The article presents a list of plants mentioned in Ramayana one of the two great epics of this country which has been compiled and the probable equivalent botanical names have been fixed. This study will be useful to the botanists, palaeo - botanists, ethonobotanists, foresters, naturalists and environmentalists as well.

VisualDCT [1] is an EPICS configuration tool completely written in Java and therefore supported in various systems. It was developed to provide features missing in existing configuration tools as Capfast [2] and GDCT [3]. Visually VisualDCT resembles GDCT records can be created, moved and linked, fields and links can be easily modified. But VisualDCT offers more: using groups, records can be gr...

Originally EPICS input/output controllers (IOCs) were only supported on VME-based systems running the vxWorks operating system. Now IOCs are supported on many systems: vxWorks, RTEMS, Solaris, HPUX, Linux, WIN32, and Darwin. A challenge is to provide operatingsystem-independent device and driver support. This paper presents some techniques for providing such support.