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Subject: Arjuna papers announcement
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1993 16:47:02 GMT

This is to announce the availability of most Arjuna related papers and
theses via anonymous ftp from arjuna.ncl.ac.uk. These papers are
available in both US Letter and European A4 standards in postscript and
should now print on systems. Any problems in printing should be directed to
[e-mail].

Since there are too many papers to describe in one posting there is an index
available in /pub/Arjuna/Index which contains the abstracts from all of
the papers/theses and their locations within the ftp hierarchy.


>3  BOS (prototyping)

What: BOS
From: [e-mail]
Date: 23 Apr 92 18:07:32 GMT

[For readers of comp.object and self-interest, BOS is a prototype-based
object system that I have, er, prototyped in Tcl. It is available via anon
FTP to monch.edrc.cmu.edu under /usr0/snl/archive/bos-1.2.tar.Z (you have to
cd to /usr0/snl/archive first and then get the file, due to CMU security hacks
in ftpd). I thought that this would be of interest to comp.object and
self-interest, so I'm cross-posting/mailing --S]

Note: I play very fast and loose with the terminology of OOP to get my
point across. I apologize if I offend any sensibilities, and will clarify what
I say if it is obfuscated by my use of terms.


>4  G++ for DOS (Many sites)

:From: DJ Delorie <[e-mail]>
:Newsgroups: gnu.announce,gnu.misc.discuss

:               DJGPP 1.10 is now available!
                         :
                         :
:               --- DJGPP - G++ for MSDOS/386 ---

:djgpp is normally uploaded to:
:  omnigate.clarkson.edu                 128.153.4.2     pub/msdos/djgpp
:  math.utexas.edu                       128.83.133.215  pub/msdos/djgpp(*)
:  ftp.uni-koeln.de                      134.95.128.208
:                                                       msdos/gnuprogs/djgpp (*)
:  ftp.eb.ele.tue.nl                     131.155.40.15
:                                                       pub/pc/gnu/gcc-pl* & gcc-newst
:  wowbagger.pc-labor.uni-bremen.de      134.102.228.9   pub/msdos/djgpp
:  src.doc.ic.ac.uk                      146.169.2.1     ibmpc/djgpp
:  ftp.mcc.ac.uk                         130.88.200.7    pub/djgpp
:  UK.AC.MCC.FTPJ (JANET)                user<guest>     <PUB>djgpp

:(*) Please do not access during working hours (7am - 6pm their local time)


>5  cooC (Concurrent, OO C ext.)

From: [e-mail] (Ken-ichi Maeda)
Subject: cooC FTP release (2nd posting)
Date: 2 Jul 93 15:13:11
Organization: TOSHIBA R & D Center, Kawasaki, JAPAN.

        We are pleased to announce the release of new object oriented
language based on C.  The language has support for concurrent object
execution with synchronous or asynchronous message pssaing and wait when
necessary reply handling.  The language known as cooC (concurrent object
oriented C) is available by anonymous FTP for research purposes.

        FTP Site:  tsbgw.isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp (133.196.1.11)
        File: pub/toshiba/cooc-beta.1.1.tar.Z

        The released version of cooC employs SunOS(TM) LWP (light weight
process), to obtain concurrent execution.  The release consists of the
language translator (cooC->C), a runtime library (SunOS(TM)), a
concurrent object based debbuger, an example groupware application
(SharedDraw) and some technical papers.

BECAUSE THE SYSTEM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR
ANY PART OF THE SYSTEM.

        TOSHIBA Corporation while making cooC free for research, retains
copyright.

        For further detail, please refer to COPYRIGHT notice in the
package.

        Any questions and/or comments are welcome at the following
e-mail address.

        [e-mail]

--
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Ken-ichi Maeda <[e-mail]>
Communication and Information Systems Research Lab. II
TOSHIBA Research & Development Center
1, Komukai Toshiba-cho, Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki 210, JAPAN
TEL. (+81- or 0)44-549-2237  FAX. (+81- or 0)44-520-1841
--------------------------------------------------------------------


>6  FMPL (prototyping)

What: Interpreter for FMPL of Accardi, Release 1
From: [e-mail] (Jon Blow)
Date: 2 Jun 92 08:42:26 GMT

An interpreter for FMPL of Accardi, Release 1 is now available for ftp at
xcf.berkeley.edu:src/local/fmpl/.

*FMPL is a prototype-based object-oriented programming language.
*FMPL possesses lambda-calculus based constructs.
*FMPL is an event-driven language; the events it responds to are mainly
based on the behavior of input/output streams, not only within the unix domain
but across the internet as well.
*FMPL supports "pretty"-printing of internally-represented code back into
readable form.
*FMPL is an experimental language developed at the Experimental Computing
Facility of the University of California, Berkeley.  This release is something
of a beta test since the language has not been widely used outside Berkeley.
It is hoped that this release will draw useful comments and suggestions from
the world at large that will help in improving future versions of FMPL.


>7  MAX (visual OO)

From: [e-mail] (Michel Fingerhut)
Subject: IRCAM DSP software for DEC/ALPHA and DEC/MIPS
Organization: Inst. de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, Paris
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 93 11:25:23 GMT

ftp.ircam.fr:/pub/IRCAM/programs contains some of the IRCAM-developed
software packages (in demo version; see further down for availability
of the fully functional versions), including runnable binaries for
both the DEC/ALPHA (osf1) and DEC/MIPS (ultrix) architectures, and soon
available on other platforms (SGI and Macintosh).

MAX

MAX is a visual, object-oriented, programming language, initially
designed for interactive musical performance, but which is suitable for
digital signal processing as well as real-time control.  It allows
interconnecting of oscillators and filters, building custom controller
modules and simulation units all from a core collection of signal
processing objects.

First developed by Miller Puckette at IRCAM in late 1986 to control
the IRCAM 4X, it was later implemented on the Apple Macintosh as a
graphical programming environment for MIDI applications.  This version
has been extended by the Opcode company in Palo Alto, CA (USA), and is
available through them.

The Alpha version (and its demo-only subset) is based on the NeXT
version, where it is used to control the IRCAM-designed ISPW board.
This card, based on two Intel i860 microprocessors, handles
numerically-intensive real-time operations.

To date, it has been extensively used in live performance of
full-length musical compositions (see some references in the MAX/doc
directory), as well as in scientific and experimental applications
requiring real-time control.

