** ** ****** ** ** ******** ** ** ***** ** ** ** * ** ** ** *** ** ** ** ** ** * ** ** ** * **** **** ** * ** ** ** ** ** **** ** ** ** ** ** *** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * ** ** ** ** ** ****** ** ** ** ***** ***** ** ** ** ****** ****** ***** ** **** ******** ****** ****** ** ** ** ** * ** ** * ** ** ** ** ****** **** ** ** ** ** **** ****** ** ** ** ** **** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ****** ***** ** **** ** ****** ** ** **** KY REGISTER **** KY REGISTER **** KY REGISTER **** KY REGISTER *** JANUARY 1989 TABLE OF CONTENTS UKCC Short Courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Online Registration for Short Courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 Holiday Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371 Micro Lab Hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382 Sending TeX Output to the IBM 3800 Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404 The Forgotten Inventor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464 Suggestions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568 Classifieds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734 Service Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 750 ************************************************************************* UKCC SHORT COURSES The following short courses are free to all UK faculty, staff, and students, but preregistration is required. If you register for a course and then find that you will be unable to attend, please cancel your registration by calling 257-UKCC. Failure to do so may jeopardize your right to register for future UKCC short courses. There are several ways you can register, depending on the class: * You can register online (see line 329 for specific directions) -- some classes require online registration; or * You can register by calling 257-UKCC (this is Voice Mail Exchange, your registration will be confirmed by phone within five days). Many of these classes don't require any knowledge or experience with any computer system. If there are prerequisites for a particular class, they'll be listed in the class description. If you have questions about class content or bypassing prerequisites, call the instructor for that class. Introduction to VM/CMS and XEDIT Tuesday, January 17 and Thursday, January 19 Noon to 2:00 p.m. 104 M.I. King Library Saturday, February 11 and Saturday, February 18 10:00 a.m. to Noon 103 McVey Hall Monday, March 27 and Tuesday, March 28 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. 103 McVey Hall A basic introduction to interactive use of the IBM mainframe systems, this class presumes no previous knowledge of the IBM systems or any other computer system. You'll learn how to access the computer, how to create and manage files on your account, and how to use online tools such as CALENDAR and VIEW. You'll also learn how to use the CMS text editor, XEDIT, to create and modify individual files. This course will be taught in two two-hour sessions. Both sessions will provide hands-on practice of the commands that are covered. You will be given a class computer account which will remain active for the duration of the course. This course will be offered three times during the Spring semester. Your instructor will be Pat Murphy (257-2244). Introduction to Electronic Mail on the IBM Thursday, January 26 Noon to 2:00 p.m. 103 McVey Hall An introduction to the MAIL command on the IBM 3084, this class is for the beginner. You'll learn how to create mail files and send them to other IBM system users, to WANG system users, or to PRIME system users. We will also cover the use of BITNET to communicate with individuals at other academic centers around the world. You will learn how to read incoming mail and some techniques for storing old mail. We'll also discuss how to create and maintain a NAMES file of individuals with whom you frequently correspond. You will be taught the logon sequence and some basic CMS background before we begin the discussion of MAIL. This class presumes no previous knowledge of the IBM systems or any other computer system. You'll be given a CMS account for the duration of the course and will receive hands-on instruction for all the commands covered. Your instructor will be Pat Murphy (257-2244). Introduction to PRIMEWORD Tuesday and Thursday January 31 and February 2 Noon to 1:00 p.m. 103 McVey Hall The UKCC has recently installed a new word processing package on the PRIME computer which behaves much like the full screen word processing packages available on most PC's. It is modeled after a PC software package, WordMarc. It is menu-driven to a large degree, making it easy for even the novice computer user to generate professional looking documents with a minimum of effort. There is a laser printer connected to the PRIME which is accessible through PRIMEWORD providing letter-quality printout. This class presumes no previous knowledge of the PRIME system or experience with any