Volume 14, Number 5 October 1993
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Newsletter Volume 14, Number 5 October 1993 Registered by Australia Post, Publication Number NBG6524 The AUUG Incorporated Newsletter Volume 14 Number 5 October 1993 CONTENTS AUUG General Information .................... 3 Editorial ............................ 5 AUUG Institutional Members ...................... 6 AUUG President’s Page ....................... 10 Overview of AU-UG’93 Adrian Booth ...... 12 Pictures from AUUG’93 ....................... 14 AUUG Faces 1993 Michael Paddon ..... 17 AUUG Local Chapters AUUG Inc. - Canberra Chapter ................... 26 AUUG Inc. - NSW Chapter .................... 27 AUUG Inc. - Victorian Chapter ................... 28 Update on AUUG Inc. - Victorian Chapter Activities Stephen Prince ..... 29 WAUG and Perth News Janet Jackson ...... 30 AARNet General Manager’s Perth Visit Mike Schulze ...... 31 WAUG- September Meeting Review Glenn Huxtable ..... 33 Open System Publications ...................... 33 ACSnet Survey .......................... 34 Announcement and Call for Submissions, USENIX Summer 1994 Technical Conference . 37 Book Reviews AUUG Book Reviews ...................... 41 Linux Installation and Getting Started ................. 45 Prentice Hall Book Order Form ................... 46 WoodsLane Information ..................... 47 !AUUGN - from AUUGN Volume 1, Number 2 Letter from New Jersey John Lions ....... 48 Technical Reports Community Computing Richard Naylor ..... 52 MUDs - Serious Research Tool or Just Another Game Lawrie Brown ...... 56 What Ken and Dennis Did Right John Lions ....... 63 Network Backup and Archival Strategies Paul Templeman . ., . 66 AUUGN 1 Vol 14 No 5 From login: - Volume 18, Number 4 SAGE Humor .................. 77 Opinion on NT .................. 78 An Update on UNIX-Related Standards Activities ........ 79 Unix Tricks & Traps Bernd Felsche . 83 ddsplit Bernd Felsche . 84 Summary of Management Committee Minutes - 27th August 1993 ..... 86 Calendar of Events ................... 89 AUUG Membership Categories ................. ¯ , 90 AUUG Forms ...................... ¯ . 91 Advertisements C&T Computing ....................... 9 Softway .......................... 11 Prentice Hall Book Order Form ................... 46 WoodsLane Pty Ltd ...................... 47 Copyright © 1993 AUUG Incorporated. All fights reserved. AUUGN is the journal of AUUG Incorporated, an organisation with the aim of promoting knowledge and understanding of Open Systems including but not restricted to the UNIX* system, networking, graphics, user interfaces and programming and development environments, and related standards. Copying without fee is permitted provided that copies are made without modification, and are not made or distributed for commercial advantage. Credit to AUUGN and the author must be given. Abstracting with credit is permitted. No other reproduction is permitted without prior permission of AUUG Incorporated. * UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX System Laboratories, Incorporated Vol 14 No 5 2 AU-UGN AUUG General Information Memberships and Subscriptions Membership, Change of Address, and Subscription forms can be found at the end of this issue. Membership and General Correspondence All correspondence for the AUUG should be addressed to:- The AUUG Secretary, Phone: (02) 361 5994 P.O. Box 366, Fax: (02) 332 4O66 Kensington, N.S.W. 2033. Email: auug @munnari.oz.au AUSTRALIA AUUG Business Manager Liz Fraumann, Phone: +61 2 953 3542 P.O. Box 366, Fax: +61 2 953 3542 Kensington, N.S.W. 2033. Emzil: [email protected] AUSTRALIA AUUG Executive President Phil McCrea Vice-President Glenn Huxtable prac @ atora, ansto.gov.au glenn @ cs. uwa. edu. au ANSAMS University of Western Australia Private Mail Bag 1 Computer Science Department Menai NSW 2234 Nedlands WA 6009 Secretary Peter Wishart Treasul~r Frank Crawford peter, wishart @ csis.dit.csiro.au frank @ atom.ansto.gov.au CSIRO Div. of Information Technology ANSAMS GPO Box 664 Private Mail Bag 1 Canberra ACT 2601 Menai NSW 2234 Commitme Greg Birnle Stephen Boucher Members greg @ Ina.oz, au stephen @ mtiame.mt ia. oz.au Leeds & Northrup Australia P/L 42 McKechnie Dr. 509 St. Kilda Rd. Brisbane Tech. Park Melbourne VIC 3004 Eight Mile Plans QLD 4113 Chris Maltby Michael