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From: edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re: Japan-USA
Date: 9 Apr 92 22:56:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: pacificr.3361
Organization: The RAND Corporation

In article <9204031616.AA21525@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu writes:
>. . . . . I read an article a few
>months ago claiming the most significant reason why America is in such a
>depression is because it sold much of its resources to Japan with the land
>and with fewer resources, income greatly falls.

Untrue!  Especially when you consider that Japan isn't even the largest
foreign investor in the US!  (Try Great Britain or Canada, the Netherlands
not being far behind.)

Japanese investors have gotten Americans upset because (choose 1 or more):
	1) They tend to buy highly-visible "trophy" properties;
	2) There was a large upswing in Japanese investment late in
	   the 1980's (largely reversed in the early 1990's);
	3) Japanese aren't white, don't speak English (much), and have
	   an "exotic" national culture.

Unfortunately, (3) is all too often the reason why (1) and (2) get
noticed.

		-Ed Hall
		edhall@rand.org
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: y0l8009@TAMSUN.TAMU.EDU (Yoshih Lee)
Subject: Re: "Japanese Language Prificiency Test"
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 14:49:31 GMT

In article <9204090022.AA20602@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> you write:
>I have an emergent need to obtain a copy of the following publication:
>
>The Japan  Foundation, The 1990 Japanese Language Proficiency Test Level 3 and
>4, Bonjin-sha
>
>(Japanese title: Heisei 2 nen-do Nihongo Nooryoku Shiken)
>
>If you have seen a copy of this at some bookstore, could you let me know
>(hopefully with their phone number, as well).

If you find out which bookstore might carry it, could you please forward to
me any information on it as well?  Thank you very much!

Yoshih Lee
y0l8009@tamsun.tamu.edu
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: jason@writer.yorku.ca (Jason Nolan)
Subject: ftp-able kanjitalk and shareware???????
Originator: jason@grant
Organization: Computer Assisted Writing Centre, York University, Toronto, Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 23:07:01 GMT

Hi, I heard someone telling us that they got Kanjitalk for free on a
CD-rom. Are there any other ways to get it for free?  Is there an ftp
site? Is there someone who would get a kick out of mailing a copy to
me?

Also, I found Gomtalk (with is useless to me since I'm running 6.05), 
but it set me to wondering if there was enough share/free/postcardware
to get me started with alittle wordprocessing or something to tide 
me over until I've got a real job.  

Thanks in advance for the info.

Jason Nolan
__________________
Sometimes mistaken for the Grand Pootweet!
From: yakkn@allegretto.Corp.Sun.COM (Yakkn Suzuki)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re: gozaimasu or gozaimasita
Date: 14 Apr 92 21:45:23 GMT
Reply-To: yakkn@allegretto.Corp.Sun.COM
Organization: Nihon Sun Microsystems K.K.
NNTP-Posting-Host: allegretto.corp.sun.com


"arigatoo gozaimasu" -- present
"arigatoo gozaimasita" -- past

I think this is only a diffarence between these.

Yakkn
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: lisota@CAE.WISC.EDU
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Nifty Serve
Date: 13 Apr 92 16:31:17 GMT
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet

Dear nihongo persons:

Does anyone know about Nifty Serve in Japan?  I am looking to find out how
expensive it is, and whether or not it can send mail to the InterNet or
BitNet here in the US.  I will be in Japan this summer and again in January,
and there are a few people who I would like to keep in touch with using
email.  Or is there another service available that I should know about?

Also, I have an IBM PC compatible, running ProComm.  Would this be able to
access Nifty Serve?  Using english characters?  I am assuming that Japanese
computers will use the same modem protocols and all...

Please let me know if you have any information.

Thanks,

Kevin Lisota


lisota@cae.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: mako@uihepa.hep.uiuc.edu ("Makoto Shimojima, Univ of Tsukuba/CDF")
Subject: Re: gozaimasu or gozaimasita
Reply-To: mako@uihepa.hep.uiuc.edu
Organization: High Energy Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 05:27:17 GMT

> "arigatoo gozaimasu" -- present
> "arigatoo gozaimasita" -- past

"arigatoo gozaimasu" is more like "future". The difference is not in its
tense, but what each sentence refers to. You say "arigatou gozaimasu" if
he/she is _about_ to do something in favour of you; "arigatou gozaimashita"
_after_ he/she has done it. For example:

