From: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Lamb)
Subject: temporary problems with comp.software-eng archives and FAQ
Organization: Computing & Information Science, Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 12:08:13 GMT

There was no FAQ posting in August, and the "real" one for September
will be delayed a couple of weeks (to mid or late September) due to
start-of-term pressures on my time.  Also, anonymous FTP is
temporarily unavailable at the archive site; if you want to retrieve
any of the archive files, use the mail server mentioned below.

Here is the partly-updated main FAQ file for September.  For the time
being the part about anonymous FTP is a lie, and the updated-in-August
files may not have made it to the archive host yet.

=============================== faqmsg ===============================
Subject: Comp.software-eng periodic postings and archives

Archive-name: software-eng/part0

Welcome to comp.software-eng, a newsgroup for discussion of software
engineering and related topics.  This message is followed by three others,
each summarizing a set of "frequently asked questions" (FAQs):
    FAQ 1: comp.software-eng questions and answers
    FAQ 2: CASE tools summary
    FAQ 3: Software engineering readings
Be warned: the only mechanism we use to compose these lists is to gather
information submitted by people around the net, post it regularly, and
incorporate feedback.  All evaluations are the opinions of those who submitted
them; your mileage may vary.  Send comments to dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David
Alex Lamb).

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Subject: comp.software-eng archives

The following files are available via anonymous FTP from directory
pub/software-eng on host ftp.qucis.queensu.ca (130.15.1.100).  Log in with
user ID 'anonymous' and use your mailing address as the password. Each file
has a header (in e-mail or news format) that credits the original collector.
If you cannot use FTP, send mail to archive-server@qucis.queensu.ca containing
a line of the form
	send software-eng f1 f2 ...
where f1, f2, and so on are the names of the files from this list; the mail
server should respond within an hour or so plus mailing delays (which can
themselves be substantial if you're not directly on the internet).  If you
want to find out more about the archive server, send mail to the same address
with a line containing the word 'help'; if you do this you can't also request
files in the same message.  If your mailer has trouble with large files, use
the 'size <bytes>' command to set a threshold, above which the server will
split files into several messages.
  Name             Changed Description
  faqmsg       22 Aug 1992 comp.software-eng periodic postings and archives
  questmsg      7 Jul 1992 FAQ 1: comp.software-eng questions and answers
  casemsg       7 Jul 1992 FAQ 2: CASE tools summary
  readmsg       7 Jul 1992 FAQ 3: Software engineering readings
  README        7 Jul 1992 This list of files
  2167a        11 Oct 1991 DoD-Std-2167a and life cycle models
  ada           2 Aug 1991 bibliography on Ada and software engineering
  aiswe        13 May 1992 readings: artificial intelligence and soft.eng.
  bachman      10 Sep 1991 Bachman information modeling
  bookreview   10 Apr 1992 Book reviews
  cadreTeam    10 Sep 1991 Opinions re CADRE Teamwork
  CASEexp       2 Oct 1991 experience with CASE tools
  cleanroom     9 Apr 1992 Cleanroom software development
  cmtools      10 Apr 1992 Configuration management tools
  color         4 Jun 1992 Ergonomics of color displays
  cubicle      28 Feb 1992 Productivity effect of offices vs. cubicles
  designchange  7 Jul 1992 Effect of design changes
  diagramedit  15 Feb 1992 Diagram editors and tools for building them
  education    10 Apr 1992 Software Engineering education and degree programs
  environment  15 May 1992 Software Engineering environments
  facet        18 Sep 1991 Faceted classification and multiple inheritance
  fault         7 Jul 1992 Fault Tolerance references
  formal       10 Apr 1992 formal methods in the USA
  funcpoints   10 Apr 1992 function/feature points
  hood          2 Oct 1991 Hierachical Object-Oriented Design
  horror       10 Apr 1992 Computer horror stories
  hungarian    11 Oct 1991 papers on Hungarian notation
  ieee          2 Oct 1991 IEEE software engineering standards
  inspect       7 Jul 1992 Code inspection techniques
  maint         9 Apr 1992 Software maintenance laws
  manuals       6 Mar 1992 Guidelines for software manuals
  maturity     15 Feb 1992 SEI Capability Maturity Model
  ooformat     10 Jan 1992 Format for object-oriented design documents
  oomaint      10 Apr 1992 maintenance and complexity in o-o systems
  oomethod     12 May 1992 Object-oriented methodologies
  pctecais      6 Mar 1992 Comments on PCTE, CAIS-A, ATIS
  pdcase        7 Jul 1992 Public-domain CASE tools
  petri         7 Jul 1992 Petri net tools
  pmtools       7 Jul 1992 Project management and design tools
  productivity 18 Sep 1991 Feature point productivity for several countries
  proto         7 Jul 1992 Prototyping
  rcshandout    7 Jul 1992 Tutorial handouts on RCS
  readcase     13 Feb 1992 Bibliography on CASE
  readintro    15 Feb 1992 Introducing your manager/customer to SE ideas
  realtime     15 Feb 1992 Information on realtime software development
  reflist      22 May 1992 Tero Ahtee's software engineering reference list
  regress      10 Jan 1992 Regression testing tools
  restruct      7 Jul 1992 Tools for restructuring and reverse engineering
  safety       10 Jan 1992 Formal methods and software safety
  specmark     15 Feb 1992 SPEC modern architecture benchmarks
  spiral       10 Jan 1992 References on Spiral life-cycle model
  statecharts  15 Feb 1992 Reference list on Harel's statecharts
  static        7 Jul 1992 Software metrics and static analysis
  statsTool    21 Oct 1991 X-based statistics and graphing packages
  sunCperf     17 Aug 1991 SUN/C performance baseline tools
  techTransfer 10 Apr 1992 Technology transfer
  testTools    10 Jun 1992 Tools for testing
  transynth    15 Feb 1992 Transformation/synthesis systems
  uims          7 Jul 1992 User Interface Management Systems
  vdm-z        15 Feb 1992 formal methods Z and VDM
  verification 10 Apr 1992 References on program verifier design

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Subject: WAIS server

I have created a WAIS database that indexes the comp.software-eng archives.
It's still experimental; I'm still playing with appropriate "file types" for
the various files, so you get a subsection of a file in response to a query,
instead of the whole giant file (at the moment only a few of the files are
subdivided, and not always in a useful way). The .src file follows at the end
of this message.

The following is taken from the WAIS FAQ.txt file: WAIS is available via
anonymous FTP from a variety of sources.  The main distributor is think.com,
in the wais subdirectory.
 a. a mac client?  
  think.com:/wais/WAIStation0.62.hqx
 b. a unix client?
  a few UNIX based clients are available in the core distribution, which
  can be found on think.com:
  think.com:/wais/wais-8-b#.tar.Z, where # is the most recent version (4 at
  this time).  This includes the server, and clients for X Windows, GNU
  Emacs and a couple of simple shell-based clients.
 c. a dos client?
  The University of North Carolina has been a main developement site for
  WAIS software.  Several DOS clients can be found in the FTP archives on
  wais.oit.unc.edu.
 d. a NeXT client?
  A client for NeXT can be found in think.com:/wais/XXX
 e. a VMS client?
  WAIS has been ported to VMS by the folks at the University of North
  Carolina.
 f. the server?
  An example WAIS server is part of the core distribution.



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-- 
David Alex Lamb				dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca
Computing and Information Science	phone:	(613) 545-6067
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6	
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng