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2. important ACF Telephone Numbers General Information ACF 998 3333 Account Information 998 3035 Computer Status recording 998 3433 Computer Documentation 998 3036 Faculty Microcomputer Lab 998 3044 Tape Librarian 998 3452 Applications Consultants 14 Washington Place Tisch Hall Education Building Warren Weaver Hall Third Ave North Res Hall Computer Operators 14 Washington Place Tisch Hall Education Building 998 3421 Warren Weaver Hall 998 3456 Third Ave North Res Hall 998 3504 998 3396 998 3434 998 3435 998 3037 998 3500 998 3457 998 3409 Dial in Access to ACF Computers Via NYU NET NYU s campus wide network If calling from Dial For bps NYU 53600 300 2400 Off Campus 995 3600 300 2400 995 4335 300 1200 This number is recommended if you are using an old style modem without error correcting Regular Hours Mon Fri User Work Areas 14 Washington Place 8 30 a 11 30 p Tisch Hall 8 30 a 11 30 p Education Building 8 30 a 11 30 p Third Ave North 10 30 a 1 30 a Consultants 14 Washington Place 9a 9p Tisch Hall 9a 9p Education Building 8 30a 9p Third Ave North 10 30 a 1 30 a A final holiday schedule will be posted via our online news and bulletin board facilities Note The ACF offices in Warren Weaver Hall are closed on University holidays anuany g The a 12th Sreet X Bl d tih Strest East 10h Sirsot iat oer 1 e eH 7
3. LRSM DIDI UN ROLE LOSI BEE TERE LEIDER NEDSS ED ELSE EE ARSE ETEESI E EERIE RES BACLT SESE LES HELLS LES SN LENDER NCL EL EAL LTE LENGE VES LDEEDIELEL ARIEL NELLIE SNE N EEE AO ALLEL ED EDEL ENTS Vol 2INo 3 March 1992 INSIDE From the Director i instructional Computing 3 Arts and Media 4 Computing in the Humanities 10 Microcomputers I Networks and Network Services 15 Library Computing 23 From the NYU Book Centers 24 Purchasing Services 25 Social Science Computing 27 Visualization Graphics and Printing 29 Minis Mainframes and Supercomputers 31 Upcoming Events 32 A full table of contents is on back cover TEL T 44 40 B gt i is l CRA E ferthNay Casl a gt ae KIBR gy FXE ee Lt I ee Ag Azz A23 A24 A25 A2 A2 At the ACE Arts and Media Studio story on page 4 NANTES SYAN E RAEE EEAS SEERE R 3 USE RAN PESSE ESENES ELNE EERENS LITERS ENRON TEL TEATS TDL NILE LOLA ELA INEN LTE ESASEN Academic T Computing ang Networking at NYU Vol 2 No 3 New York University Editor in Chief Estelle Hochberg hochberg acfdluster nyu edu zaraa Edit
4. ReoPtut oriented visual programming language which can be used to define and amp OpCode Studio Vision is a program for creating editing and playing back MIDI Note that the lowest window shows score in piano roll notation implement MIDI tools or processes that go beyond what is available in commercial off the shelf packages Max pro grams are created by connecting boxes which represent a basic operation get a note send a note transpose a note create a random num ber etc in a chart which represents the data flow Parameters can be set using interactive control objects such as knobs buttons slid ers and so on Max and other MIDI pro grams can be connected so that for example notes played on a keyboard are first modified in real time by a Max program and then recorded by StudioVision The third type of software for sound and music at the Arts and Media Studio is repre sented by OpCode Galaxy Plus a sophisti cated note processor used for musical score preparation Notes can be entered using ei ther a computer or music keyboard and performance information from sequencers such as Studio Vision can be imported Finale by Coda includes features required to prepare professional quality scores which can be printed on laser printers or exported to typesetting machines the Software for Interaction While the computer can be used as a creative tool when applied to
5. March 1992 3 Software at the New ACF Studio Arts and Media Tools for Images Interaction Sound and Music by Philip Galanter n the last issue of Academic Computing and and Syquest drives which allow the use of galanter nyu edu Networking at NYU the ACF s new Arts removable 45 MB hard disk cartridges Con and Media Studio was described from the nected to various systems around the Studio point of view of the hardware technology it are special peripherals such as pressure sens offers and the University audience it is in ing drawing tablets CD ROM CD Audio tended to serve This article will focus on the drives CD quality audio input output inter software that media artists can use to fully faces videodisc players under computer con exploit this hardware This combination of trol and video adapters that can both display hardware and software offers a powerful set of NTSC television video in a window on the tools nearly all of them already available at monitor and capture video to disk for pro the Studio that can be used both to execute cessing editing and digital playback traditional techniques and to open new possi For the purposes of this article we will bilities unique to computer based media classify the software available at the Studio as a ee The Arts and Media Studio provides a being of four kinds for still images for mov Midis See te number of Macintosh and NeXT systems ing images for
6. l yping documents that contain repeated mention of technical terms which are both long and difficult to spell can be made easier with WordPerfect s temporary macro capabilities Temporary macros are erased from memory as soon as you exit WordPerfect so that they do not take up room on disk or confuse you with macro definitions that you may never use again The only thing a temporary macro can do is to insert text that you have previously typed It is nothing fancy but it can be of great help Using the macro commands key Ctrl PgUp you can create up to ten different temporary macros and assign them to the Alt key combined with a number 0 through 9 Use the number keys above the character keys not the numeric keypad This can be done in two different ways one a little more flexible than the other and we shall describe both of them Method 1 For example suppose you want to assign your name to be typed out each time you press Alt 0 Press Ctrl PgUp and you ll see the prompt Variable To assign the macro to number 0 type 0 fol Mail Merge and Current Date Function WordPerfect 5 1 changes the format in which mail merge codes appear in documents from the format lowed by the Enter key Then you will see the prompt Value Type the text that you want to assign to the temporary macro called Alt O that you are creating You can type up to 79 characters The definition process ends when you press the Enter key To create addition
7. The virus does not spread on network file servers that are not DOS based To be safe it is necessary to either scan all incoming floppy disks that you obtain or to continuously run an anti virus software package on your PC We recommend that you use either a commercial anti viral package or the shareware F PROT package available from the ACF An infected hard disk on a computer using DOS 5 can apparently be fixed with the command fdisk mbr run from an uninfected DOS boot disk Macintosh MBDFA Virus The new Macintosh virus known as the MBDFA virus was originally embedded in three computer games Ten Tile Puzzle Obnoxious Tetris and Tetricycle and was distributed widely through software archives on the Internet It spreads on all Macintosh systems except MacPluses but it still can be present on MacPlus systems The virus causes some abnormal behavior including system crashes and mal functions in some programs The shareware programs Disinfectant and Gatekeeper available from the ACF were updated to handle this virus Gary Chapman chapman nyu edu and Karen Strauss strauss acfcluster nyu edu new locally prepared system makes it easy to find one s way to a PC application of choice and start it up be it a spreadsheet wordprocessor statistics package database manager or programming language It also helps lab users in such tasks as formatting floppy disks selecting an alternate printer and connecting to an
8. Sth Sireot Si Marke Place ini 3 f ast 7th Street East 6th Street UNIVERSITY Washington Square Center Guide to ACF user work areas and other facilities ACF LOCATIONS Eevan l Warren Weaver Hall 251 Mercer St 3rd floor 2 Tisch Hali 40 W 4th St lower concourse Rooms LC 7 and LC 8 3 14 Washington PI basement 4 Education Building 35 W th St second floor 5 715 Broadway IBM tapes only 6 Third Ave No Residence Hall 75 Third Ave basement NYU Trolley route includes 6 weekdays every 15 minutes during the academic year ACF microcomputer labs are at 2 3 4 and 6 Hours at ACF Sites Holiday Hours Sat Sun Mon Fri Sat 8 30 a 5 30 p closed 10 30 a 5 30 p 10 30 a 5 30 p 8 30 a 5 30 p closed 10 30 a 5 30 p 10 30 a 5 30 p 8 30 a 5 30 p closed 10 30 a 5 30 p 10 30 a 5 30 p 10 30 a 5 30 p 10 30 a 5 30 p 10 30 a 5 30 p 10 30 a 5 30 p 10a 5p closed To be announced 9a 5p closed To be announced 9a 5p closed To be announced 10 30 a 5 30 p 10 30 a 5 30 p To be announced y Academic i Computing and Networking at NYU NYU s fE Spring 92 Colloquia on Computers and Higher Education 3 Arts and Media Tools for Images Interaction Sound and Music at the ACF s New Studio Arts and Media Services for Faculty ACF Studio Software Update Paint and Draw Programs on Ww D Computing in the Humanities A Multilingual Character C
9. Western scientists and to Upcoming Events _ 125252 Russia Internet EASTWES1 PLB ICSTLSU or EAST WEST PLB ICSTILSU USSR EU NET Telex 411925 MCNTI FAX 7 095 943 0089 GIS From Space to Territory September 21 to 23 at the Palazzo dei Congressi in Pisa Italy There is a call for papers which must be received by March 31 a four week extension from the original deadline The official languages of the conference will be English and Italian For more details on the nature and scope of the conference contact David Mark via the Internet at DMARK SUN ACSU BUFFALO EDU or Dr Andrew Frank NCGIA University of Maine The conferences expositions and other events listed in this section focus on differ ent aspects of the use of computers in higher education We welcome your in formation on similar events coming up through Dec 1992 please mail it to Karen Strauss at the ACF 306 Warren Weaver Hall strauss acfcluster nyu edu and education educa present to the Soviet edu cational community the current state of the art on the theory and practice of using emerging computer based technology in edu cation It is expeceds to cover artificial intelligence Bordman Hall 348 Orono ME 04469 Fax 207 581 2206 Internet FRANK MECAN MAINE EDU Second Annual International Conference on Computer Graphics in Science and Arts GraphiCon 92 September 28 to October 2 in Moscow Sponsored by the Moscow SIGGRAPH and GrafO
10. a Data Sets Recently Acquired by the ACF s Data Base Archive ity and age as well as intercensal migration calcu lated by age race and sex The basic information in this collection was obtained from the decennial by Bert Holland he following are some of the data sets holland acfcluster nyu edu that have been acquired by the ACF s Data Base Archive since the report in the January 1992 issue of this newsletter The ICPSR numbers included below for your convenience are reference numbers assigned by the Inter University Consortium for censuses of the U S or estimated by the principal investigators Simon Kuznets and Dorothy Swaine Thomas ICPSR 7753 Census of Population and Housing 1980 United States Summary Tape File 1A New York State file only This is a file of 321 cells organized into 59 tables aggregated to the state county place census tract or block group level These data were aggregated from the complete count or 100 percent questions included in the 1980 Census questionnaire ICPSR 7941 Part 36 continued on following page Political and Social Research the organiza tion from which these files were obtained Population Redistribution and Economic Growth in the United States 1870 1960 Thirteen files of detailed demographic characteristics such as state level esti mates of the nation s inhabitants by sex race nativ NYU s TS Hae
11. hotline at 533 NYPC Robert Litt littr acfeluster nyu edu 10 March 1992 or the past several years engineers from Apple Xerox IBM Claris Metaphor Microsoft NeXT Sun Research Libraries Group and others have been attempting to create a 16 bit multilingual character code that efficiently represents the world s normal text characters for use by computers Called Unicode the project goal has been to develop a single uniform text and character standard that can encompass all lan guages and form a long lasting basis for world wide information systems In 1991 Unicode Version 1 0 was released It contains approximately 25 000 characters of all the world s major scripts including some 18 000 unique Han ideographic characters defined by industry stan dards in China Japan Korea and Taiwan These char acters are sufficient for modern communication including such classical languages as Greek Hebrew Latin Pali Sanskrit and literary Chinese Future ver sions of Unicode are expected to include such obsolete scripts as cuneiform runes and hieroglyphs Additional Han characters are also expected to be added Unicode uses the unambiguous fixed width char acters of ASCIL the text standard as a model Fixed width characters simplify information processing making text processors easier to implement Members of the Unicode Consortium which spon sors the project are active in the American National Standards In
12. to tell whether a file is text or binary is to look at its extension A file extension refers to the characters that follow the last period in a file s name Certain file extensions such as TXT make it easy to determine the file type a TXT extension clearly denotes a text file But other extensions do not appear to be as easy to decipher You will rarely see an extension BIN which might serve as a clue that the file is binary But once you learn the code determining file types are easy For a list of common file extensions and their meanings please see the chart at left Retrieving Files Now that you have determined whether a file is in text or binary format you need to let the computers know which format to use to transfer the file When you start an FTP session the file type is automatically set to ASCII Therefore if you are retrieving text files you do not need to set the transfer type If you are retrieving binary files however you need to type the command binary This will set the transfer type to binary and usually give you back a message like Type Image Structure File Mode Stream Now you are ready to get your files And get them you will because that is the com mand that you issue to retrieve files In gen eral to retrieve a file you issue the command get filename where filename is the name of the file that you wish to retrieve With UNIX the file retrieval will start immediately With VMS you
13. Computing and Networking at NYU Claris MacPaint PixelPaint Pro and Fractal Designs Painter each of which provides soft ware tools to allow the use of the mouse or tablet and stylus as a pen brush or airbrush and to create various filled areas and patterns In addition Painter can simulate various types of textures such as those created by charcoal or watercolors on various types of paper The software will also interact with the artist s touch when the pressure sensing tablet is being used to create strokes of vary ing darkness width airbrush density and other attributes Perhaps the most powerful tool for use with still images at the Arts and Media Stu dio is Adobe Photoshop please see the screen on page 6 Photoshop is most often used with images from other sources whether scanned from paper photographic prints and 35mm slides captured from video or im ported from other programs Photoshop can be used with various color systems such as RGB CMYK HSL HSB PANTONE please see the sidebar Color Systems for defi nitions of these and can export images in many formats including color separations The software includes numerous tools for painting editing creating montages tinting and retouching many of which react to the pressure applied to the tablet s wireless stylus Filters and effects can be applied to the entire image or selected areas to blur motion blur sharpen color correct sol
