worsley@ditmela.oz (Andrew Worsley) (11/05/87)
The tape containing the version 3.0 distribution contained an
incomplete tar file, consequently the distribution must wait until we
get a new copy. This will probably be about one week, sorry for the
delay. Also could people make their checks out to "CSIRO Division of
Information Technology" and not anything else. Note it has support for
running over Sunlink's X.25, which is nice if like me you have a Sun.
Andrew Worsley
A N N O U N C E M E N T
The next release of the "ISO Development Environment at NRTC" will be
available on 14 October 1987. This release is called
ISODE 3.0
This software supports the development of certain kinds of ISO/CCITT/ECMA
protocols and applications. Here are the details:
- ISODE is not proprietary, but it is not in the public domain. This was
necessary to include a "hold harmless" clause in the release. The upshot
of all this is that anyone can get a copy of the release and do anything
they want with it, but no one takes any responsibility whatsoever for any
(mis)use.
- ISODE runs on native 4.2BSD and SVR2, ROS (the Ridge Operating System),
and HP-UX.
- Current modules include:
ISO transport service (TP0 on top of TCP and X.25)
ISO session, presentation, and association control services
ASN.1 abstract syntax/transfer notation and compiler
ISO/CCITT reliable transfer and remote operations services
ISO DIS FTAM for Berkeley and AT&T UNIX
- Although the ISODE is not "supported" per se, it does have a problem
reporting address, Bug-ISODE@NRTC.NORTHROP.COM. Bug reports (and fixes)
are welcome by the way.
- The discussion group ISODE@NRTC.NORTHROP.COM is used as an open forum on
ISODE. Contact ISODE-Request@NRTC.NORTHROP.COM to be added to this list.
- The primary documentation for this release consists of a three volume
User's Manual (approx. 450 pages) and a set of UNIX manual pages. The
sources to the User's Manual are in LaTeX format. In addition, there are
a number of notes, papers, and presentations included in the documentation
set, again in either LaTeX or SLiTeX format.
For more information, contact:
Northrop Research and Technology Center
Attn: Automation Sciences Laboratory (0330/T30)
One Research Park
Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA 90274
USA
+1-213-544-5393
There are several ways to get a distribution:
- FTP
If you can FTP to the DARPA/NSF Internet, you can use anonymous FTP to
louie.udel.edu [10.0.0.96] and retrieve the file portal/isode-3.tar. This
is a 7MB tar image. The file portal/isode-3.tar.Z is the tar image after
being run through the compress program (approx. 2.5MB).
- NIFTP
If you run NIFTP over the public X.25 or over JANET, and are registered in
the NRS at Salford, you can use NIFTP with username "guest" and your own
name as password, to access UK.AC.UCL.CS to retrieve the file
<SRC>isode-3.tar. This is a 7MB tar image. The file <SRC>isode-3.tar.Z
is the tar image after being run through the compress program (approx.
2.5MB).
- NORTH AMERICA
For mailings in NORTH AMERICA, send a check or invoice for $200 US dollars
to:
ISODE Distribution
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
USA
+1-302-451-1163
The tape will be written in tar format at 1600bpi, and returned with a
documentation set. Do not send tapes or envelopes. Documentation only is
the same price.
- EUROPE
For mailings in EUROPE, send a cheque or invoice for 100 pounds sterling
to:
Department of Computer Science
Attn: Soren Sorenson
University College
Gower Street
London, WC1E 6BT
UK
+44-1-387-7050 x3680
The tape will be written in tar format at 1600bpi, and returned with a
documentation set. Do not send tapes or envelopes. Documentation only is
the same price.
- AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND
For mailings in AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND, send a cheque for 50 dollars
Australian to:
Andrew Worsley
CSIRO DIT
55 Barry St
Carlton, 3053
AU
+61-3-347-8644
The tape will be written in tar format at 1600bpi, and returned with a
documentation set. Do not send tapes or envelopes. Documentation only is
the same price.
- FTAM on the JANET or PSS
The sources are available by FTAM at UCL over X.25 using JANET
(00000511160001) or PSS (23421920030001) with TSEL "256" (ascii encoding).
Use the "anon" user-identity, supply any password, and retrieve the file
src/isode-3.tar. This is a 7MB tar image. The file src/isode-3.tar.Z is
the tar image after being run through the compress program (approx. 2.5MB).
- FTAM on the DARPA/NSF Internet
The sources are available by FTAM at the University of Delaware over the
DARPA/NSF Internet at host louie.udel.edu [10.0.0.96] (TCP port 102
selects the ISO transport service) with TSEL 256 (numeric encoding) or
with the US GOSIP encoding (TSEL 0001, SSEL 0001, PSEL 0001). Use the
"anon" user-identity, supply any password,and retrieve the file
portal/isode-3.tar. This is a 7MB tar image. The file
portal/isode-3.tar.Z is the tar image after being run through the compress
program (approx. 2.5MB).
In both cases, the file service is provided by the FTAM implementation in
ISODE 3.0, which is a DIS implementation with a few pieces of critical
information taken from the IS.