SSC News, April, 1993 ===================== Contents: UNIX Hosts Down for Work Anne Cooper to Present Special Tape Brownbag Error in 1990 Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS) UNIX Disk Quotas Coming Soon to a Workstation Near You SAS 6.08 Installed on VMS BMDP Moved to ULTRIX SPSS 4.0 Installed on ULTRIX New SSC publications Gopher Installed on VMS PATHworks Server Installed on ULTRIX PATH Environment Variable This is the SSC News. This monthly electronic newsletter will keep you informed about recent changes on the SSC computer networks. We hope this new source of information will help improve communication between the SSC computing staff and all of you computer users out there. TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS NEWSLETTER, just type REPLY at the mail prompt and send us a message which says "unsubscribe". We will remove you from the distribution list for future electronic mailings. If you ever change your mind, just notify the SSC Consultant or send mail to SSCNEWS asking to get back on the list. ------------------------ UNIX Hosts Down for Work ------------------------ EUNICE and CDE2 UNIX nodes will be down on Wednesday, April 7, from 6 am to 8 am. The systems will be moved into a new cabinet in the computer room. This will also affect ALL ULTRIX hosts since many filesystems are served from either of these machines. SunOS machines will be affected only minorly (in particular, TeX will be down). Also, this includes using EUNICE for sending mail outside the cluster using the EUNICE:: addressing syntax. Incoming network mail (which is routed through EUNICE) may be bounced back to the sender with an informational message during the period of downtime. If you feel you are missing electronic mail from that time period, please ask the sender to re-send the message after the nodes are up and running again. -------------------------------------------- Anne Cooper to Present Special Tape Brownbag -------------------------------------------- Anne Cooper will present a brownbag seminar entitled "How to survive using data on tape and take it with you when you leave". The seminar will cover suggested tape practices, how to read tape error messages and also make suggestions for transporting data to other sites. Eveyone is welcome. It is especially recommended for users of large data sets and for people going to other computing systems soon. The seminar will be held Thursday, April 15, 1993 from 12:00-1:00 in Social Science 8411. See you there, and don't forget your lunch! ------------------------------------------------- Error in 1990 Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS) ------------------------------------------------- We received an alert from the Census Bureau stating there is a problem with the 5% and 1% 1990 PUMS files. See the VMS or UNIX bulletin for details. ------------------------------------------------------ UNIX Disk Quotas Coming Soon to a Workstation Near You ------------------------------------------------------- In a month or two we will be implementing a disk quota system for the UNIX network. Every user will have 10MB of guaranteed login space. In addition to the login space, a user will be able to acquire more temporary space, depending on his/her affiliations with agencies and/or projects. This temporary space will be granted in relatively large chunks for a finite period of time (weeks). Details will be forthcoming. ------------------------- SAS 6.08 Installed on VMS ------------------------- SAS 6.08 is now installed on the following VAX nodes: SSCC, SOC3, IRP, and IRP2. Version 6.08 is a maintenance release and so most changes should be transparent. SAS Technical Report P-242 documents all the changes and enhancements and a copy is available for browsing in Social Science 4406. You can invoke SAS 6.08 in batch mode with the DCL command $ SAS608. Typing the DCL command $ SAS will continue to invoke version 6.07 until testing is completed on version 6.08. The next release of SAS for UNIX is not planned to be released from SAS Institute until this fall. It will be called SAS 6.09. We should get a preview of SAS 6.09 in the next month or so because we are scheduled to be a beta test site. -------------------- BMDP Moved to ULTRIX -------------------- BMDP has been moved from the VAX cluster to the ULTRIX nodes. The current version is 1990. Type 'bmdp' at the UNIX prompt to invoke BMDP. It will prompt you for input and output files and the program you wish to run. An X-windows interface is also available for X-window users. Type 'xbmdp' at the UNIX prompt to get the X-windows version of BMDP. ---------------------------- SPSS 4.0 Installed on ULTRIX ---------------------------- SPSS 4.0 is now installed on ALL ULTRIX nodes. This replaces SPSS-X 3.0 that was available only on cde2. This means that the same version of SPSS exists on both SunOS and ULTRIX. See the following article for related documentation. 4.0 is also the version of SPSS installed on VMS. -------------------- New SSC publications -------------------- The following new publications are available for SSC users: How to Access campus library catalogs via NLS How to Transport SPSS System Files between SunOS and ULTRIX The SAS on VMS Workbook Using LIMDEP on UNIX Using LIMDEP on VMS Using SPSS on UNIX Copies are available in 2470 Social Science. ----------------------- Gopher Installed on VMS ----------------------- A Gopher client is now available on VMS. Gopher is a tool that lets you browse the Internet by selecting resources from menus. Gopher offers an astonishing variety of information in a very complex structure. But the information is easy to access, even for new users. Gopher was developed at the University of Minnesota, hence the rodent-oriented name. A Gopher server actually holds information, a Gopher client just allows you to access information on Gopher servers. On VMS, type GOPHER at the $ DCL prompt. You will first connect to the UW-Madison's own Gopher server (called WiscINFO because we wouldn't want to be associated with those pesky rodents). From there you can hop to other Gophers all over the world. Gopher is also available on UNIX (just type "gopher" to access it there). ------------------------------------ PATHworks Server Installed on ULTRIX ------------------------------------ PATHworks users can now connect to an ULTRIX server. Use the same syntax as before, but use EUNICE as the server instead of ROBIN. ------------------------- PATH Environment Variable ------------------------- The PATH environment variable is used by the shell to find external commands. It is a list of directories that is searched (in order, from left to right) for commands. Below is the recommended command for setting your PATH variable (in your ~/.login or ~/.cshrc file): set path = ($HOME/bin $path) This method of setting the variable takes advantage of an initialization of certain environment variables at login time. After logging in you can see how the variable was set by typing: "printenv PATH" as the following example illustrates: % printenv PATH /users/d1/johndoe/bin:/usr/local/gnubin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R5/bin\ :/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/wp/wpbin:/local/wp/bin:/usr/local/bin/mh\ :/software/lang:/usr/hosts:.