14. For the first 25 30 years of computing the cost performance of computing hardware was characterized by economies of scale which meant that performance increased more than linearly as a function of cost The computational power that a given amount of money could buy was maxi mized by purchasing the largest machine affordable This condition was a reflection continued on following page March 1992 We must be able to regard NYU NET as a utility providing transport for information in an invisible yet reliable manner Continued from previous page of the underlying engineering technology and supported the dominance of large computing systems for a substantial period of time Starting in the 1960 s and strengthen ing over time the economies of hardware centralization began to be offset by the diseconomies resulting from centralized or remote control This trend led first to interactive time sharing then to minicom puters and finally to the personal comput ers that are so plentiful today During the last 15 years the technology underlying computer hardware production shifted to microscopic photolithography techniques that first reduced and now are eliminating many advantages of scale in computation The result today is that it is now cheaper in many circumstances to maxi mize processing power by purchasing sev eral smaller computers each of which is relatively powerful instead of one very powerfu
15. March 1992 Academic Computing and Networking at NYU uted as an electronic journal in addition to its print version Subscriptions to the electronic version of the journal are now available free of charge via BITNET and the Internet Initiated in 1971 Catalyst is the second oldest continu ously published journal in the community col lege field It publishes practitioner oriented articles on practices in continuing community education as delivered by community colleges including papers on research in the field Sub scription address LISTSERV VTVM1 CC VT EDU List name CATALYST Humanities for postgraduates HUMGRAD is a new UK based electronic mailing list for postgraduates working in the humanities It s a forum for the exchange of ideas informa tion and comments on any humanities subject and the work and problems of post graduates A place for general humanities discussion HUMGRAD subscribers also discuss potentials of computers in humanities re search Subscription address MAILBASE NEWCASTLE AC UK List name HUMGRAD Screen writing SCRNWRIT subscribers discuss the joys and challenges of screen writ ing for film and TV Any topic of interest to writers or potential writers is appropriate e g format story ideas dialogue characters agents producers directors actors studios problems and or solutions Subscription address LISTSERV TAMVM1 note this is a BITNET address List name SCRNWRIT Unite
16. NYU mainframe or to BobCat With the new menu system Academic Compicting Eaciit Database amp Spreadsheet Graphics Progranming tools Statistics amp Mathemati Text processing Utilities Printing utilities Heip amp Information ACF File Server AGESI Specific course related Microsoft Windows 3 0 trp NIU Honda February 3 2 06 pm Connect to mainframes BobCat and other NYU NET hosts and services y Access and use any of a variety of software packages in these categories cs ore Format a floppy disk za Choose another printer Utilities Printing utilities Help amp Information most of this can now be accomplished with a simple press of the arrow keys or mouse to highlight a selection and then another press of the Enter key Rave reviews have also been heard from those who find the menu system a con venient way to browse among the 60 or so applica tion packages now available to PC users at the labs For dyed in the wool DOS lovers a quick escape to the DOS prompt is Exit from menu to DOSt Ss Logout 3 FI Exit to DOS Use arrow kegs ta move 12 March 1992 Beit from menu to DOST gt SEH Loyoutt Enters to select Academic Computing and Networking at NYU offered at each menu 2 Connect to the NYU ACF INFO system via modem or other serial communications link and select the DOWNLOADS menu For IBM
17. To disconnect from a host type quit and press return This will put you back at the the prompt on your home machine Get Fae Autunati lt O fest Transfer 16896 bytes i 2112 bytes sec Transfer Preferences Hosts Text or Binary Retrieving files is a bit more complicated De termining whether a file is stored on a host computer in text ASCH or binary format is of paramount importance to would be FTPers This is important because binary files retrieved with the transfer protocol set to text will be corrupted and will not run Text files retrieved with a binary setting may lose valuable and necessary formatting information Determining the file type is easier than you might think The fastest and easiest way
18. You will be connected to the latest version of this database Next you will be prompted to identify your terminal type Enter VT 100 and tap return There are a number of introductory screens press return until you see Enter search or option letter eg Line Search Help Option list Quit Lo Then you may begin searching Anew version of the users manual is available for 4 00 from the address below For further information contact Dartmouth Dante Project 1 Reed Hall HB 6087 Dartmouth College Hanover NH 03755 Phone 603 646 2633 E mail dante dartmouth edu Extracted from a Darmouth College release submitted by Larry Mingione internet guide for the novice user available from the ACF Zen and the Art of the Internet A Beginners Guide to the Internet by Brendan P Kehoe is available from the ACF Documentation Office Room 306 Warren Weaver Hall 998 3036 A fee of approximately three cents per page will be charged to offset copying costs March 1992 I7 FTP continued from page 15 other documentation Supreme Court opin the systems contain free or inexpensive pro ions full text reports from the U S General grams that you can retrieve and use on your Accounting Office photographs from the own computer whether it is a PC Macin space shuttle weather photos and statistics tosh Amiga UNIX NeXT VMS or other song lyrics and discographies of classical and type of computer Unlike most software pur popular arti
19. a biweekly publication of the NYU Information Center For additional information about any of the talks mentioned here or to have your E mail address added to a colloquium mailing list please call the ACF information line at 998 3333 E Academic Computing and Networking at NYU Minis Nlainframes and Supers Notes for Users of the ACF cluster Recently Added Services and Updates by Stephen Tihor The following area few of the recent software tihor acfcluster nyu edu changes and additions on the ACF s cluster with Estelle Hochberg of VAX VMS computers Further notes will be hochberg acfcluster nyuedu included in the next issue of this newsletter A library information system A new version of LIBS has been installed on the cluster LIBS is a public domain wrapper procedure that provides access to many of the online library catalogs and information systems in the United States and around the world To start it up enter the command LIBINFO at the VMS prompt A menu will appear offering you a selection of services from which to choose The command LIBS will also work but beware of drop ping the s as LIB will start up a DEC program ming tool instead LIBS is maintained at Sonoma State University by Mark Resmer It is based on the library and informa tion systems directories maintained by Art St George University of New Mexico and other sources For additional information enter the command HELP L
20. a visual others who wish to become familiar with the RS language 6000 and AIX IBM s version of the UNIX operating system Irwill enable ACF staff members to evaluate system and the suitability of the RS 6000 for the NYU com munity and will give NYU researchers and students geometric access to a high performance workstation from IBM object The RS 6000 has 64 MB of memory an 800 MB hard disk a three dimensional 24 bit high manipulation performance graphics processor an 18 inch color monitor a CD ROM drive an 8mm tape drive a 3 5 diskette drive a mouse and an Ethernet controller A variety of software will be available on the machine Currently AVS BioSym s InSight Mathematica and NCAR GKS Graphics are being ACF s Photo Typesetting Service The ACF s new Varityper 4000 is a state of the art PostScript based elec tronic photo typesetting system Also known as an immagesetter the Varityper produces camera ready publication quality output on resin coated paper and or film at resolutions of up to 2400 dots per inch or eight times the quality of a standard laser printer Varityper output is available as an overnight service from the ACF a fee currently estimated at 2 50 per page will be charged to cover the cost of materials Varityper users are able to send files to the Varityper directly from their on campus computers via NYU NET the NYU network however before printing they will need to make arrangeme
21. effects quality add in boards to record and play back can be used to add audio to interactive multi media to facilitate soundtrack production for option of using speech quality or CD quality audio The Macintosh Quadra can record lim ited fidelity speech and sounds with a Hyper Card utility On the systems configured for interactive multimedia the AudioMedia hardware and software enable the hard disk recording and playback of stereo digital audio of CD quality AudioMedia recordings can be used to add sound to multimedia applica tions to produce soundtracks to accompany computer animations or to record and mix music The AudioMedia software features real time digital equalization time compres sion and expansion without pitch shifting non destructive playlist editing sound file editing using cut and paste tools mixing multiple tracks and conversion of sound files into formats used by other applications An even more powerful software tool for use with the AudioMedia software is an ap plication called Digidesign Deck Deck emu lates a four track mixer recorder eftects unit and features sound on sound recording au tomated faders and effects such as echo and chorus and unlimited track bouncing Un fortunately at the time this article was writ ten Deck was not yet Quadra compatible Please see Arts and Media Studio Software Update For MIDI music production the pro grams Studio Vision please see the screen
22. gov Network Information nic ddn mil nnse nsf net An FTP session te WUARCHIVE WUSTLEDU from the ACFeluster To save space directory listings in this sample session were truncated ftp wuarchive wustl edu ACFI NYU EDU MultiNet FTP user process 3 0 102 Connection opened Assuming 8 bit connections lt wuarchive wustledu FTP server Version 6 14 Fri Jan 17 12 57 07 CST 1992 ready Username anonymous Password E mail acfcluster nyu edu Password will not show on screen lt This is an experimental FTP server If your FTP client crashes or lt hangs shortly after login please try using a dash as the first lt character of your password This will turn off the informational lt messages that may be confusing your FTP client lt This system may be used 24 hours a day 7 days a week The local lt time is Fri Jan 31 16 17 17 1992 lt Please read the file README lt it was last modified on Wed Nov 20 15 04 55 1991 72 days ago lt Please read the file README NFS lt it was last modified on Tue Dec 10 09 59 58 1991 52 days ago lt Guest login ok access restrictions apply WUARCHIVE WUSTL EDU gt get README lt Opening ASCII mode data connection for README 2317 bytes lt Transfer complete WUARCHIVE WUSTL EDUs gt dir lt Opening ASCH mode data connection for bin Is total 18409 rw r r lroot archive 2317 Nov 20 15 04 README rw t r lroot archive 2050 Dec 10 09 59 README NFS rw r t l root whe
23. manner This team will bring an experienced perspective to NYU and will assess our current status in net working and advise us how it can be ex tended and strengthened The second team will evaluate how the ACF fulfills its mission of providing aca demic information technology support to the campus We need to assess our performance in this area and compare our selves with our peers borrowing ideas from them when we can This evaluation will go far to ensuring that we are using our lim ited resources as best we can to provide such support as well as helping us to be competitive with our peer institutions in supporting both instruction and research Both evaluation teams will meet with broad segments of the NYU community during the course of their reviews includ ing service providers users administrators and faculty committees While such exter nal reviews are not mandated they are im portant to ensure that we do not become either parochial in our outlook or self satis fied with our performance within the con fines of our own local environment We look forward to the findings of these re views and we will share their results in an appropriate manner with groups within the NYU community Your comments on these issues as well as on any other aspects of this newsletter are welcome E 2 March 1992 Academic Computing and Networking at NYU New NYU Colloquia on Computers and Higher Educ
24. occasional articles that will introduce you to the Internet and its services The purpose of this series is to explain some of the services available and then provide you with step by step instruc tions for accessing them From time to time in the newsletter we highlight collections of information available over the Internet via Anonymous FTP In the January newsletter for example an article on the Gutenberg Project explained how to FTP copyright free books via the Internet This article will make it easier for you to retrieve such files File Transfer Protocol better known as Academic Computing and Networking at NYU ETP is one of the most widely used Internet services second only to electronic mail FTP is a method used for transferring information or files between two computers often con nected via the Internet A person sitting at a computer at one location can retrieve files from or send files to another computer in the next room or on the other side of the world FTP allows you to access vast amounts of software archives documents archived network conferences files digital books graphics and so on that are stored on difter ent types of computers FTP is one of a number of communica tions protocols collectively referred to as TCP IP which serves as the basis for communi cation over the Internet TCP stands for Trans mission Control Protocol IP for Internet Protocol This article will introdu
25. on page 9 Galaxy Plus and Sound Designer IT SKare available Studio Vision is a sequencer program which allows a musician to record performances edit the performance add multiple tracks and orchestrate a complex piece of music MIDI recording captures performance information such as the name of a note when its corresponding key was depressed and with what velocity when the key was released and so on Along with MIDI data recording Studio Vision cooper ates with the AudioMedia hardware provid ing two digital audio tracks for recorded acoustic instruments or voice to be synchro nized with MIDI instruments Galaxy Plus uses MIDI to upload and download timbre information used by synthesizers allowing sounds to be stored and edited on the Macin tosh Sound Designer II SK serves a similar 8 March 1992 Academic Computing and Networking at NYU File Edit Do Setup s Options Audio Help editing function DB STATUS Idle Tab Pay Sop Tele O fad piono 4 00 00 00 00 xm when used with Space Return aama PLAYER Replace Ree o n aueue t mamaaa eee QUEUE samplers and in addition allows A 120 00 warono ji i internal fal eee 60 00 1 sounds captured Tempt empty empty empty empty empty empty empty empty empty empty empty ic p with AudioMedia to be downloaded into samplers OpCode Maxis a MIDI
26. one page quick reference guide and a comprehensive user manual are also available in the Center Faculty who would like to incorporate Research Assistant into their classes should contact Amy Underhill at 998 2526 al Bobst Microcomputer Center Gets Kodak Color Printer gt astman Kodak recently donated a pro fessional quality color printer to the University for use in Bobst Library s Micro computer Center Valued at 30 000 this state of the art technology offers users photo graphic quality printing capabilities from virtually any graphics file including TIFF Encapsulated PostScript EPS and PICT Prints are available in either black and white or color and come in two sizes 8 1 2 x 11 inches and 11 x 11 inches The cost is 10 for a print and 12 for a transparency The Kodak printer offers such high qual ity color images because it utilizes a dye sublimation process which can be likened to a person mixing paint to achieve an exact shade This differs significantly from the traditional dithering Academic Computing and Networking at NYU March 1992 23 From the NYU Book Centers Service Center for Macintosh Computers Opens in the Book Centers by Kathy Bear Kathy Bear recently joined the NYU community as Manager of the Computer Department of the NYU Book Centers below She comes to NYU from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie N Y where she managed the Vassar Computer Store for s