other computer system. There are no prerequisites for this class. You'll be given a class computer account and receive supervised hands-on practice in using the commands. Your instructor will be Pat Murphy (257- 2244). Introduction to PHOENIX Monday through Wednesday February 13 - 15 Noon to 1:00 p.m. 103 McVey Hall The UKCC has recently purchased PHOENIX, a courseware authoring and presentation system, to run on the IBM 3084. This software greatly simplifies the task of creating computer-based training packages and computer test bank applications. The system provides a powerful full screen editor for creating presentation screens. Standard question types which are supported through a complex answer analysis feature are short answer, fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice, and true-false. The entire system from sign-on to sign-off is menu-driven, making it relatively easy even for non-programmers to develop quality computer courseware to supplement or enhance existing classroom instruction. Students can access courseware written for the IBM 3084 from any of the terminal cluster sites on campus. This introductory course is intended for anyone who has an interest in developing computer-aided instruction. No previous computer experience is required. Pat Murphy will be your instructor (257-2244). Graphics Tools and Concepts Monday, Wednesday, and Friday January 23, 25, 27 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. 326 McVey Hall (CCS) An introduction to mainframe graphics fundamentals, the three-day course will examine the terminology, techniques, devices, and software systems commonly used for graphics applications on the IBM systems. You'll learn how these tools and concepts may be integrated into instructional and research programs, and how to identify and develop potential graphics applications. Online demonstrations and exercises will be used extensively. No previous graphics or programming experience is necessary, but some knowledge of interactive computing and CMS will be helpful. Your instructor will be Bob Williamson (257-2227). Introduction to FORTRAN Wednesday, January 18, 1989 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. 103 McVey Hall An introduction to using VS FORTRAN and WATFOR-77 on the IBM 3084. The course will cover the statements used to compile and run FORTRAN source code using the CMS or MVS system. Useful options available with the VS FORTRAN compiler will be covered. Converting older FORTRAN code (FORTRAN G, FORTRAN H, etc.) to compile and run with the VS FORTRAN compiler will be discussed. Prerequisites are familiarity with CMS and XEDIT for file building and editing, and a solid background in FORTRAN coding. This is NOT a course about learning to program in FORTRAN. Tom Faller will be your instructor (257-2236). Online registration is required for this course. Introduction to Vectorized FORTRAN Wednesday, January 25 10:00 a.m. to Noon 103 McVey Hall An introduction to coding VS FORTRAN programs to use the Vector Facility on the IBM 3090 computer. Vectorization reduces the amount of time needed to process DO loops by concurrently processing the DO loop elements. Vectorization will work on unmodified code, but program speedup can be increased by proper coding techniques. Emphasis will be on using a vector compile log to find out which parts of a program need attention, and strategies for increasing the amount of code that is vectorizable. A good background in FORTRAN is prerequisite, as well as familiarity with CMS and XEDIT. Vectorizing works only with VS FORTRAN, so the FORTRAN class described above is a useful prerequisite if your code is in an older version of FORTRAN. Your instructor will be Tom Faller (257-2236). Online registration is required for this course. Introduction to Parallel FORTRAN Thursday, January 26 10:00 a.m. to Noon 103 McVey Hall The course will cover the basic concepts of parallel computing, and the extra statements in VS FORTRAN necessary to controlling a parallel job. Parallel FORTRAN allows a single job to execute across the multiple processors of an IBM 3090. Work is assigned to several tasks, which can execute concurrently. Parallel FORTRAN is available on the VM/XA system at UKCC. Vectorization of a parallel program will also be discussed. You should have a strong VS FORTRAN background, possibly with the other two FORTRAN short courses above. Your instructor will be Tom Faller (257-2236). Online registration is required for this course. Introduction to SAS Monday through Friday January 30 through February 3 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. 103 McVey Hall SAS is a collection of powerful and flexible data management and statistical analysis procedures that allow you to create and analyze libraries of data files on the IBM 3084. The course will emphasize simple data manipulation and general syntax and is designed for new and inexperienced SAS users. CMS and XEDIT knowledge is prerequisite. Your instructor will be Steve Thomson (257-2259). Online registration is required for this course. Introduction to DI3000 Monday, Wednesday, and Friday February 6, 8, and 10 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. 