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Subject: Re: Binding EVE_FIND_NEXT to a double key stroke.
From: "ken Fairfield; [415] 926-2924 SLAC"
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 16:38 PDT
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From:	IN%"W_COSTA@UNHH.UNH.EDU" 28-AUG-1992 22:03:51.47
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Subj:	Binding EVE_FIND_NEXT to a double key stroke.

Bill Costa (W_COSTA@UNHH.UNH.EDU) wrote:
> TPU folks...
>
>    Easy question (I hope).  I've figured out that to make CTRL-F call the
>    EVE_FIND routine, I can use the following TPU code in a COMMAND file:
>
>    	define_key('eve_find("")', key_name(CTRL_F_KEY));
>
>    But how would I bind CTRL-F CTRL-F (i.e. pressing CTRL-F twice) to the
>    eve_find_next routine?  (I've tried using the EVE$ source in
>    SYS$EXAMPLES: for inspiration, but there's too much I still don't
>    understand about TPU.)

    In essence, it already is ;-)  But you're missing a third parameter
in your define_key which is used by EVE$GET_FIND_TARGET (through EVE_FIND)
to decide that the key you typed at the "Find:" prompt was the key that
invoked EVE_FIND.  You need:

       define_key('eve_find("")', CTRL_F_KEY, " find");

Look in SYS$EXAMPLES:EVE$CORE.TPU at the procedure EVE$GET_FIND_TARGET for
(all the gory) details.

    If you'd rather not have to hit ctrl/f twice, that is, you'd like to
do a FIND NEXT with a single key stroke, put the following in your command
file:

       	define_key('eve$find_next', ctrl_g_key, " find_next");

Notice that you don't need a "key_name(...)" either here or in your eve_find
definition...

		Cheers, Ken
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Newsgroups: vmsnet.tpu
Subject: RE: Binding EVE_FIND_NEXT to a double key stroke.
From: "bill, ZK2-3/R15, 381-2313  31-Aug-1992 0850"
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 05:51:41 PDT
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Bill Costa writes:

>...
>    But how would I bind CTRL-F CTRL-F (i.e. pressing CTRL-F twice) to the
>    eve_find_next routine?

Just press twice any key defined as FIND, and EVE will do a Find Next for you.
When you press it the first time, EVE will prompt for the search string.
Press it the second time to terminate the prompt and have EVE find your
string again.

Bill
Former EVE/TPU developer
 _________________________________________________________________________
 Bill Robinson                               | robinson@tle.enet.dec.com
 Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua, NH   | Opinions are my own.
Newsgroups: gnu.chess
From: mwr@koel.mel.dit.CSIRO.AU (Mark Rawling)
Subject: Example of GNU Chess 4.0 patch level 58 blunder
Organization: CSIRO DIT (Melb.)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 08:36:28 GMT


Here is a game b/w sargon on a mac (white) and GNU chess
(black) . What is the story with blacks 23rd move?  Does it not see the
pawn on f4, or perhaps it thinks it has a check?  I can't reproduce the
problem by backing up a few moves, it always prefers 23 .. c8b7 if
given the chance, so it is something pretty subtle and no doubt nearly
impossible to find. There was definitely no mistake made on input and there
was no time problem for black so I would say it is a genuine bug.
The game continued as shown with no mistakes, so I guess both programs
knew where all the pieces were OK.


# xboard game file -- Mon Aug 31 17:59:56 1992
	mwr@koel vs. gnuchessx@localhost
	algebraic
1. b2b3 b8c6
2. b1c3 e7e6
3. g1f3 g8f6
4. e2e4 f8b4
5. c1b2 e8g8
6. e4e5 b4c3
7. b2c3 f6e4
8. c3b2 d7d6
9. d2d3 e4g5
10. f3d2 h7h6
11. b2a3 f7f6
12. e5d6 c7d6
13. f1e2 c6d4
14. e1g1 g8h8
15. f2f4 g5f7
16. e2h5 d4f5
17. d2c4 b7b5
18. d1f3 a8b8
19. c4e3 d8b6
20. a1e1 b6a5
21. e3f5 a5a3
22. f5e7 a3c5
23. f1f2 f7e5

Continues ...

