JAUG NEWS!
Extracted from the January/2002 issue of Can/Am EMTP News
TEPCO Improves S.M. Model
Extracted from Can/Am EMTP News
July/1998 issue
Japanese ATP User Group (JAUG)
Extracted from Can/Am EMTP News
January/1998 issue
Japanese ATP User Group (JAUG)
Extracted from Can/Am EMTP News
October/1997 issue
Japanese Share ATP using Internet
Extracted from Can/Am EMTP News July
/1997 issue
News from Outside USA and Canada
Extracted from Can/Am EMTP News
April/1997 issue
News from Outside USA and Canada
Extracted from Can/Am EMTP News
January /1997 issue
More about Electronic Mail( E-mail )
Extracted from Can/Am EMTP News
October /1996 issue
Web (WWW) page for Japanese users of ATP
Extracted from Can/Am EMTP News July
/1996 issue
ATP via E-mail within Japan
Extracted from the January/2002 issue of Can/Am EMTP News
TEPCO Improves S.M. Model
SOLVSM and KILLCODE were updated September 7th in response to
E-mail from TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) in Japan. SOLVSM
is the solution module of the Type-58 and Type-59 S.M. within the
dT loop, of course. Changes were explained by Atsushi Kurita as
follows: "(2) Small modification of type-58 synchronous machine
model. We received e-mail from Dr. Antonio Carlos Siqueira de
Lima
Extracted from the October/2001 issue of Can/Am EMTP News
News from Outside USA and Canada
www.jaug.jp is the new simpler and shortened address of a home
page for JAUG, the Japanese ATP user group. This was announced by
the JAUG Chairman, Hiroshi Arita, in E-mail of the EEUG list
server.“Moved JAUG home page
(http://www.jaug.jp/~atp/index-e.htm)" was the“Subject”of his
message dated June 10th. Why the longer address here? Because of
Japanese language, it would seem. When your Editor connected to
www.jaug.jp he quickly was asked whether he wanted to download
Japanese fonts in order to display content properly. After your
Editor responded negatively, the page was displayed, but did not
look right. Clicking on the English alternative on the left
seemed to lead to what Dr. Arita had advertised.
ATP Licensing Problems
Zenji Research and Development Corp., Ltd. in Yokohama, Japan,
seems to be another company that has lost its free ATP license
due to involvement in EMTP commerce. Details are contained in a
long E-mail message from Masahiro Kan, the JAUG Vice Chairman.
Dated February 10th, this documents in English the
Japanese-language communication between the JAUG Chairman, Dr.
Hiroshi Arita, and Yoshiharu Sakai of Zenji: "I translated the
important part of the contents of their home page and
correspondence." The story is long, but can be summarized easily
enough by quoting from Mr. Kan's translation: "Transient analysis
program described on your company's home page... ZR&D three phase
unbalanced power system analysis program (MPSAP: Multiphase Power
Sytem Analyser Program). You write on the home page that you are
selling this program. Begin quote from your home page: This
program (MPSAP) analyses the power flow in a steady state and
fault transient voltage and current in a three phase unbalanced
power system. It can analyse a wide range of time ranges from
[micro-second] (surge) to [sec] (transient stability).... The
contract form is a monthly lease. The amount of monthly rental
fee depends on the contract terms... MPSAP is developed to be
used for actual business work, so it is not cheap. For student or
personal users who have time and interest in analysis, but don't
have much money, we recommend the use of EMTP-ATP. It is not so
user-friendly but the rental fee is only 1000 Jyen/month. End
quotation. The above description of ATP-EMTP is wrong because
ATP-EMTP is royalty-free software for anybody who has the
royaltyfree ATP license. To get the royalty-free license, no fee
is required, but only signature and approval by the user group is
needed. In addition, JEC (Japanese EMTP Committee) is a different
organization from JAUG, and has no rights to authorize an ATP
license application." Mention of JEC and the 1K yen/month is
curious, and could be the result of honest misunderstanding. ATP
licensing of Zenji dates to 1995 --- before JAUG. At the time,
JEC Secretary Naoto Nagaoka would collect Can/Am license
applications from JEC members, and mail them to Portland in a big
envelope for your Editor's signature. The 1K yen is close to the
annual JEC membership fee of 15K yen. Beyond the EMTP commerce,
JAUG had concern about unauthorized disclosure of ATP materials.
