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Introduction to Computing Services at UTCS 1

Advising Services and Applications Support 1

The Imaging/Humanities Support Group 3

Microcomputer Support Group (MSG) 4

The Statistical & Numerical Analysis (SNAC)

Group 6

Accounting Services 7

Protect Your Codes 7

Communications Activities 8

Engineering Annex Terminal (EAT) 9

Erindale College Site 9

Scarborough College Site 10

Arts & Science Terminal (AST) 10

SAS Version 5 Available for Testing on MVS 11

SPSS-X 2.1 under MVS and CMS 13

Statistical and Numerical Packages on CMS 15

Humanities News 16

Publications of the M.L.A. 17

Announcing Mathematical Output on the 8700 18

Micro Laser Printing 18

VS FORTRAN under ISPF/PDF 18

Bargain Sale at the Information Office 19

Departments

Hours of Services 19

UTCS Noncredit Short Courses 20

Personnel Changes 20

Change Committee 21

Documents at UTCS 22

Recent Acquisitions in the Computer
Library 24

Technical Reports Recently Received in
the Computer Library 25

Consulting and Enquiries 26

UTCS Directory 26

Committees on Computing 26

UTCS Terminal and Advising Sites 27

UTCS Services 28

ISSN 0315-4661 September 1985 No. 225

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COMPUTERNEWS #225

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Introduction to Computing Services at UTCS

The start of another year has once again ar¬
rived. It has become customary for us to
review our summer activities in the Sep¬
tember issue of COMPUTERNEWS, as well
as to introduce our services to new
members of the University community.

The User Interface Group is responsible
for the general support of command
languages, applications software packages,
and microcomputers. This support is carried
out in several ways. Staff members install,
test and maintain much of the software that
you use. We also document our services
and teach noncredit courses on the use of
packages, as well as provide advice and con¬
sulting on our services. The next four arti¬
cles outline the activities of the various
subdivisions of the User Interface Group.
As you will find from reading these articles,
we have been especially busy preparing for

the VM/CMS services discussed
throughout this issue. Our experiences with
introducing CMS to users have been very
encouraging so far. To date we have given
several courses on using both statistical and
text processing packages via CMS, and we
have found that the participants have been
able to obtain results much more rapidly
than with previous services.

While CMS has certainly kept us busy, we
have also undertaken several other activi¬
ties. The Microcomputer Support Group
has introduced a Bulletin Board Service,
which has been well received. The
Imaging/Humanities Group has added
enhancements to the laser printing service
on the Xerox 8700. To find out more
about specific activities, please read on.

Don Gibson

Advising Services and Applications Support

Advising Services

When users have a problem running a pro¬
gram, they turn to the Central Advising Of¬
fice. Conveniently reached by phoning
978-HELP, Central Advising can usually
solve the problem in a few minutes.
Although this is a phone-in service, if
necessary, you can transmit your program
listing electronically to the screen of the
person you are talking to.

Besides 978-HELP, there are two special
purpose phone numbers: 978-STAT for sta¬
tistical products and 978-8701 for micro¬
computer products. All three phone lines
are answered by students working part-time
as Advisors. These students have all re¬
ceived special training from UTCS, with
emphasis put on the products designated as
Support Class A. For each of these pro¬
ducts, the Advising Office tries to ensure
that there is always someone present who

can solve the more common problems that
can be dealt with in less than five minutes.

The vast majority of problems can be
solved quickly over the phone, but there
are still many that can’t. For these, an ap¬
pointment with a Consultant or a Product
Specialist must be arranged. For example,
users with general questions about the ser¬
vices offered by UTCS usually prefer to sit
down with a Consultant, who can discuss
alternatives and requirements. Those who
are just beginning to use a new service and
don’t know how to start can also profit
from such an appointment. Other times,
the service or product being used, or some
aspect of it, is better dealt with by a Pro¬
duct Specialist. Even if the product is
known to the Advisor who answers the
phone, the problem may be too complex to
solve in five minutes. As well, some prob¬
lems just can’t be communicated over a
phone.

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Advising Services continued

If you or the Advisor decide that your
query cannot be handled over the phone,
then an appointment can be set up for you.
The Consultants, Roni Moravan and Jon
Alexander, work in the Central Advising
Office. They are involved in testing pro¬
ducts and reviewing documentation, as well
as training Advisors and answering users’
questions. Appointments with Roni and
Jon can generally be made for the next
business day, but this depends on demand.
They can discuss your needs as a new user,
or give you general assistance with most of
our more common products.

The Product Specialists are members of
other groups, described later in this article.
They are involved in installing and main¬
taining the software and documentation for
their respective products, in addition to us¬
ing their acquired expertise in appointments
with users. One key role of the product
specialists is helping the Advising Office
with training and with recognizing which
problems should be referred to them. Be¬
cause of the demand placed on Consultants
and Product Specialists, we ask that you al¬
ways make an appointment to see them, so
that all users have fair access to them.

The Advising service has always been a
dynamic one, changing to accommodate up¬
dates in computer technology as well as in
the type of computing our users desire.
During the summer, the Advising Office,
working with the Microcomputer Support
Group, began handling phone-in questions
on various micro products. Currently the
number of Class A products is limited, but
UTCS is working with users to try to meet
demands with available resources. Of
course as with other areas, if your query
cannot be handled by the Advisor, you may
ask for an appointment with the appropriate
Product Specialist.

Another new area for Advising is
VM/CMS. As this service continues to ex¬

pand, the people in the Central Advising
Office continue to direct effort into train¬
ing, to ensure that the expected demand
can be handled. Much time has also been
spent helping other groups improve the ser¬
vice, by reviewing documentation, trying
out provided tools, and ensuring that user
feedback is incorporated into designs.

In upcoming months we expect CMS to
grow in importance. We hope to get early
feedback from users as we continue to
develop Advising for this important new
service.

Applications Support Group

The Applications Support Group has two
Product Specialists, Steve Younker and
Paul Shindman. They are responsible for
the Applications side of command
languages, utilities, and general purpose
computer languages. This includes such
areas as CMS, TSO, WYLBUR, and APL,
and languages like PL/I and FORTRAN.

In recent months, Steve and Paul have
been working on CMS. They have helped
other groups set up the CMS courses now
being offered, and both will be teaching the
“CMS for FORTRAN Users” course. Oth¬
er recent activities include writing such
tools for CMS as the ROUTE and TECH-
NOTE commands, and writing major parts
of the UTCS Guide to VM/CMS.

The Applications Support Group is current¬
ly working with the Systems Group to solve
problems with the interactive debug (IAD)
for FORTRAN, which will allow fullscreen
debugging of FORTRAN programs. In the
coming weeks, we will reexamine the docu¬
mentation and online helps for CMS; the
UTCS-supplied tools on CMS will also be
reviewed. As well, we will be studying is¬
sues of compatibility between FORTRAN
on a mainframe and on a micro.

A lex Nishri

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The Imaging/Humanities Support Group

The Imaging/Humanities Group is respon¬
sible for developing and supporting text
processing and humanities-oriented text
analysis tools at UTCS. In addition, we
have recently been given the responsibility
to support graphics output.

Like many other UTCS groups, our major
activities during the spring and summer
have focused on the development of the
new CMS service. However, other areas
(particularly related to the Xerox 8700
Laser Printer) have also kept us busy:

• SCRIBE on CMS: UTCS’ Class A for¬
matter, SCRIBE, is now available on
CMS. This formatter is expected to be
the product of choice for many of our
UTCS users and complements SCRIBE
on GP UNIX.

We feel that SCRIBE and CMS go well
together. SCRIBE’S extensive indexing,
bibliographic and mathematical output
facilities make it the ideal product for
many academic documents. CMS, with
its fullscreen editor and straightforward
command and file structure, is easy to
use, and is probably the best choice for
most academic computer users. Pat
Hood has prepared some excellent docu¬
mentation and course materials to help
you get started.

• Laser Pseudo typesetting: We have spent
a considerable amount of time in the
past few months enhancing our services
for the Xerox 8700. One exciting
development is Pseudotypesetting,
whereby the 8700 prints typeset-like out¬
put at a fraction of the cost of true
typesetting.

At the present time, pseudotypesetting is
offered via SCRIBE on both GP UNIX
and CMS, but we hope in the future to
extend the service in various ways. An
extension currently in the making is the
ability to print mathematical expressions

(see “Announcing Mathematical Output
on the 8700“ elsewhere in this issue).
This service is based on much hard work
by Vera Petrashkewych during the sum¬
mer.

• Micro Laser Printing: This month
UTCS begins testing the new Micro
Laser Printing service. This will allow
microcomputer users to produce format¬
ted output on the 8700 laser printer, us¬
ing almost any word processing program
(see “Micro Laser Printing” elsewhere
in this issue).

This project is supervised by Terry Jones
— a valuable recent addition to the Imag¬
ing Group.

• Graphics and CMS: Terry Jones will
also be working on improving our graph¬
ics capabilities. This summer, in con¬
junction with the SNAC group, he has
made SAS/GRAPH output accessible to
UTCS’ Gould and Calcomp plotters.

In the near future, Terry hopes to pro¬
vide graphical output support for CMS
FORTRAN users, and ultimately, to
make interactive graphics available from
CMS. When interactive graphics are
available, both CMS SAS/GRAPH and
CMS FORTRAN users will be able to
preview graphical output at a terminal
before printing. This ought to make the
production of graphical output far more
convenient.

