ML20245E621

ITS News,Spring 1986,Vol 2,Number 2

ML20245E621
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Issue date:	05/01/1986
From:	NRC OFFICE OF RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (ORM)
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NUREG-BR-0056, NUREG-BR-0056-V02-N2, NUREG-BR-56, NUREG-BR-56-V2-N2, NUDOCS 8908110302
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Commission ennement o.veionm nt Training Staff The W SHl.IST is ad ually 1

Region I WlSHLIST Comes True!

a series of three programs that are used to assemble, hl edit, and prioritize in-spection requests.

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/A dd PC in his office to a PC in the office of his One of the primary notifies the region and supervisor, responsibilities of an NRC many times joins a pool of resident inspector is en-other inspectors also re-suring the timely comple-questing support.

THE ISSUE AT HAND tion of the appropriate IE inspection program con-Given the finite inspec-ducted at his assigned tion resources available, Pc 8af'a " Padat 6's"d" -

facility.

There programs it is up to regional man-l consist of inspection pro-agement to determine the

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cedures, performed both at priority of these inspec-I selected intervals and on tion requests.

To accom-sw turni. ort rios..t the "S Support Ce,t er............. 5 an as-needed basis in re-plish this, Region I has

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sponse to plant events. In developed an IBM PC prior-cettin Tours Au = n to von Region I,

the resident itization program, using RI',$],i",'Q"j'N"*,"d,,,,,,,,,,

reviews the site inspec-dBASE III, called "WISH-tion program status quar-LIST," which uses the re-terly and requests inspec-suits of Systematic As-d5ASE 6 At traer cr==P

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the program's goals. When formance (SALP) Reports as j

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gionally based specialist resident and regional in-is needed, the resident spection priority.

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r Tha s:cond progran iS ustd by ths cupzrviscr to of inspsction responsibil-audit and amend, if neces-ity and prioritized.

The ITS WS Credits tP 25% of the requests sary, the inspection re-i _

queats submitted to the The iTS NEWS is a quarterly are assigned a priority _of regional office.

Upon Publication provedsng informaNon ng,n the middle 50% are of interest to users of compnr completion of this review, technology at the NRC. It is given a priority "2," with requests from each site produced by the staff of the NRC the remainder receiving a informaton Technology Services priority "3."

These lists are transferred to the

{u nier and Trainin9 third program disk for are then reviewed and ap-

?rioritization.

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proved by the Division of

,n cci n eEt re'w f e"S Reactor Projects branch Please forwara them to the ITS The third program is the statt by:

chiefs prior to submittal heart of the WISHLIST sys-to the Division Director Phone: 492 4160 for his signature.

tem, for it contains the Magn Perso%

databas o used in the pri-p

,g orititig of all inspec-ITS Support Center resident inspector the This approach gives the tion reper.ts. These data bases 1 dade: 1) all in-Francine Goidberg, flexibility to identify cniet. information Technology needs in a structured n

n spection procedures and Sr the Region I organization-p, ee5 s Secten and disciplined manner Scien afic Programmer

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with subsequent management al entity (at section V*#VI'".t level) responsible for assure that computer Assistant the prioritization is rea-each procedure's perfor-Geogiann sonable. Por unique situ-mance; 2) the current p

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v plant operational status; Sc entific Programrneri ations or problem plants, i

and 3) the current SALP y,,

the Division Director has James P. Smith, the ability to assign a report functional area compute Pr mmer higher weighting factor category rating for each n y,,

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reflecting operational S s en A yst Problems.

This is used To prioritize the in-sparingly, but reflects ITS Training Laboratory the program's flexibility.

spection requests, WISH-LIST matches an inspection p,n,,d g,cy,,, g,,,c,,,

u.cnaei canyes. instructo, The WISHLIST System is a request sith the section g',vj'(r"j5,,,"yy,g,,,c,,,

powerful yet simple pro-8 1o' responsible for, and the Peggy tester. instructor gram, which has reduced an SALP section influenced

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almost unmanageable task

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by, that procedure's per-Jad vererson. instructor to a few keystrokes and formance.

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$ '*8", Sianbac. insuucio' ck,,y two hours of computer gram retrieves the SALP course coordinator, and time.

Its use has enabled result for a particular Editor. ITS NEWS SALP section and ob uins Region I to allow SALP the operational status of Management Developrnent results efficiently and and Training Staff directly to Influence the plant.