Zenji mentions "SMPL308J One-line fault of an unbalanced
transmission line EMTPATP example DC25... " In their reply to
JAUG on February 16th, the Can/Am co-Chairmen wrote: "Agreed, if
the file comes from ATP materials, this is a problem. On the
other hand, the basic data of DC-25 can be found as part of BPA's
EMTP distribution. It predates the creation of ATP beginning
early in 1984. There is nothing to prevent these people or others
from using the public-domain materials from BPA.... Remember
Prof. Ned Mohan's 'Exercises... ' If data for ATP also is
compatible with BPA's public-domain EMTP, it is not secret.
Recall this is the way Mohan avoided the need to license his
customers: make the data universal. But note, too, that much ATP
data is not compatible with BPA's EMTP. For example,... is
present in most data cases, but would be rejected by BPA's EMTP.
Specifically note that ATP disk file DC25.DAT has this
declaration, so is not in the public domain." A draft of the
preceding was shown to JAUG officers shortly after it was
written. In a reply dated February 24th, Masahiro Kan provided
both approval and closure: "I have no objection to your writing.
As for JEC, Dr. Arita wrote to the JEC secretaries that Zenji has
lost the ATP license, and asked them not to share the ATP
information... As for the wrong writing about ATP, and use of the
ATP benchmark data on Zenji's home page, it already was
withdrawn."
Comings and Goings
Atsushi Kurita of the Power System Technology Group at the Power
Engineering Research Center of TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power
Company) in Japan, has replaced Dr. Hiroshi Okamoto as principal
contact for TEPCOsupported contributions to ATP. This news
arrived in E-mail dated June 6th. Recall that the creative work
of Xiang-lin Cao of Toden Software, Inc. (TSI, a subsidiary of
TEPCO) includes the Type-58 S.M. (see the April, 1997, issue) and
CAO LOAD FLOW (see the April and July, 1999, issues). The reader
will note that Mr. Kurita's name appears in the last-mentioned
issue, so he seems well qualified for his new role.
Extracted from Can/Am EMTP News July/1998 issue
Japanese ATP User Group ( JAUG )
BPA's Dr. Tsu-huei Liu addressed some 65 delegates at a workshop of the Japanese EMTP Committee (JEC) in Tokyo, Japan, on March 13 th . The presentation and meeting were exceptional for two reasons. First, like EEUG last November (see the January issue), JEC reimbursed BPA for travel and subsistence expenses of the trip. Second, a special nondisclosure and non-commercialization agreement was signed by anyone in attendance who was not already ATP-licensed. As in Barcelona last November, ongoing ATP development was discussed and summarized.
"DSPATP -- plotting of ATP PL4 file" is the title of an 8-page paper by Masahiro Kan of Toshiba Corp. The date in the upper-right corner is 13 March 1998, and DSP probably is short for display. Point 2 explains that "Dspatp is copyrighted by Masahiro Kan and can be used by ATP licensed users" free of charge. Point 1a indicates compatibility with both C-like .PL4 files produced by others and also UNFORMATTED .PL4 files produced by GNU ATP. Continuing: "(b) Postscript output is supported. The generated .ps file can be displayed and printed by Ghostscript. (c) Dspatp32.exe (32-bit version) works under Win95/NT." Point 4 explains that "this program uses Gnuplot for displaying waveforms; so Gnuplot should be installed." Later pages include screen displays that illustrate many plots.
Japanese continue to provide and enjoy the best of ATP-related Internet services. As of March 13 th , there had been some 6000 visits to the Home Page of ATP-EMTP for "Japanese and East Asians,"some 2000 accesses to the "ATP WWW Board (Japanese),"and some 600 accesses to the "ATP WWW Board (English)."
