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- From: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Alex Lamb)
- Subject: Comp.software-eng periodic postings and archives
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- Sender: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Lamb)
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- Reply-To: dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David Alex Lamb)
- Organization: Computing and Information Science, Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 13:05:10 GMT
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- Archive-name: software-eng/part0
-
- Welcome to comp.software-eng, a newsgroup for discussion of software
- engineering and related topics. This message is followed by three others,
- each summarizing a set of "frequently asked questions" (FAQs):
- FAQ 1: comp.software-eng questions and answers
- FAQ 2: CASE tools summary
- FAQ 3: Software engineering readings
- Be warned: the only mechanism we use to compose these lists is to gather
- information submitted by people around the net, post it regularly, and
- incorporate feedback. All evaluations are the opinions of those who submitted
- them; your mileage may vary. Send comments to dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca (David
- Alex Lamb).
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- Subject: comp.software-eng archives
-
- The following files are available via anonymous FTP from directory
- pub/software-eng on host ftp.qucis.queensu.ca (130.15.1.100). Log in with
- user ID 'anonymous' and use your mailing address as the password. Each file
- has a header (in e-mail or news format) that credits the original collector.
- If you cannot use FTP, send mail to archive-server@qucis.queensu.ca containing
- a line of the form
- send software-eng f1 f2 ...
- where f1, f2, and so on are the names of the files from this list; the mail
- server should respond within an hour or so plus mailing delays (which can
- themselves be substantial if you're not directly on the internet). If you
- want to find out more about the archive server, send mail to the same address
- with a line containing the word 'help'; if you do this you can't also request
- files in the same message. If your mailer has trouble with large files, use
- the 'size <bytes>' command to set a threshold, above which the server will
- split files into several messages.
- Name Changed Description
- faqmsg 21 Sep 1992 comp.software-eng periodic postings and archives
- questmsg 21 Sep 1992 FAQ 1: comp.software-eng questions and answers
- casemsg 22 Oct 1992 FAQ 2: CASE tools summary
- readmsg 21 Sep 1992 FAQ 3: Software engineering readings
- README 21 Sep 1992 This list of files
- 2167a 11 Oct 1991 DoD-Std-2167a and life cycle models
- ada 2 Aug 1991 bibliography on Ada and software engineering
- aiswe 13 May 1992 readings: artificial intelligence and soft.eng.
- bachman 10 Sep 1991 Bachman information modeling
- bookreview 10 Apr 1992 Book reviews
- cadreTeam 10 Sep 1991 Opinions re CADRE Teamwork
- CASEexp 2 Oct 1991 experience with CASE tools
- cleanroom 9 Apr 1992 Cleanroom software development
- cmtools 10 Apr 1992 Configuration management tools
- color 4 Jun 1992 Ergonomics of color displays
- cubicle 28 Feb 1992 Productivity effect of offices vs. cubicles
- designchange 7 Jul 1992 Effect of design changes
- diagramedit 15 Feb 1992 Diagram editors and tools for building them
- education 10 Apr 1992 Software Engineering education and degree programs
- environment 15 May 1992 Software Engineering environments
- facet 18 Sep 1991 Faceted classification and multiple inheritance
- fault 7 Jul 1992 Fault Tolerance references
- formal 10 Apr 1992 formal methods in the USA
- funcpoints 10 Apr 1992 function/feature points
- hood 2 Oct 1991 Hierachical Object-Oriented Design
- horror 10 Apr 1992 Computer horror stories
- hungarian 11 Oct 1991 papers on Hungarian notation
- ieee 2 Oct 1991 IEEE software engineering standards
- inspect 7 Jul 1992 Code inspection techniques
- maint 9 Apr 1992 Software maintenance laws
- manuals 6 Mar 1992 Guidelines for software manuals
- maturity 15 Feb 1992 SEI Capability Maturity Model
- ooformat 10 Jan 1992 Format for object-oriented design documents
- oomaint 10 Apr 1992 maintenance and complexity in o-o systems
- oomethod 12 May 1992 Object-oriented methodologies
- pctecais 6 Mar 1992 Comments on PCTE, CAIS-A, ATIS
- pdcase 7 Jul 1992 Public-domain CASE tools
- petri 7 Jul 1992 Petri net tools
- pmtools 7 Jul 1992 Project management and design tools
- probtrack 13 Apr 1992 Problem tracking tools
- productivity 18 Sep 1991 Feature point productivity for several countries
- proto 7 Jul 1992 Prototyping
- rcshandout 5 Oct 1992 Tutorial handouts on RCS
- readcase 13 Feb 1992 Bibliography on CASE
- readintro 15 Feb 1992 Introducing your manager/customer to SE ideas
- realtime 15 Feb 1992 Information on realtime software development
- reflist 22 May 1992 Tero Ahtee's software engineering reference list
- regress 10 Jan 1992 Regression testing tools
- restruct 7 Jul 1992 Tools for restructuring and reverse engineering
- safety 10 Jan 1992 Formal methods and software safety
- specmark 15 Feb 1992 SPEC modern architecture benchmarks
- spiral 10 Jan 1992 References on Spiral life-cycle model
- statecharts 15 Feb 1992 Reference list on Harel's statecharts
- static 7 Jul 1992 Software metrics and static analysis
- statsTool 21 Oct 1991 X-based statistics and graphing packages
- sunCperf 17 Aug 1991 SUN/C performance baseline tools
- techTransfer 10 Apr 1992 Technology transfer
- testTools 10 Jun 1992 Tools for testing
- transynth 15 Feb 1992 Transformation/synthesis systems
- uims 7 Jul 1992 User Interface Management Systems
- vdm-z 15 Feb 1992 formal methods Z and VDM
- verification 10 Apr 1992 References on program verifier design
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- I have created a WAIS database that indexes the comp.software-eng archives.
- It's still experimental; I'm still playing with appropriate "file types" for
- the various files, so you get a subsection of a file in response to a query,
- instead of the whole giant file (at the moment only a few of the files are
- subdivided, and not always in a useful way). The .src file follows at the end
- of this message.
-
- The following is taken from the WAIS FAQ.txt file: WAIS is available via
- anonymous FTP from a variety of sources. The main distributor is think.com,
- in the wais subdirectory.
- a. a mac client?
- think.com:/wais/WAIStation0.62.hqx
- b. a unix client?
- a few UNIX based clients are available in the core distribution, which
- can be found on think.com:
- think.com:/wais/wais-8-b#.tar.Z, where # is the most recent version (4 at
- this time). This includes the server, and clients for X Windows, GNU
- Emacs and a couple of simple shell-based clients.
- c. a dos client?
- The University of North Carolina has been a main developement site for
- WAIS software. Several DOS clients can be found in the FTP archives on
- wais.oit.unc.edu.
- d. a NeXT client?
- A client for NeXT can be found in think.com:/wais/XXX
- e. a VMS client?
- WAIS has been ported to VMS by the folks at the University of North
- Carolina.
- f. the server?
- An example WAIS server is part of the core distribution.
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