24. f4e5 c8b7
25. e7g6 h8g8
26. f3h3 f8d8
27. e5f6 e6e5
28. f6f7 g8h7
29. e1f1 e5e4
30. g1h1 d8f8
31. h3f5 c5f5
32. f2f5 a7a6
33. h1g1 b7c6
34. f5f4 e4d3
35. c2d3 b8a8
36. f4g4 c6b7
37. g6f8 a8f8
38. h5g6 h7h8
39. f1e1 b7c6
40. g1h1 d6d5
41. g4f4 c6d7
42. e1e7 d7c6
43. e7c7 d5d4
44. c7c6 a6a5
45. c6c8 f8c8
46. f7f8q c8f8
47. f4f8 White wins
From: tomc@siesoft.co.uk (Tom Crossland)
Newsgroups: gnu.chess
Subject: Source?
Date: 1 Sep 92 13:33:42 GMT
Reply-To: tomc@siesoft.co.uk
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems Ltd.

Could someone tell me where to get the source for GNU chess v4?

Thanks,

Tom.
Newsgroups: gnu.chess
From: cracraft@ai.mit.edu (Stuart Cracraft)
Subject: GNU Chess 4.0 patchlevel 58 and Xboard 2.0 patchlevel 23 released
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 03:56:04 GMT

A new GNU Chess and Xboard are available in gnuchess-4.0.pl58.tar.Z
on prep.ai.mit.edu (18.71.0.38).

The changes to GNU Chess are more significant than at first glance.
Testing shows a score of 20 to 15 for GNU Chess 4.0 vs GNU Chess
3.1. This works out to a 50 point rating difference.  This version
of GNU Chess 4.0 (patchlevel 58) is probably stronger, it is safe
to say, than previous versions of GNU Chess, including the version
that won the recent Uniform Platform Computer Chess Tournament in
London, England.

Here is a description of the changes in Xboard, patchlevel 23:

   Mon Aug 10 18:40:47 PDT 1992 (patchlevel 23) mann@src.dec.com

   - Fixed parser bugs in handling moves with rank or file disambiguator,
   e.g. N1f3 or Ngf3.

   - Added code so parser can handle fully qualified algebraic, e.g.,
   Ng1-f3, N/g1-f3, Ng1f3, or even Pe2-e4.  The "P" and "/" work only for
   fully qualified moves, not generally.

   - Note parser limitation:  If a move is ambiguous, the parser takes
   the first possible interpretation it runs across instead of noticing
   the ambiguity and reporting an error.

And here are the changes in GNU Chess 4.0, patchlevel 58.

   Mon Aug 24 Patchlevel 58 Mike McGann (mwm@hssler.ascom.ch)
	   * add Mwpawn, Mbpawn, Mw..., Mb... , p and debug commands to
	   gnuchessr. 
	   * Fix bug in evaluation logic for hung pieces.
	   * Fix time control calculation to add time at time control

Let's thank Mike and Tim for their work.

--Stuart

Newsgroups: gnu.chess
From: Oliver Schoett <schoett@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Subject: Hash file is generated too large
Organization: Inst. fuer Informatik, Technische Univ. Muenchen, Germany
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 11:59:28 GMT

I tried generating the hash file with gnuchess -c 22, as suggested in
the man page.  This is supposed to make a 4 MB hash file, but instead
it wrote approx. 16 MB until the file system filled up.  Did I do
something wrong, or is this a bug?  (This is patchlevel 56 on SunOS
4.1.1, compiled with gcc 2.2.2, CFLAGS= -O2 -funroll-loops
-traditional-cpp # gnu cc 2.00 on SunOS.)

Another question: is there a way for the user to choose a different
book file than the (library) file name that has been compiled in?


Oliver Schoett     Inst. f. Informatik (H2), Technische Univ. M"unchen
                   Postfach 20 24 20,     8000 M"unchen 2,     Germany
schoett@informatik.tu-muenchen.de    phone +49 89 2105-2399  fax -8207
Newsgroups: gnu.chess
From: sje@xylos.ma30.bull.com (Steven J. Edwards)
Subject: SAN Kit: chess programming source kit freeware
Reply-To: sje@xylos.ma30.bull.com
Organization: Bull HN, Worldwide Information Systems, Billerica, Mass., USA
Distribution: gnu
Date: 25 Aug 92 17:05:26

[This has already appeared on rec.games.chess, but it was suggested
that I post it here in gnu.chess also.  My apologies if you've seen it
twice.]

I have just sent out the first copies of the SAN Kit freeware chess
programming package.  (SAN: Standard Algebraic Notation.)  It is about
53 Kbytes long, so it may possibly choke a few mailreaders.  If there
are e-mail distribution problems, perhaps someone can put the package
on an ftp site.

