3.390 publishing, writing, drives (106)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA)
Thu, 24 Aug 89 18:35:23 EDT


Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 390. Thursday, 24 Aug 1989.


(1) Date: Thu, 24 Aug 89 05:17:00 EDT (12 lines)
From: kl88a@electronics-and-computer-science.southampton.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Latex v dtp.

(2) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 89 21:43:09 CDT (12 lines)
From: Natalie Maynor <MAYNOR@MSSTATE>
Subject: COMPUTERS AND COMPOSITION DIGEST

(3) Date: Thu, 24 Aug 89 08:34:00 EDT (5 lines)
From: Tom Thomson <tom@prg.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: Broadcast, Narrowcast

(4) Date: Thu, 24 Aug 89 11:17:17 CDT (8 lines)
From: "Michael S. Hart" <HART@UIUCVME>
Subject: "narrowcast" etc.

(5) Date: Thu, 24 Aug 89 18:19 BST (10 lines)
From: Oxford Text Archive <ARCHIVE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK>
Subject: dtp

(6) Date: Thu, 24 Aug 89 14:54:44 EDT (18 lines)
From: john@utafll (John Baima)
Subject: Note on 3.5" drives

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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 89 05:17:00 EDT
From: kl88a@electronics-and-computer-science.southampton.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Latex v dtp.

A quick note to reply to Alan Humms' comments. A package called the
Publisher from Abbortex which runs on a Sun workstation has a double
window interface; one has a series of tags within which you write,
the other shows how the page will look. This can then be made to
output the page description as SGML. It seems quite powerful and
flexible (being able to cope with formulae etc) but I haven't really
played with it much.

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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 89 21:43:09 CDT
From: Natalie Maynor <MAYNOR@MSSTATE>
Subject: COMPUTERS AND COMPOSITION DIGEST

I was surprised to read that some subscribers to COMPOS01 (?)
were not getting the overwhelming amount of mail that I've been
getting. The (?) in my sentence above is an indication that I
can't remember the exact name of the list that I first subscribed
to. It was silent for about a year, but then a flood of mail started
-- from R0MILL01@ULKYVX. I have been inundated with it all summer --
long, long files. I think it is probably interesting mail, but the
files are so long that I haven't had time to read them.
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 89 08:34:00 EDT
From: Tom Thomson <tom@prg.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: Broadcast, Narrowcast

Perhaps it should be "multicast"?
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 89 11:17:17 CDT
From: "Michael S. Hart" <HART@UIUCVME>
Subject: "narrowcast" etc.

I think the term "closed circuit" is the term historically connected with
the manner in which Humanist is transmitted. I would tend to reserver an
item such as "narrowcast" for tightly beamed signals which one could only
intercept with proper equipment AND by being in the signal path.
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 89 18:19 BST
From: Oxford Text Archive <ARCHIVE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK>
Subject: dtp

In my experience, DTP usually stands for damnable typographic practices
(like 98 fonts in varying sizes in one paragraph)

grouchily

Lou
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 89 14:54:44 EDT
From: john@utafll (John Baima)
Subject: Note on 3.5" drives

I have been out and about some so this note is a little late. I did
want to make one more comment about installing a 3.5" drive. It is
never necessary to replace the ROM BIOS chip except for bootable
devices. If you needed to boot off of a 3.5" drive, then you would
have to worry about the ROM BIOS. Otherwise, any necessary extensions
to the BIOS can be done through software. That is the reason for
installable device drivers. That was one of the big advances in DOS
2.0. Microsoft wrote DRIVER.SYS so that it would *not* be necessary
to replace millions of ROM BIOS chips just to install 3.5" drives.

If any dealer tells you that you must change your ROM BIOS chip for a
non-bootable device, I would suggest that you find another dealer.

John Baima