From: SMTP%"RELAY-INFO-VAX@CRVAX.SRI.COM" 7-JUL-1993 14:41:24.89 To: EVERHART CC: Subj: DECUS DFWLUG July 13th Meeting Notice/Netnewsletter X-Newsgroups: comp.org.decus,comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec,comp.sys.vms Subject: DECUS DFWLUG July 13th Meeting Notice/Netnewsletter Message-Id: <1993Jul6.010319.11828@fallout.lonestar.org> From: system@fallout.lonestar.org Date: 6 Jul 93 01:03:19 CST Organization: DECUS DFWLUG BBS *Dallas*TX* Lines: 696 To: Info-VAX@kl.sri.com X-Gateway-Source-Info: USENET =========================================================================== = __________ = =| ______ | THE DFWLUG = =| / ---- \ | 10th Anniversary(*1982-1992*) = =| | | | Celebrating over 10 Years of DECUS = =| \ ____ / | in Dallas/Ft. Worth Texas = =| ------ | = = ---------- dfwlug@fallout.lonestar.org BBS: (214) 270-3313 = = D E C U S = = = = The DFWLUG is the Local Users Group for the = = Digital Equipment Computer Users Society (DECUS) = = = = *DECUS* DFWLUG NET/Newsletter = = = =Volume 3 Number 7 July 5th, 1993 = =========================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VOLUME 3 NUMBER 7 INDEX (in this issue) PAGE 1 * The next DFWLUG meeting Info and Map (July 13th, 1993) PAGE 2 * DFWLUG Speakers and Calendar DECUS of Events for 1993 PAGE 3 * SCSI Performance Details for Digital Controllers (from DECUServe) PAGE 4 * Which Modem for Me? Standard Modems above 9600 bps PAGE 5 * Free Introductory DECUServe Membership for Six Full Months PAGE 6 * Digital-NFL - Youth project opens in L.A. PAGE 7 * Japan announces Optical Fiber to Every Home by 2015 PAGE 8 * Digital Licenses Multiple Users on any OpenVMS Workstations/Servers PAGE 9 * DFWLUG Staff members and contact list PAGE 10 * DFWLUG BBS Info PAGE 11 * Digital's 1-800 Service Phone Numbers (Consulting and Sales) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOT TIP: Lost or Forgot your DECUS number? Moved and want DECUS to find you again;-) There are two ways you can obtain your DECUS membership number: 1) Call 1-800-DECUS55 and ask for it. 2) Send a mail message to "information@DECUS.ORG" with your full name and full USPO mailing address. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VOLUME 3 NUMBER 7 PAGE 1 7/13/93 -- >>>>>> The DFWLUG July meeting agenda is as follows: "Introduction to SCSI" Presented by Brendan Eagan OpenVMS Partner,Senior Consultant with Digital Equipment Brendan will talk about the chronology of SCSI, including what SCSI1 was, what SCSI2 is and what SCSI 3 might be. Most of the information will be about SCSI 2. Brendan will also give an overview of the new Digital SCSI products which are available today. -- Robert Eden will also have the Fall 92 DECUS Symposia Software on 9-track reel tapes. Please Don't bring your 9 Tracks to trade, Robert says he has enough to just give away. (but if you would like to donate 2 TK50 in trade...;-) Robert also sez: Jim Norris a DFWLUG member and also a leader in the DECUS Security SIG donated a full set of audio tapes for Security Sessions in the Fall 92 symposium. These tapes are <>. If you didn't make it to the last symposium, you've got to hear these tapes. Titles range from "DEC's Internal Security Procedures" to "PC Security: Viruses, Worms, and Trojan Horses". Make good use of your drive time -- your car-pool members will thank you. (Ditto on the Drive time! I've listened to them and they ARE GREAT on the ride home Ray Kaplan is a real trip! Check these out with Robert! -- Adventure on the Highways of Data and Cars;-) john w -- David Cathey (The DFWLUG Membership coordinator) can help you join DECUS and the DFWLUG. Membership for both is free of charge and will put you on our mailing list for our technical newsletter. Membership forms for DECUS and the DFWLUG are available at our regular meetings or log-on to our Electronic BBS system INFO account at 214-270-3313 and request our information package. You'll receive the membership forms and LUG information via regular mail. -- The DFWLUG staff will have information on the new DECUS Class-Pass Program that discounts Digital ED Service Classes and the Free DECUServe accounts for new members. -- The DFWLUG BBS DECUS and DFWLUG membership has always been free