If you are a prospective chess software author interested in receiving
a copy, send me some e-mail with a subject line of "Send SANKit" and
it's on its way.  I hope that the README file and the sources provide
sufficient help as I do not have the time to offer much in the way of
personal assistance.  Like the README says: no warranty and use at
your own risk.

I hope that the gnuchess folk take a look; that way I won't have to
have my program Spector translate "Nfxg5+" into "f3g5" or vice versa.

I will hazard a guess by suggesting that a skilled C programmer could
use some of the SAN Kit routines provided and have his/her own
chessplaying program running in a week or so.  Just code a search and
an evaluation function and you're on your way!

 [The above opinions expressed are my own; not necessarily held by others.]
      == Steven J. Edwards           Bull HN Information Systems Inc. ==
      == (508) 294-3484              300 Concord Road         MS 820A ==
      == sje@xylos.ma30.bull.com     Billerica, MA 01821          USA ==
"That Government which Governs the Least, Governs Best." -- Thomas Jefferson
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From: rbm2273@ultb.isc.rit.edu (R.B. Mead )
Newsgroups: gnu.chess,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU Chess 4.0 pl56
Date: 26 Aug 92 23:03:24 GMT
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Originator: rbm2273@ultb

In article <dej.01dn@qpoint.ocunix.on.ca> dej@qpoint.ocunix.on.ca (David Jones) writes:
>In article <1992Aug22.194046.15367@ultb.isc.rit.edu> rbm2273@ultb.isc.rit.edu (R.B. Mead ) writes:
>>Type  Available    In-Use   Maximum   Largest
>>chip    1898328    197800   2096128   1866496
>>fast    4117520   3746800   7864320   3043240
>>total   6015848   3944600   9960448   3043240
>>8> gnuchessr
>>
>>Type  Available    In-Use   Maximum   Largest
>>chip    1898328    197800   2096128   1866496
>>fast    4117288   3747032   7864320   3043240
>>total   6015616   3944832   9960448   3043240
>>8>
>
>Is this serially reproducible?  Run it several times, w/o rebooting.  Do
>you get the same leak each time?  In particular, how much memory is
>allocated by IxemulBase (or whatever it's called)?
>

Yes! It was reproducible.  It had nothing to do with GNU Chess.
Thanks for your interest.

ANOTHER QUESTION:

Is GNUAN (the analysis program) functional and stable?  I tried it
very quickly and had some difficulty.  Quickly.... It began to evaluate
the game, but then seemed to stop after one or two moves.

I didn't look very hard at this.  For now, I just want a rough idea of
the state of this program.

Thanks... [ rbm2273@ultb.isc.rit.edu ]
Newsgroups: gnu.chess
From: ykyeung@cayley.uwaterloo.ca (Michael)
Subject: Help in Makefile
Keywords: BINDIR and LIB
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:57:06 GMT

	I am new using gnuchess4.0, I have problem to change Makefile in src ?
	I asked the administrator about the path name ? But according to the 
rule, we can't play games in student account. but I would like to try to play
for few. Is it work to know my path by typing 'pwd', say /tmp/spool/mike/gnuXXX/src ?

	Please explain to me. Thank you for help.


	Mike
From: rbm2273@ultb.isc.rit.edu (R.B. Mead )
Newsgroups: gnu.chess
Subject: Re: GNU Chess wins London computer chess tourney
Date: 23 Aug 92 23:12:25 GMT
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Originator: rbm2273@ultb

In article <714509485@romeo.cs.duke.edu> trt@duke.cs.duke.edu (Tom Truscott) writes:
>>I don't understand the discussion about what move is best. Any position can
>>be classified as follows: [6 classes are given]
>
>It is not necessarily that simple.
>At one extreme there are only 3 classes (won, drawn, lost).
>
>But surely a position that wins in 4 more moves is "better"
>than one that wins in 30 more moves?
>And even among positions that win in 4 more moves
>surely some are more aesthetically pleasing than others?
>(I prefer the ones where the pieces are in alphabetical order!)

I prefer boy, girl,..., but that's difficult with so many guys!

>
>At the other extreme every distinct position has a distinct ranking,
>so no two positions are considered equally "good".

Of course, there are a number of position pairs which must be assign
equivalent value.

There are symetrical properties of the board that lead to positions
of equivalent value.  Think a bit, you'll find one. (Hint: end games!)

