Date: Tue, 8 Dec 92 08:41:09 -0500
From: rn@cs.brown.edu (Robert H.B. Netzer)
To: fpst@hubcap.clemson.edu
Subject: info on par debuggers


Per your request, here is the last announcement about the parallel debugging
bibliography (maintained now by me and Cherri Pancake).  Please include in
a FAQ file on parlib.  We will post to comp.parallel when the update is ready.

                        Bibliography on
                Parallel and Distributed Debuggers

The 1991/92 update to the bibliography is underway and will be ready this
fall.  After three years of hard work, Sue Utter-Honig of Cornell is no
longer working on the project; instead, Rob Netzer of Brown University will
serve as co-editor with Cherri Pancake (now at Oregon State).

If you have published papers or tech reports related to debugging and would
like them included for everyone to see, please send them to us.  As in the
past, the bibliography will be published in SIGPLAN Notices, and is always
available via anonymous ftp (but on new machines; see directions below).

This time we are trying to categorize the papers in the bibliography, so we
would like to receive BOTH a citation (in BIBTEX format) and a hardcopy version
of your papers.  These can be sent to either Cherri Pancake or Rob Netzer,
whose addresses are below.  Please be sure to include your address
and telephone number so that we can contact you with questions about how
your papers should be classified.

To see whether any of your papers are already in the bibliography, you
can obtain the 1990 update, and the list of papers received since that
update (which we are currently incorporating into the 1992 update; there
was no 1991 update).  The available files are

debug_2.0.bib.Z      Version 2.0 of the BIBTEX form of a bibliography
                     on parallel debuggers (revised 9-1-1990)

debug_2.0.rfr.Z      Version 2.0 of the REFER form of a bibliography
                     on parallel debuggers (revised 9-1-1990)

temp_3.0.add.Z       Additions (added since 9-1-90) to Version 2.0 of
                     the BIBTEX form of a bibliography on parallel debuggers

The ftp sites holding the bibliography have changed.  It is now stored on
cs.orst.edu (128.193.32.1) and wilma.cs.brown.edu (128.148.31.66), which
contain identical copies.  Files can be retrieved as follows:

1.  Open a connection to wilma.cs.brown.edu or cs.orst.edu through ftp.

         > ftp wilma.cs.brown.edu                > ftp cs.orst.edu

2.  Log on by entering 'anonymous' at the login name prompt; enter your
    e-mail address as the password.

3.  Change the transfer mode to binary, and change to the directory containing
    the bibliography:

         ftp> binary                             ftp> binary
         ftp> cd debug                           ftp> cd pub/pancake

4.  Issue the ftp 'get' command to transfer the desired file(s).  For
    example, to get Version 2.0, enter:

         ftp> get debug_2.0.bib.Z                ftp> get debug_2.0.bib.Z

Feel free to tell anyone about how to get the bibliographies, but do ask
them to contact us at the e-mail address below so we can include them in
update notifications also.  Again, we'd appreciate any corrections or
additions you might know about.  Thanks to those who have already contributed!

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Cherri M. Pancake
Dept. of Computer Science
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331
pancake@cs.orst.edu

Rob Netzer
Dept. of Computer Science
Brown University
Box 1910
Providence, RI 02912-1910
rn@cs.brown.edu