lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Lee McLoughlin) (06/14/91)
Archive-name: sites/uk/ukuug-software/1991-06-12
Archive-directory: src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/pub/
Original-posting-by: lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Lee McLoughlin)
Original-subject: UKUUG Software Distribution Service: announcement
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)
It has been far too long since this has been posted.
Please note that all orders now go to the UKUUG direct and that many
of the tape counts have increased.
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The
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Software Distribution Service
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\fI(12 June 1991)\fP
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Lee McLoughlin
Stuart McRobert
Stephen Lacey
\fC(ukuug-soft@doc.ic.ac.uk)\fP
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Department of Computing
Imperial College
180 Queen's Gate
London
England
SW7 2BZ
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The
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has just over one gigabyte of (\fIcompressed!\fP) source
archives on line for the benefit of
.uu
members. This archive is intended to allow
.uu
members to easily access major
distributions of freely distributable software. Access to the archive
is not restricted to
.uu
members, but there is a surcharge when writing tapes for non-members.
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One of the aims of this archive is to act as a place where you can
obtain all those interesting packages you read about on the Usenet
news. This provides fast UK access to the packages even if they are
only on remote networks that are either inaccessible or would take too
long to transfer from.
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Contents
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Here is list of the various tape packages we ship and heavily edited
highlights of each package. Where possible these packages are the
latest versions available and are complete distributions.
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We strongly encourage people to wander around the archive as
the packages listed below will not give you a true feel for
what is available. (See below for details of how to access the
archive interactively.)
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Please note:
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The contents of the archive are constantly changing, in fact large
parts of it are automatically updated. This means that from time to
time the tape count given below is too small to fit all that is
available. To overcome this problem the archive managers may choose
to omit items from the distribution to make it fit. A posting to the
network news will be made when this happens. If you wish to ensure
that a particular package from a distribution set is on your tape
please state its name when ordering. If necessary this document
will be re-issued with revised tape counts.
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The ordering information is the of the form:
.I package-format-tapes .
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.cb X.V11R4
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The X Window System: Version 11, Release 4. This is the
original release tape with a copies of the official patches. This
contains the X server for a wide range of machines and many X clients.
(See also \fCX.UNOFF\fP below).
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Unofficial additions and upgrades to the \fCX.V11R4\fP system.
This is a copy of the Usenet newsgroup
.I comp.sources.x
and the user contributed areas copied from various \fCX.V11R4\fP archive sites
around the world (chiefly \fCexport.lcs.mit.edu\fP).
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.cb COMPSRCS
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Complete copies of the
.UX
related source Usenet news groups:
\fCcomp.sources.unix\fP,
\fCcomp.sources.x\fP,
\fCcomp.sources.sun\fP,
\fCcomp.sources.reviewed\fP
and
\fCcomp.sources.misc\fP.
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.cb TEX
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TeX typesetting system,
including sources,
styles,
formats,
previewers...
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.cb GNU
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All the latest releases from the Free Software Foundation.
Including
\fCGNU\fP Emacs,
the \fCGNU\fP C compiler,
the \fCGNU\fP C\v'-.09m'\h'-.14m'+\h'-.18'+\v'.09m' compiler,
and clones of
many other programs.
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.cb "Unix + Athena + Sun
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A grab bag of general
.UX
kernel related utilities - most importantly all the
.UX
kernel and application programs that Berkeley developed and
released,
the Athena
software -
for a secure way of managing networks of workstations,
and
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specific upgrades - including an archive of the Sun-Spots mailing list.
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.cb MINIX
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A pruned copy of the Usenet news group about the Minix operating system.
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.cb COMMS
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Communications,
mail,
and news software.
This includes \fCISODE\fP,
name servers,
SMTP and X.400 mailers,
SNMP managers and agents,
slip,
gated,
tcpdump,
niftp,
spad,
tunnel,
kermit,
pcomm,
xcomm,
B and C news, rn, trn and nntp.
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Languages including sbprolog,
various dialects of ML,
perl,
various lisp's,
leif,
icon,
modula-3...
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Availability
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The distribution is available both via tape and electronically.
Electronically the software is free.
However there is a charge for
tape distributions.
This charge is kept as low as possible.
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General Enquires
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General enquires about the software can be handled by email to:
\fCukuug\-software@doc.ic.ac.uk\fP
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Electronic Access
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Electronic Mail
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There is an email based server running on the archive.
This information server will send out files contained in mail
messages, in response to a request contained in a mail message
that you have sent it.
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All such queries have to be sent to:
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\fCinfo-server@doc.ic.ac.uk\fP
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With a \fCSubject:\fP field of \fCwanted\fP. The mesage body should
contain the request.