"New ATP textbook from Japan" was the Subject of public E-mail dated May 25 th . Writing from Osaka University, Dr. Tsuyoshi Funaki, the Secretary of JAUG, summarized yet another Japanese contribution to ATP users of the world. This was "a new primer handbook of EMTP and power systems. The textbook, entitled 'Highly Sophisticated Electrical Power Systems,' was written by Dr. Eiichi Haginomori while he was at the Tokyo Institute of Technology as an Invited Professor (he has since returned to Toshiba Corporation). It treats essential topics of power engineering, and provides sample EMTP data files for each of them. ......You can obtain a free copy of the textbook from the following URL:
http://atp.pwr.eng.osaka-u. ac.jp/~hagi/index.html"
Also,
http://atp.pwr.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/~hagi/hseps.zip
is a second location being used, according to private E-mail from Masahiro Kan dated July 22 nd . "It was called from the preceding URL." Dr. Liu had the pleasure of participating in a meeting with the board members of the newly-formed Japanese ATP User Group (JAUG). The complete list of Japanese user group management follows:
Chairman: Dr. Hiroshi
Arita of Hitachi Ltd.
Vice-Chairman: Mr. Masahiro Kan of Toshiba Corp.
Secretary: Dr. Tsuyoshi Funaki of Osaka University
Secretary: Dr. Yasuhide Kashiwagi of Kisarazu NationalCollege of
Technology
Advisors: Dr. Akihiro Ametani, Dean of Library and Computer
Information Center of Doshisha University; and
Prof. Naoto Nagaoka of Doshisha University
The official approval process occurred later, on May 29 th , at the annual JEC general meeting, which was held in Nagoya during May. EEUG Chairman Mustafa Kizilcay attended this meeting, and wrote a report that could be used for further description next time. Envoy files of the EMTP Theory Book were put on the password-protected FTP site at Osaka University in Japan on April 6, 1998. Quickly, these were replaced by a better alternative -- Adobe PDF -- as described in some detail in a separate story.
Extracted from Can/Am EMTP News January/1998 issue
Japanese ATP User Group ( JAUG )
Japanese do have an ATP user group, and it is distinct from the Japanese EMTP Committee (JEC). Information contained in the July, 1997, newsletter deserves an update as follows. Rather than change JEC from an EMTP user group to an ATP user group, a separate ATP user group was established. It really was very simple. No different from what was done for South Africa or India or Korea, a form letter to accomplish ATP licensing within Japan was established by mutual agreement. This was mentioned at the start of the third story of this present issue. For the record, founding JAUG officers appear at the bottom of the form letter in JAPANLIC as follows: 1) The JAUG Chairman, Dr. Hiroshi Arita of Hitachi, Ltd. in Hitachi, Japan. 2) The JAUG Vice-Chairman, Masahiro Kan of Toshiba Corporation in Kawasaki, Japan.
Publishing Programs and Viewers
Adobe PDF files are being used for Japanese-language writing about ATP. The general public was informed of this by Masahiro Kan of Toshiba Corp. in Japan. From his E-mail of the Fargo list server dated November 28th : "I put sample PDF files for the Japanese Rule Book and Theory Book on our aFTP server in Japan. These files were created by me with the help by Robert Meredith *. The contents are as follows: * Rule Book-j (Type 59 SM) *. Rule Book-j (Chapter 1.E) *. Rule Book-j (TACS) *. Theory Book (Type 59 SM) *. Theory Book (UM)" PDF creation by freeware Ghostscript was the exciting possibility explained by Mr. Kan in E-mail dated December 1st. Writing about the form letter used by the Japanese ATP User Group "I have created the PDF file for the ATP Licensing form for JAUG. I used Word V7 and Ghostscript V5.10. Ghostscript V5.10 can create PDF file from postscript file. The ability is not complete, but enough for the text documents. I attach this PDF file."
Extracted from Can/Am EMTP News October/1997 issue
Japanese Share ATP using Internet
Japanese continue to enjoy the best of ATP-related Internet services thanks to the initiative of Masahiro Kan.His latest expansion was summarized in public E-mail of the Fargo list server dated September 16 th : The subject was:"ATP distribution via secure WWW pages; g77; Japanese translation." Mr. Kan explained: "Recently, the password protected WWW pages have been studied and established by Dr. Arita of Hitachi, Ltd., Dr. Kasiwagi of Kisarazu College and Dr. Funaki of Osaka University. So,I decided to move the distribution of latest software and the discussion about the important subjects to these secure WWW pages. These pages are maintained on a volunteer basis, and have nothing to do with JEC (Japanese EMTP Committee) now." About the new ATP-related Web services in Japan, Mr.Kan continued (remainder of this paragraph): "We have the following three secure WWW pages now:
1) ATP-WWW-BOARD This is a password protected forum for discussion and information exchange about ATP.
http://www.arienter.com/atp/
This page is maintained by Dr. Arita of Hitachi, Ltd.
