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From: maffeis@ifi.unizh.ch (Silvano Maffeis)
Newsgroups: comp.doc.techreports
Subject: UNIZH TR: Replication Heuristics and Polling Algorithms
Date: 21 Jul 92 16:46:44 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; Committee for Open Access Computing
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ifi-tr-92.06                   (available electronically as ifi-92.06.ps.Z)

Abstract

  This paper deals with the dynamic regulation of the
  level of replication in distributed systems, and leads to the introduction
  of replication-heuristics therefore.
  The question of which replica of an object should be referenced 
  by operations when several copies are
  provided at different remote sites in the net is also addressed.
  Polling-algorithms performing
  this choice will also be presented. Replication-heuristics and
  polling-algorithms are an important research field in distributed,
  replicating systems but not adequately treated yet. The purpose of 
  this work is to present possible solutions for these two problems 
  and to suggest how the
  area should further be studied. As an important application of
  replication-heuristics and polling-algorithms, a replicating file
  transfer protocol (RFTP) is proposed.



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Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets
Subject: Development Opportunity!
From: ebhanson@StarConn.com (E. B. Hanson)
Date: 30 Jul 92 07:28:57 GMT
Organization: Starnet-Public Access UNIX--Los Altos, CA  415-949-3133

This posting is to introduce you to Felis Software. Felis Software
publishes a quarterly catalog of software applications, utilities, and
templates for Mac and PC-compatible computer users. Felis handles the
marketing, product ordering, duplication, and shipping. In addition,
Felis provides technical support for these products. They are currently
looking to expand their catalog.

The programs included in the Felis catalog are carefully selected from
submissions received from developers like yourself. The developer
receives a substantial royalty for every unit Felis sells.

If you are interested in submitting a product for publication or want
more information about this opportunity, reply to this posting. I have a
developer's kit I would be happy to forward to you. If you'd rather
contact me by surface mail, that can be done also.

Eric Hanson
191 Harder Road, #122
Hayward, CA 94544
(510) 582-4300


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.apps.spreadsheets,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.windows.ms.programmer,comp.games.programmer
Subject: Development Opportunity!

This posting is to introduce you to Felis Software. Felis Software
publishes a quarterly catalog of software applications, utilities, and
templates for Mac and PC-compatible computer users. Felis handles the
marketing, product ordering, duplication, and shipping. In addition,
Felis provides technical support for these products. They are currently
looking to expand their catalog.

The programs included in the Felis catalog are carefully selected from
submissions received from developers like yourself. The developer
receives a substantial royalty for every unit Felis sells.

If you are interested in submitting a product for publication or want
more information about this opportunity, reply to this posting. I have a
developer's kit I would be happy to forward to you. If you'd rather
contact me by surface mail, that can be done also.

Eric Hanson
191 Harder Road, #122
Hayward, CA 94544
(510) 582-4300
Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets
From: quinlan@news.cis.ohio-state.edu (Eleanor Quinlan)
Subject: Spreadsheet Applications
Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:30:23 GMT


Can someone recommend a book that gives examples of using spreadsheets to
solve a variety of problems - sort of an 'Applied Spreadsheets' text?  I'm
teaching students how to use spreadsheets and I'd like to give them ideas on
how to use spreadsheets beyond the budgets and balance sheet applications
that most 'how-to' books describe.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Eleanor S. Quinlan              Department of Computer and Information Science
614-292-1443                                         The Ohio State University
quinlan@cis.ohio-state.edu         2036 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH USA 43210-1277
From: gregers@oase.kemi.aau.dk (Gregers Rom Andersen)
Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets
Subject: extracting from Excel
Summary: Program for writing data to other applications
Keywords: Excel,dataexchange
Date: 31 Jul 92 09:01:46 GMT
Organization: Aarhus University, Denmark

For feeding data into a robot, I want to extract  data from a spreadsheet
Excel on a Mac, in a simple way.
The data must be written in way suitable for input to
a fortran program running under VMS. Does anybody know about such
a program, macro etc.?
Gregers
From: louy@ellis.uchicago.edu (janet l mather)
Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets
Subject: Re: Spreadsheet Applications
Date: 30 Jul 92 15:47:28 GMT
Reply-To: louy@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

This is not a book with a variety of applications but they are not the
usual ones Spreadstat by Steven S. Ross published by McGraw Hill.  As the
title suggests it is a guide to using spreadsheets--specifically Lotus--
for statistical and scientific work.

