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As you may know, I have just joined the University as Director of Academic Computing. I am proud to have been selected for this exciting and challenging position. I hope I can help to continue and to strengthen the tradition of strong support for instructional and research computing at UK. Academic Computing Services provides support for faculty and students in several areas. First, we offer consulting on all levels of academic computing questions, from the most elementary for beginners ("How do I log on?") to the most advanced for researchers ("How can I optimize this vector code?"). In addition, we offer a wide range of short courses designed to help users understand our hardware and software systems and to use them efficiently. It is my goal to ensure that we provide all of the consulting services needed by the University user community and that our course offerings expand as necessary to introduce users to new systems. Second, we help to support the public PC, workstation, and terminal facilities at various locations around the campus. I believe that it is extremely important for us to provide extensive public facilities, available at all hours to all students. I think that a student should be able to go to most of the facilities on the campus and find a uniform environment; that is, a disk or program that works in one lab should work almost anyplace else, and consultants at one facility should be trained in the same matters as consultants elsewhere. The only exception to this rule would be those facilities that are specialized for particular disciplines or colleges, such as a graphics facility for Fine Arts, or a workstation laboratory for Engineering. Third, a major portion of my efforts in the months ahead will be devoted to developing a new Faculty Support Center. This new facility will provide state-of-the-art hardware and software for faculty to evaluate and use for instructional and research applications. It will also offer specialized consulting related to this and other hardware and software. In addition, we are planning an extensive seminar series with both academics and vendors presenting the latest techniques and systems for instructional and research computing. The space for the Faculty Support Center is being developed, and the seminar series will begin this Fall. Announcements will appear in View and other appropriate locations. The final area in which we provide support is new to academic computing. As the result of a reorganization in the Information Systems sector, the professionals who design, direct, and produce video materials for UK have been reassigned from the old Instructional Resources group to the Academic Computing Systems group. This will allow us to continue to provide the traditional video services while, at the same time, developing our expertise and support for the integration of video and graphics into instructional and research applications. I am particularly pleased about this development because it is clear that a major trend for academic computing in the future is the greatly increased use of visualization techniques. I think we are now well placed to take a leading role in this area. Academic Computing Services has always sought input from the user community regarding our services and how we can improve them. As a newcomer, I emphasize the request for your comments, suggestions, and other input. I am still in the process of getting to know you and UK. I need to hear from you to help me know what you would like included in my planning and in the services we now provide. I welcome the opportunity to meet with the Computing Advisory Committees of the various Colleges, with whole departments, with groups of interested faculty members, and with individual faculty members. I urge you to call me at 257-2900, or write me at rst@ukcc.uky.edu. -- Robert S. Tannenbaum, Ed.D. ********************************************************************* PORT SHORTAGE ON UKNET As many of you already know, we have been short of UKCCB ports on UKnet. This is due to the general growth in the use of MVS/ESA at UK, to the use of the new library system (NOTIS), to the use of the Student Information System (SIS), and to the testing of the new Human Resources System (HRS). We added eight ports shortly after the fall semester started, for a total of 76 ports in the UKCCB pool. By the time you read this, we will have added added another 16, which will help the situation. To help us use our UKnet ports more efficiently: * Please don't hold a port you are not using. Some people connect to UKCCB in the morning and then hold the port all day, just in case they need it later. This makes a bad situation worse for everyone. When you finish, drop your connection so that others may use it. * Please don't connect to one machine just to use the other. If you are going to log on to CMS (to check your electronic mail, perhaps), connect directly to UKCC. Don't connect to UKCCB, and then select UKCC from the gateway screen. * Please use an alternate route to UKCCB, if you have one. If you have easy access to a real 3270 terminal, or if you have an ethernet connection (via tn3270), please use it. Using UKCCB As a last resort, if you cannot get a UKCCB