but we offer private E-Mail and Newsreader accounts on our Electronic BBS system. DFWLUG BBS users can upload and download from over 800MBytes of newsfiles, read and extract program sources, read answers and news from over 1300 Internet Newsgroups, and send and receive E-mail to anywhere in the Internet. The DFWLUG charges a modest $10/Year for private accounts to cover the costs of phone lines and supplies. Join the LUG and the BBS! Plug into the best connected and most diverse Computer users group in the DFW metroplex -- The DFWLUG. -- Refreshments will be served courtesy of Digital Equipment. -----------ASCII MAP TO THE MEETING----------------------------------------- Meeting Location: 7:00pm This meeting will be at the - - - Digital's Application Center |Enter| | for Technology (214) 702-4400. | \|/ | |-------| | |----|----|----|| |-----| 9th floor of the Digital Building | Hilton| | |DEC |Bank|OXY || | | in North Dallas. |-------| | |----|----|----|| |_____|Galleria - - - - - - - - -| ______________________________|________________________ | LBJ Freeway I-635 D|T A|O ^ L|L /|\ L|L | A|W |North S|A |Y -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VOLUME 3 NUMBER 7 PAGE 2 THE DFWLUG SPRING SCHEDULE OF SPEAKERS Jul. 13th DFWLUG Meeting Brendan Eagan OpenVMS Partner/Digital Equipment Intro to SCSI/Latest Digital SCSI products. Aug. 10th DFWLUG Meeting (>Open< *Got a Topic Contact Chris Simon*) Aug. 22-27th DECUS Symposia - Australia Aug. 30th DECUS 93/San Francisco Session Submission Deadline Sep. 6-10th DECUS Symposia - Europe Sep. 14th DFWLUG Meeting (>Open< *Got a Topic Contact Chris Simon*) Dec. 4-10th DECUS 93/San Francisco Event Mar. 1994 DECUS University Comes to Dallas -- Stay Tuned -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VOLUME 3 NUMBER 7 PAGE 3 SCSI PERFORMANCE DETAILS FOR DIGITAL CONTROLLERS (From DECUServe Notefile) <<< EISNER::$2$DIA7:[NOTES$HIVOL]HARDWARE_HELP.NOTE;1 >>> -< HARDWARE_HELP >- ================================================================================ Note 1431.13 TTI CTS-5600 tape drives (TF86 clone) 13 of 14 EISNER::BURNET "John Burnet" 53 lines 10-JUN-1993 00:54 -< Some SCSI details >- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bus speeds: Async SCSI (e.g., MV3100/VS3100 with 5380 HA chip): 1.5 MB/sec Sync SCSI with SII HA chip (VS3520/3540, DS3100, etc.): 4 MB/sec Sync SCSI with 53C94 HA chip (4100, 3100-90, etc.): 5 MB/sec Fast SCSI-2, 8-bit bus (CMD CQD-443, etc.): 10 MB/sec Fast SCSI-2, 16-bit bus (N/A for DEC systems yet): 20 MB/sec Fast SCSI-2, 32-bit bus (N/A for DEC systems yet): 40 MB/sec DSSI on any system (and probably for all time): 4 MB/sec Cable lengths: For single-ended signaling, SCSI limits the bus to 6 meters. Both DSSI and differential SCSI allow a bus length of 25 meters. Using differential is highly recommended in a computer-room environment or where there will be several external cabinets. The mass-market appeal of being able to plug "anything into anything" isn't worth all the trouble that SE signaling creates. The more you go differential instead of SE, the fewer problems you'll have with the equipment. Of course, with the native host adapters on VAX 3100s and 4100s, you don't have much choice unless you want to use only external devices and convert the bus to differential as soon as it gets outside the cabinet. I also suggest trying to put tape drives on a separate SCSI bus to segregate them from disk drives. The extra $1000 per system that the low-end, tape-only host adapter costs will be well worth it when it saves you from having to shut the system down every week or two so that you can power-cycle a tape drive that's flaking out. If the tapes are on their own bus, you can reset them without affecting disk traffic. Besides, that way you can use SE for tapes and diff for disks. (Tape drives are rarely available with differential circuitry; of course, you can always use a SE-to-diff converter, but that adds to the cost.) Or, if you're using 4100s, you can use the native SCSI bus for tapes and add a Q-bus board for disks. Clustering via SCSI: CMD has this now. I don't think that three-host clusters are allowed, as they are with DSSI, but I'm not positive about that. It is possible