======================== SSCC News, November, 1995 ======================== This is the SSCC News. This monthly electronic newsletter will keep you informed about recent changes on the SSCC computer networks. We hope this information will help improve communication between the SSCC computing staff and all of you computer users out there. Inside this issue... WordPerfect Now Available on EAGLE Version 6.1 SPSS The Margins are back on Printouts from the Computer Room! Jnet License Expires December 31 ---------------------------------- WordPerfect Now Available on EAGLE ---------------------------------- For the first time, we have WordPerfect on our VMS EAGLE computer. We have been awaiting shipment for over a year! It is version 5.1+, the same version we updated to on SOC3 and SSCB a month ago. Read BULLETIN for upgrade notes. ---------------- Version 6.1 SPSS ---------------- SPSS Inc. is about to start shipping SPSS Version 6.1 for DEC UNIX (NORMAN). It has a graphical interface very similar to the Windows versions for interactive processing. We hope to receive our copy early next year. Version 6.1 for Open VMS/ALPHA machines (EAGLE) is slated to be ready in the first quarter of 1996. ---------------------------------------------------------- The Margins are back on Printouts from the Computer Room! ---------------------------------------------------------- For several weeks now, the three laser printers in the computer room have been printing mail messages and text files with very narrow margins and a larger than usual font. Many of you let us know you were unhappy with this change either by telling us or by using other printers instead. In fact, the printer in the I/O room has been getting much more traffic than it is even designed to handle. So, we got your hint and set the printers back to the way they used to be. -------------------------------- Jnet License Expires December 31 -------------------------------- The SSCC will no longer license Jnet after December 31 of this year. Probably most of you do not use Jnet anyway (or do not even know what it is!). Jnet is VMS software currently on the VaxStation named NSFH that allows you to do three things: 1) use BITNET addresses when sending mail. 2) receive outside mail that has been addressed with a BITNET address (e.g. BUCKY@WISCSSC). 3) receive and send binary files using the VMS SEND/FILE command. When Jnet expires, people who are using BITNET addresses to send mail to others or are addressed by their colleagues using BITNET addresses will have to change the addressing conventions they use. If you use Jnet to send and receive binary files, there are other methods available to you. Internet and BITNET are computer networks which connect campuses and other institutions around the world. BITNET is rapidly becoming obsolete and virtually all sites that are on BITNET are also on the Internet. An Internet address looks like this: BUCKY@SSC.WISC.EDU The corresponding BITNET address looks like this: BUCKY@WISCSSC. Currently, to send to a BITNET address like SMITH@NYU using Jnet you would have to be logged on to the NSFH VaxStation and type JNET%"SMITH@NYU" or BITNET%"SMITH@NYU" at the MAIL To: prompt. When Jnet goes away, instead of sending mail to BITNET addresses using Jnet, you will need to use PMDF. With PMDF, you address a BITNET address from the VMS MAIL utility on any of our VMS nodes as follows: IN%"USER@ADDRESS.BITNET". For example, to send mail to SMITH@NYU, you would type IN%"SMITH@NYU.BITNET" at the MAIL To: prompt. If you use the PINE mailer on VMS, you do not need the IN% and quotes. For example, to send mail to SMITH@NYU from PINE, you would type SMITH@NYU.BITNET at the To: prompt. You might also have addresses with Jnet formats in some of your distribution lists. You will need to edit these files and change the Jnet formats to PMDF formats. It's possible (but unlikely) that some of your colleagues still use the BITNET form of your address when emailing you. You will need to tell them to use your Internet address (ssc.wisc.edu) instead. For example, instead of using the address BUCKY@WISCSSC when sending you mail, they will need to use BUCKY@SSC.WISC.EDU. If they use the BITNET address after December 31st, you will not receive the message and the sender should receive an error message that the mail was undeliverable. You can also use PMDF to send and receive files. PMDP has a mail program with an interface identical to VMS mail. To invoke PMDF mail, enter EMAIL at the VMS $ prompt. To mail a binary file type the following command at the EMAIL prompt: SEND filename/ENCODING=encoding-scheme where "filename" is the name of the file you want to send and "encoding-scheme" is the encoding scheme you desire. If you want to mail the binary file along with a mail message, then add the qualifier INSERT to the SEND command: SEND/INSERT filename/ENCODING=encoding-scheme There are some file formats that PMDF email recognizes automatically, and when the file is included via the SEND filename command, PMDF will automatically encode the file. You may use PMDF mail to receive binary and text files as well. Using the EXTRACT command, PMDF will automatically decode the file when extracting from mail. See the CONSULTANT for more information. PINE also allows you to send or receive binary files. See SSC Publication #7-3 for details. SSC Publication #1-3, "VMS Mail and Networks" is being updated to include the information in this article and will also contain more information in general about Internet and BITNET networks as well as some hints about addressing shortcuts on VMS using the DEFINE command. This publication will be ready next week. You can get a copy from the racks in the Public Terminal Room (Soc. Sci. 2470) or from the CONSULTANT. If you are a Jnet user and have any difficulties converting mail addresses to PMDF formats, please do not hesitate to contact the CONSULTANT.