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I am delighted to report that the Faculty Academic Computing and Technology Support Center, the FACTS Center, is now well on the way from being a "virtual" center to being a "real" center. The new FACTS Center will: * provide a state-of-the-art desktop hardware/software/courseware environment in which faculty members can evaluate hardware, software, and courseware for use in their research and instruction, and make use of such systems on a short-term basis for projects that otherwise would not be possible because they or their departments cannot justify acquiring the requisite systems for limited use. * provide state-of-the-art consulting regarding the use of the hardware, software, and courseware for instructional and research applications. This function includes consulting on what software and courseware is available and appropriate for various applications, as well as support for instructional and research design and implementation, and instructional graphics. * provide a high-level seminar series that includes presentations by vendors on hardware, software, and courseware developments, as well as presentations by faculty members (both from within UK and from other institutions) on their innovative applications of computers in their instruction and research. * provide other similar services for faculty such as short courses, technical papers and reports, user groups, a setting in which vendor representatives can be available regularly for consultation, etc. During the Fall semester, the FACTS Center is sponsoring several seminars that will feature the latest developments in software and hardware for desktop research and instructional computing. There will be a multimedia presentation by Apple, a demonstration of the IBM RISC/6000 workstation system, and a demonstration of the Hewlett-Packard workstation line. We are also planning several faculty presentations for late Fall or early next semester. A full-time staff member will be assigned to the FACTS Center to help with consulting and support. In addition, we plan to offer internships to several graduate students who will be available to help support faculty members in developing desktop research and instructional computing projects. A number of vendors are planning to support the FACTS Center with loans and donations of equipment and software; we will also be purchasing several state-of-the-art desktop systems. The FACTS Center will be located in 100 McVey Hall later this Fall, and the grand opening is tentatively set for early in the Spring semester. I welcome input from all faculty members regarding the FACTS Center: what we should be doing, how we should be doing it, what you would like, what you would or would not find valuable. Please call me at 257-2900, or write rst@ukcc.uky.edu with your comments, criticisms, and suggestions. -- Robert S. Tannenbaum, Ed.D. ********************************************************************* 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 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 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. 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. ********************************************************************* PASSWORD INFORMATION FOR NEW CMS USERS With the implementation of ACF2/VM, the first thing you'll see when you log on to your new account is ACF2 PASSWORD FOR LOGONID NEWUSER HAS EXPIRED ACF2 LOGON PASSWORD HAS EXPIRED ENTER NEW ACF2 PASSWORD This means you can use the password given to you when you opened your account, but you'll need to reset the password before you can proceed. To reset your password, just follow the screen prompts. For more information about or help with setting up a new account, contact Janet Hyatt at 130 McVey Hall, 257-2212, hyatt@ukcc.uky.edu; or Larry Johnson at 130 McVey Hall, 257-2217, johnson@ukcc.uky.edu. For more information about or help with passwords, a Consultant in 110 McVey Hall, suggest@ukcc.uky.edu, 257-2249 will be glad to help you. -- Janet Hyatt ********************************************************************* HOLIDAY SCHEDULE Thursday, November 28, is an official UK holiday. The UKCC offices, Micro Instructional Lab, and Consulting Room will be closed. 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. ********************************************************************* PRIME COMMAND ENHANCEMENTS With the upgrade of PRIMOS to 23.2 several commands have been enhanced: CNAME, CREATE, LD, and RDY. CNAME and CREATE now both accept the -REPORT option which will report whether the operation was successful or not. Type HELP CNAME or HELP CREATE for more information. LD now accepts both the -RWLOCK and -TOTAL options. The -RWLOCK option will display only the object's read/write locks. The -TOTAL option will display how much space is actually used by each object. Note that this is only the user data and does not report space taken up by directory overhead. The RDY command now allows for dynamic information to be displayed for command line prompts. The RDY command which previously set command line prompts has been greatly enhanced; now you can have dynamic data displayed for your prompt. This can include items such as current attach point, date and time (in many formats), number of users, and access at current attach point. After PRIMOS executes a command, it displays a prompt message that indicates whether or not the command was executed successfully. There are three types of prompt messages, each of which has a brief form and a long form. RDY, followed by one or more options, allows you to switch to the long form of the prompts (or to the brief form), or to change one or more of the six default messages. If issued without an option, RDY displays the current Ready long- form prompt. OK, RDY OK, 15:12:42 7.674 2.343 level 2+ OK, You may set the following prompts: -rb ready brief -rl ready long -wb warning brief -wl warning long -eb error brief -el error long In addition, RDY supports dynamic and expandable Ready prompts. To enable variable expansion, use the -EXPAND_PROMPT option. For example: the prompt OK, RDY -RB '%ui>' -EXPAND_PROMPT expands to this: LEONARD> Some examples of prompts may be: rdy -rb '%a %p> ' -expand_prompt display attach point and access rdy -rb '%l> ' -expand_prompt display command level you are at rdy -rb '(%n) %ui> ' -expand_prompt display number of users and userid rdy -rb '(%un) %ui> ' -expand_prompt display user number and userid rdy -rb '%sn %a ' -expand_prompt display system name and attach point The currently supported variables include: %a -- Current attach point %c -- CPU time since last prompt %dt -- Quick date. Defaults to "MM/DD/YY" %da -- Abbreviated day name (e.g., "Tue") %dn -- Full day name (e.g., "Tuesday") %ds -- Day number with suppressed zero (e.g., "3") %dz -- Day number with leading zero (e.g., "03) %en -- Entryname portion of pathname %ec -- Error code of last command (useful for Error and Warning prompts). %f -- AMPM flag: if the time is 00:00:00 to 11:59:59 then the string "am" is returned, else "pm" is returned %h1 -- 24 hour value with leading zero (e.g., "08") %h2 -- 24 hour value with suppressed zero (e.g., "8") %h3 -- 12 hour value with leading zero (e.g., "08") %h4 -- 12 hour value with suppressed zero (e.g., "8") %i -- IO time since last prompt %l -- Current command level. If the command level is 1 (the lowest command level) then a null string ("") is returned. If the command level is greater than 1 then the string "level #" is returned. If a static mode program was just executed and the command level is greater than 1, then the string "level #+" is returned. %mi -- Number of minutes with leading zero (e.g., "09") %ma -- Abbreviated month name (e.g., "Jan") %mn -- Full month name (e.g., "January") %ms -- Numeric month number with suppressed zero (e.g., "1") %mz -- Numeric month number with leading zero (e.g., "01") %n -- Number of users on the system %p -- Acl Protection on the current directory (e.g., "LURW") %rv -- Primos Revision %rn -- Remote name (i.e., the system name that current attach point exists on) %se -- Seconds with leading zero (e.g., "07") %sn -- System Name %t -- Quick time (24 hour format HH:MM:SS) %ui -- Userid %un -- User number %y2 -- Two digit year number (e.g., "90") %y4 -- Four digit year number (e.g., "1990") %/ -- CRLF (carriage return and linefeed) %. -- Global variable expansion. Syntax is %.{global-var}% (e.g., %.terminal_type$%) Returns the current value of a global variable. %% -- The percent sign "%". This allows you to override the meaning of a prompt variable. %- -- Reserved for future use. %[ -- Primos command function call. Call must be in the format: %[%] where is the epf to be called as a function. This allows you to write and call your own command functions each time you're prompted for input. For example, you could write an active function to check if you had mail. This would allow you to be notified (at each prompt) if you do have mail. Note that command function calls may be nested and may also contain prompt variables. For example: %[BEFORE %[AFTER %a '<'%] '>'%] would pass the user's current attach point to the AFTER command function which would then pass the modified string to the BEFORE active function. %] -- Primos Active function call terminator token (see example above). For more information about these options, enter HELP RDY; or contact a Prime Consultant at any of the cluster sites; or Wayne Beech in 100 McVey Hall, wayne@ukpr.uky.edu, 257-2238. -- Leonard Lauria ********************************************************************* PRIME BULLETIN BOARD 1 How can I get an account? >>>To open a Prime account, just stop by 130 McVey Hall and talk with Janet Hyatt or Larry Johnson. Be sure to take your student id with you. 2. It's cold in Patterson Office Tower Mezzanine. Almost everyone up here is wearing their jacket while using the terminals. It's cold! >>>For help with the temperature in the Office Tower, contact the Information Desk on the first floor. 