With nearly a decade of VMS Web servers behind us, it's not surprising that a number of programs are available free to do useful VMS-specific functions. Here's a grab-bag of programs, organized roughly by function, that I've found useful, along with where to get them. This is only a fraction of the scripts available for VMS, and is limited by two factors: These are scripts written (or adapted) specifically to VMS, rather than, say, Perl CGIs, which are written generically enough to work on VMS, and almost all are scripts I have used myself and found useful. For pointers to other scripts, check out Arne Vaxjhj's page at http://www.levitte.org/~ava/cgiscripts.htmlx.

Incidentally, if you're looking for prewritten Perl CGIs, do yourself and your site a favor and check out http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/scripts.shtml for some up-to-date and reasonably secure replacements for the not very good but very popular scripts found at Matt's Script Archive. Documentation is a little rough though no rougher than the original and these are models of modern Perl style with attention to security. FORMMAIL.PL continues to be a source of many, many security holes; use the replacement from this site if you're going to use anything, even if you have to tweak it yourself to make it actually send mail. [It opens a pipe to a designated mail program. If you do download the NMS FORMMAIL script, make sure to collect NMS-SENDMAIL, a Perl script that will do the SMTP mail-sending portion of the job.)