awinterb@udenva.UUCP (Art Winterbauer) (04/27/85)
To: FOLKS INTERESTED IN WRITEAID.
I haven't forgotten you! It's just that I received rather more
inquiries about the program than I had anticipated, and it has
taken a while to reach the crest of the mail heap.
I've attached a document which I've sent to our local system
maintainer here at the University of Denver. I want to move the
program from my directories into our /usr/users/public directory
area, and I needed to let him know how many files are to be moved
and their approximate size. Now you will have an idea of what
Writeaid looks like, at least from the computer's perspective!
About posting. That may not be as good an idea as I had originally
thought. As you can see, Writeaid is as sprawling as the Kansas
prairies (it is, after all, a prototype, and is *supposed* to be
messy), and posting something like this to the net would be a logistical
nightmare, particularly as you would have to run most of the files
through a compiler. If the system is delivered on tape, just create
a directory called /usr/users/public (and subdirectories as noted),
dump in the tape's contents, and you are well on your way. At least,
that's how it looks in theory. Secondly, if further research on
*dissemination* of Writeaid is to be done, and particulary on what
modifications it undergoes as it approaches Nirvanah, then some control
over release must be maintained. Hence, the current leanings towards
mailings of the system on tape. PLEASE let me know further of your
thoughts on this.
Sorry to make such a big deal of this, but the logistical issues are
rather problematical at the moment, but not insurmountable by any
means.
As soon as the intial set of tests are completed (end of May), we will
move the files into our own /usr/users/public in late June or early
July. Very soon after that, I will post more info on distribution.
I would like to have the thing working REALLY well, as well as additional
materials supplied by our faculty here, in place before shipment.
What I will post to net.research within the next week or so are copies
of the Student's Manual and the Teacher's Manual. They provide more
detailed info about how Writeaid operates. Many of the faculty here are
quite interested in Writeaid, and are cooperating quite nicely with
efforts to give it a full series of tests under fire. These results will
be summarized and also posted to net.research by summer.
Till later,
Art Winterbauer "If guns are outlawed, only
Univ. of Denver communists will have underwear!"
DRI/Elec
PO Box 10127
Denver, CO 80210
(303)-871-2412
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Pascal Source and Object Code Portion
PROPOSED DIRECTORY OBJ CODE/SZE SOURCE NAME/SZE
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/usr/public/ ask3 /62.4k writeaid.p /33.8k
keyset2.i / 1.5k
listset.i / 1.0k
longscan.i / 3.0k
partialzero.i / .3k
psearch7.i / 2.6k
ptoutarray.i / .3k
rndset2.i / .6k
ticker.i / 2.0k
keystart /16.3k keyinit2.p / .6k
keywords /30.0k keyfile3.p / 8.0k
listmk4 /20.4k listmk4.p / 3.0k
qststart /16.3k qstinit2.p / .5k
questions /28.6k qstfile.p / 7.0k
randoms /26.6k rndfile.p / 5.0k
rndstart /16.3k rndinit.p / .4k
start2 /16.3k ansinit2.p / .8k
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233.2k 70.4k
C-Scripts
FILE NAME/SZ
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menu / .8k
retain / 2.2k
start / .3k
teacher / 2.4k
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5.7k
Data Read by Users
FILE NAME/SZ
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/usr/public/udata errmsg / .6k
listbf / 1.2k
listcf / .04k
manualtxt /27.5k
smenu / .3k
teachmenu / .3k
welcome / .7k
tmanualtxt /27.0k
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57.64k
Data Created by Instructor (open ended)
/usr/public/tdata artkey1 / 7.4k
artqst1 / 2.0k
artrnd1 / .7k
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10.1k (currently)
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| Total Source Code & Data Files: ~143.8K|
| Total Object Code : ~233.2K|
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| Total : ~377 K |
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