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Information Technology and Communication Services (ITACS)Computer Center Bulletin

1995-01-03 Bulletin of Computing Services/Information Services / 1995-01-03

Monterey, California, Naval Postgraduate School http://hdl.handle.net/10945/52593 . NllY5 ~- 5 ?-- BULLETIN OF Computer Information a Services ~ Services Q;\ Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, California January 3, 1995 Bulletin's New Look Knox Library News Computing and Informing ATIS (Advanced Technical Didn't this used to be the Computer and Information Information Support) Services Bulletin? (Yes.) So, why the The ATIS system is a Naval Sea new format? Basically, to draw N s D E Systems Command program attention to the fact that Computer developed to assist personnel in the Services and the Library are going to be ATIS (Advanced Technical Information Support) . . . . 1 storage, retrieval, and use of a ship's working together as a closely-coor­ New on the CO-ROM Shelf 2 technical documentation. It is a dinated unit; the Bulletin will report Getting to Know 05 . . . . . 2 component of the U.S. Navy's news from both. Internet ...... 3 approach to implementing CALS What do libraries and computing have to Planning NPS Home Page 3 (Computer-aided Acquisitions and Tour I ntemet with Netscape 4 do with each other? Well, have you Logistics Support) technology and More Great Web Sites . . . 4 been to Knox Library lately? You're Cancel on the Web . . . . . 5 standards. Specifically, A TIS probably aware that the card catalog is Defense Info on the I ntemet 5 employs digital and optical disk onlinc now. Besides that: when you ask Graduates: Sign Off Lists . 6 technology and data exchange the reference librarian a question, LRCs: Borland Site Licenses 6 standards to: chances arc, he/she turns to a computer Email and ftp . • ...... • . 7 • capture technical data in raster, keyboard. The Library has access to a begin 123 ...... 7 inteJligent raster, and ASCII number of huge online databases. And Emailing Word Proc. Files 7 ftp to NPS ...... 8 formats. rc\'icwing some recent issues of this Mail to Site: No Address . . 8 Bulletin: the Library has Pr·o-Cite "Please use this password ... " 8 • index and store the technical data. software to search and format biblio­ Email All Over NPS . . . . . 9 • request and retrieve data. graphics. Several CD-ROM databases of VisLab News ...... 9 particular interest to NPS faculty and HTML Document Preparation 9 • establish a standard for student researchers are available in the Postscript Converter on SGls1 O engineering data display. ColorPrint Wkstn. Windows 1 O library. And more. (see Info p. 3) Ntwk Common Data Formt 10 The A TIS system in the Research Color Scanner ...... 1O Reports Division (RRD) provides Workstation News ...... 11 two principal functions: Be sure to look at the Screen Lock on Public Wkstr11 1. allows the user to import digital end of this Bulletin for Computer Srvcs Wkstns. . 11 Matlab 4.2 Installed . . . . . 11 images and the indexing data that the schedule of talks Maple FAQs ...... • . . . 11 identifies these images into the given by Computer Amdahl News ...... 12 system. Anonymous FTP: Amdahl . 12 2. allows the user to retrieve an Senrices! SUDAAN Statistical Softwr. 12 Naval Postgraduate School January 3, 1995

imported technical manual or engineering drawing Government Publications, Superintendent of Docu­ image using the indexing data that identifies it. ments, Government Printing Office. Coverage: July At this time, RRD has pre-loaded the A TIS CD-ROM 1976 to date products for four ship classes and more will be added. Using the most accurate data available from the U.S. The three classes currently loaded are: DDG-51, CG-47, Government Printing Office, GPO CAT/PAC provides FFG-7, and LHD-1. Boolean searching, as well as keyword and browse If there is another ship class you to have pre· access to documents by title or series, author, agency, loaded, please let us know as soon as possible because subject, and by: Superintendent of Documents, technical the load time is substantial (usually several days). report, and Government Printing Office control num­ bers. The range of topics is quite large, including infor­ Text and graphics from any manuals for the ship class­ mation on transportation, technology, engineering, es can be downloaded or printed using the HP LaserJet health, politics, and much, much more. 4Plus printer. Larry Gaber [email protected] Joint Electronic Libnuy (JEL) -- Subjects: Military, DoD. Sources: Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air University. Coverage: varies, 1989 • present. New on the CD-ROM Shelf The Joint Electronic Library contains a large collection In order to make available to library users a wider of full-text joint, army, marine corps, air force and range of our current holdings, increase the ease of their allied publications; military related papers, articles and searches, and expand their knowledge of informational studies; and a database of DoD approved terms. Also resources, the Dudley Knox Library has added the included are the Air University Index to Military Peri­ following titles to its list of CD-ROM databases: odicals (1990 to date) and a bibliography of documents NTIS •• Subjects: Government, Science and Technology on the Gulf War. reports. Source: National Technical Information Ser­ LePac -- Subjects: Cataloged collections of the vice. Coverage: 1983 to date. Monterey Bay Area Cooperative libraries (MOBAC). NTIS contains bibliographic citations and abstracts to Source: MOBAC. Coverage: Reflects member holdings over 490,000 government sponsored research and devel­ through the end of 1993. opment reports. The reports document germane, and This database is ideal for verifying citations and check­ sometimes very difficult-to-find, information on engi­ ing to see if any of the local libraries have cataloged neering, environment, communications, robotics, bio­ copies of sought after titles. Includes both public and technology, transportation, and a variety of military community college libraries and allows for Boolean or related topics. Note that no full text records are avail­ alphabetical index searching. able through this database. For descriptions of other electronic databases available EconLit -- Subjects: Economics. Source: Journal of (Computer Select, Applied Science and Technology Economic Literature. Coverage: 1969 to date. Index, Expanded Academic & Business Indexes, SPIN) Published by the American Economic Association and sec the November 8 edition of this Bulletin. produced by the Journal of Economic Literature, George Goncalves [email protected] EconLit provides citations and selected abstracts of journal articles, dissertations, books and conference Getting to Know 05 proceedings on economics. Specific topics include economic theory and history; monetary theory and Greta Marian, the new government documents librarian financial institutions; labor economics; international, comes to us from San Diego State University and regional, and urban economics. Coverage is internation­ brings some 13 years of experience with Federal depos­ al in scope. itory materials. She had previously worked at Arizona State University. March·e GPO CAT/PAC·· Subjects: U. S. Govern­ ment Publications. Sources: Monthly Catalog of U.S. She was born in Tucson, but moved around a lot while growing up. including over 5 years in Australia. but she