The program regional inspection prior-then computes a priority

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ities, thereby more rating value for the in-yst effectively allocating spection request using a weighted formula with the yo,,. 7ne 7,,,n,ng Laboratory inspection resources, is operated by the USDA Graduate SALP results and the plant ku'" [s's"$7[",Ma'ADf This example is one of operational status used as f DTS.

variables.

many ways in which Region Graphics I is presently utilizing the NRC investment in per-When all requests sub-0"O"c'$ap*h5c "Secton sonal computers. E mitted to the regional Photography: Dan Dehn office have had their rat-ing values computed, they are separated into areas

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t request with justification

. Ability to position of need for the new fea-printed charts identi-tures.

If an agency-wide cally with plotted k+

requirement for compati-ones.

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budget submittal)

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RM/D will assist in co-NEW FEATURES SPECIFIC TO Ii ordinating this effort.

SIGN-MASTER 5.1

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U coming issues of ITS P

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NEWS will carry discus-NEW FEATURES OF LOTUS and dBA I

P ewl S EME si revised products addressed 1-2-3, RELEASE 2:

Ex-a P oding Pies and Other l

M in this issue are Chart-

"0*#8 Master, Sign-Master, end yr Lotus 1-2-3, the new fea-tures of which are high-e m st significant new eatnes are:

lighted below.

For ad-ditional information abcut The Data Parse capa-the use of these products.

PC SOFTWARE PRODUCT please refer to "Using Old bility, which permits the distribution of UPGRADES - ARE THEY and New Releases" in our FOR YOU?

new CLIPBOARD, page 7.

Parts of ceil tuforma-tron to other cells.

Software vendors, con-tinually refining their F S FEATURES SHARED BY The ability to embed

products, periodically CHART-MASTER 6.1 and Page breaks in the issue upgrades to those SIGN-MASTER 5.1 8Preadsheet for con-products.

An upgrade may trol of printing.

take the form of a new

. Two new text fonts, j

version (minor chsage or Swiss and Bold Swiss,

The ability to copy a enhancement) or a

new and a new symbol font calculated value to release (major change or with 94 symbols and another cell on the enhancement).

Some up-icons to lend pizzazz 8Preadsheet.

grades are of fered to NRC to signs and charts.

users by RM/D, while Greatly improved func-others are not.

Factors

. Ability to plot on the tions for string mani-that determine whether IBM Proprinter.

Pulation.

RM/D will purci:ase a given upgrade include the sig-

. Capability of instal-The ability to move, nificance of product lation on a hard disk copy, or edit a record

changes, the status of with no need to unlock identified by the Data vendor support for pre-using a diskette.

Query Find command, vious vers ions, cost, and compatibility with other

. Full DOS directory software.

NEW FEATURES SPECIFIC TO access.

CHART-MASTER 6.1 Because of the work in-

. Translation capability r

volved in converting ap-

. Charts of mixed type to and from dBASE III, plication code and data, (e.g., lines and bars j

sof tware upgrades are not in one chart).

Also,

. The ability to define always in the best inter-negative stacked bar scale in graphics gen-est of the individual NRC charts.

eration and to create user.

Accordingly, NRC exploded pie charts.

software will not normally

. Support for the trans-be upgraded unless the fer of ASCII data from

. More rows maximum user submits to RM/ DSS a 1-2-3 and dBASE.

increased to 8192.

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this upgrade p

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and macros (including

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applications to the

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Release 2 softwar' E What's Wrong with this Picture?

WHAT'S WRONC HERE!?

cause severe damage to our friend's disks are your equipment. Make sure about to take an early How much do you know your work space is well retirement. What with the about the care and feeding ventilated and away from paper clips, finger marks, of your PC? Here's an ex-direct heat sources.

ball point

pens, heat, ercise that :an put you to smoke, and dust, the data the test. How many poten-me.

ee a sk On the other hand, don't tial. problams can you envel Pe anyvbere?

Think ventilate by means of an identify in the picture above?

open window.

(Our friend he made a backup?

got this one rightI) Open

.There 1s no documenta-windows invite dust, Mat.

V1stble near the Test yourself

first, E10" and humidity to play havoc then read on to see how with the silicon innards v rkstation.

Think he'll well you really fare as a of your machine, be able to find it when he PC expert!

needs it?

