HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 92 06:58:39 GMT
From:         "Kevin V. Carosso" <KVC@SUMMER.INNOSOFT.COM>
Subject:      RE: Mail User agents
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Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pmdf-l

> We finally making efforts (and aparently have money too, wow) to have a
> complete mail solution.  We have both Macs and IBM compatibles on people's
> desk, very few VTs.  We would like a mail system that generally stores mail
> on a host, getting people to backup is not fun around here.
>
> I have looked at a couple of packages, but have not found the product that
> fits the mold here just yet.  Believe it or not, talking with Digital,
> MailWorks (A1 mail) seems to be most intersting to us.

I think A1MAIL is probably your best bet here.  All of the traditional PC based
solutions are not going to use the VAX as a mail server.  They can use the VAX
as a gateway (e.g. something like PMDF's cc:Mail channel) but you're going to
have to set up and run PC based post offices, as well as dedicated PC's for
gateways.  PMDF can help somewhat in tying them together, but you will be managi
   ng
PC servers, PC post-offices, and PC gateways, requiring multiple single-tasking
dedicated DOS machines.  Just an ugly solution.  All of this can be handled easi
   ly
by a VMS system with A1MAIL.  I'm sure that A1MAIL with PMDF-MR and other MR
gateways can provide connectivity (all on one single platform) to anything you
might need to talk to.

>                                                       A couple of questions
> that the Rep couldn't answer though, what transports/protocals can you run
> with the MailWorks client (both environments)??

Not sure of your question.  If you means where can you send mail, then
through Message Router you can get to:

    any PMDF    using PMDF-MR (SMTP/BITnet/VMS MAIL/PMDF-FAX/etc...)
    X.400       using MRX
    VMS MAIL    using PMDF-MR (or MRGATE -- better with PMDF-MR)
    SNADS       using MR/S
    PROFS       using MR/P

If you mean what is the transport between PC/Mac and A1MAIL server then the
answer is DECnet.  They may also support TCP/IP, but I'm not sure.

        /Kevin Carosso
         Innosoft
From: tkslen@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (Lenny Miceli)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pmdf-l
Subject: pmdf v4.1-1 and slow delivery
Keywords: pmdf v4.1-1 slow delivery
Date: 21 Aug 92 17:54:21 GMT
Reply-To: tkslen@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (Lenny Miceli)
Organization: SUNY at Buffalo, Systems group


I just installed vms v5.5-1 and pmdf v4.1-1 on monday.  Ever since then it seems
my queues build during the day (all of them from the local to the bitnet and
internet queues) then during the night they catch up.  I feel this is from the
low volume of new mail during the night.
Anyone have any idea's of what could be causing the performance problem.  The
cpu the queue is running on not 100% loaded.  The log files from the delivery's
show no errors, just successful delivery's.
When I installed pmdf all I did was run bitnet_domains.  Should I have run
something else?

Anyways, thanks in advance,
  Lenny
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From:         Stephen Tihor 212 998 3052 <TIHOR@NYUACF>
Subject:      RE: Mail User agents
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INdeed thsi is a case where the infamous SMTP TURN command, if usable, would be
appropraite to do the SMTP/system level version of POP.
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 92 00:58:33 GMT
From:         Ned Freed <NED@SIGURD.INNOSOFT.COM>
Subject:      RE: two minor points
X-To:         D.Nash@utexas.edu, IPMDF@YMIR
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One additional note on all this...

The precise format of returned messages is still very much up in the air.
Modulo MIME the format is pretty well set; it is fairly obvious what you
need and MIME addresses it very nicely.

What is still missing is the precise structure of the first part of the
message. That is, there needs to be a standardized format for error messages
that is both human readable (i.e. explains clearly what went wrong) as well
as machine readable (a program can deal with these things). This format has
not been defined yet, but there is work underway to do so.

Of course the act of retrofitting this into PMDF is much less than the work
needed to get things to be in MIME format. If all goes well the standard
format for the error report will also make gatewaying to X.400 very
easy, although X.400's inability to handle return-with-content in many
places may make such conversion rather problematic.

                                Ned
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 92 03:02:43 GMT
From:         "Daniel C. Newman" <DAN@INNOSOFT.COM>
Subject:      RE: question
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> Is it possible for a machine that only has internet connection to send
> mail to .bitnet address using PMDF alone (without Jnet) through
> gateway machines?

