Decus U.S. Chapter SIGs Newsletters

This document is the March 1988 edition of the DECUS U.S. Chapter SIGs Newsletters (Volume 3, Number 7). It serves as a compilation of newsletters from various Special Interest Groups (SIGs) within the Digital Equipment Computer Users Society (DECUS).

Key sections include:

• DATATRIEVE/4GL SIG: Features a "Wombat Wizard" technical advice column covering report writer issues, such as page numbering, group reporting, and preprinted forms. It also includes a ballot for Product Improvement Requests (PIRs).
• Office Automation (OA) SIG: Provides responses to previous system improvement requests and a ballot for new requests.
• Personal Computer (PC) SIG: Includes technical tips (such as simulating asynchronous system traps in FORTRAN), a summary of new software added to the public domain library, and news regarding integration between Digital and Apple/OS/2 systems.
• EDUSIG: Focuses on academic computing resources, including a call for participants for a panel session at the Cincinnati symposium and academic references for privacy, security, and ethics.
• Graphics (GAPSIG) SIG: Contains a report from the JTC1/SC24 plenary meeting in Berlin regarding computer graphics standardization and a "Snippets from Anaheim" section.
• Devias (IAS) SIG: Outlines the IAS SIG FY89 Activity Plan, discusses security and budgetary challenges, and provides technical programming tips (random disk seeks).
• Languages & Tools (L&T) SIG: Features a detailed Masters Directory listing experts for various languages, a report on COBOL standards meetings, and a technical section on COBOL subroutines.
• Networks (NETWORDS) SIG: Discusses VAXnotes conferences, covering topics such as DFS, DNS, DQS, and converting from IBM to VAX, as well as troubleshooting VAX/RSX networking issues.
• RT-11 (Minitasker) SIG: Discusses memory management for handlers (XM), RT-11 library updates, and includes a wish list survey analysis.
• VAX Systems (Pageswapper) SIG: Focuses on VAX/VMS security (viruses/worms), system management procedures, and responses to the Fall 1987 System Improvement Request (SIR) ballot.