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From: wenlong@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (Wenlong Yue, Civil Transport, Rm G08)
Subject: Re: Telecom rate reduction for calls to China
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, Monash University 
Distribution: aus
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 06:09:22 GMT

In article <jan.727582943@wombaj.kowari.cpsg.com.au> jan@kowari.cpsg.com.au (Jian Cai) writes:
>From: jan@kowari.cpsg.com.au (Jian Cai)
>Subject: Re: Telecom rate reduction for calls to China
>Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 02:22:23 GMT
>xu@hydra.maths.unsw.oz.au () writes:
>
>>In its "0011 China Flesible Charge Rate" (rough translation) , there is
>>an off-peak 16% reduction rate to China, if the calls are made between
>>midnight to 6am, Monday to Friday, and whole day Saturday.
>Thanks for the information. I confirmed it with Telecom. But it should 
>include Sunday all day till Monday 6am.
>Not like "Family & Friend Plan" which requires fixed phone numbers,
>using 0011 China Plan you are not caught by limited phone numbers.
>
>Join now and save your phone for the coming new year!

Newsgroups: aus.culture.china
From: xu@hydra.maths.unsw.oz.au ()
Subject: phone calls to China
Organization: school of Mathematics UNSW
Distribution: aus
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 05:41:50 GMT


Thank for the info on Optus.  I was just going to say as well.  I saw an
a full page ad in today's Sydney Morning Herald by Optus, which claimed
specifically calls to China is to be lower than Telecom .  I think just
slightly lower.

I once rang Optus about rate to China and the answer was something like
$3.90 /min   .   Nothing like a little bit of competition.

So dial "1"  before normally 0011, and we'll enjoy the even lower rate
from Optus.

XU Ming Yang
Newsgroups: aus.culture.china
Subject: How to celebrate Spring Festival?
From: chai_z@wehi.edu.au
Date: 21 Jan 93 15:30:29 +1000
Organization: Walter & Eliza Hall Institute

          @@ HAPPY SPRING FESTIVAL @@



Are there any interesting programs in Melbourne China Town at the festival
this year?
From: gsrfy@levels.unisa.edu.au
Newsgroups: aus.culture.china
Subject: Converting ".gb" files to ".big5" format
Date: 26 Jan 93 13:52:31 +1030
Organization: University of South Australia


	Is there a utility for UNIX which will convert ".gb" format files
to ".big5" format ?

		Thanking you in anticipation
			Rick F.F. Yuan
			South Australia

Newsgroups: aus.culture.china
From: zwh@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au (Zheng Weihong)
Subject: Re: Telecom rate reduction for calls to China
Keywords: phone call to china
Reply-To: zwh@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au (Zheng Weihong)
Organization: University of NSW
Distribution: aus
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 05:25:14 GMT


--
In article <1993Jan20.091446.16505@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>, xu@hydra.maths.unsw.oz.au () writes:

|>Dear All,
|>
|>At last, there is one piece of good news with phone calls to China.
|>The Chinese Herald in Sydney has a report on Telecom telephone charge
|>rate change to China.  The gist of it is as follows:
|>
|>Telecom decided yesterday to reduce telephone rates to China. It's the
|>first time in its history for the company to adjust rates for China.
|>
|>In its "0011 China Flesible Charge Rate" (rough translation) , there is
|>an off-peak 16% reduction rate to China, if the calls are made between
|>midnight to 6am, Monday to Friday, and whole day Saturday.
|>
|>For a long time, international calls to China has been a fixed $15.57/per
|>five minutes.  Under the new system, it would be $13.06 off-peak,  slightly
|>lower than its compeitor, Optus, who offers $14.77
|>
|>To enjoy this rate, users have to pay $1 / per month fee. You may
|>ring Telecom hotline  008-052052  to establishh the benefit.
|>
|>XU Ming Yang
|>


Australian Chinese Daily (22 Jan.) has two advertisements from Optus and 
Telecom Australia respectively, the normal price for Optus is: 13.95/per five
minutes, and the off-peak price is 12.95/per five minutes, which is
slightly lower than that of Telecom Australia, and you do not need to pay
$1/per month for flexi-plans, (phone 008-500-999 for detail price of
Optus).


Zheng
Newsgroups: aus.culture.china
From: xu@hydra.maths.unsw.oz.au ()
Subject: Re: Converting ".gb" files to ".big5" format
Organization: school of Mathematics UNSW
Distribution: aus
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 08:47:56 GMT

Perhaps the following could be of some help, with your query to 
coversion between BIG5 and GB format in unix systems.