	"... Arigatou gozai masu. Soredewa yoroshiku onegai shimasu."
	                    ~~~~  ~~~~~~~~                     ~~~~
	"Sensei konoaida wa doumo arigatou gozai mashita. Okage de..."
	        ~~~~~~~~~~~                      ~~~~~~~

						mako
--
Makoto Shimojima

 Location    DECnet/ESnet  Bitnet         Internet
 UoTsukuba:  UTKBP::MAKO   -N/A-          mako%utkbp.dnet@kekux.kek.jp
 KEK:        KEKVAX::MAKO  MAKO@JPNKEKVX  mako@kekvax.kek.jp
>UoIllinois: UIHEP::MAKO   MAKO@UIUCHEPG  mako@uihepa.hep.uiuc.edu
 Fermilab:   FNAL::MAKO    MAKO@FNAL      mako@fnal.fnal.gov
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: dcrevier@jarthur.claremont.edu (Dan Crevier)
Subject: Japanese on a Macintosh
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 01:56:40 GMT

Hi, I recently got an Mac II, and want to get some software to do some
Japanese word processing and kanji learning type stuff.  I have Kanji Talk.
I will soon be getting a laser printer, and I am interested in printing good
quality stuff.  I heard that Kanji Talk only prints at 72 dpi.  Has anyone
ported jenscript to the Mac?  Also, has someone written an interface to use
edict?  Are there any ftp sites with Macintosh japanese software?

Thanks.

Dan
From: masseyj@NOVAVAX.NOVA.EDU (James Massey)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re:  East-West Music mixture
Date: 7 Apr 92 02:53:35 GMT
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet

I have indeed heard of and heard Tama, and think they might have an audience
among alternative music listeners in the US.  Shang Shang Typhoon I have never
heard; how can I get a recording?  It' s true about the "idols", I'm afraid.
Thanks for the info!

Jim Massey
Nova University
From: kuwata@FREYA.CS.UMASS.EDU
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: DOS/V
Date: 13 Apr 92 14:37:39 GMT
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet

Hi,

The following magic worked to me.

>DEVICE=a:\$FONT.SYS /HS=ON or /HS=LC
                     ^^^^^^
Just for your information.
From: mgilula@MIASUN.MED.MIAMI.EDU (Marshall Gilula)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: re: Japanese OS
Date: 13 Apr 92 03:53:52 GMT
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet

Maybe I have been getting company hype, but 2 of the 3 "you can not" will
be "can" by the end of May 1992....3.0 for the NeXT will be shipping, and
my understanding was that the -486 NeXTStep would be shipping at the same
although possibly not until the end of the second quarter [you may be right,
in translate to the end of the fourth quarter, and wait until the 4.0 version
comes before they REALLY get it right.  I just heard (possibly
underservedly) from some Japanese folk that it is supposed to truly
hot stuff in comparison to anything else they have right now.

Mainly being even more Maclike than than the Mac.  And that is one way that
I've always experienced the NeXT.  It's a hypersmooth continuum.  My
Japanese language skills are quite primitive and derived only
from watashino akachan, and I don't even has a grasp of the kana yet, so
I likely won't know beans about a Japanese OS other than babbling what
Japanese folks have told me. And maybe they were paid company subverts.
-73-
Marshall Gilula
NeRD#1054
From: DUELL@RMCS.CRANFIELD.AC.UK
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: MEIKO
Date: 6 Apr 92 14:31:00 GMT
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet

There is a piece of parallel-computing hardware called a MEIKO-surface
(although most people seem to pronounce it MAIKO). The name is supposed
to be a real japanese word, but does anyone know what it could mean? I
have heard that it may mean "well engineered" - is this so?

                Thanks.
From: jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au (Jim Breen)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re: Ready for another kana war?? (was Re: ankeeto)
Date: 12 Apr 92 23:05:06 GMT
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.

halldors@garlic.cs.titech.ac.jp (Magnus M. Halldorsson) writes:
>In article <9204100114.AA13537@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> kumiko@WADALAB.T.U-TOKYO.AC.JP (TANAKA Sho) writes:

>Q: Why not stick to the system everywhere and write "Tiba"??

>A: Face it, 'kunrei-shiki' is beyond silliness.

Please, please. An outbreak of the Holy Romanization War is the ultimate
silliness. I don't care a hoot which way you romanize; I never write romaji
except when keying into a program (MOKE/KINPUT/etc.) and then I use
whatever I feel like. 

