∂03-OCT-74  0421		S,LES
 Subject: ACM Printing Costs
 Here is a recap of the charges for SIGART Newsletter #46, June 1974,
 of which 2,630 copies were printed:
 Printing		$ 545.41
 Mailing & handling	   71.56
 Trucking charges	    7.50
 Envelopes		    8.90
 Foeign & 1st class postage 71.45
 Third class permit postage 34.62
␈ CC: SIGART%CMU

∂01-OCT-74  0336		S,LES
 CHAIRMAN'S MESSAGE
 .CENTERIT
 CHAIRMAN'S MESSAGE
 
 .TEXTIT
 Well, here I am, picking up the pieces.  I wish to thank
 Larry Travis and Steve Coles for keeping things going through
 our recent flap [SIGART Newsletter, Aug. 1974].  I also wish
 to thank Bob Balzer for his extensive efforts on behalf of
 SIGART over the past year.  I admire Bob's willingness to
 serve an organization that he doesn't wish to join, though
 I don't understand it.
 
 Let me take advantage of this position to add a few personal
 observations to the already overworked discussion of the
 International Joint Conference on A. I., planned for September 1975
 in Tblisi, USSR [ibid.].  I was a member of the committee
 that selected the USSR location, though I voted for another
 site.  The major issues that have since been discussed were
 known to the committee members and some problems (e.g. potential
 visa difficulties for certain people) were given explicit
 consideration at the time.
 
 Since subsequent discussions have not (in my view) brought out
 any important new facts, and since the composition of the
 amorphous IJCAI committee hasn't changed much, it seems
 unlikely that there will be a change in position unless significant
 new information appears.
 
 Incidentally, in an attempt to gather some facts, an informal
 inquiry was made recently to
 the Israeli Foreign Ministry concerning visits of Israelis to the
 USSR.  They stated that they didn't know of any case in which
 an Israeli scientist was unable to get a visa to attend an
 [B-international conference] in the USSR in the last two years.
␈ CC: SIGART%CMU

∂30-SEP-74  1247		S,LES
 I did manage to make it run, but not by redeclaring the heading.
 Rather, I moved the PAGE FRAME and AREA declarations from a local
 block to a global position.
 
 My reason for grumbling was that PUB ought to at least give you
 a clue to the nature of the disorder, rather than curling up its
 toes and claiming that it did it to itself.
␈ CC: TESler%MAXC

∂30-SEP-74  1247		S,LES
 I did manage to make it run, but not by redeclaring the heading.
 Rather, I moved the PAGE FRAME and AREA declarations from a local
 block to a global position.
 
 My reason for grumbling was that PUB ought to at least give you
 a clue to the nature of the disorder, rather than curling up its
 toes and claiming that it did it to itself.
␈ CC: TES%MAXC

∂29-SEP-74  2118		S,LES
 Larry,
 
 PUB did the following to YUM.PUB[D,LES], which I have left "as is":
 
 .PUB YUM.PUB(X)
 
 YUM.PUB 2 3 4
   YUM 2.
 PASS TWO: YUM.XGP 1 2Area outside page
 Area outside page
 Area outside page
 
 Bad input from Pass One, I give up.
 Called from 11623  Last SAIL call at 4051
 ?
␈ CC: tesler%MAXC
∂19-SEP-74  1820		S,LES
 I need your resume.
 CC: bgb

∂30-AUG-74  1050		S,LES
 ATTN: NEUR
 This is a belated response to your note to Ralph Gorin of 5 July.
 I have set up a temporary account for you on our machine.
 To log in, say "L 1/AC" and when it asks for a password, say "UK".
 To change the password, use "%" instead of "/" in logging in.
 To learn more about the system, say "HELP".
 
 I showed your note to one of our graduate students, Dr. Alan Cowles,
 who is doing some related work.  He will probably communicate
 with you separately.
 
 Your account here will be valid through the end of October.  If
 you need it longer, send me a message.
 					Lester Earnest
 					Executive Officer
 					Stanford A. I. Lab.
 					(LES @ SU-AI)
 CC: UK%ISI

∂26-AUG-74  2322		D,LES
 Sure.
 CC: sgk
Dear Lick:

Following up on your IFIP memo of March 18, I have a couple
of questions.

1.  Should we interpret the "one person per contract" rule quite
literally?  As you know, there are three projects here with
separate administrations and separate contractual budgets.

2.  Several people on the A. I. Project have expressed interest
in paying their own way to IFIP, but ask if we can pick up the
registration fee and per diem expenses while attending.  Would
it be OK to do this instead of, or in addition to, covering the
regular attendee?

We also need to discuss two other problems with you: speech
recognition research support and the proposed changeover to
TENEX/VIROS.  John McCarthy and I would like to call you next
week.  How about 5PM (your time) on Tuesday, April 2?


L. Earnest (LES @SU-AI)

cc: S. Crocker
In response to Al Blue's inquiry, a bibliography of external publications
by A. I. Lab staff members is kept in a file called "PUBS[BIB,DOC]".
In case you would like to get at some of our other files over the
network, I append here an extract from Appendix A of our recent Final Report.


			Public File Areas

People who have access to the ARPA Network are welcome to access our public
files.  The areas of principal interest and their contents are a follows:
  [BIB,DOC] bibliographies of various kinds,
  [AIM,DOC] texts of a few of our A. I. Memos,
  [S,DOC] many of our SAILONs,
  [UP,DOC] working notes (quite informal),
  [P,DOC] "people-oriented" files, including the lab phone directory.

			Network Access

To get into our system from the Network, say "L NET.GUE", which logs
you in as a "network guest".  All commands end with a carriage return.
Our monitor types "." whenever it is
ready to accept a command.  To halt a program that is running, type
<Control>C twice.

If your terminal has both upper and lower case characters, let the monitor
know by saying "TTY FULL".  If you are at a typewriter terminal, you may
also wish to type "TTY FILL", which causes extra carriage returns to be inserted so
that the carriage has time to return to the left margin before the next line
begins.

To see the names of all the files in, say, the
[S,DOC] area (where SAILONs are stored), type "DIR [S,DOC]".  This will
produce a list of files and the dates they were last written.  Among others,
it should list "INTRO.TES", which is an introduction to our timesharing system
(usually obsolescent, alas), written by the programmer whose initials are TES.

To type out the contents of a given file, such as INTRO.TES, say
  TYPE INTRO.TES[S,DOC]
and it will come spewing forth.
To stop the typout, say <Control>C twice and it
will stop after a few lines.  To continue, type "CONT".  If you wish to
examine selected portions of text files, use the SOS editor in read-only
mode, as described in SOS.LES[S,DOC].

To log out when you are done, type
  K <carriage return>

There may be some difficulty with files that employ the full Stanford character
set, which uses some 26 of the ASCII control codes (0 to 37 octal) to
represent special characters.

			 File Transfer

Files can also be transferred to another site using the File Transfer Protocol.
Documentation on our FTP program is located on our disk file in FTP.DCS[UP,DOC].
No passwords or account numbers are needed to access our FTP from the outside.