27. per frame depend ing on the complexity of the scene The fourth and final step often referred to as post production involves viewing compositing editing and preparing for final presentation either on the computer or on video tape the sequences of rendered animation Three dimensional animation sounds complex and it is but it can all be done on the Macintosh Quadras at the Arts and Me dia Studio Modeling the first step can be done using an application called Swivel 3D Pro Along with providing tools to construct models from scratch Swivel can import mod els in various formats and allows some basic rendering for previewing purposes Anima tion the second step is done by importing the Swivel models into 3D Works a part of the MacroMind Three D product The third step rendering can be done using either Render Works also a part of MacroMind Three D or MacRenderman Renderworks tends to be faster but is not as flexible or extensible as MacRenderman Finally for post production the MacroMind Three D Fireworks application can be used to apply compositing blurring and blending effects and the SwivelMan QuickPICS application can be used to play back completed animations In a future issue of Academic Computing and Networking at NYU we will discuss other ACF facilities for frame by frame transfer of full resolution video to videotape from both Macintosh software and more powerful systems such as Silicon Graphics work
28. the file is many kilobytes in size The reason that a file transfers that quickly is that the interconnection between the remote computer and your local computer is designed for high speed file transfers When you are working from your home Macintosh or PC via modem and communications software such as Kermit on the other hand the final transfer to your micro computer can take a very long time some files can take more than half an hour to download Since the time spent downloading a file will tie up your telephone and other re sources it is recommended that if you are retrieving large files for your home computer you do the transfer from your mainframe account to floppy disk in one of the ACF micro labs The transfer time from main frame to floppy disk via the Ethernet connec tions in the labs will be quite short hundreds of times faster than via modem FTPing Directly Via NYU NET If you have a Macintosh or PC computer in your NYU office which is connected to NYU NET via Ethernet or Appletalk it is possible to FTP a file directly to your hard disk bypassing the intermediate step of using a mainframe account Microcomputers con nected to NYU NET via NIU or ADU con nections cannot do a direct FTP bur need to use the method described in the previous sections An advantage to FT Ping directly from your microcomputer is that file retrieval is more direct a disadvantage is that there is a possibility that network response ma
29. the lower window is the same drawing with Photoshop 3 diffuse effect applied Bottom MacroMind Director 3 0 is a program Jor creating three dimensional animations and interactive multimedia presentations Director includes integrated tools for such items as script and cast management painting and palette control amp March 1992 Arts and Media Tools continued from preceding page the preparation of numerous periodicals Software for Moving Images There are in general four ways to use the computer to prepare and present moving images The first is two dimensional anima tion similar to traditional cel animation or cartoons where a series of hand drawn images are shown at a rate rapid enough to create the illusion of smooth motion The second is three dimensional animation where a simu lated three dimensional world within the computer is filmed by a virtual camera again creating a series of rapidly displayed frames While these first two methods create synthetic images the third method involves the capture of real world events via video displayed on the computer monitor The fourth application of computer technology to moving images results in the creation of video tapes that can then be viewed without a computer Two dimensional animation At the Arts and Media Studio the best current tool for two dimensional animation is MacreMind Director please see the screen at left Direc tor is a p
30. traditional media it is increasingly being viewed as a medium in its own right Not only can the computer be used to directly present still and moving im ages and sound it can be done in such a way that the viewer interacts with the presenta tion Such interactions can be at a coarse level with the computer being used as a sort of media jukebox or they can be at a fine level allowing the viewer to navigate through a complex media space on a moment to moment basis in a manner more akin to a video game In the Macintosh world creators of interac tive multimedia typically draw elements from one or more of the applications noted above into another application which acts as a con tainer and a tool for designing the user interface and guiding interactions For example images scanned and manipulated with Photoshop two dimensional Director animations three dimen sional RenderMan animations and digitized video sound and music can all be presented from a single interactive interface At the Arts and Media Studio Hyper Card and Director are used to control inter active multimedia although it is worth noting that Max has some multimedia con trol features as well The scripting capabili ties for HyperCard and Director are similar and both include the ability to add extensions to control external media devices such as videodiscs CD Audio MIDI sound genera tors consumer videotape machines and the like HyperCard has the
31. 1519 bytes received in 0 28 seconds 5 3 Kbytes s ftp gt get OOreadme tst 200 PORT command successful 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for OOreadrne txt 1171 bytes 226 Transfer complete opie E local OOreadme txt remote OOreadme mt i 1171 bytes received in 0 1 seconds 11 Kbytes s fep gt Is i 200 PORT command successful 150 Opening ASCH mode data connection for bin ls OQutil abstracts abs auto doubler 105i updater hqx auto lock 12 hqx bat filer hqx binhex 40 hqx binhex vm cms files oxt binhex4 bin ym on removable hd hqx 226 Transfer complete 4012 bytes received in 2 4 seconds 1 6 Kbytes s frp gt binary 200 Type set to I frp gt get binhex4 bin 200 PORT command successful 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for binhex4 bin 7168 bytes 226 Transfer complete local binbex4 bin remote binhex4 bin 7168 bytes received in 0 71 seconds 9 9 Kbytes s ftp gt bye 221 Goodbye acf3 gt from an off campus computer is if you have a mainframe account From a Macintosh Xferit or Fetch can be used to FTP files Xferit and Fetch are available for use at the ACF micro labs Personal copies can be obtained from the ACE Faculty Microcomputer Lab call 998 3043 From a PC the FTP command is used to FTP file Using FTP on the Internet you will have access to hundred of thousands of files and applications relating to almost any subject imaginable In future issues of the newsletter we wi
32. Accounts Office Room 305 Warren Weaver Hall For additional information on ACF computer accounts please contact the ACF Accounts Ofc at 998 3035 Dartmouth Dante Database Update The Dartmouth Dante Project makes available the full text of more than 600 years of commentary on Dante Alighieri s major poem La Divina Commedia in a database easily accessible via the Internet In the March May 1991 newsletter we provided a detailed look at the database project Since that article was published the Dartmouth Dante Project has moved the database to a new computer where users will no longer need to sign up for an individual account to use the database Instead they simply connect to the Dartmouth library computer Other changes to the database include increased line search speed and access to the Dartmouth Online Catalog and other database services including materials on alcoholism and substance abuse the MEDLINE database of medical journals and access to the National Weather Service forecasts The Dante database is available daily except Fridays from midnight to 3 00 am Eastern time To connect to the Dartmouth College Library Online System via the Internet telnet library dartmouth edu You will automatically be placed in the online catalog You will now see the online catalog program start up Typing connect and tapping return will giveyoualist of servicesavailable Touse the Dante database typeconnectdante and tap return
33. IBS at the VMS prompt Online help with system error messages A new At the National Supercomputer Centers The National Science Foundation NSF supports a network of national supercom puter centers offering computer systems capable of performing calculations at very high speeds Accessto the Centers The ACF staffhas experience in the use of supercomputers at some of these centers and provides assistance to NYU staff and students in applying for and obtaining computing resources on them For further information to set up an appointment with a specialist to discuss your computing needs or to submit a request for resources at these centers contact the ACF Accounts Office Room 305 Warren Weaver Hall 998 3035 News from the Cornell Theory Center There are some recent additions to the parallel processing resources at the Center for Theory and Simulation in Scienceand Engineering at Cornell University The Center s Scalable Cluster of RISC Systems SCRS currently consists of 11 RS 6000 workstations connected via high speed networking A new Kendall Square machine the KSR 1 is being tried by selected users this new MIMD machine has 32 processors offering 1 28 Gflops peak aggregate performance 1 Gbyte of shared memory and 1 000 Gbytes of address able memory A Parallel Visualization Server PVS machine with 32 processors performing up to 2 5 Gflops is also available for a limited number of users The Center is a national center of ex
34. Soviet Computer Graphics Society in cooperation with ACM SIGGRAPH and Eurographics the primary emphases of tional multimedia and hypermedia learning envi ronments microworlds and simulation The Conference is organized and sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education AACE the International Centre for Scientific and Technical Information ICSTT and the Soviet Association for Artificial Intelligence SAAI GraphiCon 92 are communications East West cooperation and information exchange The confer ence includes tutorials papers an exhibition an art show a computer theater panels and workshops For further information contact GraphiCon 92 Conference Secretariat Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics 4 Miusskaya Square Moscow For further information contact East West Conference on Emerging Computer Technologies in 125047 Russia Phone 7 095 972 3642 Fax 7095 972 0737 or Internet G92 KELDYSH MSK SU Education International Centre for Scientific and Technical Information Kuusinen str 21b Moscow Additional Events April 30 May 1 Symposium on Computers in Health Care Education Philadelphia PA For further information contact GAROFALO SHRSYS HSLC ORG April 7 10 EP92 Conference on Electronic Publishing Lausanne Switzerland For further information contact EP92 ELSILEPFL CH May 3 7 CHE92 Workshops 1992 ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing Sys
35. Summary FTP continued from page 19 To find out more about these commands type help command_name at the FTP prompt pleted the login procedure you are ready to Command Function give commands to the host computer This is a Temporary exit Type exit to return a fairly simple process and many of the com ascii Mode for transferring text files FTP default Sindy Modi Derine Ari mands will be familiar to you if you are a cd cwd cdup Changes default directory on remote computer accompanied by the name VMS UNIX or PC user Macintosh users do of the directory to change to Issued by itself will result in a prompt for the NOt normally issue commands at a prompt so directory name CDUP move you to the parent directory on the remote they will not be familiar with the general computer syntax dir Issued by itself lists the contents of the default directory on the remote Typing dir will give you a listing of files computer Can be issued with directory names filenames and wildcards showing date created size and name The exit quit Exits the FTP program ene cea NS get receive Used to transfer a file from the remote comptuer to the local computer command Is will give you a similar listing on hash Shows file transfer progress with hash marks most host computers When you issue a help Online help for the FTP program Help command_name will give you directory command after your login you information on that command For a list of
36. a tion on ancient Greek pottery appeared in the September 1991 issue of this newsletter Learning from Learning Innovative uses of computers in Apple s Vivarium Program Lori Weiss and Kimberly Rose right of Apple Com puter Inc presenting the first colloquium of 1992 on February 7 before a capacity audience Titled Learn ing from Learning Educing Tomorrows Technology from Children s Intuitive Interactions with Computers Today the talk s focus was the implementation of the Apple Vivarium Program in the Los Angeles Open School Under this Apple sponsored program com puters are used in innovative ways both to enhance children s learning and to do long range research on children s intuitive thinking and on how people of all ages learn and think The talk was sponsored by the Academic Comput ing Facility with support from Apple Computer For those whowere unable to attend the colloquium or for others who would like to learn more about the Apple Vivarium Program the ACF has obtained a copy of a videotape of a British television program Schoofs Out which featured Vivarium Segments of this tape were played at the February 7 talk to show examples of the Program in operation Individuals interested in viewing the tape should contact the ACF s Faculty Microcomputer Lab 998 3044 Look fora more complete report of the talk in the May issue of this newsletter Academic Computing and Networking at NYU
37. advantage of being simple to use is included with every Macin tosh and is not terribly demanding on sys tem resources Because Director also includes along with its interactive capabili ties the numerous animation and presenta tion tools noted above it is both more powerful and complicated than HyperCard Those interested in controlling videodiscs and CD Audio with a minimum of effort should consider using HyperCard and the Voy ager VideoStack Toolkit and CD AudioStack Toolkit The VideoStack includes a stack called EventMaker that allows one to interac tively view a videodisc define and catalog clips and automatically create buttons to play the corresponding clips The AudioStack offers similar features to easily create buttons that use standard audio CDs as sources of random access sound and music Academic Computing and Networking at NYU March 1992 9 Computing in the Humanities Foreign Languages and Computers Unicode A Multilingual Character Code WordPerfect 5 1 Hebrew Module cessing programs that can use non English charac ters translation programs non English fonts and related topics For more information on the SIG its meetingsorthe NYPC contact ACF consultant Bob Litt at 998 3500 or by E mail at the address given below The NYPC has over 65 SIGs which meet every month to dis cuss various computer re lated topics For more information on upcom ing events call the NYPC
38. al macros up to a total of ten repeat the procedure using numbers 1 through 9 To use the macro simply press Alt O and a copy of the text will automatically appear on the screen Of course you may repeat this process as often as you like Method 2 The second method of creating a temporary macro allows you to assign text you have already typed There are three advantages to this second method First you may type the text and make any corrections without worrying about the macro recorder Secondly you can record text that consists of several lines without worrying about the Enter key terminating the macro definition The third advantage is that instead of being limited to 79 characters as you are with the first method using already typed text permits you a maximum of 128 characters Here s how the second method works Type the text and make any corrections that are necessary Block the text in the usual way used in version 4 2 Merge codes are now more clearly marked Cryptic codes such as E and AR used to signal end of record and end of field in version 4 2 are now END FIELD for the end of a field and END RECORD for the end of a record The commands for inserting these codes remain the same F9 for end field and Shift F9 for end record but the change in the way these codes are dis played should make writing secondary mail merge data files more straightforward To convert files that were created in WordPerfect 4 2 to th
