README File For Monsanto NQS
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This is the README file for the University of Sheffield's release of
Monsanto NQS, originally by John Roman of Monsanto Software.  You can
find John's original README file as 'README.original'.

About Our NQS Work
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The University of Sheffield has been funded by JISC in the UK to supply,
and support, a batch processing system to UK Higher Education sites.  After
evaluation, we decided that Monsanto NQS was the best freely-available
package, and that we would continue its development.

Our work has two stages.  The first stage is to sweep the code of Monsanto
NQS - restructuring it where appropriate to suit our needs.  Once that is
done, NQS will (hopefully ;-) be more portable, and easier to enhance to
include new features requested by the UK HE community.

Sheffield's NQS Archive
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The main home for our NQS work is our NQS archive :

  ftp://ftp.shef.ac.uk/pub/uni/projects/nqs/

Here, you will find the latest release of Monsanto NQS, plus patches against
the source code (providing bug fixes).

Sources Of Information
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The primary source of information is the World Wide Web :

  http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/nqs/NQS.home.contents.html

There are also several mailing lists related to our work on NQS :

  NQS-Announce@mailbase.ac.uk
  NQS-Developers@mailbase.ac.uk
  NQS-Support@mailbase.ac.uk

To join any of these lists, send the following mail to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk

  join NQS-Announce <your first name> <your last name>
  join NQS-Developers <your first name> <your last name>
  join NQS-Support <your first name> <your last name>
  stop

Or mail me.

Stuart
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