SSC News, April, 1993
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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

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UNIX Hosts Down for Work
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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.

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Anne Cooper to Present Special Tape Brownbag
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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! 

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Error in 1990 Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS)
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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.  

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UNIX Disk Quotas Coming Soon to a Workstation Near You
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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.

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SAS 6.08 Installed on VMS
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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.

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BMDP Moved to ULTRIX
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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.

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SPSS 4.0 Installed on ULTRIX
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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.

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New SSC publications
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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.

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Gopher Installed on VMS
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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).

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PATHworks Server Installed on ULTRIX
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PATHworks users can now connect to an ULTRIX server.  Use the same
syntax as before, but use EUNICE as the server instead of ROBIN.

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PATH Environment Variable
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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:.