326 McVey Hall (CCS) DI3000, from Precision Visuals, Inc., is a device-independent, general purpose graphics software system. Primarily a toolkit of FORTRAN subroutines for the graphics programmer, it's easy to understand and use, and functionally rich and diverse. In this three-day class you'll learn to apply DI3000 tools to charts and graphs, illustrations, contour and three-dimensional surface maps, and high-quality text applications on the IBM systems. No previous graphics experience is necessary, but knowledge of FORTRAN and CMS will be helpful. Bob Williamson will be your instructor (257-2227). Online registration is required for this course. Introduction to SAS/GRAPH Tuesday and Thursday, February 7 and 9 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. 103 McVey Hall SAS/GRAPH is a collection of SAS PROCs that can be used to draw text in various fonts; plot values in the x-y plane with various curves; draw three-dimensional and contour plots of functions; display bar, pie, star, and block charts; and plot several different map displays using SAS datasets for county, state, and country boundaries on the IBM 3084. The Introduction to SAS short course, described above, is a prerequisite. Lorinda Wang will be your instructor (257-2204). Online registration is required for this course. Introduction to SCRIPT Tuesday and Thursday, February 14 and 16 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. 103 McVey Hall An introduction to the text processor on the IBM 3084. This course will be particularly helpful if you must prepare large documents for research work or for routine course work. This class will cover the basic script commands and commands for generating letter-quality output on the Apple LaserWriters. Completion of Introduction to VM/CMS and XEDIT, described above, is an adequate prerequisite. Your instructor will be Dave McCreary (257-2264). Online registration is required for this course. Introduction to graPHIGS Monday, Wednesday, and Friday February 20, 22, and 24 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. 326 McVey Hall (CCS) This course will deal with the basic capabilities of the IBM graphics software system "graPHIGS." It is a very powerful graphics modeling and drawing subroutine system based on the PHIGS graphics standard. It is normally accessed on the IBM 3090 using IBM 5085 workstations. This will be a "getting started" kind of session. Participants will learn to access the software, attach the workstations, write simple programs, and display and manipulate output. They will also learn to use IBM supplied reference materials. A knowledge of CMS and FORTRAN are essential. Some experience with DI3000, GDDM, Zeta library, or any other graphics subroutine system will be helpful. Your instructor will be Bob Williamson (257-2227). Online registration is required for this course. Introduction to SPSS-X Tuesday through Thursday February 21 through 24 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. 103 McVey Hall SPSS-X is a powerful program for displaying and analyzing data on the IBM 3084. This course is designed for those who have little or no knowledge of SPSS-X, but experience with CMS, or completion of the Introduction to VM/CMS & XEDIT, is prerequisite. Your instructor will be Lorinda Wang (257- 2204). Online registration is required for this course. Introduction to SCRIPT Equation Processing Tuesday, February 28 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. 103 McVey Hall Release 88.1 of SCRIPT provides commands for including very complex equations as part of a text document. These commands will be discussed in this class. Experience with using SCRIPT or completion of the Introduction to SCRIPT class described above is a prerequisite for attendance in this course. Your instructor will be Dave McCreary (257-2264). Online registration is required for this course. Advanced Graphics Programming Tools Monday, Wednesday, and Friday March 20, 22, and 24 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. 326 McVey Hall (CCS) This course will concentrate on more advanced features and capabilities of DI3000 and other mainframe Precision Visuals software modules. Topics will include the use of "metafiles" and the PVI Metafile Translator, fundamental modeling and animation techniques, retained segments and segment storage data structures, and contour and 3-D mesh surface mapping on the IBM systems. Newer additions to the PVI software family will be introduced and demonstrated. Participants in this workshop should be familiar with CMS, VS FORTRAN, and basic DI3000 programming. Bob Williamson will be your instructor (257-2227). Online registration is required for this course. ************************************************************************* ONLINE