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Volu E 12, Nu Bet I Australian UN systems User Group News!etter Volu e 12, Nu bet i AUUG Inc. Newsletter AUUGN Volume 12 Number 1 CONTENTS AUUG General Information ................... 3 Editorial ......................... 4 AUUG Book Club Book Reviews .................. 6 AUUG Book Club Order Form .................. 11 (Ex) President’s Letter .................... 12 Beyond SCCS ........................ 14 Good Things Still Come In Small Packages .............. 21 USENIX News For AUUG Members ................ 23 From the ;login: Newsletter- Volume 15 Number 4 ............ 25 Monograph Series on Advanced Computing Systems ........25 Book Review: UNIX System Administration Handbook .......26 An Update on UNIX and C Standards Activity ..........27 From the EUUG Newsletter- Volume 10 Number 3 ............65 Plan 9 from Bell Labs .................. 65 Rc - A Shell for Plan 9 and UNIX Systems ............75 The SSBA at AFUU: A Progress Report ............ 86 USL Column ..................... 90 C++Column .................... ~ . 95 !%@:: A Directory to Electronic Mail Addressing and Networks Second Edition, 1990 ................ 97 Report on ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG15 (POSIX) ..........98 Puzzle Comer ..................... 105 Call Doc Strange .................... 107 Book Review: Unix for Users ............... 112 AUUGN 1 Vol 12 No 1 AUUGN Back Issues ................... ¯ . 113 AUUG Membership Categories ................ ¯ .114 AUUG Forms ...................... ¯ .115 Copyright © 1991 AUUG Incorporated. All rights 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 written consent of AUUG Incorporated. UNIX is a trademark of UNIX System Laboratories, Incorporated. Vol 12 No 1 2 AUUGN 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 Phone: (02) 361 5994 P.O. Box 366 Fax: (02) 332 4066 Kensington, N.S.W. 2033 AUSTRALIA General Correspondence All other correspondence for the AUUG should be addressed to:- The AUUG Secretary Phone: (02) 361 5994 P.O. Box 366 Fax: (02) 332 4066 Kensington, N.S.W. 2033 Email: [email protected] AUSTRALIA AUUG Executive President Pat Duffy Vice President Chris Maltby pzd3 0@j uts.c c c.amdahl.c o m [email protected] Amdahl Australia Pty Ltd Softway Pty Ltd New South Wales New South Wales Secretary Peter Barnes Treasurer Michael Tuke [email protected], uq.oz.au [email protected] Computer Science ANL Limited University of Queensland Victoria Committee Frank Crawford Andrew Gollan [email protected] [email protected] Q.H. Tours Pry Ltd Softway Pty Ltd New South Wales New South Wales Peter Karr Scott Merrilees [email protected] BHP Information Technology New South Wales New South Wales Stephen Prince [email protected] Chancery Lane Computer Services Pty Ltd Victoria Next AUUG Meeting The AUUG’91 Conference and Exhibition will be held from the 24th to the 27th of September, 1991, at Darling Harbour, Sydney. The AGM of AUUG Inc. will be held during the conference. The AUUG’92 Conference and Exhibition will be held from the 8th to the llth of September, 1992, at the World Congress Centre, Melbourne. AUUGN 3 Vol 12 No 1 Editorial This rather belated issue of AUUGN will be my last as Editor. Due to pressure of work I have been unable to devote as much time to the task of editing the newsletter as I would have liked. In addition, I am heading overseas soon, and so, regretfully, I am giving up the editorship. The new editor shall be Jacinta Crawford. She can be reached by through the same post office boc and e-mail address listed below. I have enjoyed my time as editor, and I hope that when I rettma from OS I will be able to contribute further to the running of AUUG Inc. AUUGN Correspondence All correspondence regarding the AUUGN should be addressed to:- David Purdue AUUGN Editor PO Box 366 Kensington, NSW, 2033 AUSTRALIA Email: [email protected] Phone: +61 3 353 3913 (w) +61 3 813 1258 (h) +61 3 353 2987 Contributions This Newsletter is published approximately every two months. Contributions should be sent to the Editor at the above address. I prefer documents to be e-mailed to me, or mailed to me on a floppy disk (IBM-PC 5-1/4 inch or 720K 3-1/2 inch; or Macintosh 3-1/2 inch), and in plain text format. 