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EurOpen Forum 94
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UKUUG/EurOpen Spring Conference & Tutorials

Royal Holloway College, Egham, Surrey, UK

11th - 15th April, 1994

The Event:

The Spring 1994 event will be held in conjunction with
EurOpen.  This joint venture to be held at historic Royal
Holloway College in Egham, Surrey will be the first event of
this kind for both UKUUG and EurOpen. 

Both UKUUG & EurOpen are renowned for their Technical
Conferences and now they have joined forces to bring you
this exciting event. 

The Technical Conference will bring together leading
authorities on the latest developments in Open Systems. 

The Tutorials will provide in-depth teaching sessions on
various topics and will be given by experts in the industry. 

The Venue:

Royal Holloway College,
Egham,
Surrey,
UK

The college is the University of London's country campus,
situated in 100 acres of wooded parkland.  The college is
located on the Egham/Virginia Water border, just 8 miles
from London Heathrow Airport, and a 35 minute train journey
from London Waterloo station.  The M25/M3/M4 are all within
5 miles. 

Opened by Queen Victoria in 1886, the college houses a Grade
1 Founder's Building which contains the famous Picture
Gallery housing works by Millais, Landseer and Frith. 

Accommodation:

The event has been organised to include accommodation and
this will be located in the New Halls and Reid Building. 
Student type accommodation will be provided (all rooms will
have wash hand basins). 


The Conference and Tutorial rooms, Dining Room, and the
accommodation are all located in a convenient area in the
new part of the campus which also houses the campus pub (The
Stumble Inn).  All meals will also be included. 

Conference & Tutorial Enquiries:

Jane Morrison / Bill Barrett
UKUUG Secretariat
Owles Hall
Buntingford
Herts. SG9 9PL
UK

Tel:  + 44 763 273475
Fax:  + 44 763 273255
email:  jane@ukuug.uucp

Programme of Events:

TUTORIALS

Monday, 11th April, 1994

Tutorials start at 09.30

TUTORIAL M1 - PERL 1

Tutor:  Tom Christiansen

1. BEGINNING PERL PROGRAMMING

This course is suitable for individuals who have never
looked at Perl before or have only just begun to use it.  It
is essential that students have a strong background in UNIX
shell programming, with a good working knowledge of regular
expressions.  Some background in sed, awk, and some C
programming are useful but not essential. 

Topics of this tutorial include detailed descriptions and
numerous examples of the syntax and semantics of the
language, its data types, operators, control flow, regular
expressions, and I/O facilities, and using the Perl
debugger. 

Biography

Tom Christiansen <tchrist@usenix.org> is a freelance
consultant living in Boulder, Colorado.  He serves on the
Board of Directors for the USENIX Association.  When he's
not on the road lecturing on Perl, or up in the Rockies
backpacking, he's at home getting the libraries, utilities,
and documentation for the 5.0 release of Perl into
production shape.  Tom also maintains the Frequently Asked
Questions list for the USENET newsgroup, comp.lang.perl . 
His latest non-computer-related interest is the trading card
game, "Magic: The Gathering". 
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TUTORIAL M2 - Power Tools

Tutor:  Dan Klein

Title:  UNIX Power Tools - Getting the Most out of Your System

Intended Audience: Programmers, managers, and system
administrators wanting to learn more about the powerful
development tools available on UNIX.  This tutorial
emphasizes software development rather than system
administration. 

This tutorial covers some of the powerful tools available in
UNIX.  Knowing how and when to use them enables you to
leverage your UNIX system to maximize your development
efforts.  This can help you efficiently bring applications
to rapid deployment and products to market.  The primary
goal of this course is to provide enough information for the
attendee to begin using some of the many available
electronic assistants. 