PS, Tanaka-san, The sign on the platform at Chiba saya "CHIBA". So much for
the "system everywhere".
-- 
Jim Breen                           JIS:$B%8%`!!%V%j!<%s(J
Department of Robotics & Digital Technology. Monash University. 
PO Box 197 Caulfield East VIC 3145 Australia (ph) +61 3 573 2552 
(fax) +61 3 573 2745  AARNet/Internet:jwb@capek.rdt.monash.edu.au  
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: nakano@SUNCOM1.CS.SHINSHU-U.AC.JP (NAKANO Yasuaki)
Subject: Re: ankeeto
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 13:10:12 GMT

In article <9204092016.AA01974@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> you write:
>  P.S. Moshi watashi no Nihon-go ni fushizen na kasyo(basyo) ga areba REPLY
 MAIL
> wo
>       kudasai. Soreto, Roman-ji no tsukai kata ha Hebon-shiki wo BASE to
> shitemasu.
>        "wa" -> "ha" Especially, "watashi ha"...

I myself prefer Kunrei-siki to Hepburn style. But it is your choice.
However the particle "ha" will be written as "wa" in Hepburn style
(as well as in Kunrei-siki). You must not use "Roman-ji" for "Roma-ji".
A trivial bug: kasyo(basyo) might be kasho(basho) in Hepburn.
--
Yasuaki NAKANO
nakano@wakasato.cs.shinshu-u.ac.jp
From: mog7121@UXA.CSO.UIUC.EDU (Masahiro Ono)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re: Nifty Serve
Date: 13 Apr 92 23:22:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: bloom-be.9204132324.AA17384
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet

In sci.lang.japan you write:

>Does anyone know about Nifty Serve in Japan?  I am looking to find out how
>expensive it is, and whether or not it can send mail to the InterNet or
>BitNet here in the US.  I will be in Japan this summer and again in January,
>and there are a few people who I would like to keep in touch with using
>email.  Or is there another service available that I should know about?
...deleted
>Kevin Lisota

If you use Compuserve, you can access it from networks in japan.  I heard
Compuserve will charge each mail you send to Internet addr.  But you
will be charged as much as 35 dollars / hour for the network usage, though.
For more info. contact Compuserve.

mo.

--
    \\                         Masahiro Ono                        \\
      \\        College of Commerce and Business Administration      \\
        \\        University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign           \\
          \\        Internet: mog7121@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu                   \\
From: am@atina.ar (Alejandro F. Masino)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Hardware for Kanji, Laptops & Notebooks
Keywords: hardware notebook
Date: 10 Apr 92 00:27:44 GMT
Organization: MREyC, Argentina.

I intend to go Japan and take a computer with me. I want to buy a 
notebook/laptop to use it as a wordprocessor (moke/kg/jdic) as well as
for programming.
Are prices lower in Akihabara? I don't know whether to buy it in the States
or in Japan.
Which could be the best choice? I think VGA-LCD display, 80C386/286 processor
and 40Mb hard disk could be a good choice, but I wonder to know if someone
have experienced with laptops.
Could I have any trouble carrying a computer in Japanese Customs? Is it 
better to send it in advance as a "unaccompanied baggage"?

By the way, how are kanji fonts stored in japanese computers? Are the fonts
kept in ROM, is a display controller and/or a monitor feature? 

Any experienced person welcome!

Thanks in advance! 
Please reply by e-mail, I can hardly get news from this far place of the world.
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From: COX@HWS.BITNET
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re: Work & Study in Japan
Date: 5 Apr 92 23:33:00 GMT
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet

Hi there,
        No Pete, I'm sorry but this is not a response to your question.
I am in the process of doing a paper on the subject of foreign workers in
Japan, for my Jap. Econ. class.  I would appreciate any and all information
or suggestions.  Thanks,
                         Dan
                     COX@HWS.BITNET
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: rtang@sunee.waterloo.edu (He who must not be Named.)
Subject: Re: jiten FAQ?
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 09:54:44 GMT

With this discussion of Kanji dictionaries.
I might as well, put in my 2 yen worth.

I use the 'Kenkyusha New Japanese-English Character Dictionary'
It seem very complete and has many useful features.
ie) 6 different loookup methods - strokes, radical, english->, romanized->
   ,many examples usages, variant kanji, synonyms, related words
   ,under blue, they might have the kanji for red, green, colour etc.
   ,stroke order, and strange enough romanized chinese pronounciation.
   ,even how the kanji looks when used in caligraphy
It even redirects your lookup if you classified a kanji under the 'wrong'
stroke count.

The method of lookup that I found most useful is
one where you break up the kanji by radical, and then do a stroke count,
and classify whether its a top/down, left/right build up etc.
Its basically everything I ever need.  The bad point is that it
cost about 8000 yen. 


I would recommend this dictionary to anyone, who want to fork out the
dough.