3. The seats in the Patterson Office Tower are terrible. They are uncomfortable to sit in and most of them are falling apart. Can new ones be found to replace these? I think that the cluster site would be greatly improved with these few changes. >>>Thanks for your suggestions. We are looking into ways of improving the cluster sites. 4. Stop users from eating in 103 and 111 McVey Hall! The consultants see users eating and won't do anything about it. >>>The Consultants have been reminded to enforce the no eating, drinking, or smoking rule in the Users' Rooms. If this should happen after hours, contact an Operator in the Data Center. 5. We need something to put unwanted printouts in. There is a knee-deep pile of accumulated printouts littering the floor in front of the printers. >>>We are looking into ways to gather up recyclable papers. In the meantime, there are boxes on the tables in front of the printers in 111 McVey Hall. 6. We've been taking CS101 in the computer lab in 204 McVey Hall for four weeks, and five of the IBM PCs still don't work. It's frustrating to go to an 8:00 a.m. lab only to find that you can't accomplish anything because the machines don't work. I would appreciate someone looking into this problem. >>>When you use the SUGGEST command, you're registering a complaint or a suggestion with the Computing Center. Unfortunately, the lab in 204 McVey Hall is not under UKCC control; it's the responsibility of the Community Education department and the Computer Science department. We suggest that you speak with your instructor about the best person to contact. 7. I am an instructor of CS101. I asked students to pick up "PrimeWord User's Guide," and they told me there are no more copies. Please make more copies. >>>Thanks for letting us know; more copies are now available. 8. I cannot find a CPL manual. Could you please make more? Thanks. >>>There is a CPL manual available in the manual rack in 103 McVey as well as in the other manual racks at the terminal cluster sites. We have now printed and made available more copies of the "Prime User's Guide," the "Sheffield Editor User's Guide," and the "PrimeWord User's Guide." Thanks for bringing this to our attention. 9. Why doesn't anyone try to correct the ugly log in prompt display? Surely a system programmer can fix this problem rather than waiting for Prime to fix it. This prompt can be confusing to users and can cause havoc for log in scripts. >>>The login prompt will be changed considerably after we get the final version of the operating system. 10. I'm dissatisfied with the new GRIPE command. What was wrong with the old one? Is it still possible to post to gripe using regular mail like it used to be? I hate going through this interrogation process every time I want to report something. >>>Old GRIPE is gone for good. SUGGEST is much, much better in every way. If you have any specific ideas for improvements, please let us know. 11. Can you change anything in the Help files? It's nice to be able to refer to the help page after you exit the program, so if you could get rid of the page clearing as it exits, it would be nicer >>>Sorry, we cannot make changes to the HELP system. 12. Can Prime extend its protocols past Kermit? It's so slow. >>>We have requested new software, but we haven't yet received any response from the people who make those decisions. 13. Could you please tell me how to log on to the Prime via a modem from off campus? Thanks. >>>To connect to any device on UKnet, dial up the network using the phone number that handles the baud rate of your modem. For 2400 baud, use 258-2400; for 1200, use 258-1912; for 9600 baud, use 258-1996. When you get connected, press the Enter key a few times to get the network prompt, and then connect to whatever service you need. For the Prime system Connect UKPR. It will then accept your userid and prompt for your password. 14. Is there a way to send an ASCII file that was prepared on my home word processor to a file in my subdirectory on UKPR? Thanks! >>>We support Kermit, so you can use Kermit on your PC at home, or another communications package like Procomm+ that supports Kermit. 15. Is there a key definition code I can run so my keyboard/terminal will emulate the Prime keyboard/terminals? I use a vt100 terminal emulator on an Apple Macintosh. >>>Using vt100 is correct for your Mac. Your keyboard definition will depend on your emulator software; however, you can usually define keys to be what you want. If you cannot figure it out you can contact Wayne Beech, wayne@ukpr, 100 McVey Hall, and he can talk you through it, or stop by one of the campus micro labs and ask a consultant for more help. 16. I need to record files for my use, and I need to be able to print out two files. I can't print out two files in one listing. Also, I can't record files to my account. >>>You can use the RECORD command to save your terminal output to a file and then print it; type HELP RECORD for more information. There are