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 Company.  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.

We are funded by the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), as grant
NTI/48.2.  Funding exists until the end of July, 1996, and is for providing
support to UK HE sites only.  We do our best to fix problems reported from
outside the UK, but we may not be able to investigate every reported problem.
Our apologies.

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/

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 (S.Herbert@Sheffield.ac.uk)
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Stuart Herbert		  Academic Computing Services, University of Sheffield
UNIX Support		      (0114) 282 4254 (External) / Ext 4254 (Internal)
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