• Humanities Computing: Lidio Presutti,
UTCS’ Humanities consultant, now finds
that he can be of assistance to the large
group of Humanities computing users
with microcomputer systems. IBM, as
part of the cooperative agreement with
the University for the period 1982-85,
kindly donated an IBM PC-AT for the
Humanities, and Lidio is rapidly gaining
experience in microcomputer matters. If
you are a humanist having trouble mak-

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The Imaging/Humanities Group continued

ing a micro do what you want, you may
want to give Lidio a call!

The Natural Languages Processing Steer¬
ing Committee has also asked Lidio to
begin moving UTCS’ COGS concordance
program to CMS. UTCS believes this
will make COGS available in a comput¬
ing environment that is much easier than
ever before to learn and use effectively.

As you can see, it’s been a busy summer!
However, planning is already under way for
next year’s activities. I would be glad to
hear your thoughts on what might be useful
to you in the text/graphics/humanities area.
My telephone number is 978-3995.

John Bradley

Microcomputer Support Group (MSG)

During this past summer the staff of the
Microcomputer Support Group (MSG) has
spent its time chiefly in consolidating our
efforts towards the comprehensive support
of microcomputer users at the University.
In addition to the usual consultations with
individuals, which remain free of charge,
we have set up a Bulletin Board System
(BBS) and completed a major document,
the Academic’s Guide to Microcomputer Sys¬
tems (Fall 1985). Both of these efforts have
been entirely funded by UTCS, with the
generous assistance of those vendors who
have lent or donated software and
hardware.

The Bulletin Board System

We began experimentation with the BBS in
early May of this year, using public-domain
software, the Remote Bulletin Board Sys¬
tem for PCs (RBBS-PC), on an Ericsson
microcomputer kindly lent to us for the
purpose while our IBM PC-AT was on ord¬
er. After extensive testing, we discontin¬
ued the RBBS software in favour of anoth¬
er, FIDO. On June 10 we received the PC-
AT, secured a connection to PACX (the
UTCS automatic switchboard) and began
testing FIDO. On June 24 the BBS was
opened, without charge, to all individuals
within the University. The Information Of¬
fice, in the Engineering Annex, has docu¬
mentation that describes how to sign on
and establish an account; additional infor¬
mation may be obtained by calling us at
978-8701.

At the time of writing (mid-August) there
are approximately 420 accounts, 150 active
users, and 20 to 30 calls per day; we expect
a significant increase after the beginning of
term.

As its name suggests, the purpose of a BBS
is to make information quickly and con¬
veniently available to whoever has access.
So far most people have used the service to
obtain items (by “downloading”) from the
growing library of public-domain software.
We have thus been busy collecting software
from various, exclusively public sources;
most of this is for MS- or PC-DOS en¬
vironments, though CP/M and Apple
software is being added. (See the last issue
of COMPUTERNEWS for notice of several
useful programs currently on the BBS.)
Many people have also downloaded reviews
from our similarly growing library of com¬
mentary on hardware and software pro¬
ducts. These reviews are produced for
eventual inclusion in the Academic’s Guide
but are posted on the BBS somewhat less
formally to give users more timely access to
them. Recently we also started maintaining
a bibliography of articles from the maga¬
zines and journals to which we have access;
as with the software and reviews, the bi¬
bliography is designed to be downloaded
before use. Finally, the BBS is used to post
notices of meetings and demonstrations and
to provoke discussion on some topics; oth¬
ers have used it for electronic mail or for
posting and answering notices as one would
on an ordinary bulletin board.

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COMPUTERNEWS #225

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Microcomputer Support Group continued

Preparation of the Academic’s Guide

A guide to the use of microcomputers,
written specifically for academics, has been
needed for some time but, apparently, not
yet produced. In the MSG we found our¬
selves answering many of the same ques¬
tions repeatedly and so decided to provide a
written equivalent that would be easier to
get to than we were becoming. For that rea¬
son we began last fall to put together what
was initially a rather simple, limited docu¬
ment, but we quickly realized that in the
absence of suitable literature in this Field
something far more comprehensive was re¬
quired. Thus the work towards our Guide
has taken several more months than First
anticipated, but it has resulted, we think, in
a very thorough introduction to the subject
that should satisfy most novices and many
advanced users.

A few of the minor sections are incomplete
and, certainly, several others will have to
be rewritten, augmented, or added as time
goes on and the technology changes. The
first edition, in hardcopy, will therefore be
updated by material appearing initially on
the BBS; subsequently new editions will be
printed. We have no plans to put the entire
Guide on the BBS, however, because of its
size.

Much of the time required for producing
the Guide has been spent reviewing
software and hardware. In the case of
software we have in general first identified
the packages we would like to review, re¬
quested evaluation copies, and then exam¬
ined in depth those packages that have ar¬
rived. A high percentage of vendors from
whom we have requested software have
complied, and in several cases the software
has subsequently been donated. We have
tried as much as possible to review pack¬
ages in which some interest has been ex¬
pressed locally, but we have also selected
some on the basis of (apparent) intrinsic
merit. When these prove worthy, we then
attempt to inform the University public at

large through announcements in COMPU¬
TERNEWS, reviews on the BBS (soon in
the Guide), and by word of mouth.

As our experience has grown during the
past few months, we have attempted to
develop a methodology for reviewing
software, in effect to discover how to write
a review that will be truly useful. There are
few good examples to follow. This is an ur¬
gent problem, since many may be interest¬
ed in a given package but only a few can be
given a detailed demonstration or extended
analysis over the telephone. We look for¬
ward to our users’ opinions of the reviews
we have produced in the hopes of reFining
our methods.

In the case of hardware we have been con¬
fined to those machines and peripherals
lent to us, chiefly by local dealers and dis¬
tributors. One usual method is to use a
given device intensively, that is, under nor¬
mal conditions for whatever purposes may
be at hand, such as writing a review. With
machines in the IBM class, we run exten¬
sive tests for compatibility. As with the
software, we do not strive to recommend a
product that is universally “best” (if such a
thing exists), but to say what we think
about those we have seen.

During the summer we completed what is
likely the major work on our survey of
technical word processing packages. It was
begun at the suggestion of several individu¬
als from various departments and, so far,
has included four packages: ProofWriter
Scientific, TechWriter, T (formerly
“Triad”), and Volkswriter ScientiFic; of the
others we know about, we have received
but have yet to examine Command Writer
and Spellbinder ScientiFic. Of the four we
have reviewed, T J seems clearly superior to
the rest; for more information, see the re¬
views on the BBS and in the Guide. We re¬
ceived considerable help from individuals in
the Institute of Biomedical Engineering and
the Institute for History and Philosophy of
Science, who brought to the survey much
experience that we lacked. We look forward
to more cooperation of this kind from oth¬
ers in the future.

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Microcomputer Support Group continued

Both of our accomplishments this summer,
then, are beginnings of what we hope will
be a very high quality service for micro¬
computer users at this University. We can¬

not do it alone, however; we need your en¬
couragement, support, opinions, informa¬
tion, and rumours. Call us at 978-8701.

Dr. Willard McCarty

The Statistical & Numerical Analysis Computing (SNAC) Group

The SNAC Group is responsible for sup¬
porting applications software for statistics
and numerical analysis. Over the past year,
we have begun to provide limited support
for microcomputer packages in this area as
well as assisting the general UTCS effort to
develop the new CMS service.

The SNAC Group does not have its full
complement of three staff members at this
time. Diane Mitchell is leaving this month
to pursue graduate studies in biostatistics at
Guelph, and we are in the process of filling
this position. John Roth transferred to
Communications and Technical Support
within UTCS in May and his position has
been frozen for the time being.

Over the summer, the SNAC Group in¬
stalled several new releases of statistical
software on both the MVS and CMS sys¬
tems. In particular, SAS Version 5 is now
available for user test on MVS (see “SAS
Version 5 Available for Testing on MVS”
elsewhere in this issue). SAS Version 5
should be available for test on CMS in the
fall. Other products available on CMS are
described in “Statistical and Numerical
Packages on CMS” elsewhere in this issue.

Over the past few months, the SNAC
Group has been compiling a list of users in¬
terested in SAS under PC-DOS. UTCS has
ordered base SAS under PC-DOS for a 30

day trial. SAS Institute has set September
as the earliest date for shipping production
copies of this product. Procedures for leas¬
ing this product through UTCS at signifi¬
cant savings are now being determined and
will be mailed to interested users. If you
want your name added to the list of in¬
terested users, please call Bill Fehlner at
978-6509.

The new SAS/CMS 101 course has been
taught several times and has received very
positive evaluations. Other short courses
continue to be offered. The SAS/GRAPH
course will undergo major revisions to re¬
flect new features of Version 5 before the
course is taught in the fall.

Improvements to documentation are
planned for the fall. The Statistical and
Numerical Products Catalogues must be up¬
dated to reflect the new CMS services and
new software releases. Improvements to
help files on CMS and TSO are planned.
The catalogue of Census tapes will be up¬
dated as new tapes arrive.

It has been a busy summer and promises to
be a busy fall. Please call me at 978-6509 if
you would like to discuss the directions that
the SNAC Group is taking.

Bill Fehlner

COMPUTERNEWS #225

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Accounting Services

The Accounting Services Office, located in
McLennan Physical Laboratories, Room
337, handles setting up, changing, and
deleting accounts and access codes. This
group also answers inquiries about the
status of accounts and in general assists
customers with accounting problems or
concerns. Accounting Services hours are
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through
Friday.