several ways to combine two or more files into one. See a Prime Consultant at any of the cluster sites, or contact Wayne Beech in 100 McVey Hall, 257-2238, wayne@ukpr.uky.edu. 17. Each time I print a pure text file the printer cuts off the lines at the places where the pages join. >>>The HP laser printer is not capable of printing close to the edge of the pages. You can only print within approximately 1/4" from the edge of the page. 18. I would like to set up an abbreviation file to make abbreviations faster. Some people have abbreviatons so that a person's name can be typed and then the message sent. >>>The command to work with abbreviatons is AB. Type HELP AB for information about this command. To create the abbreviation file, issue the command ab abbrev.file -create To add abbreviations you normally use ab -ac abbrevname whatyouwanttheabbrevtodo To activate your abbreviations, you will also need the command ab abbrev.file in your login.cpl. Check with a student consultant to set this up for you, but make sure they explain what they are doing as they go along. 19. While uncompressing a file I received an access violation error, apparently because of insufficient disk space. >>>We'll look into this problem. Since you already know that it's due to a lack of disk space, we'll see if we can't make the exit a bit friendlier. 20. I can't download the file in my account to the hard disk at home. I use MicroSoft Windows, version 3.0, and PCShell, version 7.0. It seems that the computer can't find the file I want to download. Please help. >>>Go to any of the micro lab sites around and campus and talk with one of the consultants for help with this specific problem. 21. The carrier is dropped over and over after varying amounts of time; this also happens on other 9600 baud lines. >>>When this happens, please send us the phone number you're calling from. If you're on campus, your phone may have the call waiting feature; this needs to be disabled on phones using modems. 22. I have been disconnected many times. I can connect, but at some point, my screen fills with junk-characters and the screen locks up, my connection is dropped, and no command will function. >>>Please be as specific as possible when reporting this. Include your name, phone number, and type of modem so that we can trace the problem. The modems here at UK have been tested many times, but the off campus lines have not been the most robust media. Be sure to check for bad connections in your home, too. If you hear beeps or cracks during a normal conversation, call your local telephone company. 23. ATOP adds an extra garbage control character to all files on the last line of the converted file. >>>We'll look at the extra character and correct the problem. Thanks. 24. Allow us to edit a portion of our Suggest entry, rather than having to retype the entire problem again if there's a mistake. Display the maximum number of lines for description entry or display number of lines left during entry. And how about a window-type version of this program (set up like the Help system)? >>>Editing the entry is a good idea; we'll see what we can do. We don't have a window version at this time since this piece of software must work under any circumstances. 25. I send e-mail to a friend at another school, and sometimes it will be the next day before he gets it. Mail he sends me gets here in just minutes. >>>Apparently mail off this machine was delayed for several hours at one point. The server was restarted and appears to have been working fine since then. Sorry for the inconvenience. 26. When I call up Help, it asks for a terminal type to emulate and offers a list of possible types. I generally work at one of the campus clusters on tvi910+ terminals, but tvi910+ is not a valid option. Which terminal type should I be emulating? Why isn't the tvi910+ available? >>>Use tvi910p instead of tvi910+; using tvi910p for Help won't work. 27. The examples in the system subroutine guide do not work. I have looked in examples and can find no information on the functions I need, such as gv$get and others. >>>All of the subroutine guides at the cluster sites are out of date. Many of the routines should still work as described, some will not. As for help, your peers who have used them before will probably be your best bet since we can no longer provide support. 28. Can someone give me an explanation of why the vt100 emulation on ukpr cannot be programmed to read the Backspace key on my IBM PS/2-30 as a simple erasing backspace? It works this way on ukcc, why not on ukpr? I use the vt100 emulation in Kermit. And, yes, I know that I can use ctrl-h. Wouldn't this be a trivial problem to solve? Everything else displays properly, except for FLIST. When I invoke FLIST, the first line, containing the header begins to appear, but then the rest of the characters go by in a blur in the last space at the end of the line. What am I doing wrong? >>>FLIST is an unsupported program, sort of a public use-if-you-can utility. You might try vt100a with TSET. If control-h works but the backspace key doesn't, perhaps the communications program you're running is not sending the correct sequence to the Prime. When you connect to UKCC, you're using an entirely different machine, and a different way of talking to it. The communications hardware between may be configuring your keyboard differently, or it may simply acknowledge the different sequence sent by the Backspace key. Wayne Beech, wayne@ukpr, 100 McVey Hall, can give you more information about emulation problems. 