TOOLS Disk/Conference Management System

What?

This program may be used to request services from a shared tools or conference disk maintained by a TOOLSRUN service machine. Some examples for interacting with the PUBNET TOOLS disks from the command line:

                                                                           
  TOOLS                                                                         
  TOOLS TO WWCHAT LISt * FORUM                                                  
  TOOLS TO WWCHAT APPend GENERAL FORUM                                          
  TOOLS TO VMTOOLS INForm * PACKAGE                                             
  TOOLS TO VMTOOLS UNInform * *                                                 
  TOOLS TO GAMES CREate NEWGAME PACKAGE

Some TOOLS DISKS are:

NODE	DISK	MEMO
PUBVM	WWCHAT	World-wide discussion forums
PUBVM	GAMES	Games people play... on CMS!
PUBVM	VMTOOLS	VM and CMS tools repository
PUBVM	PUBDOCS	PUBVM system documentation

Documentation

TOOLS is very well-documented, with a complete manual set available online:

TITLE	DOCNUM	MEMO
TOOLS Request File Submission Program User's Guide and Reference	TOOLS-001-03	General user's guide
TOOLSRUN Control File Language Reference	TOOLS-002-03	Describes the workings of the TOOLS configuration file
TOOLSRUN Request File Language Reference	TOOLS-003-03	Describes the workings of the spool file that the TOOLS application sends to the TOOLS server
TOOLSRUN Administrator's Guide	TOOLS-005-03	TOOLS administration and configuration
TOOLSRUN Quick Start Guide	Link	A "quick start" guide to help you get TOOLSRUN up and running for the first time
TOOLSRUN Change History	Link	Lists the changes made to TOOLS and TOOLSRUN in the time period between when the manuals were last updated and when the last version of the application was released.
TOOLSRUN LESSONS	Link	Describes how TOOLS and TOOLSRUN work using illustrative examples