39. ana Gis S Group t to Meer on March 2 Street level Detail of aine uae Area This basic map was produced on a desktop microcomputer from a U S Census Bureau TIGER Line File ATLAS GIS geographic information system software currently installed at ACF 28 permits the manipulation of such vector based electronic maps In this case the TIGER file for TGR36061 New York A Vicinity NYU s Woshington Square Campus ART m Railroads Reads New York County was extracted from the 635 megabyte CD EROM disc covering 7 all of New York State The county Ce ee is shown 0 in i the inset to oe oh Lan SEHINAP and Director of its Center fr Bs ma Teepe and Economic Produces 2 Academic Computing and Networking at NYU March 1992 27 ICPSR Summer Programs in Social Research The Inter University Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR is accepting applications for attendance at its 1992 summer program in social research Four week courses and one week work shops will be presented on the campus of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor between June 29 and August 21 Courses will vary in their level of difficulty and will cover such topics as basic mathematics mathematics for social scientists quanti tative historical analysis multivariate statistical methods utilization of data resources from the 1990 Census logit and log linear models La
40. and plans for our microcomputer laboratories I d also like to share with you some thoughts re garding new ways in which we will prob ably be supporting our scientific computing clients in the NYU community Finally I want to tell you about our plans for exter nal evaluations of our computing and net working activities this year Microcomputer Lab Enhancements Since the beginning of the school year we ve taken initial steps to modernize the microcomputer labs which we provide for NYU students and faculty In September we replaced most of the terminals at the 14 Washington Place lab with modern Macintosh systems In January we added a number of new and faster MS DOS sys tems to the Education Building PC lab to provide additional capacity for students in computer science and other classes using this equipment At the same time for lo gistical reasons we swapped the two labs moving the Macintoshes to the Education Building and the PC s to 14 Washington Place and we installed a largely Macin tosh based Arts and Media Studio in the remaining unused bay in the Education Building s lab While this entailed work on our part and some accommodation for change on your part we believe that these labs are now structured to provide more flexible and better service to you for the next several years As part of our restructuring activity we have provided office space for instructors in each of these labs If you are teaching a c
41. are sometimes called image processing programs Pixel based images are very much like what is viewed on the computer monitor a rectangular array of dots each having its own color Each dot is called a picture elem nt or pixel The internal representation of this image is simply a set of numbers which describe the color of each pixel of the image Object based images are displayed in the same way but differ in their internal representation Internally an object based image is a list of basic shapes such as lines arcs or circles each with a size placement and color These internal shapes or objects are then rendered as pixels for display The advantage of object based images is that the viewed image can be edited by moving resizing or coloring the underlying objects A circle enclosing alogo for example can be thickened or resized accurately with a simple menu selection Object based images can also be rendered on various PostScript devices at an arbitrary resolution Pixel based images on the other hand can never have better resolution than the underlying pixel information will allow justas the grain in film limits its resolution and the practical degree to which it can be enlarged Pixel based images however can be generated from the real world by using various scanning devices can be processed to add various effects such as blending softening or sharpening and can be created with various painterly brush and stroke
42. arize create brush stroke effects and more Photoshop has be come a popular software platform for plug in modules from third party software vendors for custom effects and for direct control of scanning hardware For the hand creation of design and drafting oriented graphics Claris MacDraw Pro and Adobe Illustrator are available These programs allow editing and arbitrary resolu tion in a way that paint programs cannot Please see the sidebar What is the Difference Between a Paint Program and a Draw Pro gram on page 8 Finally Quark Xpress is available for the preparation of collections of images and text as publications Quark is a powerful professional continued on following page publishing tool used in HSL id faulty will find his to be a productive environment Roe experimentation preparation fot classes using the Arts and Media Studio or their own creativework In addition equipment for high quality slide scanning and video output and input is currently being added Tousethe Faculty Microcomputer Lab contact Larry Mingioneat 998 3043 or by E mail mingione acfcluster nyu edu For more information about class use of the Arts and Media Studio contact Philip Galanter at 998 3041 or by E mail galanter nyu edu CMYK Color Systems Cyan Magenta Yellow Black Subtrac tive color system typically used in four color process printing The colors of the visible spectrum are mixed by over
43. at have not yet been screened for viruses or checked for other problems Therefore it is better to wait until Virus Aself replicating program that can absorb system resources and cause serious damage to a computer or computers Programs exist to help protect systems from viruses See the box on page 13 for more information 18 March 1992 Academic Computing and Networking at NYU the files are moved into the main archive direc tories before acquiring them Basic FTP Skills The techniques for FT Ping differ based on which type of computer you are using its operating system and its connection to the Internet The overall approach to FTPing remains fairly constant regardless of which machine you are using Generally to FTP to a site you have to know its hostname This is how you let the network know which remote site to connect to Hostnames are unique identifiers for a particu lar remote computer In general to FEP you type FTP address where address is the hostname of the com puter that you wish to connect to After a short interval you will be asked for the username for example login You may see the prompt user or username instead Here you enter Anonymous and press return You will be prompted for a pass word for example password Most sites require you to use your E mail address user acfcluster nyu edu or something to that effect as the password a few sites w
44. ation by Estelle Hochberg hochberg acfcluster nyu edu and Karen Strauss strauss acfcluster nyu edu ow into their third year NYU s popu lar colloquia on innovative uses of computers in University instruction and research will continue during the Spring of 1992 Sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences FAS and the Academic Comput ing Facility ACF with support from IBM Corporation and Apple Computer Inc the talks are open to all NYU faculty staff and students As we go to press several interest ing new presentations are planned Please see photo and caption for a brief description of this semester s first colloquium Oxford s network accessible database of ancient Greek pottery The Beazley Archive of ancient Greek pottery will be featured in a presentation on April 15 2 30 pm in Room 101 in Warren Weaver Hall Classical ar chaeologists Donna Carol Kurtz Thomas Mannack and Melanie Mendonga will cover the historical background of the Archive and its online database its new association with a major European Economic Community tele communications project the structure of the database and means of access to it Dr Kurtz the Beazley Archivist is also a University lecturer in classical archaeology and art at Oxford University Thomas Mannack is a research officer and Melanie Mendonca a research assistant at the Beazley Archive An article on Oxford s Beazley Archive and its online database of inform
45. ation and parallelization Internet CB Style Conference Facility A multi site Citizens Band style emulation facility called IRC is available for users of the ACFcluster This facility makes possible real time live conversations via the Internet with users at other locations One group of NYU students is using it to meet with their thesis advisor at UCB who is visiting another university Limited support is available in the form of online documentation Type help IRC to get it Be sure especially to look at the subtopics LOGICAL_NAMES and COMMANDS To start IRC you simply enter IRC IRC commands start with a forward slash and must be entered in all capital letters Basic IRC com mands are LIST to list all channels which are active JOIN channelname to join a specific channel and EXIT to leave the system E Academic Computing and Networking at NYU March 1992 31 Computing Strategies Across the Curriculum April 3 and 4 at the University of Vermont For further information please see the January issue of this newsletter or CSAC University Computing Services 238 Waterman Building University of Vermont Burlington VT 05405 0160 Phone 802 656 3316 Fax 802 646 8429 Internet CSAC UVMVM EDU or CSAC UVMVM BITNET East West Conference on Emerging Computer Technologies in Education April 6 to 9in Mos cow Russia The conference plans will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between Eastern and
46. ce you to the basics of FTP and will provide you with sample FTP sessions from UNIX VMS Macintosh and IBM type PCs It will talk about some of the considerations in retriev ing files from remote locations and will pro vide information on some of the more popular sites for acquiring software and other items We have also provided a glossary to help you understand some of the more tech nical or esoteric terms used in this article Anonymous FTP Many computers offer an Anonymous FTP service This means that you do not need to have an account on that computer in order to retrieve selected files from it Anonymous FTP allows people without accounts to access certain disks and directories by connecting using an FTP client and applying the username Anonymous Why is this note worthy Well many of continued on page 18 March 1992 15 Electronic Conferences Linking Scholars Via International Networks British and Irish literature Chinese poems Green movements humanities the United Nations and more are discussed over international links lectronic conferences like the BITNET discussion lists allow scholars at uni versities around the world to exchange infor mation and views quickly and conveniently via international networks and electronic mail E mail Previous issues of this newsletter have featured discussion lists focusing on Shakespeare Jane Austen science and tech nology linguisti
47. command type a usually get a list of directories available for Icd Change local directory anonymous access as well as a list of files in login user Provides remote computer with user name and password information f Generally you wili be asked for this information automatically when you the roor FTP directory If there is a file or connect to a remote computer files called README then you will want to Is Is 1 Directory listing see dir above retrieve these files first and read them for mget mput Used to retrieve transfer multiple files from the remote computer The files further information about the site and its are specified using wildcards Anonymous FTP sites generally will not allow files you to mput files Other files you should look for upon prompt Toggle on off prompt for mget mput oe put send Transfer files from local computer to remote computer initial login are files with the name INDEX pwd Shows the current directory the default directory on the remotecomputer or Is IR These files contain important infor spawn Spawn a command interpretter on the local computer mation about the nature and location of files status mat the status of the FTP server on the remote computer in that archive user ee Opin verbose Toggles the complete printing ofall replies from the foreign host FTP server Most often you are looking for a direc 20 March 1992 Academic Computing and Networking at NYU
48. cs ancient texts academic software multimedia and more In this issue we present a few newly created lists that we thought might be of interest The accompa nying box tells you how to subscribe to these lists using E mail Users of ACF mainframes and minicomputers automatically have access to E mail Other members of the NYU com munity can obtain ACF Electronic Mail Accounts which are available to all faculty staff and students with valid NYU ID s see page 17 for details Modern British and Irish literature 1895 1955 MODBRITS is the international computer discussion group for scholars teachers and students of Modern British and Irish literature 1895 1955 and those who first d lest name for fear ae subscribe acsoft I mary smith Send the message to the subscription address listed in the article If you are using an Electronic Mail Account or a regular account on the ACF cluster of VAX VMS computers use the address format shown below under VMS Address formats for UNEX and CMS are also shown share their interests MODBRITS offers a me dium for announcements and bulletins notes and queries conference papers articles the ses and other scholarly papers as well as spontaneous and informal discussions Com puterized electronic texts concordances sample journals publishers catalogues and bibliographical resources may also become available E mail inquiries about the discus sion group shoul
49. d Nations A list dedicated to dis cussion of the United Nations The list is open to all interested persons Subscription address LISTSERV INDYCMS IUPUL EDU List name UN Southeast Asian studies This list is de signed to facilitate communication among researchers scholars students teachers and other people interested in Southeast Asian studies of current events For the purposes of this list Southeast Asia is loosely defined as Burma Myanmar across to Hong Kong and down through Australia and New Zealand Subscription address LISTSERV MSU EDU List name SEASIA L Academic Computing and Networking at NYU Obtaining an E Mail Account T he ACF s Electronic Mail Accounts are available free of charge to NYU faculty staff and students Electronic mail E mail is also available automatically to individuals with accounts on ACF mainframes and minicomputers NYU students faculty and staff members may apply for E mail Accounts at any of the ACF microcomputer labs see inside back cover for locations and hours You will need to complete a very brief application form and to show your current valid NYU LD l Faculty and staff members if they prefer may also request E mail Accounts byletter Please use departmental letterhead showing the department s address and phone number and include your name title campus address and campus phone number Please send your request to the Academic Computing Facility
50. d be sent directly to MODBRITS KENTVM KENT EDU Chinese poems An electronic mailing list devoted to sharing and discussing Chi nese poems Poems are sent to the list in a coded format that contains all of the infor mation necessary to view the poems in their Chinese characters Decoding instructions and information on utilities to view the po ems are sent to new subscribers GuoBiao is the preferred coding scheme for CHPOEM L but files using other codes are welcome Subscrip tion address LISTSERV UBVM CC BUFFALO EDU List name CHPOEM L Green movements This list is dedicated to the study of Green movements worldwide and their influence on public opinion and public policy The scope of the list s discussion is global all Green movements at every level are of interest to this list It is emphasized that the purpose of this list is the study of Green movements and it is not a tool for organizing or promoting those movements Subscription address INDYCMS IUPULEDU List name GREEN Community college educa tors Catalyst a refereed print journal that has been serving com munity college educators for more than twenty years will be distrib VMS UNIX CMS Internet in username node username node username at node Eg in listsev vym usc edu listserv vm usc edu listserv at vm usc edu BITNET bitner username node username node bitnet username at node Eg bitnet listserv wumvd listserv wumvd bitnet listserv at wumvd l