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Requests are of the form:
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Request: subject
Topic: \fItopic within that subject\fP
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As an example, in order to obtain information about
\fIamd\fP (such as how to get hold of it), you would send a message
of the form:
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Request: catalogue
topic: amd
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and the information stored about \fCamd\fP would be mailed back to you.
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The key words supported by the information server are:
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request
topic
line-limit
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These can be upper or lower case or a mixture. They are
separated from the remainder of the line by optional tabs, spaces or colons.
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\fCLine-limit\fP is for use by people who have mail systems that
can only deal with small messages. Consider the following
request:
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line-limit 1000
Request: catalogue
topic: xtrek
topic gcc
request: end
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This would mail out \fCxtrek\fP and \fCgcc\fP information in 1000 line chunks
(Not including message header information). The line limit must lie
between 1000 and 200000000. The default is send the file in 1
message. Everything after the \fCrequest end\fP is ignored.
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A complex request could look like this:
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line-limit 2000
Request: catalogue
topic: bash
topic: pbm
line-limit: 3000
Request: sources
topic: software.ms
topic: index
request: end
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\fINOTE\fP: currently there is an upper limit on the how big a file
the info server is willing to send. This is currenly set at one
megabyte. Requests for files bigger than this will be rejected in order
to avoid choking the mail system at \fCdoc.ic.ac.uk\fR and sites that the
mail messages may have to pass through.
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Unfortunately the catalogue entries are largely maintained by people
and tend to be out of date, if present at all. This is regretable but due
to time contraints enevitable. To allow as much of the archive to be
accessed via email two \fIgeneric\fP sources requests are available.
Firstly there is
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request sources
topic scanfor \fIpattern\fP
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The \fIpattern\fP is an \fCgrep\fP style regular expression which will be
matched against a list of all files as well as the indexes for
\fCcomp.sources.*\fR archived newsgroups. All matches will be sent back
in the reply. The indexes tend not to include all files
available nor contain full path names but they can be useful as they
give descriptions of articles.
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To then fetch the file send a request of:
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request sources
topic path \fIfullpathname\fP
request end
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Where \fIfullpathname\fP is a pathname returned by the \fCscanfor\fP
request.
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For example:
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topic scanfor amd
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Would return (this is truncated for brevity):
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Scanning /vol/public for a package called amd
scanning files by name (for amd) ===========>
2173 2 May 91 20:10 Usenet/comp.archives/amd/how-to-get.Z
26732 11 Apr 90 00:00 Usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume21/amd/part01.Z
26337 11 Apr 90 00:00 Usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume21/amd/part02.Z
...
282312 23 Jun 90 00:00 unix/amd/amd-5.2.tar.Z
114263 23 Jun 90 00:00 unix/amd/amd-doc5.2.PS.Z
461523 5 Apr 91 22:44 unix/amd/amd5.3-alpha12.tar.Z
426687 21 Dec 90 17:57 unix/amd/amd5.3-alpha9.tar.Z
12101 6 Dec 90 02:50 unix/bsd-sources/usr.sbin/amd/amd/ChangeLog.Z
693 6 Dec 90 02:36 unix/bsd-sources/usr.sbin/amd/amd/Makefile.Z
16465 6 Dec 90 02:49 unix/bsd-sources/usr.sbin/amd/amd/afs_ops.c.Z
...
scanning indexes:
Usenet/comp.sources.unix (for amd) ===========>
volume21/amd/part01.Z v21i089: An Automounter for NFS systems, Part01/13
volume21/amd/part02.Z v21i090: An Automounter for NFS systems, Part02/13
volume21/amd/part03.Z v21i091: An Automounter for NFS systems, Part03/13
...
Usenet/comp.sources.x (for amd) ===========>
Usenet/comp.sources.misc (for amd) ===========>
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From this you could decide to fetch an exciting experimental version
of the \fCamd\fP system.
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\fCamd5.3-alpha12.tar.Z\fP is 461523 bytes
long and was installed in the archive on 5 Apr 91 22:44.
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request end
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Interactive Login
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Outside normal working hours (8.30 to 17.30 GMT) a guest login account is
available for those who simply wish to wander around the archive. It
is accessible over the Janet X.25 network with an address of:
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uk.ac.ic.doc.src (or 00000510200001 if you have no NRS)
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When talking to a pad, the call would look like:
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call a00000510200001
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or perhaps:
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call .00000510200001
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Once connected you should be greeted by the banner:
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Welcome to the UKUUG Software Distribution Service at uk.ac.ic.doc.src
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Once connected you are in a restricted environment. Use the
\fChelp\fP command for up to date details of what commands are available.