port, it is possible to get to UKCCB through UKCC. It's a bit roundabout, but it does work. Please use this route only when absolutely necessary. Connect to UKCC via UKnet, then enter your terminal type as you would on UKCCB: >>connect ukcc Connecting ... (1) UKCC-123 Success. Enter your terminal type: vt100 Don't log on. Instead, at the bottom of the UKCC logo screen, type D VTAM on the command line, and press Enter. USERID ===> PASSWORD ===> COMMAND ===> D VTAM On the "L" screen, type an L and press Enter: USSMSG10: H09L70B UNIV. OF KY : TYPE AN 'L' THEN PRESS ENTER: L This will get you to the gateway screen, which should be familiar. Select your application as usual. After you finish and leave your application, press PF3 to get back to the "L" screen. Type UNDIAL, and press Enter to get back to the UKCC logo screen. USSMSG10: H09L70B UNIV. OF KY : TYPE AN 'L' THEN PRESS ENTER: UNDIAL On the command line, type DISC and press Enter to drop your connection: USERID ===> PASSWORD ===> COMMAND ===> D VTAM We appreciate your help with this. If you need help with this procedure, contact a Consultant in 110 McVey Hall, 257-2249, suggest@ukcc.uky.edu. -- Herman Collins ********************************************************************* 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 can't attend, please cancel your registration by calling 257-UKCC. Failure to do so may jeopardize your right to register for future UKCC short courses. These short courses are also included on the calendars, at the back of this issue. There are several ways you can register, depending on the class: * You can register online -- some classes require online registration. Just enter VIEW UKCC SHORTCOURSE on your CMS account and follow the menus. * 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 October 7 and 8 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. 106 McVey Hall November 4 and 5 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. 106 McVey Hall A basic introduction to interactive use of the IBM 3090, this class presumes no previous knowledge of the IBM 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'll be given a class computer account which will remain active for the duration of the course. This course will be offered four times during the Fall semester. Your instructor will be Chris Corman, 257-2243, chris@ukcc.uky.edu; or Bob Williamson, 257-2227, robertt@ukcc.uky.edu. INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONIC MAIL ON THE IBM 3090 October 9 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. 106 McVey Hall November 6 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. 106 McVey Hall An introduction to the MAIL command on the IBM 3090, this class is for the beginner. You'll learn how to create mail files and send them to other users on the IBM 3090 as well as to users on the Prime and Wang systems. We'll also cover the use of BITNET to communicate with individuals at other academic centers around the world, and you'll learn how to read incoming mail and some techniques for storing old mail. We'll discuss how to create and maintain a NAMES file of individuals with whom you frequently correspond. You'll learn the log on sequence and some basic CMS background before we begin the discussion of MAIL. This class presumes no previous knowledge of the IBM 3090 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 Chris Corman, 257-2243, chris@ukcc.uky.edu; or Bob Williamson, 257-2227, robertt@ukcc.uky.edu. INTRODUCTION TO SAS October 1 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. 106 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 3090. This two-session 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 Lorinda Wang (ukc333@ukcc.uky.edu, 257-2204), and online registration is required for this course. INTRODUCTION TO SAS/GRAPH October 3 and 4 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. 106 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 3090. The Introduction to SAS short course, described above, is a prerequisite. Lorinda Wang will be your instructor (257-2204, ukc333@ukcc.uky.edu). Online registration is required for this course. INTRODUCTION TO SPSS October 15 and 16 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. 106 McVey Hall SPSS is a powerful program for displaying and analyzing data on the IBM 3090. This course is designed for those who have little or no knowledge of SPSS, but do have experience with CMS or have completed the Introduction to VM/CMS & XEDIT class, described above. Your instructor will be Lorinda Wang (257-2204, ukc333@ukcc.uky.edu), and online registration is required for this course. AIX/370 ON THE IBM 3090 November 11 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. 327 McVey Hall AIX is an operating system designed to provide standard Unix features on IBM computers. The class will begin by briefly looking at some of the basic, interactive commands and progress quickly to an overview of the advanced programming features. Topics will include using the IBM 3090's vector facility, available programming libraries and software packages, and an introduction to X-Windows. Enrollment is limited to twenty, and online registration is required. Alan Audette will be your instructor; 257-2191, alan@ukcc.uky.edu. USING MAPLE ON THE IBM 3090 October 11 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. 