2) Secure-WWW-pages for ATP-EMTP These are password protected servers for distributing ATP materials:
a) http://beam.kisarazu.ac.jp:8080/~kasiwagi/atp/
b) http://pels.pwr.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/~atp/restricted/
These sites are maintained by Dr. Kasiwagi of Kisarazu College and Dr. Funaki of Osaka University. Please refer to the following about the detail of the maintenance of the password:
http://www02.so-net.or.jp/~m_kan/index-e.htm
BTW, GNU Fortran (g77) for djgpp was put on the anonymous FTP site of Osaka University. This can be found in
ftp://pels.pwr.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/pub/atp/g77/"
A Japanese-language translation of the ATP Rule Book seems to have been started. Recall this was mentioned in the July newsletter, and Mr. Kan provided further information in his September 16 th announcement: "It was written by Mr. Takahasi of Toshiba and now covers the following chapters:1) Machine dependent features (1.E); 2) TACS; 3) Switches; 4) Type 59 SM models; 5) Type 96 Nonlinear inductance." "Secure WWW pages for the world" was the Subject of public E-mail from Mr. Kan on September 26 th . No doubt about it, mention of the world generated a lot of attention, and resulted in substantial public discussion. Mr. Kan's history-making announcement began: ".... we in Japan have begun Secure WWW service. This service is primarily intended to serve Japanese and East-Asian ATP users, but is not limited to them, of course. This service is maintained by the following people in Japan on a volunteer basis, and has nothing to do with JEC (the Japanese EMTP Committee) now:
1) Dr. Arita of
Hitachi,Ltd.;
2) Dr. Funaki of Osaka University;
3) Dr. Kasiwagi of Kisarazu National College of Technology;
and
4) Masahiro Kan of Toshiba Corporation.
Thefollowing services
are available now. ...."Prof. Bruce Mork of Michigan Tech in
Houghton responded on September 25 th by questioning the limits
and procedures associated with his own services: "I would
like to poll the subscribers of the ATP list to see if they would
like password-controlled access to web, ftp site, listserver, and
listserver archives. What is the trade-off between password
security and the convenience of one less password to remember?
The newest listserver upgrade being released has the capability
of password-only access, WWW-based listserver, as well as
password protected web-accessible archives of all past
correspondence. We could also provide a password-secure ftp site
for distribution of the ATP program to licensed users. Laszlo
Prikler has been doing this for some time. It takes some extra
work to maintain the password, however." Your Editor echoed
the concern of some that present services not be lost in a rush
for change. Quoting from list server mail dated September 27 th :
"Marco Polo Pereira of Furnas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
expressed well the appreciation of the many users of Prof. Mork's
services. There seems to be a valid concern that these valuable
services not somehow be compromised..... Note that the Japanese
have not proposed changing Prof.Mork's services at all. That is
the advantage of having someone new provide a new service: there
is no necessary impact on the old. If new services were to be
offered by Prof. Mork, his old services presumably would be
affected. Prof. Mork's time already is in short supply."
