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**** The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ****
**** Computation Center ****
News Bulletin #28
13-July-1992
Today's topics:
- WWW services.
- TAR compatible programs available.
- SWING.
- Aborting run-away processes.
o WWW services - As you have probably noticed, we have installed a WWW
service clients which allows you to access a large variaty of
information over the world. It also includes local information
about the university (like phone book, libraries information), about
services in Israel (like the bus timetable) and information from
databases abroad.
In order to read the local university's information you need a
Hebrew terminal which is VT220 compliant (i.e. VT320, VT420,
Visual-603 and PC's with Kermit). Other terminals can't see the
Hebrew but can access the other sources of information.
If your department wants to have a stub in this information service
please call Dudu Rashty at 65-84848 or RASHTY@VMS.
Two terminals (accompanied with printers) for public access of WWW
were placed in Harman library and the central library of Mt.
Scopus.
o TAR compatible programs - Two programs which emulate most of Tar's
functions are available (TAR is the Unix equivalent of BACKUP, but
uses a different format). The commands are TAR2VMS (in order to
unpack TAR savesets) and VMS2TAR (in order to create a new TAR
saveset) both are defined with PROVIDE PUBLIC command.
NOTE: These are public domain programs which are not supported by
us and are used on your own risk.
For help hit the commands TAR2VMS -H or VMS2TAR -H.
o SWING - Swing is a directory navigation program. It allows you to
have a "tour" over your directory tree and doing simple file
management tasks without the need to know the exact VMS command; it
is much like the PC's Norton utilities and others. A detailed
description of it is available at GUIDES$:SWING.TXT; a brief help
text is available inside SWING by hitting ?.
To run it simply hit the SWING command.
o Aborting run-away processes - In the last few days few users were
"caught" having more than one processes running in parallel and
consuming a large amount of CPU. A quick check showed that when
their process was stuck they hitted the key thinking that it
will abort the process. The problem is that does not abort
it and leaves the process to run. In order to stop a run-away
process hit the ^C or ^Y (i.e. while holding the key hit
the C or Y button). If you hit the Break key then please give the
command DISCONNECT immediately after it. This will allow the
process to continue execution no more than 30 minutes.
Regards,
__Yehavi:
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