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. Advertising Advertisements for the AUUG are welcome. They must be submitted on an A4 page. No partial page advertisements will be accepted. Advertising rates are $300 for the first A4 page, $250 for a second page, and $750 for the back cover. There is a 20% discount for bulk ordering (i.e., when you pay for three issues or more in advance). Contact the editor for details. Mailing Lists For the purchase of the AUUG mailing list, please contact the AUUG secretariat, phone (02) 361 5994, fax (02) 332 4066. Back Issues Various back issues of the AUUGN are available, details are printed at the end of this issue. Acknowledgements This Newsletter was produced with the kind assistance of and on equipment provided by the Advanced Imaging Systems department of Kodak (Australasia) Pty Ltd. I would also like to thank Labtam Australia for providing me with a network connection. Vol 12 No 1 4 AUUGN Disclaimer Opinions expressed by authors and reviewers are not necessarily those of AUUG Incorporated, its Newsletter or its editorial committee. AUUGN 5 Vol 12 No 1 AUUG Book Club Book Reviews These books have been reviewed under the AUUG Book Club scheme. Review copies were kindly supplied by Prentice Hall Australia Pty Ltd. These books can be ordered from Prentice Hall using the order form that appears on page 11. Don’t forget - a 20% discount applies to AUUG members! UNIX FOR VMS USERS corresponding UNIX command is examined. The chapters end with a summary which usually consists of a by Philip E. Bourne detailed examination of the output of a set of commands. ISBN 0-13-947433-1 The entire text is interspersed with comparative tables. 368 pp, RRP $84.95, 1990 For example, the section on debugging presents, side by side, the output from invoking RUN on a VMS file Review by Vicki Jordan compiled with DEBUG and the output from dbx invoked LaTrobe University Computer Centre on the file compiled with f77 -g. "SET BREAK" is shown < [email protected]> against "stop", "SHOW BREAK" against "status", "EXAMINE" against "print"...etc. This book is not designed as an introduction to UNIX There are 4 appendices plus a glossary: for first time computer users, it is specifically targeted at Command Summaries: VMS Commands vs UNIX experienced VMS users who are beginning with UNIX. Equivalents. As such, its whole "tutorial" on UNIX is presented as a Editor Summaries: VMS EDT Line Mode vs UNIX comparison between VMS commands and their UNIX ex and vi. equivalent. A side benefit is that it also serves to expose the experienced UNIX user to VMS! Important UNIX files: ...and their purpose. There are 13 chapters: Additional Reading: ..categorised into beginners, intermediate and advanced user, System Administration, Introduction: UNIX for Micros, System V, BSD, plus references for Fundamentals: System internals, command structure individual chapters. This bibliography in itself is very and file naming, device, directory and file structure, useful. special characters, wildcards. Summary: Getting Started: Terminal characteristics, user I have no hesitation in recommending this book to environment, help, documentation, command line experienced, and perhaps even casual, VMS users who editing. are beginning with UNIX. It is well organised, very well File Management: Common file manipulation presented and excellently indexed. My only criticism is commands. its concentration on BSD and C shell, which is, I suppose, Editing: Inllo to vi, sed, ed, awk. to be expected since Ultrix is a Digital Equipment Corporation product. Communication: mail, talk, write. System Resources: who, ps, du, vmstat, netstat, kill, at, nice/renice. Devices, Queues, Background Processing: ]etc/ printcap, lpr, lpq, tar, dd, &, jobs. Advanced File Management: ls flags, more, C shell extensions, chmod, chgrp, cmp, diff, find, grep sort, tr, ln. Programming: Compiling and linking, make, dbx, prof, ar. Shell Programming: Text Processing: Processor-Processor Communication: rlogin, rsh, rcp, telnet, ftp, tip, uucp. Each chapter consists of an introductory section which attempts to place the topic into general correspondence with a reference to the nearest equivalent VMS command or set of commands. Then the Vol 12 No 1 6 AUUGN UNIX SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE UNIX DATABASE MANAGEMENT by Prabhat K. Andleigh SYSTEMS ISBN 0-13-949843-5 by Ulka Rodgers 274 pp, RRP $57.95, 1990 ISBN 0-13-945593-0 338 pp, RRP $39.95, 1990 Reviewed by Pauline Khoo Advanced Imaging Systems Reviewed by David Newton Kodak (Australasia) Pty Ltd Q.H.Tours <[email protected]> < dav e @ t e ti.q hto urs.o z.au > Andleigh’s book UNIX System Architecture presents a Almost without exception, modern business fairly comprehensive description of, as its title suggests,computing is irrevocably linked with the need to store, the architecture of the UNIX operating system.
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