bukys@cs.rochester.edu (Liudvikas Bukys) (03/14/91)
Archive-name: ai/neural-nets/rochester-connectionist-simulator/1991-03-13 Archive-directory: cs.rochester.edu:/pub/simulator/ [192.5.53.209] Original-posting-by: bukys@cs.rochester.edu (Liudvikas Bukys) Original-subject: Re: Patches for RCS X11R4 - diff Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) Regarding getting the Rochester Connectionist Simulator to compile with X11R4: The patches that Patrick van der Smagt <smagt@fwi.uva.nl> just posted (which he obtained from Andreas Stolcke at ICSI) should work OK, but they do require your X11R4 Xaw library to be compiled with "backward compatibility" turned on. You can obtain the official patch for the simulator by anonymous FTP to cayuga.cs.rochester.edu (192.5.53.209), in the file "pub/simulator/rcs_v4.2.patch.1". It works without requiring the Xaw library to be compiled -DXAW_BC. It should work under either X11R3 or X11R4. The patch is very large, so it is best applied with the infamous Larry Wall "patch" program, a copy of which can be FTPed from prep.ai.mit.edu (18.71.0.38), in the file "pub/gnu/patch-2.0.12u3.tar.Z" (don't forget the binary mode). This is the only patch in about the last year. I have a few very minor bugs queued up, but nothing major. Users of the Rochester Connectionist Simulator who want to receive notice of new releases, bug fixes, etc, should drop me a note at <simulator-users-request@cs.rochester.edu>, and I will add them to the mailing list. The program is not under active development, except perhaps by the people using it. Of those, it seems like I can only get Nigel Goddard to send me bug reports and improvements. I'd love to have people send me any libraries they've whipped up, but noone has. So all you get with it out of the box is a general-purpose simulator and graphic interface (X11 or SunView), and a pretty ugly and inefficient backprop implementation. Liudvikas Bukys <bukys@cs.rochester.edu>