XU Ming Yang


============
UNIX:CONVERT
============

software: b2g
version : n/a
function: convert between GB and BIG5
ftp site: ifcss.org[129.107.1.155]:/software/unix/convert
filename: b2g.readme b2g.tar.Z
author  : Mark Leisher, Computing Research Lab, New Mexico State University
          Las Cruces, NM 88003
          email: mleisher@nmsu.edu
          email: mleisher@nmsu.bitnet
comment : this converter is based on an early version of 'hc' so it
          leaves more chars unconverted than '^software: hc' when
          converting BIG5 to GB.

software: hc
version : 1.2u
function: convert between GB and BIG5
ftp site: ifcss.org[129.107.1.155]:/software/unix/convert
filename: hc.readme hc.tar.Z
author  : Fung F. Lee and Ricky Yeung
          search '^software: HZ' and '^software: xhzview'
          for more info. 


Newsgroups: aus.culture.china
From: dave@philips.oz.au (David Torr)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 22:24:44 GMT
Organization: Philips Public Telecommunications Systems, Melbourne, Australia
Distribution: aus
Subject: LAN Protocol Analysers

I am looking for an "Ethernet" (802.3) protocol analyser that preferably gives
full packet decoding from Link right up to Application (which in my case is
primarily CMIP).

Anyone have any recommendations (preferably with name of a distributor and an
indication of price/features)?

Thanks in advance
-- 
Dave Torr                                   dave@philips.oz.au
Software Development Manager                Tel +61 3 881 3587
Philips PTS Melbourne Australia		    Fax +61 3 883 3577
Views expressed are personal and do not necessarily reflect Philips' policy.
Newsgroups: aus.comms
From: ggm@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (George Michaelson)
Subject: [Advise Wanted] importing a cellular phone into Australia
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:08:11 GMT

A friend passing through Hong Kong is considering buying a cheap cellular
phone. Could anybody who has experience of this area please advise of the
pitfalls?

	How many flavours of encoding/transmission are there in Australia?

	How is Austel approval worked out for imported units?

	How does import affect warranty/maintenance inside Australia?

	Is there any real price advantage?

	Does anybody have a recommended unit?


All input greatfully recieved. Mail or News...

-George


--
                         George Michaelson
G.Michaelson@cc.uq.oz.au The Prentice Centre      | There's no  market for
                         University of Queensland | hippos in Philadelphia
Phone: +61 7 365 4079    QLD Australia 4072       |          -Bertold Brecht
From: ddavidso@metz.une.edu.au (Dean Davidson)
Newsgroups: aus.comms
Subject: Re: Alpha phone numbers?
Date: 21 Jan 93 23:48:26 GMT
Organization: University of New England, Armidale, Australia

In article <1993Jan20.214658.10698@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> pgc@csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au (Phil Clark) writes:
>From article <1993Jan20.040335.20528@syacus.acus.oz.au>, by andrewf@syacus.acus.oz.au (Andrew Friedman):
>> chris@suite.sw.oz.au (Chris Maltby) writes:
>
>As I remember the letter to number mapping went something like this:
>
>ABC = 1     DEF = 2      GHI = 3    JK = 4     LMN = 5    OPR = 6
>STU = 7     VWX = 8      YZ  = 9
>
>0 was reserved for special functions such as "Operator".
>(I may be a liitle out with some of these, memory is very vague!)
>
Your memory *is* very vague :-)
If you read a previous posting of mine, (it did get out didn't it?)
you will see that not all letters were used.  The US system does,
but not the old Oz system.

Just in case my last posting didn't make it :

The definitive old Oz telephone letter scheme
A = 1
B = 2
F = 3
J = 4
L = 5
M = 6
U = 7
W = 8
X = 9
Y = 0

When I grew up in Wollongong:
The manual number was 873
The first automatic number was B4473  (all manual 8 prefixes became B44)
Then leters were phased out, to give 2 4473
Then they needed more numbers (also, I think this was about the time
of the introduction of STD) so the number changed to 29 4473

Sydney, being a much bigger place than Wollongong, had prefixes of
two letters, and then 4 digits