SVP

SVP (``Super Vocodeur de Phase'') is a signal processing tool which was
designed and developed at IRCAM by Gilles Poirot and Philippe
Depalle.  It is a full system for the analysis and synthesis of sound,
whose core is a phase vocoder, and which comprises several modules for
analysis (FFT, LPC..), filtering (band modes, surface modes...), time-
scaling, mixing, spectral combination, cross-synthesis and
amplification, which can be combined in multiple ways.

UDI

UDI is a library of C routines which provides a coherent software
approach for developing and maintaining digital signal processing
algorithms on stand-alone workstations or on host/array processor
configuration.  Initially designed for sound signal analysis and
synthesis, it can be used by any application which does vector math
calculation.

It provides functions ranging from elementary vector and matrix
operations to more specific DSP operations, such as, but not limited
to, FFT, least-square, linear prediction coding, discrete cepstrum and
pitch detection.

UDI was actually used in implementing SVP.

HOW TO RETRIEVE

The following example contains underlined text.  If it does not print
nicely, use your favorite editor in order to remove all occurrences of
"^H_" (control-H followed by underscore).

Connect via ftp to ftp.ircam.fr.  Engage into the following dialog (the
underlined text is the reply you should provide

        220 ftp FTP server (Version 6.17 Thu Mar 11 08:30:51 MET 1993) ready.
        Name (ftp:host): f_t_p_            (or: a_n_o_n_y_m_o_u_s_)
        Passwd: l_o_g_i_n_@_y_o_u_r_m_a_c_h_i_n_e_       (see NOTE further down)
        230-...
        230-(informational messages, please read!)
        230-...
        ftp> c_d_ _p_u_b_/_I_R_C_A_M_/_p_r_o_g_r_a_m_s_
        250 CWD command successful.
        ftp> g_e_t_ _R_E_A_D_M_E_
        200 PORT command successful.
        150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for README (nnn bytes).
        226 Transfer complete.
        local: README remote: README
        nnn bytes received in mmm seconds (xxx Kbytes/s)
        ftp> b_i_n_
        200 Type set to I.
        ftp> g_e_t_ _s_v_p_._t_a_r_._g_z_             (or u_d_i_._t_a_r_._g_z_ or m_a_x_._t_a_r_._g_z_)
        ...
        ftp> q_u_i_t_

NOTE

The ftp server requires you to give as password something of the form
        l_o_g_i_n_@_h_o_s_t_
where l_o_g_i_n_ is your login name (or account name, or user information)
and h_o_s_t_ is the fully-qualified name of the machine you are currently calling
from, which is not necessarily the one on which you get your mail.  If you
mistype it, the ftp server will advise you with an informative error message.

AVAILABILITY

For information on availability of these and other IRCAM tools with
full functionality and documentation, and/or licensing of source code,
as well as IRCAM publications (technical/scientific reports) please contact
(in french or english, preferably):

        Mr. Vincent Puig
        Directeur de la Valorisation
        IRCAM
        31, rue Saint-Merri
        F-75004 Paris, France

        email:  [e-mail]
        FAX:    [phone]

Additional info can be found in the README file in the above directory.

REPORTING PROBLEMS AND GETTING HELP

... in retrieving the software and/or in running it: please send email to

        [e-mail]



>8  O'small (OO lang for teaching)

From: [e-mail] (Andreas Hense)
Subject: *** NEW O'small compiler available by ftp !!! ***
Date: 25 Jun 1993 13:54:35 GMT
Organization: Universitaet des Saarlandes,Rechenzentrum

             O'small - THE object-oriented language for teaching
             ---------------------------------------------------
                       (Announcement of a new compiler)

*** An object-oriented language for teaching?

Depending on which aspects of object-orientation you want to convey you
may choose your teaching language. If you want to teach the aspect of
software reuse and nice graphical user interfaces, you should choose
Smalltalk. If you want to show students how to program in a best
selling language you should choose C++.


*** In which case should I choose O'small?

You should consider O'small if you believe that computer languages
should have a GOOD FORMAL SEMANTICS. Everyone will agree that a
language needs a formal semantics. Otherwise, your program will yield
different results on different implementations. A good formal
semantics does not only serve the purpose of precisely defining what
the results of your programs are, it also gives insights about the
nature of the language.

You should consider O'small if you do not want to waste time on
unnecessary details. O'small is CONCISE. Its syntax and semantics
takes no more than one page (if you choose the right font). Its syntax
is similar to more traditional languages. O'small has been used in a
lecture showing the differences between wrapper semantics
(denotational) and method lookup semantics (operational).

O'small is FREE! Up to now, there has only been an O'small interpreter
written in Miranda [Hen91b]. This interpreter is directly based on the
denotational semantics of O'small [Hen91d]. The interpreter itself is
available by ftp. However, you need Miranda in order to run it. Now,
there is a NEW IMPLEMENTATION of O'small based entirely on EASILY
AVAILABLE SOFTWARE. This software is not free but it does not cost
anything. The new implementation is based on an abstract machine [Boe93].

You can MODIFY the language and have your students make experiments
with it. The source code of the abstract machine and the
specifications for the parser and scanner generators are available.
Using these generators you can make experiments for your own research
in statical analysis of object-oriented languages.


*** I would like to TRY O'small

You get the implementation by anonymous internet ftp.
The following table gives the ftp connection information.

Host:                   Net Address:      Directory:
-------------------------------------------------------------
cs.uni-sb.de            134.96.7.254      /pub/osmall/machine

The directory /pub/osmall/machine contains the files
        README
        ANNOUNCE                this file
        HowToGetML
        oma.1.00.tar.Z          compressed tar-file


***************************************************************************
NOTE: Ftp should be put into binary mode before transferring the compressed
tar file.
***************************************************************************

Here is a sample dialog:

   ftp
   ftp> open cs.uni-sb.de
   Name: anonymous
   Password: <your name>
   ftp> binary
   ftp> cd /pub/osmall/machine
   ftp> get README
   ftp> get ANNOUNCE
(  ftp> get HowToGetML  )
   ftp> get oma.1.00.tar.Z
   ftp> close
   ftp> quit

If you have a Sun 4 or a SPARC you can use the existing executable files.
Otherwise, you need 'sml-yacc', 'sml-lex' and 'sml-noshare'. Read
'HowToGetML' to obtain them.

Instructions on using the machine are contained in the file README.