Customers who plan to use University
funds for computing, and who are not fami¬
liar with University or UTCS accounting
systems and procedures, should refer to the
UTCS GUIDE TO PRODUCTS AND SER¬
VICES: Accounting, available from the Ac¬
counting Services Office and the Informa¬
tion Office (Engineering Annex, Room
206). Customers planning to use external
funding should contact the UTCS Market¬
ing Consultant at 978-6875.

Funding of accounts is done by raising an
Encumbrance Memo, a blanket purchase
order for use within the university. This
form, as well as the Encumbrance Memo
Change form, is available from the Pur¬
chasing Department, 7th Floor, 215 Huron
St., 978-2353. The order form for these in¬
cludes instructions on their use.

An Account Balance letter is sent to alert
the account holder when the remaining bal¬
ance reaches 20% of the account’s total al¬
location. If additional allocation is not
made, the account is locked on the first day
it shows a negative (overdrawn) balance.

Rate schedules are available from the Ac¬
counting Services Office.

Marg Doherty

Protect Your Codes

Users should take the following precautions

to ensure optimal security for their Service

Access Codes (SACs).

1. Think of your SAC and password as a
credit card or blank cheque - Don’t
Lose Them.

2. Do Not Imbed Job Statements in da¬
tasets.

3. Obscure the Password at the start of
your terminal session.

4. Avoid Shared SACs by establishing a
separate SAC for each user.

5. Change Your Password at regular,
frequent intervals.

6. Instruct the Accounting Services Of¬
fice to Lock Your SAC if you do not
plan to use it for a period of time.

7. Set Expiry Dates for SACs of limited
duration.

8. Watch the Balance or Accumulated

Usage to determine whether unau¬
thorized activity is taking place on
your SAC.

9. Request a Spending Limit on the

SAC.

10. Report Suspected Misuse Immediate¬
ly to the Accounting Services Office.

Marg Doherty

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Communications Activities

This article summarizes the majority of
communications activities planned or
currently underway for this fiscal year.

A number of microcomputer clusters will
be providing undergraduate Computer Sci¬
ence instruction during the next academic
year. Each cluster comprises a number of
Texas Instruments Professional computers
linked by a Token Passing Proteon ring Lo¬
cal Area Network (LAN), and a micro
VAX I, which provides printing and specific
instructional functions for the micros. The
microVAXs are connected to a fibre optic
Ethernet backbone network, which provides
a communications capability to other com¬
puter systems. Locations for the clusters
are Robarts Library, Sidney Smith, and St.
Michael’s College. Trinity and Victoria
Colleges each have a cluster of stand-alone
microcomputers.

As a part of an institutional communica¬
tions infrastructure, the geographic cover¬
age of the fibre optic cable is to be in¬
creased. At the completion of this fiscal
year, this cable will enter virtually all build¬
ings from 140 St. George St., south to 215
Huron St., east from McLennan Physical
Labs to the Engineering Annex and thence
via various buildings to the Medical Sci¬
ences complex. The exact routing east is
yet to be determined. Please call me to give
opinions as to the optimal route. This facil¬
ity is used by Ethernet, Hubnet, Gandalf
PACX 2000, and IBM Channel protocols.

The Gandalf PACX 2000 will be phased
into full production by November. This
data Private Branch exchange (PBX) has
been donated by Gandalf for a customer
field trial, which will be completed shortly.

Hubnet networking technology, developed
at Computer Systems Research Institute
(CSRI) and specifically designed for fibre
optic facilities, is being used between com¬

puters located in the Sand ford Fleming
Building and the Computer Disciplines Fa¬
cility (CDF) machine complex in the En¬
gineering Annex.

A device for extending the distance over
which IBM channel protocols can be util¬
ized and using the fibre optic backbone will
be installed in 215 Huron St. f and in the
McLennan Machine Room. This will pro¬
vide high performance communications to
users of the Administrative System for ap¬
plications developed by Business Informa¬
tion Systems (BIS). This facility is
scheduled for production on or about Oc¬
tober 30.

UTCS is establishing a Telex Service for
the transmission and reception of text mes¬
sages via the international Telex network,
which is used almost universally by institu¬
tions and businesses. This service will be
provided to the University community on a
cost recovery basis and is expected to be
operational by September 30. Further de¬
tails can be obtained from Frank Pearce at
978-5271.

In conjunction with Library Administration,
UTCS has embarked on the development
of a communications strategic and tactical
plan for the Libraries; these developments
are directed by Roy Bonin of Library Ad¬
ministration. As library automation
proceeds, the specific needs will be incor¬
porated into an institutional communica¬
tions plan.

A number of other activities are also
underway, related to the installation of an
IBM 4361 for Economics, Policy Analysis,
and Sociology as well as the new CMS Ser¬
vice. Please call Norman Housley at 978-
4967 for any communications requirements.

Norman Housley

COMPUTERNEWS #225

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Engineering Annex Terminal (EAT)

The Engineering Annex is the site of 40
public terminals connected to Network Ter¬
minal Servers (NTS). One Xerox Diablo
1641 hardcopy terminal (for letter-quality
output) and 31 CRTs are located in Room
103, with an additional eight LA36 hard¬
copy terminals in Room 104. From these,
any UTCS user may access the IBM MVS
system (TSO, WYLBUR, APL), the VM
system (CMS), or GP UNIX. Another
eight public CRTs, in Room 107B, are
hardwired to CMS. Also in Room 104 are
the Gould Plotter, three keypunch

machines, a card interpreter, a card reader
and an SSI QT600 line printer.

Besides this equipment, the Annex houses
the site of the Computer Disciplines Facili¬
ty (CDF), managed by UTCS for the
Department of Computer Science. Three
VAXs running 4.2 Berkeley UNIX support
100 IBM 3101 terminals located in Rooms
107, 201 and 203. These terminals are
hardwired to the VAXs and are used ex¬
clusively by Computer Science students.

Andrew Mountain

Erindale College Site

To serve the College’s research and instruc¬
tional needs, the Computer Centre at Erin¬
dale College has a VAX-11/780 running
VMS V.4 and a VAX-11/750 running 4.2
Berkeley UNIX. The UNIX machine is
used primarily for Computer Science
courses. Room 2045 in the South Building
has 24-hour access to 32 XT-100 terminals
and three Interlan terminal server ports, all
accessing this system. In addition to the
300 baud dial-up line on the system, two
300/1200 baud modems have been installed
this summer, to be used by both students
and instructors. The UNIX system is
linked to the downtown Computer Discip¬
lines Facility (CDF) via a 4800 baud
TCP/IP link that allows file transfer.

The VMS machine is used both by under¬
graduate departments, for instructional
computing, and by researchers. The latter
are billed for their use of the system, which
provides such software as SCRIBE, MINI¬
TAB, SAS and SAS/GRAPH, FORTRAN
77, PASCAL (Eunice), C, TOPOS (Graph¬
ics), Writer’s Workbench and KERMIT.
This system is accessible 24 hours a day
from eight terminals in S2045 and, during
business hours, from another eight in the

North Building, Room 235. (Researchers
also have the use of one terminal in
Robarts Library, Room 1061.) Other
equipment dedicated to research includes a
Facit printer, for letter-quality output, and
an HP plotter.

New hardware added to this system in¬
cludes: an Apple LaserWriter to provide
pseudotypesetting for researchers, 16 extra
ports for researchers, and an Optical Scan
Reader, used for exams in certain under¬
graduate courses. The network announced
last year is in place: a 4800 baud DECnet
link to a VAX-11/750 on the St. George
campus; this also provides File transfer
from the Physics VAX and IBM systems.

In addition to the new hardware on both
systems, this summer has also seen a
change in personnel. Peter Wall, the facili¬
ties coordinator for many years, has left
UTCS and I will be taking over his respon¬
sibilities. If you have any questions about
the Erindale Computer Centre, please see
me in Room S2035.

Joe Lim

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Scarborough College Site

Several changes have taken place in the
past year. Our older VAX-11/750
(UTCSSCB) was upgraded to 3 Megabytes
of memory, which will give a little more
room to people using the system. Four
terminal servers were added to our net¬
working, and new wiring was installed to all
major divisions. This will provide access
to either of our VAX systems, PACX or
Spectrix system from individual offices.
Lastly, a raised floor was installed in our
computer room and all wiring has been
reorganized and cleaned.

Many of you have already met Paul Kern,
who has joined the staff as the
Operator/Advisor.

Here is a summary of the hardware and
services now available at the Scarborough
Computer Centre:

• Local UNIX services - 50 terminals
shared by two VAX-11/750 systems.
Files may be transferred from several

other UNIX systems at U of T locations
via the network.

• RJE to the IBM system is provided
from the SCB (UTCSSCB) system.
This also includes access to laser printing
on the Xerox 8700 Laser Printer.

• UNIX based Spectrix 30 system that pro¬
vides an academic and administrative
word processing service.

• The Local Area Network is provided by
four terminal servers connected to both
the VAX systems and PACX.

The Computer Centre supports all courses
involving computing as well as other
academic and administrative computing at
the College. It also provides access to other
computing services offered by UTCS. The
normal hours of operation at the Centre are
published in each issue of COMPUTER-
NEWS, under “UTCS Terminal and Advis¬
ing Sites.”

William Barek

Arts & Science Terminal (AST)

The Arts & Science Terminal Site is located
at 100 St. George Street and occupies
Rooms 2105, 1073, and 1071.