>
>Current computer chess play makes the above rather academic, however.
>GNUchess does not "know" that it can win with an extra queen,
>let alone with a mere bishop.

How so?  It really depends on how near the end of the game it is.
Even I can see a one move mate, from time-to-time! Once she drops
the bra, that's usually a good indication! :)
Newsgroups: gnu.chess
From: weberk@marvin.cs.curtin.edu.au (Keven Weber)
Subject: NO LANGFILE - What??
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 09:39:23 GMT

After compiling and installing GNU chess v4.0:

When I run gnuchess I get the "NO LANGFILE" error message, but the langfile
is there.  (I did alter the Makefile (LIBDIR and BINDIR) for the new path).

Does anyone know what's up?

Cheers.

Keven
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Newsgroups: gnu.chess
From: md85-epi@alv.nada.kth.se (Urban Koistinen)
Subject: Re: Hash file is generated too large
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 14:52:19 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.115928.3124@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> schoett@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Oliver Schoett) writes:
->I tried generating the hash file with gnuchess -c 22, as suggested in
->the man page.  This is supposed to make a 4 MB hash file, but instead
->it wrote approx. 16 MB until the file system filled up.  Did I do
->something wrong, or is this a bug?  (This is patchlevel 56 on SunOS

You did something wrong :-)
Try gnuchess -c 10 first to see how big the file gets.

->4.1.1, compiled with gcc 2.2.2, CFLAGS= -O2 -funroll-loops
->-traditional-cpp # gnu cc 2.00 on SunOS.)

"-c 22" should create a hash file with 2^22 POSITIONS.
POSITION > Byte

For 5.0 I think file sizes should be in bytes if convenient.
Maybe the fast transposition table size should too.
It depend on the cost of % v & (mod versus and).

->
->Another question: is there a way for the user to choose a different
->book file than the (library) file name that has been compiled in?
Try using "ln -s defined-bookfile real-bookfile" :-)
See "man ln" for details.

->
->
->Oliver Schoett     Inst. f. Informatik (H2), Technische Univ. M"unchen
->                   Postfach 20 24 20,     8000 M"unchen 2,     Germany
->schoett@informatik.tu-muenchen.de    phone +49 89 2105-2399  fax -8207


-- 
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From: rbm2273@ultb.isc.rit.edu (R.B. Mead )
Newsgroups: gnu.chess,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: GNU Chess 4.0 - Recent Tournament!
Date: 26 Aug 92 23:40:22 GMT
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Originator: rbm2273@ultb

I've read a few articles regarding the:

Uniform Platform Computer Chess Tournament in London, England.

Does anyone know who (people/programs) participated in this tournament?

Can someone forward a game or two that GNU Chess played in this tourn?
You may mail this to me if you wish.

Thanks... [ rbm2273@ultb.isc.rit.edu ]

ps - I will be uploading 4.0 patch level 58 for the Amiga soon.
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From: dcubed@mercury.uleb.edu (Marcus Saulder)
Newsgroups: gnu.gnusenet.test,vmsnet.test,misc.test,alt.fan.warlord
Subject: male caucasian, brown hair, late 20's
Date: 27 Aug 92 12:39:50 GMT
Organization: University of Lebanon, N.H.
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              staff, functions, or entity of the University of Lebanon

Found in misc.test:

In <1992Aug23.041824.19821@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Jeremy Remer writes:
>Testing 1-2-3.....

>:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|
>|:INTERNET: jremer@ub.d.umn.edu             Jeremy Remer                    |:
>:|          jremer@va.d.umn.edu             Computer Science Major          :|
>|:          jremer@nyx.cs.du.edu            University of Minnesota, Duluth |:
>:|          JEREMYRR@ids.net                             - ______ -         :|
>|: PRODIGY: Jeremy Remer (NMRT67A)                      |/|______|\|        |:
>:| FIDONET: Jeremy.Remer@f76.n282.z1.fidonet.org     ___|/|      |\|___     :|
>|:    UUCP: ...{gatech,ames,rutgers}!ncar!asuvax!stjhmc!282!76!Jeremy.Remer |:
>:|                                                                          :|
>|:          Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.  Make it second nature.                 |:
>:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|

1,2,3,4... damn if he don't have *7* e-mail addresses.  And what is that ASCII
blob ???? Religious couple exchanging prayer on either side of a twin-size
hospital bed ????? Border style is either baudot test code or gothic pipe/colon.

