6.0490 S/W: FrameMaker Reviewer; Gen'l Recommendations (2/361)

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 10 Feb 1993 05:40:40 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0490. Wednesday, 10 Feb 1993.


(1) Date: Sat, 06 Feb 93 16:53:10 EST (45 lines)
From: "Todd J. B. Blayone" <CXFW@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA>
Subject: FrameMaker Reviewer Required

(2) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 18:10:18 PST (316 lines)
From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: Software recommendations

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Date: Sat, 06 Feb 93 16:53:10 EST
From: "Todd J. B. Blayone" <CXFW@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA>
Subject: FrameMaker Reviewer Required

***** AN ELECTRONIC BULLETIN *****
from the
COMPUTER-ASSISTED RESEARCH FORUM

c/o Todd Blayone, Editor
Birks Building
McGill University
3520 University Street
Montreal, PQ - Canada - H3A 2A7

_________________________________________________________________


-- Seeking Qualified Individual to Perform FrameMaker Review --


The _Computer-Assisted Research Forum_ (_CARF_) is an
independent, reader-friendly bulletin for academics and educators in
the humanities. It is currently published three times during the
academic year at McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

_CARF_ is seeking a qualified individual to perform a review
of FrameMaker (for Macintosh and Microsoft Windows) to be
published in the Spring/Summer 1993 edition. This individual is a
humanities teacher/scholar with significant desktop publishing (dtp)
experience. Furthermore, he/she will be have access to (and be
familiar with!) both Macintosh and PC (Windows-based) systems.

Upon completion of the review, the selected individual will be
asked to retain a copy of FrameMaker (Macintosh version), and will
receive a complimentary _CARF_ subscription.

Interested parties are asked to respond via electronic mail to
cxfw@musica.mcgill.ca.


Thanks,

Todd Blayone
Editor, _CARF_

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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 93 18:10:18 PST
From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: Software recommendations

I have tried to put together the following list of software packages
as a guide to students in my course on computing & Spanish language
and literature. The guiding principle was to recommend first packages
supported by our Wokstation Support Group, then those that I know
to be in widespread use either here or elsewhere, finally those about
which I have heard Good Things from someone.

I would be very grateful for (1) additions and corrections to the
existing list (2) additions to the KINDS of software packages
listed here. Since I am basically a UNIX/DOS person, the Mac
recommendations are rather thin.

I will incorporate suggestions and send this around again in its
final form.

Charles Faulhaber
Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese
UC Berkeley
cbf@athena.berkeley.edu

**** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** **** ****

This is a list of recommended software packages for the Macintosh
and DOS environments. Packages supported at Berkeley are ranked
ahead of others. The dates at the head of some of the packages
are the dates of messages in which the recommendation was made.
Microsoft and Claris software is available from The Scholar's
Workstation to registered students and staff of UC Berkeley
at academic discounts.

Abbreviations: TSW = The Scholar's Workstation (41 University Hall)
WSG = Workstation Support Group (264 Evans Hall)



MACINTOSH

Anti-virus software: ?

Backup software: ?


Bibliographical software:

Pro-Cite with Bibliolink. UC standard to download
citations from GLADIS & MELVYL (TSW $119)

Also recommended:

4/17/91 EndNote Plus (Niles & Associates, 2000
Hearst St. suite 200, Berkeley, CA 94709.
(510) 649-8176. nilesinc@well.sf.ca.us)

Communications software:

MacKermit (available from WSG)
White Knight
Microphone II

Concordances: ?

Data Base Management:

Hypercard (TSW $80)
Foxbase+ (TSW $144)
FileMake Pro (TSW $162)

Desktop publishing: ?

Dictionaries:

Claris International Spelling Dictionaries (German, Spanish,
French) (TSW $25 each)

ALKI Software, 300 Queen Anne Ave. N. Suite 410 (206) 286-2600
$99.95 per dictionary [Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French,
German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Brazilian
Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish]

File compression (either 1-time or resident, to save
space on hard disk)

Stuff-It
Compact Pro
Autodoubler

File translation mac > pc / pc > mac

maclink plus
UUTool 2.3.2

FTP (File Transfer Protocol). To retrieve files from remote
locations:

Fetch (available from WSG)

Graphics programs: ?

Indexing packages: ?

Linguistic Analysis: ?

Mail:

Eudora. Interface to UNIX mail.
For networked machines only. Will automatically
binhex and de-binhex Macintosh files to send across
the network. (available from WSG)

Memory Manager: ?

