Moderator's message

[Ton Van Den Bogert]

Dear Biomch-L subscribers,

I would like to bring a few things to your attention:

1. Biomch-L digest option
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One of you asked if it was possible to receive Biomch-L as a
daily digest, instead of individual E-mail messages. The answer
is yes, althought this is not mentioned in the LISTSERV
documentation. It is mentioned, however, in the 'Biomch-l
guide'. If you want digested messages, just send 'set biomch-l
digest' to LISTSERV@nic.surfnet.nl. To receive individual
messages again, send 'set biomch-l nodigest'. The digest option
becomes very useful now, with lots of messages coming every day.
An other possibility is 'set biomch-l index'. This just gives
you a daily index of messages. The messages you want to read can
then be retrieved with 'gopher hearn.nic.surfnet.nl' or other
methods (see Biomch-L guide).

2. LISTSERV says 'you are not subscribed to Biomch-L'
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This can happen when you issue a 'set biomch-l ...' command, or
when you request a file which is available for subscribers only.
It is caused by a change in your E-mail address since you first
subscribed. You don't notice this normally because all mail to
your old address is automatically forwarded. But for LISTSERV
commands this turns out to be a major headache. The only proper
solution is to get a new subscription from your present address.
Ask one of the moderators to delete your old subscription, and
re-subscribe by sending 'subscribe biomch-l firstname lastname
affiliation' to LISTSERV@nic.surfnet.nl.

3. New version of Yellow Pages
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A new version of the 'Biomch-L yellow pages' has been stored. To
get your copy, send 'get biomch-l ypages' to
LISTSERV@nic.surfnet.nl. Table of contents:

1. Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX
2. Kistler Instrumente AG, Winterthur, Switzerland
3. Sensinova AB, Goteborg, Sweden
4. Peak Performance Technologies, Inc., Englewood, CO
5. Ariel Dynamics Inc., Trabuco Canyon, CA
6. Musculographics, Inc., Evanston, IL
7. Kistler Instrument Corporation, Amherst, NY
8. OsteoKinetics Corporation
9. Computerized Function Testing Corporation (CFTC), Chicago, Illinois
10. B & L Engineering, Santa Fe Springs, CA
11. Advanced Mechanical Technology (AMTI)
12. Innovision Systems, Inc., Warren, MI
13. QUALISYS Motion Capture and Measurement Systems
14. Northern Digital Inc. Waterloo Ont. CA
15. Avalon Technologies Corporation, Rochester, MN

4. GCVSPL test program
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A Fortran program written by Herman Woltring to test his spline
package has been stored. To get your copy, send 'get gcvtst
fortran' to LISTSERV@nic.surfnet.nl. From the documentation in
the source code:

C Testprogramme for generalized cross-validatory spline smoothing
C with subroutine GCVSPL and function SPLDER using the data of
C C.L. Vaughan, Smoothing and differentiation of displacement-
C time data: an application of splines and digital filtering.
C International Journal of Bio-Medical Computing 13(1982)375-382.

5. LISTSERV & Biomch-L documentation
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To get documentation about LISTSERV, send the command 'info' to
LISTSERV@nic.surfnet.nl. To get documentation for Biomch-L, send
the command 'get biomch-l guide' to the same address. To get a
list of files available from the Biomch-L fileserver, send 'get
biomch-l filelist' to LISTSERV@nic.surfnet.nl.


-- The Biomch-L moderators:
Ton van den Bogert
Christoph Reinschmidt
Krystyna Gielo-Perczak