Remodeling follows:  
--
INTERNET: jreamer@ub.d.umn.edu, va.d.umn.edu, nyx.cs.du.edu  or JEREMYRR@ids.net
PRODIGY: Jeremy Reamer (NMRT67A)  FIDONET: Jeremy.Reamer@f76.n282.z1.fidonet.org
    UUCP: {gatech,ames,rutgers}!ncar!asuvax!stjhmc!282!76!Jeremy.Reamer
Jeremy Reamer...Major Disk Waster, UM Dull-luth "Reduce, Reduce, that .sig "

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From: dcubed@mercury.uleb.edu (Marcus Saulder)
Newsgroups: gnu.gnusenet.test,vmsnet.test,misc.test,alt.fan.warlord
Subject: male caucasian, brown hair, late 20's no reply ignore 
Date: 27 Aug 92 12:39:50 GMT
Originator: supreme being  
Organization: University of Lebanon, N.H.
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              staff, functions, or entity of the University of Lebanon


Found in misc.test:

In <1992Aug23.041824.19821@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Jeremy Remer writes:
>Testing 1-2-3.....

>:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|
>|:INTERNET: jremer@ub.d.umn.edu             Jeremy Remer                    |:
>:|          jremer@va.d.umn.edu             Computer Science Major          :|
>|:          jremer@nyx.cs.du.edu            University of Minnesota, Duluth |:
>:|          JEREMYRR@ids.net                             - ______ -         :|
>|: PRODIGY: Jeremy Remer (NMRT67A)                      |/|______|\|        |:
>:| FIDONET: Jeremy.Remer@f76.n282.z1.fidonet.org     ___|/|      |\|___     :|
>|:    UUCP: ...{gatech,ames,rutgers}!ncar!asuvax!stjhmc!282!76!Jeremy.Remer |:
>:|                                                                          :|
>|:          Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.  Make it second nature.                 |:
>:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|

1,2,3,4... damn if he don't have *7* e-mail addresses.  And what is that ASCII
blob ???? Religious couple exchanging prayer on either side of a twin-size
hospital bed ????? Border style is either baudot test code or gothic pipe/colon.

Remodeling follows:  
--
INTERNET: jreamer@ub.d.umn.edu,va.d.umn.edu,nyx.cs.du.edu  or JEREMYRR@ids.net
PRODIGY: Jeremy Reamer (NMRT67A) FIDONET: Jeremy.Reamer@f76.n282.z1.fidonet.org
    UUCP: {gatech,ames,rutgers}!ncar!asuvax!stjhmc!282!76!Jeremy.Reamer
Jeremy Reamer...Major Disk Waster, UM Dull-luth "Reduce, Reduce, that .sig "

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Distribution: tor
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 23:24:48 GMT

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From: learn@speedy.acns.nwu.edu (William J. Vajk)
Subject: Re: AT&T Long Distance Boycott (was: BNR2SS, Mach, and The Lawsuit)
Organization: Dares No Organization Like Dis Organization
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 15:01:27 GMT

In article <ltjn#xg.strnlght@netcom.com> David Sternlight writes:


>Here is one more user who is not interested in Bill Vajk imposing his
>cause on me. He seems to think the situation is black and white and
>he is *****RIGHT*****. This message is to tell him not to be so
>certain.


Dear David,

Wanna clarify just what "cause" you are attributing to me?

Perhaps you would like to further demonstrate your inabilities in reading
and comprehension? 

Impose? My dear fellow, you are imposing, not I.

Bill Vajk
From: jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Photo-CD
Date: 1 Sep 92 21:07:30 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: forney.berkeley.edu

In article <3713.9209010917@pyr.swan.ac.uk> iiitac@PYR.SWAN.AC.UK (Alan Cox) writes:
>Once more I'm glad I live in europe. At least here they _can't_ stop me
>disassembling their code and writing compatibility for it into programs

Not for long.  Once the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade is signed,
you'll have all the same horrors in your patent law that we have in ours,
plus additional ones, thanks to the Bush Administration figuring out that
treaties can be a sneaky way to legislate a huge expansion of
"intellectual property rights".  Fortunately it's being held up by a
battle on agricultural subsidies, so it isn't international law yet.




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Joe Buck	jbuck@ohm.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.misc,comp.software.eng,comp.sw.components
From: lsimon@paradyne.com (Lenny Simon)
Subject: Version and Time Stamping
Organization: AT&T Paradyne, Largo, Florida
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:42:28 GMT