6.0004 Rs: String, Word Cruncher, Texts on CD-ROM, etc. (5/78)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Sun, 10 May 1992 23:46:42 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0004. Sunday, 10 May 1992.


(1) Date: Tue, 5 May 1992 8:35:28 -0400 (EDT) (10 lines)
From: J_CERNY@UNHH.UNH.EDU
Subject: where "string" origin is NOT explained

(2) Date: Wed, 6 May 92 12:54:35 BST (20 lines)
From: "J.J.Higgins - Education" <J.Higgins@bristol.ac.uk>
Subject: Wordcruncher

(3) Date: Wed, 6 May 1992 15:29 EST (14 lines)
From: Michael Metzger <MLLMIKEM@UBVMS.BITNET>
Subject: E-TEXTS ON CD-ROM

(4) Date: Wed, 6 May 1992 21:51 EDT (14 lines)
From: MILLARD@zodiac.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: 5.0884 Rs: Conversion S/W

(5) Date: Wed, 6 May 1992 21:38-0700 (20 lines)
From: Bill Jarrold <billj@SURYA.cyc-west.mcc.com>
Subject: Re: Hist and Phil of Science grad programs

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Date: Tue, 5 May 1992 8:35:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: J_CERNY@UNHH.UNH.EDU
Subject: where "string" origin is NOT explained

Here is another place to eliminate in the search for the origin of "string"
in computing languages and applications: I had high hopes it would be
discussed in the marvelous Hacker's Jargon Dictionary edited by Eric
Raymond et al., but it is not in version 2.9.9.
-- Jim Cerny, Computing and Information Services, Univ. N.H.
j_cerny@unhh.unh.edu
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Date: Wed, 6 May 92 12:54:35 BST
From: "J.J.Higgins - Education" <J.Higgins@bristol.ac.uk>
Subject: Wordcruncher

Since HUMANIST periodically carries requests for information about the
availability of Wordcruncher, I am passing on the address of the current
distributors which was mailed to me last month:

Johnston and Company
P O Box 446
American Fork
Utah 84003
(801) 756-1111 (voice)
(801) 756-0242 (fax)

I was sent a very complicated price list, showing among other things $395
normal price for the whole package or $299 special educational price, and
various prices for the text collections.

John Higgins, University of Bristol.
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Date: Wed, 6 May 1992 15:29 EST
From: Michael Metzger <MLLMIKEM@UBVMS.BITNET>
Subject: E-TEXTS ON CD-ROM

In response to the query on literary texts on CD-Rom: the catalog of DAK
Industries, a mail order house, 8200 Remmet Ave., Canoga Park CA 91304
1-800-888-6703 (for info) offers something called "The Library of the Future"
as part of a big bundle of CDs they're marketing with a CD-ROM deck. It
includes, Heaven help us, the "entire collection of Monarch Notes on CD-ROM"
2,401 articles on more than 200 authors -- hot times on the plagiarism front!
The Library of the Future offers "the complete unabridged text of 453 novels,
stories, plays & historical documents ... from the world's greatest writers and
thinkers." Good luck! Michael Metzger - Univ at Buffalo
(MLLMIKEM@UBVMS.CC.BUFFALO.EDU)
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Date: Wed, 6 May 1992 21:51 EDT
From: MILLARD@zodiac.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: 5.0884 Rs: Conversion S/W

Had occasion to use Word for Word last week to move something from Word-
Perfect 5.1 to Xywrite III+ in a hurry, under a scary legal deadline.
It worked, but it has some curious ideas about how to convert special
functions like re-zeroing the page numbers in mid-document, and it made
total hash of margins and tabs. I had to adjust a lot of things manually
within Xywrite before I had anything printable. For whatever this is
worth, I'd recommend WfW but advise against expecting smooth sailing.

Bill Millard
millard@zodiac.rutgers.edu
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Date: Wed, 6 May 1992 21:38-0700
From: Bill Jarrold <billj@SURYA.cyc-west.mcc.com>
Subject: Re: Hist and Phil of Science grad programs

History of science? If you'd like to be studying where Newton used to, try:

Dr Peter Lipton
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Free School Lane
Cambridge CB2 3RH
England

Also I believe Univ of Pennsylvania has a History and Philosophy of
Science dept. Harvard does as well. And Thomas Kuhn lives just down
the road at MIT.

Yours,

Bill Jarrold
CYC Project