3.1234 queries (95)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Thu, 29 Mar 90 22:09:46 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1234. Thursday, 29 Mar 1990.


(1) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 90 15:50:55 CST (11 lines)
From: GA0708@SIUCVMB
Subject: Skipping generations

(2) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 90 23:31 EST (23 lines)
From: LAPLANTE@UMTLVR.BITNET
Subject: Basic tools on a mainframe

(3) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 90 07:39:00 EST (11 lines)
From: DEL2@phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk
Subject: Query (again!)

(4) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 90 14:48 EST (20 lines)
From: Michel LENOBLE <LENOBLEM@UMTLVR.BITNET>
Subject: Hebrew or Indian early concordances.

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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 90 15:50:55 CST
From: GA0708@SIUCVMB
Subject: Skipping generations

I am trying to gather information about myths, stories, etc.
that involve skipping generations. For example, a curse, a blessing,
an attribute that is passed on but skips a generation. While I'm
asking, can anyone tell me anything about such a phenomenon in
genetics (scientific or folk)? Isn't male baldness such an instance?
Any leads would be appreciated.
Herb Donow
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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 90 23:31 EST
From: LAPLANTE@UMTLVR.BITNET
Subject: Basic tools on a mainframe

For reasons that it would be too long to expose, I will soon be in the
quite incomfortable position of giving advice on the purchase of compilers
and software to be implemented on a Unix based mainframe for future use,
by other people, for large text data base management, content analysis
and possibly artificial intelligence even though I am totally ignorant
in those matters.

Could someone give me some advice or reference in order to be able
to suggest decent choices? For what I can understand, the idea would
be to offer some basic and general tools in those areas.

Any help would be appreciated.

Benoit Laplante
Departement de sociologie
Universite de Montreal
LAPLANTE@CC.Umontreal.CA
LAPLANTE@UMTLVR.BITNET

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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 90 07:39:00 EST
From: DEL2@phoenix.cambridge.ac.uk
Subject: Query (again!)

May I repeat an earlier request on behalf of a colleague, since
I received no response last time (must be *very* obscure!) He's
looking for a poem which he thinks might be called something like
"The Toy Lion", which ends with the line "a wooden Christ upon a
wooden cross". Thanks, Douglas de Lacey <DEL2@PHX.CAM.AC.UK>


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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 90 14:48 EST
From: Michel LENOBLE <LENOBLEM@UMTLVR.BITNET>
Subject: Hebrew or Indian early concordances.


As I am trying to trace the earliest concordances and
indexes ever published or compiled, I was wondering whether
any Humanist had information concerning the Indian and Hebrew
traditions which might have yielded such intellectual research
tools as those just mentioned. Is the use of concordance quite
frequent in these traditions and what is the date of the earliest
concordance compiled? Based on which text(s)? In the western tradition
the first one mentioned in several scholarly articles is dating back
to 1239.
Thanks in advance.

Michel Lenoble
Litterature Comparee
Universite de Montreal
E-mail: lenoblem@cc.umontreal.ca