From J.Reid@letterbox.rl.ac.uk Mon Oct 17 13:00:21 1994 Received: from ib.rl.ac.uk by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA09273 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Mon, 17 Oct 1994 13:00:21 +0100 Received: from letterbox.rl.ac.uk by ib.rl.ac.uk (IBM VM SMTP V2R1) with TCP; Mon, 17 Oct 94 12:59:47 BST Received: from jkr.cc.rl.ac.uk by letterbox.rl.ac.uk with SMTP (PP) id ; Mon, 17 Oct 1994 12:56:25 +0100 Received: by jkr.cc.rl.ac.uk (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA15581; Mon, 17 Oct 94 12:59:07 BST Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 12:59:07 BST From: jkr@letterbox.rl.ac.uk (John Reid) Message-Id: <9410171159.AA15581@jkr.cc.rl.ac.uk> To: lindaog@microsoft.com Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.645) Call for Volunteers Cc: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 > WG5 has appointed a subgroup to investigate interoperability. A report > is due by Jan. 31, 1995. We should probably get this going, else we > shall have to make New Year's resolutions to get this done quickly. > > WG5 has kindly volunteered the following people for the committee: > Keith Bierman, Peter Griffiths, Jamie Shiers, and me (kindly > volunteered as convenor). > > I'd like to invite anyone interested in this area to participate. Your > participation can be to actively work on this project, or just to > receive the group's email. Please let me know if you'd like to be > added to the email list for this group, and your level of participation. > > Kurt, are you able to maintain a reflector for this? > > Keith, can you ask Dave Seberger and Kelly O'Hair to participate? > They've both got useful experience. If they're hesitant to > participate, remind them that I'm only $49 and 2 hours by air away from > them and as mean as ever. :-) > > I'm going to see if I can round up some OLE expertise. Can someone of > the UNIX persuation round up somebody who speaks COBRA? Is there some > other thing out there? Something from IBM? > > Thanks for your support. > May I suggest that you also ask for volunteers from comp-fortran-90@mailbase.ac.uk A few months ago, there was a lot of discussion of the topic. Or, at least I think there was, but am not quite sure what you mean by 'interoperability'. I think it would be very helpful to have a definition. Best wishes, John.