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notes that she is not a "military brat"! most current listing of interesting sites to explore. Greta has a BA in English from Arizona State Universi­ ty, an MLS from the University of Arizona, and will Planning the NPS Home Page soon be completing an MA in National Security Studies from California State University - San Bernardino (she The World Wide Web (WWW) Implementation Group ONLY needs to sit for comp exams to finish her re­ is hard at work to organize, support, and guide the quirements). development of the newest mode of the Campus Wide Information System. However, as we "architechs" plan, For over four years she has volunteered with the San make blue-prints, and ponder the evolution of the NPS Diego Airport USO Center of which over 3 years were WWW domain, the web continues to grow-up around spent as Director (on a volunteer basis). us. Over the last f cw months readers who have access Greta notes that she thoroughly enjoys working with to the WWW have seen this newest information fonnat people, loves animals and likes to watch or participate at NPS taking shape. If you haven't seen it yet, you can, in most sports. on one of Computer Sservices's public terminals by The Library is happy to have her aboard and eager to entering xmosaic (or netscape; see article in this Bulle­ see our government documents collection improved and tin] at a Unix prompt. expanded. The challenge of providing: Larry Gaber [email protected] • an easy-to-use interface to the WWW throughout the campus on UNIX, PC and MAC machines, • guidance to page developers, and Info • support to users raises numerous issues, from technical to aesthetic, (from Computing and Informing, p. 1) from policy to publicity: So the Library uses computers. What does Computer Who can have a page? Services have to do with the Library? Well, stroll Where do pages reside? through any group of workstations. What do you see on How to support users? the screens? Gopher. Mosaic. The Infonnation Super­ What is the best logical organization to make highway. All this is infonnation retrieval. It isn't books information easy for users to find? and magazines, but it ~ finding answers to a lot of the What do people want on the web? questions that have traditionally been answered at li­ How do we make people aware of what's available? braries. At more and more universities, Computer Ser­ Can the campus' various networks handle the increased \'ices and the library are being managed as a single load? unit. Be assured that these and other issues are getting the closest attention, and that answers are just around the comer. The Implementation Group, which consists of personnel from Code OS, students, staff, and PAO, is tackling all of these issues. At the same time, our NPS Internet Home Page continues to evolve with the following goals: These Internet articles assume some familiarity with the Internet. If you haven't much experience with the • provide an organized, polished, and consistent view Internet. may we refer you to the Internet edition of the of NPS to the rest of the world; Bulletin (available in ln-141), and/or any of the numer­ • provide links to useful infonnation within NPS; and ous guides to the Internet available in bookstores. If you're going to buy. get the very most recent one. The • provide links to useful infonnation on the Internet for Internet 1s changing fast. and the latest book has the the NPS community.

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Departments and organizations who have already devel­ netacape .. oped pages for the web have done a fantastic job. The From there, click on whatever interests you. continued development of these pages as well as cre­ To access some of the features, you will need to adjust ation of new pages by other organizations is highly en­ some of the defaults - and some people will want to couraged. While it will not be the intent of the Imple­ increase the font size first thing. The default font (de­ mentation Group to restrict creativity or mandate con­ scribed as Medium) was obviously set by someone with tent, some guidelines will soon be issued to encourage excellent eyesight. a consistent, profcssional appearance across organiza­ tional lines and to provide a cohesive framework for Now, this next is not too easy to describe without lots local and outside viewers. of screen samples (which would take more pages than We're off to a great start, but this is only the beginning. we can print). The tricky point is this: when you click User access will be increased. More support will be on Options and then Preferences, the screen you get made available. New uses are being explored, several varies depending on what you last selected. The first of which are well into the planning and development thing a new user would see would be the Styles screen. stage. Look for a relocation guide for new students, So, onward: cross-departmental index pages for research, events, To get a bigger font, click on Options at the top of the and staff biographies, to name a few. The possibilities Netscape window, then on Preferences. (If you don't see seem endless; however, your ideas arc needed if the the Styles screen, press and hold down the left mouse web is to meet your needs. Comments and suggestions button on the large button at the top of the Preferences can be sent to the Implementation Group via e-mail at screen, selecting Styles from the menu it gives you.) [email protected]. URLs to new pages can be sent to Halfway down the Styles screen, you'll see Font Style. Charles Taylor (the Web Master) at Click Large. Then click OK (at the bottom left of the [email protected]. Preferences screen). [Note: Charles Taylor says current policy does not While we 1rc looking at Preferences, let's set up so we provide for putting anything on the web server {that is, the NPS, campus-wide, world-accessible server} except can read netnews, the Unix newsgroups. Click Options, campus-level documents." Web server software for Preferences, and then press and hold down the left Unix machines, PCs, and Macs makes it feasible for mouse button on the large button at the top of the Pref­ departments to create their own home pages, and, with erences screen (probably it's set at Styles, from the them. point to whatever resources they feel are appro­ previous exercise), selecting Directories from the menu priate. The NPS web server will then point to these it gives you. Near the bottom, in the pinkish block departmental home pages. If you have something you labelled News (NNTP) Server, type thmk is of campus-wide value, send mail to Charles at npa.navy.mil the above address.} Also, click on the little box to de-select Show Only LT Clyde Wetteland Newsgroups with Descriptions. (It's de-selected if it looks convex, i.e., the white boundary of the button is Tour the Internet with Netscape on the upper left, and the dark boundary is on the lower right.) Click on OK. Netscape is the commercial product (distributed free; they charge for the server) that was written by the You can get software to run Netscape on your PC under people who originaly wrote Mosaic, which allows you Windows or on a Mac: contact the NPS Computer Club to find graphics and sound (as well as formatted text) (references at the back of this Bulletin). as easily as gopher let you find plain ascii text. Netscape is quicker than Mosaic, and provides easier More Great Web Sites access to a lot of the most interesting resources avail­ able on the Internet. Try it out by typing, at a Unix The table at the top of the next page lists URLs for prompt. on a Computer Services workstation: interesting and useful Internet sites. On the left is the

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http://lycos.cs.cmu.edu/lycos-fonn.html Lycos Search Form http://www.intemic.net/links/meta-index.html W3 Search Engines http://enterprise.osd.mil/ebird/welcome.html OSD WWW Server - Earlybird Online http://wings.buffalo.edu/world/ Worldwide WWW Information ftp://ftp.voa.gov/pub/radio/newswire/ Directory of /pub/radio/newswire http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/typing-injury-faq/top.btml Typing Injury FAQ http://www.commerce.digital.com/palo-alto/CloudGallery/see_clouds.html See All Clouds http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/cwis/organizations/kucia/uroulette/uroulette.btml URouLette http://www.geom.umn.edu/apps/pinbalt/start.btml Orbifold Pinball http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtual-tourist/Califomia.html Virtual Tourist - California http://mistral.enst.fr/-pioch/louvre/paintings/theme/impressionnisme.html WebLouvre: Impressionism (1860-1900) http://www.llnl.gov/ptools/ca.gif Color Relief map of Calif. http://www.bsdi.com/bsdi-man BSD! Hypertext Man Pages http://mphh2.ph.man.ac.uk/gareth/sirds.html Single Image Random Dot Stereograms (SIRDS) Pages