Ray
From: ianf@aifh.ed.ac.uk (Ian Frank)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re: gozaimasu or gozaimasita
Date: 15 Apr 92 12:28:08 GMT
Reply-To: ianf@aifh.ed.ac.uk (Ian Frank)
Organization: Dept of AI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

"Makoto Shimojima, Univ of Tsukuba/CDF" writes:
# > "arigatoo gozaimasu" -- present
# > "arigatoo gozaimasita" -- past
# 
# "arigatoo gozaimasu" is more like "future". [deletions...]

Well, when I was working in Japan, my boss would come in each morning
and greet everyone with:

"Ohayoo gozaimashita!"

At first, I entertained the idea that this might be a deliberate ploy
to "Confuse The Foreigner", but it turned out that this is an acceptable 
local variation in some rural parts of Japan (I lived in beautiful 
Yamaguchi-ken).

Any offers to fit this into the above scheme?

	- Ian.

PS. "Japanese bosses always arrive later than their underlings, so
     they use `gozaimashita' to emphasise this hierarchy" will not
     be accepted as a valid explanation (although its _very_ plausible :-).
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: thies@bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Heinz-Georg Thies)
Subject: lean managment?
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 12:05:53 GMT



What is "lean managment" and "lean production"?

"Lean xxx" seems to be the new buzzword pretending to explain the 
Japanese and Korean superiority over the European Industry. As far as 
I understand it, the main points are fewer managers per worker and 
better flow of information from the workers to the managment even 
ignoring hierachical barriers.

A friend of mine has to write a paper on this topic. To base his 
claims on some facts he needs information on the managment structure 
of Japanese and Korean Industry.

He would much appreciate information or pointers to literature on:

-How many subordinates per manager?

-How many layers of managment from workshop to general manager?

-Who reports to whom?

especially concerning Japanese and Korean Industry, but information on 
other countries may be useful too.

Thank You very much for Your support.



Heinz-Georg Thies                       Sektion Physik der Universitaet Muenchen
Phone: (+49 89)3209 4071                Am Coulombwall 1
                                        D-8046 Garching, Germany
Internet: thies@charly.bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de
Xref: sparky sci.lang.japan:1904 comp.research.japan:144
From: adobe!lunde@uunet.uu.net (Ken Lunde)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan,comp.research.japan
Subject: Kanji-Flash/BTJ: a software companion to Basic Technical Japanese
Date: 6 Apr 92 15:40:35 GMT
Followup-To: sci.lang.japan
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated

[NOTE: I am posting this for a friend, so please do not respond to the
address in the header!]

    ***** Attention Scientists & Engineers Studying Japanese *****
           (or Japanese who want to learn technical English)

"Kanji-Flash/BTJ", a flashcard companion to the University of Wisconsin
Press textbook "Basic Technical Japanese" (BTJ) is now available.  It
is a comprehensive, versatile program that tests the 510 kanji and 4300
word vocabulary presented in the book (including its Appendix C).  
Starting from absolute zero knowledge of Japanese, this textbook/ 
software combination teaches the bulk of the vocabulary and grammar
found in Japanese technical papers, specification sheets, data books, 
and manuals.  The key vocabulary found in physics, chemistry,  
engineering, biology, and medicine are covered.

"Kanji-Flash/BTJ" is a DOS program which runs on IBM compatibles with
VGA or color EGA graphics.  Fast color Macintoshs (68030 and faster) 
can run it under the Insignia Solutions emulation program "Soft AT" 
(which must be purchased separately).

The user is tested on pronunciations (entered by romaji and displayed
in kana) and/or meanings (either multiple-choice or explicit entry).  A
background display shows the words in the lesson from which the target
word is selected (at random) and displayed in a large (48x48 pixel) 
font.  When a word is correctly identified, it is erased from the
background.  If it is missed, it is retested at an optionally-selected
re-hit rate.  The program keeps track of the missed words, and at the
end of the lesson, the user can optionally save the "missed word" list
to a disk file so that later testing can just involve the troublesome
words.

Pricing is as follows:

Quantity      Book         Kanji-Flash/BTJ        BTJ book & KF/BTJ

   1      $35 + 4.00 s&h    $79 + 2.50 s&h         $99 + 4.50 s&h

   2      $33 ea + 5.00     $69 ea + 3.50          $89 ea + 6.00

  3-4     $32 ea + 7.00     $59 ea + 4.00          $79 ea + 9.00

  5-9     $31 ea +12.50     $49 ea + 4.50          $69 ea +17.00

Prices are U.S. dollars.  Within the state of Maryland, a 5% sales tax
must be added.  Inquire for quantities of 10 or more.  Inquire for
shipping to Japan and/or payment in Yen.