SHORT COURSE REGISTRATION You can now register for UKCC short courses using the new SHORTCOURSE calendar on the IBM 3084. (Some short courses require online registration.) To use this utility, access the Public disk. Enter PUBLIC SHORTCOUrse You'll see a calendar on your screen that displays all UKCC short courses offered during a three- week period. Place the cursor on a specific course and press PF4 to register for that class. You can access the HELP facility for SHORTCOURSE, which also includes registration, by pressing PF1. After you've pressed PF4 on a specific date, you'll be asked to choose one of the courses offered on that day. These will be displayed in a numbered list. Enter the number of the course. You'll be asked a few questions about your experience on the UKCC system. These are all yes/no questions, such as "Have you used XEDIT previously?" If you don't meet the prerequisites, you should contact the instructor before registering. If you do meet all the recommended prerequisites, you'll be prompted for your name, address, phone, and e-mail address. After each prompt, enter your response. Once you've entered the necessary information, the program will display your registration status and return you to the SHORTCOURSE facility. If the course you want isn't displayed, press PF8 to scroll forward through the calendar. If the class is full, you'll be informed that your name is being put on a waiting list for that course. In the event you're moved onto the roll at a later date, the instructor will notify you. To leave SHORTCOURSE, press PF3. If you experience any problems with this procedure, contact Bob Crovo at 257-2258, 109 McVey Hall, or CROVO@UKCC. Of course, you can still register for some short courses by calling 257-UKCC. -- James McGillivray ************************************************************************* HOLIDAY SCHEDULE Monday, December 26, 1988 through Monday, January 2, 1989 is an official UK holiday, as well as Monday, January 16. The UKCC offices, Consulting Room, and Micro Lab will be closed on these dates. The Data Center and Users Rooms in 103 and 111 McVey Hall will be open from Noon until 12:30 a.m. The IBM and PRIME systems will be in operation, as usual. ************************************************************************* MICRO LAB HOURS The Micro Lab in 107 McVey Hall will be operating on an abbreviated schedule during the months of December and January due to the holidays. Here's the schedule for December and the beginning of January: December 24 to January 2 CLOSED January 3 to 6 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. January 9 to 13 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. January 16 CLOSED Micro Lab hours for the new semester beginning January 17, 1989, will be Monday through Thursday from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Sunday from 1:00 to 9:00 p.m. If you need more information, contact Lavine Thrailkill at 257-2257, UKC105@UKCC. -- Lavine Thrailkill ************************************************************************* SENDING TeX OUTPUT TO THE IBM 3800 PRINTER A new utility called DVI3800 has been added to TeX software. DVI3800 will translate a DVI file created using TeX or LaTeX to an IBM 3800 printer file. To access TeX software and learn more about how to use TeX or LaTeX, enter GRAB TEX GRAB TEX 291 HELP TEX You only need to GRAB the TEX disks once during the log-on session. Once you've accessed the TEX disks with the GRAB command, you can learn more about the DVI3800 command by entering HELP DVI3800 The format of the DVI3800 command is DVI3800 fn < ( nstart <)> > DVI3800 translates the fn DVI file to an IBM 3800 printer file called fn LIST38PP. This file will be created on your A disk. You can print part of the document by using the optional arguments nstart and ntotal. Thus DVI3800 myfile ( 2 5 will create printer output for pages 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 of the document in myfile TEX using the file myfile DVI. To print fn LIST38PP, an MVS job must be submitted. A sample job file is shown below. This file is stored on the TEX disk as SMALL JOB. Copy this file and replace filename, username, jobname, and user password. Then use the command SUBMIT jobname ( CENTRAL to submit the job to the IBM 3800. You can then delete fn LIST38PP, unless you'll want to print more copies later. //filename JOB userid ..INC userpass PSWD * //OGLSAMP OUTPUT FORMDEF=OGL //JES OUTPUT JESDS=ALL,DEFAULT=YES,DEST=UKCC.userid //STEP1 EXEC PGM=CJSPREP //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=A //SYSUT2 DD SYSOUT=A,DCB=(RECFM=VBM,LRECL=8205,BLKSIZE=8209), // OUTPUT=*.OGLSAMP //SYSUT1 DD * ..INC filename LIST38PP * (V /* If you'd like more information or help with TeX, contact Shashi Sathaye at 257-2247, SYSSHASH@UKCC.UKY.EDU, 210 McVey Hall. -- Shashi Sathaye ************************************************************************* THE FORGOTTEN INVENTOR Quick! Who invented the light