Extracted from Can/Am EMTP News July /1997 issue
News from Outside USA and Canada
Japanese Web pages for ATP users were explained by Masahiro Kan of the Hamakawasaki Works of Toshiba Corporation in Japan. Immediately following Laszlo Prikler*s announcement of expanded EEUG information (see separate story), Mr. Kan explained about sites in Japan. Using public E-mail of the Fargo list server dated Jul 31st, Mr. Kan wrote: "We in Japan are also operating ATP related Web pages on a volunteer basis. We now have the following three sites:
http://www02.so-net.or.jp/~m_kan/
http://pels.pwr.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/~atp/
http://www.kisarazu.ac.jp/~kasiwagi/atp/index.htm
Very recently, we added an English version. We also are mirroring the aFTP server of MTU after receiving permission from Prof. Bruce Mork and the Can/Am user group:
ftp://pels.pwr.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/pub/atp/
The following ATP and
EEUG related information can be found there *." Masahiro
Kan*s announcement (preceding paragraph) ended with an
explanation that might not have been understood by many
subscribers: "Because of the political reason (involvement
of CRIEPI), Japanese EMTP Committee (JEC) has no formal
connection with Can/Am EMTP users group now. I hope the formal
connection between JEC and Can/Am and also that between JEC and
EEUG will be established in the near future." It is true:
the Japanese EMTP Committee (JEC) headed by Chairman Akihiro
Ametani is not yet an ATP user group. The first EMTP user group
in the world, JEC continues to allow equal access to any
organization having interest in EMTP, and that includes DCG
member CRIEPI. In this sense, JEC is fundamentally different than
other EMTP user groups of the world with which BPA and the Can/Am
group have contact. ATP information is shared with Prof. Ametani,
his colleagues, and students at Doshisha University in Kyoto as
collaborating developers, but not as an exchange between user
groups. With the exception of newsletters, free access to ATP
information is denied to CRIEPI, of course (this is reciprocity).
A translation from English to some other language was mentioned
by Mr. Kan as part of the discussion about FREEP*s proposed
scanning of the ATP Rule Book. As explained in a separate story,
your Editor had written that the modification of existing files
for an unanticipated use required permission of the present
owners. But what about translation from English to some other
language? Mr. Kan raised this problem in public E-mail of the
Fargo list server dated April 28th: "absolute prohibition
for modification of ATP documentation will affect our translation
activity in Japan. Some volunteer in Japan is doing translation
of ATP Rule Book written in English to Japanese. I plan to
distribute these translated disk files to the ATP users in Japan.
From the context, this sort of modification (translation from
English to some other langugaes) might be permitted. I hope this
exception will be added in the prohibition terms." As one of
the many owners of parts of the existing Rule Book, your Editor
certainly would not object to such non-commercial use. Also, he
notes that he has read no objection from anyone else, owner or
not, following Mr. Kan*s public explanation of the problem. If
anyone reading this paragraph disagrees, he is asked to make his
thinking public. As a practical matter, it is hard to imagine how
there might be any trouble as long as the use remained
noncommercial, and did not involve substantial sums of money.
This is where EPRI, DCG, FREEP, and others involved in EMTP
commerce have created their own problem of substantial
proportions. Without the involvement of substantial sums of
money, who would sue? Certainly any American court would be
unlikely to award substantial monetary damages unless substantial
money were involved. McDonald*s of England excepted, one
generally sues profitable commercial operations having deep
pockets rather than well-meaning volunteers having
essentially-empty pockets.
Extracted from Can/Am EMTP News April/1997 issue
News from Outside USA and Canada
That Japanese-language list server for ATP information was started by Masahiro Kan of the Hamakawasaki Works of Toshiba Corporation in Japan. This was explained in the January issue. There also is a bilingual (Japanese, but with some English) Web page, as explained in the October, 1996, issue. Well, as expected, usage has been growing, and there has been an effort to institutionalize the service, and improve the reliability. In E-mail dated March 23rd, Mr. Kan reported as follows: "I plan to shift the ATP-Japan WWW server to two Universities (Osaka University and Kisarazu National College of Technology). One is for the west area and the other is for east area." So, a mere six months after first mentioning the introduction of this ATP Web page for Japanese ATP users, it must be explained that the Infopepper address is soon to be replaced. With E-mail, the revolution is fast. An ISDN line now is used by Masahiro Kan for E-mail and Web surfing at home. Recall the explanation of ISDN in the April, 1995, issue. First, using Infopepper, the performance was not good. Quoting from E-mail dated April 27th, Mr. Kan received "two mails ( 1034232 bytes and 986119 bytes respectively). It took about 20 minutes to receive each of them. So, the effective speed is about 1kB/sec. The line (ISDN, 64kbits/sec = 8kB/sec) is fast, but the effective speed is not so fast (about 1/8 of the theoretical speed)." So, Mr. Kan tried another Internet provider: So-net --- the same service used by Dr. Taku Noda. The So is understood to indicate Sony. Results were satisfying. The following was reported by Mr. Kan two days later for "these two mails: djgpp2.TXT 986, 637 97-04-29 7:06 djgpp1.TXT 1, 034, 759 97-04-29 7:07 It took about 260 seconds, and the effective transmission speed is about 7.7kB/sec. It was satisfactory." To complete this progress, Mr. Kan is dropping his Infopepper usage. In E-mail dated May 3rd, he wrote Prof. Bruce Mork: "I have changed my WWW home page address and my home address."
http://www02.so-net.or.jp/~m_kan/
is the new Web page, and
m_kan@ya2.so-net.or.jp is the new home address.