The following is a summary of the
hardware and services it provides:

• Room 2105 has 16 terminals connected
to Network Terminal Servers (NTS):
four LA36 (hardcopy) terminals, two
VC303A (CRT) terminals, and ten XT-
100 (CRT) terminals are available for
any UTCS user to access the IBM MVS
system (TSO, WYLBUR), the VM sys¬
tem (CMS) or GP UNIX. The LA36
and VC303A terminals can also access
APL. In addition to the terminals there
is an SSI QT600 line printer available.

• Room 1073 houses 18 XT-100 terminals
hardwired to CMS only; plus an SSI
QT600 line printer.

• Room 1071 contains 26 Texas Instru¬
ments Professional computers. Each
runs under MS-DOS with UNIX
software modified by the Department of
Computer Science (DCS); all have ac¬
cess to the line printer in Room 1073.
These micros are designated for use in
teaching first-year DCS students.

If you have any questions about the Arts
& Science Terminal, please call me at
978-2043.

Dan Lemmon

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SAS Version 5 Available for Testing on MVS

The newest release of SAS is now available
for user testing under MVS. Version 5
brings with it many changes, including
many new manuals, new PROCs, and a
new interactive look. This month, a brief
overview of the changes in the different
products will be given, and in subsequent
issues, more detailed articles will spotlight
important features.

Accessing Version 5

To use SAS Version 5, you should use the
following JCL in Batch programs:

// EXEC SAS,LEVEL = 508

or to access SAS interactively from TSO:

sas level (508)

You may notice that a new NOTE now ap¬
pears at the top of your SASLOG. This
message is produced by the CPUID option;
it gives the model and serial number of the
computer that the SAS job has been run
on. Since SAS is now available on several
computers, this information may be re¬
quested by the Central Advising Office
when they are investigating a problem.

Documentation

A large number of new manuals accompany
SAS Version 5, and the documentation,
especially its organization, has been greatly
improved. Users are encouraged to pur¬
chase their new manuals as soon as possi¬
ble, so they will be able to take advantage
of new features. All of the following
manuals are now available at the UTCS In¬
formation Office for purchase and refer¬
ence.

SAS User’s Guide: Basics, Version 5 Edition
SAS User’s Guide: Statistics, Version 5 Edition
SAS/GRAPH User’s Guide, Version 5 Edition
SAS/ETS User’s Guide, Version 5 Edition
SAS/FSP User’s Guide, Version 5 Edition
SAS/OR User's Guide, Version 5 Edition

In addition to these manuals, there are
some useful new Technical Reports.
Technical Report P-135, “The MATRIX
Procedure,” now serves as the primary do¬
cumentation for this PROC and several
other subroutines. P-136, “A Summary of
Changes and Enhancements in Version 5
SAS Software,” does not document
features completely but does provide an
overview of differences from the last
release. These reports and many more,
though not regularly stocked by UTCS, can
be ordered. For more information, please
contact Dale Wright at 978-4990.

Base SAS

The most important change to the SAS
Language is that many statements and op¬
tions now require that character strings be
enclosed in single or double quotes. The
ATTRIB statement allows you to specify
the format, informat, label, and length of a
SAS variable in a single statement, a
feature users have been requesting for
years. Explicitly subscripted arrays are now
allowed in ARRAY and INPUT statements.

A big feature of Version 5 is the arrival of
the SAS Display Manager System, a
fullscreen facility with an editor that allows
you to interact with all parts of your SAS
job. By default, interactive SAS under TSO
will use the Display Manager.

The only new Base SAS procedure is COM¬
PARE, which compares the values of vari¬
ables in two SAS data sets and reports
differences. PROC DATASETS now has a
fullscreen version, CALENDAR can in¬
clude holidays and several problems with
TABULATE have been corrected.

Another change that affects several pro¬
ducts is the creation of new types of SAS
files. These new files, which include ca¬
talogues for SAS/FSP, graphics catalogues
and SAS/ETS models, can be stored in SAS

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data libraries and will be discussed in more
detail later.

Base SAS: Statistics

New statistical procedures include
ACECLUS (Approximate Covariance Esti¬
mation for CLUStering), CATMOD (a re¬
placement for PROC FUNCAT), LIFEREG
(for fitting parametric models to failure¬
time data), and LIFETEST (for non-
parametric survival models). As well, there
have been important enhancements to
several other procedures. The REPEATED
statement is now available in ANOVA and
GLM to better equip them to handle re¬
peated measure designs. Eight new cluster¬
ing methods have been added to CLUS¬
TER. The FREQ procedure has many new
tests and measures of associations for two-
way tables. The restricted maximum-
likelihood method of estimation has been
added to VARCOMP.

SUGI Supplemental Library

UTCS has always installed the procedures
in the SUGI Supplemental Library for its
users. This includes such popular pro¬
cedures as ALSCAL and LOGIST. For
Version 5, eleven new procedures were to
have been added, but due to an error by
the SAS Institute, four of them did not ar¬
rive. PROCs BANNER, PAIRED,
SURVDIFF and SURVFIT have been re¬
quested and will be installed shortly. The
other new procs include LEAPS, a SAS in¬
terface to the “leaps and bounds” regres¬
sion program; MCSTRAT, for analyzing
case-control studies where cases and con¬
trols are matched; and TOFOC and FROM-
FOC, which transfer information between
SAS and FOCUS. Documentation for these
procedures is available in Technical Report
S-131, “Changes and Enhancements in the
Version 5 SUGI Supplemental Library.”

SAS/ETS

The MODEL, SYSNLIN, and SIMNLIN
procedures have been completely rewritten.
There are many significant differences in

the new release, and users are urged to
read the new documentation carefully.
PDLREG is a new procedure that estimates
parameters when the model involves distri¬
buted lag effects for independent variables.
The FORECAST procedure has a new
METHOD = WINTERS option to request
the Holt-Winters trend-seasonal forecasting
method. The ARIMA procedure is now in¬
teractive at the statement level, which will
allow for easier exploratory model building.

SAS/FSP

The addition of SAS catalogues has had a
major impact on SAS/FSP. If you have any
FSEDIT modified screens, FSLETTER
letters and forms, or FSCALC spreadsheets
created with a previous release of
SAS/FSP, you must use the FSCON pro¬
cedure to convert these data sets into SAS
catalogue entries before they can be used
with Version 5 SAS/FSP.

The FSCALC procedure is an all-purpose
spreadsheet package within SAS/FSP for in¬
formation management of all types. Com¬
pared to earlier releases, FSCALC uses 50%
less memory for large spreadsheets. You
can also execute FSCALC in Batch mode
for printing reports.

The Version 5 FSEDIT procedure has
several important new features. To create a
SAS data set after you enter FSEDIT,
specify NEW= option instead of DATA =
in the PROC FSEDIT statement. The Pri¬
mary Option Menu is now gone, and screen
modification mode is menu-driven. AU¬
TOSAVE is a new feature that helps
prevent data loss. You are no longer re¬
quired to exit FSEDIT periodically to
prevent loss of data due to a power or CPU
failure.

SAS/GRAPH

Version 5 changes to SAS/GRAPH
software include:

• New statements.

• Enhancements to existing statements.

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SAS Version 5 continued

• New procedures (GANNO, GCON-
VERT, and GTESTIT).

• Enhancements to existing procedures.

• Graphics catalogues, utility members of
SAS data sets in which SAS/GRAPH
graphics output is stored.

• Graphics catalogue management capabili¬
ties, available in GREPLAY.

• ANNOTATE = data sets, special SAS
data sets that allow you to annotate
graphs produced by procedures or create
your own customized graphics output.

• The ability to display multiple graphs per
page.

• A variety of methods for specifying
colours used when creating graphics out¬
put.

• Several new fonts.

• New map data sets.

• An expanded listing and description of
device drivers supported by
SAS/GRAPH software, including infor¬
mation on classifying device drivers,
configuration, default options and default
colours.

The GCHART procedure has several new
options that allow you to have more control
over various parts of the charts you create.
You can specify which chart variable con¬
trols the change in patterns, where to put
reference lines on a chart, whether or not
to place a frame around the axis area,
where and how to label pie slices and star

sections, and whether or not to put more
than one pie on a page.

With the GMAP with the XSIZE= and
YSIZE= options you can now control the
physical size of the map you are creating
with GMAP. The new PLOT2, BUBBLE,
and BUBBLE2 statements allow you to an¬
notate GPLOT plots. The GREPLAY pro¬
cedure has undergone extensive changes
since earlier releases. It now contains the
template facility, which allows you to
display multiple graphs on a page.

SAS/OR

One new procedure has been added to
SAS/OR. GANTT prints Gantt charts on
the line printer and can use SAS/GRAPH
to produce higher quality charts. CPM
schedules project activities subject to struc¬
tural precedence constraints, as well as
resource and time constraints. PROC LP
now handles integer and mixed-integer
problems, performs parametric program¬
ming and range analysis, and enables in¬
teractive control of solution process. PROC
TIMEPLOT is now part of the base SAS
software product.

Anyone with problems or questions about
SAS Version 5 and the features mentioned
in this article should phone Advising Ser¬
vices at 978-HELP.

Diane Mitchell

SPSS-X 2.1 under MVS and CMS

The newest release of SPSS-X is now in
production on both the MVS and CMS sys¬
tems. Many new features and commands
are available. A second edition of the
SPSS-X User’s Guide will be published soon
to reflect these changes. In the meantime,
you can get documentation through the
INFO command. The complete INFO file
is very long, and it is recommended that
you first run INFO OVERVIEW and then
select just the sections of interest to get
complete information.