Hope this sheds some light on the topic


-- 
Dean Davidson                                 ddavidso@metz.une.edu.au
Dept Psychology                               Phone 61 67 73 2585
University of New England                     Fax   61 67 72 9816
Armidale NSW 2351 Australia                   VK2 ZID
From: sjm@cocamrd.mel.cocam.oz.au (John Machin)
Newsgroups: aus.comms
Subject: Re: Alpha phone numbers?
Date: 25 Jan 93 08:35:44 GMT
Organization: Co-Cam Computer Group, Oz

In article <1993Jan19.025825.16833@cujo.curtin.edu.au> steve@iron.curtin.edu.au (Steve Maddocks) writes:
|brendan@otc.otca.oz (Brendan Jones) writes:
|
|>Two programs are listed below.  A snack to write, really.  If the DTMF cipher
|>listed here does not compare with your keypad, that's easy enough to change.
|>(Q and Z are on the '1' key in this program)
|
|This is interesting (and a little bit of a worry) to me.
|
|The voice-mail system we use here at Curtin (Aspen) has NOTHING on the '1'
|key. 'Q' is on '7' and 'Z' is on '9'.
|
|However, the shiny new Touchfone 200 I bought for home (because I wanted
|alpha on the keys) has 'Q & Z' on the '1' key. Instant application
|incompatibility!
|
|Did someone mention an AUSTEL standard? Does anyone know if the Touchfone
|adheres to or ignores it?

My impression is that the Aspen system uses an American standard (or de
facto standard). The Touchphone 200 uses the Austel standard. I do recall
there was a small article in a daily newspaper when the Austel standard
came out; article grumbled that Austel std != Yank std.  Article quoted
Austel response which as I recall seemed pretty weak to me.

Anyone have any more details?


-- 
John Machin
c/o Jacques Martin Industry
100 Drummond St, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia
Phone: +61-3-667-9714 Fax: +61-3-667-9433 ACSNet: sjm@cocam.oz.au

" ... there is no finite line of demarcation which limits the powers
of the Analytical Engine" -- Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace
From: ddavidso@metz.une.edu.au (Dean Davidson)
Newsgroups: aus.comms
Subject: Re: Alpha phone numbers?
Date: 21 Jan 93 23:42:46 GMT
Organization: University of New England, Armidale, Australia

In article <1993Jan20.214658.10698@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> pgc@csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au (Phil Clark) writes:
>From article <1993Jan20.040335.20528@syacus.acus.oz.au>, by andrewf@syacus.acus.oz.au (Andrew Friedman):
>> chris@suite.sw.oz.au (Chris Maltby) writes:
>
>As I remember the letter to number mapping went something like this:
>
>ABC = 1     DEF = 2      GHI = 3    JK = 4     LMN = 5    OPR = 6
>STU = 7     VWX = 8      YZ  = 9
>
>0 was reserved for special functions such as "Operator".
>(I may be a liitle out with some of these, memory is very vague!)
>
Your memory *is* very vague :-)
If you read a previous posting of mine, (it did get out didn't it?)
you will see that not all letters were used.  The US system does,
but not the old Oz system.

Just in case my last posting didn't make it :

The definitive old Oz telephone letter scheme
A = 1
B = 2
F = 3
J = 4
L = 5
M = 6
U = 7
W = 8
X = 9
Y = 0

When I grew up in Wollongong:
The manual number was 873
The first automatic number was B4473  (all manual 8 prefixes became B44)
Then leters were phased out, to give 2 4473
Then they needed more numbers (also, I think this was about the time
of the introduction of STD) so the number changed to 29 4473

Sydney, being a much bigger place than Wollongong, had prefixes of
two letters, and then 4 digits

Hope this sheds some light on the topic


-- 
Dean Davidson                                 ddavidso@metz.une.edu.au
Dept Psychology                               Phone 61 67 73 2585
University of New England                     Fax   61 67 72 9816
Armidale NSW 2351 Australia                   VK2 ZID
Newsgroups: aus.comms
From: quodling@stimpy.enet.dec.com
Subject: Re: [Advise Wanted] importing a cellular phone into Australia
Organization: SPR Alpha Migration Centre
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:26:38 GMT

In article <C1FHDo.9Jp@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au>, ggm@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (George Michaelson) writes:
> A friend passing through Hong Kong is considering buying a cheap cellular
> phone. Could anybody who has experience of this area please advise of the
> pitfalls?
> 
> 	How many flavours of encoding/transmission are there in Australia?
> 

Two and a bit... There is the old original Mobile phone system. Slowly
disappear, no new registrations allowed. THere is the current aka telecom
mobilenet etc system, which is based on AMPS, and the soon to be introduced GSM
systems.

> 	How is Austel approval worked out for imported units?

It isn't. However, if you have a unit, that is identical to an Australian sold
and approved unit, and can prove at least 4 months of overseas use, and the
Australian supplier of said phone is in a good mood, then they can, for a hefty
fee, validate the phone and pass it to Austel for approval.
> 
> 	How does import affect warranty/maintenance inside Australia?

at the discretion of the supplier...
> 
> 	Is there any real price advantage?

Given the 4 months foreign use requirement, and probably two months to get it
through the Australian paperwork, I doubt it. I went through the numbers on
bringing a Motorola Microtac back from the U.S. with me, after having stayed
their for the last 3 years, and it was marginal...

> 
> 	Does anybody have a recommended unit?
> 
The AUdiovox Microlite is getting good reviews, the Motorola MIcrotac's get
mixed reviews (people either love em or hate em) I have been using a Fujitsu
aka telcom 3A and hate it (inconvenient battery life, and poor reception).

-- 
Peter Quodling		         Internet:     quodling@stimpy.enet.dec.com
SPR Alpha Migration Centre       UUCP: ...!decwrl!stimpy.enet!quodling
Sydney, Australia                Phone: 61-2-561 7272           _--_|\
Digital Equipment Corporation                                  /Aussie\
SNO1-3/C4                                                      \_.--._/
                                 I Said it, not them                 v
Newsgroups: aus.comms
From: ggm@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (George Michaelson)
Subject: Re: [Answer given] importing a cellular phone into Australia
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:04:43 GMT

[Answering his own request] 

ggm@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (George Michaelson) writes:
>A friend passing through Hong Kong is considering buying a cheap cellular
>phone. Could anybody who has experience of this area please advise of the
>pitfalls?
>	How many flavours of encoding/transmission are there in Australia?

Two:	GSM, the emerging digital standard, and the existing analogue one.
	
>	How is Austel approval worked out for imported units?

There is no such beast. ALL units are made in Australia, and are allocated
an ESN which is an electronic serial number, in PROM or on the board. This
is used to uniquely identify each handset. Certain countries outside OZ have
bileteral agreement to share the same ESN space so you can TEMPORARILY come
into the country with an external phone and use it, with bills going back to
your home account. 

You can't buy a unit without an ESN, and transferring the ESN from one handset
to another is very naughty. Its a cartel, call it what you want, but thats
how it is.

>	How does import affect warranty/maintenance inside Australia?

You can't get there from here so its a non-issue

>	Is there any real price advantage?

No. The overseas cheapo's are using standards like CT2 which is not used here.

>	Does anybody have a recommended unit?

No.  Don't do it.

	-George
--
                         George Michaelson
G.Michaelson@cc.uq.oz.au The Prentice Centre      | There's no  market for
                         University of Queensland | hippos in Philadelphia
Phone: +61 7 365 4079    QLD Australia 4072       |          -Bertold Brecht
From: dave@eram.esi.COM.AU (Dave Horsfall)
Newsgroups: aus.comms
Subject: Re: Alpha phone numbers?
Date: 25 Jan 93 04:03:21 GMT
Organization: Pacific ESI, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
X-Disclaimer: "Me, speak for us?"
X-Witty-Saying: "Mobius strip - see other side for instructions"

In article <1993Jan19.025825.16833@cujo.curtin.edu.au>,
    steve@iron.curtin.edu.au (Steve Maddocks) writes:

| The voice-mail system we use here at Curtin (Aspen) has NOTHING on the '1'
| key. 'Q' is on '7' and 'Z' is on '9'.

Strewth!  You're right!  Funny, I never noticed that (but then, I've never
had to spell names etc).  PS: it's now called Octel.

| However, the shiny new Touchfone 200 I bought for home (because I wanted
| alpha on the keys) has 'Q & Z' on the '1' key. Instant application
| incompatibility!

You can get these stickers from the supplier, that shows the map.

| Did someone mention an AUSTEL standard? Does anyone know if the Touchfone
| adheres to or ignores it?

Good question.  Did not comp.dcom.telecom mention that Q and Z were never
part of the scheme (confusion with O and 2 I suppose)?

-- 
Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU)         VK2KFU @ VK2RWI.NSW.AUS.OC
dave@esi.COM.AU                ...munnari!esi.COM.AU!dave
Newsgroups: aus.jobs
From: robin.hackett@admin.utas.edu.au (robin.hackett)
Subject: A/P University of Tasmania
Organization: Unit of Tas
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:31:31 GMT




University of Tasmania
Computing Centre
Analyst Programmer, Administration Information Systems Group
(REF     5/93)

As a senior member of the development team, the Analyst Programmer will
be involved in system analysis, design, programming and software 
maintenance of complex, real-time administrative systems at the Hobart
campus, as well as providing technical advice and support to other team
members, management and system users.  In the first instance the
position will probably mainly involve support of the University's Financial
Management System written in RPG on an IBM AS/400.

Applicants must be able to demonstrate  extensive experience in the 
development of multi user administrative application systems and preferably 
have some practical experience on this platform.  The university also has 
administrative systems in Prime Information, Oracle and Powerhouse.  
Experience with any of these, or with Macintosh, DOS PCs or UNIX would be 
an advantage.  

Commencing salary for this full-time, continuing position will be within 
the range $34,462-$38,808 (Computer Systems Officer 2).
Position information and application forms are available from the Staff 
Office Secretary, tel (002) 20 2013.  

Applications must reach the Staff Officer, University of Tasmania, 
GPO Box 252C, Hobart, TASMANIA 7001 by 8 Feb 93. 

Further information is available from Robin Hackett, Computing Centre 
(002) 20 2086, fax (002) 231772, email Robin.Hackett@admin.utas.edu.au.



Newsgroups: aus.jobs
From: elaine@mhs.oz.au (Elaine Pensabene)
Subject: Unidata Australasia - Position Vacant - Sydney
Organization: Message Handling Systems
Distribution: aus
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 00:44:23 GMT

Any interested parties please reply direct to Unidata Australasia.

				Thanks
				Elaine Pensabene



================================================================

                         POSITION VACANT
                    TWO CUSTOMER SERVICE ENGINEERS

================================================================


Unidata Australasia distributes and supports the Unidata RDBMS
throughout the Australasia region on behalf of its US
parent company.  As a result of continued growth, the company needs 
two engineers.

Reporting to the Customer Services Manager, the new appointees
will be involved in a wide range of activities including provision
of telephone support and integration services to customers.

Applicants will need to have experience in Unix, C and networking
and enjoy working in a small but dynamic environment. Knowledge of
RDBM<S and SQL technology would be an advantage. Interstate and
overseas travel opportunities are likely.

The job is located in Chatswood, and then to Lindfield when our
office moves to larger premises. Salary is dependent on experience,
and we are definitely interested in graduates in Computer Science.

An extensive on the job training program will be delivered in the 
UniData product, SQL (if required), and various aspects of Unix
(eg lex, and yacc).

Please send your resume to Charles Cave, Unidata Australasia
Level 8, Prudential Centre, 495 Victoria Avenue, Chatswood NSW 2067
or send by fax (02) 412 0092  or email:  cmc@unidata.oz.au.
Our telephone number is (02) 412 6340.

Newsgroups: aus.jobs
From: jenny@gphs.vuw.ac.nz (Jenny Rollo)
Subject: geophysics jobs
Organization: Institute of Geophysics, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 01:36:07 GMT

Hi,

I graduated at the end of last year with an M.Sc. in geophysics.  I have not yet
found employment in New Zealand, because jobs in this area of expertise are
virtually non-existent at the moment.  I am however working as a research assistant at the Geophysic's Institute of Victoria University of Wellington, but this is only temporary.  My question is to ask what openings are available in Australia for people of my qualifications, especially in Queensland. I am contemplating going on to do a Ph.D and wonder whether this is a necessary move to increase my employment potential in a geophysical job.

Thanks in advance.

Jenny Rollo.
jenny@gphs.vuw.ac.nz
From: andreas@informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Andreas Fasbender)
Newsgroups: aus.jobs
Subject: Aviation job
Followup-To: aus.jobs
Date: 24 Jan 1993 14:48:59 GMT
Organization: Institute of Computer Science IV
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: i2pc5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de

Hi everybody!

Im posting this mail for a friend of mine:

He is a graduated aerospace engineer who is searching for contacts
to aircraft manufacturers or airlines in Asia, New Guinea, Australia 
or New Zealand in order to get a medium-term-job (2 to 4 years).
Fields of application are e.g.
- instructor for crew or technical training,
- technical project manager,
- simulator system operator,
- aircraft maintenance (engineering).
He would appreciate any information.

I hope this is the group for job-requests. If not, could anyone
post the right one.

Thanks in advance
Andreas

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