Australian UNIX systems User Group Newsletter Volume 10, Number 6 December 1989 Registered by Australia Post, Publication Number NBG6524 The Australian UNIX* systems User Group Newsletter Volume 10 Number 6 December 1989 CONTENTS AUUG General Information ..................... 5 Editorial ........................... 6 AUUGg0 -- Conference Announcement .................. 9 AuuGg0 -- Call For Papers ..................... 10 Western Australian UNIX systems Group Information ............. 12 SESSPOOLE Information ......... - .............. 13 AUUG Summer’90 (Victoria) - Tentative Programme .............. 14 Unix Design And Tuning Issues m Jack Dikian ............... 16 The Gigatape m Lynx Technologies ................... 21 Slides From Dr Ross Bott’s Talk At AUUG’89 ................ 25 AUUG Institutional Members ..................... 48 From the ;login: Newsletter - Volume 14 Number 4 .............. 50 Call for Papers: Winter 1990 USENIX Conference ............. 51 Large Installation Systems Administration III Workshop and Tutorial Program .... 52 Workshop on Experiences with Distributed and Multiprocessor Systems ...... 53 Computer Graphics Workshop ................... 55 Call for Participation: USENIC C++ ’90 ................ 55 EUUG Autumn ’89 Conference and Exhibition .............. 56 Call for Papers: EUUG Spring ’90 Conference .............. 56 Call for Papers: Convention UNIX 90 (AFUU) .............. 57 Baltimore Conference News ................... 57 Long-Term Calendar of UNIX Events ................ 58 New Conference Sessions .................... 59 FaceSaver at Baltimore ..................... 60 USENIX Online Index .............. ....... 63 Book Review: Xlib Programming Manual and Xlib Reference Manual ...... 65 Standards: ......................... 65 White Paper on System Administration for IEEE 1003.7 ......... 65 AUUGN 1 Vol 10 No 6 Report on ISO JTC1 SC22 WG15 (POSIX) Meeting .......... 72 Summary of the Board of Directors’ Meeting .............. 75 UUNET Source Archives on Tape .................. 79 Association News ....................... 79 Local User Groups ...................... 80 From the ;login: Newsletter - Volume 14 Number 5 .............. 82 Workshop on Experiences with Distributed and Multiprocessor Systems ...... 83 Professional Development Seminars ................. 85 5th USENIX Computer Graphics Workshop ............... 86 Call for Papers: USENIX C++ Conference ............... 87 Long-Term Calendar of UNIX Events ................ 88 Book Review: Programming in C++ ................. 89 Summary of the Board of Directors’ Meeting .............. 92 An Update on UNIX and C Standards Activities ............. 95 USENIX Software Distribution Tape ................. 100 Out-of-Print USENIX Proceedings Now Available ............. 101 Subscription Offer to USENIX Members from the EUUG .......... 101 Final Printing of 4.3BSD Manuals .................. 102 4.3BSD Manual Reproduction Authorization and Order Form ......... 103 Local User Groups ...................... 104 From the ;login: Newsletter - Volume 14 Number 6 .............. 106 1990 Elections for Board of Directors ................ 107 USENIX Winter Conference Program ................. 108 Call for Papers: Summer 1990 USENIX Conference ............ 115 Executive Office Staff Changes .................. 115 Call for Papers: USENIX C++ Conference ............... !16 Call for Papers: AUUG Conference and Exhibition 1990 ........... 117 Long-Term Calendar of UNIX Events ................ 118 USENIX Board Studies UUCP ................... 119 Summary of the Board of Directors’ Meeting .............. 120 Audio I/O with the NeXT Computer ................. 122 Book Review: !%@:: A Directory of Electronic Mail Addressing and Networks .- . 127 Report on ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15 (POSIX) Meeting ........... 128 An Update on UNIX and C Standards Activity .............. 134 Proceedings Order Forms .................... 149 Final Printing of 4.3BSD Manuals .................. 151 4.3BSD Manual Reproduction Authorization and Order Form ......... 152 Vol 10 No 6 2 AUUGN I_x)cal User Groups ...................... 153 Managment Committee Meeting -- 8th August 1989 ......... - ..... 155 AUUG Newsletter Back Issues ..................... 159 AUUG Membership Catorgories .................... 160 AUUG Forms .......................... 