4.0343 Queries (5/88)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Thu, 2 Aug 90 10:02:25 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0343. Thursday, 2 Aug 1990.


(1) Date: Wed, 01 Aug 90 06:47:35 IST (29 lines)
From: Eldad Salzmann +972 3 472406 <ELDAD@TAUNIVM>
Subject: A key-stroke recording program

(2) Date: Wed, 01 Aug 90 09:04:19 EDT (11 lines)
From: "S. Thomson Moore" <STMOORE@PUCC>
Subject: laudario di cortona

(3) Date: 01 Aug 90 09:43:51 EST (14 lines)
From: James O'Donnell <JODONNEL@PENNSAS>
Subject: SIMTEL guide

(4) Date: Wed, 1 Aug 90 09:56:39 PDT (19 lines)
From: cbf@faulhaber.Berkeley.Edu (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: transcription standards for Romance languages

(5) Date: Wed, 01 Aug 90 14:38:28 +0100 (15 lines)
From: Dominik Wujastyk <ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: CMU?

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Date: Wed, 01 Aug 90 06:47:35 IST
From: Eldad Salzmann +972 3 472406 <ELDAD@TAUNIVM>
Subject: A key-stroke recording program

Colleagues,

I'm looking for a PD/shareware program which records all one's
keystrokes, thereby helping the user to recover from a power failure in
case s/he hasn't saved the data. I guess such a program would be
something every user would like to install on her/his computer. Such a
program would be especially useful for researchers who are novice
computer users (i.e., people who still haven't assimilated the habit of
pressing the SAVE key every five minutes or so...).

In Israel they sell a software package called Power-Buster, which seems
reliable to me, but I haven't tested it enough. I wish to know if
something like that (which keeps track of every key you press until you
save your file, when it starts anew) exists on a PD/shareware basis.

Recently I learned that a file called RESQ21 EXE exists on SIMTEL20,
which helps you recover from an accidental erasure of files from __the
RAM__. This means that if you inadvertantly abandon your edited file
without saving it first, you can still rescue your poor file by looking
for its traces in the RAM and collecting the pieces. Sounds interesting
enough, but I haven't tested it yet. Anybody -- any experience with the
latter program?

Eldad Salzmann
<Eldad@TAUNIVM.BITNET>
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Date: Wed, 01 Aug 90 09:04:19 EDT
From: "S. Thomson Moore" <STMOORE@PUCC>
Subject: laudario di cortona

A musical colleague is preparing a musico/theatrical performance based
on the l aude (c. 1300) from the Laudario di Cortona, and is interested
in finding infor mation on folk elements in Northern Italian
Catholicism. Is there a Humanist wh o is interested in this or related
topics, and who would be willing to serve as a source of information?
Can someone suggest printed resources? Thanks.
Tom Moore, Music Listening Library, Princeton Univ.
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Date: 01 Aug 90 09:43:51 EST
From: James O'Donnell <JODONNEL@PENNSAS>
Subject: SIMTEL guide

From: Jim O'Donnell (Penn, Classics)

I sent the command:

/PDGET PD1:<MSDOS.STARTER>SIMTEL20.INF

to LISTSERV@RPIECS and got back a file with an encouraging filename, but
on inspection it turned out to be the most entrancing collection of
punctuation marks I've ever seen. Is there some decode stage necessary
first?
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Date: Wed, 1 Aug 90 09:56:39 PDT
From: cbf@faulhaber.Berkeley.Edu (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: transcription standards for Romance languages

While we are all eagerly awaiting the draft TEI guidelines (hint, hint
Michael Sperberg), I would like to know if there are any de facto
standards for transcribing texts in the Romance languages, i.e.,
standards which have been used by large-scale projects and therefore
which have a considerable body of already encoded material.

Since my own field is Spanish I am familiar with David Mackenzie's
<emp>A Manual of Manuscript Transcription for the Dictionary of the Old
Spanish Language</emp> (4th ed. Madison, WI: Hispanic Seminary of
Medieval Studies, 1986), which has been used to transcribe ca. 75 Mb of
medieval Spanish texts.

Charles Faulhaber
UC Berkeley

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Date: Wed, 01 Aug 90 14:38:28 +0100
From: Dominik Wujastyk <ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: CMU?

With regard to the following item,

> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 90 08:21:28 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Leslie Burkholder <lb0q+@andrew.cmu.edu>
> Subject: job posting

could Leslie tell us what or where CMU is? I'm sure it is somewhere
obvious, and I'm silly not to know, but I don't.

Dominik Wujastyk