H FTS, Utilities, do-everything utility for monitoring and controlling VMS  A The Functional Testing Suite (FTS) is a do-everything utility for E monitoring and controlling a VMS system.  The philosophy here is that B everytime I want to do something under VMS, and there's no commandD to do it, I'll write it myself and add it to FTS.  It started out asB a monitor for images which I didn't have source code for (like UCX8 applications) and grew into a sort of grab-bag of hacks.  G FTS is generally distributed in VMS_SHARE format.  To unpack the source C code, execute (via DCL) the distribution file (eg. $ @FTS012.SHAR). @ To build the FTS executable, us the command "$ @MAKE".  The onlyF file required to actually use FTS is FTS.EXE which should be installedE as a foreign command (ie. "$ FTS :== $disk:[dir]FTS.EXE").  If anyone @ out there wants to put together a VMS help file, god bless them.B The currently supported help system is the source code, especially the file FTS_PARSE.CLD.   E I have compiled FTS 1.2 under VMS versions V5.1-1, V5.5-2, and FT6.0.  (Without problems)  I WARNING!!!  FTS is an rather brutish program which may very well do nasty E things to your system, least of all crash it.  Don't use this program G unless you think you know what you're doing!  Consider yourself warned.   / Comments and additions are cheerfully accepted:          Bruce R. Miller          TGV, Inc.          603 Mission St.          Santa Cruz, CA  95060          (403) 427-4366          Internet: MILLER@TGV.COM  