Extracted from Can/Am EMTP News January /1997 issue
More about Electronic Mail ( E-mail )
Japan seems to have its own list
server for ATP-related information. Not surprisingly, this is yet
another initiative of Masahiro Kan of the Hamakawasaki Works of
Toshiba Corporation. The story was scheduled to appear in the
preceding issue, but it was delayed in a last-minute search for
more space. So, the details will be summarized now. Seeking
clarification, your Editor wrote to Mr. Kan as follows on October
8th: "So, your Japanese subscribers can share messages in
Japanese language just as the 400 subscribers of the Fargo list
server do in English? If so, this is wonderful, and deserves to
be explained in a newsletter." Initially, Mr. Kan was
reluctant, explaining that "there are only 13 subscribers
and there are few messages now." But this was not at all the
perspective of your Editor. Recall how slowly Prof. Mork*s
operation grew during the early years. A year and a half after
massive exposure (3 pages of explanation) in the October, 1991,
newsletter, Prof. Mork*s report of 105 subscribers can be found
in the April, 1993, issue. At the time, this seemed like an
overwhelming number, even though it applied to the whole world
rather than just one country having half the population of the
United States. To have 13 subscribers after 3 months or so has to
be viewed as a substantial success, and a possible model for
others in non-English-speaking countries.
Extracted from Can/Am EMTP News October /1996 issue
A Web (WWW) page for Japanese users of ATP was announced by Masahiro Kan of the Hamakawasaki Works of Toshiba Corp. His short public E-mail of the Fargo list server dated August 18th contained the address
http://club.infopepper.or.jp/~kanmasahiro
Advice or comments "will be
appreciated, " according to the author, whose parallel home
address for ordinary E-mail is kanmasahiro@ppp01.infopepper.or.jp
So, your Editor connected later that same day, and he was
favorably impressed. While the page obviously is designed for
those having Japanese-language software, perhaps half of the
bytes on the home page are English, and they look fine using the
English-language Mosaic on Dr. Liu*s computer at BPA. Following
several incomprehensible Japanese-language hyperlinks, there are
the following: ATP-EMTP Web Site of Can/Am EMTP Users Group..
Master ftp Archive (Manual, Utility, NewsL... ATP User's Forum -
News/Help/Information... Latest Licensing Form on aFTP Server at
MTU User's Groups and Distributors in the World The first is for
Prof. Bruce Mork*s ATP home page in Houghton, the second his aFTP
site, the third his Fargo list server, and the fifth his summary
of user groups of the world. Very nice, and useful for persons
having ATP interest in Japan. Truncated on the right of the
second line is added clarification that "ATP is not
included" in the aFTP storage.
Extracted from Can/Am EMTP News July /1996 issue
ATP via E - mail within Japan
"Free distribution of new ATP
materials by E-mail within Japan" was the subject of
history-making public E-mail of the Fargo list server dated June
19th. In this, Masahiro Kan of Toshiba Corporation in Tokyo wrote
the following: "For a long time, most Japanese ATP users
have been looking with envy at North American and European users
who are able to update their ATP disk files upon demand by E-mail
or secure FTP. Unfortunately, the average Japanese ATP user
continues to employ TPBIG.EXE that dates to January of 1994. As a
group, we have fallen behind the times. So, I as an individual
decided to contribute to improve this situation within Japan.....
