Announcing VMS_SHARE 8.5

[Andy Harper, KCL Systems Manager]

The latest release of VMS_SHARE, version 8.5, is now available from a number of
sources (detailed at the end).

Brief Summary of Function:

VMS_SHARE is a utility designed to package files such that they can be mailed
across the network with minimal chance of corruption by aberrent mailers. A
package of files is encoded into a multi-part share file and mailed as a number
of separate parts, which are rejoined at the receiving end and executed as a
command procedure to restore the original files.

It requires no special compilers or other utiliies at either the sending or
receiving ends.

Changes:

This version includes a number of changes. Briefly:

* Several Bug fixes in the unpacking code, mainly dealing with version
numbers, null filenames and trailing blank handling.
* New /HELP qualifier
* New algorithms for splitting files into segments, and segments into parts
* Overhaul of the packaging code

Full details are contained witin the release notes.

Availability:

News:
Posted to the vmsnet.sources newsgroup

Ftp:
ftp://ftp.kcl.ac.uk/vms_share/vms_share.*-of-*
ftp://ftp.wku.edu/vms/fileserv/vms_share.zip
ftp://ftp.spc.edu/macro32/savesets/vms_share.zip

E-mail:
send a one line message to VMSSERV @ BAY.CC.KCL.AC.UK containing the
command:
SEND VMS_SHARE.PACKAGE
in the body of the message.

My thanks to Hunter Goatley for making this available on his FTP archives, and
to the various people who helped in testing this version.

Andy Harper
Kings College London