full URL for the site~ on the right, a brief description of the site. Notice particularly the search sites. Defense Info. on the Internet Note also: Earlybird. (Early bird is news of DoD interest The Defense Technical Information Center has been culled, up to the minute, from newspapers and maga­ providing information to the Defense community for zines.) As of this writing, efforts are still underway to fifty years; the Internet is its newest medium for distri­ get NPS certified as a site that can gain access to bution. DTIC provides access and transfer of scientific Earlybird online. Soon, you will be able to read full and technical information for DoD and other U.S. Gov­ Earlybird text~ meanwhile, all you can see is the ernment agency personnel and contractors. DTIC's homepage, with no access to Earlybird files themselves. collection includes not only areas normally associated Announcement will be made through Computer Ser­ with Defense research such as aeronautics, missile vices ccmsgs. technology, space technology, navigation, and nuclear To view these sites, log on at a Computer Services science, but also, biology, chemistry, energy, environ­ Unix account. At the Unix prompt, type mental sciences, oceanography, computer sciences, net11cape sociology, and human factors engineering. Click on File, and then Open Location. Type the URL You can access DTIC either through gopher or a World into the pinkish block and click Open. Wide . Via Gopher: gopher.dtic.dla.lnil Cancel on the Web Via WWW: http://www.dtic. dla.mil Two other WWW servers run by DTIC should be of Question to consult: "I initiated a search in the WWW interest as well. Worm that seems to be in an endless loop. I asked the WWW .dtic.dla.mil/dtiw system to do a 'Search of all citation hypertext' and it The Defense Technical Information Web is a WWW has been searching for approx. 5 minutes." site for finding information about, and of interest to, the Answer: Searches on the Web can sometimes take a DoD on the Internet. From this page there are links to while. Try limiting your search, or making it more STINET, the Scientific and Technical Information specific. To cancel a search in Mosaic, click on the Network; IAC, DoD Information Analysis Centers; the spinning globe in the upper right corner of the window. DTIW Locator, HOV-LANE, the DTIC acquisition In Netscape. click on the little stop sign in the tool bar information home page; and the DOD Acquisition at the top of the window. Workforce Home Page. The URL is Joe Blau [email protected] http://www. dtic . dla. mil/dtiw

s Naval Postgraduate School January 3, 1995 www .dtic.dla.mil/dcfenselink To un-subscribe from selected lists, by name: DefenseLINK is the DoD's public affairs online service. TELL LISTSERV AT SIGHOFF liatnm (GLOBAL It is a joint effort by the Office of the Assistant to the You can send the command to the nearest backbone Secretary of Defense/Public Affairs (OSD/PA) and LISTSERV, which in our case is UCBCMSA. (You can DTIC. DefenseLink currently carries DoD news releas­ always send the command to LISTSERV at BITNIC, if es, DoD contract award announcements, memoranda for you can't remember any other LISTSERV site.) correspondents, press advisories, and transcripts of Caroline Miller mi/[email protected] DoD news and background briefings. DefenseLINK is updated continuously and all releases are archived. The URL is http://www.dtic.dla.mil/defenaelink ( LRC News Glen Koue [email protected] Borland Site Licenses Graduates: Please Sign Off Lists The Leaming Resource Centers have recently received Special interest discussion lists arc popular with NPS the following software from Borland. network users. Lists on a myriad of topics are available, # disks Ver. Program Operating System on both BITNET and Internet. List membership brings 3~ 5% with it certain responsibilities, one of which is to cancel 8 6.0 Quattro Pro Windows your subscription(s) when you leave the net. 7 s.o Paradox Windows When you leave NPS: 3 Ll Visual Solutions Pack SIGNOFF * ( NETWIDE 28 4.5 C++ DOS, Windows, This command, issued to a LISTSERV as either an Windows NT interactive message or as the first line of a mail file, 1 1.0 Sidekick Windows will un-subscribe you from BITNET lists. If you are 2 1.0 Powerpack DOS leaving NPS, signing off of the lists will prevent accu­ 7 s 5.0 dBase Windows mulation of incoming files. 4 5.0 dBase DOS Internet lists not managed by a LISTSERV usually have 6 2.0 Reportsmith for PC a -REQUEST address that you can send e-mail to, Data Bases Windows asking to be unsubscribed. 2 2 3.1 Brief OS/2 2 While you are on leave: FORWARD incoming mail to 3.1 Brief DOS another network address if you will have access to another computer while you are gone. This way all mail Copies of these programs may be obtained from the files will be sent to you automatically. You won't miss Contact Individual designated for each department or important information, and the local spool space won't group as listed below. (This software will be distributed be clogged with stored files. by the departments for use at NPS only~ the license from Borland does not allow use off site.) For those On VM, to forward to another network address, type departments that do not have a designated individual, tell mailer set forward n•raddrBsom..ait• please send Lois (ln-103, x3460) the name and phone Online help is available. Full instructions are also found number with the request. The department or group will in the BITNET GUIDE, available in ln-141. furnish new HD diskettes for each one needed for the When you are too busy to read your mail, from VM: program(s) requested. TELL LISTSERV AT SET liatname NOHAIL Contact Individuals You will not receive any e-mail from the list until you 02A X3218 Rhoda Lynch issue the command SI X3460 Lois Brunner TELL LISTSERV AT SET liatname MAIL SIN X2195 Chris Abila (formerly MIS)