51. d by phone to the NYU laser toner recycling program In the first couple of months of the program I re ceived a number of complaints about leaking toner cartridges smudges and streaks on the copies below normal number of pages per cartridge and overall poor performance PM Company the current supplier of krause acfcluster nyu edu Stephen Krause is Senior Buyer NYU Purchasing Services Dvision of these problems As a result they have im proved their quality control and replaced all of the old cartridges at Central Supply with new serialized cartridges PM Area Represen tative Gary Amorosa has visited each site that has experienced problems and will continue Remanufactured Laser Toner Bill Of Rights These are your rights under the agreement with PM If you require additional information please contact Central Supply at 998 1200 When toner cartridges are ordered from Central Supply remanufactured cartridges will be issued unless otherwise specified 2 When ordering a remanufactured laser toner cartridge from Central Supply you can expect a toner cartridge which is free from defects The cartridge should produce an equal or greater number of copies as an original manufactured cartridge approximately 4 5000 pages o The remanufactured cartridges carry a limited warranty Any cartridge deemed unusable due to shipping damage manufacturing defects including leaks and ctacks or malfunctions while in the laser printer will b
52. dit and preview them on the computer screen and then record the results to continued on following page Academic Computing and Networking at NYU March 1992 7 Arts and Media Tools continued from preceding page a VHS or S VHS tape using the NEC The PC VCR a MM H computer is Sofware far Sound and Music l In commercial music and sound production in creasingly there are a number of options for computer based tools but most would agree that the Macintosh is the leading desktop computer used at the high end First Macintosh Quadras can use built in hardware or higher being viewed as a r e digital audio on the hard disk Digital audio medium in its own animations or to record and mix music Second the Macintosh can be used to con trol electronic instruments such as synthesiz ers and samplers as well as effects and other hardware using a protocol called MIDI Third software can be used to prepare musical scores for printing At the Arts and Media Studio there is the right What is the Difference Between a Paint Program a and a Draw Program s TERR Still images on computers are oft two basic kinds pixel based and object based Paint programs are those that can create and manipulate pixel based images and draw programs are those that can create and manipulate object based i images Programs thatare intended to manipulate existing pixel based images more than create them
53. e 5 1 format simply hit Crtl and F9 then hit 3 or C for Convert Old Merge Codes The codes will be instantly converted While a primary file created in 5 1 will work with a secondary file that was created in 4 2 it is much easier to work with 5 1 secondary files and it takes only a short time to convert the codes bt ie Current Date Function Another helpful feature of WordPerfect although it is not new to 5 1 is the current date function If you want to always have the latest date in your documents when you edit or print them you should use the current date function To use the current date function hit Shift and F5 then 2 or C This will insert the date at the cursor position in your document the cede will be visible in reveal codes When you retrieve the document at a later date the date code is updated to reflect the current date Donald Chestnut Donald Chesnut is the manager of the MicroSupport Services Department of the School of Law l4 March 1992 Academic Computing and Networking at NYU by pressing either Alt F4 or F12 and then press Cerl PgUp You will then see the prompt Variable Assign a number from 0 to 9 to the variable and then press the Enter key Then every time you press the Alt key followed by the number you assigned to the macro it will auto matically type out the text for you a Networks and Network Services _ Using the Internet FTP Accessing Software Archives and Other Fil
54. e replaced at no cost at Central Supply e PM shall reimburse NYU of all expenses relating to damage caused by the use of a PM remanufactured cartridge in any NYU owned laser printer Contact Gary Amorosa at 800 544 7626 to report any problem If PM can not respond to a service call by the following day contact one of the maintenance companies CMI Computerland or Key Systems used by NYU to service the machines see the January newsletter for furtherinformation For reimbursement PM requests a written statement on the service company s letterhead and a copy of the service report e Hewlett Packard does not recommend the use of refilled toner cartridges in their LaserJet printers Using a non HP cartridge in a LaserJet does not affect the warranty unless the damage to the printer was caused by the remanufactured cartridge If the the cartridge is the cause HP will service the machine and bill standard time and materials charges Pleasesendanycommentsto Stephen Krause NYU Purchasing Services Division 269 Mercer St fifth floor Academic Computing and Networking at NYU to be on campus to address any problems concerning their use PM is also requesting that any cartridges that do not have a seven digit serial number stamped on the box and cartridge be returned to Central Supply for an immediate replace ment All toner cartridges whether remanufactured or new have some inherent percentage of failure It is however the re sp
55. el 6167030 Jan 30 08 52 Is IR drwxr xr x 12 root archive 512 Jan 17 14 35 mirrors lt Transfer complete WUARCHIVE WUSTL EDU gt cd mirrors lt Welcome to the mirrors directory All of the files in this directory are copied from other systems in order to make them lt more accessible to users such as yourself lt CWD command successful WUARCHIVE WUSTL EDU gt dir lt Opening ASCII mode data connection for bin Is total 23 drwxr xr x 27 root archive 512 Aug 26 07 59 macintosh drwxr xr x176 root archive 3072 Jan 29 09 34 msdos lt Transfer complete WUARCHIVE WUSTL EDU gt cd macintosh lt CWD command successful WUARCHIVE WUSTL EDU gt dir Opening ASCII mode data connection for bin Is total 4759 rw r 1 root lt Transfer complete WUARCHIVE WUSTL EDU gt binary Type Image Structure File Mode Stream WUARCHIVE WUSTL EDU gt get idle sit To local file idle siz lt Opening ASCH mode data connection for file list lt Transfer complete lt Opening BENARY mode dara connection for idle sit 1280 bytes lt Transfer complete WUARCHIVE WUSTL EDU gt exit eae archive 16154 Sep 2 1990 00readme rxt Academic Computing and Networking at NYU March 1992 19 Common Archive File Extensions Encountered in FTP Sessions This chart lists some of the more common file extensions that you will encounter when you are using FTP and lists the program that you will need inorder t
56. equipment problems and arranging for servicing or replacement training in machine operation and set up keyboard use system features and functions diskette handling procedures and program execution exploring IBM warranty provi sions and post warranty services This program only applies to IBM hardware purchased direct from IBM or from Computerland Contact Computerland at 212 269 6600 or 212 213 6446 for more information 26 March 1992 Academic Computing and Networking at NYU New Offerings Gateway 2000 is offering free application software from Borland and Microsoft with the purchase of any 386 or 486 computer system NYU customers may receive one free software option per system purchased Op tions include Microsoft Excel Word for Win dows Powerpoint Project 3 0 for Windows Windows Programmer Pak Borland Paradox 3 5 with either Borland C or Turbo Pascal Jor Windows For additional information on the options available please contact Bob Burnison at Gateway 800 248 2042 Ext 5537 Whenever contacting Gateway for information service or technical support identify yourself as a corporate account and reference NYU s customer account New YorkU Deli Computer Corporation and Digital Equipment Corporation have aggressively slashed their prices on their IBM compatible PCs For current pricing information call Dell Educational Representative Anne Herndon at 800 274 7799 Ext 8596 and DEC Educational Accou
57. es Copies of a flyer giving further information can be obtained from the ACF Information Services Group Room 306 Warren Weaver Hall 998 3036 Ed Friedman friedman nyu edu NYU Colloquia continued from page 3 Computer animation GIS and more A talk by Professor Jacob Schwartz Computer Science FAS entitled Computer Animation as a Tool for Exposition and Education is also planned but as we go to press a date for the talk has not yet been set Arrangements for a talk on applications of Geographic Information Systems are also being made Technical seminars Also planned is a series of somewhat more technical talks sponsored by the ACF the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and other academic units within the University depending on the topic Techniques and considerations in scientific visualization have been an important focus of recent seminars in this series As we go to press the next presentation will be by Stephen Jacobson who will discuss and demonstrate an image oriented database access system developed by the Advanced Technology Planning Group at the University of California at Berkeley This two part technical seminar will take place on Thursday March 26 at 4 pm and on Friday March 27 at 10 am in Room 313 Warren Weaver Hall For further information Announcements of events are mailed to NYU faculty several weeks prior to each presentation and will also appear in the NYU Today Hotline
58. es Via the Internet By Karen Strauss strauss acfcluster nyu edu This article was written with assistance from Jeffrey Bary Gary Chapman Estelle Hochberg Gary Rosenblum and Stephen Tibor 1 Statistical and historical information about the Internet was taken from the Internet Society Announcement updated January 21 1992 and available for Anonymous FTP from NNSC NSF NET T he Internet is an interconnection of over 5 000 networks in over 36 coun tries serving more than 600 000 host com puters used by more than 4 000 000 people The Internet has evolved in the past 19 years to become an international community of educational and research institutions busi nesses and government organizations The Internet makes it possible to send E mail to people using computers around the world share database and other information services participate in ongoing electronic conferences covering every topic imaginable see page 16 for more on electronic confer ences and retrieve all manner of files and documents from Supreme Court opin ions NASA photos and digital books to free software for Macintosh and PC computer For an overview of Internet services stop by the ACF Documentation Office room 306 in Warren Weaver Hall to browse through the NYSERNet Guide to Internet Services the Internet Resources Guide to Elec tronic Serials and Conferences and Zen and the Art of the Internet This is the first in a series of
59. ill allow you to use the password guest If you should use your E mail address as the password you will be informed by the host computer at the time of login Once you have completed the login pro cedure you will get a prompt either FTP gt or the name of the host computer such as HOST COMPUTER EDU gt now you have access to directories and files at that site Once you have completed the login proce dure you will be able to issue commands Typ ing help will give you very brief help on FTP commands Most of the machines that you will access will be UNEX based or VMS based The operating system that is being run by the host machine determines which commands you can use For example with a UNIX machine you will have to carefully note the capitalization of filenames and directory names since UNIX is case sensitive With VMS this is not important Commands Once you have com continued on page 20 A Sampling of Sites That Support Anonymous FTP Contents of Archive Hostname Macintosh MS DOS VMS UNIX shareware and documentation MS DOS shareware Windows 3 0 software and fonts Macintosh shareware wuarchive wustl edu wsmr simtel20 army mil msdos archive umich edu cica cica indiana edu sumex aim stanford edu mac archive umich edu Supreme Court Rulings ftp cwru edu NASA Archives Song lyrics and discographies of musicians ames arc nasa gov vacs uwp edu General Accounting Office Reports Archive cu nih
60. in Warren Weaver Hall KHOROS includes a visual programming language code generators for extending the visual language and adding new application packages an interactive editor and image display subsystem an extensive library of image processing numerical analysis and signal processing routines a two di mensional and three dimensional subsystem for plot ting and much more KHOROS can be installed on many different UNIX based graphics workstations such as the Silicon Graphics IRIS the DEC 5000 MIPS 3000 IBM RS 6000 and SUN SPARCstations The software can also runon ie systems that support both X11 Release windowing protocols Continued on continued on following page continued on following page March 1992 29 WY The KHOROS scientific visualization system shown below is an open environment for information processing data visualization and software development This sample screen reprinted with the permission of Digital News 30 March 1992 Visualization continued from previous page the Project Athena widgets These include Cray ma chines of various flavors The entire system is available on tape or via anonymous FTP from the University of New Mexico It is considered shareware and individuals or insti tutions using the software are encouraged but not required to join the KHOROS consortium The package comes with extensive documentation anda comprehensive set of software tools and utili
61. indi cator to the extreme right of the Status fine a right angle bracket shows that you are typing in English left toright while aleftangle bracket shows youare typing in Hebrew right to left The Reveal Codes function shows both English and Hebrew text and still uses the standard WordPerfect codes I particularly liked the fact that the Right Align command moves the cursor to the extreme left of the line in the Hebrew version while in English mode it aligns against the right margin The usual WordPerfect column formatting can be used and you can even have one column with Hebrew text and English text in the other What s more you can now mix graphics figures with either Hebrew or English text and in both cases the text wraps around the figure perfectly I was disappointed somewhat thar there is no Spell Checker or Thesaurus for the Hebrew module Perhaps this will be forthcoming sometime in the future but some people at the demonstration thought that it would be particularly difficult to implement this in Hebrew For those with a need to incorporate Hebrew or Yiddish text in their documents this product is sure to be a winner Henry Mullish mullish acfcluster nyu edu Academic Computing and Networking at NYU _ Microcomputers Hardware and Software Update Spring 92 at the ACF s Microcomputer Labs New PCs Macintoshes Software by Estelle Hochberg hochberg acfcluster nyu edu F At the PC classr
62. interaction and for sound Phowshap wotkshop configured to meet the needs of students in and music In fact there is significant overlap Daiane stein ponbor the arts and in various forms of media pro among various software applications and in a Macintosh Quadra duction For example each Macintosh sys creating a given piece an artist will often 700 and studies a tem includes a fast Quadra 700 processor switch among several application programs scanned photograph large amounts of disk and memory storage For example a paint program see below can be used to create individual still images or cels which can then be assembled for display as a motion picture Fortunately the Macintosh interface enforces a great deal of commonality among programs and allows several to be executing at the same time so that it is almost as easy to use several Macin tosh application programs as it is to use one _ It should be noted here that the ACF Arts and Media Studio is an evolving facility and that some of the hardware and software mentioned below may not yet be in place For more information on this see the sidebar Arts and Media Studio Software Up date on page 7 Software for Still Images Paint programs allow for the freehand cre ation of color images Paint programs avail able at the Arts and Media Studio include 4 March 1992 Academic
