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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 09:18:14 EDT
From:         Scott <SBROOKS@PSUHMC.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Looking for a case insensitive lookup routine

While this topic is on the table I thought I'd ask another question:
Is there also some way (like EXECIO, Pipes, etc.) which allows one
to do faster searches than Xedit and also allows the power of the
Xedit Locate command.  For example, could the following Xedit Locate
command be duplicated?:  Locate /item1/ & ^/item2/ | /item3/

Scott

On Tue, 29 Sep 1992 16:09:19 EST Lawrence E. Rondot said:
>I am working on modifing the LISTVIEW routine from Dartmouth to use less
>virt storage.  Currently, it reads the file into storage and manipulates
>it with an XEDIT profile.  The only problem with this is that the file is
>growing too large.  This month it requires a 3M machine to use our front end
>exec plus load the file.
>
>So I am attempting to rewrite portions of the code to user EXECIO to preform
>the file IO to lessen the storage requirements.
>
>Our users like to be able to enter a keyword and have the search feature
>work no matter what case the word appears in the file (eg enter "word" and
>have it match "WORD", "WORd", "WOrd", "Word" or "word").
>
>When you are in XEDIT this is a trivial search by "SET CASE MIXED IGNORE".
>
>Now for my problem.  EXECIO is case sensitive.  Does anyone have (or know
>where you can find) a search routine that they have written that is case
>insenstiive?
>
>Thanks,
>Larry Rondot
>Rondot@IPFWVM      - or -      Rondot@SMTPLINK.IPFW.Indiana.EDU

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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 09:03:34 EST
From:         Nick Laflamme <NLAFLAMM@IRISHVMA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Looking for a case insensitive lookup routine

On Wed, 30 Sep 1992 09:18:14 EDT Scott said:
>While this topic is on the table I thought I'd ask another question:
>Is there also some way (like EXECIO, Pipes, etc.) which allows one
>to do faster searches than Xedit and also allows the power of the
>Xedit Locate command.  For example, could the following Xedit Locate
>command be duplicated?:  Locate /item1/ & ^/item2/ | /item3/

Case insensitive searches in Pipes are a pain, but they can be done
if you know a little about your data, especially how long the longest
lines are.

"Locate /item1/ | /item2/" is also slightly trickier in Pipes than in
XEDIT, but it's still fairly straight-forward.

Assuming all lines are 80 columns or less:

"PIPE (end \)" input,
  "| specs 1.80 1 1.80 81",  /* now 2 copies of data per line */
  "| xlate 1.80",            /* translate first copy to upper case */
  "| a: locate /ITEM1/ 1.80",     /* find upper case version */
  "| b: nlocate /ITEM2/ 1.80",
  "| c: faninany",           /* to merge both conditions together */
  "| specs 81.80 1"          /* strip off upper case version */
  output_stages,
  "\ a:"                     /* collect lines without item1 */
  "| d: faninany",           /* and whatever else */
  "| locate /ITEM3/ 1.80",   /* check for other valid condition */
  "| c:",
  "\ b:",                    /* lines with item2 in them */
  "| d:"                     /* go right back to test for item3 */

Basically, for the case insensitive search, you fold make a spare
copy of the data and fold it to upper case; then search on the upper
case data.

For the "or" logic, you have two paths for data: one which is
/item1/&^/item2/ and one with takes rejects from either of those
stages and checks the rejects for /item3/.

This pipe, by the way, is for (/item1/&^/item2/) | (/item3/).

Hope this helps someone,
Nick

* NLAFLAMM@IRISHVMA.BITNET
* Dominique.P.Laflamme.1@nd.edu
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 13:21:47 EST
From:         "C. D. Stravers" <POSTMAN@INDYMED.BITNET>
Subject:      Paper accounting

I have been asked to find a way to account for paper usage on the system
printers from VM. Does anyone have any experiences that might help me?

