a03@nikhefh.hep.nl (Willem van Leeuwen) (06/09/89)
In view of the growing use of UNIX in the High Energy Phy-
sics community (UNICOS on CRAY, UNIX on minisupers and
workstations) a HEP UNIX User Group, nicknamed HEPNIX, has
been established. Possible tasks for HEPNIX:
- The specification of enhancements to UNIX to make it
usable in a HEP production environment.
- Contacts with standards organizations like POSIX, X-
OPEN, OSF.
- Collaboration with other UNIX User Groups like EUUG.
- Collaboration with the DD Division of CERN to obtain
versions of the CERN program library for the various
UNIX flavours.
- Monitoring of developments like X-WINDOWS, NeWS.
- Distribution of utilities and extensions to UNIX.
- UNIX network and system management.
HEPNIX had its first meeting on April 3rd 1989 at CERN. A
next meeting is scheduled for autumn of this year. A list-
server has been set up as a medium for the exchange of infor-
mation. One can subscribe to this list by sending a
mail to LISTSERV@CERNVM.CERN.CH
SUB HEPNIX your name and institute
You should then receive a message confirming your subscription
and providing more information about list services.