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52 X3348 Diane Crankshaw When I try to send a WordPerfect document using Unix 65 Mail I get an error message that says "File 1/0 error-/". AA X2910 Tony Cricelli I would like to email WordPerfect documents from the CC X2214 Milena Cochran Banyan to UNIX and from Unix to another Unix ac­ CS X2093 Russ Whalen count. Any help? EC DRMI X2310 Bob Boynton A WPerf file is a binary file, and needs to be MA X3290 Karen Phillips uuencoded before sending by Unix mail. The recipient ME would then uudecode it. Such software is available for OR X3489 June Favorite PC's, but not everyone has it. If the Unix-to-Unix is PH Sun to Sun, the mailtool handles everything transparent­ SM X2740 Caryl Lindsay ly. I'm forwarding this to Chuck Taylor; he's good with SP X2299 Jim Homing Banyan transfer. Lois Brunner, r3460 [email protected] First, it's not •aanyan Transfer", it's WPO\SMTP trans­ fer. SMTP is what is commonly referred to around here as "unix mail" or "internet mail", although you don't Email and ftp need a unix station to use it. WPO (WordPerfect Of­ fice) is what is commonly referred to around here as begin 123 "novell mail" or "banyan mail" although it's the same "Somebody sent to my Unix mail a bunch of absolutely whatever network it's on. To make things more confus~ unreadable garbage. What's happening?" ing, Novell recently bought WordPerfect so the next version [of WordPerfect Office] will be called "Novell Does the garbage stan with Groupwise•. begin 123 somefilename ("somefilename" represents the name the file had when But back to the problem at hand. the sender sent it to you.) If so, it's been uuencoded, See, smtp is all ASCII. All ASCH. (ASCII is a standard and needs to be decoded. Save it as a file. At the Unix form of text on most computers.) So how do you send a command line, type binary WP file via ASCII? You UUENCODE it. uudecode flnAJJMt Uuencoding is a process through which binary files are where flname is whatever file name you saved it under. encoded into an ASCII form. Then, files can be uudecode will create a file with the original name the UUDECODED on the other end, which turns the file sender gave the file. That file will probably be a binary from ASCH form to binary form. Ask your unix admin­ file. maybe an executable file, a word processor file, or istrator about UUEncode and UUDecode on the unix a spreadsheet. side of things. When attached files go OUT of the WPO\SMTP gate­ Emailing Word Processor Files way (regardless of whether the smtp gateway is on the Novell LAN or the Banyan LAN) they are automatical­ The following is mostly informational - but it's also a ly UUENCODED by the smtp gateway. When messages demonstration of the kind of answers you can get by come IN that contain uuencoded files, they are automat~ sending mail to icaJly UUDECODED by the smtp gateway. consult Say you're on a LAN that has WPO and you want to and It's also something of an introduction of Chuck send a file to a unix guy (or gal). So, you would attach Taylor, who administers the Novell network, among his the file to the message, and put the right address in the other duties. Starting with the original question: to: box (be careful on that last part), fsee an update To consult article on this point elsewhere in this Bulletin) and hit Subject wp Error message the send button. The message goes throught the WPO

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system and to the WPO\SMTP gateway. The gateway sees it and says "hey, there's a binary file in this mes­ sage", UUENCODES it, slaps it at the bottom of the Mail to Site: No Address message, and sends it to the address you gave it. The It may be necessary to send mail to a site without Unix gal (or guy) then gets the message, whines cause knowing any valid network addresses at that site. You his [Unix) mail doesn't have that nifty auto-uuencode­ may be trying to report problems with mail systems, or uudecode function [but Sun mailtool (and other Unix asking about a mail address that previously worked but workstation GUI mail handlers) does auto-convert), now causes errors. What are your options? saves the uuencoded part as a separate file, and then First, do a little detective work locally. Use the directo­ uudecodes the file using a unix command. That's if the ry searching tools that are available on the public unix person doesn't have a mailer that does it for him. workstations: phone and pubdir are the local NPS Now that was easy; what about the other way around? "white pages"; whois and nslookup search global data­ Okay, if you are a unix dude {or dude-ette) and you bases for registered individuals and hosts. You can want to send a binary file [like a WordPerfect file] to often locate an individual's address by searching the someone on a wpo system (Banyan or Novell), you directory entries, and can usually lmd the site and a save the file, uuencode it, attach it to a mail message point of contact for that site in the same way. and send it to the correct address. The message will go Once you have a valid site address, you can send an through the smtp gateway which says to itself "hey, inquiry to a single, reserved userid which is required by there's a uuencoded file in here." It then UUDECODEs RFC 822 to be valid at each site. This userid is "post­ that portion of the message, and then attaches the file to master". Mail sent to "[email protected]" will be a WPO mail message. When the WPO Senorita (or routed to a person responsible for the site's mail system Senor) receives the message, it will appear in the "at­ or to a person with responsibility for general site opera­ tachments" box, and they will be able to save the file to tion. The posbnaster address is required to be valid at disk. every Internet and BITNET site. Simple, isn't it? The primary duty of the postmaster is to respond in a timely manner to problems with the mail system. Ac­ All of this happens due to the hard work your cording to the policy of the individual site, the postmas­ sys-admins perform. ter may also respond to general requests for directory Charles Taylor CTaylor@nps. navy.mil information. Not every postmaster has time to respond to address questions. ftp to NPS Network misuse should always be reported to the post­ ''I'll send you the file. Where shall I ftp it to?" Have master. Problems with mail delivery or site availability you heard this? For the purpose of this example, as­ should always be sent, but frivolous requests for infor­ sume your name is Jones. Tell your correspondent (call mation which could have been fielded locally or by him/her Lee) to do the following: contacting the person directly should not be sent to the postmaster. Do your part before asking the postmaster flp to ftp.nps.navy.mil for assistance. login as anonymous, Lee's userid as password. Keep in mind that you can always write or call an put the file in pub/incoming individual personally to ask for a valid network address. send mail to [email protected] giving the name of Not every contact has to be electronic! the file(s) and saying to put it in your home direc­ tOI')' (jones). Once you reach the person, tell them your network address. Ask for mail to be sent to you, so that you If Lee sends the file and tells you it's been sent, you have specific header information in the incoming mail can send the message to notify to move the file to your that shows their valid network address. You can reply directory. to their mail, or start new mail using the valid address. Caroline Miller [email protected]

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something that seems unusual, please contact your System Administrator in person immediately to validate "Please use this password.. .'' a request. System Administrators have super user privi­ The NPS is not immune from constant attempts to leges and never need your password to accomplish the penetrate its computer systems. The following is an tasks they need to perform. example of a recent attempt (albeit rather crude) to Neil Harvey [email protected] breech the security of one of the School's systems, as reported to us by Jeff Franklin, the NPS ADP Security Officer. The perpetrator provided a technique for a Email All Over NPS naive user to easily comply with the penetration re­ Here's the latest chapter in the saga of wposmtp and quest. mntry. To bring you up to date: in our Internet Bµlletin, Fortunately, the user involved (a student) was suspi­ we printed a table showing how to send mail to/from cious, and notified the appropriate administrator. We any NPS computer that can reach the campus backbone. are publishing the procedure used to promote awareness That has become one step easier. You can now send that such attempts are a continuing threat and everyone mail to any Banyan address without the mntry prefix. must be on the alert for them. An updated table appears at the bottom of this page; a bigger version appears on page 13. D•ar , [note: the perpetrator u•ed a valid u•er name) Due to some •ecurity And now the exciting news: we will soon be announc­ problem. found on Nps I mu•t tak• an acceaa to ing a system that will allow you to send mail to anyone your fil•• without uaing auperuaer account. Therefore, pl•&•• change your paa•word to at NPS (from NPS or anywhere else in the world) in the "6870-379" for a one week p•riod from 28.11.94. form [email protected], and it will figure out It is important that pa•sword security be main­ tained at a high level for the sake of ALL the where that person is. You can also look up that person's people who uae th••• computera. Thank you for email address if his/her name is so long you don't want your co-operation in thia matter. [etc.] to type it every time. Also, if you send mail to Syatam Administrator j [email protected] vy .mil, it sends you back a note listing the various jones's, for you to select the most likely one. The NPS user replied to the above message with the following: "I'll consider changing my password after (If you've been using computers as long as I have, you you tell me your full name, telephone number, office won't believe it until you see it - but it sounds filW, you work in, and name and telephone number of your doesn't it?) supervisor". Larry Frazier [email protected] We extend our congratulations and thanks for a job well done by this user to fend off this innocent looking request from a fictitious System Administrator. This penetration denial protected the targeted user and every other user, on the network, from a compromise and VisLab News possible loss of data. HTML Document Preparation If you ever have any doubt of the authenticity of an e-mail request or a telephone call requesting you to do A short script called "tkhtml" has been written (for