    Sure.  In fact, CONFIGURE.COM automatically puts in a rewrite rule to do
this using CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU as the Internet/BITNET gateway.  A lot of sites
then change this to use a some local Internet/BITNET gateway instead.

    If you do not have such a rewrite rule already, then just add the following
rewrite rule to your PMDF.CNF file:

BITNET             $U@$H$D@cunyvm.cuny.edu

> Sorry if this is FAQ.

No problem.

>  BTW is there a FAQ for this group?

Unfortunately not.  Some frequent _problems_ can be found in the Troubleshooting

& Maintenance chapter of the System Manager's Guide.  I'll give some thought
again to putting together a FAQ.  However, everyone should understand that we,
Innosoft, are more than happy to answer questions (even if some of them do
exasperate us at times ;-)  If you feel that your question is a FAQ and would
rather not trouble the whole world (info-pmdf) with it, then you can post to
service@innosoft.com which is read by just Innosoft personnel, call us at
+1 714 624 7907, drop us a FAX at +1 714 621 5319, or catch us at Walter's
(the coffee shop on 4th and Yale).

Dan
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Date:         Thu, 13 Aug 92 15:57:37 +1000
From:         andrewr@ITD.ADELAIDE.EDU.AU
Subject:      RE: Mail User agents
X-To:         "David J. Knapke 317/283-9420" <KNAPKE@BUTLERU>
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              <01GNIEH45BAA8ZDWGA@BUTLERU.BITNET>

In message <01GNIEH45BAA8ZDWGA@BUTLERU.BITNET> you write:

+ cc:Mail looked pretty good as well, but we are not sure how we are going to
+ serve it to close to 400 Macs.  On the DOS side, its easy, we have Novell

        We use Novell servers, as they appear as AppleShare File
Servers, so you have both Mac's and PC's accessing the same post
office sitting on the Novell server.

+ servers.  There has been discussion of the cc:Mail channel in PMDF and how
+ to push mail back and forth, that sounds good but a little ruff as far as
+ the particulars of pushing the files back and forth.  Ned mentions MIME
+ translation into cc:Mail, but said there were problems with multi-part mail
+ (if I recall correclty).  That confuses me since cc:Mail had the ability to
+ have multiple enclosures, or am I missing something??

        We are now in the process of configuring up a PC which will
run PC-NFS to access the VAX running PMDF and IPX to access to Novell
server concurrently, and using that to push messages backwards and
forwards automatically. Although we don't actually have it running as
yet (trying to get a modern PC-NFS) we've faked the rest out and it
looks like it should all work.

+ I wonder if this will divert peoples attention away from fueding??
+ (Sorry, I couldn't resist.  I think that we are lucky to have, as
+ someone else pointed out, a vender that is sincerely concerned about
+ there niche product and standards that revolve around it.)

        Agreed. Innosoft have done a lot, and their product is miles
ahead of anything else I've seen, IMHO. Keep up the good work, guys.

        Andrew.

/*
 * Andrew Rutherford                 andrewr@itd.adelaide.edu.au
 * +61 8 228 5669            Real Programmers always confuse Christmas and
 * Room 1060, Adelaide Uni      Halloween because OCT 31 == DEC 25 !
 */
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
Date: Tuesday, 18 Aug 1992 08:24:38 EDT
From: <EDSCC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.sas-l
Subject: Summary DOS/RISC6000 responses

  Thank you one and all for your responses to my DOS/RISC600.  The
  majority said buy a 486 PC.  One person suggested defragging the
  hard drive and using a memory cache -- good advice.  One person wished
  he was "broke" enought to buy a RISC6000.  (We're broke but there
  may be money in a grant for hardware.  You've heard that dream before?)
  Another person suggested combining the use of my PC with our mainframe.
  This seems the best idea.  When I used SPSSPC and SPSSX, the differences
  were just too great to re-write the programs and find the inevitable
  problems.  Finally, one person made a cogent argument for the demise
  of the RISC chip itself.  The premise is that the Intel chips and
  their clones dominate the market while RISC and Motorola have a very
  limited share which will be eclipsed as the new 32-byte Intel chips
  become cheaper to buy.

