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ITRON Newsletter No.16
ITRON Technical Committee, TRON Association

Katsuta Building 5F, 3-39, Mita 1-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108, JAPANTEL: (03) 3454-3191
FAX: (03) 3454-3224

Upgrade of ITRON3.0 Speci cation(English version) announced

Connected to tron.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp.
220 tron FTP server (Version ....
Name (tron.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp: xxxx):
For the Name:, enter \anonymous"; and for
Password: enter your email address. Then proceed

The English version of the ITRON3.0 speci cation
has now been upgraded to Ver 3.02.00, in line withchanges in the Japanese edition. As with the earlierversion, it is being made available on line via the Internet.
To download the new edition, use anonymous ftp as
explained below. The ftp site is tron.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp(IP address: 133.11.11.12), and the speci cation le islocated in the directory pub/TRON/ITRON/SPEC.
If there is a demand for it, consideration is also being given to distributing the le on oppy disk. Pleasecontact the ITRON Technical Committee for details.
Note that the Japanese edition is published in bookform and is available in bookstores; there are no plans
to distribute it on line.

as follows when the ftp prompt appears.
ftp> cd /pub/TRON/ITRON/SPEC
ftp> dir

Here a list of available le names will be displayed.
Enter the le name as follows.
ftp> get < le name>
The designated le will then be downloaded to yourmachine. For more details on using ftp, refer to themanual for your machine or online service.

ITRON-related Publications
Listed in another page are the publications preparedand issued by the ITRON Technical Committee asof August 1, 1995. The ITRON-ITRON Standard
Handbook is a one-volume compilation of ITRON(Ver 2.0) and ITRON2 speci cations. Each of thepublications below can be obtained directly from thesources indicated.
The latest version of ITRON3.0 is now Ver
3.02.00. Changes made since the ITRON3.0 Standard Handbook was released (Ver 3.00.00) are noted
in Newsletter No.5 and No.11, as well as in ITRON
Standard Guidebook 2.
The recently issued ITRON Standard Guidebook
2, which is a general introduction to the ITRON speci cations, deals primarily with ITRON3.0. Meanwhile, the earlier ITRON Standard Guidebook '92{'93 remains as a valuable reference for use with theITRON (Ver 2.0) and ITRON2 speci cations, eventhough the dates in its title are now past.

Downloading by anonymous ftp

For those who are connected to the Internet by a shellaccount and do not use ftp client programs like Anarchie (Macintosh) or FTP Client for Windows, thefollowing procedure may be used to download les byanonymous ftp. An alternative for those with WWW
access is to use a Web browser and download from thefollowing site:
http://tron.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/TRON/ITRON/eng-spec.html
This explanation assumes the use of the standard
Unix ftp command on a machine connected to the Internet.
Start by entering the following command line.
% ftp tron.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp

If you get an \unknown host" or similar response, use
the IP address \133.11.11.12" instead of \tron.is.s.utokyo.ac.jp."
The following message should appear on your screen
after you connect successfully.

ITRON Open Seminar held in JulyThe ITRON Open Seminar took place July 20 inTokyo. These seminars are held annually to introduce
the latest ITRON speci cation implementations andy This newsletter is reprinted from TRONWARE vol.35 andTRON PROJECT BIMONTHLY No.40.

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ITRON-related Publications
NameTypePrice
Publisher
IssuedISBN No.
ITRON-ITRON Standard Handbook Speci cation (Jap.)
4,800Yen Personal Media Co. 1990 4-89362-079-7
ITRON3.0 Standard Handbook
Speci cation (Jap.)
4,000Yen Personal Media Co. 1993 4-89362-106-8
ITRON/FILE Standard Handbook
Speci cation (Jap.)
3,000Yen Personal Media Co. 1992 4-89362-092-4
ITRON Standard Guidebook '92{'93
Textbook (Jap.)
3,500Yen Personal Media Co. 1992 4-89362-197-6
ITRON Standard Guidebook 2Textbook (Jap.)
3,500Yen Personal Media Co. 1994 4-89362-133-5
ITRON Speci cation Ver 2.01.00.00 Speci cation (Eng.) 12,000Yen TRON Association 1989
{ITRON2 Speci cation Ver 2.02.00.10
Speci cation (Eng.) 15,000Yen TRON Association1990{
ITRON3.0 Speci cation Ver 3.02.00 Speci cation (Eng.){TRON Association1995{NOTES:- Prices do not include consumption tax.
- The documents issued by the TRON Association are available to Association members at a special discount rate.
- English-language speci cations are distributed free of charge on the Internet. Use anonymous ftp to access tron.is.s.
u-tokyo.ac.jp [133.11.11.12]. The les are located at /pub/TRON/ITRON/SPEC.

\Realizing a silicon TRON"
Takumi Nakano (Toyota College of Technology)\Research on ITRON speci cationsin the Sakamura Laboratory"
Hiroaki Takada (Univ. of Tokyo)
Nobuo Sakiyama (Univ. of Tokyo)
5. Special guest lecture: \The future of ITRON"
Ken Sakamura (Univ. of Tokyo)

other fruits of the ITRON subproject, and to present
updates on such issues as the ITRON development environment. This year marked the fth seminar in theseries.
The theme of this year's seminar was, \ITRON
Supportware: A Growing Store". The program, aslisted below, included presentations on the checksheets
developed to determine ITRON application compatibility, on development environments and middleware
supporting ITRON, application case studies, and research trends. A late addition to the list of presenters was Joseph Rothman of the U.S. rm CARDtools
Systems Corporation, who introduced his company's
CASE tools. The hall was lled to capacity by theattentive audience of around 90 persons.

In addition to the above presentations, workstations were set up in the hall running demonstrationsof the ITRON-supporting development environments
CARDtools and RTiplus. These proved of great interest to those in attendance.
A reception following the seminar was attended byaround 40 persons.

Date: Thursday, July 20
Time: 10:00 am { 5:30 pm
Place: Shinagawa Community Center \Kurian"(in Tokyo)
Program:
1. An update on the ITRON subproject
Kiichiro Tamaru (Toshiba Corporation)
2. Compatibility of ITRON application programs
Hiroaki Takada (Univ. of Tokyo)
Yasuhiro Kobayashi (Fujitsu Limited)
3. Development environment support for ITRON\A real-time software environment for ITRON"
Joseph Rothman (CARDtools Systems Corp.)
Tomoyuki Kurihara (Andor System Support)\Real-time software development system RTiplus"
Koichi Nakamoto (NEC Corporation)\TCP/IP library and le system for ITRON use"
Hiroyuki Kato (AI Corporation)
4. ITRON application case studies and research trends\How the ITRON FA computer TB-110 is used"
Shuji Yura (Japan Minicomputer Systems Co., Ltd.)2

ITRON seminars planned for China
As noted in Newsletter No.13, seminars are to beheld in China later this year, as part of the e ort tomake the ITRON speci cations more widely known
outside of Japan. Identical seminars will be held
in Beijing and Shanghai, on October 16 and 18, respectively. These \Japan-China Joint Workshops on
ITRON Technologies" will be attended by a numberof ITRON Technical Committee members and otherrepresentatives from Japan.