I got this book when I realized I was going to have to learn Lotus and was
looking for something that would keep me interested enough to do it.  The
copyright is 1988 so it could be out of print.
From: lake@cwjcc.INS.CWRU.Edu (Dr. Robin Lake)
Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets
Subject: Re: extracting from Excel
Keywords: Excel,dataexchange
Date: 31 Jul 92 19:59:38 GMT
Reply-To: lake@po.CWRU.Edu
Organization: Case Western Reserve Univ. Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)

In article <gregers.712573306@oase> gregers@oase.kemi.aau.dk (Gregers Rom Andersen) writes:
>For feeding data into a robot, I want to extract  data from a spreadsheet
>Excel on a Mac, in a simple way.
>The data must be written in way suitable for input to
>a fortran program running under VMS. Does anybody know about such
>a program, macro etc.?
>Gregers


Thought #1:

Use an Excel macro to extract the information you want and write it out
in Text format into a file.

Thought #2:

Look at "Frontier", a Mac "shell scripting language", from UserLand, Inc.

Rob Lake
BP Research
lake@rcwcl1.dnet.bp.com
From: rath6051@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: comp.apps.spreadsheets
Subject: Lotus 123 help
Date: 29 Jul 92 14:47:51 -0500
Organization: University of Northern Iowa


        Could anyone please tell me the differences between Lotus 1-2-3 
version 2.2 and version .24.  What is the compatibility between files, what
features are different, etc.  This info would be of great help to me, if 
anyone can help, or can point me in the right direction.

        Thanks in advance for the help!



John Rath
Rath6051@iscsvax.uni.edu

Newsgroups: comp.ivideodisc
From: harbaugh@brahms.udel.edu (Alan Dale Harbaugh)
Subject: videodisc drivers wanted...
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 14:42:33 GMT

I have written a video database program which uses the InfoWindow and
MMotion videodisc drivers.  I would like to be able to use this program
on non-overlay setups using two screens (1 for video, 1 for text) so 
now I need some drivers which will allow me to send commands to 
Sony and Pioneer industrial laserdisc players.

Before I write them myself, I thought I'd ask if anyone
knows of any laser disc player drivers out there?


Alan Harbaugh
Instructional Technology
University of Delaware          |  harbaugh@brahms.udel.edu
From: inunn@hpb.hwc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.ivideodisc
Subject: FAQ +
Date: 16 Jul 92 09:45:00 EDT
Organization: Health and Welfare, Canada

I am doing a survey of video technology in ALL its aspects, not at this time
down to the programming level, but from the perspective of technical people
without a video background who want to understand the issues.  Is there a
FAQ for this group. Can anyone provide a list of reference material. Lastly,
if anyone has good reference material sources on technology outside this
news group, that would also be appreciated.

Many Thanks.

Ian Nunn
inunn@hpb.hwc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.ivideodisc
From: bovine@engin.umich.edu (Mitchell Rohde)
Subject: WANTED: MCA Discovision
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 22:42:56 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

  WANTED:

   I am looking for an MCA Discovision laser disk player in any
 condition.  PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE e-mail me if you know anytrhing.
  I will pay $$$$$$
                        bovine@CAEN.engin.umich.edu

Newsgroups: comp.ivideodisc
From: Perry Gray
Subject: ImagiTrek ??
Reply-To: pgray@sasktel.sk.ca
Organization: SaskTel
Distribution: World
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 21:44:37 GMT

I recently read about a product called ImagiTrek.

Can anyone send me some info on it?

Please email any responses.

Thanks in advance.

 
Newsgroups: comp.ivideodisc
From: bdr@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (brian.d.reed)
Subject: Noise on CLV disc
Keywords: Noise, clv
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 23:09:08 GMT

Just watched Hook--the musicians sure know how to wake you up if you
fall asleep--maybe it's the guy with the volume control.
 