To start with, the flim-You can probably imagine

Finally, this gentle-sy card table our friend how your expensive LP man's eyes would no doubt is using really isn't record collection would be thank him if he were to strong enough to support affected by constant ex-replace the lamp atop his the PC reliably and leaves posure to smoke. Not only PC with diffused lighting.

almost no wo: z ing space.

are data diskettes simi-If you missed this one, be larly affested, but so are Did you catch them all?

sure to see our article on the sens it.Ive read / write Perhaps you found some workstation furniture and heads in your PC's disk that we dida't mention.

supplies on page 12 of drivas.

If you must (Hint take a close look this issue.

smoke, use a

smokeless at the telephone.)

Thank ashtray placed away from goodness we don't do these PCs generate plenty of the PC.

things, right? E heat on their own without being subjected to addi-Your PC was never in-tional heat from a radia-tended to double as a

Our thanks to Ken Raynor, ADM, tor or direct sunlight.

lunch counter.

Drinks who despite appearances is a modei This additional heat can spill, doughnuta crumble.

NRC computer user.

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NEW TUTORIAL and use program files in information on components,

OFFERINGS AT THE ITS Command Mode, the Disk Operating System SUPPORT CENTER (DOS), DOS comand s, the

. 9 IBM PC/IT and Expansion by Jay Vargo l

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Unit, and PC applications.

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VIDEO DISPLAY TERMINALS...

THE HUMAN JACTOR.

This One of my projects as an gi;{

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video tutorial with refer-ITS Support Center rota-e, 3

tional assignee har been

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ence handbook discusses to update the list of com-

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the effects of VDIs and gives information on how puter-and video-assisted a

tutorials available at the to improve the VDT envi-Support Center.

In the Screen from Teach Yourself ronment.

past several months I have dBASE /// Computer based been using these tutorials Tutorial.

Appointmen t s, which are as a means of gaining a recommended for using any basic working knowledge of of these tutorials, may be the software used at NRC.

USING IEM PISPLAYWRITE 3 arranged by calling the This self-paced, inter-Support Center on x24160.

I am particularly

active, computer-based Regional staff interested pleased that after going course can accommodate new in tutorials should call through the dBASE III tu-

users, knowledgeable their program support torial I was able to un-

users, and occasional staff.

derstand the basic con-users of the DisplavWrite cepts and commands needed 3 word processing soft-Computer-based tutorials to begin writing my first ware. Ic combines printed for DisplavWrite 3

and dEASE II,I programs.

I instruction with computer.

d BASE III can now be bor-highly recommend the tu-based exercises, and its rowed from the ITS Support Center for a one week toria18 to anyone who is modular design allows a looking for a self-paced user to take training in Period. Due to the limit-ed number of tutorial approach to learning about time periods suitable to the microcomputer.

his or her individual work copies available for loan, requirements. Please note Priority will be given to You may obtain a copy of that to use this tutorial, users whose offices are the current tutorial list one must have a copy of not in the Phillips build-by contacting either your DisplavWrite 3.

ing.

If you wish to bor-

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office Training Coordina-row either of these tuto-tor or the Support Center.

The introductory portion rials, call the Support l

The following new tutori-of this course covers com-Center and ask for Jean als are now available at mands to create, print, Caldwell.

Tutorials must the Support Ce2ter:

revise, change format, and be picked up and returned a document.

The in, person to the Support paginat e TEACH YOURSELF dBASE III.

advanced portion, building Center. (Sorry, they can-This interactive computer-on the skills learned in not be sent in the mail.)

based training program the introductory material, uses a combination of tu-covers advanced revision, Additional tutorials are torial Jiskettes and re-pagination, formatting, on order, including those for FORTRAN, DOS, and key-ference guide to teach the and even keystroke pro-novice and advanced user gramming.

boarding skills. Look for the concepts of dPASE III, announcements of new tuto-Volume I introduces, step GETTING STARTED WITH THE rials in future issues of by step, the features of IBM PC.

This 35-minute ITS NEWS. E the Assist Mode.

Volume video is designed to ac-II is designed to teach quaint new users with the Jay Vargo, /P, is completing a six.

the basic concepts and IBM PC.

Giving an over-month assignment in the ITF commands needed to write view of the PC, it covers Support Center.

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T cs soon-es possible if tha hardw:rs cnd asftvsro !

they must be ordered.

inventory maintained by 1

RM/D.

Please consult NRC i What do you mean by "stan-Manual Chapter 0904-5 for l

d ard" hardware and sof!;,

a discussion of the agen- !