Some of the new facilities in SPSS-X

Release 2.1 are:

• The MODE=MULTIPUNCH subcom¬
mand on FILE HANDLE, which enables
you to process column binary data.

• New STRING transformations for mani¬
pulating character strings.

• Additional keywords on the SHOW com¬
mand.

• The XSAVE command, a transformation
command used to save a system file
without an additional data pass.

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• New logical operators for constructing
logical expressions.

• New rules governing the manipulation of
logical expressions.

• The DATE and TIME facility, which
provides several functions and formats
that allow you to read and manipulate
date and time values.

• The UPDATE facility, which lets you
update and correct errors on the active
and previously saved system files.

As well, changes have been made to the
keyword OTHER on FILE TYPE NESTED,
the REPEATING DATA command, the
WIDTH subcommand on SET and the
SUBTITLE command.

Two methods have been added to allow
SPSS-X to use SAS data sets. The first is
PROC TOSPSS, a SAS procedure that con¬
verts SAS data sets into SPSS-X “system”
or “portable” files; the second is the GET
SAS command, which allows you to read
SAS files with SPSS-X. Both methods re¬
trieve not only the data, but also data de¬
finition items, including the file label, vari¬
able and value labels, print and write for¬
mats, and missing values for each variable.
Your choice of method depends only on
which language you are most comfortable
with.

XTOPC and PCTOX are SPSS-X jobs
designed to aid in translating syntax
between SPSS-X command files and
SPSS/PC include files. They recognize
commands from SPSS through SPSS-X
Release 2.1 and SPSS/PC Release 1.1.
Under CMS, XTOPC and PCTOX are
available as EXECs. Under MVS, the fol¬
lowing JCL is recommended:

// EXEC SPSSX

//OLD DD DSN =TS01234.SPSSX2 l.CNTL(M A1NFRME),DISP = SHR
//NEW DD DSN = TS01234.SPSSPC.CNTL(MICRO),DISP=OLD
//SYSIN DD DSN = APPL.STAT.SPSSX21.PCTRANS. FILES (XTOPC),
// DISP=SHR
//
or

// EXEC SPSSX

//OLD DD DSN =TS01234.SPSSPC.CNTL(MICRO),DISP = SHR
//NEW DD DSN=TS01234.SPSSX21.CNTL(MA1NFRME),DISP = 0LD
//SYSIN DD DSN = APPL.STAT.SPSSX21 PCTR ANS.FILES(PCTOX),
// D1SP = SHR

//

Two new multidimensional scaling pro¬
cedures have been added to SPSS-X.
ALSCAL is a versatile program for multidi¬
mensional scaling and unfolding, which are
techniques with many applications in mark¬
et research, psychology, economic geogra¬
phy, and other social and behavioural sci¬
ences. PROXIMITIES produces distance,
dissimilarity, or similarity matrices for a
small to moderate number of cases and
variables. Proximity matrices can later be
input to either the CLUSTER or ALSCAL
procedures.

There are also some small changes to
several other procedures:

• DESCRIPTIVES can now be used as an
alias for CONDESCRIPTIVES. The old
name will still be recognized.

• The meaning of the CONTRAST sub¬
command has changed in the
LOGLINEAR procedure.

• The default type of sum of squares for
MANOVA has been changed to
UNIQUE, and the procedure no longer
prints parameter estimates by default.

• Option 7 has been added to PEARSON
CORR. It causes the procedure to write
square correlation matrices to a pro¬
cedure output file without case counts.
CORRELATION can be used as an alias
for PEARSON CORR.

• Only one VARIABLES subcommand is
allowed in the REGRESSION procedure.
The subcommands READ, WRITE,
MISSING, DESC, and SELECT no
longer need to appear before the variable
list.

• All USERPROCs for releases prior to
SPSS-X 2.1 need to be recompiled with a
new version of CMNUSR and relinked
with the new USSTUB.

Several errors in LISREL (Linear Structur¬
al RELations) have been fixed. It should
no longer abend when attempting to print

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first derivatives. Specifying NX, NY, and
NK, but not NE or FI, will now be detected
as a misspecification error. Overflow and
division-by-zero problems with the
INTPOL subroutine have also been fixed.
LISREL is an add-on package available only
on MVS.

The SPSS-X Advanced Statistics Guide, now
available at the UTCS Information Office,
is useful as a reference for the researcher
who wants to review the advanced statistical
procedures in SPSS-X and as a text for the
multivariate statistics or advanced data
analysis course. This book covers multiple
linear regression analysis, discriminant

analysis, factor analysis, cluster analysis,
multivariate analysis of variance including
repeated measures, hierarchical loglinear
models, logit models, models for ordinal
data, and tests of symmetry. Each chapter
introduces a statistical procedure in the
context of an actual research problem, then
reviews the statistical concepts for the
analysis, the SPSS-X syntax to carry it out
and the interpretation of the resulting
SPSS-X output.

Anyone with problems or questions about
SPSS-X and the features mentioned in this
article should phone Advising Services at
978-HELP.

Diane Mitchell

Statistical and Numerical Packages on CMS

Users of the new VM/CMS service will be
pleased to learn that the most popular sta¬
tistical and numerical packages are available
to them. The current status of these pack¬
ages is:

SAS: SAS, including S AS/GRAPH,
SAS/FSP, SAS/ETS, and SAS/OR is in
production with the 82.3 release. Recom¬
mended additional documentation is the
SAS Companion for the VM/CMS Operating
System. The new release, Version 5, should
be available for testing soon. For an intro¬
duction to new features, see “SAS Version
5 Available for Testing under MVS,” else¬
where in this issue.

SPSS-X: The newest release of SPSS-X,
Release 2.1, is in production. “SPSS-X 2.1
under MVS and CMS,” elsewhere in this
issue, provides more detail on the changes
and enhancements that have been intro¬
duced. Note that LISREL is NOT available
under CMS. All SPSS-X programs must
have a file type of SPSSX and can be exe¬
cuted through the SPSSX EXEC. For more
information, use the command INFO LO¬
CAL.

BMDP: The 1983 release of BMDP is the
production version. The file BMDP LIST¬
ING on the BMDP disk contains the docu¬
mentation necessary to use the BMDP
command. PROC BMDP in SAS is now
available.

MINITAB: The 1982 Release of Minitab
that is being used for student statistical
computing is available to all CMS users.
Extensive help is provided within the pack¬
age. The next version of Minitab, Release
5.1, should be arriving sometime in the fall
and is accompanied by the second edition
of the Minitab Handbook.

IMSL: The IMSL library of FORTRAN
subroutines is currently at level 9.2. To in¬
clude IMSL routines in a FORTRAN pro¬
gram, you must use GLOBAL TXTLIB
VFORTLIB CMSLIB IMSLDLIB. Note that
only the double precision version of the li¬
brary has been installed.

To access all of the packages described
above, the GETME command must be
used. Anyone with problems or questions
about these packages should contact Advis¬
ing Services at 978-HELP.

Diane Mitchell

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Humanities News

Free Programs for Text Analysis on
Micros

A new set of programs is now available to
perform some kinds of text analysis on the
IBM PC or compatibles. The Micro Text
Analysis System (MTAS), by Professor Ian
Lancashire (Department of English) and
myself, includes a frequency count pro¬
gram, two “pictorial concordance” pro¬
grams (producing a word or motif frequen¬
cy chart and a word density plot) and pro¬
grams to tie it all together as an integrated
package. All of the programs employ a
user (re-)definable alphabetic collating se¬
quence. Thus you can take advantage of
the extended ASCII characters available on
the IBM PC.

The MTAS programs are written in TURBO
PASCAL; they are enhanced versions of pi¬
lot programs originally written in BASIC
and used successfully as part of an under¬
graduate French course.

The frequency program produces a list of
words, with their counts, sorted in three
ways:

• Alphabetical order, as defined by the col¬
lating sequence file.

• Reverse word order, i.e., by word end¬
ings. This can be useful in identifying
visual rhymes in a text.

• Frequency order.

The program uses the Quick Sort routines
from the TURBO PASCAL TOOLKIT by
Borland. These routines take all available
memory (RAM) on your machine to per¬
form the sort operation. If you have more
text than can be sorted in memory, they
will automatically use disk storage space for
the excess text. Thus, the amount of text
on which the frequency program can be

used is limited only by your own hardware
(machine) configuration!

Both pictorial concordance programs func¬
tion independent of the length of text they
analyse. They look at the text as a whole
and identify which words and motifs
predominate in its various parts. Thus, by
graphical displays, they can highlight impor¬
tant thematic concentrations. A part may
be a “fixed window” selected by the user,
or of variable length, as marked in the text.
In a poem, for example, it may be marked
as a verse or stanza; in a book, as a sen¬
tence, paragraph, page, section, and so
forth. The Fixed windows are identified by
the selected number of lines.

The program that plots word or motif fre¬
quency counts the number of times a word
or motif occurs in each part and produces a
bar chart. Likewise, the word density pro¬
gram plots a graph of the density of a word
or motif in each part. (Density is defined
as the distance between a given occurrence
of the target word and the nearest oc¬
currences on either side.) Both methods of
analysis are well documented by Dr. H. Van
Dyke Parunak in “Prolegomena to Pictorial
Concordances” in Computers and the
Humanities, Vol. 15 (1981), pp. 15-36.

