On Mon, 21 Jul 2014, Tim Jenness wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 1:50 AM, Malcolm J. Currie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>             There are still a number of SUNs that I've seen mentioned but for
>             which I
>             lack sufficient bibliographic information to support an entry. For
>             example
>             SUN/2 being a MAG document and SUN/53 originally being an ASPIC
>             document
> 
> 
> MAG is not the kind of package that would be mentioned in research papers.
> 
> 
> No. Full text search at ADS only lists it once and that is for NDG.
> 
>  
>       SUN/2 as MAG is cited in SG/6.
> 
> 
> SUN/2 was just an example. It's not important for this initial submission. We can take a
> stab at a year based on the earliest mention but an author would also be good.
> 
>
>       SUN/53 sounds too late to be an ASPIC document.  It might be another typo,
>       misreading a two as a five.
> 
> 
> From SUN/23:
> 
> "This paper is a major revision of SUN/23.9 and also incorporates the material
> 
> in the old SUN/53 which is now withdrawn."
> 
> 
> The highest SUN I have seen re-used is SUN/84 from 1985 which was the original ASTERIX SUN
> by Jim Peden. Since ASPIC SUN/23 was updated in 1991 it's entirely plausible that 100 SUNs
> were re-used. There was a tendency for new SUNs to be re-issued by collecting other
> documents or reformatting them from runoff and then stripping the original author off the
> resulting document. I've tried to maximally include authors where possible. SUN/9 is an
> example where it clearly went through multiple versions each with a different author
> listed. Given ADS aren't tracking a specific instance of a SUN it made sense to add every
> name.
> 
> [I'm not including TPAU SUN/129 as XDisplay reused it and that seems reasonable as it was
> part of TPAU]
> 
> My list of sightings of re-used SUNs that lack author or date information is based on
> references from other documents we do have:
> 
> 2||---|MAG

Seems SUN/2 started life as "the GEROFF text processing system" in 1981, 
MDL was the author.

SUN/53 I don't see mentioned anywhere.

> 11||---|GKS 6.2
> 12||---|GKS something
> 13||---|GKS/HIGR - DRPLOT Graphs and histograms
> 14||---|GKS/HIGR - CONTOUR Contour drawing
> 15|Pearce, Dave; Pavelin, Cliff|198x|Something to do with INTERIM, referenced from SUN/4
> 16||---|GKS/HIGR - HIST3D 3D Histograms
> 20||---|VLBI -- Very Long Baseline Interferometry reduction package
> 27||---|Seems to be an NDPROGS document
> 29||---|Interrogating tape catalogues from CDS
> 33||---|SGS Graphics Library
> 
> I can't add entries for these at ADS but maybe something will turn up when you look in a
> filing cabinet.
> 
> I haven't heard any complaints from the current data file that I'm planning to submit.

Didn't spot any issues...

Peter.