******************************************************************************* [307,20]README.1ST U. S. Geological Survey RSX/IAS SIG Tape 345 Middlefield Rd. Mailstop 77 Spring 1983 Submissions Menlo Park, CA 94025 This UIC contains the USGS submissions for the Spring 1983 SIG tape. Included are the following programs/files: BACBRU Utilities A Pascal program and indirect command file for M-Plus systems to implement incremental disk backups using Virtual Terminals. Provides neatly formatted output from BRU, and may be executed from Batch to provide daily backup with a log of all backed-up files. See [307,20]BACBRU.DOC for futher details. BUGSF82.TXT A list of known problems with the U.S.G.S Fall '82 submissions. AST.RNO Handout accompanying the Spring '83 DECUS session AST.DOC "Hows and Whys of ASTs," originally published in the RSX/IAS Spring '83 DECUS Handout. If you want to know anything about ASTs in RSX, this handout should cover it. NEWFIXER Replacement for FXR... task distributed with M-Plus systems, which recovers from hard memory parity errors. DEC's version has problems; you may want to try using this one. See NEWFIXER.DOC For questions or problems regarding these submissions, please contact Gary L. Maxwell at the address listed above.