Thanks.
From: LJWIES01@ULKYVM.BITNET (Louis J. Wiesemann)
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Subject: LEDIT in XA
Date: 6 Oct 92 13:24:47 GMT
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   Is there a version of LEDIT that runs in an XA-mode virtual machine?  Or
is there something similar that will run in that environment?

   I have retrieved the most recent version of LEDIT from VM-UTIL and it still
fails in XA-mode.

   We are currently running VM/XA 2.1.

   Thanks for any information.


Louis J. Wiesemann
University of Louisville
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 23:46:59 EDT
From:         "(Wayne Smith)" <WTS@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Looking for a case insensitive lookup routine

CMS Pipelines can easily search a file in a case-insensitive fashion.
Either PIPE or SHOWfile as a data engine would require a new display
manager.

Wayne T. Smith, CCP
Systems Group - CAPS              BITNET/CREN:  wts@maine
University of Maine System        internet:     wts@maine.maine.edu
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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 05:49:54 TUR
From:         RITTERBUS001@WCSUB.CTSTATEU.EDU
Subject:      RE: Paper accounting
Comments: To: VM-UTIL%TREARN.BitNet@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU

>I have been asked to find a way to account for paper usage on the system
>printers from VM. Does anyone have any experiences that might help me?

If you are using RSCS to control the printers, I believe that it writes
out a disk accounting record for every report printed.  That record
includes (I believe), the number of bytes written and the number of
lines written.  Of course it will not precisely translate to pages,
but it will give you a good guideline.

We run a daily report that shows all of this data.  If you need more
information, let me know, and I will dig into it.



Jim Ritterbusch - student
Western Connecticut State Univ.
ritterbus001@wcsu.ctstateu.edu
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 13:56:37 EDT
From:         Ben Chi <BEC@ALBANY.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Text to Postscript converter

On Wed, 30 Sep 1992 11:40:15 EDT Steve Quan said:
>Does anyone know where I can find a text to postscript converter (like the
>Unix A2PS pgm) for CMS ?

I have a rexx exec (using PIPES) whose comments at the beginning read:

    PF2PS  fn1 ft1 fm1  fn2 ft2 fm2 [([CC|NOH][)[n] [L]]]   reads a file
    <fn1 ft1 fm1> and translates it to PostScript format, writing the result
    in <fn2 ft2 fm2>.  If the input file has printer control characters in
    column 1 (either ASA or channel commands), use the CC option.  Otherwise
    the file will be formatted 55 lines/page with a header on each page,
    giving the same appearance as does the standard CMS PRINT (NOCC)
    command, unless the NOH option is given, in which case the file will be
    formatted 58 lines/page with no header.  Options CC and NOH are
    mutually exclusive:  if both are specified, NOH is ignored.

    The parameter n following the options causes n copies of each page to
    be printed as it is encountered.  If n be unspecified, n = 1 is assumed.

    The flag L following the options causes printing to occure in landscape
    mode.  (The font size is reduced to permit the same number of lines/page
    as for portrait, with a resulting line width of about 150 characters.)

    Defaults:  ft1 = LISTING; fm1 = *; fn2 = fn1; ft2 = PS, fm2 = A1.

    Any existing <fn2 ft2 fm2> is overwritten without warning.

If there is sufficient interest, I'll put it on our LISTSERV.
                                             /b
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Date:         Fri, 25 Sep 1992 21:45:55 -0600
From:         Jay Falck <JFALCK%DIR.DECNET@RELAY.THE.NET>
Subject:      OS Format Backups
Comments: To: vm-util@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu

I have been asked to look into the availability of products that would
solve a need we have for backups. We are running Syback 2.2 for CMS
file level backups and image backups for disaster recovery. We use
Model204 for most of our applications (no snickers please) and are
looking for a way to do file level backups for these applications. The
files are OS format files on almost full pack minidisks.

Our current method is to back up the data with Syback in image format
and calculate the cylinders necessary to restore a particular file.
Because of the obvious danger in doing restores in this fashion (not to
mention files being out of sync if they span volumes) we need a new
way to do it.