The first 2 sides were CLV--I noticed some wavy lines here and there,
sort of like an old TV not quite tuned in.  The last side was CAV,
and came in great.  Is this anything that needs adjusting, a difference
in CLV and CAV, or the way the disc was made?  Kind of got annoying,
especially after putting out for something that I thought would be 
rid of that.  I've got a Pioneer CLD1030.


 Brian D. Reed    bdr@cbnewsg.cb.att.com   

Newsgroups: comp.ivideodisc
From: Perry Gray
Subject: Pioneer LD Info Needed
Reply-To: pgray@sasktel.sk.ca
Organization: SaskTel
Distribution: World
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 21:40:55 GMT

I'm looking for information on a Pioneer laser disk player which accepts two
disks at a time (ie. two copies of the same disk can be placed into the
machine, one to play side A, the other side B).

I would appreciate any info which could be provided (model #, technical specs,
price, etc).

Please email any responses.

Thanks in  advance.

 
Newsgroups: comp.ivideodisc
From: jay@val.com (Jay Riekenberg)
Subject: Re: SEGA VIP9500SG - is it good for anything?
Organization: Video Associates Labs
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 13:40:03 GMT

mann@intacc.uucp (Jeff Mann) writes:

>I found a laser disc player, a SEGA model VIP9500SG. It appears to
>be damaged. Is anyone familiar with this beast? I'm wondering whether
>I should try and get it repaired. It has an "external control" input
>which looks like an RS-232 port, and external sync and subcarrier
>inputs, which makes me think it might be a "professional" model.
>I don't know whether it is CAV or CLV. Any info appreciated.

It looks like it might be an OEM version of the Hitachi VIP9500.  Hitachi
manufactured a player that sounds a lot like this one several (7-8) years
ago.  It was an industrial player with 232 control. I don't know whether it
would play CLV, but it definitely did CAV.  We used to have one around here,
and actually had a driver for it at one time for use with our video overlay
products.

I would suggest that you contact Hitachi Sales Corporation for a service manual.
The latest number that I could find for an Eastern Regional Office is
(201) 935-8980 in Lyndhurst NJ.

If you have no success, we used to have a manual on the machine, although it
seems to be misplaced at the moment.  Please email if you need more help.

Jay Riekenberg
Video Associates Labs, Inc.
jay@val.com

Newsgroups: comp.patents
From: banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn)
Subject: [REQUEST] LZW compression patent and TIFF image format
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 03:09:33 GMT


	Could someone give me some information about the LZW compression
technique as applied to TIFF graphics files?  Is this covered under the
US patent 4558302 as claimed by unisys in the TIFF 6.0 specs?  Has anyone
licensed or been officially allowed to use LZW by unisys?  Email please,
will forward to interested parties.

j vinopal

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Newsgroups: comp.patents
From: md85-epi@byse.nada.kth.se (Urban Koistinen)
Subject: [REQUEST] Replacement for compress
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 16:06:30 GMT

In the GNU bulletin I see that a replacement for compress
is wanted.  I have studied some data compression techniques,
mostly variants of lz and huffman + some aritmetic coding.
I have even written a program that compress better than
compress, although it is too slow to be of much use.
(It even compressed files compressed by compress some 1-3%)

.....

Speed, compression ratio, non-patented, how good must it be?

Is a program with about the same capabilities as compress,
but without any known (to me) patents good enough?

I think a variation on huffman coding could be both fast
and good enough, but how many variations on huffman coding
are patented?

Urban Koistinen - md85-epi@nada.kth.se
Current writer of GNU Chess 5.0 - it will be great!
-- 
Urban Koistinen - md85-epi@nada.kth.se

[mod- I was under the impression that Huffman coding was not patents,
but dont quote me on this...]
Newsgroups: comp.patents
From: brnstnd@KRAMDEN.ACF.NYU.EDU (Dan Bernstein)
Subject: [DISC] Experimental Use (was Re: [ADMIN] Comp.patents FAQ 
Organization: IR
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 16:11:52 GMT

[mod- Hmm... There seems to be some contradiction here....
	Anybody wish to discuss so we can formualate something as 
	this is a question that comes up all the time]

Two additions to the FAQ:

> (v) Can I build a patented device for my own use and enjoyment?
> People build infringing items in their sheds all the time, I suppose.  But
> in most countries including the US, this is no defense to infringement.  