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g cy's software policy.

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RM/D has selected parti-What are the power re-

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cular products for agency-ouirements for my PC?

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wide use.

These are the j

IBM PC and a variety of You will need separate sof tware packages such as grounded outlets for the !

Lotus 1-2-3, dBASE III, PC and the printer. (Ex - !

D and DisplavWrite 3.

tension cords should NOT

..,-[yg Picase refer to NRC Manual be used.)

If you are re-Mike MacWilliams Chapter 0904-1 for a com-questing either a modem Piete listing.

(for data communications) 1 GETTING YOURS: ANSWERS or a color monitor, you TO YOUR QUERIES ON AC.

Suppose I know of some vill need one additional QUIRING AND MAINTAINING "non-standard" hardware or outlet for each.

By the YOUR PC software that appears to way, see also articles in Recently I

ran into meet my needs beautifully, this issue and the Winter Sally N. Yuzer, a new NRC Can I Pet it?

issue of ITS NEWS for employee with lots of helpful information on

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questions about getting

}u should submit a

creating a comfortable and her own PC.

It occurred written request and just" healthful environment both to me later that our con-ification to RM/ DSS ex-for you and for your PC.

versat. ion might be useful Plaining thoroughly the nature of your intended to ITS NEWS readers, so From conversations with I've deleted the personal application and the rea-colleacues.

I'm led to stuff and distilled the sons why standard NRC believe I may need to re-remainder to its essence:

items cannot meet your cuest a PC/XT.

Are there needs.

All such requests any particular worde of How do I recuest a PC?

are reviewed on their in-visdom for XT users?

dividual merits by RM/ DSS.

A memo must be sent to Funny you should askt the

Director, RU, from My neighbor down the hall For PCs with fixed drives, your Office Director or already has the sof tware I both software and menus Regional Administrator.

expect to use.

Why don't are installed by RM/D be-See NRC Manual Chapter I iust recuest the hard-fore installation of the 0904-1 for guidelines.

ware I need, share his hardware.

This facili-sof tware, and save NRC the tates end users' use of My friend has a PC. but it a_diditional cost?

the machines, while simul-doesn't meet her needs.

taneously enabling RM/D to How can she upgrade it?

To remain within the provide telephone support, bounds of software ven-If a user modifies the To upgrade her PC with dors license agreements, menu or the software con-NRC standard hardware and/

NRC mu s t confine the use figurations, such support or software, she should of a single piece of soft-4 becomes difficult and use the " Request for NRC ware to a single machine.

time-consuming both for

-A Standard PC System Up-To ensure compliance with grade" form.

Tell her to this principle, RM/D con-the user and for the sup-g submit it directly to trols all PC software such modification is RM/ DSS at P-622. Standard using the PC a NRC tag hardware and a >f tware up-number and the control strongly discouraged.

Of s

est h grades will be provided number on each piece of immediately if the reques-software.

Each office is you may have for changing i

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W Library News Farewell to earlier would have been from the Support Center Karen McCallon called simply MYFILE will, under the lateec release, Where do you go to ex-Karen

McCallon, whose be named either MYFILE.CHT pand the horizcas of your cheerful smile and helpful or MYFILE.SGN.) Therefore, computing knowledge? The manner have graced the ITS if you create a file under ITS Support Center li-Training Lab, will soon be the latest release and brery, of course!

leaving.

She has elected then, for any resson, need to remain home following to access it using a pre-The library now contains the birth of her eagerly vious release, you must over 60 books, from Your anticipated child.

Karen type in the full filename IBM PC Made Easy to Ex-has done an outstanding including the extension, pert dBASE. A listing of job and will be missed.

You should also be aware resources, including a

wide variety of periodi-that both Chart-Master and

cals, can be obtained by Using Old and New Sien-Master access files calling x24160 or by stop-Releases by means of catalogs.

If ping by the Support Center you will need to access at P-808.

Multiple releases of your files on another ma-standard software packages chine, be sure that the are being used within the diskette containing the Training Lab Modifies Courses for Updater agency.

Bycause of dif-chart or sign files also ferences in capabilities contains your CHART. CAT The ITS Training Lab amon'.:

releases

and, in (for Chart-Master) or some cases, incompatibil-SIGNCAT.TXT (for Sien-modifies its courses as now versions of software ity between files created Master).

are distributed throughout with different releases, the NRC.

you are advised to know Please be aware that if the release with which you create or revise a Recently the Display-your files were created spreadsheet using Release Write course was modified and the release available 2 of Lotus 1-2-3 and then to include the new Dis-on the machine you wish to for any reason need to pisvWrite 3 features of use.

