This program reads the guide database and presents the Guide items to the user for inspection. The user can print items of interest to an attached printer, or to a VMS printer queue. This individual then fixes the problem. The NIH-Guide becomes quite voluminous, and so a simple archiving database, using the ZOO program, is included. The standard scheme keeps items in a standard RMS file for three months, after this they are placed in the compressed archive.
Archived items take a little longer to display, but are still available on-line and intact.
The new distribution permits multiple archive files to be created, since the performance of a single archive file greater than about 2,000 blocks is unimpressive. There is now agreement on the annotations of for the Guide distribution, however, these are still implemented by a 'human', rather than a computer, so errors may creep in. Please let us know if there are problems of any kind. The code was written by Suzy Gottesman and Ross Smith helped design it. At the end of 1992 Smith and Gottesman transferred title, all rights and the Copyright of this software package to New York University which now owns it.