6.0200 Qs: E-Texts; CD-ROM; Mandarin; Z-Modem; Hypertext (6/90)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 17 Aug 1992 21:26:23 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0200. Monday, 17 Aug 1992.


(1) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 00:19:54 EDT (17 lines)
From: lessard@francais.QueensU.CA (Greg Lessard)
Subject: Request for sample texts

(2) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 21:38:57 -0700 (19 lines)
From: bmyers@garnet.berkeley.edu (Brian Myers)
Subject: Publishing on CD-ROM

(3) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:15:16 PDT (9 lines)
From: cb@xis.xerox.com (Christopher Bader)
Subject: cd-rom corpora

(4) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:53 EDT (21 lines)
From: HH9503%ALBNYVMS.bitnet@UACSC2.ALBANY.EDU
Subject: Mandarin: a Lemon?

(5) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 20:00:41 MDT (9 lines)
From: John Morris <JMORRIS@UALTAVM>
Subject: Q: ZMODEM on VM?

(6) Date: 14 Aug 92 21:01 GMT (15 lines)
From: A.MM@AppleLink.Apple.COM (Austria - Multimedia, F Brody,IVC)
Subject: Hypertext Conf in Milan ??

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 00:19:54 EDT
From: lessard@francais.QueensU.CA (Greg Lessard)
Subject: Request for sample texts

I am forwarding this at the request of one of our research assistants.
As he says, any help would be appreciated. Message follows:

I am currently working on a project at Queen's University in Canada
that requires me to gather several bodies of text in various languages
(e.g. Latin, English, Greek, Spanish, French, Italian, German,
Russian) and in a variety of markup schemes (COCOA, SGML, etc.).
These pieces of text would be used in an undergraduate course in
Computing in the Humanities. Could anyone prepared to give me such a
sample (of about 1000 lines or so in length) kindly e-mail it to
parkes@qucis.queensu.ca?

Thanks.
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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 21:38:57 -0700
From: bmyers@garnet.berkeley.edu (Brian Myers)
Subject: Publishing on CD-ROM

What publishers deal with academic material on CD-ROM?

I am involved in a database project for which CD-ROM would be a very
appropriate medium. I am writing to UMI because they do the DAI on
CD-ROM, and when I discover the address of the HW Wilson Company's
WilsonLine division, which I believe handles the MLA bibliography on
CD-ROM, I will write to them as well.

What other publishers might be interested in CD-ROM material for an
academic audience?

Any help appreciated.

Brian Myers
bmyers@garnet.berkeley.edu
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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:15:16 PDT
From: cb@xis.xerox.com (Christopher Bader)
Subject: cd-rom corpora

Is there a reasonably complete list of machine-readable corpora
that are available on CD-ROM? An example would be the Thesaurus
Linguae Graecae.
-- Christopher Bader

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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:53 EDT
From: HH9503%ALBNYVMS.bitnet@UACSC2.ALBANY.EDU
Subject: Mandarin: a Lemon?

This may NOT be the place to ask, but I'm not getting ANY response from
elsewhere, and I like this list as much for the techy topics as for
the more heady exchanges, so here goes:

Does anyone know enough about, to have an opinion on, "Mandarin," the
library software package offered by a Canadian concern that (confusingly)
goes by several names, including Media-Flex and Bibliofiche?

It's intended for comparatively small libraries and the very small special
library with which I now work as a GA has just signed a site license purchase
agreement. But we is hav'n doubts. ANY informed opinions about this program
or its marketers would be appreciated. Thanks to any who can respond. Reply
either personally or via the net.

PAX,
Hugh Holden
HH9503@ALBNYVM
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Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 20:00:41 MDT
From: John Morris <JMORRIS@UALTAVM>
Subject: Q: ZMODEM on VM?

Does anyone know of an implementation of the ZMODEM file transfer protocol
for a VM system on an IBM 7171 mainframe?

John Morris, <JMORRIS@UALTAVM>
University of Alberta <jmorris@vm.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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Date: 14 Aug 92 21:01 GMT
From: A.MM@AppleLink.Apple.COM (Austria - Multimedia, F Brody,IVC)
Subject: Hypertext Conf in Milan ??


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EDITORS@BROWNVM.brown.edu

I lost the information on the Hypertext Conference in Milan Nov 30 - Dec 4 -
could anyone give that to me? - name - address etc.

thx
Florian Brody
a.mm@applelink.apple.com