bukys@cs.rochester.edu (Liudvikas Bukys) (07/08/88)
(1) The Rochester Connectionist Simulator (version 4.1) is now available via anonymous FTP from CS.Rochester.EDU. It is in the public/rcs directory. Read the README file there for more information. The distribution is too large to mail; the compressed tar file is 837K bytes, and the uncompressed tar file is 3 Megabytes. If you have TeX and a PostScript printer, you should be able to produce your own copy of the 181-page manual. If you want a paper copy of the manual anyway, send a check for $10 per manual (payable to the University of Rochester) to Rose Peet at the above address. If you are unable to obtain anonymous FTP access to the simulator distribution, you can still order a copy the old way. Contact Rose Peet Computer Science Department University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627 (USA) or <connect@cs.rochester.edu>, and she will send you the approriate forms. We are currently charging $150 for a distribution tape and a manual. We do not have the facilities for generating invoices, so payment is required with any order. (2) We are setting up electronic mailing lists for use by the users of the simulator. If you have the simulator, please sign up! You can reach other users of the simulator via the users' mailing list: <simulator-users@cs.rochester.edu> If you are not on this mailing list, and wish to be added, send a note to <simulator-request@cs.rochester.edu> Please send bug reports to <simulator-bugs@cs.rochester.edu> (3) Official bug patches to date (to be found in the FTP directory): rcs_v4.1.patch.01 fixes a SERIOUS problem in the logging feature. rcs_v4.1.patch.02 fixes some minor syntactic problems in the doc. The patches can be applied by hand if necessary, but you will make your life easier if you obtain the widely-available "patch" program, and redirect each patch file into "patch -p".