Does anyone know if the MVS (gag) product FDR or something like it is
available for VM. We're running VM/XA SP 2.1 and are years from ESA
(maybe even never). Any help would be most appreciated.

Jay Falck                        internet: jfalck@ocs.dir.texas.gov
VM System Programmer             phone: 512-389-4986
Texas Parks & Wildlife Dept
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From: JOEUSER@NUACVM.ACNS.NWU.EDU (T. Stoodt)
Subject: Mixed case file names.
Organization: Northwestern University
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 21:00:07 GMT

Hi,
    I'm testing the NNR/VM client, and it puts a file with a
mixed case name on my A disk.  Can someone jog my memory as to how
I deal with these creatures?  How do I erase, edit, pipe em?
                                                 Thanks.  T.S.
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 16:09:19 EST
From:         "Lawrence E. Rondot" <RONDOT@IPFWVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Looking for a case insensitive lookup routine

I am working on modifing the LISTVIEW routine from Dartmouth to use less
virt storage.  Currently, it reads the file into storage and manipulates
it with an XEDIT profile.  The only problem with this is that the file is
growing too large.  This month it requires a 3M machine to use our front end
exec plus load the file.

So I am attempting to rewrite portions of the code to user EXECIO to preform
the file IO to lessen the storage requirements.

Our users like to be able to enter a keyword and have the search feature
work no matter what case the word appears in the file (eg enter "word" and
have it match "WORD", "WORd", "WOrd", "Word" or "word").

When you are in XEDIT this is a trivial search by "SET CASE MIXED IGNORE".

Now for my problem.  EXECIO is case sensitive.  Does anyone have (or know
where you can find) a search routine that they have written that is case
insenstiive?

Thanks,
Larry Rondot
Rondot@IPFWVM      - or -      Rondot@SMTPLINK.IPFW.Indiana.EDU
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 10:46:20 EDT
Reply-To:     Jim Cassell <CASSELL@UNCVM1.BITNET>
From:         Jim Cassell <CASSELL@UNCVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: McElwaine harangue

I've contacted Mr. McElwaine and his postmaster about this matter.
His postings clearly violate the norms surronding listserv groups and,
I belive, CREN's acceptable use policy.  I have asked that he post no
more political diatribes to this list.

We are also changing the list so that only subscribers will be able to
post to SOS-DATA.  Hopefully this will spare us "noise" such as the
mass-mailings that occasionally haunt the network.

Please contact me if you have any questions on these changes or
experience problems due to the change to a "send=private" list.

Best,
Jim

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Chapel Hill, NC  27599-3355                    Fax:    919-962-4777
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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 09:49:27 ECT
Reply-To:     Glenn Graham <BG0587@BINGVMB.BITNET>
From:         Glenn Graham <BG0587@BINGVMB.BITNET>
Subject:      Wellness Programs

One of my students is searching for a list of firms that have
instituted Wellness Programs.  Could anyone point us in the
right direction?    Thanks.........

Glenn Graham
Bg0587 at BINGVMB.bitnet
Bg0587 @ bingvmb.cc.binghamton.edu
From: CHUMPHRE@UALTAVM.BITNET (Chuck Humphrey)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.sos-data
Subject: Abuse of SOS-DATA
Date: 29 Sep 92 15:01:49 GMT
Reply-To: Chuck Humphrey <CHUMPHRE@UALTAVM.BITNET>
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I'd like to address Susan's concern about Robert McElwaine's message to
SOS-DATA about his opinion on abortion.  Robert is not a member of SOS-DATA
and is simply broadcasting his messages to open Lists.  SOS-DATA is an
open list which does not require membership to post items.  Anyone can
abuse the freedom of an open list, and, in my opinion, we are currently
experiencing someone who is abusing the openness of SOS-DATA communications.

