5.0392 The HUMBUL Humanities Bulletin Board (1/69)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Thu, 17 Oct 1991 21:10:31 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0392. Thursday, 17 Oct 1991.
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 91 9:58 BST
From: STUART@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK
Subject: The Humanities Bulletin Board (HUMBUL)
Dear All,
The majority of you are probably well aware of the existence of HUMBUL
(The HUManities BULletin Board), which used to reside at Leicester
University, but has recently moved to Oxford University Computing
Services. For those of you, however, who are not familiar with the
service I am releasing the following introductory paragraphs, plus
details of the new logging on procedures.
HUMBUL is a long-running service aimed at providing academics and
interested parties with news and information on Humanities Computing.
The service is an on-line bulletin board, subdivided into numerous
sections, for which subscription is free. Information is collected from
all the applicable electronic networks, plus periodicals, leaflets, and
also direct requests to the editor.
Interaction with the board itself is fairly easy and new users should
read about HUMBUL under section A. To facilitate using some of the
longer sections there is a Search facility inherent in the program.
Users can send mail directly to the editor via the command MAIL or ask
for specific sections to be sent to them via POST. At regular intervals
Section S (the Stop Press) will be forwarded on to all users to remind
them of the most recent additions.
Should you require any further help then please contact me as indicated
in the section below,
Stuart Lee
HUMBUL Editor
CTI Centre for Textual Studies and the Office for Humanities Communication,
Oxford University Computing Services
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HOW TO ACCESS HUMBUL
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THE HUMBUL NETWORK ADDRESS...................... page 2
DIAL-UP LINE (PSTN) ............................ page 3
TELEPHONE ...................................... page 3
TERMINAL ACCESS TO HUMBUL FROM OUTSIDE JANET ... page 4
HOW TO DOWNLOAD HUMBUL FILES ................... page 6
LISTSERV DISTRIBUTION LIST ..................... page 8
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8. Comments, queries or problems
If you have any comments or problems please send them to
PEB@MAIL.RL.AC.UK or STUART@VAX.OX.AC.UK (BITNET/EARN users),
PEB@UK.AC.RL.MAIL or STUART@UK.AC.OX.VAX (JANET users).
I hope that you find using HUMBUL interesting and informative.
Stuart Lee, HUMBUL editor
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[A complete version of this HUMBUL ACCESS is now available through the
fileserver, s.v. HUMBUL ACCESS. You may obtain a copy by issuing
the command -- GET filename filetype HUMANIST -- either interactively or
as a batch-job, addressed to ListServ@Brownvm. Thus on a VM/CMS system,
you say interactively: TELL LISTSERV AT BROWNVM GET filename filetype
HUMANIST; if you are not on a VM/CMS system, send mail to
ListServ@Brownvm with the GET command as the first and only line. For
more details see the "Guide to Humanist". Problems should be reported
to David Sitman, A79@TAUNIVM, after you have consulted the Guide and
tried all appropriate alternatives.]