to cluster a Q-bus system and a VAXBI system this way, as with DSSI. Shopping for disks: Look for a description that specifies *fast* SCSI-2 (a 10 MHz bus). A fast-SCSI-2 device will work fine with a slow-SCSI-2 host adapter; it will just use the slower timing for a 4 or 5 MHz bus speed. Then, if you later upgrade the host adapter to fast SCSI-2, you can take advantage of the speed increase right away. More about CMD: They have three pieces of software that are sold as separate items: SCSIwatch (aka "Tape Monitor Utility") lets you monitor backups to or from a tape drive, using any terminal -- you can see the %-tape-remaining and %-rewrites/ECC statistics, updated continuously. You can also send the report to a file, so it is possible to use this from a procedure that does unattended backups. "SCSI Format Online" lets you do low-level formatting of disks and MO cartridges without shutting the system down. (Without this, formatting has to be done from the console with the system shut down, using the configuration program that's in ROM on the board.) "SCSI Pass-through" is analogous to DEC's GKDRIVER; it lets you send your own SCSI commands to any device on the bus (including the host adapter). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VOLUME 3 NUMBER 7 PAGE 4 WHICH MODEM FOR ME? by John Wisniewski Modems choices are exploding and it's important to understand the ways that computers can talk over 9600 bps speeds when considering any new modem. Modem reuse and compatibility is also an issue so the number one rule for buying a modem is "Buy one that's standard". But which standard? This chart should help those determinations: CCITT (Consultative Committee for International Telephone and Telegraph) Standards for Dialup Modems CCITT Speed Standard (Bits Per Second) v.21 300 bps v.22 1200 bps v.22bis 2400 bps v.23 1200 bps (Europe & S. America) v.25 2400 bps (autodialer parallel) v.25bis 2400 bps (autodialer serial) v.32 9600 bps v.32bis 14400, 12000,9600,7200,4800 bps v.42 uses LAPM error correction. v.42bis Defines data compression protocol for v.42 Definition of Terms CCITT Standards will automatically "Fall Back" to slower speeds if line quality is impaired. bis Indicates that Modem will "Fall Forward" to a higher bps speed if the line quality improves. (This process is called Training an Retraining.) MNP 1-4 Microcom Networking Protocol (MNP) Modem HW Error-Correcting Protocols Both Modems must use the same MNP or no error correction will occur. For use v.32 or lower. MNP 5 Incorporates first four MNP protocols and compresses data 2 to 1 doubling throughput (4800 bps becomes 9600 bps). For use v.32 or lower. v.42, v.42 is CCITT's recommendation for error control. It can use two algorithms for modem HW error correcting - LAPM. LAPM (Link Access Protocol and MNP 1-4) If two modems use v.42 LAP is preferred, if one modem uses MNP both will use MNP. LAP is for use with v.42 or v.42bis modems. v.42bis v.42 with compression which replaces MNP 5 and compresses data up to 4 to 1 quadrupling thoughput (4800 bps becomes 19200) SPOOFING Protocol Spoofing is a way of increasing throughput by "Pre" acknowledging that a protocol packet has been received by the modem before the computer can receive, interpret and ack the packet. Some high end modems are able to "SPOOF" Kermit, UUCP (protocol g), and SLIP packets. At this time Spoofing is considered a proprietary (but useful) way of increasing thoughput. There are now higher thoughput modems (above v.42bis) on the market but these use proprietary (non-CCITT standard) protocols to increase thoughput. Taking advantage of these modems requires that both modems being used are made by the same manufacturer. CCITT compliant modems allow you to mix and match protocols listed here with a variety of modems from different manufacturers. High end modems today v.32/v.42 cost between $250 and $1200 depending on the features. v.22bis modems are available now for under $30. Is performance worth it? That's in the eye of the modem user but one Murphy's axiom shines when considering what type of modem to buy: Standard Modems inevitably negotiate to the lowest level of line integrity, lack of error correction and compression. So buy a 1200 