bulb? Edison? Right for ten points! Now, who made the first powered airplane flight? The Wright brothers? Correct again for another ten points and a weekend for three in Calgary! Now, for the game, a year's supply of stationery, and a Yugo convertible, who invented the modern electronic digital computer? Alan Turing? Steve Wozniak? Some guy named Computer? bzzzzzzzzzz Time's up! The correct answer is John V. Atanasoff. Who? Since counting above ten became widespread, man has devised various objects and machines to ease the pain of laborious calculation. Most of these devices involved physically moving matter from one place to another to keep track of mathematical calculations done in the head. Then, in the 1800s, a series of mechanical calculating engines were created which could actually derive a result by manipulation of the correct set of levers or knobs. Nearly all of these engines depended on carefully machined parts and an analog method of computation. Most histories of computers say that electronic computers were invented in the 1940's partly in response to the need for a quick way to do the enormous number of calculations involved in cryptography, the practice of breaking secret codes. The first large-scale use of an electronic computer, The Colossus, built in England by Alan Turing and M.H.A. Newman, was used to help decipher the German Enigma code. Its success helped to change the course of the war. Between 1937 and 1942, however, two smaller working electronic computers were being built and tested at Iowa State College by Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry. The story of these computers was lost in the confusion of World War II, and it would be more than 20 years before the computers and their inventor received recognition. These computers embodied many of the design elements of computers today. What set Atanasoff's designs apart from the limited, inefficient calculating engines of his time? His pioneer idea was to base all control and arithmetic functions on electronic switches, by means of vacuum tubes. Instead of representing numbers directly, he used their representation in base 2 so they could be manipulated using rules of logic instead of direct counting. He designed the first hard-wired logic circuits to do his arithmetic and control functions. These design elements are shared by modern computers today, on the scale of microcircuits with binary arithmetic and hard-wired transistor layout of logic circuits. He also separated memory and computation modules, and discovered a means of storing memory on regenerating capacitors mounted on rotating disks. Today's computers still separate memory and computing circuits, and capacitors are still used as regenerative components, although they have been replaced in memory storage roles. Atanasoff's computer could solve systems of linear equations, and his circuit design allowed him to operate on the coefficients in parallel, much the same as UKCC's IBM 3090 vector processors do today. Atanasoff's computer was assembled and running by 1942. Like the machines to follow, it had bugs. His data was read in and written out on punched cards (a design going back to Herman Hollerith's census machine in the 1890s). The punched card system had errors in about one operation in 10,000, which meant that large problems could not be attempted without extensive checking and recalculation. Small systems of equations could be handled with no problem. Unfortunately, World War II erupted before Atanasoff and Berry could demonstrate their machine to the scientific world and receive funding for perfecting it. Atanasoff joined the US Naval Ordinance Laboratory, and Berry took a draft-deferred position. The patent applications for Atanasoff's work were never finished. By the end of the war, Atanasoff's computer had been cannibalized and dismantled without his knowledge, and an electronic computer built by John Mauchly and his colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania in 1945, ENIAC, was being touted as the new standard for calculating machines. Atanasoff believed ENIAC operated on principles very different from his computer, and so, never pursued his patents. Instead, he busied himself in starting an engineering-research firm. In 1967 Sperry Rand Corporation brought suit against Honeywell, Inc., for failure to pay royalties on Sperry's recently purchased patent rights to the ENIAC computer. Honeywell contended that the patent was invalid. During pre-trial investigation, Honeywell's lawyers discovered that Mauchly had corresponded with Atanasoff, and that comparison of the ENIAC patent with Atanasoff's machine design revealed that Mauchly had used information from Atanasoff for the ENIAC's basic design. Further investigation showed that Mauchly had not only corresponded with Atanasoff, but had met him at MIT in 1941 and that Atanasoff had demonstrated his computer at that time. The ENIAC patent was declared invalid in 1973, and Atanasoff was recognized