Chuck
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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 14:38:00 CDT
Reply-To:     Lu Chou <LUCHOU@MACC.WISC.EDU>
From:         Lu Chou <LUCHOU@MACC.WISC.EDU>
Subject:      1960s municipal election data

Hi,
I am helping a researcher locate municipal election data collected in the
60s.  The data were collected in more than 500 cities in the U.S. in the
early 60s by International City Manager Association.  Unfortunately, ICMA
does not have these data any more.  I am sorry that I don't have a title
for this study.  I was told that registered voters were interviewed to collect
data on voting turnout and voting behavior in the municipal areas.
I wish that I could provide more information but this is all I have.
If anyone on the list-server happens to know this data set, please
contact me via email LUCHOU@MACC.WISC.EDU   Thanks a lot!!
Lu Chou
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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 15:31:23 EDT
Reply-To:     LOVE@TEMPLEVM.BITNET
From:         LOVE@TEMPLEVM.BITNET
Subject:      WINDO ALERT

                                  MEMO

From:          James Love
               Taxpayer Assets Project

RE:            Update on GPO WINDO legislation
               (HR 5983, successor to S. 2813 and HR 2772)

Date:          October 5, 1992


BACKGROUND

Congress is considering legislation that would provide the public
one-stop-shopping *online* access to federal information systems and
databases through the Government Printing Office (GPO).  The service,
which would *supplement* other agency and private sector information
products and services, would be priced at the *incremental cost of
dissemination* for most users, and be free to 1,400 federal depository
libraries.  A broad coalition of academic, library, journalist, citizen
and business groups support the legislation.

The original House bill was HR 2772, the GPO Wide Information Network
for Data Online (GPO WINDO), and the original Senate bill was S. 2813,
the GPO Gateway to Government Act.  A compromise bill, HR 5983 (which
has a number of concessions to House republicans)  was passed by the
House of Representatives on September 29, 1992.

     FMI:
     ====================================================
     fact sheets on S. 2813 and HR 2772,
     copies of S. 2813, HR 5983 or HR 5983, and
     a comparison between HR 5983 and HR 2772 and S 2813,
     can be obtained from:   tap@essential.org

     For additional information, contact the American
     Library Association at:  202/547-4440
     ====================================================

HR 5983 was scheduled for a Senate vote on friday, but it has since been
held off the Senate calendar by anonymous Senate republicans.  The
Senate leadership is trying to find who is holding the bill up, and why.
If the "holds" on the bill aren't resolved in a few days, the bill will
die, deferring action until next year at the earliest.


WHAT YOU CAN DO

If you support this important access broadening legislation, contact the
Senate leadership to urge action on the bill this year.  Since Congress
plans to adjourn this week, telephone calls are the preferred method for
making your views known.  [At this point, a single telephone call to the
right Senate office might make the difference.]

The current bill number and name is:

     HR 5983, the GPO Electronic Information Enhancement Act

Important telephone numbers to call are:

          SENATE

          Republican Leader
          Senator Robert J Dole (KA)         202/224-6521

          Assistant Republican Leader
          Senator Alan K. Simpson            202/224-3424

          Democratic Whip
          Senator Wendell H. Ford            202/224-4343


Any Senate office can be reached at:         202/224-3121

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James Love                         voice:    215/658-0880
Taxpayer Assets Project            fax:      call
12 Church Road                     internet: love@essential.org
Ardmore, PA  19003
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Date:         Mon, 5 Oct 1992 12:46:00 CDT
Reply-To:     Lu Chou <LUCHOU@MACC.WISC.EDU>
From:         Lu Chou <LUCHOU@MACC.WISC.EDU>
Subject:      1960s municipal election data

Hi, there is a researcher looking for 19
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 21:31:32 EDT
Reply-To:     Roger Burns <BFU@NIHCU.BITNET>
From:         Roger Burns <BFU@NIHCU.BITNET>
Subject: Re: Production & Price Data for some precious metals

> For a research project that i am involved in, i need production and
> price data for some precious metals, i.e. silver and gold, and some
> "industrials", like copper, aluminum, etc.
>
> If you have any knowledge about how and where i can locate this kind
> of data, PLEASE, let me know, a.s.a.p..
>
> N.B. E-mail replies to met@cunyvms.bitnet are preferred.
>
> Thank you all!
>
>
> A. Enis Kocagil

For U.S. production data for precious metals, contact the Bureau of Mines
(Dept. of Interior); for industrial metals, contact the Census of Manufactures
office within the Dept. of Commerce.  Price data may be more difficult
to come by.  Check the commodity pages of the Wall Street Journal; also
there may some useful listings in the Journal of Commerce.  If price
indexes will suffice, they are available at the Producer Price Index
office, Bureau of Labor Statistics (Dept. of Labor) and their telephone
number is 202-606-7705.