Paddon chris@ softway.sw.oz.au mwp@ iconix.oz.au Softway Pty. Ltd. Iconix Pty Ltd P.O. Box 305 851 Dandenong Rd S tmwben’y Hills NSW 2021 East Malvem VIC 3145 Chris Schoettle [email protected] USL PO Box 961 Crows Nest NSW 2065 AUUGN 3 Vol 14 No 5 AUUG General Information Next AUUG Meeting The AUUG’94 Conference and Exhibition will be held from the 7th to 9th September, 1994, at the World Congress Centre, Melbourne. Advertising Advertisements to be included in AUUGN are welcome. They should conform to the standards of other contributions (see page 5). Advertising rotes are $120 for a quarter page, $180 for half a page, $300 for the first A4 page, $250 for a second page, $500 for the inside cover and $750 for the back cover. There is a 20% discount for bulk ordering (ie, when you pay for three issues or more in advance). Contact the business manager for details. 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Vol 14 No 5 4 AUUGN AUUG Newsletter Editorial Welcome to AUUGN Volume 14 Number 5. Well AUUG93 is over, hope everyone that attended the conference enjoyed it and found it worthwhile. In this issue we have comments from both Phil McCrea and Adrian Booth on the conference. Adrian also has some happy snaps from the conference dinner, and Michael Paddon has printed the faces saved on the face saver stand (very useful for recognising some of those characters). As usual, there are notes on a number of local chapter activities, including some calls for participation in the summer conferences. I’ve also included the USENIX announcement and call for papers for their 1994 summer conference, and a note about the UniForum NZ’94 conference (see the footnote to the paper from UniForum NZ’93, page 52 in this issue). For the more technically oriented, there are a number of papers, some that were presented at various of this year’s summer conferences and one presented at UniForum NZ’93. Finally, we also have a reprint (from AUUGN Volume 1 Number 2) of John Lion’s second letter from Bell Labs, and a number of book reviews that Frank has arranged. Jagoda Crawford AUUGN Correspondence All correspondence regarding the AUUGN should be addressed to:- AUUGN Editor, Phone: +61 2 717 3885 P.O. Box 366, Fax: +61 2 717 9273 Kensington, N.S.W. 2033. Email: auugn @munnari.oz.au AUSTRALIA AUUGN Book Reviews The AUUGN book review editor is Frank Crawford. Anyone interested in reviewing books or with book reviews to submit for publishing in AUUGN please contact Frank. His address can be found on page two of this issue. Remember, that any books you review, you keep. Contributions The Newsletter is published approximately every two months. The deadline for contributions for the next issue of AUUGN is: Volume 14 No 6 Friday 26th November 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 ram, me, ms and even man macros, and have tbl, eqn, pic and grap preprocessors, but please note on your submission which macros and preprocessors you are using. If you can’t use troff, then just plain text or postscript please. Hardcopy submissions should be on A4 with 30 mm margins, and 30 mm left at the bottom so that the AUUGN footers can be pasted on to the page. Small page numbers printed in the footer area would help. AUUGN 5 Vol 14 No 5 AUUG Institutional Members as at 12/10/1993 A.N.U. Colonial Mutual AAII Com Net Solutions Aberfoyle Resource Limited Com Tech Communications Adept Software Commercial Dynamics Alcatel Australia Communica Software Consultants Amalgamated Television Services Composite Buyers Ltd. Amdahl Pacific Services Computechnics Pty. Ltd. Andersen Consulting Computer De Tokyo Corporation ANI Manufacturing Group Computer Law Corporation Animal Logic Research Pty. Ltd. Computer Sciences of Australia Pty. Ltd. ANSTO Computer Software Packages Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria Computer Systems (Australia) Pty. Ltd. Atlas Computer Systems Copper Refineries FRy. Ltd. Attorney-General’s Dept. Corinthian Engineering Pty. Ltd. AUSOM Inc. Corporate Systems Planning Auspex Systems Australia Corporate Workgroup Resources Australian Airlines Limited CSIRO Division of Information Technology Australian Archives CSIRO Division of Manufacturing Technology Australian Bureau of Statistics CSIRO, Division of Wool Technology Australian Computing & Communications Institute Curtin University