as the originator of most of the principles of modern computers today. Unfortunately, the decision did not bring him immediate fame, as the media was occupied with Watergate and Vietnam. Recent attention in scientific circles, however, has helped restore his place in history. If Atanasoff had received his patents, they would have ranked as the most significant patents of the century. He could legitimately claim to have invented electronic digital computation, electronic digital switching, vector processing, memory regeneration, and many other processes. His concepts underlie most of modern electronic computing today. Today Atanasoff is a retired physics professor. He has never received any royalties for his ideas, but recent attention in scientific circles has helped restore his place in history. -- Tom Faller ************************************************************************* SUGGESTIONS 1. There's a bundle of terminals stored in the Computer Room because they were replaced by new terminals. How about using them to fill some of the holes left in 111 McVey Hall when broken terminals were removed? >>>Many of the terminals you saw in the Machine Room were faulty. Those that were in good working order were placed in 111 McVey to fill vacant spots. A few others are being retained as replacements and will be used when they're needed. 2. Since the modem number has been changed to 257-9200 I've encountered login problems to the 3084 and 3090 that I did not encounter before. There is more noise, and sometimes I can't manage to login before the line jams. Sunday evening, Nov. 20, I could login to our Physics Microvax II, to the PRIME, but could not manage either 3084 or 3090. Are there some special port problems with the IBM facilities? I get as far as ready to get the map of Kentucky logo, when the port just sits there, unmoving. >>>On the evening of Sunday, November 20, there was a power failure that shut down many of the systems. Evidently, you logged on just moments before the IBM systems came back up, but after the PRIMEs came back up. 3. What is best way to print with lrecl > 132 in a CMS file? >>>If the LRECL is 133 and is output from an OS job, then the 133rd character is carriage control meant to control a JES printer. In this case, use the CC option on the PRINT or FPRINT command. An even better solution in this case is to not ACCEPT the file to disk in the first place. Reader files can be examined with RBrowse. If you want to print, use the OUTPUT command to send the reader file to a printer of your choice. Check the help files for OUTPUT, PRINT, and FPRINT... for more information. For files with longer LRECL there's a different method. There are four new PAGEDEFs for printing from MVS. Your file could be included as the data file for a print job like the following example. //PRTLONG JOB ,'yourname' //*LOGONID MVSid //*PASSWORD MVSpassword //* //LONG OUTPUT FORMDEF=STD,PAGEDEF=LL164 //*LONG OUTPUT FORMDEF=STD,PAGEDEF=LL202 //*LONG OUTPUT FORMDEF=STD,PAGEDEF=LL219 //*LONG OUTPUT FORMDEF=STD,PAGEDEF=LL292 //* //STEP1 EXEC PGM=CJSPREP //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=A //SYSUT2 DD SYSOUT=A,DCB=(RECFM=F,LRECL=300,BLKSIZE=300), // OUTPUT=*.LONG //SYSUT1 DD * ..INC filename filetype (V /* CJSPREP is a program used to reconstruct records of long record length files that were chopped up to transmit to MVS. Only MVS jobs can print using the new PAGEDEFs. The number on the PAGEDEF refers to the number of characters printed on each line. The higher the number, the smaller the characters. 4. Why the new logo? Every other system I use has the standard giant block letters. Kentucky's logo was different and had a real identifying character for the state and the University; now you might as well be any other U something. Why not take a user's poll about the new logo? >>>Thanks for your comments. The University has established a new, easily recognized institutional logo for use throughout the University system. The new logon graphic was designed to complement this effort. 5. I logged on my account from home over a modem port, which was interrupted by a phone call. This occurred Thursday, early. After the call, I tried to reconnect, but couldn't because the port responded "already logged on to graf C50". Usually I get a break which lets me reconnect, but not this time. I called the Operator, and asked him to disconnect me. He did, and said all was clear. This morning I logged on, and found that I was reconnecting, back into the same file I had been editing Thurday morning! Did the Operator really disconnect me, so I wasn't tying up a port? And if my modem connection is broken, is there a chance I won't be able to reconnect in the future? >>>Yes, you were disconnected, and the port was free for other users. When you're disconnected this way your work is only interrupted and you can resume where you left off, but you should log on again quickly because you may be logged off after fifteen minutes under some circumstances. 