This course discusses:

*     Lex and Yacc - powerful tools for scanning and parsing
(and more)

*       Tcl and Tk - an appetite whetting set of examples
about a very powerful windowing and GUI mechanism

*       Source control and management systems for small and
large groups of programmers - RCS, CVS, tags, file
hierarchies

*       Make and Imake - a low-level introduction to the
powerful program building utilities

*       Software distribution - choosing the correct medium
for distributing your product (including CDROM), data
compression

*     License servers, protection, and encryption

*       Patch - how to create patch distributions for
maintaining source files in the field

*       Portability - some issues to consider when writing
portable software, plus: lint, ANSI C, gcc, unproto

Daniel Klein is VP of Technology Development at LoneWolf
Systems.  Prior to founding LoneWolf, he worked at the
Software Engineering Instutute at Carnegie Mellon
University, developing languages for software specification
and development.  He earned a MS in Applied Mathematics in
1984.  Using assorted power tools, he designed, developed,
and documented nearly 50,000 lines of source code in the
past 10 months. 
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TUTORIAL M3 - TCP Network Administration

Tutor:  Bill Rieken

Objectives: Upon successful completion of this tutorial
participants will be able to setup and administer a network
of UNIX systems using TCP/IP and NFS/NIS. 

Audience: This workshop is intended for those who are, or
will soon be, involved in the administration and support of
distributed systems using the TCP/IP protocol suite and the
Network File System (NFS/NIS).  Participants are expected to
have a good working knowledge of the UNIX system, including
its file systems, commands and shell interface. 

Outline: Topics that will be covered in this tutorial are:

General overview of local area (LAN) and wide area (WAN)
networks, client-server model, connectionless datagrams and
connection-oriented virtual circuits, Internet and Ethernet
addresses, subnet addresses, address resolution (ARP, RARP,
and BOOTP), UDP datagrams and TCP byte-stream connections. 

Basic system files and commands to add, remove and test
workstations and network users are covered in this tutorial. 
Sample file contents and typical command usage (with output)
are shown. 

Network-related files such as /etc/hosts, /etc/services,
/etc/ethers, /etc/networks, /etc/protocols,
/etc/resolv.conf, /etc/inetd.conf, /etc/exports, /etc/rc,
/etc/fstab, /etc/vfstab, /etc/default/filesys,
/etc/filesystems, /etc/hosts.equiv and /.rhosts are covered. 

Basic system administration commands such as ifconfig, ping,
arp, netstat, nfsstat, mount, mountd, nfsd, biod, ypinit,
ypbind, ypserv, portmap and inetd will be covered. 

Biography:

Bill Rieken taught at the University of Wisconsin and
Southern Illinois University, where he began using UNIX
version 6 in 1976.  Bill was a system administrator at Bell
Labs for five years, and at the IBM Scientific Center in
Palo Alto for two years.  Bill is a principal founder of .sh
consulting based in Santa Clara, California.  He publishes
seventeen UNIX training books for the courses he teaches. 
He is co-author of "Adventures in UNIX Network Applications
Programming" (Wiley, 1992), and is currently writing a book
on "Multivendor UNIX System Administration" (Prentice-Hall,
1994). 
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TUTORIALS

Tuesday, 12th April, 1994

Tutorials start at 09.30

TUTORIAL T4 - PERL II

Tutor:  Tom Christiansen

2. ADVANCED PERL PROGRAMMING

This course is designed for programmers already experienced
with Perl who would like to expand their Perl expertise
about sophisticated datatypes, complex networking, and
advanced code conversion.  Students with a firm background
in both Perl and UNIX C programming will benefit most from
this course. 

Topics of this tutorial include packages to create your own
libraries, using pointers to synthesize complex data types
(such as list of lists or arrays of records), the bit vector
data type and the select() system call, using h2ph and c2ph
to convert and access C code, the ioctl and fcntl system
calls, and using eval. 

Biography - See M 1

TUTORIAL T 5 - Mobile Computing Technology           

Tutor:  Bill Rieken

This tutorial is a survey of current research and
development efforts to make location-independent wireless
mobile computing a reality.  It covers both the software and
hardware technology components.  Software topics include
disconnected (detachable) file systems, server selection and
user location problem resolutions, and power monitoring
additions to device drivers, including a fast
checkpoint/restart feature in the OS to conserve energy on
battery-powered mobile computers.  Hardware topics include
wireless networks utilizing infared (IR) and radio-
frequency (RF) communication, mobile routing and connection
handoffs in digital cellular systems.  The challenges of
running multimedia applications over the X window system in
a wireless environment are discussed. 

A good working knowledge of the UNIX system, especially its
networking facilities, is expected. 