327 McVey Hall MAPLE is a package for performing symbolic math and producing either numerical, graphic, or text results as output. Topics of this course include the basic use of MAPLE, obtaining and using LaTeX output from MAPLE, producing two- and three-dimensional plots and printing them, and the use of MAPLE as a programming language. Online registration is required, and class size is limited to 20. Alan Audette, 257-2191, alan@ukcc.uky.edu will be your instructor. ELLPACK/PROTRAN ON THE IBM 3090 October 18 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. 327 McVey Hall PROTRAN and ELLPACK are two packages for solving partial differential equations. They are both non-procedural languages; they use a simple, English-like syntax. Both provide a variety of graphic output. During the class we'll write some short programs to solve sample problems. Enrollment is limited to twenty, and online registration is required. You'll need a CMS userid for this course. Your instructor will be Alan Audette, 257-2191, alan@ukcc.uky.edu. PARALLEL COMPUTING IN FORTRAN October 29 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. 327 McVey Hall An introduction to parallel processing using FORTRAN Version 2, Release 5, on the IBM 3090. Parallel coding instructions allow you to use up to all six processors of the IBM 3090 to concurrently process data, reducing wall clock time in running jobs. Automatic parallelization, parallel concepts and commands, and the architecture of the IBM 3090 will be discussed. Your instructor will be Anne Leigh, 257-2205, anne@ukcc.uky.edu. NCSA SOFTWARE October 28 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. 327 McVey Hall NCSA (The National Center for SuperComputing Applications) at the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champagne produces several software tools for scientists and engineers. These tools are in the public domain and designed to aid research that must cross hardware boundaries. These packages are gaining a growing user base; UK is also using and supporting them. Packages to be discussed include HDF (Hierarchical Data Format) for images and multi-dimensional floating point data, HDF-Vset for storing complex interrelations between data sets, ImageTool for the Sun Sparcstation, Height-Color Visualizer, PolyView, and Iso-Surface Visualizer for the Silicon-Graphics Iris and IBM RS6000, and XImage and XDataSlice for any X-Windows workstation. Enrollment is limited to 10, and your instructor is Alan Audette, 257-2191, alan@ukcc.uky.edu. INTRODUCTION TO DI-3000 October 21, 23, 25 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. 106 McVey Hall DI-3000, a Precision Visuals, Inc., product, is a device-independent, general purpose graphics subroutine system for the FORTRAN programmer. It is primarily a tool kit system for custom application development. It is also part of a larger family of integrated software modules which do contour maps, 3-D gridded surfaces, charts, graphs, metafiles, etc. The complete family of products will be covered in this course. The class will meet two hours per day for three days. You should be familiar with VM CMS and VS FORTRAN. Bob Williamson will be your instructor; 257-2227, robertt@ukcc.uky.edu. VISUALIZATION WITH PV-WAVE October 22, 24 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. 104 McVey PV-WAVE is a new product from Precision Visuals, Inc., for interactive analysis and visualization of scientific data. This course will guide participants through understanding and use of the new point-and-click version of this popular package, and will explore application possibilities, hardcopy options, etc. Bob Williamson will be your instructor, 257-2227, robertt@ukcc.uky.edu. ********************************************************************* PRIME ENHANCEMENTS NEW COMMANDS Several new commands have been made available, and others have been enhanced. The following commands are new: LESS, ATOP, TAR, STEVIE, COMPRESS GREP, EGREP, DIFF, BUILD, SUGGEST, and QTERM. Enhancements have been made for CD, FINGER, PB, and VIEW. The majority of these are Unix-type commands that have been ported from GNU software. While we try to keep the software looking like other platforms, some new options may be added to help users, other options may be changed slightly to work with PRIMOS or work better on this machine. Information about these changes and more can be found in VIEW. Type VIEW, and pick the topic you wish to see. More information is also available for these commands by typing HELP followed by the command name. LESS AVAILABLE FOR PRIMOS The text file viewer LESS is now available on the Prime system. For those of you familiar with UNIX systems you will know the majority of commands for this version. For those of you who are not familiar with LESS, below are some of the basic commands. However, for more information, type HELP LESS, or while in LESS press the H key. Several of the basic commands that will let you move around and function within Less may be sufficient for you without learning the more advanced functions. These are: h, H, Help q, :q, :Q, ZZ Exit f, ^F, ^V, Space bar Forward one screen. b, ^B, ESC-v Backward one