63. ix years Ms Bear looks forward to meeting faculty staff and students at NYU and to working with them to make their computing experience enjoyable and productive T he Computer Department of the Book Centers has recently become a service center for Apple Macintosh equipment add ing a new facet to the support we offer the Macintosh owners of NYU We are able to perform warranty and non warranty repairs on Macintosh equip ment Apple hardware comes with a one year warranty which the Computer Department will be able to honor We will also perform out of warranty repairs for a parts and labor fee If you are having a problem with your Macintosh equipment please stop by and talk to us It may be a software problem or a virus but if it is a hardware failure we will be prepared to repair it The opening of a service facility allows the Computer Department to perform up grades on Macintosh equipment If you are using Apple s System 7 0 and are finding yourself running out of memory an upgrade may be the solution New operating systems and more complex software packages require more memory We stock a variety of memory SIMMs for the Macintosh and will be glad to consult with you on your upgrade needs Also if you are interested in upgrading to another Macintosh for example moving from a Mac Classic to a Mac Classic II we are able to perform these services as well The Computer Department is now able to purchase ma
64. l and very large machine Such groups of smaller machines are often called farms or clusters often the word RISC is used with one of these terms connoting the origin of such clusters as clusters of reduced instruction set computers The ACF is actively exploring the cre ation of such a RISC farm of small power ful processors and is likely to establish one soon Such a cluster has the capability to increase the total processing power avail able centrally to NYU faculty students and staff by an order of magnitude at a cost that is modest relative to that of previous acqui sitions of large computers Such a configu ration may also be regarded as a loosely coupled system of parallel processors that would serve as an initial configuration for parallel computing experiments External Evaluations This year two external evaluation teams will visit NYU to assess the University s position in academic computing and in networking The first team will focus upon NYU NET and will assess its operation reliabil ity management extension and evolution We feel this is essential if NYU NET is to continue to expand at NYU and to con tinue its evolution toward becoming a ubiquitous network connecting faculty staff and students with both internal and external information resources in support of the University s mission We must be able to regard NYU NET as a utility pro viding transport for information in an in visible yet reliable
65. lay ing various densities of cyan magenta HSS PANTONE yellow and black inks The printed inks __ absorb certain wavelengths of the white light chat hits them and reflect the color lt that remains Hue Saturation Lightness Color is de fined by its hue which depends on the wavelengths of light that are present saturation the purity ofa color deter mined by the number of different wave lengths present and ghtness the brightness of the light which depends on the amplitude of the light waves Hue Saturation Brightness Color is defined by its Aue saturation as ex plained in HSL above and brightness the intensity of light reflected from or transmitted through an image Pantone Matching System PMS A standard for reproduction of colors with asystem of premixed inks used in print ing Printed color swatches are assigned a identification numbers Red Green Blue Known as the additive color system Used in video technology various brightnesses of red green and blue light combine to form the colors of the spectrum On a television screen or computer monitor the RGB color is created by light emitted from red green and blue phosphors that coat the back of the screen and emit light when ex cited by an electron beam Three dimensional animation is executed in a series of steps very much like filming a movie in a world built from scratch within the c
66. le to general users and to instructionallresearch users students and faculty with individual and class accounts during all hours of operation see inside back caver Available to general users from 8 30 a m to 1 p m Mon Fri and to instructional research users students and faculty with individual and class accounts during all hours of operation see inside back cover ACF Micro Lab Update continued from page 11 In all there are now some 60 software packages on the PC servers at the ACF s com puter labs Macintosh users at the labs have a choice of 25 packages not including the soft ware that has been specially obtained for users of the new Arts and Media Studio New Software for Windows 3 0 The latest Windows versions of three major packages Word Excel and WordPerfect are being installed on the PC servers at the ACF s computer labs as we go to press In early Janu ary the PC equipment at three of the labs was upgraded As a result it is now possible to run Microsoft Windows on any of the IBM type PC s at the 14 Washington Place and Education Building labs and on about ten of the machines in the Tisch Hall lab Academic Computing and Networking at NYU March 1992 13 Using WordPerfect 5 1 Temporary Macros as Handy Text Repeaters by Henry Mullish mullish acfcluster nyu edu From the Law School Hints for WordPerfect Users
67. ll talk about other services available on the Internet In the meantime we hope that you will use this article to help you explore the electronic frontier B March 1992 Academic Computing and Networking at NYU ee a oiae ee 55 oe Interactive Program Teaches Research and Library Skills Macintosh Based Online Research Assistant Available at Bobst Library by Rhonda Zangwill R esearch Assistant an interactive Hyper Card based library instruction program Zi ih i A erie revit Sure is now available in Bobst s Microcomputer Public Affairs Manager for Bobst Library Center Research Assistant uses easy to follow steps to guide students through the research process and is ideal for those needing help on term papers The program provides assistance in se lecting a topic finding background informa tion focusing research writing a thesis statement organizing arguments and finally presenting the paper in standard format This program is custom designed for use in Bobst Library and offers instruction in the use of many specific resources including specialized encyclopedias bibliographies catalogs sub ject headings and periodical indexes The program is particularly useful for the library novice and the Bobst staff are encour aging undergraduates enrolled in basic writ Dialog Classmate Program Continues Additional sessions for the Dialog Clas
68. mputer labs All systems are connected to local networks linked to the campus wide network NYU NET and are connected locally to Noveill based file servers and laser printers Each site has two or more laser printers A large collection of software over 85 packages is available For hours of operation please see inside back cover for usage restrictions if any please see notes below Third Avenue North Residence hali basement 62 computers 32 IBM and IBM type computers with mouse and VGA color monitor e 30 Apple Macintosh SE computers with two floppy drives Education Building second floor 82 computers tt The following does not include Arts and Media Studio equipment see page 6 for details 38 Macintosh IIsi computers with hard disks and color monitors e 20 Macintosh IIci computers with hard disks color monitors and 16 MB memory 2 24 IBM PS 2 computers model 55SX with mouse VGA color monitor Tisch Hall Room LC 8 50 computers 12 IBM PS 2 computers model 55SX with mouse VGA color monitor e 15 IBM PS 2 computers model 30 with monochrome monitor e 23 Macintosh Plus computers with hard disks 14 Washington Place 54 computers 9 Gateway 2000 computers with 486 processors and 8 MB of memory and Super VGA monitors e 19 IBM PS 2 computers model 55SX with mouse VGA color monitor e 26 IBM PS 2 computers model 70 with mouse VGA color monitor 25 with numeric coprocessor and joystick Currently availab
69. n by the editors please call 998 3036 for more information Unless otherwise indicated articles are authored by members of the ACF staff Those odd notes below many of the bylines in this issue of the newsletter are electronic mail E mail addresses If you do not use E mail but would like to see the box in the Networks and Net work Services section of this newsletter This issue was prepared on Apple Macintosh IIsi and Macintosh SE microcomputers using Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Aldus Page Maker Claris MacDraw Pro and Xerox MacImage Camera ready copy for this issue was produced using a Varityper 4000 imagesetter please see p 29 for information about this new ACF service and an Apple LaserWriter IINT printer March 1992 Jeffrey Bary Frances Bauer Kathy Bear NYU Book Centers Robert Burnham Educational Administration SEHNAP Gary Chapman Donald Chesnut School of Law Ed Friedman Philip Galanter Bert Holland John Kesich Stephen Krause Purchasing Services Robert Litt Richard Maisel Sociology FAS Larry Mingione Henry Mullish Gary Rosenblum George Sadowsky Stephen Tihor Rhonda Zangwill Bobst Library George Sadowsky sadowsky nyu edu Notes on some recent changes and our plans for further progress S ince my last note we have been mak ing a variety of changes and plans at the ACF In this issue I d like to comment upon some of our progress in
70. nal articles in future newsletters Data Base Archive continued from previous page gt Historical Demographic Economic and Social Data of the United States 1790 1970 Includes a break down of population by state race nationality num ber of families size of the family births deaths marriages occupation religion and general eco nomic conditions Partial counts over the time span of the series are available for such diverse subjects as total number of newspapers and periodicals capital invested in manufacturing numbers of educational institutions and of churches and taxes by state The ACF obtained data for 1890 1940 ICPSR 0003 Current Population Survey CPS Series May files The CPS is a household survey conducted monthly by the Census Bureau and containing demographic data on various subgroups of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the US living in households In addition to a core of questions asked with every survey sets of supplemental questions on special topics are asked in different months of the survey May files include items about adult educa tion multiple jobholding and premium pay and pension and retirement plan coverage The ACF obtained CPS May for 1978 1981 ICPSR 7783 7974 8137 8153 o Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data United States Data issued by the Federal Bureau of Investi gation of the U S Depr of Justice The file obtained contains the Supplementary H
71. nt Executive Jack Schweber at 212 856 3189 a Kodak Printer continued from page 23 process available in laser or ink jet color printers that uses closely spaced individual dots of different colors to produce a seemingly solid field of color The new printer has virtually unlimited applications from scanning a treasured yet deteriorating family photograph and reprinting it anew to printing scanned images that have been elec tronically manipulated to producing extremely high quality prints of original computer art or professional documents All printing on the Kodak printer is done by staff in the Micro computer Center Graphics files can be dropped off in the Center during regular hours or arrangements can be made for an electronic transfer over the Internet Users must contact Center Manager Scott Yates to discuss the specifics of any Kodak printing request in ad vance His number is 998 2460 To introduce the University community to this and other sophis ticated desktop publishing technologies the Center will offer Photoshop Fridays beginning this month Every Friday from 9 am until 6 30 pm users will have access to the color Macintosh comput ers and image manipulation software such as Adobe Photoshop To assist those who are not experienced in the use of these tools the Center will offer for sale a comprehensive 250 page user manual The manual costs 30 00 and also includes one free print from the Kodak X17700 printer
72. nts with John Kesich at the ACE kesich nyu edu or 998 3047 Current and upcoming issues of a number of publications on campus including the NYU Today Hotline and this newsletter are being prepared using the imagesetter For more information on the Varityper and the ACF s new photo typesetting service see the January 1992 issue of this newsletter Academic Computing and Networking at NYU installed For programmers there are C and FOR TRAN compilers and the Silicon Graphics GL graphics library The ACF staff is open to requests for other software which people would like to see running on the system Members of the NYU community who are interested in using the RS 6000 can obtain an account by completing an ACF Account Request form and sending it co the ACF Accounts Office Room 305 Warren Weaver Hall For further information on the RS 6000 please contact John Kesich 998 3047 or by E mail see below Note A presentation by representatives of BioSym will take place in the ACF s Visualization Center on March 19th from 10 am to 6 pm Contact Ed Friedman 998 3051 or at friedman nyu edu for details john Kesich kesich nyu edu KEHOROS Information Processing and Data Visualization A comprehensive scientific visualization soft ware system from the KHOROS Group at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque is available for use on the Silicon Graphics IRIS work stations in the ACF s Visualization Center Rooms 317 318
73. ny choreography needed for objects that move moving lights or moving the camera The third step called rendering is not interactive but rather involves little activity on the animator s part as the com puter calculates frame by frame and pixel by pixel what the camera sees as it films Academic Computing and Networking at NYU Arts and Media Studio Software Update At the time this article was written most of the hardware and software mentioned was in place The software listed below except where noted is installed in the Studio In addition some audio hardware was still not in place For more up to date information please contact the author Still Image Software Moving Image Software PixelPaint Pro MacroMind 3D Claris MacDraw Pro MacroMind Director 3 0 Claris MacPaint MacroMind MediaMaker Adobe Photoshop 2 0 Renderman Adobe Illustrator Paracomp Swivel 3D Pro Fractal Designs Painter Raster Ops MediaGrabber Quark XPress o Apple QuickTime QuickPICS Interaction Software Sound and Music Software MacroMind Director 3 0 AudioMedia Voyager Videostack Foolkit Digidesign Sound Designer II SK Voyager CD Audio Toolkit Digidesign Deck 8 HyperCard 2 0 OpCode Max OpCode Studio Vision OpCode Galaxy Plus indicates software still on order Coda Finale sd indicates software not yet Quadra ready the scene created in the first two steps The rendering step is compute intensive and can require minutes or hours
74. ny of the small repair parts for the Macintosh If your Mac Plus needs a new battery or you lose your keyboard cable we will be able to obtain those parts for you The Book Centers are also offering AppleCare service contracts to the NYU com munity An AppleCare contract covers dur ing the life of the contract parts and labor on any repair necessitated by normal use This service contract is registered with Apple so if you are travel ing with your Macintosh and have a problem under the terms of your contract you will be able to take your machine to any authorized Apple dealer for repair The addition of the service component to the services al ready offered by the Computer Department of the Book Cen ters makes it truly a full service organization You can be as sured that when you purchase your equipment through the Computer Department we will be there to help you with any problems that might arise in its use 24 March 1992 Academic Computing and Networking at NYU Please note The prices and maintenance arrange ments mentioned in this section the remanufactured cartridges was informed are for NYU institutional purchases only For prices on individual purchases you are encouraged to consult with the NYU Book Center News and Notes from the Purchasing Services Department by Stephen Krause would like to thank all of the people who responded by letter an