References

[Boe93]  Christoph Boeschen.  Christmas - An abstract machine for
         O'small.  Master's thesis, Universit"at des Saarlandes,
         Fachbereich 14, June 1993.

[Hen91b] Andreas V. Hense.  An O'small interpreter based on denotational
         semantics.  Technical Report A 07/91, Universit"at des Saarlandes,
         Fachbereich 14, November 1991.

[Hen91c] Andreas V. Hense. Type inference for O'small. Technical Report A
         06/91, Universit"at des Saarlandes, Fachbereich 14, October 1991.

[Hen91d] Andreas V. Hense.  Wrapper semantics of an object-oriented pro-
         gramming language with state. In T. Ito and A. R. Meyer, editors,
         Theoretical Aspects of Computer Software, volume 526 of Lecture No-
         tes in Computer Science, pages 548-568. Springer-Verlag, September
         1991.

[Hen93]  Andreas V. Hense.  Denotational semantics of an object-oriented
         programming language with explicit wrappers.  Formal Aspects of
         Computing, 5(3), 1993. to appear.

[HS92]   Andreas V. Hense and Gert Smolka.  A verification of extensible
         record types.  In Zhongzhi Shi, editor, Proceedings of the IFIP
         TC12/WG12.3 International Workshop on Automated Reasoning,
         pages 137-164, Beijing, P.R. China, 13-16 July 1992. Internatio-
         nal Federation for Information Processing, Elsevier, North-Holland,
         Excerpta Medica.

[HS93]   Andreas V. Hense and Gert Smolka.  Principal types for object-
         oriented languages. Technical Report A 02/93, Universit"at des Saar-
         landes, Fachbereich 14, June 1993.


>9  OBJ3 (OO lang)

What: Release 2.0 of OBJ3 (needed for FOOPS and OOZE, concurrent OOP)
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 92 15:07:26 BST
From: [e-mail]

OBJ is available from SRI, see the message below; prototypes implementations of
FOOPS (without the concurrent extension) and OOZE are due to the end of the
year, but for both you also need OBJ.

Unfortunately, I don't have any document about the FOOPS extension now, but
probably by the end of the year. I will send it to you as soon as possible.


What: Release 2.0 of OBJ3 is now available
From: [e-mail] (Timothy Winkler)
Date: 6 Apr 92 08:35:40 GMT

Release 2.0 of OBJ3 is now available!

Improvements in this version include some language extensions and additional
theorem proving features.  In addition, an effort has been made to speed up
the implementation; rewriting is often twice as fast as in the original
implementation.  We are including the AKCL patches from the University of
Texas at Austin in the distribution, which are necessary for maintaining the
portability of OBJ3 and also improve its efficiency.  In addition, we are
distributing a SPARC version of OBJ3.

OBJ3 has pattern matching modulo associativity, commutativity, and identity.
New: the system automatically computes conditions for rules involving matching
modulo identity that are used to prevent obvious non-termination problems.

Also new to this version of OBJ3 is a facility for controlled rewriting. This
provides substantially increased support for the use of the system for
equational theorem proving.

To receive the OBJ3 distribution tape or an OBJ3 license, send a request
to:

           Judith Burgess (OBJ3)
           Computer Science Laboratory
           SRI International
           333 Ravenswood Ave.
           Menlo Park, CA 94025-3493, USA

        Telephone: [phone]
        Fax: [phone]
            email: [e-mail]

Be sure to give us your postal mailing address.  Then we will send you the
OBJ3 Information Form, and License Agreement, with instructions on how to
fill them out.  (A KCL license form will also be included.)  When you return
them to us, appropriately filled out and signed, we will send you the tape,
somedocumentation, and, in case you are requesting a tape, an invoice for
$150.00 plus any required taxes.

If you already have an OBJ3 license, then you don't need to get a new license,
but, if you are requesting a tape from SRI, you are asked to pay the above
distribution fee.

It is also possible to get a license for OBJ3 at no charge from SRI and then
get the OBJ3 distribution itself from some third party also having a license.

Jose Meseguer, Timothy Winkler, and Patrick Lincoln
Computer Science Laboratory
SRI International
333 Ravenswood Avenue
Menlo Park, California 94025, USA

Joseph Goguen
Programming Research Group
Computing Laboratory
Oxford University
11 Keble Road
Oxford OX1 3QD, United Kingdom


>10  OBST (lang, perst, OODB)

What: OBST (Version: OBST3-2)
From: [e-mail]
Date: 19/3/92

[ Formerly, we used the acronym SOS, which led to a conflict
  with an object oriented operating system of the same name.
  Therefore we changed the name to OBST ("Obst" is the German
  word for "fruit"). As many people already use SOS (OBST) we
  did not change internal things like class names, environment
  variables and so on. ]

The persistent object management system OBST was developed by
Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI) as a contribution to the STONE
project. This project (supported by grant no. ITS8902A7 from the
BMFT, i.e. the German Ministry for Research) aims at the development
of a software engineering environment for education purposes and is
carried out as a joint project of nine german universities and
research institutions.

An essential feature of STONE is that the object oriented paradigm
is pursued consequently as a key concept. OBST is the common persistent
object store for all tools within the STONE environment.

The OBST data model can be characterized by the following properties:

 * Schema definition language syntactically similar to C++
 * Support of multiple inheritance
 * Generic classes
 * Distinction between public, protected, and private methods
 * Redefinition of methods
 * Overloading of methods

Schemas are compiled by the OBST schema compiler. The compilation
results are instances of classes of the meta schema. From these
instances in a next step interfaces to different programming languages
can be generated. At present the C++ language binding is implemented,
interfaces to Lisp and other languages are planned.

Objects are stored in so-called containers. The container an object
belongs to is determined at the time of object creation and fixed
throughout the object's lifetime. Containers are the units of
clustering, synchronization, and recovery. Objects can be referenced
by other objects across container boundaries.

OBST provides a mechanism to incrementally load methods. This enables
programs to deal with objects whose type is defined after the program
itself has been developed. This is useful in systems that provide for
inheritance and it supports schema evolution.

Since end 1990 the first prototype of OBST is available and is shipped
to interested universities and research institutions.

The system comes with the schema compiler, a library of predefined
classes, a graphical object browser, the structurer and flattener and the
OShell, and all
manuals.

