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  1. Newsgroups: comp.databases
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!enterpoop.mit.edu!world!sss
  3. From: sss@world.std.com (Sergiu S Simmel)
  4. Subject: Info on Kala now available via Anonymous FTP
  5. Message-ID: <SSS.93Jan2174911@world.std.com>
  6. Sender: sss@world.std.com (Sergiu S Simmel)
  7. Organization: Penobscot Development Corporation, Arlington MA
  8. Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 22:49:11 GMT
  9. Lines: 204
  10.  
  11.  
  12. Information on Kala is now available via Anonymous FTP. Below are
  13. instructions on how to access it, as well as a Table of Contents of
  14. the files currently available (as of 1/1/93). For more information,
  15. please write to kala-request@world.std.com.
  16.  
  17.  
  18. ==========================================================================
  19.  
  20.                   Penobscot Development Corporation
  21.                               Announces
  22.       Availability of Kala documents and Kala Forum back issues
  23.                        via ftp for public use.
  24.  
  25. --------------------------------------------------------------------------
  26. All materials are Copyrighted by Penobscot Development Corporation.
  27. Their use is restricted to inspection and internal distribution only.
  28. ==========================================================================
  29.  
  30.  
  31. Kala Forum digests (back issues) and other miscellaneous Kala
  32. documents are now available through ftp from 
  33.  
  34.                             =============
  35.                             world.std.com
  36.                             =============
  37.  
  38. To connect to this ftp site, type the following at your Unix shell
  39. prompt:
  40.  
  41.     % ftp world.std.com
  42.  
  43. or consult with your system administrator if you use any other means
  44. for accessing the network (such as BBSs, CompuServe, etc.).
  45.  
  46. If coming through a regular Unix connection, you should see something
  47. similar to the following:
  48.  
  49.     Connected to world.std.com
  50.     220 world FTP server (Version 6.12 Sat Nov 7 22:18:34 EST 1992) ready.
  51.     Name (world.std.com:your_name): anonymous
  52.  
  53. You must enter 'anonymous' at the Name: prompt. In response, you will
  54. see the following:
  55.  
  56.     331 Guest login ok, send e-mail address as password.
  57.     Password: 
  58.  
  59. Next, to be on the safe side, type at the ftp> prompt:
  60.  
  61.     ftp> bin
  62.  
  63. On the world.std.com computer, the publicly accessible Kala documents
  64. are located in the pub/kala directory. Change your current working
  65. directory to it using:
  66.  
  67.     ftp> cd pub/kala
  68.  
  69. The Kala public materials are organized into the following few
  70. subdirectories:
  71.  
  72.     pub/kala
  73.             /KalaForum          -- contains all back issues of the
  74.                                    Kala Forum digests
  75.             /Articles           -- contains preliminary versions of
  76.                                    articles published elsewhere
  77.             /ShortDocuments     -- contains various technical and
  78.                                    business documents about Kala
  79.  
  80. To get at any of these directories, just type 'cd directory-name' at
  81. the ftp> prompt. To list the files in the directory you're in, just
  82. type 'ls' at the ftp> prompt. To download any of the files, type:
  83.  
  84.     ftp> get filename
  85.  
  86. To exit ftp, type 'quit' at the ftp> prompt.
  87.  
  88. All Kala Forum issues are in ASCII text only. Other documents have
  89. names ending in '.txt' to indicated that they are in ASCII text format
  90. or '.ps' for PostScript format (other formats later).
  91.  
  92. Please let us know if you have any problems. Enjoy!
  93.  
  94.  
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  101.       ........................................................................
  102.       Penobscot Development Corp. 50 Princeton Road Arlington Mass. 02174-8253
  103.        voice: +1-617-646-3951  fax: +1-617-646-5753  email: kala@world.std.com
  104.  
  105.  
  106. ==============================================================================
  107.  
  108.                            The Kala Archive
  109.  
  110.                           Table of Contents
  111.  
  112. ==============================================================================
  113.  
  114. .txt = formatted ASCII text file; .ps = PostScript file;
  115.  
  116. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  117.  
  118.  
  119. ~ftp/pub/kala                 -- the root of the Kala Archive
  120.  
  121.  
  122. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  123.  
  124.    .../Articles               -- electronic versions of articles on Kala
  125.                                  published in other paper-based publications
  126.  