29. Dormlp has an error 22. I've never seen 22 before, and it will not clear and come back online. Any suggestions? >>>We'll check out the printer and take care of it. It may only need to be powered off and then back on. 30. I'm using an IBM PC with Flashlink and modem to connect to Prime. I've set the terminal type to IBMPC, and I'm using Primeword. Whenever I attempt to use the Arrow keys or Backspace key a character is typed or nothing at all. Nevertheless, the cursor won't move up, down or left. >>>A consultant at any of the micro labs around campus can help you with this. 31. Tdisk>usr195 was not deleted as it should have been. I just noticed that it has been there since September 19. I tried to delete it, but couldn't. >>> This has been deleted; odd you could not remove it, unless there was a file in use. 32. Dorm2 is printing a few lines, pausing, then continuing to print 2 or 3 more lines, pausing 5 to 10 seconds, then printing, and so on. This is irritatingly slow. >>>Slow printing could be the result of a printer/network/system problem. We'll check into it. 33. When I try to send mail to the address holos0!@mgm.gatech.edu the Prime capitalizes the mail, and it doesn't get sent to the address properly. Their machine is using Unix, and it can't deliver to mail addresses in uppercase, and, for some reason, Prime uppercases the address. >>>holos0!@mgm.gatech.edu is not a valid address; mgm.gatech.edu is not known to our campus as an internet site. 34. Port 70 is dead. >>>It appears to be working now; it may have been in the transition between someone disconnecting and being made available again. 35. People are still using lasers to print code for classes despite your warning on the log in message. Perhaps you could type this is in all caps, and make the machine beep a couple of times to get their attention. Most times no one reads these messages unless there is a beep to grab them. >>>Thanks for the suggestion; we'll try to make the point more clear. 36. Please put the ability to specify screen length on STEVIE. I use a 46-line screen and STEVIE sets a scrolling region, playing havoc with it. If LESS and STEVIE looked at a lines global variable, it would be cool. They already have that capability; they just need to be told the screen size. >>>Both STEVIE and LESS can use .LINES global variable to dictate screen size, unless you are using a xterm. If you're using an xterm, an escape sequence will be sent to get the current screen size and set STEVIE or LESS appropriately. 37. Could someone please write a Help file for gmail? Thank you. >>>Gmail is not intended for general use; therefore, there is no documentation available for it. 38. I'm supposed to log on to Oracle by typing SQL first, but Prime won't recognize SQL. How do I log in? I have an Oracle id and password. >>>Check your abbreviationss to see if you have SQL set to something else. When you type SQL at the system prompt, do you see the following: OK, sql No global variable storage is defined. Use define_gvar command. (set_var) If so, you need to setup a global variable file. To do this, do the following (you need only do this once): OR places you in your origin directory DEFINE_GVAR GV -CREATE creates the global variable file 'gv' Then create the file login.cpl in your origin directory containing the following line: DEFINE_GVAR GV The SQL command should work after doing these steps. Let us know if you have any problems. 39. I have looked at the Help files and the books lying on the table in McVey, and this is my last stop. I know editor macros are possible, but rather than repeat typing the same command with del a or whatever, I'd like to know how to use a global macro. Suggestions? >>>HELP WINDOW will give you help about macros and repetition. DEL R will prompt for how many times to repeat a command, and the next command you enter will be repeated (the command CAN be a macro. You can also save your macros in a file for later use; check the Help files). 40. Logs out of Prime, then asks to enter Net One commands. >>>We assume you're just sitting at the prompt and you get logged off, right? Do you actually see the log off message or just see the Net One command message? If you see the forced logout from PRIMOS message, then you're exceeding the idle timeout period (default 15 minutes). If you only see the enter net one commands message, then the network is knocking you off. Please let us know more about what is happening. 