75. o use these files on your computer If you wish to retrieve a file with one of these extensions it is necessary to set the transfer type to either ASCII or Binary based on the listing in the chart A is for ASCII B for Binary For more information on retrieving files please see the accompanying article F As we go to press it is unclear whether UnZip runs under System 7 on all Macintosh models ACF staff members are investigating this question Operating System Unpackaving Program gt A FOB f Macintosh MS DOS UNIX SS YMS oof Notes o ArcMaci 3c ARC 6 02 ARC521 ARCVMS UUE For MS DOS compresses one or more files into one smaller file Denotes Macintosh file binary data that has been converted to ASCH data for means for file transfer One of the most popular methods for archiving Macintosh files E Denotes Macintosh file i BINHEX4 BIN Da Stuffit Classic unsit zip unsit UnTar2 0 tarread arc vmstat UNIX program for archiving uucool2 0 3 toaduu20 zip uudecode uudecode2 yms UNIX program that converts binary data to ASCII data for easier file transfer ee MacCompress3 2 comp430d zip lzcomp exe UNIX compression utility unpack stuffitinstaller stuffit1 5 1 hqx ZIP Eka UnZip 10 t pkz110 exe unzip41 Popular format for MS DOS file storage ZOO ESEA MacBooz2 1 z00210 exe 200210 tar z Compression format used mainly for PC files FTP Command
76. ode 10 WordPerfect Hebrew Module 10 Microcompul New at the ACF s Micro Labs E Computer Classrooms and instructor Student Consultation Space at Labs LI New Menu System Aids ACF PC Users 12 Protecting Against Computer Viruses 2 Text Repeaters for WordPerfect Users 14 WordPerfect Hints from the Law School 14 rS Network Accessing interet Sei with FTP Scholarly Conferences Via Network Update on the Dante Database E Mail Accounts from the ACF Library Computing An Online Research Assistant Dialog Classmate Program Continues A Kodak Color Printer at Bobst From the NYU Book Centers Book Centers To Open New Macintosh Repair Service Purchasing Services News and Notes Recycled Toner Cartridges Social Science Computing NYU s New GIS Group to Meet ACF s Data Base Archive Update ICPSR s Social Research Programs ATLAS GIS at the ACF Visualization Graphics Printing RS 6000 at ACF Visualization Center ACF s New Photo Typesetting Service KHOROS Visualization Shareware MinneView Available at ACF Minis Mainframes and Supers Update for ACFeluster Users Supercomputer Notes iS 16 17 7 23 23 23 24 25 25 27 27 28 28 29 29 29 30 3i 3l 32 a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Academic Computing Facility 251 Mercer Street New York NY 10012
77. omicide Reports for 1989 ICPSR 9028 Part 65 only The ACF s Data Base Archive DBA acquires and stores data files for instructional and research purposes at NYU Assistance in the use of these data files is provided by DBA staff to NYU faculty researchers and gradu ate students The DBA currently holds and catalogues some 700 studies represented by over 2000 data files More are being acquired continually at the request of researchers at NYU For additional information on the DBA s services or for help in making use of them please contact ACF consultants Bob Yaffee 998 3042 or Bert Holland 998 3401 Full descriptions of all DBA holdings may be seen by using the ACF s INFO system and selecting FACILITIES and then DATABASES L 283 March 1992 Academic Computing and Networking at NYU New at the ACF s Visualization Center An RS 6000 Workstation KHOROS and MinneView Visualization Software available for evaluation and trial at the ACF s Visualization Center Rooms 317 318 War ren Weaver Hall The RS 6000 will be at the ACF for six months or more It will be used for demon A n IBM RS 6000 Model 550 workstation is A high performance strations and presentations by IBM and independent IBM RISC software vendors and for test drives by members of the NYU community who are considering the workstation purchase of an RS 6000 The machine will also be used by ACF staffand
78. omputer Academic Computing and Networking at NYU March Q92 5 W File Edit Do Setups Options Audio Help STATUS Idle PLAYER Play Stop Tele Q fa piana od Ife 00 00 00 00 fwd Tab Space Return Cann X J 120 00 Replace WororNnsE N 2 internal a OUEST pcre BER Uigueve BiLoopRecond ee 75434 Bs c D E F 6 H al J K a in SYNC Speed OFFSET 00 00 00 00 RONSE Seq Len Start PST Tmo 85 00 so 10 RecttuteSolo Loop Length Instrument Cernpty empty empty Cempty Cempty N lt x lt Cc4Hwov82 re ee ey QUANTIZE i PLAY DAtks jaos j F SHIFT A o Ba File Edit Contro window Tent Cast 4 06 00 PY _DIRECIOR 3 O FEATURE EXAMPLES A Top Adobe Photoshop is a program for manipulating images that ea ES EA Tapie Belonging to a tiiva of the auu at the aolsteeza the parallel of latitude 23 27 Horth amp South DT NCHING typically have been scanned or created in EarthDay Cast other programs A Als ATA Ais ALG The image in A22 A23 A24 A25 the upper window was hand drawn using a pressure sensing pen in
79. omputer hardware or software that it no longer uses or if an upgrade is planned and you would like to find a new home for the old equipment please ler the Purchasing Department know and we will try to put you in touch with departments or persons interested in its acquisition This arrangement applies to department Squsiions only The value of each product i is normally decided upon by the interested parties The Purchasing De partment puts those who wish to barter in touch with each other If the equipment is tagged by the Property Management office arrangements must be made by the departments involved in the transaction to inform Property Management in writing thar the equipment has been relocated For a listing of tod SO and software avail able please contact Stephen Krause at 998 1032 or via E mail krause acfcluster nyu edu continued from preceding page New Agreements Computerland Corporation is now an IBM Certified Educational Specialist CES for NYU Computerland will provide on site installation work and training free to NYU on all IBM state contract computer and soft ware purchases These purchases include all IBM PS 2 Systems IBM Academic Solution Offering IBM PS 2 models bundled with various software boards and peripherals Services provided by Computerland in clude installation of IBM products and oper ating systems checking product configurations testing units diagnosing
80. ons of SYSTAT have been installed SYSTAT is a new interactive statis tical package featured in the January 1992 issue of this newsletter New PC software also includes ATLAS GIS the mapping and geographic information system software see Social Sci ence Computing in this issue of the newsletter and the Windows 3 0 versions of three popu lar packages see be continued on page 3 low Classrooms and office space for instructor student conferences Two computer classrooms at the ACF s Edu cation Building lab one with Macintoshes and another with PCs may be reserved by faculty for occasional class sessions contact ACF consultant Howard Fink at 998 3399 And instructors whose classes are using the ACF labs for their courses may reserve office space to meet with individual students to discuss their work computer equipped of fice space for instructor student consultation hours is available at both the Education Building contact Howard Fink and the 14 Washington Place lab contact ACF consult ant Jac Fried at 998 3436 E March 1992 Il Regular backups can help protect you from data floss due to a virus attack A new menu system aids PC users at ACF labs C Protecting Your Macintosh or PC From Viruses You may have seen reports of the Michelangelo PC Virus and the Macintosh MBDFA virus in the news recently While these viruses have not infected comput ers atthe ACF microcomputer labs the
81. onsibility of PM to keep that percentage at an acceptable level Demonstrations The Everex Tempo Carrier 3861S 20 MHZ Notebook Computer will be available at the Purchasing Services Division for hands on demonstrations The Tempo Carrier weighs only 5 3 pounds and is the lightest of the Tempo Notebooks The model being dem onstrated has a letter size footprint and 4MB of RAM an 80MB hard disk a 1 44MB 3 5 internal floppy drive an A C adapter Quick charger a backlit VGA display with high contrast LCD and 32 gray levels at 640 by 480 resolution a full travel keyboard a KeyMouse pointer on the keyboard and an Everex mouse and carrying case DOS 5 0 and Windows 3 0 are also included with the system NYU s price for this package is 2 546 Everex offers other configurations as well as other products at a discount to NYU To obtain pricing information on Everex products or arrange for a demonstration of the Everex Notebook please contact the Purchasing Services Division at 998 1030 Several NYU suppliers have suggested that they can provide demonstrations on some of their product lines If there are enough interested parties a product demonstration can be arranged If your department is interested in having a piece of computer hardware or software demonstrated please contact the Purchasing Department continued on following page March 1992 25 Recycling Used NYU Computer Equipment o se o a Ifyour department has c
82. oom in the ACF Education Building lab he Spring 92 semester opened at the ACF with a reorganization and expan sion of two of the ACF s computer labs pre viewed in the January 1992 issue of this newsletter The ACF s 14 Washington Place site is now a PC lab offering a mix of IBM PS 2s Models 55SX and 70 and powerful Gateway 2000 computers The Gateway computers use fast 486 microprocessors running at 33 MHz The Education Building site is now a Macintosh lab containing Macintosh Hsi computers as well as the more powerful memory enhanced IIci s In addition a new Arts and Media Studio which opened in January houses Quadras Apple s powerful top of the line Macintosh several NeXT computers laserdiscs CD ROMs and other graphics animation and audio peripherals For more on the Studio please see the Arts and Media section of this newsletter Please see the sidebar on page 13 for a list of Academic Computing and Networking at NYU hardware at the four ACF computer labs New Software at the Labs New versions of several software packages are now available to users of the ACF computer labs Macintosh users now have Microsoft Word Version 5 0 WordPerfect 2 03 and Mathematica 2 0 MacDraw Pre has also been upgraded recently In addition Page Maker has been made generally available to Macintosh users at the labs and both Macin tosh and PC versi
83. or Karen Strauss strauss acfcluster nyu edu aata Assistant Editors John Quinan Lu Ratunil quinan acfdluster nyu edu ratunil acfcluster nyu edu zarara Production Assistants Anna Hayward Charlee Leimberg rataa Page design and Macintosh layout Newsletter Staff zaate Additional Assistance David White Hema Ramachandran rarare Newsletter Design Karen Strauss ACADEMIC COMPUTING AND NETWORKING AT NYU is edited and published by New York University s Aca demic Computing Facility ACF Its scope includes information about computing and networking activities at NYU s various schools departments and administrative units Copies of Academic Computing and Networking at NYU are mailed to Uni versity faculty and staff and are also avail able from the ACF s Documentation Office Room 306 Warren Weaver Hall Students holding ACF individual computer accounts are included automatically in the newsletter s mailing list In this issue of the newsletter we have experimented with a new look The type faces used in the issue are Gill Sans for headlines Adobe Garamond for text and Polo SemiScript for the section dividers As with any new design we will be making refinements in it during the next several issues We welcome your comments and suggestions about our design the articles in this issue and articles for future issues of the newsletter Contributions from sources within the University are invited for consideratio
84. ourse that requires your students to use either of these facilities you may book consultation hours in one of these offices Academic Computing and Networking at NYU and plan to meet with your students there You can expect to be able to use a desk with a computer on it of the type installed in the rest of the lab Contact Jac Fried 998 3436 for the 14 Washington Place lab or Howard Fink 998 3399 for the Education Building lab to reserve your hours We have two other microcomputer labs one in Tisch Hall and another at the Third Avenue North Residence Hall Right now we re planning to upgrade them significantly over the next year Please give us your suggestions for ways in which we can do this that would be espe cially helpful to you We continue to negotiate with software suppliers to increase the richness of the software available in the laboratories for your use Asa result of several years of such negotiation we have managed a breakthrough with Wolfram Research which will allow considerably more wide spread availability of Mathematica on lab machines Mathematica a very powerful tool for doing both computational and symbolic mathematics should be a part of every mathematician s and every scientist s tool kit As we install more copies for your use we ll expand our education program to help you learn about Mathematica and use it in your coursework and your research Developments in Scientific Computing
85. owerful tool for creating computer multimedia and includes the ability to im port orchestrate and synchronize anima tions sounds graphics and text with a number of transitions and effects Director can also control media such as audio from CDs and video from sources like the Panasonic Laserdisc or the NEC PC VCR Director is something of a multimedia stan dard in the Macintosh world but it is not intended to be a complete workshop for the traditional cel animator We hope to offer something more focused on traditional two dimensional animation in the near future Three dimensional animation is ex ecuted in a series of steps which is very much like filming a movie in a world built from scratch within the computer In the Macin tosh world each of these steps corresponds to a different program The first step called modeling is to create three dimensional mod els of the objects to be shown using an appli cation program that is not unlike a CAD computer assisted design program For example for a scene in a dining room one would create individual models of the table chairs plates glasses and so on even the floor ceiling and walls of the room The second step usually called animation in volves placing all of the models in the scene determining material properties such as a wood finish for the table and chairs and a metal finish for the silverware determining the type and positioning of the lights and composing a
86. pertise for IBM s PVS and the portable visual programming interface Data Explorer Reported by Ed Friedman and Frances Bauer facility recently added to the ACFcluster will help VMS users better interpret the error messages that they sometimes receive from the system VMS system error messages are in the form facility Lident text where facility is the name of the product generating the message for example CLI for the Command Lan guage Interpreter is the one letter code indicating the severity of the error informational E error S success F severe error W warning ident is code for the message text and text isa short description of the nature of the problem Now you can receive a more complete explanation by entering the command HELP ERROR ident replacing ident with the appropriate part of the error message you have received Some other software updates Recent software updates on the cluster include Version 2 0 of the IMSL Libraries of mathematical and statistical subroutines BASIC Version 3 5 COBOL Version 4 4 Revision A FORTRAN Version 5 7 FORTRAN High Perfor mance Option Version 1 3 and VMS 5 4 3 For online information on IMSL enter the command HELP MATH IMSL For the other products men tioned type HELP productname replacing productname as appropriate e g help fortran hpo Note that the Fortran HPO compiler can now be asked to identify sections of your code that are suitable for vectoriz