Structurer and Flattener is a tool to build objects from bytestrings and
flatten objects down to bytestrings. It is intended to be used when coupling
UNIX tools to the object management system. The user defines a grammar
that describes her objects. Afterwards, the structurer parses an ascii
text according to the given grammar and creates an OBST object structure that
represents the corresponding parse tree.  The flattener does the inverse
transformation, that means it generates an ascii text from a given OBST object
structure according to the given grammar.

OShell is a tool which provides interactive access to the OBST object base.
There is a language called OSL which is based on the lambda calculus and
defines the interface to the OShell tool.

For the prototype's installation a C++ compiler (GNU g++ 1.37 or later or AT&T
2.0/2.1) and the X-Windows system (currently X11R4) for the graphical tools
are required. Installation is well-tried on SUN 3/* and SUN 4/* systems and
should be no problem on other UNIX machines, too.

--------------------------------------------------------------------
For more information please mail to:
                Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI)
                       STONE Projekt
                 Haid-und-Neu-Strasse 10-14
                     D-7500 Karlsruhe 1
                          Germany
or email to:  [e-mail]

Phone:        ++49-721-9654-601
Fax:          ++49-721-9654-609
Teletex:      721 190 fziKA

The OBST system is available via anonymous FTP from gate.fzi.de
[141.21.4.3]. The system can be found in the directory /pub/OBST.

Sites interested in getting information about new OBST developments
are welcome to register in our mailing list by sending an email with
subject "obst-mailing-list" to [e-mail].


>11  OOT (OO Turing demo)

What: OOT
From: [e-mail] (Ric Holt)
Date: 26 Apr 93 20:14:43 GMT

OBJECT ORIENTED TURING: DEMO AVAILABLE VIA FTP

OOT (Object Oriented Turing) is a programming language that has been
developed at the University of Toronto.  An OOT demo, which includes the
fully implemented language, is available for Sun/4's running X windows.
See below for instructions to copy the demo to your site.

OOT supports the standard OOPL features of information hiding, classes,
polymorphism and generics, as well as the usual features in C and Pascal
style languages.  It also supports concurrency, exception handling
and system programming (pointer arithmetic, bit manipulation, etc).

The OOT environment is designed for teaching Computer Science.
It is being used in introductory programming courses, courses
on OO concepts, compiler courses, OS courses, etc.

The OOT environment is fully integrated, with multi-window editing, turbo
speed compiler, integrated color graphics, GUI user interface, implicit MAKE,
on-line manual, integrated demos, etc.  The system includes an experimental
CASE tool with an interface browser and a visual system browser.


>12  Sather (simple Eiffel)

What: SATHER

Sather is under development at the International Computer Science Institute.
Sather has clean and simple syntax, parameterized classes, object-oriented
dispatch, multiple inheritance, strong typing, and garbage collection. The
compiler generates efficient and portable C code which is easily integrated
with existing code.

The initial beta test release of the language was in May, 1991. The compiler,
debugger, Emacs development environment, documentation, and library classes
are available by anonymous ftp from "icsi-ftp.berkeley.edu".
"[e-mail]" is a mailing list for discussing aspects of Sather
and "[e-mail]" should be used for bug reports and
requests to be added or deleted from the mailing list.

Sather is based on Eiffel but is more concerned with efficiency and less with
some of the formal and theoretical issues addressed by Eiffel. The language is
much smaller than the current Eiffel, it eliminates over 40 keywords and
simplifies the syntax and inheritance rules.

Like Eiffel, Sather code is compiled into portable C and efficiently links
with existing C code. The Sather compiler is written in Sather and has been
operational for almost a year, though it is still being improved. Preliminary
benchmarks show a performance improvement over Eiffel of between a factor of 4
and 50 on basic dispatching and function calls. On the benchmarks used at
Stanford to test Self (including 8 queens, towers of hanoi, bubblesort, etc),
Sather is even slightly faster than C++.

The Sather compiler and libraries are publicly available under a very
unrestrictive license aimed at encouraging contribution to the public library
without precluding the use of Sather for proprietary projects.  The goal is to
establish a repository for efficient, reusable, well written, publicly
available, classes for most of the important algorithms in computer science.
There are currently about 120 classes in the library. The libraries are
growing quickly and will collect together classes from many authors under the
same unrestrictive license.

A GNU emacs development environment for Sather is available. A debugger based
on gdb from the Free Software Foundation is also available. A parallel version
of Sather for shared memory machines called "Psather" is also under
development.

From the Sather FAQ, August 16, 1993 (See Section 1.24):

Q 1: What is Sather?
     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sather is an object oriented language which aims to be simple,
efficient, interactive, safe, and non-proprietary. It aims to meet the
needs of modern research groups and to foster the development of a
large, freely available, high-quality library of efficient
well-written classes for a wide variety of computational tasks. It was
originally based on Eiffel but now incorporates ideas and approaches
from several languages. One way of placing it in the "space of
languages" is to say that it attempts to be as efficient as C, C++, or
Fortran, as elegant and safe as Eiffel or CLU, and to support
interactive programming and higher-order functions as well as Common
Lisp, Scheme, or Smalltalk.

Sather has garbage collection, statically-checked strong typing,
multiple inheritance, separate implementation and type inheritance,
parameterized classes, dynamic dispatch, iteration abstraction,
higher-order routines and iters, exception handling, assertions,
preconditions, postconditions, and class invariants. The development
environment integrates an interpreter, a debugger, and a
compiler. Sather code can be compiled into C code and can efficiently
link with C object files.


>13  Self

What: Self 2.0 Release
From: [e-mail] (Urs Hoelzle)
Date: 10 Aug 92 21:08:25 GMT

Announcing Self Release 2.0

The Self Group at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Inc., and Stanford University
is pleased to announce Release 2.0 of the experimental object-oriented
exploratory programming language Self.

Release 2.0 introduces full source-level debugging of optimized code, adaptive
optimization to shorten compile pauses, lightweight threads within Self,
support for dynamically linking foreign functions, changing programs within
Self, and the ability to run the experimental Self graphical browser under
OpenWindows.

Designed for expressive power and malleability, Self combines a pure,
prototype-based object model with uniform access to state and behavior. Unlike
other languages, Self allows objects to inherit state and to change their
patterns of inheritance dynamically. Self's customizing compiler can generate
very efficient code compared to other dynamically-typed object-oriented
languages.

Self Release 2.0 runs on Sun-3's and Sun-4's, but no longer has an optimizing
compiler for the Sun-3 (and therefore runs slower on the Sun-3 than previous
releases).