41. The CONCAT command does not seem to work, and the HELP CONCAT command doesn't give enough information. When I enter the command CONCAT OUTFILE, I get an insufficient access rights message. >>>If you get insufficient access rights then you're either trying to read files you have no access to, or you're attached somewhere without access to create a file. 42. The Arrow keys don't work in QuickPlan from a vt100 terminal through Kermit. When in a new spreadsheet, they do not change the active cell. Instead, they add letters to a label for cell A1. Do I need to do anything special from a vt100 terminal? >>>We tried the vt100 from a Macintosh running NCSA telnet, and it appeared to work. Were you using a real vt100 terminal or something emulating vt100? If you're using emulation, check to see what it's actually sending for the Arrow keys. ********************************************************************* SUGGESTIONS 1. I will be bringing a class to 111 McVey 111 for about an hour, and we will be using the IBM 3179 terminals. Could they be reserved at that time? Also, one of the terminals appears not to work: 397988-11837. Could it be fixed by next Tuesday? >>>Thanks for reporting the broken terminal; it's been fixed. Of course you may reserve terminals; just contact a Consultant in 110 McVey Hall, suggest@ukcc.uky.edu, 257-2249. 2. At about 11:10 tonight I burned a file by accident on my minidisk. Is there a way to restore it? Thanks for your help. >>>If the file was around long enough to get on a backup tape (usually 24 hours), then the consulting group can restore it; call the Consulting Room at 257-2249. If not, you're out of luck. Sorry. 3. Is there any way to do a spell check on e-mail or BITNET messages? I keep telling my friends the misspelled words are typos, but they're catching on! >>>The SPELLFIX subcommand works within MAIL just like any other Xedit session. While composing your mail you're actually in Xedit and therefore can use the SPELLFIX command from the command line. When you've finished checking for errors, use PF3 to exit Spellfix and return to the mail environment. PF5 will then send your mail as usual. 4. Can I change the line length of e-mail from 80 characters to 65 characters? >>>If you're talking about mail that you're entering yourself, yes, you can use any line length you like. Mail that is sent to you from another site is difficult to modify in any legible way. 5. Could I invoke a word wrap while in e-mail? If yes, how? >>>The MAIL command uses Xedit, and Xedit has a power input mode; this does a sort of word-wrapping. Enter HELP POWER from within MAIL or within XEDIT to get more information. You can try it out by entering the command POWER on the command line (=====>) while composing a letter. 6. Of what use is the index in the mailbooks? >>>The indices speed access to large notebooks, especially ones that won't fit into memory. 7. I am online from home, using Procomm, and the function keys are not translating between my keys and CMS; when I press PF3 to quit, this is not what occurs. The same goes for all other PFs. It seems my Shift PF1 is vaguely equivalent to CMS PF3; at least when I hit this I can sometimes get out of whatever I am doing at the time. >>>It is best to emulate a tvi950 terminal when using Procomm to communicate with the IBM mainframe. Are you using vt100? While vt100 is the terminal emulation you should use with the Kermit that we distribute, it does not work very well with Procomm. You'll need to do ALT-S to get into terminal setup in Procomm and change your terminal emulation to tvi950. Then, when you're connecting to UKCC, enter tvi950 as your terminal type in response to the prompt. The PF keys should then work correctly; to clear the screen, use the CTRL-Z combination. If you'd like a copy of Kermit software and documentation, bring a diskette to 107 McVey Hall. 8. Help! I'm using Procomm v 2.4.2 and having problems capturing to buffer. When I turn capture to on, save it to disk, and then go back to look at what I have captured, all formatting has been lost. It looks as though no line feeds or CR were captured. Any suggestions? I have tried setting Procomm to emulate VT100, Televideo 910,920,925, and 950 and I have the same problem. I have also set Procomm's terminal setup for CR Translate In and Out to CR and CR/LF both individually and both at the same time. >>>Try a screen snapshot; Alt-G. If this doesn't help your situation, contact Brenda Ghaelian at brenda@ukcc.uky.edu, 117 McVey Hall, 257-2203 for more specific help. 9. I have a Practical Modem 9600SA at home. I called the 9600 number you suggest: 258-1996. With the setting 8-N-1, I got garbage; with 7-E-1 it works just fine. Looks like the information provided in your brochure is misleading. >>>We checked the configuration and they say 8 bit no parity. When we set for 7 bit even on the terminal it doesn't work properly. Does it work at 7 bit even for you on the 2400 baud numbers? 