bps modem (I've seen them for $8), everyone will talk to you and rest assured you'll not be wasting any fancy features;-) -- JohnW -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VOLUME 3 NUMBER 7 PAGE 5 Special Introductory Offer: Six Month Trial Subscription to DECUServe DECUServe - Where DECUS meets Daily! If you don't have a DECUServe account you're missing out on one of the highest concentrations of technical know-how and archived wisdom available anywhere in the NET. DECUServe is regularly $75.00 per year but for new subscribers the first taste is absolutely free for the first six months. No catches, no gimmicks, just lots and lots of great technical information -- and it's available over Internet, Tymnet, or long distance. To take advantage of this Introductory offer, contact any of the DFWLUG staff at one of our regular Meetings and we'll give you the SPECIAL Free Membership form for your DECUServe subscription. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VOLUME 3 NUMBER 7 PAGE 6 Digital-NFL - Youth project opens in L.A. {Livewire, U.S. News, 22-Jun-93} Digital has joined the National Football League as a partner in its Youth Education Town (YET) project, which opened today in south central Los Angeles. YET replaces the Watts/Willowbrook Youth Education Training Center, which was severely damaged during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The project will provide a "safe haven" where the area's at-risk youth can enjoy fun, recreation and educational tools. The company will provide the community-based project with $100,000 in personal computers and maintenance for the computer classroom, computer library, education laboratory, and administrative computing department. The equipment will help students develop basic computer skills and will provide technological support for inventory and database management. Employees from the Los Angeles area are volunteering as mentors to YET students. Digital also continues to work in other Los Angeles community programs including the 95th Street School. Digital employees "adopted" the school several years ago and since have created many mentor programs focused on scholastic excellence. The company's efforts with the school have not only helped students stay in school, but also have helped them to excel academically. Students from the 95th Street School attended the 1993 Super Bowl as guests of the NFL and Digital. <><><><><><><><> VNS Edition : 2855 Wednesday 23-Jun-1993 <><><><><><><><> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VOLUME 3 NUMBER 7 PAGE 7 Japan Watch Political groundwork laid for nationwide optical-fibre network A new superhighway is expected to be completed by 2015 in Japan, so extensive it will reach every home and business. The government proclaimed official support for the extension of a vast fibre optic network communications network throughout the country. That high level boost could clear the way for multimedia telecommunications, but the road to development is likely to be bumpy and new regulation must be formulated. (Nikkei Weekly) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VOLUME 3 NUMBER 7 PAGE 8 OpenVMS Interactive Users Available on all OpenVMS VAX Systems HIGHLIGHTS o Extends the flexibility of adding interactive users to all VAXstations, multi-user VAX systems and VAXservers running OpenVMS o New policy provides same choices and user pricing across all OpenVMS platforms CUSTOMER PROBLEM Customers with VAX systems and workstations with the old style of VMS licensing have been unable to take advantage of the ease, flexibility, and enhanced cost-effectiveness of the newer user-based licensing introduced on new OpenVMS VAX and AXP systems last year. DIGITAL SOLUTION Digital is now extending OpenVMS and Interactive User Licensing to all VAXstations, multi-user VAX systems, and VAX servers. Layered Product Rating Impact - Adding Interactive Users to a system will not change the layered product rating for the system. PRICING/ORDERING INFORMATION OpenVMS Interactive User licenses are available for the following numbered user quantities, which can be combined to obtain any quantity desired. Model No. Description U.S. List Price/user QL-XULA9-BB OpenVMS/VAX IA 