Both pictorial concordance programs accept
a list of up to 100 words. Like the UNIX
(tm) grep command, the words can employ
string patterns, thus allowing an easy search
for prefixed or suffixed words.

Another MTAS program allows you to
modify the collating file, which is refer¬
enced by all of the other programs. It con¬
tains characters to be treated as alphabetic,
diacritic and separator. A word is defined
as a string of alphabetic and diacritic charac¬
ters between separating characters.

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The list program permits you to view a file
in much the same way as a fullscreen editor
program. It also allows searching of grep
command patterns in the file.

By now you must be eager to know how to
get a free copy of MTAS. If you have a
modem on your micro, you may download
the programs from UTCS’ microcomputer
Bulletin Board System. If this is not feasi¬
ble, you may get them from me in Room
217, McLennan Physical Labs, 255 Huron
St. Don’t forget to bring your own floppy
disk!

MTAS was developed on the IBM PC-AT
“gift machine,” donated to the Humanities
at the University of Toronto as part of the
1982-85 IBM/University of Toronto
partnership agreement.

I welcome suggestions and requests for ad¬
ditions to MTAS, as well as requests to
develop other software for micros, in accor¬
dance with the Terms of Reference of the
Natural Language Processing Steering Com¬
mittee.

Lidio Presutti

Publications of the M.L.A.

The Modern Languages Association of
America has begun a series of monographs
entitled Technology and the Humanities. The
first of the following items is in print, the
remainder are forthcoming.

1. A Grin on the Interface: Word Process¬
ing for the Academic Humanist. Ed.
Alan McKenzie. 1984. 82 pp. Approx.
$12 (CAN) but less for members of
the M.L.A.

This slim volume of six articles, three
appendices, an introduction and glos¬
sary is advertised as "a useful guide
for faculty and administrators involved
in planning and setting up systems." It
is, however, highly anecdotal rather
than general or comprehensive. Indi¬
viduals wishing to consult our copy
should call the Microcomputer Sup¬
port Group at 978-8701.

2. Computer-Aided Instruction in the
Humanities. Forthcoming, Fall 1985.

An introduction to CAI; applications
in composition, foreign language, his¬
tory, and philosophy; videodisk tech¬

nology and the differences between
mainframe and microcomputer CAI
programs; resource list and glossary.

3. Computer-Aided Instruction and Compo¬
sition. Forthcoming, early 1986.

Procedures for setting up CAI pro¬
grams for English composition; case
studies of departments of various sizes
and geographical regions within the
U.S.

4. The Computer and Language Studies.
Forthcoming, late 1986.

Discussion of the impact of computers
on the study of language, literature,
and composition; discussion of the re¬
lationship between computational
language and literary language; expla¬
nations of computational linguistics,
computer criticism, and research in
compositional analysis.

The mailing address of the M.L.A is 62

Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011.

Dr. Willard McCarty

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Announcing Mathematical Output on the 8700

UTCS SCRIBE users can now use the 8700
laser printer to print mathematical expres¬
sions similar to those shown below.

j,

E

n-0

(“l) n X 2n

(n + 1)! n! 2 2 "

F(s)G(s) = j“g(7?)dr ? S V(* +7 ?>f(*)d$

This new service is available to both UNIX
and CMS users, and produces math output
at a fraction of the cost of that previously
offered at UTCS. Although any UNIX or
CMS user can print mathematics today, we
intend to enhance the mathematics charac¬
ter set as time and resources permit. We
will welcome your feedback.

If you are interested in more information,
please call Pat Hood at 978-4548.

John Bradley

Micro Laser Printing

Have you ever wanted to get high quality
printing from your micro? Can’t find a few
thousand dollars to buy a letter-quality
printer? Maybe we can help.

UTCS is working on a method of printing
documents produced on microcomputers on
the Xerox 8700 Laser Printer. We hope to
be able to handle documents produced by
most word processing packages on micro

systems able to send files using KERMIT.

More information about this facility should
be available by the time you read this arti¬
cle. Feel free to contact Terry Jones at
978-4924 to talk about our plans and your
needs for this facility.

Terry Jones

VS FORTRAN under ISPF/PDF

Effective on August 12, UTCS upgraded
the ISPF/PDF service so that TSO users
may access the production VS FORTRAN
compiler either through the foreground or
by submitting Batch VS FORTRAN jobs to
the GPJS. Full HELP files have also been
created, and the helps for the foreground
linkage editor usage have been modified
and expanded to reflect the changes. TSO

users familiar with PDF should have no
difficulty using the VS compiler in either
manner.

If you have any questions, contact Advising
Services at 978-HELP.

Herb Kugel

COMPUTERNEWS #225

Page 19

Bargains at the Information Office

Bargain hunters should circle Thursday and
Friday, September 26 and 27, on the calen¬
dar. That’s when the UTCS Information
Office will be holding a “sidewalk” sale of
books and manuals. Most of the items will
be DECsystem-10, PDP-11/70 and IBM
MVS manuals, but there will also be a few
textbooks and SAS manuals. As is the case
with material on the free shelf in the Li¬

brary, most of these items are partially out
of date, but they still contain much useful
information. All will be sold at drastically
reduced prices.

The sale runs from 11:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
on both days, as long as stock holds out.

Martha Parrott

Hours of Service

Thanksgiving Day

October 12
(Saturday)

October 13
(Sunday)

October 14
(Monday)

IBM MVS GPJS (Classes B and E,
Calcomp)

10:00-18:00

10:00-18:00

closed

IBM MVS GPJS (Class A,

WYLBUR, APL, TSO)

10:00-18:00*

10:00-18:00*

unattended

IBM VM/CMS

10:00-18:00*

10:00-18:00*

unattended

GP UNIX

10:00-18:00*

unattended

unattended

Normal hours of service will resume on

Tuesday, October 15,

1985.

* Running unattended outside these hours.

For NORMAL HOURS OF SERVICE see UTCS Terminal & Advising Sites at the back of this
issue of COMPUTERNEWS.

In the event of any changes to this schedule, a notice will appear in HOTNEWS one week prior
to the holiday.

Page 20

UTCS

UTCS Noncredit Short Courses

UTCS offers a number of short, noncredit
courses on the use of various products and
services that we support. These courses are
available to students, faculty and staff of
the University of Toronto, as well as to
other users of our system.

Complete course descriptions for all non¬
credit courses offered at UTCS are available
at the Information Office, Engineering An¬
nex, Room 206, and at the Accounting Ser¬
vices Office, McLennan Labs, Room 337.

Due to the limited seating capacity in the
Education Facility, and the number of ter¬
minals available for our hands-on courses,
registration is required for short courses.

Please note that we reserve the right to
cancel courses, if registration is too low.

Anyone interested in taking any of these
courses must register in person with:

Education Coordinator
Engineering Annex, Room 207
978-4565

A nonrefundable Administration Fee of
$10 per course is due at the time of regis¬
tration. It may be paid by cash, cheque or
on a Customer Account Number (CAN).

(Anyone interested in credit courses should
contact the Dept, of Computer Science at
978-6360).

The following courses are offered in Sep¬
tember and October:

FORT/CMS 101 - Introduction to CMS for
FORTRAN Users
Date: October 7-11, 1985

Time: 1:30-4:30 p.m.

JCL101 - IBM Job Control Language for
Beginners

Date: October 21-25, 1985

Time: 2:00-3:00 p.m.

SAS101 - Introduction to SAS
Date: September 23-27, 1985

Time: 2:00-4:00 p.m.

SAS201 - Intermediate SAS
Date: October 21-25, 1985

Time: 3:00-4:00 p.m.

TXT/CMS 101 - XEDIT and SCRIBE on CMS
Date: September 23 - October 4, 1985

Time: 9:30-11:30 a.m.

The UTCS courses mentioned below are
available as well. While they are not
presently scheduled, waiting lists are being
maintained.

SAS/CMS101 - Introduction to SAS and CMS
SAS/GRA101 - Introductory SAS/GRAPH
TXT/UNIX101 - ed and SCRIBE on GP UNIX
TXT/SCR102 - SCRIBE Formatter
TXT/SCR202 - Special SCRIBE Topics
TXT/UNIX103 - nroff/troff on GP UNIX
TXT/UNIX203 - tbl Program on GP UNIX

Irene Rosiecki

Personnel Changes

Mohamed Tarikh has been promoted to
Computer Operator III.

Arny Sokoloff, UTCS’ Hardware & Com¬
munications Supervisor, has left to start his
own business. Tom Currie, who has been
with Hardware and Communications since

October 1982, has accepted the above Su¬
pervisory position.

Theresa Currie, formerly Theresa Kusy,
has left UTCS to join the Student Body at
U of T. Theresa has been with the Com¬
munications and Technical Support Group
for the past six years.

Congratulations are extended to all of you.

Elizabeth Weitmann

COMPUTERNEWS #225

Page 21

Change Committe

Changes to the IBM MVS Machine Ser¬
vices

1. Charging for Advisor restores was in-
tailed June 29. The charge is $5.00
per dataset restored. Users requiring
this service should contact Advising
Services, and a Batch job will then be
run on the user’s SAC.

2. VS FORTRAN 1.4 was introduced as
“NEW” on July 2. This was a normal
processor upgrade and both 1.3 and
1.4 will be available.