If you want a copy, and if you believe your mailbox can handle a
1.6-Mbyte message, send me a request by E-mail. I then will check
Can/Am.... lists to see whether or not you are ATP-licensed. If
you are, I will forward to you by E-mail a copy of what BPA
shared with me." The ATP Web page on the campus of Michigan
Tech in Houghton was updated within 24 hours to reflect Mr. Kan's
new service. The following day, Prof. Bruce Mork wrote:
"I've added the e-mail contact info on Masahiro Kan to the
web site. Prof. Ametani is still listed as the Chair, with Kan
listed as e-mail distributor." This would be right, and
parallel to the situation for Europe. As for Chair, this is
politically-correct, non-sexist *90s-speak meaning Chairman or
Chairwoman. It is unlikely that any dictionary will show such a
meaning prior to the *60s, but it is common terminology today for
American political parties and universities. Has Chair spread to
other parts of the English-speaking world? Some 75 ATP licenses
already exist for Japan,so there is a large starting base of
potentially-interested, already-licensed users. But what about
those who are not yet licensed? Only 4 or 5-days (the time it
takes to mail a letter from Japan to Portland) is the typical
delay for licensing thanks to new procedures that use E-mail. Mr.
Kan explained how to use LICENSE.ZIP for this:
"Hard page marks define the pages. The licensing form is
pages 5 and 6, to be printed on both sides of a single sheet of
paper. This form is to be filled in and Air Mailed.... to
Portland. After reception and validation (signing by the Can/Am
user group), I will be notified promptly by E-mail. Then I should
be ready to proceed with the file transfer." Japanese as
well as English language was used to announce the new service.
Mr. Kan wrote: "The preceding English text is for the
benefit of most subscribers of the Fargo list server, who do not
read Japanese. The following translation is for Japanese
subscribers. Of course, for those not having Japanese-language
software, this will look like garbage. But for those eligible for
the new service, the following should be the preferred
alternative. In order to avoid the possible code changes during
transfer, the Japanese text was uuencoded." The encoding was
not as simple as one might think. There seem to be different
UUDECODE versions in use around the world, and not all of them
are compatible. The one used here in Portland had trouble. It
generated errors for about half the lines. E.g., the first was
"Check sum mismatch decoding line 20." Well, it is only
important that all Japanese have compatibility.
The
5th B section work shop of Japanese EMTP committee
The 5th B section work
shop of Japanese EMTP committee, was held on May28th, 1998 at the
Toshiba Chubu branch.
A workshop is divided into A (a surge, transient phenomenon), B
(electrical machinery and apparatus), and C (software), and is
held about once per year. The objective of the workshop is the
introduction and the various lectures of a simulation example
about EMTP.
The following 3 papers were introduced, and the lecture
concerning the arc model by Prof. Kizilcay was performed.
1. Higher-Harmonic Analysis of Large-scale System Using EMTP
2. Examination of Transformer Shift Voltage Model with
consideration to
Frequency Characteristic
3. Calculation of SLF Interruption Limit Using Circuit Breaker
Model
of EMTP
Japanese EMTP committee(JEC) general meeting
Japanese EMTP committee(JEC) general meeting was held on May
29th, 1998 hosted by Central Japan Railway in hotel Associa
Nagoya. Professor Ametani, the chairman of JEC introduced about
the trend of the progress explanation so far since inauguration
including overseas. In addition to the accounts report and a part
of regulations of a society -- the following subject for
discussion was deliberated.
1. There was introduction of JAUG inauguration. It was
deliberated and recognized about the role assignment with
Japanese EMTP committee and JAUG, and cooperation.JAUG performs
ATP license recognition, management, ATP software distribution,
creation and circulation of a document, spread of ATP, and
experience exchange activity.Japanese EMTP committee performs the
experience exchanging by the workshop performed from the former,
polishment, extension and electronic processing of the collection
of an exercise, , etc. about a portion common to EMTP of various
versions.
2. Since most JEC members are using ATP, as a part of maintenance
expense of the server machine of JAUG, proposal discussion of
supporting from JEC the every year of 500,000 yen financially as
a limit was carried out, and it was agreed by JEC.
3. Using E-mail for various guidance and connection was
recognized. About Web page, it is not able to use as formal
guidance and connection because some organization has restriction
to access. However, since most users were able to use it,
establishing officially the Web page and publishing information
through it was recognized. This year is a trial term and formal
employment will be carried out from next year.
4. The contract with Kyoto SCI which had commissioned to office
procedure, such as circulation of various connection and ATP
software, will be closed conventionally. The lecture about
"Frequency dependent network model" of Prof.Kizilcay
was performed as an invitation lecture.