3.1326 Replies: Book-buying, word-cruncher, e-mail, terms (66)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Fri, 27 Apr 90 17:17:57 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1326. Friday, 27 Apr 1990.
(1) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 90 11:52:41 CDT (20 lines)
From: "Michael S. Hart" <HART@UIUCVMD>
Subject: Re: 3.1316 Book-Buying [eds.]
(2) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 90 10:17:20 MDT (25 lines)
From: koontz@alpha.bldr.nist.gov (John E. Koontz)
Subject: Word Cruncher
(3) Date: 26 Apr 90 23:08:00 EST (12 lines)
From: "HALPORN,JAMES,CLAS" <halpornj@ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: LONG ADDRESSES
(4) Date: Thu, 26 Apr 90 20:48:26 EST (11 lines)
From: Boyd Davis <FEN00BHD@UNCCVM>
Subject: Re: 3.1317 ...On Scientific Terminology [eds.]
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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 90 11:52:41 CDT
From: "Michael S. Hart" <HART@UIUCVMD>
Subject: Re: 3.1316 Book-Buying (2); Joanna Russ; Bolinger Query (44)
I am aware of a BBS which sponsors electronic book buying for members of
the University of Illinois PC User Group, as well as for general public.
The books are all guaranteed, since you do not have the pleasure to look
them over before purchase.
The number is 1-(217)-352-7323.
Please let me know how this works out for you.
Thank you for your interest,
Michael S. Hart, Director, Project Gutenberg
National Clearinghouse for Machine Readable Texts
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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 90 10:17:20 MDT
From: koontz@alpha.bldr.nist.gov (John E. Koontz)
Subject: Word Cruncher
Word Cruncher, which I understand was formerly known as the BYU
Concordance Program, consists of two tools: IndexETC and ViewETC. The
latter is available separately, in conjunction with e-texts that the
company markets separately. Together they cost c. $300. I have seen
the product listed at discount, and I believe that there is also an
academic discount. There is a $5.00 demo disk.
The company is Electronic Text Corporation (ETC), 5600 North Unviersity
Ave., Provo, UT 84604, 801-226-0616.
In my personal opinion Word Cruncher is a very nice product. They even
provide a nice subsystem for defining sorting order. The main defect
with Word Cruncher is that it is able to markup text only
hierarchically. There is no facility for distinguishing different kinds
of information at a given level. This makes it impossible to handle
texts glossed in a language different from the primary language, and
also precludes some other types of concordances. I also think that the
documentation is not well organized. However, it is in the popular Word
Perfect format, and many users may prefer that. It is certainly good
for reference while using the package, once you understand it.
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Date: 26 Apr 90 23:08:00 EST
From: "HALPORN,JAMES,CLAS" <halpornj@ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: LONG ADDRESSES
I support the individual who asked that addresses on e-mail be kept
brief. But I must note that Willard requested this months ago, and
that this situation is now prevalent on many e-mail groups.
Perhaps we need to have the editors' views.
JWH
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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 90 20:48:26 EST
From: Boyd Davis <FEN00BHD@UNCCVM>
Subject: Re: 3.1317 Reports: On Play and On Scientific Terminology (147)
On terminology: the 1982 text, Terminologies for the Eighties (Infoterm
Series 7) includes a ten-year retrospective on Infoterm. International
groups concerned with terminology are listed in 2nd edn, Introduction
...Terminologie (Rondeau) and a good introduction to the topic, in
English, is by JC Sager, who also ed., with Rondeau, Termia 84,
proceedings from an international conference on terminology. Interrante
and Heymann edited STP 806 in 1983: Standardization of Technical
Terminology, from a 1982 symposium sponsored by ASTM, held in Toronto.