  127.                /Byte9212.txt  -- "Objects of Substance", BYTE, Volume 17,
  128.                                  Number 14, pp.130-133, December 1992.
  129.                /Hoot9208.txt  -- "ODBMS -- Providing Commonalty While
  130.                                  Supporting Diversity", Hotline on Object
  131.                                  Oriented Technology, Volume 3, Number 10,
  132.                                  pp.14-17, August 1992.
  133.                /Hoot9302.txt  -- "Kala Licensing & Metering -- Infrastructure
  134.                                  for a New Economics of Software", Volume 4, 
  135.                                  Number 5, February 1993.
  136.                /OOPSLA92.ps   -- "The Kala Basket", Proceedings of OOPSLA'91,
  137.                                  pp.230-246, October 1991.
  138.  
  139. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  140.  
  141.    .../KalaForum              -- the archive of the Kala Forum -- the infor-
  142.                                  mation exchange service on Kala and persis-
  143.                                  tent data servers (see separate TOC in that
  144.                                  directory)
  145.  
  146. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  147.  
  148.    .../TechDocs               -- short documents on various Kala technical
  149.                                  topics
  150.  
  151.          /AppNote01-SimpleTransactions.txt   -- AppNote showing how you can
  152.                                                 implement a simple trans-
  153.                                                 action model in less than 1
  154.                                                 page of Kala code.
  155.          /HowTo01-CreateMonads.txt           -- A memorandum explaining how
  156.                                                 to create layout functions
  157.                                                 around your applications
  158.                                                 data for packaging in Kala
  159.                                                 monads.
  160.          /InDepth01-ModelIndependence.txt    -- Brief discussion on Kala's
  161.                                                 independence of any specific
  162.                                                 data or object models.
  163.          /InDepth02-Transactions.txt         -- Brief discussion on Kala's
  164.                                                 support for arbitrary
  165.                                                 transactions models.
  166.          /InDepth03-NestedTactions.txt       -- Brief discussion on Kala's
  167.                                                 natural support for nesting
  168.                                                 transactions
  169.          /InDepth04-Recoverability.txt       -- Brief discussion on Kala's
  170.                                                 ability to recover from any
  171.                                                 crash, save media failure.
  172.          /InDepth05-Performance.txt          -- Brief discussion on Kala's
  173.                                                 performance-oriented imple-
  174.                                                 mentation and results.
  175.          /InDepth06-Security.txt             -- Brief discussion on Kala's
  176.                                                 secure implementation and
  177.                                                 support for security models.
  178.          /InDepth07-SharedData.txt           -- Brief discussion on Kala's
  179.                                                 support for sharing of data.
  180.          /InDepth08-Licensing.txt            -- Brief discussion on Kala's
  181.                                                 support for arbitrary licen-
  182.                                                 sing (pay-per-copy) and
  183.                                                 metering (pay-per-use) models.
  184.          /InDepth09-SchemaEvolution.txt      -- Brief discussions on the re-
  185.                                                 lationship between Kala and
  186.                                                 the problem of schema evolu-
  187.                                                 tion in databases.
  188.          /OMG_OS_RFI_response.txt            -- A Response to OMG's Request
  189.                                                 for Information on Object
  190.                                                 Services.
  191.          /TechBrief.txt                      -- A 2-page Technical Brief of
  192.                                                 Kala.
  193.  
  194. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  195.  
  196.    .../BsnsDocs               -- documents describing various business
  197.                                  related aspects around the Kala product:
  198.  
  199.          /Echo05-Shinji.txt                  -- A reference letter from Dr.
  200.                                                 Shinji Suzuki of University
  201.                                                 of Tokyo.
  202.          /Echo06-Meyer.txt                   -- A reference letter from 
  203.                                                 Thomas Meyer of EDS.
  204.          /PricingSun.txt                     -- Pricing and Ordering info
  205.                                                 for SPARCstation/SunOS.
  206.          /PricingDos.txt                     -- Pricing and Ordering info
  207.                                                 for i80x86/MS-DOS.
  208.          /PricingNRE.txt                     -- PDC's NRE and Consulting
  209.                                                 rates and terms.
  210.          /ResearchProgramme.txt              -- Discounts and Terms for
  211.                                                 Research institutions.
  212.  
  213.  
  214. ==============================================================================
  215.