4.0046 Notes and Queries (81)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 14 May 90 17:55:34 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0046. Monday, 14 May 1990.


(1) Date: Mon, 14 May 90 12:12:23 EDT (12 lines)
From: Geoff Rockwell <rockwell@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Subject: MaxSpitbol

(2) Date: Fri, 11 May 90 17:11:47 EDT (27 lines)
From: "Paul N. Banks" <pbanks@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu>
Subject: Various

(3) Date: 14 May 1990, 07:28:03 EDT (11 lines)
From: FLANNAGA at OUACCVMB
Subject: e-mail makes the NY Times

(4) Date: Fri, 11 May 90 16:20:31 PDT (31 lines)
From: Oliver Berghof <oberghof@next.acs.uci.edu>
Subject: re: macros for editing

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Date: Mon, 14 May 90 12:12:23 EDT
From: Geoff Rockwell <rockwell@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Subject: MaxSpitbol

Can anyone provide an address for the distributors/publishers of
MaxSPITBOL?

Thanks in advance

Geoffrey Rockwell
rockwell@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca
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Date: Fri, 11 May 90 17:11:47 EDT
From: "Paul N. Banks" <pbanks@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu>
Subject: Various

... [eds]

I will be spending much of the summer in Paris, and am trying to
determine if it is possible to keep in e-mail contact with my account at
Columbia University (including possibly receiving Humanist if that
doesn't represent too large a load) while I am there. I can dial
directly into the Columbia computer system with a modem (which I could
if necessary purchase for my laptop), but that obviously gets expensive
and I worry about various compatibilities). Is there any way to (e.g.)
get a guest account for a reasonable fee at some institution in Paris
from which I could log on to (ultimately) the Internet? I don't
remember having seen postings of a similar character, but I imagine that
this issue must arise for other Humanists.
Thanks for any tips you can provide. Paul N. Banks

=====
Thanks for your assistance.

Paul N. Banks | Conservation Education Programs
Research Scholar | School of Library Service
pbanks@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu | 516 Butler Library
212 854-4445 | Columbia University
212 865-1304 | New York NY 10027
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Date: 14 May 1990, 07:28:03 EDT
From: FLANNAGA at OUACCVMB
Subject: e-mail makes the NY Times

The Sunday, June 13, Times carried a cover story about the increasing
use of electronic mail, discussing the medium partly in terms of a
lonely hearts club where two University of Maryland programmers met and
fell in love but also discussing the emergence of corporate e-mail at
such places as Microsoft and Bell Labs, with voice and television mail
in the near future. The Internet was mentioned, along with Compuserve,
but not BITNET. Anyone want to write the Times a letter? Roy Flannagan
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Date: Fri, 11 May 90 16:20:31 PDT
From: Oliver Berghof <oberghof@next.acs.uci.edu>
Subject: re: macros for editing

A friend of mine came up with the idea of using (wordprocessor) macros
to teach students in English Composition classes revision techniques.
Involved would be the retrieval of an initial, "faulty" version of a
text, quotation etc. , and the step - by - step revision, on-screen, of
this document, triggered by only a few keystrokes, for which the student
would be prompted.

He is certainly not the first one to have come up with this idea. As
only few of us enjoy re-inventing the wheel he would be very grateful if
HUMANISTs who have worked on a similar project could get in touch. Of
course recommendations as to wordprocessing packages that are especially
suited for this task would be very helpful. Ideally, the
macro-capability should extend to the possibility of slowing down the
on-screen demonstration, and to the option of calling upon several other
files during one demonstration.

Suggestions are needed for both the IBM and the Apple- world.

Many thanks in advance,

Oliver Berghof
Department of English and Comparative Literature
University of California, Irvine

oberghof@next.acs.uci.edu
OR
mschwab@orion.oac.uci.edu