The ISO Development Environment at NRTC

[Marshall Rose]

[ multiple appologies for posting this to multiple lists... ]

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    The first release of the ISO Development Environment at NRTC is
    available for distribution.  This release is called

				ISODE 1.0

    This software supports the development of certain kinds of
    ISO/CCITT/ECMA protocols and applications.  

    Here are the details:

	 - ISODE is not proprietary, but it is not in the public domain.
	   This was necessary to include a "hold harmless" clause in the
	   release.  The upshot of all this is that anyone can get a
	   copy of the release and do anything they want with it, but
	   no one takes any responsibility whatsoever for any (mis)use.

	 - ISODE runs on native 4.2BSD and SVR2 with an Excelan card
	   (Future releases will support VAX/VMS and a variant of PC/IP.)

	 - Current modules include:
		TSAP	- makes TCP look like TP4
		SSAP	- ISO BCS session
		PSAP	- ASN.1 encoding
		PEPY	- ASN.1 yacc-like facility
		RoSAP	- ECMA Remote Operations Services

	 - Although the ISODE is not "supported" per se, it does have a
	   problem-reporting address, ISO-People at NRTC.NORTHROP.COM.  Bug
	   reports (and fixes) are welcome by the way.  


    The primary documentation for this release consists of a User's
    Manual (approx 150 pages) and a set of UNIX manual pages.  The
    sources to the User's Manual are in LaTeX format.  In addition,
    there are a number of notes, papers, and presentations included in
    the documentation set, again in either LaTeX or SLiTeX format.  


    There are two ways to get a distribution:

    1.  If you can FTP to the ARPA Internet, use anonymous FTP to
    louie.udel.edu [10.0.0.96] and retrieve the file portal/isode-1.tar.
    This is a tar image (approx 2.0MB).  The file portal/isode-1.tar.Z is
    the tar image after being run through the compress program (approx 0.8MB).

    2. Send a magtape and a self-addressed mailing label to:

	Northrop Research and Technology Center
	Attn: Automation Sciences Laboratory (0330/T30)
	One Research Park
	Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA  90274
	USA

	+1-213/544-5393

    We will write the tape in tar format at 1600bpi, and return it with
    a copy of the User's manual.