README       ORELSE -- This file you're now reading.....                  
                                                                                
                                 
      AVLTREE  VMARC  -- PL/I routines for building and maintaining         
                             "balanced" binary trees of pointers to             
                             arbitrary data structures                          
                                 
      CRAY2IBM VMARC  -- converts arrays of floating point numbers          
                             between Cray and IBM formats                       
                                 
      GDDMTOOL VMARC  -- Misc. tools and symbol sets for GDDM, includes     
                             a GDDM IBM-GL plot driver for pen plotters,        
                             a thick line generation routine, blackjack         
                             as a GDDM application, and math and science        
                             symbol sets for Hurshey fonts.                     
                                 
      IEEE2IBM VMARC  -- converts arrays of floating point numbers          
                             between IEEE and IBM formats                       
                                       
      PCR      VMARC  -- very powerful PL/I development tool and            
                             interface for implementing CMS commands,           
                             REXX external function packages, immediate         
                             commands, and subcommand environments using        
                             standard PL/I. Also supports loading of user       
                             and PL/I library routines into nucleus for         
                             very fast invocation.                              
                                 
      PLIFORM  VMARC  -- Very nice, "user-programmable" PL/I source         
                             code formatted; table driven to support            
                             multiple styles. For VM and OS/2                   
                                 
      PLITOOLS VMARC  -- collection of powerful PL/I to VM functions        
                             interface routines. Includes direct native         
                             file i/o to files on minidisk, access to           
                             REXX variables in any currently active             
                             environment, XEDIT macros written in PL/I          
                             (*very fast*) and much more. Also includes         
                             the REXX 'PARSE' statement as a PL/I macro         
                             preprocessor -- now use PARSE in PL/I code.        
                                 
      PLIVSC   VMARC  -- Detailed comparison of PL/I features and           
                             functions to C; why PL/I is an excellent           
                             language for use in VM.                            
                                 
      SUN2IEEE VMARC  -- convert from SUN 386i floating point to IEEE       
                                 
      UNIX2VM  VMARC  -- Paper on porting SierraSeis 1.5 application        
                             from Unix to VM....experiences and benefits        
                                 
      VAX2IBM  VMARC  -- package to convert VAX float point numbers         
                             to IBM format                                      
                                                                                
We hope the VM community enjoys these contributions as much as we               
enjoy sharing them. Questions, bug fixes, comments, etc. to:                    
                                                                                
Dave Jones                                                                      
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