(See

"...Are They return to using Release 1A automatic outlining and for You?" on page 3.)

with that spreadsheet, footnoting, some addition-some Release 2 features al block funct ions, and Unlike the files created will not be available to spell checking within a with previous

releases, you.

(For some specific document.

chart and sign files cre-features, please see the

,i ated with Chart-Master article referenced above.)

Modifications will soon release 6.1 and Sinn-Also, if you use the Sup-be. made to the chart-Master reletse 5.1 carry port Center machines,

' Master

'and Sien-Master an extension on the file-where both releases are course

-to incorporate name.

For charts it is available, be sure to use these products' new fea-

.CHT; for

signs,

.SGN.

the version that exists on tures.' Refer to "... Are (EKAMPLE:

A file that your own PC for compati-They for You?" on page 3.

bility's sake.

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L dBASE 111 USER GROUP without retyping. Summary Al USER GROUP handouts of these proce-dures will be available at The purpose of the NRC NRC's en mr t

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dBASE III User

Group, ganization, the Artifie Intelligence User Gr@

chaired by Barry Marcus, In the April meeting the has been well attendes is to share ideas and gr up addressed the prob-its two meetings to do techniques among begin-lem f GIGO (garbage in, Led by Jim Smith in cle ning,

it termediate,

and ga age oud with demgn-room A of the ITS Traio advanced 4 BASE III users strations from William Lab (W-102), the AI O here at the NRC.

Clements of SECY and Lance Group has thus far expH Lessler of NMSS.

The ed AI work already un@

The. User Group is ex-group then discussed the way by NRC.

panding rapidly and cur-various methods of error rently has over 80 mem-checking data inputs and bers.

Meetings are held other techniques for im-

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on the first Taesday of proving data integrity.

given a presentation each month at the ITS the expert systems det Training Lab (W-102) at Frustrated users of memo P"*"'

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approximately one hour.

truly memo-rable treeting the IE Operations Cen0 Becoming a member puts you in May.

Lance Lessler, c ae ray, Icahr on our mailing list and is SGAS, demonstrated a nifty the development team,H quick and painless.

Call program he designed that the presentation and g Doug

Vickery, the User emulates the memo field a demonstration for d Group's Coordin ator,

on while leaving its problems

"*n aMe to m 407-5723 for more infor-behind.

following the meeting.

mation.

The dBASE User Group has At the March meeti At the March meeting the established a user program several NRC emplos group enjoyed a demonstra-library to assist its briefly described tD tion by Doug Vickery of members with sharing work and answered the o several simple methods for ideas and exchanging pro-questions posed by o(

transferring selected grams, routines, and tech-group members.

Speat data from dBASE III data-niques that are of inter-at this meeting were bases into DisplavWrite 3,.

est to NRC d BASE III Rathbun, MDTS; Les 2 This allows data to be users.

Call the Coor-caster, RRBR; Jim Jenk:

incorporated into reports dinator for details, also of RRBR; and 1 Baybutt, of Battelle lumbus Labs, sitting r

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Att:nti:n Pr:JIct irprovem:nts or altera-

Also, en interegsney

~ Managers! - Contractor tions to the software.

agreement is being negot-Code Development isted with another Federal Guidelines

2. Documents (e.g.,

re-agency for timesharing ports submitted in ma-services to support the chine-readable form)

CDN.

This agency, whose

'Are your contractors de-shonid be produced with two Isrge computer facil-veloping scientific or IBM DisplayWrite votd it ir,s already use much of technical applications on microcomputers Producing Processing software.

the technology envisioned This will allow them to for the CDN, has shown an machine-readable contract be used both on NRC's interest in providing ser-deliverables such as docu-ments created with word microcomputers and on vices to NRC ano has de-its word processing monsgrated its abj,lity to processing software? Even if you have not asked for equ1Paent, prov de the technt:a1 sup-computer application de-Port needed for a project

3. All sof tware should be as complex es the CDN. A velopment in your state-ment of work, you may find accgmpanted by documen-final agreement should be tation, including both reached by the time this your contractor offering to provide results in Programmer and user issue of ITS NEWS reaches inf rmation.

readers hands, machine-readable form. In many cases this can be To help project managers advantageous for the NRC, but nc,t if the delivered incorporate the above re-items are incompatible quirements (as well as thers relating to main-(Getting Yours - continued with NRC equipment and frame software) into con-from ILags, 9

software, tracts and DOE lab agree-To avoid incompatibility ments, the Support Center the standard wenus are has prepared a document welcome; contact the ITS and costly conversion ef-entitled "Sof tware Devel-Support Center on x24160.

forts, and to maximize the usefulness of maclaine.

