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 Resources:SoftwareAdd/Update

 

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Add new

 

 

 

Clicking the '' button submits the data entered into the formular and generates a new dataset entry in the database (even if there already exists a dataset with the same name, category, etc.).

 

 

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Availability

 

 

 

Availability of the system (commercial, freeware, shareware, etc).

 

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Category

 

 

 

(not yet available)

 

 

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Description

 

 

 

Description of the software. This text has no length restrictions and can contain html code.

 

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Contact person(s)

 

 

 

Select one or more contact persons for the software from the displayed list. To add yourself or a co-worker to this list of persons, go to the persons-page and select the add-button there.
To select more than one person from the list, select the first entry like usual, then hold down the ctrl-key (ths may vary of operating systems and languages, see below) and select the other contact persons by doing a (left-) mouse-button click on their entry in the list.
As this "multiple selection" varies over different operating systems, languages, and hardware configurations, you should refer to your operating system´s manual for "mulitple selections" or "multiple selection in list-boxes" in case the described procedure does not work.

You can try out selecting in the example on the righthand side!

 

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FTP

 

 

 

Internet (ftp) address of the software. For non-ftp access see "www".

Please provide the corresponding protocol-prefix ´ftp://´ when specifying the address.

 

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Last update

 

 

 

The date of the last update is automatically computed, and does not have to be provided by the user.

 

 

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Name (abbrev)

 

 

 

Abbrevation of the software's name.

 

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Name (full)

 

 

 

Your software's full name.

 

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Platforms

 

 

 

Platforms the software is running on (e.g. Windows95/98/NT, Linux, Solaris, ...) or respectively the language the source code is written in (Java, Ansi-C, ...)

 

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Related group(s)

 

 

 

Select the group(s) that is(are) responsible for the software from the displayed list. A short description on how to select more than one entry in a list box is given under the help message for "contact person" above.

You can try out selecting in the example on the righthand side!

 

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Reset

 

 

 

Clicking the '' button clears all fields in the form.

 

 

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Send confirmation e-mail to:

 

 

 

To verify the validity of your addition or update, you have to provide an e-mail address to which a short confirmation mail is send. A copy of this is also mailed to the MLnet OiS administrator in order to be able to check the contribution.

 

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Update

 

 

 

Clicking the '' button submits the data entered into the form and updates the existing entry of the software.

 

 

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WWW

 

 

 

Internet (http) address of the software. For ftp-access see "ftp".

Please provide the corresponding protocol-prefix ´http://´, ´gopher://´, ´mailto:´ when specifying the address.

 

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