1 user $ 300 $300 QL-XULA9-BC OpenVMS/VAX IA 2 user 600 300 QL-XULA9-BD OpenVMS/VAX IA 4 user 1,200 300 QL-XULA9-BE OpenVMS/VAX IA 8 user 2,280 285 QL-XULA9-BF OpenVMS/VAX IA 16 user 4,560 285 QL-XULA9-BG OpenVMS/VAX IA 32 user 8,928 279 QL-XULA9-BH OpenVMS/VAX IA 64 user 17,280 270 QL-XULAA-BR OpenVMS/VAX IA 128 user 33,792 264 QL-XULAB-BR OpenVMS/VAX IA 256 user 63,744 249 Note: These licenses will come in a single PAK for each model number ordered. These licenses are tied to the processor and PAKs can not be allocated across processors, so ordering separate quantities for separate nodes is required. TECHNICAL DATA Customers must be at Version 5.5 or later of OpenVMS VAX to be able to add Interactive User Licenses to their systems. Customers who choose to remain at an older version of the operating systems will still be able to add interactive user capability by purchasing O/S User Upgrade licenses. The part numbers for those licenses will continue to be supported, with pricing for these upgrades set at a level consistent with the Interactive User (QL-XUL**_**) licenses. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VOLUME 3 NUMBER 7 PAGE 9 DFWLUG Contact list The DFWLUG Steering Committee: Chairman: Lon Crozier Meeting Chris Simon Snelling & Snelling Coordinator: FMC Corporation 1460 Round Table Dallas, TX Dallas, TX 75247 (214) 239-7575 (214) 689-7127 Membership David Cathey Secretary/ Jim Rodgers Coordinator: Montagar Software Concepts Treasurer: SSC Laboratory P.O. BOX 260772 2550 Beckley Meade Plano, TX 75026 MS 1011 (214) 618-2117 Dallas, TX 75237 (214) 708-6134 SW/Tape Robert Eden NEWSLETTER Jo Ann Catcott Librarian: JCS Consulting Services CO-EDITOR: Computer Education & Design 5905 Beverly Dr. West #3133 750 Hammon Dr. Bldg #9 Fort Worth, TX 76132 Atlanta, GA 30328 (817) 897-0491 (214) 733-4318 NEWSLETTER Alan Bruns DIGITAL John Wisniewski CO-EDITOR: Allied Electronics COUNTERPART: Digital Equipment Corp 7410 Pebble Drive 14131 Midway Road Fort Worth, TX 76118 Dallas, TX 75244 (817) 595-3500 (214) 404-6412 DECUS Membership Processing NATIONAL: DECUS US Chapter 333 South Street, SHR1-4/D33 Shrewsbury, MA 01545-4195 (508) 841-3341 EMAIL TO THE DFWLUG STAFF SEND TO: dfwlug@fallout.lonestar.org The entire DFWLUG staff will receive a copy of the E-Mail message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ VOLUME 3 NUMBER 7 PAGE 10 THE DFWLUG DECUS ORIENTED BBS __________ | ______ | THE DFWLUG BBS: (214) 270-3313 | / ---- \ | Chartered since 1982 (214) 270-5383 | | | | Celebrating Over 11 Years of DECUS | \ ____ / | in Dallas/Ft. Worth Texas | ------ | ---------- E-mail: dfwlug@fallout.lonestar.org D E C U S The DFWLUG is the Local Users Group for the Digital Equipment Computer Users Society (DECUS) THE DFWLUG DECUS ORIENTED BBS | NEWS | DECUS | E-MAIL | FREEWARE | DIGITAL | SHAREWARE | ALPHA AXP | We've upgraded to the VAXstation 4000/90 72MHz Processor! "The Fastest BBS in Dallas" The NEW AT&T Paradyne "Dataport" 14400 Baud Modem is in too! The DFWLUG hosts a semiprivate OpenVMS BBS for use by it's membership, we currently are using VMS 5.5-2, POSIX or DCL shells, DECUS FREEWARE, CDROMS and have over three GIGAbytes of storage dedicated to industry information, OpenVMS, Unix-OSF/1, MSDOS/Windows/Windows NT and providing net access for our members. The DFWLUG BBS also hosts multiple phone lines and currently supports V.32 and V.42bis (9600 and 14400 baud) modems. The DFWLUG BBS has been in continuous operation since 1991 and is one of the few DECUS oriented BBS's in the United States. We provide a menu-driven environment that features: *Individual Private Accounts and directories *VAXnotes Local Conferencing *USEnetNEWS 1300+NEWSgroups Internet Distributed Conferencing *DECUS UUCP For E-Mail communications anywhere on the Internet *Files Upload and Download with Kermit X/Y Modem, or Reflections *Indexes And locations of all the DECUS Software Libraries *Internet Network Fileservers access (via E-mail) *DFWLUG Local Fileserver (100MBs and growing) *Access to DCL and/or the Posix/krn Shell *Editors We provide EDT, TPU, TECO, and vi editor choices Programs, source code and binary files for all models of computer systems are distributed world wide via