OPment, Submittal, Distri-i readable contract deliver-buti n, and Documentation What if I move and need to ables, be sure to put the Requirements for NRC Con-relocate mv PC?

tractors.'

This document following requ? ecents can be attached to your Contact RM/ DSS well in into your-statement of sistement of work.

To advance.

Please do not work-obtain a copy, call the move your PC youtwelf.

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ITS Support Center on

1. All microcomputer disk-x 4160 or FTS 492-4160.

What do I do if ev hard-ettes should be capable of use on an IBM PC or ware needs repair?

compatible, and all CORPORATE DATA ur 8rdware 8Pecialist, microcomputer applica-NETWORK tions developed for the Steve Hedlund, will take NRC should be written By Jack Frost your ct.11 on x28219.

l using one of the stan-dard software packages With the Prototype Pro-Sally had several other l

supported for use by ject recently completed, good questions, but I felt Agency staff.

By re-CDM work is progressing on that these were the ones quiring the contractor two major fronts.

of most general tuterest.

to use NRC standard If you have others, you hardware and software, Proposals received for may direct them to me on x28143.

Who knows?

You you are assured of com-the multi-year development patibility and of sup-contract are presently may even see them in the j

next ITS NEWS!

port and training from under review.

It is ex-ITS; also, you won't be pected that a

contract

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dependent on the con-will be awarded by late Mike is Chief of the O// ice Automa-l tractor for subsequent summer.

tion Section of RM/ DSS.

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This section of the news-f actured by Ven-Tel, Inc.

DisplayWrite: Block letter (formerly the Bul-Even though these devices Underscore l

letin Board) serves as an are functionally identical

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stea for disseminating to the more familiar Hayes Users of DisplayWrite 2,<'

tips and technical infor-modems, they are not put 3 should note that "blo mation of interest to NRC together in exactly the underscoring" - via the micro and mainframe com-same way.

Figure 1 shows key cannot be handl,

puter users.

If you have how the eight small properly by 5520s or any questions regarding switches must be set for many of the printers the Tech Notes or wish to your software to work use at NRC. Users are a.

contribute an item for

properly, vised to utilize the Wo 5 publication, contact the Underscore feature inste.

ITS Support Center by Switch block 1

can he of the " block underscore calling 492-4160.

reached only by (care-fully!)

removing the i

modem's

cover, whereas dBASE III: CONFIG.DB PERSONAL COMPUTERS block 2 is located en the back exterior of the de-Usars of dBASE IQ shou Corrections EPSON Printers vin.

not alter the CONFIG..

file supplied with tl Last issue we ran an item P advised that this in-sof tware by RM/D, as une: 1 entitled "One Thing an f a,rmation applies only to pectedsystemproblemsc.1 EPSON Printer Won't Do,"

model 1200-32 of the Ven-result.

J wherein it was stated that Tel modem; other models, a i

the EPSON lacks the IBM few of which may have graphics character set.

found their way into Caution, FOR'13AN Users!

Although this is true of users' hands, have not yet older models, the reader been definitively config-Before you download F0' i should note that the ured. Contact the Support TRAN programs to your FX-85, FX-185, and FX-286 Center if you need assis-from mainframes or ti models can accommodate tance.

MV/8000, please call ti either the EPSON or the Support Center for info,

IBM character set with the mation sbout size limit.l flick of c-switch.

For tions.

further information, please refer to

" DIP Switch Settings Block 1 Block 2 switches in your printer For Ven-Tel Modem (under cover)

(rear of unit) msnual e index.

Model 1200-32 Crosstalk XVI All Down All Up Ven-Tel Modem Switch

& Smartenn 400 Except #3

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"*:PP ?I."