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9 Naval Postgraduate School January 3, 1995 vislab machines) which invokes a nice graphical inter­ alias x2tek 'xwd >f /tmp/$$.xwd; face for HTML (HyperText Markup Language) docu­ im2tek /tmp/$$.xwd; /bin/rm /tmp/$$ . xwd' ment preparation. (HTML is the language used to create Just add this to your -/.alias and do a 'source -/.alias'. World Wide Web documents.) tkHTML is the program Then use 'x2tek' and click on the window you want that is being invoked (you may recall that Tkfrcl is the printed. (Be sure that the window you are printing is inter-platform graphical interface of choice these days.) fully visible.) After typing FYI, this is how I printed my Web home page which is tkhtml on my door (102A). at the prompt, the user will see a small box which gives credit to the author. Then the actual tkHTML interface Network Common Data Format will appear with its menu headings of "File", "Edit", "Anchors", etc. One can use these pull-down menus to The Network Common Data Format (NetCDF) may be quickly and easily attach images, attach other HTML used to archive data (such as that produced by numeri­ documents, form headers, etc. cal model runs) in a format that can be efficiently read on a number of different machines. A good description of the HTML format, what it is capable of, and how to use it is provided at the The visualization package FERRET (among a growing xmosaic(l) URL: [the following is to be entered all on list of others) reads NetCDF files directly. This should one line, without any spaces) speed the adoption of NetCDF as a more widely used http://www.utirc.utoronto.ca/HTMLdoca/ standard. A printed manual for NetCDF (version 2.0) NewHTML/htmlindex.html. resides in the VisLab. Questions? Ask To compile a Fortran program on alioth [in the VisLabJ Matthew Koebbe [email protected] that uses NetCDF calls you must link to the 'netcdf' and 'sun' libraries, e.g.: Postscript Converter on SGls f77 -o tcdf tcdf.f -ln•tcdf -l•un To compile on the Cray (sirius) you need to also in­ Most word processors accept encapsulated postscript clude the paths to the local include and lib directories, files for inclusion into a document (as graphics). e.g.: [this command is to be issued all on one line (with cps2epsi( 1) is a command that seems to work pretty a space after include)] well for converting standard postscript (ps) to encapsu­ cf77 -I/uar/local/include lated postscript (eps). You would use it like this: -L/uar/local/lib tcdf.f -o tcdf -lnetcdf epa2epsi file.pa > file.epa These little tidbits arc not provided in the paper docu­ mentation. So. if you've created a bunch of .ps files from hours Mike McCann [email protected] worth of matlab sessions and you need to get them into WordPerfect, don't fret. Just convert them to .cps files and you can then insert them. Color Scanner Please note that eps2epsi(l) works on the SGI machines There is now available in the VisLab, In-148, an HP in the VisLab (e.g. alioth.cc). Scanjet scanner. It can scan 16 million colors, 300 dpi (and higher, if you have any use for it) resolution, gray ColorPrint Workstation Windows scale, and text. It produces a number of graphics for­ mats directly, and comes with software to convert to Mike McCann writes: I just created this alias that I other formats as well. PostScript, tif, gif, and others are thought you may like to use as well to make color available. With the current interest in producing your prints of workstation windows: [the following must be own home page, we anticipate that this scanner will cntcn!d all on one line! (with one space after the first find considerable use - many feel that a home page part)! looks a little primitive without color graphics. As a text scanner. it will produce fully formatted Word-

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Perfect, Word, AmiPro, and database format files. We ' anticipate that this will be useful for theses, when you want to incorporate material that needs to be revised or Computer Services Wkstn. Notes re-formatted. Also, it gives one last resort when your (1) The names of the public workstations will be chang­ computer eats your last backup, but you have a recent ing soon. The new names will be simpler~ for example: printout. inpubl refers to public workstation #1 in Ingersoll Hall At this writing, the scanner is connected to a 486 PC, (rather than in50201). More detailed information will but we plan to give it a direct connection to a Mac be given in ccmsgs when the change is made. Aliases Quadra, and to an SGI workstation. will be kept for the old names, in case people have them hardcoded into login scripts, etc. See Larry Frazier, In-113, with questions. (2) When you login to your Unix account from home, please use one of the public workstations (such as inpubl, inpub2, ... , inpubl 7) rather than the servers (nps, sagan, kepler and galaxy). We need to keep the Workstation News servers dedicated for important network services and system management. Screen Lock: Public Workstations (3) Due to ongoing shortages of disk space on the Unix servers, we will soon be setting up disk quotas. The You should never leave a workstation without first quota limits haven•t been decided yet; there will be logging off. The potential for harm far outweighs the flexibility for users who request extra space for thesis convenience of walking away and leaving your process­ projects, etc. When you exceed your quota, you will be es running unattended "just for a minute". given at least a 7 day grace period to reduce your disk Systems Administrators will log off any user who usage. Watch for announcements in the login banner and ccmsgs. leaves a workstation unattended. Any jobs running on Joe Blau [email protected] the logged-out userid will be lost. Users who lock the screen on a public workstation for more than ten min­ utes. without explicit permission to do so, will also be Matlab 4.2 Installed logged off. For permission, send mail to consult. Do Matlab 4.2 is now available on all Computer Services your part to be a courteous, responsible user of NPS Unix workstations; it's what you get now when you computing resources. enter the mat/ab command. Remember: Never turn off or reboot a public workstation. Maple FAQs Never leave a logged-on workstation unattended. Don't lock the screen on a public workstation for more The following is from a mail group for administrators than ten minutes. ofMaple site licenses. Read through their entire post­ Be sure to submit background jobs with "nice". ing; if it still isn't clear, you may address questions to [email protected]. Rlogin to the special workstations, workl - work4, for long-running, CPU-intensive jobs. Maple tells us: Delete unneeded large files from your directories to Many of you asked where you could receive past f rec space on servers. postings of the FAQ [frequently-asked questions (here, {There may be a very few graphics-oriented jobs that about Maple software)). We have put them on our Info can not be run in the background; send mail to consult Server for you to reference, in the directory /pub/maple/support/faq.short. Following is information for help. Also ask consult for info on how to run on how to get onto our info server, and some related Matlab in the background.) information. Thanks for all those who responded, and because of the overwhelming response there will be