6. How do I download a file from VIEW to my PC? I use Kermit and regularly transmit files back and forth between my PC and my CMS account, so I know how to download files, but how do I gain access to VIEW files? >>>There is no general way to download from VIEW at this time. However, you can save a particular file by entering SAVE fn ft fm while you're viewing the file. Just give the file your choice of names and filetypes. This will create a file on your CMS disk which you can then edit, download, or send to the printer. SAVE fn ft fm will also copy HELP files to your CMS disk. If you need more help or information, contact a Consultant in 110 McVey Hall, SUGGEST@UKCC, 257-2249. 7. How come Purdue gets their IBM 3090 vectorized and it appears in the "logmsg" over the weekend, and we go and act like it's a huge improvement over the original 3081? And how come the students were placed back on the 3084? Was the 3090 having problems keeping up with the assembler? Come to think of it, the 3084 did seem at least twice as fast. >>>The IBM 3081 had two processors with a combined throughput about equal to one of the IBM 3090's three processors. This is without the vector processors. 8. When attempting to register online for a short course I got the following error msg: "File 'SAS QUESTION *' not found." >>>We've fixed this; thanks for reporting it. 9. Just now I was trying to use 'ftp' and I received a message "Unable to receive TCP - Software error in TCP." Can you please do something about this? I've also noticed long delays in connecting to other machines and transferring files. >>>Can you give us more details about this? We've only noticed long delays when going out of SURANet; that is, to places like SRI.NIC.ARPA. We assumed that this was due to overloaded ArpaNet lines. FTP and Telnet to our campus machines and other SURANet campuses have been pretty zippy (for us). If you can give us more details such as the time, machines, and symptoms, we'll look into it. 10. For the third time this week--always in early to mid-afternoon--I have received the "all ports busy" message when trying to logon to UKCC. For most of the semester access has been no problem. Why is the system now getting congested? Are still more ports needed to keep up with growing usage? >>>To keep up with the rapidly expanding network we are continually adding as many new ports as current funding will allow. While we try to avoid "all ports busy" during peak times, the network can still become congested during mid-term and at the end of the semesters. We're aware of the problem, and we regret any inconvenience this may have caused you. 11. I would like to request some way for the monitors to have 132 column displays. The TVI955s are capable of it, and I think the normal IBM terminals are also capable of it. >>>Thanks for the suggestions. It might be possible to provide 132 column support for some terminals. 12. Great job on the new Micro Lab connections! It was very difficult to download files from one of the campus mainframes, but with the several new 19.2K baud connections in the Micro Lab, it's much easier and faster to get a machine to use. Thanks for the new resources! They were badly needed, especially for people trying to transfer large files from the IBM to the Wang without all the trouble of magnetic tape. >>>Thanks! Expanding services for our users is one of our continuing objectives. ************************************************************************* CLASSIFIEDS Classified ads are free to UK students, faculty, and staff. Ads run for one issue and must be resubmitted for publication in subsequent issues. If you'd like to place an ad, send it via e-mail to EDITOR@UKCC or mail it to Editor, UK Computing Center, 128 McVey Hall, Lexington, Ky. 40506-0045 (use campus mail when possible). The deadline for ads is the first week of the month for the following month's issue. We do not accept advertising from commercial vendors, and all ads are subject to revision by the Editor. FOR SALE: 384K AST 6-pack, Wordstar professional package, and Brother HR 15. Call 257-3395 (days) or 278-2086 (evenings). ************************************************************************* UKCC SERVICE DIRECTORY McVey Service E-Mail Address Phone Hall Vice President, Information Services Eugene R. Williams DPS128@UKCC 257-3609 Director, University Computing Services Dr. Douglas Hurley HURLEY@UKCC 257-2900 231 Director, Communications & Distributed Systems Doyle Friskney DOYLE@UKCC 257-6225 Director, Computational Sciences Dr. John Connolly CONNOLLY@UKCC 257-8737 324 Academic Consulting Services Lavine Thrailkill UKC105@UKCC 257-2257 121 CMS Consulting Bob Crovo CROVO@UKCC 257-2258 109 Complaints Carol Lotz LOTZ@UKCC 257-2213 129 Consultant for Remote Sites Wanda Dixon Spisak WANDA@UKCC 257-2206 115 Consulting Consultant on Duty SUGGEST@UKCC 257-2249 110 Contingency Planning & Security Jack L. 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