[360,360] Submitted by: Bob Denny Creative System Design Co. 3452 E. Foothill Blvd Suite 601 Pasadena, CA 91107 (213) 792-9474 BOGGLE: This program plays "Big Boggle", a game in which the players try to form words of 3 or more letters from an 5x5 array of letter cubes using contiguous cubes. This game acts as an opponent. Use a real Big Boggle board, run the program and enter in the letters as requested. The program will write out the words it finds on the terminal and to a file BOGGLE.OUT. Sorry, it doesn't support the "Qu" cube. No need to install the task, put BOGGLE.DIC in your UIC. SORT: This is a major rewrite of the "sortc" program on the DECUS C kit. It's a lot faster, and needs essentially no stack, and a temp file only slightly larger than the input file. Runs as task "...SOR" SUPERDUMP: A "full bore" file/device dump utility. Documentation and source in SOD.RNO and SOD.C. Does everything you'll ever want, including file header dumps, with multi-header support. Runs as task "...DUM". CHAT: This program allows users to chat with each other from terminal to terminal. Install, runs as "...CHA". Uses IO.WBT's so you get auto ^R while typing. Looks a bit kludgy, but it's convenient and prevents full-duplex garbage when both parties type at once. If the called party's terminal is attached, it announces "Request to chat" and waits for the terminal to become available. The caller sees "CHAT" when he has attached the other terminal. The caller types ^Z to terminate chatting. TODAY: Writes out date and time in English, per the format used by Robert J. Lurtsema, a classical radio announcer in the Boston area. Also says the phase of the moon. Written by Martin Minow. Runs as task "...TOD". HANOI: Does the "Tower of Hanoi" on a VT-52 or a '100 in '52 mode, actually moving the rings visually between posts. The first time I ran it I cracked up. Install it with /TASK=...HAN and say HANOI n, where "n" is the number of rings. Try 4 the first time. I think Dave Conroy wrote it, and Martin Minow hacked on it. These programs were written in C, compiled by the DECUS compiler and TKB'ed with the DECUS runtime library, and the RSX executive extensions library. You can get the kit through me or the Structured Languages SIG. Have fun. JARGON: This file is a riot! It contains a valuable dictionary of computerese, straight from the Stanford/MIT Artificial Intelligentia. I got a big kick out of reading it, and keep my listing close by at all times for ready reference.