This release is available free of charge and can be obtained via anonymous ftp
from self.stanford.edu. Unlike previous releases, Release 2.0 includes all
source code and is legally unencumbered (see the LICENSE file for legal
information.)  Also available for ftp are a number of papers published about
Self.

Finally, there is a mail group for those interested in random ramblings about
Self, [e-mail]. Send mail to
[e-mail] to be added to it (please do not send such
requests to the mailing list itself!).

The Self Group  at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Inc. and Stanford University


>14  C++ gram, etc.

What: ftp site for C++ material
From: [e-mail] (Joachim Schrod)
Date: 27 May 92 22:32:35 GMT

There were a lot of questions about C++ material in the last time and some
announcements which involved our ftp server.
        ftp.th-darmstadt.de [130.83.55.75]
        /pub/programming/languages/C++
At the moment we have:
 -- documentation and assorted stuff
        C++ products list as announced by Saumen K Dutta (in a subdirectory!)
        C++ YACC grammar, ET++ tutorial, summaries from the Net,
        sources from James Coplien's book (idioms...), etc.
 -- class libraries
        NIHCL (original, persistent for ObjectStore, with g++ 1.4x changes)
        COOL, OATH, RogueWave vector, ET++,
        RPC package, a package for sockets, awe (thread package)
 -- tools
        class browser (for GNU Emacs), indent++, yacc+, template
        processor of Brad Cox[sp?], DEC garbage collector

More stuff is always welcome.  (Btw, Interviews and Motif C++ wrapper
classes are to be found in the /pub/X11 subtree.)


>15  ConceptBase (OODB, reqkey)

What: ConceptBase

See APPENDIX B.

A four week test-version of ConceptBase V3.1 is available
on the FTP server ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de in the
directory pub/CB.  For running the ftp version you must ask for a
key by email.


>16  C++ OODB
Exodus (Storage Man, perst)

From: [e-mail] (Daz)
Subject: Re: Class libraries for accessing RDBs ?
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1993 23:53:22 GMT

[e-mail] (Chandrashekar Ramanathan) writes:

>Hello,
>       Are there any shareware/ftp'able C++ class libraries that
>provide Relational Database access? I would also appreciate any
>pointers (ideas/articles/journals) to the various issues that one has
>to consider in designing such library.
Ok, I'm not sure if it's exactly what you want, but it's a database, it's
fully written in c++ with classes etc, and it's out for beta testing.

Check out pippin.cs.monash.edu.au:pub/export/diamond-0.1.2.tar.Z
and please mail [e-mail] if you decide to play with
it.

Daz.
--
Darren Platt, Department of Computer Science
[e-mail]
Monash University, Clayton Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


>17  Exodus (Storage Man, perst)

What: Exodus project software (Storage Manager & GNU E)
From: [e-mail] (Mike Zwilling)
Date: 16 Jul 92 04:53:19 GMT

In the past there have been discussions in comp.object and comp.databases
about persistent storage for object-oriented databases and programming
languages.  As you may know, the EXODUS Database Toolkit project at the
University of Wisconsin has researched these issues and others for a number of
years.  The purpose of this note is to inform you that the software from the
EXODUS project is freely available via anonymous ftp.  The EXODUS software
includes the EXODUS Storage Manager and the compiler for the E persistent
programming language.  Also included is documentation, and a suite of test
programs for both components.  This note briefly describes the software and
explains how to obtain it.  We currently support DECstation 3100s/5000s and
SPARC based workstations.  Others have ported the code to HP700s and IBM
RS6000s.

The EXODUS Storage Manager is a client-server object storage system which
provides "storage objects" for storing data, versions of objects, "files"
for grouping related storage objects, and indexes for supporting efficient
object access.  A storage object is an uninterpreted container of bytes which
can range in size from a few bytes to hundreds of megabytes.  The Storage
Manager provides routines to read, overwrite, and efficiently grow and shrink
objects.  In addition, the Storage Manager provides transactions, lock-based
concurrency control, and log-based recovery.

GNU E is a persistent, object-oriented programming language developed as part
of the Exodus project.  GNU E extends C++ with the notion of persistent data,
program level data objects that can be transparently used across multiple
executions of a program, or multiple programs, without explicit input and
output operations.

GNU E's form of persistence is based on extensions to the C++ type system to
distinguish potentially persistent data objects from objects that are always
memory resident.  An object is made persistent either by its declaration (via
a new "persistent" storage class qualifier) or by its method of allocation
(via persistent dynamic allocation using a special overloading of the new
operator).  The underlying object storage system is the Exodus storage manager,
which provides concurrency control and recovery in addition to storage for
persistent data.

The current release of GNU E is based on gcc/g++ version 2.2.2, and is upward
compatible with C++ as implemented by that compiler.

A bibliography of EXODUS related papers can be obtained from the ftp site
described below.

To obtain the software, simply ftp to ftp.cs.wisc.edu (128.105.8.18), login
as anonymous with your email address as a password, "cd" to the "exodus"
directory, and follow the directions (directions will be given as you "cd").
See the README for the latest information about the software and an indication
of our future plans.  If you decide to use the software, please contact us at
[e-mail] so that we can notify you of changes.


>18  GRAS

GRAS - A Graph-Oriented Database System for SE Applications
Copyright (C) 1987-1992  Lehrstuhl Informatik III, RWTH Aachen
This library is free software under the terms of the GNU Library
General Public License.

Lehrstuhl f"ur Informatik III --> GRAS
University of Technology Aachen (RWTH Aachen),
Ahornstr. 55,
D-5100 Aachen
Contact : Dr. Andy Sch"urr (or Richard Breuer),
[e-mail]
[e-mail] (for technical support)

The system GRAS with interfaces for the programming languages Modula-2
and C is available as public domain software for Sun3/Sun4 workstations
(the GRAS system itself is implemented in Modula-2 and consists of many
layers which might be reusable for the implementation of other systems):

  Via anonymous ftp from tupac-amaru.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
  (137.226.112.31) in the directory /pub/unix/GRAS522_3

  There are several files contain documentation, sources, binaries,
  and libraries. All binaries are for Sun/4 machines. Sun/3 binaries
  are shipped only if explicitly requested.

[See APPENDIX B]


>19  MOOD   (OODB, lim arch)

What: MOOD/P3 Ver.2.00 OODBS {Miniature,Materials}OODBS.
From: [e-mail] (Noboru Ono)
Date: 18 May 92 10:28:42 GMT

The following program/sample database package is available through anonymous
FTP at mood.mech.tohoku.ac.jp (130.34.88.61). Sorry it is not the sources and
operates only in NEC-PC9801/MS-DOS environment.  Sorry again documents are all
in Japanese. We will tell you later when English documents has become ready.

