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From: wf@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Mr Bill Findlay)
Newsgroups: comp.music,rec.music.synth
Subject: ICMC 90
Keywords: info-server, icmc, conference news
Message-ID: <3988@hawaii.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Date: 8 Dec 89 15:40:44 GMT
Organization: Computing Sci, Glasgow Univ, Scotland
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ICMC 90 : The International Computer Music Festival, Glasgow 1990
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An "information server" for ICMC 90 has been set up in the Computing
Science Department of Glasgow University. By sending e-mail to it
you can receive in reply copies of the registration document, the call
for submissions, and other information about the conference that we
insert from time to time. Detailed instructions on the use of the server
are given below. At the moment the only topics available are the
registration document and the call for submissions. These will be posted
to relevant network groups today, to get them to you soonest.

Please note that the deadlines for submissions have been extended:

Proposals must be postmarked no later than 28 February 1990.
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Final text of papers will be due on 15 June 1990.
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Music submissions must be postmarked no later than 9 March 1990.
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All performance materials will be required by 30 June 1990.
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The Information Server Basic Help
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This information server will send out files contained in mail
messages, in response to a request contained in a mail message,
that you have sent it.  Send your requests to info-server@cs.glasgow.ac.uk.

Requests are of the form:

        Request: documents
        Topic:   topic
        Request: end

The "Topic" line may be repeated for each topic you wish to receive.
The topics presently available are icmc.reg (registration form),
icmc.call (call for submissions) and icmc.news (recent news releases).

The key words recognised by the server are : request, topic and line-limit.
These can be upper or lower case or a mixture. They are
separated from the remainder of the line by tabs, spaces or : this
is optional.

Line-limit is for use by people who have mail systems that
can only deal with small messages. Consider the following
request:

        line-limit 1000
        Request: documents
        topic: icmc.news
        request: end

This would mail out icmc.news information in 1000 line chunks (Not
including message header information). The line limit must lie
between 1000 and 200000000. The default is send the file in 1
message. Everything after the "request end" is ignored.

A list of the "top level" requests can be obtained by sending
the following request to the info-server:

        request: index
        topic: index
        request: end

Within a request subject, an index and also help information are
available. These would be (using software as the subject example).

        request: documents
        topic: index    (or help)
        request end

All blank lines are ignored, and the "request end" is optional,
however if it is omitted and there are other lines in the
message an automatic error message will be sent to you.