Document Code : MNQS-0008 ------------------------- README File For Monsanto NQS ---------------------------- 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 ------------------ 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 ----------------------- 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 ---------------------- 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 join NQS-Developers join NQS-Support stop Or mail me. Stuart --