No. There is a strong precedent that ``experimental use does not
infringe a patent.'' There is case law at least from 1935, 1937, 1943,
1958, 1962, and 1978 supporting this; in the 1978 case, the company
defending itself for experimental use was IBM! Two of the cases defined
``experimental use'': viz., ``experiments for sole purpose of gratifying
philosophical taste or curiosity or for instruction and amusement.''
Such use never infringes a patent.

> In the United States, the founders of the Constitution
> recognized the value of patents in Section 8 of the US Constitution:

An alternate, and historically better documented, viewpoint is that the
founders did everything they could to _reduce_ the power of monopolies.
See prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/lpf/laf-fallacies.texi.Z for some interesting
discussion of this issue.

---Dan

Newsgroups: comp.patents
From: ppm@alba.e-burg.su (Pavchinsky Peter Mihailovich)
Subject: [REQUEST] Looking for addresses of Joint Venturers
Organization: Alba
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 11:18:25 GMT

Can anybody give me the Internet addresses of Joint Ventures
having a business in the area of marketing of objects of 
Intellectual Property...

Thanks you beforehand for any your advice.

P.P.M.

Newsgroups: comp.patents
From: abickel@top.cis.syr.edu (Art Bickel)
Subject: [INFO] HR 11; amorization of intellectual property
Organization: Syracuse University, CIS Dept.
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 12:51:07 GMT

Earlier this month the House passed HR 11, which is a tax bill that
includes a provision for a uniform 14 year amortization period for
newly acquired intellectual property.  This presumably includes
software, however protected.

It would be nice if commercial software generally did have a 14 year
useful life cycle, but most probably doesn't.  Has the software
community had any meaningful input into this legislation?  How do
people feel about having to amortize software over such a long period?

A. Bickel


Newsgroups: comp.editors
From: hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder)
Subject: Re: Capitalizing first [a-z] letter in sentence in vi
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 01:04:24 GMT

In <1992Jul22.215752.19032@news.acns.nwu.edu> navarra@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Navarra) writes:
>In article <1992Jul22.141433.26865@sci.kun.nl> I wrote:
>>How about:
>>
>>:g/[.!?])*[ ]*$/+s/[a-z]/\u&

>	I am not sure about this one. Can you explain it more? I am getting
>a "Not that many lines in buffer" error when I try it. 

OK, how about:

:1,$-1g/[.!?])*[ ]*$/+s/[A-Za-z]/\u&

It dissects as follows:

:		Means that it's an ex command.
1,$-1		The range of lines it must be applied to: from the first till
		the second last.  Your problem is that the last line ends
		in one of [.!?] and you can't ~ the first char of the last
		line +1, because there are "Not that many lines in buffer".
g		Short for global.  Applies the +s/[a-z]/\u& command to all
		lines matching the pattern /[.!?])*[ ]*$/.
/[.!?])*[ ]*$/ 	Pattern for lines ending in one of [.!?], possibly some )
		and white space.  Add a tab between the [] if necessary.
+		Short for .+1 i.e. apply the s/// bit to the next line
s/[A-Za-z]/	Replace the first letter...
\u		...by upper case of version of...
&		...whatever matched the first argument.

In the second argument of the s/// command, the magic sequence \u changes
the next letter to upper case, \U changes everything to upper case until
the next \e or \l or whatever.  The lower case versions are \l and \L.

--
Hope this helps,

Hans Mulder				hansm@cs.kun.nl
Newsgroups: comp.editors
From: wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolff)
Subject: Re: decent unix editors?
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 17:09:45 GMT


bkjacobs@eos.ncsu.edu wrote:

>I'm looking for a decent text editor for UNIX.  EMACS is
>cumbersome and don't even think about suggesting VI!  

I've just posted my adaptation of Mined to this group about a week ago.
It might be what you wish and it should still be available on the net.


bkjacobs@eos.ncsu.edu responded:

>It doesn't seem particularly clever to tell a bunch of 
>Unix users that their favorite editors (emacs, vi; note 
>capitalization) are indecent, and then ask for something
>that fits your model of decency.