11 Naval Postgraduate School January 3, 1995 many more postings to come ...... You can get to old FAQs from our Info Server through anonymous ftp which is ftp maplesoft.on.ca in the /pub/maple/support/faq.short directory. Amdahl News The Maple/Prescience Info Server Available by anonymous ftp from ftp.maplesoft.on.ca is Anonymous FfP on the Amdahl our Maple/Prescience Information Server: The public VM userid ANONYMOU (password = The Maple/Prescience Info Server is an ftp site contain­ GUEST) has a 191 minidisk (the size is about 300 ing the Maple Share Library, Maple demos, general Megabytes) that may be used to FTP files from other information about Maple, Theorist, and Expressionist, systems. and Maple support information. Once you've FTP'ed a file to the public ANONYMOU Some of the things you can find in the Maple Info disk, you can link to the ANONYMOU disk and move Server: the file to your private disk space. -Maple V Release 3 demos for Windows and UNIX An exec called LINKANON is available on the VM -Sample Engineering Worksheets system that gives the current status of the -Answers to common support questions ANONYMOU disk and facilitates linking to the disk. -Maple availability lists For information on the use of the LINKANON exec, -list of Maple books and manuals type -Information regarding the Theorist Discussion List linkanon ? -A Binhcxed demo of Expressionist Rich Donat [email protected] -A FAQ list for Maple and much more! Information is updated regularly. If you have any questions about the Maple Info Server, SUDAAN Statistical Software please contact Waterloo Maple Software Technical The Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) in Support at [email protected] . Monterey has renewed the lease for SUDAAN (calcu­ To contact the Info Server: lates variance estimates from complex survey designs) Use ftp at your site to contact ftp.maplesoft.on.ca. Once for the coming year. The product will be available the connection is established, enter your user name as under MYS, the batch processing system, on the anonymous, and use your internet mail address as the AMDAHL mainframe, until October 31, 1995 under password. this arrangement. After you have successfully logged onto the remote A user manual is kept in the Consulting Office in computer, you can use the commands ts and cd to list Ingersoll Hall in (In-146). Sec VM on-line news stories and change directories, respectively. For Maple infor­ 791 and 726 for additional information on executing mation. look in the directory pub/maple. For Theorist SUDAAN. To invoke News: after logging on to the information, look in the directory pub/theorist. For mainframe, type: Expressionist information, look in the directory newa pub/exprsnst. Please contact Neil Harvey at x2088 with any ques- The 'get filename' command of ftp causes the specified tions. file to be copied to your computer. The 'quit' command Neil Harvey [email protected] closes the remote connection and concludes the ftp session. Note: to transfer binary files from the Share Library. make sure that you set the file type to binary (\\1th the 'binary' command). Larry Frazier [email protected]

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.) fVi11ter usual file transfer capability. The talk discusses hook-up Q11arter Talks procedures, common problems encountered and their sol­ The Computer Center staff will give twenty-eight talks utions. Version 6.1 of SI:\fPC and version 3.13 of Kermit during the Winter Quarter to acquaint users with the vari­ will be distributed on 3 'Ii inch disks. ous facilities and services on the V:\it/CMS timesharing and MVS batch systems available on the A:\IDAHL APL2/AGSS on Microcomputers and the mainframe, the Cray YMP EL, the Unix Sun workstations, Mainframe the Visualization Lab, and the Learning Resource Centers 1510Thursday 12 January Prof. P.A.W. Lewis Gl-203 (campus microcomputer labs). In addition, Prof. P.A.W. Lewis (OR Dept.) will present two introductory talks APL2 is a modem APL language and AGSS is a scientific about interactive statistical/graphical services using APL. and statistical graphics package written in APL2. The combination of this interactive, array oriented language and General-Interest l\'lainframe Talks the extensive suite of functions and graphics available in AGSS (A Graphical Statistical System) makes for one of the most effective computing envirorunents currently Signup is not required for some talks (talks given in available. nus talk will discuss the use of the package for ln-122, Gl-102, or G/-109). topics like regression, time series analysis and reliability data analysis in the microcomputer and mainframe envi· Introduction to VM/CMS/XEDIT rorunents. 1510 Wednesday11 January Dennis Mar ln-122 \VordPerfect Thesis 1310 Tuesday 17 January Dennis Mar ln-119 1310 Wednesday18 January Larry Frazier Gl-109 This talk assumes no prior knowledge of the Center's 1010 Wednesday 25 January Larry Frazier Ro-222 mainframe computer, and covers use of the 3278 keyboard, 0910 Thursday 2 February Larry Frazier GL-109 how to logon and logoff, use of the function keys, online help files, and various general-purpose commands. It is This talk will be given three times; it shows how to produce strongly recommended for all new users of the mainframe a thesis in !'\PS-approved format using ~PS Styles. The and covers information which may not be provided in an in· Style Sheets were developed at NPS to simplify the specific troductory programming class. formatting requirements for theses. The talk in Ro-222 is hands-on, and introduces the production of a thesis on Sun Unix workstations. The other talks are DOS oriented. The talks described below will be given in the rooms Printed documentation in the form of a sample thesis will indicated on each line. Those interested in attending be provided, and you'll be told how to get a copy of the must sign up in the Consulting Office, In-146 (except software, which can be used with WordPerfect 5.1, 5.2 and that the Unix Concepts course does not require 6.0 (DOS) in labs and at home. Those attending this talk signup). must be familiar with WordPerfect. The talk is open to anyone preparing a thesis at NPS, including spouses. l\licrocomputer Talks Unix/Workstation Talks Introduction to Kermit and SIMPC Unix Concepts 1510 Monday 9 January Chris Essert ln-119 1410 Thursday 12 January Chris Essert ln-119 Part1 1410 Wednesday18 January Chris Essert ln-119 1610 Monday 9 January Matthew Koebbe ln-119 Part2 This talk is presented twice. It explains how to install and 1610 Wednesday11 January Matthew Koebbe ln·119 use Sl:\tPC on your home computer so you can use full­ Part3 scm:n facilities (like Xedit and filcl) and transfer files be­ 1610 Thursday 12 January Matthew Koebbe ln-119 tween your home PC and the Computer Center's Amdahl mainframe computer running VM/XA/CMS and nus talk is presented in three 1 hr. sessions (part 1, 2, and '.\IVS, ESA. This talk also illustrates how to connect your 3) to acquaint users with the new Unix workstations and home PC to the Computer Center's Unix workstations by the Unix. operating system. Signup is not required for this using :\tS-DOS Kermit, which allows graphics to be dis­ talk, but seating is limited to approximately 30 in ln-119. played on your home PC from such popular Unix software The talk assumes little or no familiarity with Unix; it pad.a~"Cs as '.\fatLah and S-Plus, besides pro\·iJing the doesn't teach you how to \·icw a ftJe or create a directory

