V4.5 to 6.x, AXP/VMS V1.5 and 6.x. INTOUCH 4GL interfaces to RMS, Rdb, DEC DBMS, ORACLE, dBASE, and other database engines. However, this (freeware) version only includes the RMS interface. INTOUCH 4GL comes complete with a "Guided Query Language" (GQL) and a "GQL On-line Tutorial". However, this (freeware) GQL version only supports ten (10) columns of reporting information. The fully-featured GQL supports reports of unlimited complexity! | Touch Technologies, Inc. | 10 | |
| WSG | Word Search Game (Similar to Boggle) | 10 | ||
| YPE CHECKER, Type checking tool for VAX and AXP systems | This DCL tool applies type checking rules to MACRO-32 code. For example, theembedded data type in MACRO-32 field names can be checked against the MACRO-32 opcode's expectations for each argument. This tool can isolate bugs without any debugging and can be used on both VAX and Alpha MACRO-32 listing files. It isespecially useful for MACRO-32 code which has been ported to Alpha, where byte and word fields may have expanded to longwords. The tool helps assure all MACRO-32 opcodes use these changed fields in a longword fashion. | 10 | ||
| UNZIP | Unpacks zip files | 10 | ||
| UUDECODE and UUDECODE | Used to translate a binary data file into a readable ASCII file that can then be mailed, or copied to a foriegn O/S, and then translated back into the original binary file. (An early alternative to FTP). | 10 | ||
| VFYMAIL | This utility checks a mail directory for extra and missing MAIL$xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.MAI files. When the 'repair' feature is used,
the utility can move messages that have lost their external file and rename external files that have lost their message header (for easy identification). |
10 | ||
| VIOC_RESET | Resets the Virtual I/O Cache counters (CACHE$GL_VREAD, CACHE$GL_READHIT, CACHE$GL_VWRITE, CACHE$GL_RRNDMOD, CACHE$GL_RRNDSIZ, CACHE$GL_WRNDMOD, CACHE$GL_WRNDSIZ) | Reg Hunter | 10 | |
| OPENVMS SW | Lists of OpenVMS software available on the internet | 1994 | 10 | |
| OPENVMS LOGO | OpenVMS shark logo in various file formats (.BMP, .GIF, .PPT) | 10 | ||
| VMS_SHARE | A utility designed to package a series of files into a multi-part share file suitable for mailing across a network. Files are encoded to be resistant to the corruption that many mailers and networks generate. When all parts of the share file are combined and run as a command procedure, the packaged directory tree is recreated in its original format. | Andy Harper | 1993 | 10 |
| VMSTAR | Unix TAR Command for OpenVMS (equivalent of BACKUP for Unix) | 10 | ||
| VTB | Bookreader for VT terminal | ESME-Sudria | 10 | |
| VToolkit | The VToolkit is a collection of widgets, sample programs and utility routines that extend the MOTIF X-windows toolkit. Complete sources are included. | 10 | ||
| X11 | Fonts from the VWS VT200 emlulator reformatted as DECterm compatable fonts. These fonts are size compatable with the VT200, which helps ReGIS and text line up, as well as being highly readable. | 10 | ||
| WATCH_MAIL | Autoreply utility for VMS MAIL | 10 | ||
| WATCHER V2.9-1 | Idle terminal monitor for VAX/VMS V5.0 and later, and OpenVMS AXP V1.0 and later. It logs out interactive users after a certain period of inactivity. WATCHER is fully configurable, allowing the system manager to define which terminals to watch, what measurements to use, and how long a terminal should be idle before getting zapped. It also includes provisions for preventinglogouts or overriding inactivity settings based on any combination of username, UIC, terminal, privileges, image being run, held identifier, and time of day. | Matt Madison | 1994 | 10 |
| WHO | OpenVMS WHO is a utility to display information about interactive and system processes. | 10 | ||
| XANIM, Animation Viewer | This viewer is used to display animations produced by the Amiga. It can also be used to display GIF animations that are created using the TXTMERGE utility. | 10 | ||
| XAUTOLOCK, MOTIF TOYS, Program to automatically lock the display | Xautolock is a program which monitors console activity, and starts up a program of your choice if nothing happens during a certain time interval. | 10 | ||
| XFISH, | Fishtank Background for X11 | 10 | ||
| XGAMES, | XWindow games and toys for OpenVMS VAX & Alpha | 10 | ||
| XGIF | This is the GIF87a viewer for X11/Motif. It has had a couple of small fixes made to allow it to correctly run on non-zero screen numbers, and to specifify images that have a disk specification. | 10 | ||
| XGLOBE, | XWindow spinning earth | 10 | ||
| XIMQ | Display NASA Planatary Data Systems CDs. XIMQ was written as a demo for ISO 9660 CDs. It requires a NASA PDS CD (such as the Voyager series) to be mounted. | 10 | ||
| XMAGnifier | This demo opens a magnifying glass attached to the mouse pointer. It will enlarge any area it covers when a MB is pressed by opening a magnified window. Once in it's enlarged window pressing MB1 causes pixel information for the pixel under the
pointer to be displayed. Pressing MB2 or MB3 in this window, closes it and returns you to the magnifying glass. It has avarious command line options to control the size of the magnifer, the level of magnification, etc, listed below. |
10 | ||
| XMARK | This program implements the script for V1.15 of xmark as a C program. | 10 | ||
| XNEKO | The XNEKO demo turns the pointer into a mouse pixmap and opens a window with a cat in it that chases the mouse pointer around the screen. | 10 | ||
| Xodometer | Xodometer measures how far your mouse travels in miles or kilometers. | 10 | ||
| XPHOON | Program to display current phase of the moon. XPHOON sets the X root window to a picture of the moon in its current phase. | 10 | ||
| XPOOL, | XPOOL is a DECwindows version of a graphical pool game. It allows 2 player mode locally and over the network, player vs computer, computer against itself and computer vs computer in a VMScluster. Computer vs computer in a VMScluster was used to demo an OpenVMS VAX system playing against an OpenVMS AXP system. This mode uses cluster wide resource locks to communicate and syncronize shots. The computer against itself mode is also useful for standalone demos on OpenVMS AXP and OpenVMS VAX. | 10 | ||
| XPOSTIT | X11 Post-it Notes program from Athena widget set to VMS DECwindows environment using the DECtoolkit widget set. | 10 | ||
| XROACH | XROACH creates Roaches that run around on the root window and hide under any open windows or icons. | 10 | ||
| XShuffle | Turns screen into a multi square sliding puzzle. | 10 | ||
| XSNOW | Create a snowy desktop | 10 | ||
| XSwarm, MOTIF TOYS | This demo displays a swarm of bees chasing a wasp. | 10 | ||
| XV310 | Interactive image viewer for the X Window System | 10 | ||
| YADMAN | This demo, Yadman (Yet Another Damn MANdelbrot program) can generate and display images of the Mandelbrot set. The Mandelbrot set is produces images of fractals, fractional dimensions, that are pleasing to the eye. | 10 | ||
| ZMODEM | Fast, reliable VMS ZMODEM-90(Tm) protocol file transfer programs with MobyTurbo(Tm and Crash Recovery for use only with DSZ, ZCOMM, and Pro-YAM. 1-27-94 Improved througput on some VAX machines. | 10 |
