February ! 990 The Australian UNIX* systems User Group Newsletter Volume 11 Number 1 February 1990 CONTENTS AUUG General Information ..................... 4 Editorial ........................... 5 Secretary’s Letter ......................... 7 AUUG Inc 1990 Annual Elections -- Nomination Form ............. 8 Western Australian UNIX systems Group Information ............. 9 SESSPOOLE Information ...................... 10 AUUG Book Club Reviews ...................... 11 AUUG Book Club Order Form .................... 18 X Technical Bibliography ...................... 19 Commonly Asked X Questions ..................... 25 AUUG Institutional Members ..................... 42 From the EUUG Newsletter - Volume 9 Number 4 .............. 44 Editorial ......................... 45 How To Protect Your Software .................. 46 The EUUG Conference Mailing System ................ 54 UNIX in Czechoslovakia .................... 57 EUUG Munich Conference, Spring 1990 ................ 60 USING -- UNIX Systems Information Networking Group .......... 64 EUUG Executive Report .................... 67 Report From ICEUUG ..................... 69 News From The Netherlands ................... 71 UKUUG Report ....................... 74 USENIX Association News For EUUG Members ............. 76 USENIX Winter Conference ................... 78 EUnet Growing Up In Spain ................... 81 EUUG Software Distribution ................... 88 ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22AVG15 (POSIX) Meeting October, 1989 ......... 92 The OPEN LOOKTM Graphical User Interface .............. 98 AUUGN 1 Vol 11 No 1 A Directory Of Electronic Mail... -- Book Review ............ 107 Calendar Of UNIX Events .................... 108 Puzzle Corner ......................... 111 EUUG Autumn Conference Abstracts ................. 113 Managment Committee Meeting -- 27th October 1989 ............. 120 AUUG Newsletter Back Issues ..................... 125 AUUG Membership Catorgories .................... 126 AUUG Forms .......................... 127 Copyright © 1990 AUUG Incorporated. All rights reserved. AUUGN is the journal of the Australian UNIX* systems User Group (AUUG Incorporated). 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 AT&T in the USA and other countries. Vol 11 No i 2 AUUGN UNIX PUTS STANDA 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. 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 gre [email protected] [email protected] Softway Pty. Ltd. Labtam Information Systems Pry. 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. Vol 11 No 1 4 AUUGN AUUG Newsletter Editorial Late again. I am trying not to make a habit of this. Oh Well. The Summer Technical meetings have come and gone, and by all accounts were a great success. Technical meetings were held in Perth, Hobart, Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney. The next issue of AUUGN will feature reports on these meetings and some of the papers that were presented. This issue sees the start of the AUUG Book Club, an arrangement with Prentice Hall that will get AUUG members a 20% discount on computing titles. I hope you will all take advantage of it. Also in this issue is information on the upcoming AUUG elections. I have enjoyed my year as Assistant Returning Officer, and will be running again. But, unfortunately, the same does not apply for a few members of the Management Committee. So we seek nominees for the election to be held in May. Don’t forget to send in your completed nomination forms by the 1st of May. Do your bit to break the Labtarn/Softway power block! AUUGN Correspondence All correspondence reguarding the AUUGN should be addressed to:- David Purdue AUUGN Editor Labtam Information Systems Pty. Ltd. 43 Malcolm Road Braeside Victoria 3195 AUSTRALIA ACSnet: [email protected] Phone: +61 3 587 1444 Fax: +61 3 580 5581 Contributions The Newsletter is published approximately every two months. The deadline for contributions for the next issue is Friday the 23rd of March 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, me, ms and even man macros, and have tbl, eqn and pic preprocessors, but please note on your submission which macros and preprocessors you are using. If you can’t use troff, then just plain text please. Hardcopy submissions should be on A4 with 30 mm left at the top and bottom so that the AUUGN footers can be pasted on to the page. Small page numbers printed in the footer area would help. Come on, everyone, contribute! If the muse is upon you, and you have to write, but you can’t think of anything to write about, give me a call and I’ll throw some ideas at you. Advertising Advertisements for the AUUG are welcome. They must be submitted on an A4 page. No partial page advertisements will be accepted. The current rate is AUD$ 200 dollars per inside page. More prominent positions are available but cost more. Contact the editor for details. Mailing Lists For the purchase of the AUUGN mailing list, please contact Tim Roper. AUUGN 5 Vol 11 No 1 Back Issues Various back issues of the AUUGN are available, details are printed at the end of this issue. Acknowledgement This Newsletter was produced with the kind assistance and equipment provided by Labtam Information Systems Pry Ltd. Disclaimer Opinions expressed by authors and reviewers are not necessarily those of AUUG Incorporated, its Newsletter or its editorial committee. Vol 11 No 1 6 AUUGN Secretary’s Letter Firstly I would like to record my pleasure at the 1990 summer meetings actually happening for the first time after a couple of false starts in previous years. Furthermore, they were not only highly successful but in all cases were made so by the efforts of neither present nor past committee members. My thanks, go to all those responsible. Increased involvement by members in the organisation of new events and activities is the key to AUUG increasing its range of services. Right now we could do with someone to distribute the latest USENIX conference proceedings and the 1990 UniForum UNIX products directory. Taking on relatively easy and self-contained tasks such as these is a good way of deciding whether or not you feel cut out for more involvement with AUUG, which leads me to ... Annual elections of office bearers are due in May. A nomination form is included in this issue for your convenience. Please give serious thought to whether you would like to offer your particular skills to AUUG. Do not assume that the status quo will be maintained because it very likely will not. Also, you may know a member who just needs your encouragement to stand. At the last meeting of the Management Committee it was suggested that AUUG explicitly expand its aims to include open systems~f other than UNIX, such as Mach, NFS and the X Window System. Of course such things are often the subject of conference presentations, perhaps due to their generally being of interest to the same community as is UNIX. The question posed here is whether AUUG should move formally to claim and defend that territory. Please give it some thought. Tim Roper <[email protected]> For want of a better term ... AUUGN 7 Vol 11 No 1 AUUG Inc 1990 Annual Elections - Nomination Form ..................................................................................................................................................... and "" ° ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯" ° ¯ ¯¯ ¯° ¯¯" ¯" ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯¯¯ "" ¯ ¯ ¯¯ ¯ ° ¯ ¯ ¯¯ ¯¯" ¯ ¯" ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯¯ ¯ ¯ ° ¯¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯¯ ¯ ¯ ¯¯¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯¯ ¯ ¯ ¯" ¯ ¯ ¯°¯ ¯¯ ¯ ¯ ¯ ¯¯