      MOOD/P3 Ver.2.00
      Material's Object-Oriented Database, Prototype 3

This program, as you may guess,

      1) is an Object-Oriented database system program,
      2) operates on PC-9801 series personal computer, and
      3) is accompanied by sample material database schema.

Although this program has been developed and being used in the experiments
on material data processing in which we are now involved, it is a general
purpose OODBS.

Noboru Ono
Dept. of Machine Intelligence and Systems Engineering,
Faculty of Engineering, Tohoku University.
Tel:++22-222-1800
Fax:++22-268-3688
E-mail:[e-mail]


>20  Ode    (C++ OODB)

What: Ode Release 1.1
From: [e-mail]

Ode is an object-oriented database based on the C++ database model. The
primary interface to Ode is the database programming language O++ which is
based on C++.

Ode 1.1 is now available to Universities.  This is a beta release.  The
current version of Ode runs on Sun (Sparc) workstations and users must have
C++ release 2.0 or a later release.  If you are interested in using Ode and
giving us feedback on your experience with Ode, please send me mail with the
appropriate information.

Narain Gehani
AT&T Bell Labs 3D-414
600 Mountain Ave
Murray Hill, NJ 07974


From: [e-mail] (Aditya M. Jani)
Subject: *Announcement* UserGroup for ODE (OODBMS from AT&T)
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 93 17:27:53 GMT

                    Ode Object database v2.0
                    ------------------------
Ode 2.0 is available via ftp from research.att.com.
Here is a sample session showing how to retrieve Ode 2.0
which is kept in the directory

    dist/ode2.0

as a compressed tar file named

2.0.oppbin.tar.Z

First create the directory on the local machine
where ode is to be installed, e.g.,

mkdir ode
cd ode

Retrieve the compressed tar Ode file using ftp into
as illustrated below.
Then uncompress it

uncompress 2.0.oppbin.tar.Z

and unbundle it

tar xvf 2.0.oppbin.tar

Next see file README, fix install file, and run install

./install




Sample ftp session
--------------
$ ftp research.att.com
Connected to tcp!192.20.225.2!1390.
220 inet FTP server (Version 4.271 Fri Apr 9 10:11:04 EDT 1993) ready.
Name (research.att.com:smith): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
Password: smith@hostname
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> cd dist
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> cd ode2.0
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> get 2.0.oppbin.tar.Z
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 2.0.oppbin.tar.Z (2762525
bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
2762525 bytes received in 1.6e+02 seconds (16 Kbytes/s)
ftp> quit
221 Goodbye.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                              Available Now!




                                 Ode 2.0
                       An Object-Oriented Database

       C++ Compatible, Fast Queries, Complex Application Modeling,
       Multimedia Support, and more




       Ode 2.0 is now available to Universities.  Users who currently
       have Ode 1.1 will be automatically sent a tape with Ode 2.0.
       There is no charge for Ode.  However, AT&T requires the signing
       of a non-disclosure agreement.



       Details
       -------

       ODE OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASE

       The Ode object database is based on the C++ object paradigm.
       Ode  uses  one  integrated data model (C++ classes) for both
       database and general purpose manipulation.  The Ode database
       is   defined,   queried  and  manipulated  in  the  database
       programming language O++, which provides simple and  elegant
       facilities for manipulating the database.

       O++  is  an  upward-compatible  extension  of  C++.   A  few
       facilities have been added to C++ to make it into a database
       programming language.  C++ programmers can learn  O++  in  a
       very short time.

       O++ programs can be compiled with C++ programs thus allowing
       the use of existing C++ code.

       THE ODE MODEL OF PERSISTENCE

       Ode offers a simple and elegant notion of persistence  which
       is   modeled  on  the  ``heap''.   Specifically,  memory  is
       partitioned into volatile and persistent.  Volatile  objects
       are   allocated   in   volatile   memory  (stack  or  heap).
       Persistent objects are allocated  in  persistent  store  and
       they  continue  to exist after the program that created them
       has terminated.

       An Ode database is a collection of persistent objects.  Each
       object  is  identified  by  a  unique  object  id  (i.e.,  a
       persistent pointer,  or  to  be  precise,  a  pointer  to  a
       persistent object).

       The database programming language  O++  provides  facilities
       for   creating  and  manipulating  the  Ode  database.   For
       example,   O++   provides    facilities    for    specifying
       transactions,  creating and manipulating persistent objects,
       querying the database, creating and manipulating versions.

       WHAT IS AN OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASE

       Some  important  characteristics   of   an   object-oriented
       database are:

          + data is stored as objects,

          + data  can  be  interpreted  (using  methods)  only   as
            specified by the class designer,

          + relationship  between  similar  objects  is   preserved
            (inheritance), and

          + references between objects are preserved.

       ADVANTAGES OF OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASES

          + Speed: Queries can  be  faster  because  joins  (as  in
            relational  databases)  are  often not needed.  This is
            because an object can be retrieved directly  without  a
            search, by following object ids.

          + No impedance mismatch: The same data model is  used  by
            both   the   database   programming  language  and  the
            database;  it  is  not  necessary  to  do  any   format
            conversions  when  reading  the data from disk and when
            storing the data on disk.

          + Programmers  need  to  learn   only   one   programming
            language:  The  same  programming  language is used for
            both data definition and data manipulation.

          + Complex applications: The full power  of  the  database
            programming language's type system can be used to model
            the data structures of a complex  application  and  the
            relationship between the different data items.

          + Multimedia  applications:  The   semantic   information
            stored  in  the  database  (class  methods) facilitates
            correct  interpretation  of  the  data.   This  reduces
            application complexity since applications do no have to
            be responsible for the correct interpretation of data.

          + Versions: Object-oriented databases  typically  provide
            better support for versioning.  An object can viewed as
            the set of all its versions.  Also, object versions can
            be treated as full fledged objects.

          + Triggers  and  constraints:  Object-oriented  databases
            provide systematic support for triggers and constraints
            which are the basis of active databases.

       Finally, most, if not all, object-oriented applications that
       have  database  needs  will  benefit  from  using an object-
       oriented database.  Specifically, C++ applications that have
       database needs will benefit from using Ode.