Biography:  see M3
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TUTORIAL T6 - Network Programming on the UNIX System

Tutor:  Michael Padovano

Description:

This full-day course provides in-depth coverage of three
major network programming interfaces available on UNIX
platforms: The ONC Remote Procedure Call Interface, The
Socket Interface, and the System V Transport Level Interface
(TLI).  This course shows the student how to create
applications using each of these programming methods,
explaining their strengths and weaknesses.  The course also
explains how to develop applications with the new network
programming features of UNIX System V Release 4. 

Students should be moderately experienced C language
programmers. 

Outline:

Introduction to Network Concepts
Goals of Networking
Layered Architecture
The OSI Reference Model
Modes of Service
The Client/Server Model
Clients, Servers, Services, Addresses
ONC Remote Procedure Call Programming
RPC Concepts
Generating Client/Server Applications Using rpcgen
Code Walkthrough
Authentication in RPC
TLI -- Connection Mode Service
Application Creation and Code Wallkthrough
TLI -- Connectionless Mode Service
Application Creation and Code Wallkthrough
Socket Interface -- Connection Mode Service
Application Creation and Code Wallkthrough
Socket Interface -- Connectionless Mode Service
Application Creation and Code Wallkthrough
The Network Listener and Inetd
New Features of System V Release 4
Network Selection
Name-to-Address Mapping

Biography:

Michael Padovano, formerly a systems engineer at AT&T Bell
Laboratories, is an independent consultant.  His book,
"Networking Applications on UNIX System V Release 4",
published by Prentice-Hall, covers the details of RPC,
sockets, and TLI.  He has published numerous articles on the
UNIX System and is an instructor at Rutgers University.  He
has presented several courses at UniForum, OpenForum, and
USENIX conferences.  He was one of the developers of the new
network programming features of UNIX System V Release 4. 
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PLEASE NOTE THAT ONLY EUROPEN, UKUUG AND SUKUG MEMBERS ARE
PERMITTED TO ATTEND TUTORIALS.

ALL TUTORIALS WILL START AT 09.30 AND WILL FINISH AT
APPROXIMATELY 17.30.

FULL COURSE NOTES WILL BE PROVIDED FOR EACH TUTORIAL.
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PROVISIONAL TECHNICAL PROGRAMME:

Wednesday, 13th April, 1994

Technical Sessions will start at 09.30

Registration from 8.00
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09.30 - Opening Address - Mick Farmer UKUUG Chair

09.45 - Keynote: Steve Johnson - Objecting to Objects

10.30 - Break

11.00 - Developing ToolTalk-Aware -  Gary Whittington

11.30 - Are Commercial Software Users Insane? - Niall Mansfield

12.00 - Understanding Free Software - Joe Arceneaux

12.30 - Lunch

2.00  - Improving the Management of Database Practicals - Martin Beer

2.30 - ILEARN _ Peter Brusilovski

3.00 - Break

3.30 - From Blazon to PostScript - Dan Klein

4.00 - YACC Comes of Age - Steve Johnson

4.30 - UKUUG Ltd. - AGM

7.00 - Dinner (if residential delegate)

Thursday, 14th April, 1994

Technical Sessions will start at 10.00

Registration from 9.00

10.00 - Systems Administration isn't a Problem - Elizabeth Zwicky

10.30 - To be announced - Peter Collinson

11.00 - Break

11.30 - (In-) Security Through IP Packet Filtering - Brent Chapman

12.00 - To be announced - Simon Kenyon

12.30 - Lunch

2.00 - To be announced

2.30 - Getting More Work out of Work Tracking Systems - Elizabeth Zwicky

3.00 - Break

3.30 - Remote Memory Paging in Networks of Workstations - Guy Bernard

4.00 - Work in Progress sessions

5.00 - Finish

7.00 - Conference Dinner

Friday, 15th April, 1994

Technical Sessions will start at 09.30

Registration from 9.00

09.30 - EUnet Traveller - Glenn Kowack

10.00 - Snooper-proof Passwords - Dr. Andrew Findlay

10.30 - Break

11.00 - Teleporting - A Mobile Application - Frazer Bennett

11.30 - Closing Remarks - Mick Farmer - UKUUG Chair

12.00 - Finish & Lunch
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Birds of a Feather Sessions:

Details of BOF's will be given at the event

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The GURU is IN: Details of these sessions will be given at
the event
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Terminal Access - There will be an Internet Terminal Room
provided during the week of the event.  Global Internet
access has been kindly provided by EUnet GB. 
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Language:

The official language of the Conference will be English.  NO
translation will be provided.
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Meals:

Vegetarian meals will be available please mark your booking form
in the space provided.
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Accommodation:

The accommodation is all of student type and it should be
noted that this is basic facilities with hand basins in each
room.  The accommodation is all housed in new buildings and
is quite suitable but should not be compared with Hotel type
accommodation. 

Hotels are available in the surrounding area if a
non-residential place is booked. 
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Liability:

UKUUG/EurOpen will not accept any responsibility for damage to
property or injury to persons during the entire event.
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Cancellations:

It is regretted that no refund of fees will be possible in
cases of cancellation, unless the cancellation is made more
than 2 weeks before the start of the Conference.  No
cancellation will be accepted unless it is sent to the UKUUG
Secretariat in writing. 
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How to Pay and Book:

Use a photocopy of the booking form for each person.  Please
note that bookings can only be accepted when accompanied by
payment or evidence of payment. 

Telephone bookings can be accepted when paying by Credit
Card.  Fax bookings can be accepted when paying by Credit
Card or direct to the bank (proof of payment to be faxed
also). 

The UKUUG Secretariat will acknowledge your bookings by
sending a receipted invoice together with further details
about the event. 
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Costs:

All prices are in Pounds sterling and include VAT:

TUTORIALS:

Members only -

Residential Tutorial          #269.00 inclusive of VAT
(e.g. - Monday Tutorial - this includes overnight accommodation
Sunday night, Breakfast Monday, Tutorial attendance and class
notes, a.m. and p.m. breaks, lunch and dinner)

Non-Residential Tutorial      #249.00 inclusive of VAT
(e.g. - Monday Tutorial - Tutorial attendance and class notes,
a.m. and p.m. breaks and lunch)

CONFERENCE:

Residential Conference (Members)      #299.00 inclusive of VAT

Residential Conference (Non-members)  #359.00 inclusive of VAT
(e.g. - Conference - Bed and Breakfast Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday night, a.m. and p.m. breaks, lunch and dinner on
Wednesday and Thursday and lunch on Friday, Conference attendance
and Proceedings)

Non-Residential Conference (Members)  #235.00 inclusive of VAT

Non-Residential Conference (Non-members) #293.75 inclusive of VAT
(e.g. - Conference Attendance and Proceedings, a.m. and p.m.
breaks and lunch each day.)

Extra Copies of the Conference Proceedings    #20.00

Booking Deadline -  Wednesday, 6th April, 1994

If you have any queries regarding the event/costs etc. please do
not hesitate to contact Jane or Bill at the Secretariat.

Travelling to the College:

By Train

There are frequent services form London Waterloo to Egham (30
mins); Woking to Egham (25 mins ); Reading to Egham (40 mins).

By Bus

London Country buses 441 and 443 (Staines to Slough) stop a few
yards from the College, on the left.

By Taxi

If there are no taxis in the rank outside the station, turn right
along Station Road and there is a taxi office next to the Railway
Hotel near the traffic lights.

By Foot

The College is just under one mile from Egham station.  To get to
the College, turn right out of the station along Station Road and
continue about 100 yards to the T-junction and follow the road to
the large roundabout and go up Egham Hill.  The main College
entrance is on the left, just over half a mile from the
roundabout.

By Plane

Taxis are available from Heathrow Airport (8 miles away) but can
be expensive, please ask for the fare.  Otherwise London Country
bus 436 to Staines and then change to 441 or 443; or go by  tube
to Richmond and then take a train to Egham.

By Road

The College is on the A30, 20 miles from central London and about
a mile south-west of the town of Egham.  It is 2 miles from
Junction 13 for the M25 motorway.  After leaving the motorway
take the A30 west, signposted Bagshot exit (not Egham).  At the
second roundabout continue on the A30 up Egham Hill.  At the top
of the hill the College is on the left.

Booking Form

EurOpen Forum 94

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11th - 15th April, 1994

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