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Australian UNIX Systems User Group Newsletter Volume 10, Number 5 Australian UNIX systems User Group Newsletter Volume 10, Number 5 October 1989 Registered by Australia Post, Publication Number NBG6524 The Australian UNIX* systems User Group Newsletter Volume 10 Number 5 October 1989 CONTENTS AUUG General Information ..................... 5 Editorial ........................... 6 Letters To The Editor ....................... 8 President’s Letter .............. ........... 10 Minutes of Annual General Meeting 1989 ................. 11 Secretary’s Report from the 1989 AGM .................. 13 Treasurer’s Report from the 1989 AGM .................. 15 SESSPOOLE Information ........ .............. 21 Western Australian UNIX systems Group Information ............. 22 AUUG Regional Meetings Summer’90 .................. 23 AUUG Institutional Members ..................... 24 Call For Speakers - AUUG Summer’90 (Victoria) ............... 26 AUUG90 - Call For Papers ...................... 27 Book Review: Two Examinations Of UNIX Internals .............. 30 Slides from Larry Crume’s AUUG89 talk ................. 32 From the ;login: Newsletter - Volume 14 Number 3 .............. 44 Au revolt and Hello ...................... 45 USENIX 1989 Summer Conference Tutorials .............. 46 Call for Papers: Large Installation Systems Administration Workshop ....... 48 Call for Papers: Distributed and Multiprocessor Systems Workshop ....... 49 Call for Papers: Computer Graphics Workshop .............. 50 Call for Papers: Winter 1990 USENIX Conference ............. 51 AUUG’89 Conference and Exhibition ................ 52 USENIX C++ Workshop .................... 53 Nominating Committee Formed .................. 53 The UK UNIX systems User Group ................. 55 UNIX Users Meeting Agenda . ., ................. 55 Book Review: Learning the vi Editor ................. 56 AUUGN 1 Vol 10 No 5 Long-Term Calandar of UNIX Events . ............. 57 An Update on UN-IX Standards Activities ............... 58 2.10.1BSD Release Available ................... 63 Final Printing of 4.3BSD Manuals .................. 64 4.3BSD Manual Reproduction Authorization and Order Form ......... 65 Obtaining GNU Software .................... 66 GNU Software Order Form .................. ~. 67 Local User Groups ...................... 68 From the EUUGN Newsletter - Volume 9 Number 3 .............. 70 Editorial ......................... 71 Compatible FORTRAN Compilers ................. 72 C Traps and Pitfalls m Book Review ................. 79 EUUG Executive Report .................... 80 Dublin Workshop 5th-Tth May ................... 82 Portugese UNIX systems User~ Group Report .............. 86 News from the Netherlands .................... 87 UKUUG Report ....................... 91 AMIX report m Israel UNIX Users Group .. .............. 94 USENIX Association News for EUUG Members ............. 96 Calendar of UNIX Events .................... 98 USENIX Online Index and Library ................. 101 ISO JTC1 SC22 WG 15 (POSIX).Meeting, Ottawa ............ 103 Concurrent C Programming Language m Book Review ........... 108 Call Doc Strange ....................... 110 The Minimal Manual -- Book Review ................ 112 Software I Review ...................... 113 The AT&T OPENLOOKTM Toolkit ................. 118 EUUG Software Distribution . .................. 124 Puzzle Corner ........................ 129 Recent Developments in Screen Fonts ................ 130 Design and Implementation of 4.3BSD -- Book Review ........... 135 Glossary ......................... 136 Abstracts ........... - .............. 137 A.F.U.U. News ....................... 144 Networking . .. ....................... 150 Managment Committee Minutes - May 1989 ................ 154 AUUG Newsletter Back Issues ..................... 158 Vol 10 No 5 2 AUUGN AUUG Membership Catorgories .................... 159 AUUG Forms .......................... 161 Copyright © 1989. AUUGN is the joumal 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 5 EXPANDED UNIX PUTS A L 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 gr e g @softway.sw.oz [email protected] Softway Pty. Ltd. Labtam Information Systems Pty. Ltd. New South Wales Victoria Treasurer Michael Tuke mjt@conjure@ labtam.oz Vision Control Australia Victoria Committee Peter Barnes John Carey Members [email protected] [email protected] Computer Science Labtam Information Systems Pry. 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 in Melbourne from September 25th to September 28th 1990. The venue has yet to be confirmed. Further details will be provided in the next issue. AUUGN 5 Vol 10 No 5 AUUG Newsletter Editorial Well, here we are then. I suppose, this being my first issue of AUUGN, I should make some grand statement of new editorial policy. But I won’t, because at this stage I have no grand ideas. In fact the majority of you, those who don’t read the editorial and skip straight to the issue of ;login: included later in the issue, will probably not notice a change at the helm. For everyone else, i.e. those who are still reading, I would like to take just one more opportunity to thank John Carey not only for his own efforts as editor for the past three years, but for the help he has given me in preparing this issue and getting it to the printers. It has been over a month since AUUG89, but the enthusiasm generated there still seems to be prompting some activity in the AUUG. Planning is well advanced for Regional Summer Conferences, and it looks like they really will go ahead this year. Also a review of the constitution of AUUG Inc (as published in AUUGN Volume 10 Number 3) has prompted several regional user groups to petition the Management Committee to form Chapters of the AUUG. I would like to have it recorded here that SESSPOOLE in Melbourne was the first group to do so, presenting its petition to the Management Committee at the 1989 AGM. So, I hope you enjoy this issue of AUUGN and will be inspired to send in copious articles for the next issue. 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 ACS net: [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 1st of December 1989. 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 Vol 10 No 5 6 AUUGN 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. 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
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