-- Roger Burns     Bureau of Labor Statistics     bfu@cu.nih.gov
1-202-606-7709     Washington, DC 20212  USA      bfu@nihcu.bitnet
From: CASSELL@UNCVM1.BITNET (Jim Cassell)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.sos-data
Subject: Suggestions for NLSY Workhistory Extraction Software?
Date: 6 Oct 92 15:58:45 GMT
Reply-To: Jim Cassell <CASSELL@UNCVM1.BITNET>
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I'm passing along the following request from Randall Olsen at CHHR.
Please direct comments to him (OLSEN@OHSTHR.BITNET).

                    --------------------------------

     Dear NLSY Workhistory User:

     The Center for Human Resource Research will soon begin development
     of extracting software for the CD-ROM version of the National
     Longitudinal Surveys of Youth Workhistory data.  The purpose of the
     software is to allow users to create an extract file of selected
     variables via a menu-driven interface.  The resultant file can then
     be used directly by a variety of available analysis routines.

     We are interested in your suggestions about how this software can be
     made most useful to our users.  In particular, we want to identify
     the ways users commonly extract the workhistory data.

     I encourage you to write me at the above address, phone me at
     614/442-7300, or bitnet me at OLSEN@OHSTHR with your comments.

     Sincerely
     Randall J. Olsen
     Principal Investigator
     National Longitudinal Surveys

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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 09:52:47 EDT
Reply-To:     Susan Anderson <APDU@PUCC.BITNET>
From:         Susan Anderson <APDU@PUCC.BITNET>
Subject:      McElwaine harangue

For what it's worth, I was offended when I logged onto my e-mail
this morning and read Robert McElwaine's diatribe on abortion.
I don't recall a message requesting that SOS-DATA subscribers send
in their thoughts on abortion, so where this came from I don't know.
I was under the impression that this listserver was for exchange of
information, scholarly inquiry, etc.  along  the social science data
lines.

Although I found what he said to be interesting (I am pro-CHOICE and
was in Washington in April for the March), if Mr. McElwaine wanted to
share his views on abortion, he should have sent out a message inviting
listserve members to contact him directly.   This kind of uninvited
hectoring neither persuades nor converts.   I am sure Mr. McElwaine
would have felt the same way if I had sent out an unsolicited message
on my views on the Forestry Service's poor record in handling yew bark,
which contains taxol, proven effective in combatting ovarian cancer.
The point is, it's a personal message -- not scholarly -- and no one asked.

Maybe there should be a Hyde Park Listserver  (or Andy Warhol Listserver)
where we all get a chance to share those feelings that ignite us.
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
Date: Tuesday, 6 Oct 1992 16:23:11 EDT
From: Andrew A. Beveridge <ANDQC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.sos-data,
Subject: Test Message For Jim

Dear Jim:

       As you requested!


                        Andy
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 14:22:07 EDT
Reply-To:     Ahmet Enis Kocagil <MET@CUNYVMS1.BITNET>
From:         Ahmet Enis Kocagil <MET@CUNYVMS1.BITNET>
Subject:      Production & Price Data for some precious metals

Hello,

For a research project that i am involved in, i need production and
price data for some precious metals, i.e. silver and gold, and some
"industrials", like copper, aluminum, etc.

If you have any knowledge about how and where i can locate this kind
of data, PLEASE, let me know, a.s.a.p..

N.B. E-mail replies to met@cunyvms.bitnet are preferred.

Thank you all!


A. Enis Kocagil
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