screen. r, ^R, ^L, Redraw the screen. ESC-p, :P, :F Print a page or file. Print a page. Print a file. /pattern Search forward for "pattern." ?pattern Search backward for "pattern." for "pattern" Note: The letters ESC represent the Escape key, and the character ^ (caret) represents the Control key. For the Escape key, press and release it; for the Control functions, press and hold the Control key while pressing the next key in the command sequence. Pay attention to the case of the letter used in each command. LESS is case sensitive, so the command F may or may not be the same as the command f! Also note that LESS is used to display text files for View, so the above command and the full list of LESS commands are available in View. ENHANCEMENTS TO VIEW VIEW has been enhanced to recursively call menus of topics, to give you better control of exactly how much data you have to sift through to see what you're looking for. For example, if you were to pick the topic of "Register," you would be shown in the next menu display which "Registers" were available to you. You would then pick the "Register" that you wanted to read and its contents would be displayed. This type of data structure makes it even easier for us to manage the data, and allows multiple people to manage their own data. VIEW now uses the text viewer LESS. Those of you familiar with Unix-type environments will be familiar with the commands. People not familiar with LESS should type HELP LESS to learn more about the commands available. The very basic commands are h or H for help, r or CONTROL-R to redraw the screen, f or CONTROL-F to go forward a screen, b or CONTROL-B to go back a screen, ESCAPE-P to print a page or the whole file, :P to print a page, :F to print the file, / to search for a string (forward), ? to search for a string (backwards), and q or :Q to quit. NOTE: LESS commands are case sensitive. In other words, lower case "f" may do one thing while upper case "F" does another. Using LESS to display text allows you to have more control over what and how you see text. It also allows you to print the text you are viewing, and search for text. NOTE: You can ONLY print text. You can not print data from the schedule book or the phone book at this time. SUGGEST The new SUGGEST command replaces GRIPE. It now gives more examples and details about what it expects as input. After collecting the information it will determine who should look at this request and mail the request to them. The old way was to publicly post the information. This resulted in bad responses, multiple responses, and slower responses. The new way will allow for each of these areas to be improved. Items that SUGGEST prompts for are: * the type of problem (hardware, software, consultants, other machines, communications, other) * the item affected (hardware) (terminal, printer, computer port, network, other) * what system is affected by the problem (ukpr, ukcc, s, next01, etc.) * the specific device that is causing the problem (LASER, DORM, CC, MAIL, TELNET, UKPR- 064, TELNET-012, VIEW, cluster site) * short description (briefly what has happened) * long description (5 lines of text to further explain if needed) Note that while blank responses are allowed, they are not informative and may lead to a delay in finding or fixing a problem. Since many of you may become tired of reading the examples each time, SUGGEST will look for a global variable called .EXPERT. If it is present and its value is set to TRUE then the examples will not be displayed. Also, MAIL has been changed to not allow the old posting of complaints to the BBs so that problems are not easily overlooked. QTERM - QUERY TERMINAL QTERM is used to query a terminal to determine its name. This is done by sending a special sequence to the terminal, reading in a response, and comparing it against a master of possible responses. For PRIMOS users, putting the line QTERM -i in your LOGIN.CPL or LOGIN.RUN will call the TSET command to set various terminal variables for you automatically if QTERM can determine your terminal type. If QTERM can not determine what kind of terminal you are using it will default to TVI910P. The system terminal definition file is SYSOVL>QTERMLIB. You can also have your own definition file. It should be named .QTERM, and you must set the global variable .HOME to the path indicating the location of this file. If you receive the message "Terminal not recognized - defaults to (tvi910p); QTERM may not have received a response from the terminal, or the response did not match any that QTERM has stored internally. Use the -s option to check to see which is the case. Few terminals have been tested with this. Tvi955s, newer tvi910Ps, the LYNK terminals at King Library and several vt100 emulators work. Please let us know if you have a terminal that it cannot recognize. It may be possible to add it to the list of recognized terminals. DOWNTIME & RECOVERY The PRIMOS operating system has been upgraded to allow for several new features which should improve system availability. These are crash dump to disk, auto restart, and file system recovery. Any time the computer system stops running, we need to know what it thinks is going on so that the problem (hardware or software) can be fixed. The only way to do this is to collect