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Anonymous FTP
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This is only available if you have some form of IP connectivity into
ic.doc. The name of the archive is:
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src.doc.ic.ac.uk (146.169.3.7)
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There is then a help banner to show you how to login. You will also
need to find out how your local \fCftp\fP command works. You will
normally have the following commands available to you:
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\fCls\fP list the directory
\fCdir\fP long listing of the directory
\fCcd name\fP change directory
\fCget remote local\fP transfer the filed called remote to
a file here called local
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Anonymous FTAM
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Access is available via the ISO FTAM mechanism. The archive machine
runs the ISODE package it can be reached over JANET on address:
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0000005102000
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and over IP on address
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146.169.3.7
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In both cases give a username of \fCanon\fP.
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Guest NIFTP
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All material in the is available via Janet (and therefore \fCPSS\fP)
using Niftp. On your own system the Niftp command will be called,
\fCfcp\fP, \fCcpf\fP or \fChhcp\fP. Please do not confuse this with
the common command \fCftp\fP described above.
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The basic details required for the Niftp are:
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Host: uk.ac.ic.doc.src
Name: guest
Pass: your email addr (must contain an @)
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All filenames are all prefixed by
\fC<PUB>\fP.
The majority of files on the archive are binary, in fact almost all
files are compressed in order to save space. This is denoted
by the \fC.Z\fP suffix.
So all files ending in this suffix
are binary,
but so are many others,
in particular the \fCX.V11R4\fP files \fCtape-?.??\fP.
This is usually important to Niftp systems. If an attempted binary
transfer is rejected with a message indicating that the file was
really text, retry specifying the text option to your Niftp program.
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To find what files are available first pull back the file
\fC<PUB>ls-lR.Z\fP which is a compressed, recursive directory listing
of the entire archive. This is updated nightly and is over six hundred
kilobytes in its compressed form!
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This file can be pulled back by using a command like:
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\fIbash$\fP\ \fCcpf "<PUB>ls-lR.Z@uk.ac.ic.doc.src" ls-lR.Z\fP
\fIUser:\fP \fCguest\fP
\fIPassword:\fP \fClmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk\fP
\fIbash$\fP
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Note that since the source filename contains the
\fC\<\fP and \fC\>\fP
characters this argument has to be quoted.
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Once retrieved this file can be viewed with a command like:
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\fIbash$\fP\ \fCuncompress < ls-lR.Z | more\fP
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In addition to this is another index file called
\fC<PUB>new-stuff\fP. It contains a listing of all files added to the
archive in the last week.
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Obtaining Distributions via Tape.
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Currently there are several restrictions on distribution via tape.
Firstly to non-\fCUKUUG/EurOpen\fP members there is a 30% surcharge
(this can be considered yet another good reason to join the
\fCUKUUG\fP or \fCEurOpen\fP). The tapes are in \fCtar\fP format on
one of the following kinds and densities of tapes:
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1600 bpi half inch
6250 bpi half inch
QIC24
QIC150
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This corresponds to the \fIformat\fP field of the ordering
information.
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The total cost is a multiple of the total number of tapes required.
Currently this is \(ps50.00 per tape.
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Payment can be made by cheque, Access or Visa cards, or if your
purchasing department cannot handle the other forms then by purchase order.
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To order fill in the form given below and send to:
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UKUUG Software Distribution Service.
c/o Bill Barrett,
UKUUG,
Owles Hall,
Buntingford,
Hertfordshire.
SG9 9PL
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To: UKUUG Software Distribution Service.
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c/o Bill Barrett,
UKUUG, Owles Hall, Buntingford, Hertfordshire. SG9 9PL
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Prices correct at time of publication.
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Payment may be made in one of two ways:
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1. \h'.1i' by \fBcheque\fP [_]
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By UK Cheque or Bankers Draft, made payable to
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and drawn on
a UK bank, Eurocheques are acceptable, but each cheque must be \(ps 100
or less.
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2. \h'.1i' by \fBVISA\fP [_]\h'.5i' by \fBACCESS\fP \fBEUROCARD\fP \fBMASTERCARD\fP [_]
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I declare to indemnify the
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for any liability concerning the
rights to this software,
and I accept that
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and its agents,
takes no responsibilities concerning the contents and proper function
of the software.
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--
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Lee McLoughlin phone: 071 589 5111 X 5085 fax: 071 581 8024
Department of Computing, Imperial College, 180 Queens Gate, London SW7 2BZ, UK
Janet: lmjm@uk.ac.ic.doc Uucp: lmjm@icdoc.UUCP (or ..!ukc!icdoc!lmjm)