To resume system your file is archived. To Users of version 3 of the page

breaks, enter retrieve your file, submit 5520/PC Attachment Pro-

"%PG=Y."

a job to use the LOADPF gram, please contact Dawn utility or call the Sup-Oliver (x24832) or Beth port Cr.nter for help.

Williams (x28314) to be INEL Users Please Notel sure you've got the ven-dor's most recent issue of Your personal charge num-Reminder, BNL Users version 3.

ber is not 462091015.

INEL's computerized The BNL identifiers for notices regarding user printers at P-634 and dBASE II and EasyWriter access paramei:ers always SS-050 have been changed.

list this general NRC num-ROUTE command parameters Please note that RM/D will ber rather than individual for Phillips and Willste discontinue support for charge numbers.

Beginning respectively are now these two products effec-May 15, all files stored TID =AK and TID =AL; use tive June 15.

Users of under the general number ST=MFC with both.

these products are encour-will be deleted without aged to request copies of natice to the user.

If their NRC-standard succes-you don't know your per-DATA GENERAL MV/8000 sors, dBASE III and Dis-sonal charge

number, plavWrite 3 by the usual please contact Emily Graphics!

means.

Robinson on x28316.

Initial testing of a

I graphics software pacleage Displaycomm and One Key BNL has been successfully com-pleted on the MV/ 8000.

Users of DisplavComm who Old MFA Files Lost?

The package, DISSPLA, is do not aircady have one fami*.iar to NRC users from Kev may ob'.-In the latter

'Inen MFA was retired last its longstanding availa-simply by calling the ITS

February, all permanent bility on NRC-accessible Support Center on x24160.

files were archived to timesharing systems. NRC's

[ne, Kev is a useful time-tape.

An index of ar-interest in the product saving adjunct to Dis-chived files may be viewed has been instrumental in plavComm.

at the Support Center; or, persuading its

vendor, you may obtain your own Integrated Software Sys-list from MFC by entering:

tems Corporation (ISSCO),

i INEL to adapt it to the Data

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ATTACH,1fn,MFAPFLIST, General 32-bit environ-

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Purchase of the 4

product is under consider-

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To avoid automatic page You can search through the ation; look for more in-vait on the screen (espec-listing with EDITOR or formation in the next ially when downloading),

PAGE. Be sure to note the issue of ITS NEWS.

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List of,, Supplies. Included E-r 4 hgyk are items to enhance your m

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339 Ergonomic workstation O

g' furniture is also avail-able from the Property and Supply Branch (P&SB) to suppoti. both ADP and word processing systems. These COMPUTER SUPPLIES AND FURNITURE: WE'VE GOT items are fully adaptable YOUR NU,'ABERSI to accommodate either Item catalog right-or left-hand work-NRC Sot civ Nutnber Pare 8 Pace and can be reduced Floppy Diskettes (10/ box)..... 5.25 "....... 7 43 0-00-NRC-003 21.... 18 or enlarged as space re-Diskette Bon (holde 50 diske).

5.25"....... 7045-00-NRC-00011.... 10 classified (Red) Disk sleeve... 5.25"....... 7 510-00-NRC 00531..... **

q ements change.

Sensitive Unclassified Sleeve.. 5.2 5"....... 7 510-00-NRC-00 5 2I..... **

Pinf eed T aper................. 9.5 K 11"... 7530-00-NRC-0058..... 24 Pin f ee t Pap er................. 12 1 8.5".. 7530-00-NRC-0070..... 25 Whether your workstation P icie ed Paper................. 15 1 11"... 7530-00-NRC-0005I..... **

1s not yet in place or is Pinieed Letterbead............. 9.5 1 11"... 7530-00-NRC-00571.... 24 Well broken in, you are Pinfeed labels,1 Acros s...... 1.5 I 4".... 7 530-00-082-2662..... 25 Piafe.ad Labels, 3 Across....... 1.5 1 4".... 7530-01-015-6402..... 25 encouraged to call P&SB on Ribbon for IF.M Graphics Printers.............. 7510-00-NRC-0061I.... 15 x28293 to discuss your Ribbon for Epson FK 100/185 Printers.......... 7510-00-NRC-0061K.... 15 needs for Workstation Printer Stand for ALL craphics Printers....... 7110-00-NRC-0043...... **

furniture.

Grover Estep Copy Ec1 der, Swivel, Fully Adbstable......... 7520-00-NRC-00552.... 06 Clare screen for Monitor

........... 704 5-00-NRC-0003..... **

and his staff will be glad t.......

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