10. There is a problem with noise on one of the 2400 baud lines. I called in moments ago and hit so much noise I had to disconnect and re-connect. Can this be fixed? >>>We've been working closely with GTE on this problem. GTE did have a few problems on their lines so you might want to contact them directly if you hear noise on your phone line during conversations. 11. I am a brand new user and maybe I'm missing something, but I can't find a way to print anything to my printer here at my home computer besides the PRINT SCREEN command. I was looking for a definitions file to describe my printer to your system. Failing that, I was wondering if there was an ASCII output option which I could dump into a drive of mine using some special filemode. Am I being too naive? >>>Printing to a local (local meaning attached to your terminal or PC) printer can be tricky. It is probably possible, but the details will depend on what kind of PC you have and what terminal software you're using. If you're using YTERM or Tincan, the CMS command APRINT can be used. It may also work with Kermit and others. It some cases, it is easier to download a file to your PC from CMS and then print it. 12. I would like to upload ASCII files from my PC to CMS. I am currently using VSCOM as my terminal emulator on a system set up for Wang. Is there a way to use the UPLOAD command to read information off my hard disk? Thanks. >>>Try using Kermit or Procomm to upload and download files from your PC to CMS. Kermit and Procomm are available in the Micro Instructional Lab, 107 McVey Hall; contact Brenda Ghaelian at 257-2203, 117 McVey Hall, brenda@ukcc.uky.edu for the details. 13. How can I get a copy of the MacAfee virus scanner program? >>>The latest version of the software can be obtained from Brenda Ghaelian; she can be reached at 257-2203, 117 McVey Hall. Bring a diskette for a copy. If you like the software, there is a fee for using it, payable to MacAfee. 14. I've just subscribed to a digest form of rec.org.sca. The header message says that many mailers can "undigestify" the massive file into its component messages. My question is does the ukcc mailer have this amount of brains, or is there a usenet type reader to get rec.org.sca directly? I would really like to be able to look at the subject lines, and select which items I want to read, and which I can delete. >>>Sorry, we don't know of anything that will "undigestify" on CMS. We have been experimenting with a NETNEWS client on CMS, but we haven't made it available because of the load that would cause on s.ms.uky.edu. 15. Ever since the VM/ESA conversion, my MVS jobs have been running slower. Is there a reason for this? Can I expect the situation to improve? Thanks. >>>VM/ESA would have no effect on the execution of MVS batch jobs. If your jobs are running longer, it is for some other reason. To find the reason, we would have to see the "before" and "after" jobs to determine the source of the slowdown. 16. Do you provide the old ICES from MIT on the 3090? >>>Unfortunately, we no longer provide ICES. 17. Is there any way to exit the UKCCB application selection screen other than ESC di? F3 always worked until today. >>>PF3 is supposed to work, but we've received other complaints about this. We fixed a problem with this on Monday. Actually, some connections would get dropped and some would not. Have you had any problems since then? 18. What is the schedule for the job initiators changing? Sometimes it seems there are two class A initiators, one AB and one B. Sometimes, like this morning, there is only one class A and two AB initiators. Is there some way we can be informed of this schedule, or notified when the number of initiators are changed because this can affect how long the wait for our jobs to enter execution can be. What are class B jobs? >>>The Operators change the initiators as often as necessary, based on the workload in the systems. Class B jobs are scheduled production jobs for the University. 19. When I try SAS ASSIGN 3, it says my A disk is too full. I've taken off everything I can, and I'm down to 9% of my storage space. >>>You just need more disk space. Contact Larry Johnson in 130 McVey Hall, 257-2217, johnson@ukcc.uky.edu; or Janet Hyatt at 257-2212, hyatt@ukcc.uky.edu. 20. When I try to SAS a file, I get an error message saying File Not Found SAS SAS*. What does this mean? How can I get this SAS SAS * file? >>>It sounds like you're saying SAS filename SAS Leave off the seonce SAS. 21. I have a Script file for which I normally take a output using the command SCRIPT FILENAME (CCUSER. I want to get just a PostScript file without output on the laser printer. Can you please tell me how to do this? >>>The LWSCRIPT command has an option for this. Use LWSCript filename ( NOSEND KEEP This will save on your disk a PostScript file with filetype P-SCRIPT. ********************************************************************* 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 Douglas 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 *********************************************************************