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Letter from the Editor

However I am taking advantage of this section to bring to your attention on some articles which are still Y2K-related:

• "Computing Services During the Annual CERN Shutdown": as you will see, because of the Y2K issue, a brief interruption of the Computing Services is scheduled between 29^th December and 2^nd.January.
• "VMS XPRINT Interface": VMS machines at CERN using WPRINT must be upgraded with a new version.
• "Cernlib 2000 News": 2000 release for the CERN Program Library".
• "Y2K Compliant HEPiX Shell Scripts".

We remind the users that all information regarding "Y2K efforts at CERN" is available on the Web page maintained by Sverre Jarp, the CERN Y2K coordinator, at URL:

and accessible from the CERN Home Page.

In addition I am happy to see an increasing number of contributions for this CNL, in various areas, which show that the service responsibles in IT still consider the Computing NewsLetter as a good channel to inform their users. In particular, I am pretty sure that many users will appreciate the two tutorials made in "The Learning Zone" chapter, one on the new "X11 Desktop Environments (KDE and GNOME)" and "A Guide to Web Colouring". I can only encourage now the readers to provide some feedback in return, and tell us which section they like or find useful (negative feedback is accepted as well!): this will be collected in future CNL issues in the "Letter to the Editor" part (which has been empty for some time).

At this time of the year let me finish by wishing you and your family

Nicole Crémel - CNL editor, IT/User Support

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