Excuse me, but I think this is comp.editors, not comp.unix.editors 
or alt.fan.vi.

Thomas Wolff
wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de
From: dxc@netcom.com (Dixie Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: need source code in pascal for line editor
Summary: need pascal source code for a line editor
Keywords: pascal code, line editor
Date: 23 Jul 92 18:03:19 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

Would like pascal source code for a line editor similar to
MSDOS edlin editor, if one exists.  /dc
From: Reg Foulkes
Subject: Re: Capitalizing first [a-z] letter in sentence in vi
Organization: Bell-Northern Research
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 13:15:25 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.010424.4048@sci.kun.nl> hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder)
writes:

>It dissects as follows:
>
>:		Means that it's an ex command.
>1,$-1		The range of lines it must be applied to: from the first till
>		the second last.  Your problem is that the last line ends
>		in one of [.!?] and you can't ~ the first char of the last
>		line +1, because there are "Not that many lines in buffer".
>g		Short for global.  Applies the +s/[a-z]/\u& command to all
>		lines matching the pattern /[.!?])*[ ]*$/.
>/[.!?])*[ ]*$/ 	Pattern for lines ending in one of [.!?], possibly some )
>		and white space.  Add a tab between the [] if necessary.
>+		Short for .+1 i.e. apply the s/// bit to the next line
>s/[A-Za-z]/	Replace the first letter...
>\u		...by upper case of version of...
>&		...whatever matched the first argument.
>
>In the second argument of the s/// command, the magic sequence \u changes
>the next letter to upper case, \U changes everything to upper case until
>the next \e or \l or whatever.  The lower case versions are \l and \L.
>
>--
>Hope this helps,

  Hans, 
       What a beautiful piece of work. Care to write a book on vi?

--------------------------------
Reg Foulkes                             Bell-Northern Research
riskit@x400gate.bnr.ca           2745 Iris Street
Telephone :(613) 763-4131     Ottawa, Ontario., Canada  K1Y 4H7
Newsgroups: comp.editors
From: navarra@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Navarra)
Subject: Re: Capitalizing first [a-z] letter in sentence in vi
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 10:28:52 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.010424.4048@sci.kun.nl> hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder) writes:
>:1,$-1g/[.!?])*[ ]*$/+s/[A-Za-z]/\u&
>
	Ok, Hans, this works pretty well. (you can see it coming by now
can't you ;-) ) I added the TAB key in with the [SPACE] part to check for
sentences which ended with any whitespace combinations.
 	The only instances where this misses, that I can see, are as
follows:

1) It misses the first line because there is no punctutation before the
   first sentence. I.e., if the file started:

in the beginning....

   it would miss the 'i' because the search pattern found no [.!?] on
   the previous line. However, this is easily correctable by hand.

2) It misses instances where there are blank lines in between two 
   sentences. I.e., say your file was double spaced and it looked like
   this:

This is sentence one.

this is sentence two.  

   'this' would not be capitalized in the second sentence. 
   After some contemplation, the only thing I could think of two take 
   care of this situation is to do the following:

   :%s/^[SPACETAB]*$/./g

Which will make the file look like:

This is sentence one.
.
this is sentence two. 

    and run your substitution on it. Now the 'this' will be capitalized
    correctly. Now I can just do:

   :%s/^.$//g

    to get rid of all those '.' lines I just made. 
    The only problem with this approach is that a sentence obviously need 
    not end on each line but may contain a blank line in between anyway.
    Therefore, by deliberately inserting a '.', a line could be changed that
    wasn't supposed to be. However, this is the best I could come up
    with.  I am still open to suggestion on this one. Ah the headaches
    of regular expressions!


----------

And, while I'm at it, more progress on phase1:
we had this line:

:%s/[.!?])*[SPACETAB]*[a-z]/\U&/g

but the following is better:
:%s/[.!?])*[SPACETAB][SPACETAB]*[a-z]/\U&/g

The extra SPACETAB is in there to make sure words like
file.name  weird?construction wild!wild!wild 

are not capitalized. 

Getting tired of this yet? ;-(
-tms
Newsgroups: comp.editors