3. IMSL 9.2 was put into production on
July 2 and will give users access to the
latest release.

4. SPSS-X was upgraded to 2.1 on MVS
for user test on July 31.

Changes to the VM/CMS Machine Ser¬
vices

1. WSCRIPT was made available from
GETME July 17.

2. SAS/GRAPH was released for pro¬
duction on July 18.

3. SPSS-X 2.1 on CMS went straight
from internal test to production on
August 6.

Changes to Other Systems and Services

1. The DECsystem-10 service was dis¬
continued on July 19.

2. A new version of IBM PC KERMIT
was installed July 10. This version in¬
cludes better terminal emulation. Do¬
cumentation has also been completed.

Beverly Scarborough

Page 22

UTCS

Documents at UTCS

All vendor-produced documentation may be ordered through the UTCS Information Office, Room 206, Engineering Annex. UTCS do¬
cuments and selected vendor documents are also stocked there for purchase. Whenever feasible, documents ae made available online,
and users are encouraged to print their own copies. On the MVS and VM machines, special commands have been provided for this pur¬
pose.

To print online documents on:

IBM MVS IBM VM/CMS GP UNIX

WYLBUR users type “ do document” type “help document” use ipr or cal command

TSO user type “help document”

APL users type “)LOAD 1 UTCSGUIDE<CR>HELP”

UTCS Documents in hardcopy

New:

UTCS Guide to VM/CMS

Previously announced:

UTCS GUIDE TO PRODUCTS AND SERVICES: Introduction

UTCS Catalogue: Storage

UTCS GUIDE TO PRODUCTS AND SERVICES: Basics

UTCS Catalogue: Text Products

UTCS GUIDE TO PRODUCTS AND SERVICES: Accounting

UTCS Guide to Census Tapes

UTCS Catalogue: Access, Part 1

UTCS Guide to File Transfer Service

UTCS Catalogue: Access, Part 2

UTCS Guide to Highspeed Printing

UTCS Catalogue: IBM MVS Utilities

UTCS Guide to KERMIT

UTCS Catalogue: Numerical Products

UTCS Guide to Mainframe File Transfer Facility

UTCS Catalogue: Statistics Products

UTCS Guide to Text Processing on GP UNIX

UTCS Documents online

MVS

CMS

GP UNIX

Forms

Code

New:

UTCS Guide to VM/CMS

CMSGD

CMSGD

Previously announced:

UTCS GUIDE TO PRODUCTS AND SERVICES:

Basics

BASICS

BASICS

/usr/doc/utcs/basics

UTCS Catalogue:IBM MVS Utilities

MVSUTIL

MVSUTIL

Product-Function List

UTILLIST

UTILLIST

BXQD

UTCS Catalogue:Numerical Products

NUMCAT

NUMCAT

/usr/doc/utcs/numcat

Product Function List

NUMLIST

NUMLIST

/usr/doc/utcs/numlist

BXQD

UTCS Catalogue Statistics Products

STATCAT

STATCAT

Product-Function List

STATLIST

STATLIST

BXQD

UTCS Catalogue:Text Products

TEXTCAT

TEXTCAT

/usr/doc/utcs/textcat

UTCS Guide to APL

APLGD

UTCS Guide to APLXFR

APLXFR

UTCS Guide to BMDP

BMDP

BMDP

UTCS Guide to Census Tapes

CENSUS

CENSUS

/usr/doc/utcs/census

UTCS Guide to File Transfer Service

FTS

UTCS Guide to GP UNIX

/usr/doc/utcs/gpunix

UTCS Guide to GPJS

GPJSX

GPJSX

/usr/doc/utcs/gpjs

UTCS Guide to Highspeed Printing

PRINT

PRINT

/usr/doc/utcs/print

UTCS Guide to IBM MVS Online Storage

IBMDISK

UTCS Guide to KERMIT

KERMIT

KERMIT

/usr/doc/utcs/kermit

UTCS Guide to Mainframe File Transfer Facility

MFTF

UTCS Guide to SAS

SAS

SAS

UTCS Guide to SCRIBE

SCRIBE

/usr/doc/utcs/scribeguide

(For printing instructions, see page 1 of document)

continued...

COMPUTERNEWS #225

Page 23

UTCS Documents online

MVS

CMS

GP UNIX

Forms

Code

UTCS Guide to Series/1 Terminal Use

SERIES

SERIES

3270 Emulation:

UTCS Guide to Cybernex APL100

and Volker Craig VC404

CYBER

CYBER

CM 1520

DM1520

DM1520

Hardcopy Terminal

HARDCOPY

HARDCOPY

IBM 3101

IBM3101

IBM3101

IBM PCKERMIT

PCKERMIT

PCKERMIT

SOROC IQ

SOROC

SOROC

VT52

VT52

VT52

VT100

VT100

VT100

UTCS Guide to SPSS

SPSS

SPSS

UTCS Guide to SUBUTILS

SUBUTILS

SUBUTILS

UTCS Guide to Text Processing on GP UNIX

/usr/doc/utcs/text

UTCS Guide to TFW.MAK in SCRIBE

TFWMAK

/usr/doc/utcs/tfwguide

UTCS Guide to TSO (Draft)

TSOGD

UTCS Guide to UTDSUTIL

UTDSUTIL

UTDSUTIL

UTCS Guide to WYLBUR

WYLINTRO

UTCS WYLBUR Tutorial

WYLTUTOR

Other Documentation online:

Waterloo SCRIPT

Reference Manual

WSCRPTRF

WSCRPTRF

YXLC

User’s Guide

WSCRPTUG

WSCRPTUG

YXLC

GML USER'S Guide

GMLUG

GMLUG

YXLC

Page 24

UTCS

Recent Acquisitions in the Computer Library

Albin, Leslie, ed.

Information processing in the United States:
a quantitative survey, ed. by L. Albin
and K.M. Gagne. Rev. ed.

Reston, Va., AFIPS Press, 1985.

Association for Computational Linguistics.

23rd annual meeting, Chicago, July 1985.
Proceedings.

Coiffet, Philippe.

An introduction to robot technology.

New York, McGraw-Hill, 1983.

Conference on Human and Machine Vision,
Denver, Aug. 1981.

Human and machine vision, ed. by Jacob Beck
et al.

New York, Academic Press, 1983.

Coombs, M.J. ed.

Developments in expert systems.

London, Academic Press, 1984.

Etter, D.M.

Structured FORTRAN 77 for engineers and
scientists.

Menlo Park, Cal., Benjamin/Cummings, 1983.

Grogono, Peter.

Programming in Pascal. 2d ed.

Reading, Mass., Addison-Wesley, 1984.

Hoare, Charles Anthony Richard.

Mathematical logic and programming
languages, ed. by Hoare and Shepherdson.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1985.

International Conference on Computational
Linguistics, 9th, Prague, July 1982.

COLING 82, ed. by Jan Horecky.

Amsterdam, North-Holland, 1982.

IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer
Vision and Pattern Recognition, San Francisco,
June, 1985.

Proceedings.

Silver Spring, Md., IEEE Computer Society
Press, 1985.

International Symposium on the Performance of
Computer-Communication Systems, 2nd, Zurich,
Mar. 1984.

Performance of computer-communication
systems, ed. by W. Bux and H. Rudin.
Amsterdam, North-Holland, 1984.

Kempson, Ruth M.

Semantic theory.

Cambridge, University Press, 1977.

Mehlhom, Kurt.

Data structures and algorithms 1:
sorting and searching.

Berlin, Springer-Verlag, 1984.

Polimeni, Albert D. and Straight, H.J.

Foundations of discrete mathematics.

Monterey, Cal., Brooks/Cole, 1985.

Shelly, Gary B. et al.

Structured COBOL. Pseudocode edition.

Brea, Cal., Anaheim Pub. Co., 1985.

Sleeman, D., ed.

Intelligent tutoring systems, ed. by D.

Sleeman and J.S. Brown.

London, Academic Press, 1982.

Sproull, Robert F. et al.

Device-independent graphics, with examples
from IBM personal computers.

New York, McGraw-Hill, 1985.

Tenenbaum, Aaron and Augenstein, Moshe.

Data structures using Pascal.

Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1981.

Thayse, Andre.

P-functions and Boolean matrix factorization.
Berlin, Springer-Verlag, 1984.

University of Chicago Press.

The Chicago manual of style. 13th ed.

Chicago, University Press, 1982.

Stephanie Johnston

COMPUTERNEWS #225

Page 25

Technical Reports Recently Received in the Computer Library

Cornell University, Dept, of Computer Science.

Bowen, A. & Schneider, F.

Defining liveness.

El Abbadi, Amr & Raeuchle, T.

Resilient communication structures for
local area networks.

Urbana, University of Illinois.

Ramanan, P.

Topics in combinatorial algorithms.

Bertram, Fred III.

The use of color in text presentation.

Leo, James.

An evaluation of two data dictionary directories *

Saskatchewan, University.

Keil, J. Mark.

Stationing the minimum number of guards in
an orthogonal art gallery.

Cercone, Nick et al.

The many dimensions of logical forms.

Stanford University.

Keller, A.M.

Updating relational databases through views.

Gardner, Anne von der Lieth.

An artificial intelligence approach to
legal reasoning.

Blicher, A. Peter.

Edge detection and geometric methods in
computer vision.

Manna, Z. & Waldinger, R.

Special relations in automated deduction.

Los Angeles, University of California.

Berry, D.M.

A denotational sematics for shared-memory
parallelism and nondeterminism.

Lan, Lance Min-Tsung.

Characterization of intermodule communications
and heuristic task allocation for distributed
real-time systems.