       FEATURES OF ODE

         1.  Ode is C++ based and compatible with C++.

         2.  The  Ode  object   database   provides   four   object
             compatible  mechanisms  for  manipulating and querying
             the database: O++, OdeView, OdeFS, and CQL++:

                + O++ is a database programming language  based  on
                  C++.   O++  is  upward compatible with C++ and it
                  makes minimal  changes  to  C++.   O++  offers  a
                  simple and elegant notion of persistence which is
                  modeled on the ``heap''.  O++ provides facilities
                  for querying the database, and a variant of other
                  facilities.

                + OdeView is a graphical X-based interface  to  the
                  Ode database.

                + OdeFS is a  file  system  interface  to  the  Ode
                  object  database.   OdeFS  allows  objects  to be
                  treated and  manipulated  like  files.   Standard
                  commands  such as rm, cp and mv and tools such as
                  vi and grep can be used to manipulate objects  in
                  the database.

                + CQL++ is a C++ variant  of  SQL  for  easing  the
                  transition  from  relational databases to object-
                  oriented databases such as Ode.

             Currently, only O++ is shipped with Ode 2.0.  A  beta-
             test version of OdeFS is available upon request.

         3.  Ode supports large objects  (these  are  critical  for
             multi-media    applications).    Ode   provides   both
             transparent access for large objects and a  file  like
             interface  for  large objects.  The latter can be used
             to efficiently access and  update  parts  of  a  large
             object.

         4.  Users can create versions of objects.  Ode will  track
             the   relationship   between   versions  and  provides
             facilities for accessing the different versions.

         5.  Transactions  can  be  specified  as  read-only;  such
             transactions  are  faster  because they are not logged
             and they are less likely to deadlock.

         6.  Users   can   run    ``hypothetical''    transactions.
             Hypothetical  transaction  allow users to pose ``what-
             if'' scenarios (as often  done  with  spread  sheets).
             User  can  change  data  and  see  the impact of these
             changes without changing the database.

         7.  EOS, the storage engine of Ode, is based on a  client-
             server architecture.  Some features of EOS:

               a.  Efficient  and  transparent  handling  of  large
                   objects.  A file-like interface is also provided
                   for very large objects.

               b.  Concurrency is based on  multi-granularity  two-
                   version   two-phase   locking;  it  allows  many
                   readers and one writer to access the  same  item
                   simultaneously.

               c.  Log  records  contain  only  after   images   of
                   updates,  thus making logs small.  Recovery from
                   system failures requires one scan over  the  log
                   resulting in fast restarts.

       USE MODES

       Ode supports two modes of use:

         1.  Client-server (allows multiple  users  to  access  the
             database concurrently).

         2.  Single user (improved performance  compared  to  using
             the client-server mode).

       USERS

       Ode 2.0 is currently being used as the multi-media  database
       engine  for  AT&T's  Interactive TV project.  Ode 1.1 (older
       version of Ode with  limited  capabilities)  has  also  been
       distributed to 30+ sites within AT&T and 135+ universities.


>21  POSTGRES (Ext. Rel. DBMS)

What: Version 4.0 of the POSTGRES DBMS
From: [e-mail] (Jeff Meredith)
Date: 16 Jul 92 04:53:17 GMT

Version 4.0 of the POSTGRES DBMS is now available for distribution. Version 4.0
provides significant advances in functionality over 3.1.  General improvements
in the code and some key multi-user bug fixes have resulted in a much more
reliable system than we have ever previously released.

Major new features include:
 o  Complete support for language (POSTQUEL) functions.
 o  Handling of nested dot expressions.
 o  Optimization of predicates with expensive functions.
 o  Binary portals
 o  Initial support of sets
 o  Indices on system catalogs.

Postgres runs on Sparc I, Sparc II, Sun 4 running SunOs, and DECstations
running ULTRIX >= 4.0, as well as Sequent Symmetry machines.  Postgres
consists of about 250,000 lines of C.

If you would like to get Postgres 4.0, you can get it in one of two ways:

(1)  Anonymous FTP from postgres.berkeley.edu

cd pub
get postgres-setup.me
binary
get postgres-v4r0.tar.Z
quit

Or, if you do not have net.access, you can order a Postgres distribution
tape by sending a check payable to the Regents of the University of California
for $150.00 to:
         Postgres Project
         571 Evans Hall
         University of California
         Berkeley, CA 94720.

Indicate in your accompanying letter whether you want the system on a 9-track
tape at 1600 BPI, at 6250 BPI, on a cartridge tape for SUN shoeboxes (QIC 24
format), or on a TK50 DEC cartridge tape.


>22  Sniff (C++ devel environ)

[See also APPENDIX C, SNiFF+, for the commercial version]

What: SNIFF (Sniff 1.1b (C++ Development Environment))
From: [e-mail] (Stephen Hite)
Date: 23 Aug 92 18:14:00 GMT

Sniff 1.1b is available from iamsun.unibe.ch in the C++ hierarchy.  It's a
development environment for C++ (minus the C++ compiler or interpreter).
It's freely available and you're gonna need OpenWindows 3.0 if you want
to play with it immediately.  I just downloaded it and haven't had a
chance to look into whether the XView 3.0 package will be able to handle
everything Sniff requires of the OpenLook part.

And:

From: [e-mail] (Mr. Sniff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.unix,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.unix.solaris,comp.object
Subject: SNiFF+ takeFive Starts Free University Distribution of Commercial C/C++ Programming Environment
Date: 22 Sep 1993 15:51:26 GMT
Organization: EUnet EDV-Dienstleistungsgesellschaft m.b.H
Keywords: programming environments, browsing, C++

SNiFF+: takeFive Starts Free University Distribution of Commercial C/C++
Programming Environment

1. Introduction
 ===============
Since the beginning of 1993 takeFive has taken over development and support
for SNiFF+, a leading edge C/C++ programming environment.  With SNiFF+
rapidly gaining commercial acceptance takeFive has decided to offer the
product free to educational establishments. There are several reasons for
this step.

...

6. How to Obtain SNiFF+
 =======================
6.1 FTP
 -------
Sniff can be downloaded from anonymous FTP sites in USA and Europe.
You can get all details from [e-mail].