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(see following hands-on talk). This talk is open to faculty, Frazier, In-113, x267 l, to have this talk given for other I. students, NPS staff, staff of tenant activities, and spouses. groups. The hierarchical structure of the Unix operating system will be discussed to show how commands may be derived from Cray YMP EL User Workshop more 'basic' commands rather than from memorization. 1310 Friday 20 January Mike Mccann Ro-222 Emphasis is on the t;nix perspective to file system struc­ ture, disk usage, communication, and information retrieval. This talk introduces users to the hardware and software Part 3 will focus on security concerns in the Unix and available on the Cray Y-MP EL98. It is a hands-on class internet environments that are currently affecting comput­ where attendees will run programs on the Cray via inter­ ing and resources at XPS. Sessions may be attended more active logins from the graphics workstations in the Lab. than once. Topics to be covered include: (1) Setting up a script to ac­ cess data, compile & run a program, and store the resulting Unix Hands-On I data. (2) Use of the ~etwork Queuing System (~QS) to 1010 Tuesday 10 January Larry Frazier Ro-222 submit batch jobs and conunands to monitor job progress. 1110 Tuesday 17 January Larry Frazier Ro-222 (3) Optimization of code, especially the vectorization of inner loops. (4) Using performance analysis tools to iden­ :\lost t.:nix systems at NPS provide graphical user inter· tify inefficient code. Attendees should be familiar with Unix, faces that make it easier to get your work done. However, vi, Fortran, and X-window concepts. There are 15 terminals it can be helpful to have a general understanding of l.Jnix for the first 15 who sign up. Others will be allowed to itself, and there are times when you may need to create, watch. If you do not already have an account on the Cray copy, and delete files, create directories, etc., without the then contact Ruth Roy at ext. 2796 or at benefit of the graphical front end. This talk introduces [email protected] such elementary topics, and might be all the t.:nix needed to get started on a Unix workstation. The Unix Concepts Introduction to the Vis Lab talk is more theory; this one is more command and proce­ 0910 Friday 13 January Mike Mccann ln-148 dure oriented. There are approximately 15 workstations available. Those signing up first will have priority at the This is a two hour introduction to the hardware and soft­ hands-on practice. Others will be able to watch and learn. ware available in the Vis Lab (ln-148). The first hour will Contact Lany Frazier, In-113, x2671, to have this talk be an overview of the image processing and visualization given for other groups. packages in the lab, particularly Vis5d (which allows inter­ active display of multi-dimensional gridded data), including Introduction to the Unix Editor vi how to get your data into VisSd format. The use of com· 1610 Thursday 26 January Chris Essert Ro-222 puter generated screen graphics to still hard copy or ani­ mated images, plus color presentation mediums of hard L'nix systems at ~PS usually provide text editors that make copy, transparency, or video tape will be covered. The it easier to get programs or data entered into the computer. presentation will assume a working knowledge of Unix The basic text editor that all Unix systems have is called (other Unix talks are announced above). The second hour 'vi,' a full-screen interactive editor. This talk introduces the will be devoted to hands-on use of the tools, including the most common vi commands that allow one to create new video recording hardware. Space is limited. text, re\·ise existing text, or append text to an existing file. There arc a limited number of workstations available. Introduction to Shell Scripts 1bosc signing up first will have priority at the hands-on 1410 Tuesday 24 January Mike Mccann Ro-222 practice. Others will be able to watch and learn. Contact Chris Essert, In· 133, x2672, to have this talk given for other As users, much of our interaction with the Unix operating groups. system is via a special progr.un called the shell. The shell interprets commands that we enter at a prompt and takes Unix: Hands-On 2 appropriate action. The shell understands several pro­ 1010 Thursday 12 January Larry Frazier Ro-222 gramming constructs such as loops and conditional tests. 1110 Thursday 19 January Larry Frazier Ro-222 It is often more efficient to undertake a short programming task with a shell script that uses existing and well tested This is lesson 2, building on the I lands-on 1 talk; it covers t.:nix commands than to write a progr.un in a language L:nix mail and other intermediate-level Unix conunands. such as C or Fortran. "lbere are approximately 15 workstations available. Those l>igning up first will ha\'c priority at the hands-on prclctice. This talk CO\'crs the two shells in general use: the C Shell Othc:~ will be able: to watch and learn. Contact l.3n)· {;'bin 1csh) (the default intcrJcti\'c: shell for most users on

14 Naval Postgraduate School 3 January 1995 most Unix systems) and the Bourne Shell (/bin/sh) (com­ is designed for moderate-size data sets which can be stored monly used for complex programming tasks). on the hard disk. Minitab is quick and especially useful for exploring data, plotting, and regression analysis. Unix Open Houses and Internet Talks APL2/AGSS on the Mainframe Introduction to the Internet 1510 Thursday 19 January Prof. P.A.W. Lewis Gl-203 0910 Tuesday 10 January Helen Davis ln-122 1310 Tuesday 24 January Helen Davis Gl-109 APL2 is a modem APL language; AGSS is a scientific and statistical graphics package written in APL2. The combi­ This talk describes how to access and use the Internet. nation of this interactive, array oriented language and the Demonstrations will include how to transfer files from re­ extensive suite of functions and graphics available in AGSS mote locations with FTP (File Transfer Protocol), how to (A Graphical Statistical System) makes for one of the most look at information at remote locations with TEL~ET, effective computing environments currently available. This and how to locate information on the internet with Archie talk will discuss the use of the package for topics like re­ and Gopher. gression, time series analysis and reliability data analysis in the mainframe computing emirorunent. On the mainframe, Internet \Vorkshop/Tools very large workspaces are available -- up to 999 megabytes. 1010 Friday 20 January Center Staff ln-141 Introduction to SAS will The first workshop consist of a set of independent ex­ 1110Tuesday 10 January Dennis Mar ln-119 ercises on how to use the Internet. Center staff will be available to assist with any questions or problems thst may SAS, the Statistical Analysis System, is a flexible program arise. The exercise topic areas will include: how to transfer for handling all phases of data analysis: retrieval, data files from remote locations with FTP (File Transfer Pro­ management, statistical analysis, and report writing. It has tocol); how to look at information at remote locations with excellent features for merging and subsetting data sets. The TEL:'\ET; and how to locate information on the internet speaker will describe the required data format and SAS with Archie and Gopher. The second workshop will pres­ control statements for a simple problem. SAS will '"ill be ent tools that are useful on the internet such as download­ demonstrated in batch mainframe, timesharing mainframe, ing files to a floopy disk with mcopy, how to recognize and and batch Unix. decompress TAR files and others, how to send e-mail with mailtool including attached files, and local printing. Introduction to S-Plus 1110 Thursday 26 January Dennis Mar Gl-203 Statistics S-Plus is a statistical programming language of great gen­ Introduction to Minitab erality offering over l ,400 built-in functions. In addition, 1310 Thursday 19 January Dennis Mar Gl-203 users may write their own specialized functions. This talk will introduce data input, data structures, functions, ~finitab is an interactive statistical computing system graphics screens, interactive help, and printing. available on VM/CMS and under DOS in the LRCs. It Neil f/an:q