USEnet NEWS in a variety of standard encoding formats (Primarily UUENCODED). Sources for UUENCODE and UUDECODE are available on our local Fileserver. The USEnet NEWS expiration on source and binary file NEWSgroups on the DFWLUG BBS is 12 months. This assures capture and the ability to extract all of the posted program parts even if they take several days/weeks to be posted from the source. The DFWLUG BBS offers the news readers selected Newsgroups from alt, austin, comp, dfw, news, rec, sci,tx and vmsnet news hierarchies for over 1300+ choices and over 800MBytes of online news, programs and tools (you just can't read it all;-) C-Kermit, X/Y modem, and Reflections protocols are supported for upload and download. In addition to 1300+ Newsgroups and extended archives, the DFWLUG BBS has set up a permanent Fileserver for many files of interest to our members. Membership in the DFWLUG and attending our User Group meetings has always been free but a private account for the BBS is a modest $10.00 per year and available to students and professionals in the DFW area. Accounts may be obtained at one of the monthly meetings that take place every second Tuesday of the month, 7:00pm at the Digital ACT (702-4400) in Dallas TX. Or contact the DFWLUG Membership Coordinator David Cathey davidc@montagar.com (214)618-2117. For more information and brief access to USEnet NEWS via DECUS's ANUnews Newsreader, you may dial-in into our public account: (214) 270-3313 1200 - 9600 Baud 8/n/1 V.32 (Digital DF296 Modem) (214) 270-5383 300 - 14400 Baud 8/n/1 V.42/V.42bis (AT&T Dataport Modem) Use account name INFO. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VOLUME 3 NUMBER 7 PAGE 11 TELEPHONE NUMBERS FOR DIGITAL SUPPORT AND ORDERING PC DESKTOP Direct (to purchase a PC or for PC configuration questions) 1-800-722-9332 1-800-SOFTWARE (to purchase any of 12,000 PC software products) 1-800-763-8927 DECdirect (to purchase any non-PC product computers, network, supplies 1-800-344-4825 or for DECdirect Prepurchasing Technical questions.) DECdirect Modem Line 1200-2400 Baud 1-800-234-1998 Education Services hotline (For information on upcoming DEC classes and locations) 1-800-332-5656 --------------------- The above service numbers are free. The following requires a valid Digital support Contract and are available 24 hours per day. --------------------- Colorado Customer Support Software support under contract 1-800-354-9000 Master Champs 24x7 Mission Critical Support under special contract. 1-800-345-3746 24 hour each day Customer Support to log a call with Field service and have something repaired 1-800-354-9000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- MASTHEAD/DISCLAIMERS/LEGAL STUFF __________ | ______ | THE DFWLUG | / ---- \ | 10th Anniversary(*1982-1992*) | | | | Celebrating over 10 Years of DECUS | \ ____ / | in Dallas/Ft. Worth Texas | ------ | ---------- dfwlug@fallout.lonestar.org BBS: (214) 270-3313 D E C U S The DFWLUG is the Local Users Group for the Digital Equipment Computer Users Society (DECUS) *DECUS* DFWLUG NET/Newsletter Volume 3 Number 7 July 5th, 1993 The DFWLUG is an affiliated and licensed Local Users Group of the U.S. DECUS Chapter. The DFWLUG Net/Newsletter is published as a monthly service in electronic form Copyright (c) DFWLUG, DECUS, and Digital Equipment Corporation 1993. All rights reserved. This information in this document is subject to change and should not be construed as a commitment by Digital Equipment Corporation, DECUS, or the DFWLUG. Digital Equipment, DECUS and the DFWLUG assume no responsibility for any errors that may appear in this document. It is assumed that all material submitted for publication in this newsletter is with the author's permission to publish in any DECUS publication. Content is the responsibility of the author and DECUS, Digital Equipment, the DFWLUG, the Editors and Staff assume no responsibility or liability for information appearing in this document. Views expressed are those of the authors and do not reflect the views of DECUS, the DFWLUG or Digital Equipment Corporation. Address correspondence to the editors: "dfwlug@fallout.lonestar.org" ---------------------------------end-------------------------------------------