163 Copyright © 1989 AUUGN Inc. All rights reserved. AUUGN is the journal of the Australian UNIX* systems User Group (AUUG Inc). Copying without fee is permitted provided that copies, are made without modification, and are not made or distributed for commercial advantage. Credit to the AUUGN and author must be given. Abstracting with credit is permitted. No other reproduction is permitted without prior permission of AUUG Inc. * UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T in the USA and other countries. AUUGN 3 Vol 10 No 6 UN/X PUTS S’ A PEDESTAL One of the most important reasons you want any UNIX system is the standardisation it brings to your computing operations. Prime is committed to industry standards and shared-resource computing. From the compact 3 MIPS power of the new EXL MBX -- the smallest member of our UNIX family -- up to the mid-range and high-end EXL 1200 series which accommodates over 1,000 simultaneous users and can generate up to 120 MIPS. And of course the familiar EXL 320 and 325 systems, highly rated by recent surveys into computer cost effiency over a 5 year period. Prime’s entire EXL family is built around the Intel 80386 microprocessor and works together via industry standard communications including NFS and X.25, SNA, and TCP/IP. A principal and founding member of UNIX International and a member of X/OPEN, Prime is combining research with AT&T. "Prime AUUG General Information Memberships and Subscriptions Membership, Change of Address, and Subscription forms can be found at the end of this issue. All correspondence concerning membership of the AUUG should be addressed to:- The AUUG Membership Secretary, P.O. Box 366, Kensington, N.S.W. 2033. AUSTRALIA General Correspondence All other correspondence for the AUUG should be addressed to:- The AUUG Secretary, P.O. Box 366, Kensington, N.S.W. 2033. AUSTRALIA AUUG Executive President Greg Rose Secretary Tim Roper gr e g @ softway.sw.oz [email protected] Softway Pty. Ltd. Labtam Information Systems Pty. Ltd. New South Wales Victoria Treasurer Michael Tuke [email protected] ANL Limited Victoria Committee Peter Barnes John Carey Members [email protected] [email protected] Computer Science Labtam Information Systems Pty. Ltd. University of Queensland Victoria Pat Duffy Chris Maltby [email protected] [email protected] Pyramid Technology Corporation Softway Pty. Ltd. New South Wales New South Wales Next AUUG Meeting The AUUGg0 Conference and Exhibition will be held from September 25th to September 28th 1990. The venue will be the World Congress Centre, Melbourne. AUUGN 5 Vol 10 No 6 AUUG Newsletter Editorial That mad rush at the end of the year is affecting us all, so this will probably arrive too late for me to wish you all a Happy Xmas and Merry New Year (or a Happy Hanukkah for those who prefer). Hope you all had a good and safe time anyway. Local user groups are starting to emerge from the woodwork and get themselves registered as Chapters of AUUG. WAUG (the West Australian UNIX systems Group) presented a petition to the AUUG management committee at the last committee meeting, and so now it is a Chapter. When I last heard, SWIGS (the Softway Wine Guzzlers Society) was still looking for ten members who could write. (:-) In other AUUG news, AUUG and Prentice Hall have come to an arrangement that is to be known as the "AUUG Book Club". Under this arrangement, Prentice Hall provide copies of books to be reviewed in AUUGN. When these books are reviewed, there will be an opportunity for AUUG members to purchase them at a 20% discount. You may see me calling for book reviewers here and in the aus.auug newsgroup, so please consider offering your services as a reviewer. The first offer should appear in the next issue of AUUGN (Volume 11, Number 1). And something else for you to think about. Currently there are two social activities associated with the annual AUUG Winter Conference and Exhibition: the Wednesday evening cocktail party and the Thursday night dinner. The AUUG Management Committee is looking into adding a third social event, and is would appreciate some suggestions. If you have any ideas, please write to myself or any of the committee members. Finally, I am looking for someone to help me out. As editor of AUUGN, I get about twenty press releases sent to me each month. Mostly they get filed in the little round bucket beside my desk. It would be good if someone were to volunteer to scan these releases for useful information and produce a few pages for AUUGN every two months. That doesn’t sound like hard work, does it? I hope you all attend your local Summer Technical Meeting, and that I will see a good number of you at the Melbourne Meeting. AUUGN Correspondence All correspondence reguarding the AUUGN should be addressed to:- David Purdue AUUGN Editor Labtarn Information Systems Pty. Ltd. 43 Malcolm Road Braeside Victoria 3195 AUSTRALIA ACSnet: [email protected] Phone: +61 3 587 1444 Fax: +6 1 3 580 5581 Contributions The Newsletter is published approximately every two months. The deadline for contributions for the next issue is Friday the 19th of January 1990. Contributions should be sent to the Editor at the above address. I prefer documents to be e-mailed to me, and formatted with troff. I can process mm,