IS From! To~ Banyan Novell Unix Mainframe Banyan Rlee Alee inet:" [email protected]" inet:" [email protected]" Novell Rlee Alee wposmtp:" [email protected]" wposmtp:"1234P@vm1 .cc.nps.navy.mil. Unix Alee [email protected] relee [email protected] Mainframe Alee [email protected]. navy .mil [email protected] 1234P ln-148 Shinko CHC-743MV Color Printer ' Computer Help Jn-364 IBM 3268 Impact (APL) Computer questions (Unix, PC, Mainframe, Sp-311 IBM 3203 Impact (1000 lpm) Cray)? Send email to [email protected] Ro-222 Ha-2018 IBM 3262 Impact (650 lpm) or call ext 3429 or visit Consulting (Help Manager. Visualization Lab In-148 Desk): ln-146, Mon-Fri 0900-1130 1315-1545 Mike Mccann In-102B 2752 Status recording: 656-2713 Matt Koebbe In-102A phaedrus 3778 7 Silicon Graphics: 1 380 VGX. I Onyx, 3 40 TG. 1 Dial-up: 656-2709; up to 9600 bps lndigo2Extremc, 1 Indy; 1 ca.: Abckas frame recorder, Mac TAC Access: 647-8422 Quadra 700, HP 730. DECstation 5000, Sun SPARC 10/41 Computer Center POC Manager. Leaming Resource Centers NOTE: Email addresses in this section are Kathryn Strutynski GL-375 kstrutynski 2696 simply the last name @nps.navy.mil, unless LRC's: Open: M-F 830·1630 shown otherwise in italics. GL-128 20 Mac Qundra 700 6 PC 486/DX 50 GL-203 33 PC 486/DX 33 Manager, Systems Support GL-318 19 HP 730 1 PC 486/DX 33 David F. Norman dfnonnan ln-118 2641 In-151 11 PC 386 (25/33) 1 HP LaserJet Illsi Manager, User Services (acting) In-371 6 PC 486/DX 33 4 PC 386/25 Ro-262 15 PC 386/20 2 Z-248 (286) Dennis Mar ln-133 2672 AIX: Jim Hart jahart ln-106 3661 Knox Library Editor, Bulletin Larry Frazier ln-113 2671 Director: Maxine Reneker, Kn-261 2341 MReneker (this is a Novell/Banyan address) User Registration Irma Bozardt ln-147 2731 Library Catalog (BOSUN) ADPSSO (Security) Neil Harvey ln-108 2088 Available via dialup, and via gopher from most Administrative Assistant networked computers. and from VM/CMS. Mandy Drury (no email) ln-130 2574 Mon.-Thu. 0700-2300 Shift Supervisor, Operations ln-140 2721 Fri., Sat. 0700-1800 Manager, Operations: Roy Romo In-132 2004 Sunday 0700-2200 Unix Systems Administration Administrative LAN Group POC Hiram Cooke, Joe Blau In-116 3662 Admin LAN System Status 1051 Unix Workstations Mgr: Joe LoPiccolo 2994 (First three rooms have HP LaserJet III printer.) Location and Codes 00, 01, 02, 03, 07 & Curries quantity or Sun SPARC 10/4 1 workstations: ln-141. 17: Ro - Lonna Sherwin 1065 222. 15: Sp·31 I. 8: Ha-201C. 4 . Codes 04, 06, 08, 51 Renee Lightcap 1066 Mainframes Code 003. 42, 47 Chris Abila 2195 We operate (I) An Amdahl 5995-700A (384 MB processor ME, AC, AD, PH. EC, SM, OC, OR, stor.ige. 1 GB expanded storage). Interactive computing is MR, AA, SP. 52 Mohamed Abuaita 1064 provided under VM/XA CMS, batch processing under MVS/ESA with JES3 networking. (2) A Cray Y-MP/EL 98 (8 Macintosh: Andy Melton 2795 cpus. 2 GB memory, Unicos). General Points of Contact Hours of Operation: VM/CMS. MVS: 24 hrs/day. 7 days/wk Status recording: 656-2713: Dialup: 656-2709 (lo 9600 bps} ADP Security, Jeff Franklin, He-E208 2469 Mu111/rame Terminals Computer Advisory Board (CAB) Co-chairs: ln · l.JI 3 3192-2 Graphics/APL Ted Lewis 2449 ln -1h..tE 14 1192 Graphics/APL Jim Emery 3614 B1Ji!22;\ 11 3178-2 (I APLl ,., a1nfrfllt1,. rrrntt'rs Computer Users Council (CUC} In 1.i1t IHM JK00.1 Lus1:r C21!i ppml R. Schwanz. Presillen1 ~177 IHM 12h2 lmra..:t (fl~O lrmJ Dennis Mar. Secretary '2.672 Jn. 1.a 1 Tei. 4t.9 3 I> Color Pnn1ern•1nuer NPS Computer Club •"' Club President: Andy Melton 373-0695 [email protected] Vice President: Frank E. Kelbe 656-2353 [email protected] Secretary: Kem D. Lunde 647-1428 [email protected] Treasurer: David McDermitt 646-5376 [email protected] .mil Membership Chairman: Fred Lentz 373-3514 [email protected] BBS Sysop: Mike Holden 899-2523 [email protected] Newsletter Editor: Andy Melton 373-0695 [email protected] Windows Clair: Nick Hodges 626-6968 [email protected] OS/2 Olairman: Steve Decato 899-9625 [email protected] Mac Clair: Dan Starling 375-9368 [email protected] Storekeeper: Bill Swain 372-0951 [email protected] BBS: Ooset Gouge I & Il: 1200, 2400, 9600, 14400 bps; 8-N-1; 655-8785 or 655-8787

l>i!itribution: List 3. plus: 20-83. 250-84. HX>-85. 2-86, 815. Copy to: 12-PERSEREC. 10-NTCC. 9-DMDC. 1-NAVSECGRUDET. 1-NOARL. lll-OC. 5-FNOC Computer.