DG Review articles from August 1988

DG Review archives from August 1988

DG's big RISC. (Data General) (reduced instruction set computer)
August 1, 1988... DG's BIG RISC Data General top management recently announced that the Westboro company would join a group of other computer companies to build a computer system based on the Motorola 88000 RISC chip. I know a lot of DG users will want...

Program libraries.
August 1, 1988... PROGRAM LIBRARIES Approximately six months after B32 was first released someone faxed us that B32 didn't like the statement: CHAIN "%PROGRAM" Why should it, I thought. That percent sign shouldn't be there. A brief phone call with the...

Disk magic; Controlling file placement and other interesting disk tricks.
August 1, 1988... DISK MAGIC Last month we took a look at DFMTR; what it is and how to invoke it in batch. As promised, this month we'll consider some other things you can do to improve system performance. Let's start things off with an odd-ball...

Undocumented switches.
August 1, 1988... UNDOCUMENTED SWITCHES Software documentation, as you've probably discovered, is not always as complete as we would like. Sometimes the most useful features of a product go completely undocumented. This is especially true with some of the...

Choosing utilities. (utilities for AOS-VS)
August 1, 1988... CHOOSING UTILITIES Software utilities play an important role in keeping your system environment operating and in tip-top shape. My definition of a (system) software utility is a software tool designed to help you manage your system more...

The ultimate servant. (Hazel, the file system cleaner )
August 1, 1988... THE ULTIMATE SERVANT If you're like me, there have been times when you wished you had a maid to clean things up for your around your file system. CEO has its Janitor that shows up in the dead of night to take out the day's trash, but...

COBOL Tools.
August 1, 1988... COBOL TOOLS Suppose you asked a carpenter to install some detailed and intricate wooden molding in your home and the only tool he had was a chainsaw. Would you be surprised if the job was slow and the end product was of inferior quality?...

Stretch that disk space.
August 1, 1988... STRETCH THAT DISK SPACE A well structured disk is one in which individual files are allocated contiguously, the directory information for the disk is contiguous and frequently accessed information is as close together as possible. It...

4-in-1 utility.
August 1, 1988... 4-IN-1 UTILITY Disk_Pak is an AOS/VS-based software package from Eagle Software that analyzes disk fragmentation and reorganizes disks in place. It includes four utilities: * The Disk_Analyzer examines the fragmentation of files and...

Scripts. (application program commands)
August 1, 1988... SCRIPTS This is a general primer on scripts and script development. We'll explain what a script is, what scripts do and how they work. In order to streamline the entry of operating system commands, you might create a batch file. A...

Now there's Choice!
August 1, 1988... NOW THERE'S CHOICE! Choice! creates the Data General Interactive COBOL (ICOBOL) runtime environment on most popular computers ranging from small PCs to large VAXs. It completely eliminates the software compatibility problem because it...

Migrating to AOS and AOS-VS. (AOS and AOS-VS operating systems.)
August 1, 1988... MIGRATING TO AOS AND AOS/VS At SHEILA Systems we have over 250 installed RDOS sites. The potential for upgrading existing users into MV/Family machines eventually forced the move from RDOS to AOS, a move that was easier than expected, and...