Kanji-Flash/BTJ comes in a vinyl-covered case with both 3-1/2" and
5-1/4" diskettes.  A co-processor version is included, and its manual
has kana and kanji charts.

Contact:
             Craig Van Degrift
             Kanji-Flash Softworks
             P.O. Box 3119
             Gaithersburg, MD 20885-3119

             Phone:  301-279-2678
             FAX:    301-279-2598
             e-mail: 70530.704@CompuServe.com
From: mrc@TOMOBIKI-CHO.CAC.WASHINGTON.EDU (Mark Crispin)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: re: Japanese OS
Date: 13 Apr 92 02:43:26 GMT
Reply-To: NIHONGO@mitvma.mit.edu
Organization: The Internet
X-Unparsable-Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 22: 42:51 TZONE

There's a small problem with the suggestion to `get yourself a -486 machine
and purchase NeXTStep 3.0 for the best Japanese language (all four alphabets)
OS'.

You can not, at present, buy NeXTstep for a -486.
You can not, at present, buy NeXTstep 3.0 for any platform.
You can not, at present, buy the Japanese NeXTstep outside of Japan.

'486 NeXTstep will set you back $1K for a `user system' and $2.5K for a
`developer system' (i.e. something you can write programs on)...when it is
available.

Since NeXTstep 3.0 has not been released, we have no good way of knowing
whether or not 3.0 is a winner.  In general, 2.0 was much less reliable than
1.0; 2.1 was a minor improvement.  Unfortunately, 1.0 did not run on 68040
based machines so the option to stick with a stable OS did not exist.

There have been some distressing reports about the Japanese NeXTstep.  Among
other things, the $BJQ49(J (kana/kanji conversion) front end processor of
Japanese NeXTstep is rumored to be only mediocre.  Furthermore, it is reported
that Japanese NeXTstep, *if* it ever becomes available for NeXTs purchased
outside of Japan, will cost in the neighborhood of $2.5K.  The given reason
for this is the high cost of Japanese PostScript fonts.

At the present time, most people outside of Japan doing Japanese processing on
a NeXT are using the public-domain kterm, Wnn, and nemacs software with truly
ugly fonts for bitmap->PostScript printing.

On the Macintosh, you can buy KanjiTalk for $400.  It is System 6 based, but
what you do is first install KanjiTalk, then install System 7 on top of that,
then installed the wonderful GomTalk compatibility package that patches
KanjiTalk so it will run under System 7.  It all works like a champ.
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
From: san26524@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Raistlin)
Subject: Re: Power Japanese
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 04:12:24 GMT

herb@pluto.sybase.com (Herb Lison) writes:

>Has anyone seen the software package called "Power Japanese"?  I saw
>a very impressive demo recently and am considering recommending to
>some other people.

Yes! I bought a copy of it and am very pleased with it. It is MUCH better than
trying to learn from cassettes and a book. For those of you that haven't seen
a demo of it, it runs under MS Windows 3 and comes with a headphone/speaker
port that plugs into the printer port so you can hear the digitized voices.
If you'd like their address or other info, let me know.

-Scott Nash  (san26524@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu)
From: minoru@niksula.hut.fi (Minoru Huttunen)
Newsgroups: sci.lang.japan
Subject: Re: Escape sequences
Date: 14 Apr 92 16:51:02 GMT
Distribution: sci.lang.japan
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

In article <1992Apr14.085755.2345@nntp.hut.fi> jtyrkko@vipunen.hut.fi (Juha-Petri Tyrkk|) writes:

     Could anybody tell me the difference between the escape sequences
   that appear in JIS Kanji files? In some files the sequence is

     ESC $ @

     and in some others

     ESC $ B

From Ken Lunde's JAPAN.INF (v1.2)

  New-JIS  (1983)   <ESC> $ B  <ESC> ( J       <ESC> ( B
  Old-JIS  (1978)   <ESC> $ @  <ESC> ( J       <ESC> ( B
  NEC-JIS  (1978)   <ESC> K    <ESC> H         n/a

You can ftp the latest version of JAPAN.INF from nic.funet.fi.
/pub/culture/japan/info/japan.inf-1.2.Z

--
Minoru Huttunen		          $@%U%C%H%M%s!&<B(J
Department of CS, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Internet: Minoru.Huttunen@hut.fi  Bitnet:Minoru.Huttunen%hut.fi@FINHUT.BITNET