everything that is in the computer's memory at the time of the trouble and save it so that it can be analyzed later. Several years ago this process took approximately 35 minutes on our smaller machines. Now we are able to dump directly to disk, and the time to do this (depending on the type of dump we require) has dropped to between 30 seconds and 3 minutes! Once the machine has been restarted, examination and recovery of the file system takes place. This is done immediately if severe file damage was suspected, or could be delayed for a later time when fewer people would be affected. This may still have to be done at times, but the machine now will attempt to cleanly shut down all the disks, and write out updated file information in the process. The file recovery time, if needed, may also be reduced due to the ability of PRIMOS to look at what was happening at the time and see which disks had activity on them that require fixing. There are several types of activity that could be present: reading, requires no fixing; updating quotas and block used counts, requires no fixing; and actual updates to the data portion of a file, which will require fixing. Currently, the machine can halt, recover, dump the memory contents, recover the file system, and reload itself in 10 minutes. The best time we could have had before was approximately 25 minutes, but was usually one to two hours! If you notice that the machine has quit operating normally you should call the UKCC at 257-2222 and report it. This is still a good idea for several reasons: it may be a hardware problem which requires human intervention; it may not be a system problem, but a network or other problem; or the system may not be able to recover from this particular problem. -- Leonard Lauria ********************************************************************* PRIME BULLETIN BOARD 1. McVey 111 is always too cold! For some reason while every other room in the building is warm and comfortable, 111 is always freezing. The thermostat there has been wrong for about 10 years. Setting it to 72 degrees would make people more comfortable, would still keep the equipment in the room within operating parameters, and would save energy. I think a more service-minded attitude would be in order. >>>We've set the thermostat at 72 degrees; this should solve the problem. 2. How do you apply for a position as a consultant in the Micro Lab? >>>For a consulting position in the Micro Instructional Lab, contact David Hart in 113 McVey Hall, 257-2274. For a consulting position in the King Library Micro Lab, contact Peggy Akridge at 257-6100. 3. I heard that new userids were to have been put to use this semester. Something along the lines of two initials plus the first four letters of one's last name and a trail number. Is this going to be implemented systemwide, and if not, is there a way to change mine to that format? >>>This has been implemented. See Wayne Beech to change your current userid to the new format. 4. I cannot VIEW WEATHER (insufficient access rights). >>>VIEW WEATHER appears to be working. If you're still having problems accessing it, please contact a Consultant in 110 McVey Hall, 257-2249. 5. The terminals in 111 McVey have been disconnecting and losing power for the last week or so. For some reason the terminal screen will blank out and then turn itself off. This, of course, logs you off and kills the operation. >>>Check the plug end for a bad connection. On the 955s check the end on the terminal itself; after people move them around a bit they tend to fall out. 6. Why were all the tvi955s taken out of 111 McVey Hall? They were the only terminals on campus (open to the public) worth using. Are they going to be replaced? Are there any plans to replace all of the tvi910ps? >>>They're back now; sorry for the inconvenience. 7. SUGGEST does not warn when you are on the last line on the longer description part. You're typing along and suddenly it prompts you to send mail. >>>Only five lines are allowed for the long description. If we need more information we can contact you directly. Please read the Help file for SUGGEST. 8. Why does SUGGEST insist on setting my .term var to -break? I know what my .term should be set to, and no program should change it unless I request the program to change it. SUGGEST (even if you just press Return and get a prompt at the menu) changes it to -break. >>>SUGGEST does not change term or any other variables. However, you have an abbreviation for the system command .TERM. You should never add an abbreviation that is the same as a system command. 9. When running PrimeWord on the LYNK terminals in the King Library, the cursor will jump back to the previous character when it does a word wrap; or when you press the DEL key when the next character is typed, it skips a space and won't let you delete it. >>>We're checking into this; thanks for letting us know. 10. When I attempt to print a file using the PRINT command to the Apple LaserWriter Plus in 111 McVey Hall, the printer tells me that I have specified the options -NO_COPY and -PROC_PORT. Then I get an error message, and the file does not print. Could you tell me how to override the - NO_COPY option? >>>It is not the NO_COPY option but the form type the printer doesn't understand. We've fixed the problem, so now you can print via the PRINT command. 