All of the familiar OpenVMS EDT features.
Eliminate the need for retraining.
Preserve your OpenVMS training investment.
Enhanced to include EVE/TPU features and MORE!

Avoid the frustration and cost of relearning how to do familiar tasks.
EDT+ gives you a consistent and familiar editing interface for all of the operating systems you use.

Features:

• VAX EDT Gold-Key Editing Plus
• Supports Microsoft Windows editing interface
• Multiple Windows, Status Line, and Other EVE/TPU features
• Powerful User-Defined Keys and Macro Language
• Dynamically Adapts to Current Screen Size
• Supports LINE, KEYPAD, and NOKEYPAD editing modes
• Column Cut and Paste, 4000 Character Line Length
• Enhanced Disaster Recovery
• Easy-to-Use OpenVMS Style Help Systems

  Supported Systems

  EDT+ supports WindowsNT, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows95, Windows 3.11, most UNIX systems, MS-DOS systems including laptops, most keyboards including the enhanced 101 and DEC LK250, UNIX terminals and system consoles. In addition to the standard EDT interface, EDT+ provides a user-definable editing interface that will accommodate the editing needs of most users.

  User Defined Keys and Macros

  Commonly used or advanced key sequences can be composed into one or two keystrokes. With the EDT+ macro language, you can perform advanced editing operations and automate time-consuming procedures.

  On-line Help

  A comprehensive set of over 200 help screens covers every EDT+ command. As you customize your editing environment, you can easily add new help screens, or modify existing ones with general or specific information.

  Disaster Recovery

  EDT+ provides recovery from disaster with a journal facility that lets you replay an entire editing session interrupted by a power failure or system crash. During an editing session, EDT+ provides you with three methods of recovering from bad edits: the undelete facility recovers the last character, word, or line deleted; the UNDO command lets you undo a series of previous edits; and the /QUERY option prompts you before the executed command continues.

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Digital Command Language for UNIX

Emulates Digital's Command Language

VCL is a OpenVMS emulator for MS-DOS and UNIX operating systems that emulates the Digital Command Language (DCL). VCL lets you
continue using familiar OpenVMS commands as you move from OpenVMS to UNIX environments.

All Popular OpenVMS Commands and Utilities
VCL provides over 50 commands and utilities with over 300 qualifiers. You can include system commands, program data, logical expressions,
lexicals, and interactive user prompts in VCL command files. VCL supports complete OpenVMS file specifications, including directory and
sub-directory specifications.

Command Line Editing and Command History

You save time with OpenVMS-like line editing and command history features. Previously entered commands can be recalled, examined, and edited, thus eliminating unnecessary retyping.

Features:

• All Popular OpenVMS Commands and Utilities
• Powerful OpenVMS Lexicals
• Logical and Symbol Expressions
• Shared Logical Tables (UNIX Only)
• User-Defined Commands and Keypad Functions
• Line Editing and Command History
• Customized On-Line Help
• Command Files with Full Flow Control
• File Encryption Option for Data Security
• Logical and Symbol Expressions

With VCL, you can define your own commands. Complete logical name and symbol substitution is available. Symbols let you manipulate strings and numbers using OpenVMS-like expressions. Additionally, logicals and symbols provide you with simplified file specifications and command syntax.

Shared Logical Tables

With VCL on UNIX, logicals defined in the LNM$GROUP and LNM$SYSTEM tables can be shared between VCL processes, and will remain present until the system is re-booted.

Additional VCL Features

VCL has two additional features that help ease the migration from OpenVMS to UNIX or MS-DOS: the TEACH command and PASSTHRU mode. With TEACH, you can learn UNIX or MS-DOS from a familiar environment by displaying the UNIX or MS-DOS equivalents of the OpenVMS commands entered. PASSTHRU lets you access UNIX or MS-DOS commands while running VCL.

On-line OpenVMS-style Help

A comprehensive set of over 200 help screens covers every VCL feature. You can customize existing help screens or add new ones for general or site-specific information.

OpenVMS-Style Backup for UNIX

Vbackup translates files and their attributes to a unified format that OpenVMS BACKUP, RSTS/E BACKUP, and Vbackup running on any system can read. Because of Vbackup's portable data format, Vbackup provides a way to transfer files and filesystems across OpenVMS, RSTS/E, and heterogeneous UNIX platforms.

Full System Backup

Systems can run in normal multi-user mode while Vbackup performs a full system backup. Vbackup locks files against multiple write access, and detects and warns of potential inconsistencies if other processes override locks. Vbackup saves and restores all standard and many non standard UNIX file types and characteristics, including hard and soft links, sparse files, file ownership and protection, access and modification times, AIX trusted computing base attribute, special files, and FIFOs.

Features:

• Performs full system backup in normal multi-user mode
• Stores files portably across OpenVMS, RSTS/E, and UNIX
• Reads and writes OpenVMS and RSTS/E save sets
• Accesses network tape and disk devices
• Reconstructs data from corrupted media
• Provides a common interface for users familiar with OpenVMS BACKUP
• Saves up to 254 terabytes of data in each backup operation

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OpenVMS-Style Mail Interface for UNIX

Emulates Digital's Mail Utility

Vmail is a user interface for UNIX mail which emulates Digital's OpenVMS Mail utility. It lets you continue using familiar OpenVMS MAIL commands as you move to the UNIX environment. With Vmail, you can correspond transparently with UNIX mail users on the network.

OpenVMS Mail Commands Plus

Vmail provides over 39 commands such as READ, SEND, FILE, and EXTRACT. For added flexibility, lists of messages can be affected with a single command without the need to SELECT and MOVE each message to a special folder. With Vmail, you can use either OpenVMS or UNIX style names when referencing external files.

Features:

• All OpenVMS Mail Utility Commands Plus Enhancements
• UNIX Mail Additions
• Full Mail Folder Support
• Line Editing and Command History
• User Defined Keypad Functions
• Customized On-Line Help

UNIX Mail Additions

Vmail incorporates the following UNIX-like mail functions: you can switch to EDIT mode via a special key sequence when entering mail messages; define and append a signature file to each mail message sent; suspend the Vmail session while running another process; and include a copy of a mail
message or external file in the message being sent.

Full Mail Folder Support

Vmail provides a virtually unlimited number of mail folders to ease the management of mail data. Folder names may contain up to 39 characters. In addition, the special folder names of MAIL, NEWMAIL, and WASTEBASKET are supported. For added customization, Vmail lets you redefine the WASTEBASKET folder name.

Line Editing and Command History

You save time with OpenVMS-like line editing and command history features. Vmail lets you recall, examine, and edit previous commands, thus eliminating unnecessary retyping.

User-Defined Keypad Functions

Vmail lets you issue frequently used commands with a single keystroke. A user-specific initialization file will allow automatic definition of keypad functions each time Vmail is used.

On-line OpenVMS-style Help

Full screen, on-line documentation of all Vmail commands is provided. Users may customize existing help screens or add new ones for general or site-specific information.