Stephanie Johnston

Page 26

UTCS

Consulting and Enquiries

Advising Supervisor

Terry Jones

MP345

4757

External Marketing Consultant

Ihor Prociuk

MP350

6875

Erindale College

Joe Lim

2035

828-5311

Scarborough College

William Barek

S626

284-3173

General Enquiries

Dale Wright

EA206

4990

Account & Access Code Enquiries (U of T)

Agatha Stevens

MP337

8703

Account & Access Code Enquiries (External)

Sylvia May

MP337

7148

Tape Library (Academic Services)

Stella Martin

MP368

7319

Tape Library (Administrative Services)

Miranda Fong

MP368

6693

Terminal Rentals

tba

SF4306

3787

U of T Computer Library

Stephanie Johnston

EA206

2987

Central Advising Office (Appointments)

HELP

300 Baud Interactive Services

6200

Central Advising Office (Phone-in)

HELP

1200 Baud Interactive Services

3959

Microcomputer Support Group(MSG)

8701

DATAPAC

4320, 0056

Numerical/Statistical Advising(SNAC)

STAT

Telenet

0302043200056

System Status Enquiries (GP UNIX)

4318

Tymnet

<backspace > DPAC;302043200056

System Status Enquiries (IBM)

7393

UTCS Directory

Director

Dr. Warren Jackson

MP350

8948

Associate Director

Eugene Siciunas

MP350

5058

Managers

Communications & Technical Support

Norman Housley

SF4306

4967

Internal Systems & Administration

Ron Vander Kraats

MP350

4428

Operations

Dr. Bob Chambers

MP350

7092

Systems

Bill Lauriston

MP331

3579

User Interface

Don Gibson

MP350

7331

Committees

on Computing

UTCS Board

Chairman

Prof. D.M. Nowlan

4984

Committee on Academic Computing

Chairman

Prof. J.Z. Buchwald

7391

Committee on Computer Networks & Telecommunications

Chairman

Mr. A. Heyworth

4936

Committee on Computing Facilities & Services

Chairman

Prof. J.D. Bossons

8626

Natural Language Processing Steering Committee

Chairman

Prof. I. Lancashire

828-5273

UTCS Users’ Committee

Chairman

Prof. J.T. Stevenson

6930

Secretary

Ms. C. Pereira

4463

COMPUTERNEWS #225

Page 27

UTCS Terminal and Advising Sites

Names and Locations

• Central Advising Office (CAO), 978-HELP

• Education Facility (Educ), McLennan Labs, 60 St. George St., Room 221

• Engineering Annex (EAT, CDF), 11 King’s College Road, Rooms 103, 104, 107, 107B, 201, 203.

• Erindale College (Erin), 828-5339, Mississauga Road, Erindale Campus, Rooms 2005, 2039, 2045

• Robarts, Robarts Library, 130 St. George St., Room 1061A

• Scarborough College (Scar), 284-3122, Military Trail, Scarborough Campus, Rooms S624, S625, S627, S628, S628A

• Sidney Smith (AST & ASUT), 100 St. George St., Rooms 1071, 1073, 2105

• St.Michael’s College, 121 St. Joseph St., Room 107

• Trinity College, 6 Hoskins Ave., Room 024

• Victoria University, 73 Queens Park Cres., Room 005.

Sites

Hours of Access

Restrictions*

Advising

Mon-Thurs

Fri

Sat

Sun

AST

7:00-24:00

7:00-24:00

7:00-24:00

7:00-24:00

None

978-HELP for Research

ASUT

7:00-24:00

7:00-24:00

7:00-24:00

7:00-24:00

Under

No

CAO

10:00-18:00

10:00-18:00

closed

closed

Research

978-HELP

CDF

24 hrs

24 hrs

24 hrs

24 hrs

Undergrads

No

EAT

24 hrs

24 hrs

24 hrs

24 hrs

None

978-HELP for Research

Educ

24 hrst

24 hrst

24 hrst

24 hrst

Research**

978-HELP

(outer)

24 hrst

24 hrst

24 hrst

24 hrst

Research

978-HELP

Erin (2039)D

9:00-17:00

9:00-17:00

12:00-16:00

12:00-16:00

Research

Rm 2005

(2045)

24 hrs

24 hrs

24 hrs

24 hrs

Undergrads

Rm 2005

Robarts

8:30-23:00

8:30-23:00

9:00-17:00

closed

None

978-HELP for Reseach

Scar

9:00-24:00

9:00-24:00

10:00-17:00

closed

Research

Rm S626

Undergrads

Rm S626-A

St.Michael’s

24 hrs

24 hrs

24 hrs

24 hrs

None

Arranged by College

Trinity

8:00-22:00

8:00-22:00

8:00-22:00

8:00-22:00

None

Arranged by College

Victoria

8:30-23:00

8:30-23:00

closed

closed

None

Arranged by College

* Research includes graduates, faculty, staff. ** May be unavailable due to UTCS courses. □ key access available,
t Building open Mon. - Thurs. 7:00 - 22:00, Fri. 7:00 - 17:00. Building closed Sat. & Sun.

Advising Hours

CAO Monday through Friday, 10:00 - 18:00

Scar Monday through Friday, 09:00 - 17:00

Erin Mon. 09:00-17:00, Tues.-Thurs. 09:00-20:00, Fri. 09:00-17:00.

Services Available

(Y=yes, N=no)

Keypunch

PACX

Printers

Network

Terminal Server

DCS Micros

AST

N

N

Y

Y

N

ASUT

N

N

Y

N

Y

CDF

N

N

Y

N

N

EAT

Y

N

Y

Y

N

Educ

N

Y

N

N

N

Erin

N

Y

Y

Y

N

Robarts

N

Y

Y

N

Y

Scar

N

Y

Y

Y

N

St.Michael’s

N

Y

Y

N

Y

Trinity

N

N

Y

N

Y

Victoria

N

Y

Y

N

Y

Page 28

UTCS

UTCS Services

The principal mandate of UTCS is to plan, implement, carrier” data networks, and to plan and support divisional,

and operate central computer facilities and “common- departmental or project computer facilities as requested.

UTCS Centrally Owned and Managed:

Systems

•

Field Service Group installs and maintains communications
and computer systems on a contract basis or on

IBM MVS

a cost-per-call basis.

•

provides consulting on computer systems technology

• TSO, WYLBUR, APL, Batch

and installs computer systems

• 4381-R03 dual processor, 32 megabytes of memory

•

provides access between the IBM systems and machines

• MVS operating system

using UNIX, VMS and other operating systems. Ethernet
and Pronet technologies are used over various

IBM VM/CMS

transmission media including optical fibre.

More basic communications techniques are also

• provides General Purpose Timesharing, access to NetNorth,

used for moderate speed links.

B1TNET, and EARN networks

•

provides access to NetNorth (BITNET), the North American

• 4381-P02 processor, 16 megabytes of memory

Universities Network, and USENET, the UNIX networking

• CP operating system, VM/SP Release 3

fraternity.

CMS timesharing system, VM/SP Release 3

•

will provide a communications solution to department

RSCS spooling system, Release 3

needs on a contractual basis.

GP UNIX

User Interface Group

• provides General Purpose Timesharing using UNIX

Primary Phone: 978-HELP

• typesetting hardware (CAT/8), and (Varian)

•

provides advising, consulting and documentation on:

for previewing output

- command languages

• main UTCS node for USENET, the international

including CMS, TSO, WYLBUR, JCL and UNIX

UNIX network

- high level languages

• offers USENET “news" and electronic mail to

including FORTRAN, APL and PL/I

most uucp sites

- packages and libraries

including SAS, SPSS-X, BMDP, IMSL and NAg

- editors and formatters

including XEDIT, TSO, WYLBUR, ed, SCRIBE,

Services

nroff/troff

•

installs and maintains application packages

•

provides courses on the more popular services

Communications & Technical Support

•

provides general micro support:

Primary Phones: 978-3787, 978-4967

- selection consulting for hardware and software

- Micro Lab for evaluation of hardware and software

• Communications Group provides communications systems,

- advice on University discounts

terminals, modems, data channels: consulting

- media conversion and data transfer

and installation.

- operates UTCS Microcomputer Bulletin Board System

Facilities Managed by UTCS

Administrative Computing

• provides administrative IMS/VS,DB/DC, Batch and TSO

• 4341-P02 processor, 16 megabytes of memory

• MVS operating system

UNIX SAS (Statistical Analysis Services)

• provides UNIX Statistical Analysis Service (Dept, of Statistics only)

• PDP-11/70, 4 megabytes of memory

• UNIX Seventh Edition

Computer Disciplines Facility

VAX-11/780 (4 megabytes of memory)

VAX-11/750 (4 megabytes of memory)

VAX-11/750 (3 megabytes of memory)

• provide Computer Science interactive access

• UNIX (Berkeley Unix 4.2BSD)

82 Pronet-linked Microcomputers

• provides introductory Computer Science instruction

• MS/DOS with Turing environment

Scarborough College Systems

VAX-11/750 (5 megabytes of memory)

VAX-11/750 (2 megabytes of memory)

• provides instructional access using UNIX (Berkeley Unix 4.2BSD)
Erindale College Systems

VAX-11/780 (4 megabytes of memory)

• provides instructional access using VMS

• provides research access

VAX-11/750 (5 megabytes of memory)

• provides instructional access using UNIX (Berkeley Unix 4.2BSD)
Private Funding - Alumni Affairs

VAX-11/750 (6 megabytes of memory)

• provides database services to the owner departments using VMS

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