87. quiring software Viruses can do serious dam age to your computer and can even render it inoperative Therefore when you acquire pro grams from any source it is essential that you check them for viruses before running them on your computer Virus detecting and cleaning programs for PC and Macintosh computers are available from the ACF see box in the Micro computers section of this newsletter for more information While the chances of acquiring a virus aS TRS ridden program from one of the archives 3 Public Domain a Ae mentioned in this article are somewhat slim Copyright free or distributed without charge 00 we nevertheless strongly recommend that you Shareware l l acquire anti virus software and check each Applications that are copyrighted but that allow unlimited distribution and application that you retrieve before using it come with a free trial period If the application will continue to be used after The software in the archives mentioned here that period payment usually nominal must be made have been checked by the archive managers de Te ji WE i although new viruses can slide through See transmission Control Protocol Internet Protocol Protocols that serve as the he Micocom puters se cton ofthis newsletter basis of communication over the Internet f for information about viruses When retrieving files you should be espe cially careful of any directory named Uploads These directories contain files th
88. re has been some concern about them from people in the NYU commu nity Viruses can cause serious damage to hard disks and result in data loss Therefore the ACF would like to take this opportunity to remind you that we have anti virus software available for both PC and Macintosh comput ers The ACF recommends that you use an anti viral package on your personal computer to detect and eradicate viruses already on your system and to help prevent future infection Please see the box on facing page for information on how to obtain these programs Michelangelo Virus The Michelangelo PC virus usually activates on March 6 the birthday of Michelangelo Buonarroti but it has been known to activate on other dates depending sometimes on the data setting of the computer s internal clock and sometimes perhaps on changes in the virus itself It is a fairly destructive virus and PC users may wish to make sure that they are protected from its effects Generally this virus spreads only by floppy disk and the infected diskette must be in the A drive when the computer is booted This virus reformats the hard onfused by DOS Lost your notes on the command that starts up the spreadsheet or wordprocessor you wish to use A new menu system at the ACF labs now provides a simple interface for users of the IBM PS 2 s and IBM type computers The disk wiping out all programs and files and writes over the disk so that data recovery is virtually impossible
89. smate Program at Bobst are scheduled for March and April This program provides access to 112 databases in many subjects including literature health sciences politics economics and history Some databases provide citations some give abstracts and some are full text To participate in the program one must first attend a basic workshop in online searching techniques Upon completion of the workshop participants are given a free password good for one hour of searching Additional one hour passwords are available at a modest cost No reservations are necessary For more information contact Lise Dyckman at 998 2513 or check with the staff at any Bobst reference center Basic Workshops Bobst Microcomputer Center Level B Tuesday March 17 10am noon Wednesday March 25 6 pm 8 pm Refresher Sessions Bobst Avery Fisher Center East Room 2nd floor Wednesday March 18 6 pm 7 pm Thursday April 9 6 pm 7 pm _ing and study skills classes as well as students in re entry programs to use it Since Re search Assistant is extremely user friendly it will appeal to everyone regardless of their level of computer literacy Research Assistant which was developed by Ann Bevilacqua formerly the Instruc tional Services Librarian at Bobst Library is available for use at Bobst free of charge to the University community Users simply request access to Research Assistant from staff in the Microcomputer Center and they will be given login instructions A
90. stations running Alias and Wavefront 3D animation software Real world video The third type of software for moving images enables the use of real world video on the computer screen The RasterOps video hardware allows video sources such as a videodisc or tape to be viewed in a window The RasterOps MediaGrabber application can then be used to capture a sequence of video at less than full video resolution and frame rates Such video sequences can be used by QuickPICS for simple display imported by MacroMind Director for use in multimedia imported by MediaMaker for integration onto a computer generated tape or converted into a QuickTime movie QuickTime is a technol ogy recently released by Apple as a standard for moving images and synchronized soundtracks We expect to be adding QuickTime software to the Arts and Media Studio in the near future and in future issues of Academic Computing and Networking at NYU we will discuss QuickTime and other ACF facilities for frame by frame full resolu tion transfer of video into the Macintosh Video postproduction The fourth type of software for moving images enables multi media users of the Macintosh to print to video in the same sense that a user of a word processor prints to a laser printer Using MacroMind MediaMaker one can assemble elements from videodisc Macintosh and CD audio images from paint and draw programs and two dimensional and three dimensional animations record e
91. stitute ANSI X3L2 multi byte character encoding committee the US national body working with the International Standards Organization ISO to refine international multi byte character encoding Formore information on Unicode contact Richard McGowan at NeXT Computer Inc 900 Chesapeake Drive Redwood City CA 94063 Phone 415 780 4522 Fax 415 780 3714 Karen Strauss strauss acfcluster nyu edu WordPerfect 5 1 Hebrew Module A First Look As we go to press WordPerfect Corporation is ex pected to begin shipping a Hebrew Module that will turn WordPerfect 5 1 into a Hebrew and English word processor On February 12 WordPerfect dem onstrated this new module to the New York Personal Computer Users Group at NYU at a special meeting sponsored by the Academic Computing Facility The Hebrew version is a module that works with WordPerfect 5 1 and it requires that you already have WordPerfect installed on your PC The Hebrew mod ulemaintains thecurrentfunctionsof WordPerfect while adding scalable Hebrew fonts for printing to a laser printer and for typing text from right to left It also allows you to toggle between typing in English and in Hebrew The Hebrew module retails for 149 it is un known whether there are educational discounts For copy protection the module comes with a hardware key that must be attached to the PC s printer parallel port in order for the module to run The Hebrew module adds a typing direction
92. sts chased at computer stores many of these FT Ping Software Some Caveats programs are in the public domain and are free to be used or copied and given to some one else Also available via FTP are programs referred to as shareware Shareware programs have a copyright that allows people to try the program for free for a number of days and then requires that a specified payment be made if the program will be continued to be used The ACF strongly encourages payment of shareware fees With shareware programs you are free to distribute the software to other people without charge who are then also subject to shareware restrictions Other material available via FTP includes network software Internet documents and While many of the public domain and shareware programs are quite good some even better than commercial applications others are not very good Determining whether a program is worth the effort of retrieving it can be difficult One way to check out programs is to read the newsgroups that relate to specific computer types Excellent utility programs communica tions programs and games usually make up the bulk of good shareware If you are looking for spreadsheets word processing database man agement or other big applications generally you will not find them as shareware In key areas commercial applications provide a level of functionality that shareware does not match Viruses area major area of concern when ac
93. tems Monterey CA For further information contact PSANDERS PSYCH UIUC EDU May 4 7 Conference on Computing for Social Sciences Ann Arbor MI For further information see the January issue of this newsletter for a description of this conference or contact USERLD52 UMICHUM or ALBERT_F _ANDERSON UM CC UMICH EDU May 12 14 USING 92 Open Systems Solutions for the Telecom Industry Philadelphia PA Contact DUKE PYUXV CC BELLCORE COM June 15 18 INET 92 International Networking Confer ence Kobe Japan Contact inet92 educom edu June 17 20 Fourth International Conference On Com puters and Learning ICCAL 92 Acadia University Nova Scotia Canada Contact Dr Ivan Tomek ICCAL 92 Chair Jodrey School of Computer Science Acadia University Wolfville Nova Scotia Canada BOP 1XO Phone 902 542 2201 exten sion 467 Pax 902 542 7224 Internet ICCAL ACADIAU CA June 17 20 Macintosh Technical Conference 92 Ann Arbor MI Contact WALDEMAR ALMIT EDU or EXPOTECH APPLELINK APPLE COM July 7 9 3rd International Conference on Computers for the Handicapped Vienna Austria For further information please contact 43 1 5120235 Fax 43 1 5137735 For upcoming Colloquia on Computers in Higher Education and ACF sponsored technical seminars see page 3 NYU s Spatial Analysis and Geographic Information Systems Group meets on March 24 see page 27 32 March 1992 Academic Computing and Networking at NYU
94. ties It requires from 100 to 200 megabytes of disk storage depending on how much of the code is kept online For more information please contact Ed Friedman at 998 3051 or friedman nyu edu Ed Friedman friedman nyu edu MinneView Available in the ACF Visualization Center inne View an interactive scientific visualiza tion package from the The Geometry Cen ter at the University of Minnesota is available for use on the Silicon Graphics IRIS workstations in the ACF Visualization Center Rooms 317 318 War ren Weaver Hall The software is used primarily to display and manipulate three dimensional geometric objects These objects can be translated rotated viewed in stereo and rendered as wire frame or shaded sur faces using a variety of shading models Currently Minne View operates only on Silicon Graphics IRIS workstations For more information on MinneView contact Ed Friedman 998 3051 or friedman nyu edu TENTATA Vama Piogoranikea EEO pU Cort Be MENIC DPA Research program at Geometry Center The Geometry Center at the University of Minnesota is a computing environment supporting research software tool and application development in mathematics and computer science mathematical visualization video animation production and math education The Center is offering apprenticeships postdoctoral fellowships and research professor ships open to those involved in all branches of mathematical scienc
95. tino research issues and structural equation causal models The deadline for submitting applications is April 24 application forms may be obtained from ACF statistical consultants Bert Holland or Bob Yaffee Room LC 7 Tisch Hall Tuition and fees depend on the applicant s academic status tuition is waived for faculty and others with PhD s A 2 500 stipend is offered to applicants accepted for a four week workshop devoted to quantitative analysis of crime and criminal justice statistics Reported by Bert Holland holland acfcluster nyu edu ATLAS GIS available a at the ACF ATLAS GIS from Strategic Mapping lieo has been obtained by the ACE It is avail able for use at the ACF computer labs A full manual set can be borrowed from the operator at the 14 Washington Place lab for use onsite ATLAS GIS i is PC based soft ware for the integration of cartographically accurate geographic data with databases of associated information It is being used this semester by students in the Wagner School of Public Administration and is a program of particular interest to NYU s recently formed Spatial Analysis and GIS Group see accompanying item The software and manual set are also available for examination and use at the ACF s Faculty Microcom puter Lab please call 998 3044 for an ap pointment For more information on Geographic Information Systems GIS please see the January 1992 issue of this newsletter and watch for additio
96. type PCs select the MSDOS section and use the KERMIT protocol to download the file mentioned above For Macintosh computers select the MAC section and use the KERMIT protocol to download the files mentioned above 3 Connect to the ACF VAX VMS cluster via FTP anonymous ftp to ACF cd to the MSDOS directory set binary mode and download the file mentioned above For Macintosh programs cd to the MAC directory and download the files mentioned above At the ACF s Instructional Micro Labs Spring 92 NYU students faculty and staff may use ACF microcomputers at no charge to the individual as general users or under two types of accounts individual research accounts and class accounts Obtaining an ACF account To use the lab as a general user simply bring your current valid NYU ID to any of the labs listed below no account application procedure is required Individual and class accounts also called priority access accounts are obtained through the ACP s Accounts Office Room 305 Warren Weaver Hall 998 3035 They are issued for specific academic purposes and allow priority access to ACF computers For priority access accounts a special form must be filled out and for students requesting an individual account an instructor s signature is required Please contact the Accounts Office for details What s available at the labs in Spring 92 The following microcomputer equip mentis available at the ACF s instructional co
97. will be prompted with To local file VMS prompts you to give the file a name that it will use on your local computer If you choose to use the file s current name press return If you wish to rename the file type in the new name and then press return Once you have typed in this information the re trieval will begin When file retrieval begins you will get a message on screen telling you that a data connection is being opened for that file It will also tell you the number of bytes in the file If you are using VMS holding down the control key and pressing A will show you how far the transfer has progressed When transfer is completed you will receive a mes sage telling you so If you are finished retrieving files type quit to disconnect from the host computer and get back to your local machine Now that you know the general steps behind FTP please see the sample sessions for UNIX and VMS on pages 19 and 22 Macintosh and MS continued on page 22 Academic Computing and Networking at NYU March 1992 2 TT FTP continued from page 21 DOS users please see the section F7Ping Directly Via NYU NET below for informa tion on Macintosh and MS DOS programs for FTPing For additional FTP commands please see the command summary on page 20 Other Considerations You will notice that when you FTP a file from a remote computer it takes only a few minutes for that computer to transfer the file to you even if
98. y be slower and that the connection to the remote site may time out and disconnect you Macintosh and PC computers in the ACF s public microcomputer facilites cannot presently FTP to a computer off campus At these sites the only way you can retrieve files 22 Sample UNIX FTP Session to SUMEX AIM STANFORD EDU To save space directory listings in this sample session were truncated acf3 gt ftp sumex aim stanford edu Pee Connected to sumex aim stanford edu Sea Aaa 320 SUMEX AIM FTP server Version 4 196 Mon Jan 13 13 52 23 PST 1992 ready Name sumex aim stanford edu strauss anonymous 331 Guest login ok send mail address user host as password Password E mail acf3 nyu edu Password will not show on screen 230 Guest connection accepted Restrictions apply ftp gt Is l 200 PORT command successful f 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for bin Is total 9 K r 10 1 1181 Nov 8 11 06_POSTING drwxr xr x 251016 31 512 Feb 28 02 16 info mac drwxr x 20 31 1024 Feb 28 09 36 pid drwxrwsr x 12 0 20 1024 Jan 9 11 20 pub 226 Transfer complete E 495 bytes received in 0 08 seconds 6 Kbytes s ftp gt cd info mac 250 CWD command successful fep gt Is l 200 PORT command successful 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for bin ls total 312 ats rw r r 11016 31 1171 Dec 13 11 04 O0readme txt drwxr xr x 21016 31 4096 Feb 26 14 26 app rwxr xr x 2 1016 31 512 Feb 26 14 26 virus 226 Transfer complete

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