This is the Usenet Newsgroup note sent to announce the
latest version of LEAP, for those that missed it.
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LEAP - An Extendable Relational Algebra Processor

This note is to announce that beta-version 0.9 of LEAP
has been made available on a number of ftp sites.

LEAP is a relationally complete RDBMS. It offers a
relational algebra based command interpreter, support for
relational structures, indexing using B-trees, hashing
tables and extensive documentation. A source code level
framework for enhancement is incorporated for interested
programmers to further enhance or modify the system.

LEAP has been successfully used as a teaching aid in the
current Databases course at Oxford Brookes University,
England. Students have been encouraged to use the system
to experiment with the relational algebra, and this has
proved both successful and enjoyable for all concerned.

The executable program, which runs under MS-DOS, and its
associated documents/files, is available to all, via
anonymous ftp, in a compressed archive (leap_b09.zip) from:

micros.hensa.ac.uk       /micros/ibmpc/dos/k/k174
ftp.demon.co.uk          /pub/compsci/databases/leap

LEAP is available from the SimTel archive as well. The 
main SimTel site/directory/file is:

oak.oakland.edu          /SimTel/msdos/math/leap_b09.zip

SimTel has a large number of mirror sites around the world.
Take a look at the mirror file located in:

/Simtel/msdos/docs/mirrors.inf

More information is contained in the distribution files.

A World Wide Web page exists which contains more
information about the system. There are links to the 
ftp servers carrying the program, and
more information about the program as a whole:

http://www.brookes.ac.uk/~e0190404/leap.html

Regards,

Richard Leyton