And:

From: [e-mail] (Hermann Hueni)
Subject: Re: Browsers
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 12:37:28 GMT

Sniff is a commercial product.
Send mail to [e-mail]
AN early version is available as a SUN SPARC binary only from
siam.unibe.ch:C++/Sniff1.6/     (THIS site is in EUROPE)


>23  C++ tags
Eiffel archive,24
short tool, 24

What: ctags/etags for C and C++
From: [e-mail] (Sam Kendall)
Date: 10 Jun 92 09:31:27 GMT

A lot of people have requested this software!  You can now get Tags for
C/C++ version 1.0 via anonymous ftp at:

        ftp.centerline.com:/pub/tags-1.0.tar.Z

ftp.centerline.com is 140.239.2.29.  Anonymous ftp means login as "ftp" and
give your email address as the password.

If you don't have ftp access to the internet, you may want to wait for this
stuff to come out in comp.sources.unix.  Or, if you plan to use it right away,
send me a letter that says "I can't use ftp; please send by email" and I will
do so.


>24  short tool

From: [e-mail] (Neil Wilson)
Subject: New version of 'short' available
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1993 09:38:25 +0000

A new beta release (1.2) of 'short' is available from the Stuttgart
Eiffel archive (ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de) in directory
/pub/eiffel/eiffel-3/sig

Command line processing is now included in the short system. Short can
now cope with multiple input files, the standard input and deal with
most file errors.

Short now depends on the argument cluster which is available from
the same archive and directory.

Short supports the following options:

        -V, +version, -h, +help
                Displays the 'short' version information and gives the
                usage help message for the command.

        -e, +abstract, +eiffel
                Produces a fully deferred version of the input class(es)
                which will compile just like any other class (hopefully :-)

        -l <class_name>, +view <class_name>
                Produces the output from the point of view of the class
                <class_name> - the "short form for <class_name>".
                Special handling for ANY and NONE of course. By default
                short outputs the "short form for ANY".

        -f, +full
                Produces the short form including all the feature
                blocks.  (Implemented as the "short form for NONE".)

        -p, +parents
                Retains the inheritance clause in the output. The default is
                to drop it.

        -b <number>, +blank <number>
                Indent levels by <number> characters.

        -c <number>, +column <number>
                Width of the output is <number> characters. Should be
                greater than 20.

Obsolete features are not retained. Obsolete classes retain no features.

The output of the tool now conforms to the layout rules in Appendix A of
ETL and should look like the 'short' examples in the book. As much as is
possible the output and command line options conform to ISE's 2.3
version of 'short'.

This release of short has been tested on all the v1.21 Eiffel/S
libraries, itself and the argument clusters, plus any other class
fragments I had lying around at the time.

My biggest debt is of course to David Morgan. This version is only
really a tiny modification of his work. His ELEXER Eiffel 3 parser
remains the core of the tool.  I though am responsible for any remaining
deficiencies or problems with this release.

Problems, suggestions, comments, criticisms to me please. All gratefully
received - I can't improve my Eiffel if somebody doesn't tell me where I
blew it.


>25  COOL(C++, Cfront 2.1, from GE)

COOL is a C++ class library developed at Texas Instruments.

Features are:
1. Rich set of containers like Vector, List, Hash_Table, Matrix, etc...
2. Hierarchy is shallow with no common base class, rather than deep like NIHCL.
3. Functionality close to Common Lisp data structures, like GNU libg++.
4. Template syntax very close to Cfront3.x, g++2.x.
5. Free, with good documentation, and extensive test cases.

Light version of COOL from General Electric:
1. Hairy macros, run-time type, exceptions removed for mainstream C++
   compatibility
2. Free of memory leaks and bound violations. Leaks and bounds are checked
   with Purify.
3. Has memory management and efficient copy in expressions like:
  Set c = a+b+c;
  Pointers are shared with Handle and Reference count. Deep copy in
  expressions are replaced by shallow copy.
4. Compatible with Cfront2.1, and is being converted to Cfront3.0. You can
  build both static and shared library on SunOS 4.1.x

1. original version from Texas Instruments:
   at csc.ti.com, get pub/COOL.tar.Z
2. Cfront2.1 version modified by General Electric:
   at cs.utexas.edu, get pub/COOL/GE_COOL2.1.tar.Z

I am working on Cfront3.0 version of COOL, using the Beta 3.0 from Sun. I am
experiencing problems with instantiation and specialization of templates.  So
Cfront3.0 version of COOL won't be available until Sun's Cfront 3.0 is
released with bugs fixed.

Van-Duc Nguyen
General Electric
Research & Development Ctr
1 River Road, Room K1-5C39.
Schenectady, NY 12301.
Phone: [phone]
Fax:   [phone]
[e-mail]


>26  idl.SunOS4.x, idl.Solaris2.x

Subject: Binaries for OMG IDL CFE placed on omg.org
Date: 11 Jun 93 00:13:11 GMT
Reply-To: [e-mail]


SunSoft has made available statically linked binaries for the OMG IDL CFE,
for both Solaris 1.x and Solaris 2.x. Because they are statically linked,
these binaries can be used on systems which do not have the SparcWorks (TM)
compilers installed.

It is expected that people who only want an IDL parser will prefer to
obtain these binaries instead of compiling the program on their host.
People who want to build a complete compiler, by programming their own
back-end, will continue to obtain the sources which are also provided at
the same location.

The binaries can be obtained by anonymous FTP to omg.org. They are
installed in the directory pub/OMG_IDL_CFE_1.2/bin, in idl.SunOS4.x and
idl.Solaris2.x. Uuencoded versions are also available, in the same
directory.

Please send email to [e-mail] if you obtain these files.

The attached copyright applies to the provided binaries and to the source
files provided on the omg.org file server.


Copyright:
Copyright 1992 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  Printed in the United States of
America.  All Rights Reserved.

This product is protected by copyright and distributed under the following
license restricting its use.

The Interface Definition Language Compiler Front End (CFE) is made
available for your use provided that you include this license and copyright
notice on all media and documentation and the software program in which
this product is incorporated in whole or part. You may copy and extend
functionality (but may not remove functionality) of the Interface
Definition Language CFE without charge, but you are not authorized to
license or distribute it to anyone else except as part of a product or
program developed by you or with the express written consent of Sun
Microsystems, Inc. ("Sun").

The names of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and any of its subsidiaries or
affiliates may not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to
distribution of Interface Definition Language CFE as permitted herein.

This license is effective until terminated by Sun for failure to comply
with this license.  Upon termination, you shall destroy or return all code
and documentation for the Interface Definition Language CFE.

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