                        Again, thanks,

                                      Ed
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Date:         Fri, 21 Aug 1992 10:38:29 EDT
Reply-To:     Janice Winchell <WINCHELL@KENTVM.BITNET>
From:         Janice Winchell <WINCHELL@KENTVM.BITNET>
Subject:      error bars in gchart (6.07)

Anyone else out there finding discrepancies when attempting to use the
errorbars option in 6.07 ?  We don't seem to be getting the correct values
for the standard error of the mean.  Are we missing something or
misinterpreting what gchart is supposed to be doing?

We are talking sas 6.07 , ibm 4381 running vm/cms.

Thanks,

Jan Winchell
Systems Analyst
Academic Computer Services
Kent State University             BITNET:    WINCHELL@KENTVM
Kent, Ohio   USA   44242          INTERNET:  WINCHELL@KENTVM.KENT.EDU
216-672-2736
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From: tomh@wes.on.ca (Tom Haapanen)
Subject: SAS for OS/2 2.0 or Windows NT?
Organization: Waterloo Engineering Software
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 19:37:40 GMT

We're looking at different high-end PC platforms for running SAS -- this
precludes Windows 3.1 and plain DOS.  The platforms we're mostly interested
in are Windows NT and OS/2 2.0.

Questions:
  - I know SAS is available for OS/2, but the last version I've seen
    was still a 16-bit OS/2 1.x application.  Is a 32-bit version
    available yet?  Or has it at least been announced, with an expected
    date of availability?

  - There is a SAS available (or soon to be available?) for Windows 3.1.
    I don't expect that a Windows NT version would be ready yet :-), but
    have there been any announcements about whether NT will be a supported
    platform?

Also, is it generally possible to "trade up" your SAS license from one 
platform to another one (such as Windows 3.x to Windows NT)?

Thanks for any and all responses!

[ \tom haapanen    "i don't even know what street canada is on" -- al capone ]
[ tomh@wes.on.ca                   "trust the programmer" -- ansi c standard ]
[ waterloo engineering software      "to thine own self be true" -- polonius ]
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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 11:32:00 EST
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From:         WHITMIR1@NIEHS.BITNET
Subject:      SAS functions

Hello everyone,
I am using SAS functions, MOD and ABS. I don't get a right value.
I am trying to go to previous year based on the value in MO variable
Here is an example:
data one;
 set two;
mo = 15;
tst1mo = 1;
tst1yr = 77;
tempmo = mod(mo,12);
tst2mo = abs(tst1mo - tempmo);
tempyr = int(mo/12);
tst2yr = tst1yr - tempyr;
tst2_dt = mdy(tst2mo,01,tst2yr);
run;

The value of tst2mo should be equal to NOV (11) and the value of tst2yr
should be equal to 75.  In another word, I am trying to subtract no. of months
reported in "mo" variable from tst1mo tst1yr variables to go back in time.
So if my first test date (tst1mo tst1yr) is JANUARY 1977 and I subtract (mo)
15 months from it I should get (tst2mo tst2yr) NOVEMBER 1975.
I hope this is clear.  May be using MOD function is not a good idea.
Any solution would be apprecieated.
Thanks in advance.
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Date:         Fri, 14 Aug 1992 10:15:39 CET
Reply-To:     Arnold Schick <SCHICK@DMRHRZ11.BITNET>
From:         Arnold Schick <SCHICK@DMRHRZ11.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Convert and merge
Comments: To: HOGE@CUA.BITNET

On Thu, 13 Aug 1992 12:27:00 EDT Fenggang Yang <HOGE@CUA.BITNET> wrote:
>
>Hello, Everyone,
>
>I'm new to this list, and very new in SAS.
>

All beginners are welcome ! And at a time has begun everyone.

>1. I need to read a portable sas data file and save it to a SAS DATA FILE.
>   This is a huge file.  I actually need 1/4 of the variables only.
>   How can I save this subset of data file in this step?
>

With the WHERE clause within a SAS datastep read SAS only those values
into that variables, which are named in this statement.

i.e.         filename file_in 'see operation.dependent:filename\convention';
             data one;
               where v_nam_01 v_nam_03 v_nam_09-v_nam29 v_nam34-v_nam43 ;
               infile file_in;
               input v_nam_01-v_nam99 ;
             run;

SAS statements are described in SAS Language Guide, complete examples in
Application Guide and some also in the RtFM (Readable Friendly Manuals)
of the SAS language.

