ICOT FREE-SOFTWARE News Letter No.3

                                        7 September, 1992



[Table of Contents]




[FTP Release for Domestic Area]

Since the first release of ICOT Free Software on 7th August, anonymous FTP has been available only from abroad. On 7th September, anonymous FTP from domestic (within Japan) becomes also available. ICOT Free Software programs are obtainable through anonymous FTP from our ftp-server machine:
                            ftp.icot.or.jp .



[How to Get IFS Programs through FTP]

The following is the standard way to get programs from the FTP- server at ICOT.

  1)  ftp ftp.icot.or.jp
            Connect to ICOT FTP-server machine by FTP command.
  2)  Name: anonymous
      Password:
            Login with the user name ``anonymous'', and input your
            mail address as the password.
  3)  FTP> cd ifs
            Enter into the directory ``ifs''.
  4)  FTP> get README
            Get README file first.  This file contains overall
            information on the ICOT Free Software.
  5)  Find out desired files by referring to the directory structure
            shown in README file.
  6)  FTP> binary
            Set transfer mode of FTP to image (binary).
  7)  FTP> get XXXXX.tar.Z
            Get an archive file.

[Report on the Accesses from Abroad]

By 1st September, since the first release of ICOT Free Software on 7th August, there have been over 200 persons accessed to the FTP-server machine at ICOT, and more than 1000 files have been transferred as follows:


    +-----------+-----------------------+------------------------+
    | Country   | # of Accessed Persons | # of Transferred Files |
    +-----------+-----------------------+------------------------+
    | USA       |          108          |           644          |
    | Canada    |           18          |            97          |
    | German    |           12          |            63          |
    | UK        |           14          |            51          |
    | Austria   |            7          |            36          |
    | Australia |           10          |            36          |
    | Korea     |            7          |            30          |
    | France    |            7          |            26          |
    | Holland   |            9          |            26          |
    | Sweden    |           11          |            25          |
    | Others    |           24          |            93          |
    +-----------+-----------------------+------------------------+
    |   Total   |          227          |          1127          |
    +-----------+-----------------------+------------------------+



[Contents of the Second Release of IFS]

The following is the list of the 15 ICOT Free Software Programs to be released on 7th September. In total, 58 ICOT Free Software Programs have been released. The number attached to the name of each software is the same as that in the list of ICOT Free Software. The size of each tar-file is also given.

  Symbol Processing: 3
  ------------------------------------------------------------------
   1 KL1 Programming Environment on UNIX: PDSS                  2.6MB
   2 Parallel and Distributed KL1 Language Processor: VPIM      1.8MB
   5 A Concurrent Object-oriented Language: A'UM-90             1.1MB

  Knowledge Representation, Knowledge Base and Constraints: 1
  ------------------------------------------------------------------
  12 Nested Relational Database Management System: Kappa-II     5.7MB
        (Data files are attached)

  Problem Solving, Meta-reasoning, Theorem Proving: 3
  ------------------------------------------------------------------
  22 Parallel Model Generation Theorem Prover: MGTP             44KB
  25 Forward Chaining Inference System: KORE/IE                 79KB
  30 Parallel Problem Solving System                            72KB

  Natural Language Processing: 5
  ------------------------------------------------------------------
  36 A Sentence Retrieval Tool: KWIC (CESP Version)             1.1MB
  40 Linguistic Knowledge Description Language                  1.5MB
  41 The Syntax Analyzer                                        167KB
  42 Experimental System for Argument Text Generation: Dulcinea 868KB
  49 Text Structure Analysis System                             316KB

  Experimental Application: 3
  ------------------------------------------------------------------
  52 Go Playing Game System ``GOG'' (sequential version)        628KB
  53 Go Playing Game System ``GOG'' (parallel version)          834KB
  58 LSI Routing Program                                        89KB



[Address Change of AIR]

AI Language Research Institute (AIR) will move to the following address. If you would like to contact on Common ESP, use the following address after 17th September.

        Research Management Department
        AI Language Research Institute, Ltd.

        c/o Computer & Information Systems Laboratory
        Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
        1-1, Ofuna 5-chome, Kamakura
        Kanagawa 247 Japan

        e-mail: cesp-request@air.co.jp
        FAX:    +81-467-48-4847



[PDSS Release]

PDSS (PIMOS Development Support System) is a system to execute KL1 programs on BSD UNIX workstations, and compatibility with the KL1 system on the Multi-PSI/PIM is preserved except in the implementation method and execution efficiency. Executing large scale KL1 programs on PDSS directly is difficult because of several constraints, but relatively small programs or parts of large programs are executable on PDSS.

PDSS is released as ICOT Free Software at the second release on 7th September.



[Contacts]

For information on ICOT Free Software, please contact

ifs@icot.or.jp

by e-mail. If you receive the paper edition of this newsletter, please let us know your e-mail address and we will send you the electronic edition. If you cannot use the e-mail facility, please contact the address below.

A list of ICOT Free Software ``ICOT Free Software Catalogue'' was distributed at the International Conference on Fifth Generation Computer Systems 1992, held at the beginning of June, 1992. If you do not have a copy of this list, please contact IFS desk with your physical mail address.

If there are persons in your neighborhood who are interested in ICOT Free Software, please let us know their names and both e-mail and physical mail addresses so that we can send them newsletters and the catalogue.


        ICOT Free Software desk

        Institute for New Generation Computer Technology
        21th Floor, Mita Kokusai Bldg.
        4-28, Mita 1-chome
        Minato-ku, Tokyo 108
        Japan

        FAX:   +81-3-3456-1618


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