11. The laser printer at the Complex Commons is giving printouts that are very light and hard to read. It seems to get a little worse each time. >>>We replaced the toner cartridge; thanks for letting us know. 12. Why the stern message warning people not to telnet out when they've telnetted in? What type of problem is this causing? If telnetting thru UKPR was a problem why was telnet not modified to refuse outgoing telnets from an incoming line? This would have been a much friendlier approach. >>>This message was directed toward those users who telnet to UKPR and then telnet to a game port, or telnet to someone else's machine to hack. There have been numerous complaints about this over the summer. We chose not to automatically restrict inbound or outbound because there are cases where you would want to do this. The first step is to shut down offenders. Then, if it gets out of control, we will shut down inbound/outbound access by address. So, if you see someone messing around, tell them nicely to stop. 13 How about if someone TELNETs to the Prime and FTPs back out? I'm still unable to FTP directly to the Prime, so I'm forced to TELNET in, and FTP back to my local machine. When I try to FTP to the Prime, I can't even log in. >>>If you TELNET in and FTP out, it's ok. You should be able, if your machine supports it, to FTP directly to the Prime. If you're having problems with this, please contact Leonard Lauria for help. 14. UKnet telnet port 10 has been dead for about three weeks now. >>>Port 10 as been reset. We apologize for the inconvenience. 15. Port one on the 258-1996 UKnet number froze while I was telnetting to the Sequent. >>>Please give us more information. The XOFF character could have been sent by the host, which would have caused the delay. 16. Modem on line 258-4838 is still acting up. It is the same old output to the screen. Only a ^P will resume the output (of course, this kills the program running!) >>>The modems attached to 258-4839 and 258-4838 have been fixed. Please let us know of any other problems. 17. The Prime system hangs 90% of the time I log in. >>>We are not aware of any problems that would be causing this. Do you get on via local terminals, or dial up? If you dial up, what number do you call? Have you tried pressing the Break key or pressing Control-P? 18. What is the purpose of the .namefile variable? >>>We (UKCC) don't have software that uses that variable. Check with the person who showed this to you. 19. Can we set a LESS global variable and set our less options? What if we had the option of having bulletin board articles longer than a page fed into LESS to view? >>>We'll work on the global variable. Presently, the bulletin boards cannot support LESS 20. It would be helpful if FINGER would allow a firstname lastname search with the -l option. For example, FINGER -L Doe,Jane. It is quite difficult, for example, to find the userid of a student with the name Jane Smith when the only string you can search is either Jane or Smith. The combination of last and first names searches would be helpful. >>>You can do a search of both last and first name. FINGER -L 'DOE,JANE' is how to do it, but not all users' names are in the form of lastname, firstname. If you give a search like above it won't find Doe Jane or Doe Jane (2 spaces), or Jane Doe. 21. When I log on with an incorrect password from home it gives me an error prompt and then an ok prompt. >>>The prompt will be changed soon. 22. When using the MESSAGE command I get some interesting messages. When I send a message that is on accept I get back the message that the user is not receiving now. So I press D, then I get the message that the operation was partially blocked. I press D again, and I get the same message. The third time I press I (for ignore?), but the same message appears. The only way I can get out is to send a break and kill the entire thing. >>>This is not our MESSAGE Command; you're using someone else's, so check with them. In this case, I probably means immediate, not ignore. 23. I typed ATOP, and I got an access violation. >>>Tell us what you were doing when you got this. 24. When using FINGER@systemname, it will some times give the same information for different places. For example, finger @ukcc, finger @transy, and finger @wittenbg. On other systems it will give a list of all the users on, but when I try UKCC, TRANSY, or WITTENBG addresses I get a huge list of something unknown. >>>FINGERing any BITNET nodes in our host table will result in infomation being returned from UKCC. That is because, since we do not use real rscs tables for our BITNET information exchange, we route all of our BITNET traffic through UKCC. In our hosts tables, this translates to all BITNET sites having the same IP number as UKCC. When you finger EKU it gets UKCC's IP and FINGERs UKCC. UKCC is the only BITNET machine we know of that runs a Finger server. For more infomation about a BITNET site try TELL WHOIS@node (userid or name) Not all machines run WHOIS, so it's a 50-50 chance to get anything back. 25. Idle time is displayed when FINGERing on other systems. How come that information isn't displayed when FINGERing local users? Could we enhance Finger to do this? >>>Idle