>2. I need to convert CHARACTER variables into NUMERICAL variables while
>   re-code every value of '-' or '&' into missing.  In SPSS, the command
>   is    RECODE VARA (CONVERT) '-'=99 '&'=99 INTO VARB
>   Is there an equavalent command in SAS?
>

You are in luck, just at this time a SAS user asked the same.
Bob Snyder answered yesterday, and the SAS user summarized to the
list SAS-L.

>3. I have another data set in SPSS system format.  I need to 'merge'
>   or 'match' this file with the subset of the SAS DATA FILE.  The
>   matching variable is IDC.  How do I do this?
>

A sort of data by a variable can be done through procedure SORT. A system
file from SPSS is to convert in ASCII format within from SPSS (formated
output) and to read in SAS as shown above, where a SPSS system file can
also be read on some platforms (e.g. CMS) from SAS.
The sort is to do as shown here in ascending order of collating sequence
from the smallest to largest character value:

i.e.           proc sort data=one out=result;
                 by IDC;
               run;

and the procedure PRINT can print it, but how ? Take a look at procedure
description of procedure PRINT in the SAS Procedure Guide (description
order of procedures is alphabetically, as a dictionary).

>Some simple examples would be very helpful.
>
>
>I'm scared and confused by the volumes of manuals of SAS.  I tried many
>times to figure out the ways to solve my problems, but the explanation
>and examples are so difficult to be understood.  Why don't the SAS
>people write simple manuals like the SPSS people do?  Many people
>told me that SAS gives better statistical outputs.  I guess I have
>to learn this no matter how painful it will be.
>

All beginnings are painful.

>Thank you for any help.
>
>Fenggang Yang

Hope, I helped a bit.

Arnold Schick  University of Marburg/Germany
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Reply-To:     "Brian Platts kgispy.ccsd.uts.edu.au" <B.Platts@KGI.UTS.EDU.AU>
From:         "Brian Platts kgispy.ccsd.uts.edu.au" <B.Platts@KGI.UTS.EDU.AU>
Subject:      Thanks
Comments: To: SAS-L%AWIIMC12.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu

Many thanks to everyone who solved my factor analysis problem. Despite
some reservations about the procedure, it is good to know how to do it.
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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 10:21:57 CDT
Reply-To:     "R. Snyder" <rsnyder@LOBBY.TI.COM>
From:         "R. Snyder" <rsnyder@LOBBY.TI.COM>
Subject:      Re: SAS/AF beginner needs suggestions
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              92 10:56 am

Dawn writes:
>
> CONTENT:   SAS/AF beginner needs suggestions
> REL/PLTF:  mine is VAX/VMS running SAS v6.06
> E-ADDR:    DALMAS@NIEHS.BITNET
> NAME:      Dawn Dalmas
> DATE:      August 20, 1992
>
> I'd like to develop SAS/AF applications for data entry which are menu-driven
> and user-friendly, featuring data/field value restrictions, help selections,
> user-generation of reports, resulting in creation of SAS datasets.  Sounds
> like a job for SAS/AF, right?  But I'm having a little trouble getting
 started,
> and would appreciate suggestions/comments/advice aimed at my level (SAS
> programmer with no AF or SCL experience).  I have one Fine Manual at my
> fingertips: SAS/AF Usage & Reference, Vs. 6, 1st edition.  The Ch.10 (p.172)
> description of PROC BUILD states ability to "read from and write to SAS data
> sets" yet I'm not clear on just how to do this.  Are there other manuals/books
> you'd recommend with tutorial-type examples?  Is the SI course "SAS/AF
 Software
> Applications Using Screen Control Language" worth the money?
>
Dawn,

I believe the p. 172 reference is to several SCL language functions which are
documented in the SAS Screen Control Language Reference, Version 6, First
Edition. This manual is a must. Also available now is SAS Screen Control
Language, Usage, Version 6, First Edition. It looks to be pretty good.

I took the AF class from SI and highly recommend it. If price is a problem,
order the Course Notes for $50.00 and work through them on your own ( with
SAS-L to answer questions, of course ).