Outline software: ?

Screensavers: ?

SGML encoder/parser: ?


Spread sheets:

Excel (TSW $113)

Statistical packages:

SPSS
Statgraphics

Text Analysis: ?

Text retrieval:

ThoughtPattern. Bananafish Software
(bananafish@applelink.apple.com)
Gofer

Text Editor: ?


Textual Criticism:

COLLATE (Peter Robinson, Oxford)

Utilities (file management, backup, calendars, calculators...): ?

Word processors:

Microsoft Word (TSW $113)
WordPerfect
6/26/90 Linguist's Software (P.O. Box 508, Edmonds,
WA 98020-0580 (206) 775-1130) (non-Roman fonts))

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

DOS

Anti-virus software: ?

Backup Software:

PCTools

Bibliographical software:

Pro-Cite with Bibliolink. UC standard to download
citations from GLADIS & MELVYL. (TSW $119)

Also recommended:

1/24/92 Papyrus (Research Software Design,
2718 SW Kelly Street, Suite, 181
Portland, OR 97201 (503) 796-1368
D5295@applelink.apple.com)
7/3/91 Library Master (Balboa Software, 61
Lorraine Dr., Willowdale, Ont. M2N
2E3, Canada. (416) 730-8980.
hahne@epas.utoronto.ca)
4/17/91 EndNote Plus (Niles & Associates, 2000
Hearst St. suite 200, Berkeley, CA
94709.
(510) 649-8176. nilesinc@well.sf.ca.us)

Communications software:

MsKermit (available from WSG)
Procomm

Concordances:

Micro OCP (Oxford University Press, Walton St., Oxford OX2
6DP, UK)

Data Base Management:

FoxPro for Windows (TSW $119)
FoxPro for DOS (TSW $119)
Filemake Pro for Windows (TSW $162)
Microsoft Access (TSE $119)
Paradox (TSW $58) (scaled down version)

Desktop publishing:

Ventura

Dictionaries:

Microsoft Bookshelf for Windows (TSW $71)

File compression (either 1-time or resident, to save
space on hard disk)

pkzip/pkunzip
Stacker

File translation mac > pc / pc > mac

maclink plus
UUencode/UUdecode
UUxfer20

FTP (File Transfer Protocol). To retrieve files from remote
locations: ?

Graphics programs: ?

MacPaint (TSW $30)
MacDraw II (TSW $78)

Indexing software:

7/10/90 NLCindex (Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton
St., Chicago, IL 60610)

7/10/90 Cindex (Indexing Research, P.O. Box 18609,
Rochester, NY 14618 (716) 461-5530)


Linguistic Analysis: ?

Mail:

NuPop. Interface for UNIX mail.
For both networked and dial-in use. Will
allow word-processing files to be sent to remote
users. (Available from WSG).

Memory Manager:

QEMM
Blue Max

Outline software: ?

Screensavers:

After Dark

SGML encoder/parser: ?


Spread sheets:

Excel for Windows (TSW $113)

Statistical packages:

SPSS
Statgraphics

Text Analysis:

TACT (U. of Toronto). There is a special version
available for texts tagged according to the system
of the Medieval Spanish Seminary (U. of Wisconsin)
Contact Ian Lancashire (ian@epas.utoronto.ca)

MTAS (U. of Toronto). Via anonymous ftp epas.utoronto.ca
in /pub/cch/mtas. "a batch MS-DOS program that does
basic frequency lists, generates distribution and
density graphs, and produces type-token
statistics for western European languages, including
Greek. It comes with modifiable help files and has
proved useful both in individual research and in the
teaching of elementary text analysis." [Ian Lancashire]

Text Editor:

Kedit
V Edit Plus
MS-DOS Editor (comes with Windows). Size of editable texts
is limited by available memory.

Textual Criticism:

UNITE (Francisco Marcos Mari'n, U. Auto'noma de Madrid))

Utilities (file management, backup, calendars, calculators...):

PCTools
Norton Utilities
Windows 3.1 (TSW $72)

Word processors:

WordPerfect
Nota Bene
Word for Windows (TSW $113)
Word for DOS (TSW $81)
Multi-Lingual Scholar (Gamma Productions, 710 Wilshire
Blvd. suite 609, Santa Monica, CA 90401). Especially
useful for non-European character sets.

cbf@athena.berkeley.edu