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VNS TECHNOLOGY WATCH .............................. 15 
VNS TECHNOLOGY WATCH .............................. 29 
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MAIN NEWS: [Tom Povey, VNS UK News Desk]

============== [Reading, England ]

Here is the News at 07:00 GMT on Friday 27-March-1992

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UK News

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Exchange Rate for UK pound = $ 1.72 = Dm 2.8330

Attention has been diverted from the election itself by controversy 
following Labour's TV broadcast earlier in the week which featured the
 case of a 5 year old girl who needed an operation on the NHS which was
delayed, according to the broadcast, by lack of funds for the NHS. The 
controversy has shifted from issues around the NHS to who leaked the 
name of the girl to the press. A real "whodunnit".

A report shows that pay rises for UK management has dropped to an
average of 7% which is still higher than inflation. It was up at 9-10% a
year ago.

World News

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The UN vote on sanctions on Libya has been delayed until Monday, in part 
to give foreign nationals time to leave the country and in part because 
the conditions for lifting the sanctions are not properly defined. The
 Libyan ambassador has repeated that his country is willing to release 
the men concerned to the Arab League, a claim that does not seem to fit 
in with events in Tripoli yesterday when a delagation from the Arab 
League visited the Libyan leader and came away without the men.
The boxer. Mike Tyson, has been sentenced to 6 years in jail following
 his conviction of rape in Indianapolis. He is to appeal but has been 
refused bail.

{News courtesy of the BBC}


Local Weather

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Cold, cloudy and showery. High 9C/48F. The Cockbridge-Tomintoul road in
 the highlands of Scotland is closed this morning due to drifting snow.
This is usually a sign of the onset of winter...



VNS COMPUTER NEWS: [Tracy Talcott, VNS Computer Desk]
================== [Nashua, NH, USA ]
Wednesday's Market Digital Fair Market Value
 
Quote Change 3-Jun-1991 $68.125

IBM Unavailable 29-Nov-1991 $63.125
85% of lower $53.75
Thursday's Market Dow Jones Change 2-Dec-1991 $60.687
DEC 56 3/4 - 5/8 3267.67 + 8.28
Sorry - Regular work's currently taking priority over Computer News; look
for some news Monday. - TT



VNS TECHNOLOGY WATCH: [Mike Taylor, VNS Correspondent]
===================== [Littleton, MA, USA ]
FAX that Binary File
Binary files sent by FAX to remote users? It may happen soon, according 
to Sterling Wharton, president and CEO of SoftNet Inc., which sells
personal computer fax software. Wharton says inexpensive modems with
fax capability offer an alternative to typical wide area file transfer 
methods. Today, users are faxing text and even image files from their
computers to fax machines. But SoftNet believes that the same easy to
use interfaces can be adapted to occasional file transfer, with modem
 equipped computers the target instead of fax machines. Rather than 
fiddle with communications software parameters, end users could 
designate binary files for "faxing". In reality, the software would
automatically negotiate parameters with the receiving modem and conduct 
a file transfer without extensive involvement of end users.
{Datamation Feb 15, 1992}



VNS TECHNOLOGY WATCH: [Mike Taylor, VNS Correspondent]
===================== [Littleton, MA, USA ]
Digital announces DEC ACCESSWORKS Servers 
for open multivendor database integration 
{VTX LIVE WIRE, 3/25/92 contributed by Ashu Bhatnagar}
Digital has announced DEC ACCESSWORKS, its new family of Server products 
that provide client platforms with manageable access to multivendor data. 
The servers provide client/server integrated solutions and are based on the 
Network Application Support (NAS) integrated runtime products. Backed by 
Digital's worldwide service and support, ACCESSWORKS Servers offer customers
a complete, enterprise-wide solution for accessing and integrating data.
The ACCESSWORKS family of servers is preconfigured, tested and characterized. 
They include all the software and hardware needed to access remote databases 
such as IBM's DB2, VSAM, Oracle, Rdb, and RMS and other databases running on 
IBM mainframes, VAX or UNIX platforms. Access can be from custom programs or 
packaged applications running on a wide range of PCs and workstations. 
SQL/Services provides a common API (Application Programming Interface) from 
all desktop applications to the ACCESSWORKS Server, maximizing PC application 
portability. SQL/Services is one of the many services packaged with 
ACCESSWORKS Servers.
ACCESSWORKS Servers also feature PATHWORKS, a NAS product, to maximize and 
integrate PCs into an enterprise-wide network, allowing them to share 
information and system resources such as backup and large database support.
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IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.

Macintosh and Appletalk are trademarks of Apple Computer Corporation.

ORACLE is a trademark of Oracle Corporation.


VNS VOGONBALLS: [Dick Binder, VNS Humour Editor]
=============== [Nashua, NH, USA ]
"High today will be 30. The current temperature is 32 degrees."
- Unidentified radio reporter
- Pat McMahon (Shrewsbury, MA, USA)
"He was very easy to work with and he did not nickel and dime us one
penny."
- Testimonial for unidentified businessman
- from Stan Shursky (Littleton, MA, USA)
"You can talk yourself blue in the face about protecting the apes,"
Nick says, "but people will listen to photographs."
- National Geographic, March 1992
- from Jim Snider (Portland, OR, USA)
"Fire in the BXB1 main lab on Monday (rescheduled from Friday, 13 March)"
-_Boxborough System News
- from Satish Rege (Boxboro, MA, USA)
"Paying college expenses is harder for families with moderate or
low incomes."
- Monitor Radio report
- from Bruce Collier (Maynard, MA, USA)
"Particularly in an election period, we can't comment on anything
political."
- Welsh Office spokeswoman, Electronics Weekly
- from Iain Gilespie (Ayr, Scotland)
Sen. Rudman: "You were lied to by your own people?"
Gates: "If that statement is correct, that is true."
Sen. Rudman: "This is a very important statement for this hearing."
- Wm Gates Confirmatin hearing transcript
- from Jim Cost (Acton, MA, USA)
*** And here are the biweekly Colemanballs from Private Eye, thanks ***
*** to Nick Hill, Paris, France - two sets of them, actually! ***
"Welsh winger has the ball but Brendan Mullin is breathing down his 
throat."
- Hector MacNeill, BBC TV
"As the ball came over, Speed threw his head at it."
- Unidentified Commentator, BBC Radio 2
Shane Ritchie: "Where did you shoot your video?"
Contestant: "Ibiza."
Shane Ritchie: "Have you been to Ibiza?"
- BBC 1
"The Labour party want to destroy the bottom rung of the escalator."
- Michael Howard, Channel 4
"Who he [Saddam Hussein] kills dies."
- Jeffrey Archer, BBC Radio 2
"They are still faster - although their times are the same."
- *** David Coleman, BBC 2 ***
"This is the window of opportunity for us to step into..."
- Tom King, MP, BBC Radio 4
"There's no job in football I've ever wanted. This is the only job in 
football I've ever wanted."
- Kevin Keegan, BBC 1
"If you can sort that out, you're a better man than me."
- Angela Rippon, LBC
"I've got nothing to prove: I've got to prove to Southampton I can
still score goals."
- Alan Shearer, BBC TV South
*** Send VOGONballs to VORTEX::CALIPH::BINDER, not to VNS ***

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