time is not readily available at this time; therefore, we do not show it. 26. Please either allow access to LOOKUP from inside Prime or make it allow more than one search. I am trying to find several people's addresses, and it's exasperating. Thanks >>>Try out the FINGER command FINGER -L SMITH and type HELP FINGER for more information about it. 27. Changes made with CHFN are not recognized by FINGER. Executing CHFN again shows that changes were made, but still no change with FINGER. >>>CHFN makes the change to the files only. The preloaded data is not updated until the next scheduled update. We'll change CHFN to indicated this. 28. When I log on, it invites me to type VIEW to find out about system changes. When I type VIEW it tells me it doesn't know my terminal type, and tells me to type HELP TSET. When I type HELP TSET, it offers me some choices, among which is ADM3A. When I type in ADM3A, it tells me it doesn't recognize the terminal type, and uses TTY instead. On my terminal TTY makes the cursor go around in circles without accomplishing anything. Suggestions? >>>You should know what kind of terminal you are using, or what kind of terminal your PC is emulating. Send us details about where you're working or, if you're using a PC, what kind it is and what type of software you're running. 29. Attempting to execute VIEW, I got the Use TSET message. I did this (setting my term type to pt250), and checked my global vars. Everything looks ok, but VIEW is not recognizing or accepting my .TERM. >>>View does not currently support the pt250. The pt250 is currently only supported by the editor. We will, however, look into it. 30. Is there a particular reason why CTRL-U causes the Sheffield editor to move my cursor up the screen like DEL-^? I'm using terminal type 17 and a vt420 terminal. If it's supposed to behave this way, fine, at least I'll know. >>>Yes, this is how it should work. Evidently, CTRL-U was the old way to perform the up-many function; it was maintained for compatibility. 31. I just used Dumb, and it tells me "unknown terminal type." That's kinda dumb, don't you think? >>>Dumb is now accepted. 32. I can't get TAR to create an archive on Prime. >>>TAR is working. Can you send us a como file (or record file) of exactly what you're doing? Thanks. 33. In the "Prime User's Manual," the library for Pascal is called IPASLIB. In the Prime help for BIND the library is called PASLIB. Which one is correct? >>>IPASLIB is the correct library to use when BINDing a Pascal program 34. MAIL -CHECK -NO_QUERY will not stop prompting on mailboxes with more than 24 lines or messages. >>>MAIL CHECK doesn't support the -NO_QUERY option. 35. I have a huge file I want to compress. Are there any Prime commands that compress, or public programs that do that? >>>We have the Unix command COMPRESS. You would be able to exchange the file with another Prime using COMPRESS, or with or a Unix platform, but not with a PC. ********************************************************************* SUGGESTIONS 1 I have a PC at home with modem which is not working now. At first, the dialing tone became coarse, and later, the dialing tone became inaudible. Now, the PROCOMM software doesn't work. Do you have any idea what went wrong? Thanks a lot. >>>Unfortunately, this sounds like a hardware problem with your modem. If it's an external modem, try borrowing a modem from someone to see if it works. Or, check with the seller to see if you can exchange it. If it's an internal modem, you'll have to remove it from the computer to try this. Occasionally, an electrical surge through the telephone line will damage modems in this way. It might be a good idea to invest in a modem surge protector to prevent this from occurring in the future. 2. How I can change my terminal type to vt100 so that I can telnet from ukcc.uky.edu. to other places, such as Ohio State? >>>If you're connecting to UKCC over UKnet and then telnetting to another machine, there is no way to effectively emulate a vt100. It is possible to connect to UKPR or other campus machines and then TELNET out as a vt100. If you're using a PC or Mac with an ethernet connection, you can TELNET directly to another machine as a vt100. 3. I want to send mail to a colleague in Europe. I'm sure that their university is connected to BITNET. How can I find out the network node and the userid (or any userid from that node)? The name of the university is "Nijenrode, The Netherlands School of Business." >>>A look at the BITEARN nodes on the BITNET disk shows nothing on Nijenrode. Try asking your colleague for an e-mail address. 4. When one makes an error logging on to a userid there is an informational message displayed. However, if one has sessioned from a host userid, then that informational message is cleared immediately and control is passed back back to the host session. Is there any way to get SESSION (or whoever is in control at the time) to delay for a while so the message can be read? >>>Not at this time. However, this is a good idea, and we'll see what we can do. 5. I understand that the GATHER exec uses the REPRINT command. I suggest that the exec be modified to make use of the HOLD option so that one can GATHER files and retain copies in ones reader. Thanks. >>>This is a problem area; we'll investigate. 