Regards,

Bob Snyder, Texas Instruments, Sherman TX
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Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 20:50:10 CDT
Reply-To:     UMEXYM1@MIZZOU1.BITNET
From:         UMEXYM1@MIZZOU1.BITNET
Subject:      easiest question

I want to create a variable (id) that number the observations by an
existing variable (school), so that the data looks like this:
     ID       SCHOOL
      1       1001
      2       1001
      ,,       ,,
      1       1002
      2       1002
      ''      ''    ;
I know the command has something to do with 'obs', but cannot find
it on the manual. Please send the answer directly to me at UMEXYM1@MIZZOU1
THANKS
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From: macq@miguel.llnl.gov (Don MacQueen)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.sas-l
Subject: Re: Help needed: positions of windows and looping
Date: 20 Aug 92 23:46:35 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

In article <22823.9208201851@chpc.chpc.org>, ggu@CHPC.ORG (Gary G. Gu) writes:
|> Hello,
|> 
|> My friend thought I'm a programmer so I ought to be able to fix her
|> SAS problems. I failed and I'm turning to the net for help.
|> 
|> 1. How do I control the positions of the windows under X. I'm using a
|> DEC 3100 running Motif window manager. I've tried using SAS global
|> command `wsave all', but when I start SAS from scratch, the windows
|> still showed up in random places (well, places Mwm generated). Why can't
|> I use the .Xdefault resource file to inform SAS my preference? What
|> are the names of the resources? SAS technical people, please help.
|> 
A long time ago I succeeded in doing what I believe your friend wants.
Here is what I recall.

Since she's running under X, she should be seeing windows with menus that
have titles such as 'File' 'Edit' 'View', etc. Under the View menu is an
item named 'Save Attributes'. After using the mouse to resize and relocate
a SAS window, select and execute the Save Attributes item. Next time she
starts SAS, the window should come up where it was when Save Attributes was
selected.

|> 2. My limited experience using SAS in helping my friend tells me that
|> IF-THEN and GOTO statements work only inside the DATA step. How do I
|> control the execution of procedures? For example, how do I ask SAS
|> to execute:
|>   proc print;
|> a number of times? I'd like to say:
|>    do i=1 to 10;
|>      proc print;
|>      run;
|>    end;
|> I'm spoiled with a general programming langauge like C or Lisp where
|> the programmer has a lot of control. SAS seems to offer very limited
|> control structures. I hope I'm wrong.
|> 
|> 3. How do I send a variable to a title? I need to have to title to
|> say "this is histogram 1" and next time "this is histogram 2". It
|> seems there is no way to make title take a variable.
|> 
|> 4. Is there a FAQ for this group that I can get on the net? I am afraid
|> that since I'm new to SAS, I must be asking questions people have asked
|> years ago. I'd save you a lot of time if I can consult the FAQ file first.
|> 
|> Thank you and your help will be greatly appreciated.

-- 
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Don MacQueen                   macq@miguel.llnl.gov
Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab.
7000 East Ave., L-307          (510) 423-1062
Livermore, CA 94550
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From: snalo@orca.alaska.edu (Lewis Overton)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.sas-l
Subject: SAS datasets ====> .wks
Date: 19 Aug 92 19:22:39 GMT
Followup-To: bit.listserv.sas-l
Organization: U of Alaska

In article <SAS-L%92081812533005@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>, Greg Nelson
<GNELSON@UGA.BITNET> wrote:
> 
> Does anyone have any experience in working with transferring data from a SAS
> dataset to a lotus or Excel file?

This is essentially the same as Steve Doig's answer about transferring data
from SAS datasets to a desktop spreadsheet. I use it for Mac-based EXCEL,
which is happier with tab-delimited fields than all those quotes.

I've included the MVS definitions for the sequential file. It is allocated
only the first time, then reused with overwrite on subsequent usages. You
could fancy this up with macros to specify source dataset and destination
file, but since I copy this code in and modify it (specifying which
variables to write) I haven't bothered.

  filename xfer '.xfer.data' disp=(mod,catlg,delete)
   space=(trk,(10,10))        /* create */
   ;

  data _null_;
   file xfer old recfm=vb blksize=204 lrecl=200
   ;
   set ht.people ;
   put
    ssn       '05'x
    name      '05'x
    mau       '05'x
    div       '05'x
    dept      '05'x
    unit      '05'x
   ;
  run;

Lewis Overton, University of Alaska
snalo@orca.alaska.edu  or  snalo@alaska.bitnet