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 | Bulletin # 14     Hobbyist / Freeware To-do List        Updated: 03/17/98 |
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   Here's list of ideas for hobbyist projects and freeware development for
   OpenVMS, FreeBSD, DOS, etc.

   Feel free to submit your suggestions to the Sysop!


   FreeVMS Utilities

   One of the keenest needs of the FreeVMS Project is people to code up
   the command programs which are external to DCL. These include, among
   others, COPY.EXE (COPY, APPEND), CREATE.EXE, CREATEFDL.EXE, DELETE.EXE,
   DIRECTORY.EXE, etc. You can find the .CLD files for any VMS 
   distribution in the .A saveset. The DCL internal commands are found
   in DCLINT.CLD, which also makes mention of QUEMAN and other programs.

   See the FreeVMS homesite at http://www.free-vms.org/ for more info.
   If this project interests you, subscribe to the mailing list.

   
   SCSI ZIP-drive driver for OpenVMS

   For those folks who need removable storage for OpenVMS, how 'bout a
   suitable driver for SCSI ZIP drives on OpenVMS?

   The second step of that would, of course, be to get the spec.'s from
   Iomega and write some "ZIP tools" for OpenVMS, or perhaps even port
   their software to OpenVMS (if your OpenVMS license permits you to
   develop software for profit, since it is unlikely that Iomega will
   release their code as freeware - then again, I could be wrong!).


   Update CMU/IP for Changes in the RFC's, Re-Write for IPV6

   Rather a tall order, eh? Well, MACRO32 always was a freebie with 
   VAX/VMS and OpenVMS-VAX. BLISS/32-VAX is a freebie now, too! Portions
   of CMU/IP may be in C, but Gnu-C is available for both VAX and Alpha.
   Those should be everything you need to modify any portion of CMU/IP.

   Anybody feel up to the challenge?


   Re-package Gnu-C for VMSINSTAL

   There are some binary distributions for Gnu-C out there. We need an
   object-code distribution that can be linked on the target system.
   Much of the stuff you find on Hunter Goatley's freeware site is packed
   this way.


   Re-package Samba for VMSINSTAL.

   Same comments as for Gnu-C. Samba is distributed in source-code form
   by its maintainers. However, on at least one German site, you can find
   an object-code distribution that requires DEC-C. Normally, Samba is
   built using Gnu-C (GCC/G++) on UNIX systems. We need of port of Samba
   for OpenVMS using the Gnu-C compilers for VAX and Alpha.

   FYI: Samba allows your OpenVMS system to offer print and file services
   to Windows, WIN/95 and WIN/NT clients. Samba is freeware. The client-
   side software is a freebie from MS for Windows, and comes with WIN/95
   and WIN/NT Wrkstn.


   Port ANYone's DEC-BASIC to C Translator to OpenVMS

   There's a freeware B-2-C translator out there (BTRAN), but to my 
   knowledge, it's not complete and is for UNIX, not OpenVMS. This needs
   to be polished up and made compatible with Gnu-C.


   Watch this file for more project ideas...

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