This is the RSX/IAS SIG Symposium tape from the 1980 FALL DECUS
meeting in San Diego, CA.  The tape contains material submitted by the
user community to the SIG at the FALL DECUS meeting.
	The programs on this tape are from user submissions.  The DECUS
staff,the RSX/IAS SIG staff, and DEC are all in relative ignorance
of the contents of the tapes.  No warranty of any kind is implied in
the distribution of these tapes.  The programs may or may not be well
documented, they may or may not work, they may even crash your system.
If you have a problem contact the author of the program.  Do not contact
DECUS,DEC, or the RSX/IAS SIG.
	The tape contains approximately 35,000 blocks of software.  Since
35,000 blocks would require three 2400 ft. reels of tape in FLX format
at 800 BPI, we elected to distribute the tape in BRU format.
The distribution fits on one 2400 ft. tape in BRU format at 800 BPI.
If you are an IAS site and cannot read the tape in BRU format, please
contact George Hamma at the following address:
			
			George Hamma
			Synergistic Technology, Inc.
			20065 Stevens Creek Blvd.
			suite 106
			Cupertino, CA.  95014
			(408) 253-5800
 
	If you are a VAX site and cannot read the tape
in BRU format (i.e. you have no friends with 11M who could put it
in Backup and Restore format) please contact Philip Cannon.
	The UIC [300,1] contains several files of interest.  The file
RSXFALL80.DIR contains a directory of the contents of the tape (BRU does not
produce nice directories).  The file RSXF80.UIC contains a brief abstract
on the contents of the tape.  The file ALLREADME.1ST contains a
concatenated list of all of the README files on the tape.
A copy of this letter appears in the file BEGIN.TXT.  The file UICSETUP.CMD
contains the UFD commands to create all the needed UIC's on device XX:,
edit it to match your needs before using BRU to recover the tape contents.
	The UIC [300,2] contains the program that is used to make a copy
of the tape.  The program name is "TPC".  This is a new version of TPC
which can copy a BRU tape.  To use TPC one needs a disk with at least 
35,000 blocks of free space.  To put a copy of the tape on your disk one
enters the following command:
 
	RUN BIGTPC
	TPC> DN:80FSD.BRU=MT:
 
To make a copy of the tape for someone one enters the following command
line:
 
	RUN BIGTPC
	TPC> MT:=DN:80FSD.BRU
 
	For you old timers, TPC does NOT require the 35,000 blocks to be
contiguous.
	This year we are distributing the tape in a different manner.
A tree structure has been created to distribute the tape.  The idea
is very simple.  Each LUG makes a few copies of the tapes and sends
them on to other LUGS who in turn make a few copies of the tape and send
them on to other LUGS, and so on.  I hope this will result in users getting
a copy of the tape relatively soon (lets try for January 1981).  It also
should eliminate the need for anyone to make a huge number of copies.
There has been no great effort to coordinate the tree structure.  Everyone
will receive a copy of the tree.  They should find their place and contact
their "parent" to arrange for the transfer of their copy.  I have choosen
(selected at random) the nodes on the tree.  In the interest of saving time
I have not contacted the people.  I am relying on their enthusasium for the
product to motivate them in participating in the tree scheme.  Lets get copies
of the tape out QUICKLY.  If anyone cannot participate in the scheme please
notifiy Philip Cannon at ONCE.  A copy of the tree will be mailed to LUG
CHAIRMAN under separate cover.  The tree structure is NOT on the tape.
	The idea of the "tree" scheme is to decentralize the effort of getting
out copies of the tape.  The master distribution will be at 800 BPI in BRU.
If you need 1600 BPI, please try to contact someone in the tree who can
provide it.  If in desparation you cannot find anyone, call Philip Cannon.
I can provide a limited number of 1600 BPI copies.
	This year I was unable to attend the DECUS meeting due to the birth
of my son (Benjamin Philip Cannon).  George Hamma took over the job of building
and editing the SIG tape for the San Diego meeting.  This masterpiece of 
35,000 blocks is the product of many hours of work by George and his good 
friend Wayne Graves.  Many thanks from me to them for their fine effort.
	If you have comments or complaints please feel
free to write to me and share your thoughts.   
 
 
 
 					respectively submitted,
 
 					Philip H. Cannon
					Science Applications, Inc.
					1211 West 22 nd Street
					suite 901
					Oakbrook, Il.   60521
					(312) 655-5960
 
 					RSX/IAS SIG LIBRARIAN
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