6. Is there a way to assign a PFkey so that the line on which the cursor is placed is deleted ? For example, MAIL has a PF9=Delline assignment. How do I duplicate this in Xedit? >>>This is a good idea; we'll see what we can do. 7. I am having trouble with the menu-driven sample program for PROTRAN, i.e, projob. Sometimes when I call projob, it gets stuck in VM READ mode. I have to disconnect and log off. Please suggest a remedy for this. >>>So far, we've been unable to recreate this problem. As soon as we know more, we'll let you know. 8. HELP for the SUBMIT command needs a few corrections. And while you're at it, I suggest returning to the default option PASSword. It is not convenient to type SUBMIT jobname (ID logonid PASS whenever you don't want to use the originating userid & its password -- and the only alternative is to put this info in the jobstream, an undesirable practice. Moreover, it doesn't fit on the command line when submitting from FLIST. >>>If you've seen some errors, please send us details. The options were changed to reflect what most people need most of the time and to avoid problems with ACF2. If you need those options often you could create a short EXEC that would supply them. For example: /* SUBMIT with LOGONID & PASSWORD */ Address Command Arg Parms "(" Options "SUBMIT" Parms "( PASSWORD ID logonid" Exit Rc You can make it as elaborate as necessary. If you need to enter a long command from FLIST, you can press PF9 (if the default settings are in effect) to get a longer input area. ********************************************************************* UKCC SERVICE DIRECTORY McVey Service E-Mail Address Phone Hall Vice President, Information Services Eugene R. Williams DPS128@UKCC 257-3609 Assoc. VP, University Computing Services Dr. Douglas Hurley HURLEY@UKCC 257-2900 128 Director, Communications Services Doyle Friskney DOYLE@UKCC 257-6225 Director, Computational Sciences Dr. John Connolly CONNOLLY@UKCC 257-8737 324 Director, Academic User Services Dr. Robert S. Tannenbaum RST@UKCC 257-2900 128 Director, Distributed Services Janet Baynham DPS108@UKCC 257-1535 120 Director, Information Resources Dr. Jon Hesseldenz UKA045@UKCC 257-3904 230D 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 WANDA@UKCC 257-2206 115 Consulting Consultant on Duty SUGGEST@UKCC 257-2249 110 Database - IDMS Rick Chlopan DBA003@UKCC 257-2211 230E Data Center 257-2222 61 Data Entry Frank McCormick OPFRANK@UKCC 257-2216 72 Desktop Publishing Consulting Marguerite Floyd EDITOR@UKCC 257-2219 205 Disk Rental Janet Hyatt HYATT@UKCC 257-2212 130 Larry Johnson JOHNSON@UKCC 257-2217 130 Facilities Operations Joe Williams UKA048@UKCC 257-2231 122 Graphics Consultation Bob Williamson ROBERTT@UKCC 257-2227 207 Information Center Judy Kisil UKA041@UKCC 257-2241 222 Instructional Software Wayne Beech WAYNE@UKCC 257-2238 100 Local Area Networks Gary Porter PORTER@UKLANS 257-5267 Machine Room 257-2222 59 Management Information Systems Forrest Hahn UKA006@UKCC 257-2260 123 Memos and Manuals Consulting Room 257-2249 110 Micro Lab 257-6100 Network/Telecommunications UKT101@UKCC 257-2229 New Accounts Janet Hyatt HYATT@UKCC 257-2212 130 Larry Johnson JOHNSON@UKCC 257-2217 130 Numerical Analysis Consulting Anne Leigh ANNE@UKCC 257-2205 109B Optical Scanner - NCS Chris Corman CHRIS@UKCC 257-2243 109 Bob Crovo CROVO@UKCC 257-2258 109 Passwords Janet Hyatt HYATT@UKCC 257-2212 130 Larry Johnson JOHNSON@UKCC 257-2217 130 Prime Information 257-2237 100 Program Documentation/Libraries Consulting Room 257-2249 110 Publications Office Marguerite Floyd EDITOR@UKCC 257-2219 200 Refunds Consulting Room 257-2249 110 SAS and SPSS Consulting Lorinda Wang UKC333@UKCC 257-2204 109B Security & Disaster Recovery Jack L. Coffman UKA051@UKCC 257-2273 218 Tapes to Borrow, Tape Storage Data Center 257-2222 61 Tours of UKCC Lavine Thrailkill UKC105@UKCC 257-2257 121 User Account Services Janet Hyatt HYATT@UKCC 257-2212 130 Larry Johnson JOHNSON@UKCC 257-2217 130 Vectorization Consulting Anne Leigh ANNE@UKCC 257-2205 109B ************************************************************************* UNIVERSITY COMPUTING ADVISORY COMMITTEE RESEARCH COMPUTING SUBCOMMITTEE Kumble R. Subbaswamy, Chair, 1994 Gregory W. Brock, 1992 Graeme Fairweather, 1993 Robert A. Lodder, 1993 Judith G. Shelling, 1993 Carolyn Brock, 1994 James M. McDonough, 1994 ex officio Delwood Collins John W. Connolly Doyle Friskney Aouglas E. Hurley Robert S. Tannenbaum David S. Watt Student (1) INSTRUCTIONAL COMPUTING SUBCOMMITTEE Merrill W. Packer, Chair, 1994 Joel M. Lee, 1992 David J. Shippy, 1992 Anthony Q. Baxter, 1993 Robert L. Fehr, 1993 John E. Christopher, 1994 Kevin S. Kiernan, 1994 ex officio Doyle Friskney Douglas E. Hurley Louis J. Swift Robert S. Tannenbaum VC Academic Affairs, MC VC Academic Affairs CCS Undergraduate Student (1) ADMINISTRATIVE COMPUTING SUBCOMMITTEE Jack B. Jordan, Chair, 1994 David Carter, 1992 Sue Fosson, 1992 Ken Clevidence, 1993 Karen T. Combs, 1993 Randall W. Dahl, 1993 Joan McCauley, 1993 Dale R. Austin, 1994 Daniel L. Fulks, 1994 Nancy Ray, 1994 Walter F. Skiba, 1994 ex officio Doyle Friskney Jon Hesseldenz Roseann Hogan Douglas E. Hurley MC - vacant CCS - vacant *********************************************************************