The files in this UIC [302,205] are due to: Ed Bolson CVRTC RG-20 RR616 Health Science Building University of Washington Seattle, Washington 98195 Most are intended for IAS, although CSI should work for all RSX derived systems. A few caveats are in order, and are included in the short descriptions of these programs below. CSI is a FORTRAN callable implementation of DEC's command string interpreter. Much effort has been expended to make the calls simple and compatible with the original MACRO's. However, I believe the assembly of CSI may give errors if the patch to the MACRO assembler which fixes expansion of macros with generated symbols has not been made. A version of the macro MOVARG which gets around this bug is included in CONTROL.MLB. The MAIL facility works as specified. Some users may wish to alter the subroutine SETDEF, which sets the default file protection word, to protect against read by all but the owner of [1,200]. This gives security against all but the most capricious of system programmers or the system manager (who can create a USER who owns [1,200]). MAIL was written in FLECS, a structured FORTRAN pre-processor. The FTN file is also included, and will compile with F4P. However, it is nearly unreadable, so the FLECS listing file MAIL.FLL is also included. COST is being sent as is. No attempt was made to generalize it to other charging procedures. However, the structure should be useful and/or informative to system managers. GET HAS BEEN FOUND TO BE VERY USEFUL, SINCE IT IMPLEMENTS A FEATURE NOT AVAILABLE IN IAS, AND ALSO EXPANDS ON IT. MOST OF OUR USERS IN ANY ONE GROUP NEED THE SAME PROGRAMS AVAILABLE. RATHER THAN INSTALLING THEM OR REQUIRING A RUN COMMAND FROM A CENTRAL UIC, GET RUNS A PROGRAM FROM THE UIC CREATED BY COPYING THE GROUP CODE TO THE USER CODE: I.E. [300,300]. THE GET $FILE COMMAND RUNS PROGRAMS FROM [100,100], AND THE PROGRAM COULD OF COURSE BE EXPANDED TO RECOGNIZE OTHER SPECIAL CHARACTERS.