6.0546 Rs: Bible; SLIP; OED online; ARTFL Sources; News (5/107)

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 22 Feb 1993 11:14:37 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0546. Monday, 22 Feb 1993.


(1) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 12:43 EST (22 lines)
From: "Peter Graham, Rutgers U., (908) 932-2741"
<GRAHAM@ZODIAC.BITNET>
Subject: Re "connecting" to Internet and SLIP

(2) Date: 19 Feb 93 22:01:15 EST (24 lines)
From: Malcolm.Brown@Dartmouth.EDU (Malcolm Brown)
Subject: OED on the Internet

(3) Date: Sat,20 Feb 93 12:08:12 GMT (16 lines)
From: K.C.Cameron@exeter.ac.uk
Subject: Re: 6.0540 French Women Writers 1500--> (1/44)

(4) Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1993 21:07:39 -0500 (23 lines)
From: harryfox@epas.utoronto.ca (Harry Fox)
Subject: Re: 6.0541 Qs: Bible

(5) Date: Sun, 21 Feb 93 15:56:09 -0800 (22 lines)
From: ruben@garnet.berkeley.edu (Ruben Zelwer)
Subject: Re: UNIX newsgroups

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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 12:43 EST
From: "Peter Graham, Rutgers U., (908) 932-2741" <GRAHAM@ZODIAC.BITNET>
Subject: Re "connecting" to Internet and SLIP


From: Peter Graham, Rutgers University Libraries

Recently a discussion centered on what it really meant to be "connected" to
the Internet. I referred to the SLIP (serial link Internet protocol) as a
possible means for a dial-up connection; following is some text from the
Mac Gopher client software which uses the terminology to talk about a specific
possibility; it may help some readers grasp the relationships involved:

>"GopherApp is now SLIP-aware. It will work properly over a telephone/modem
connection to a Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP) server, if you have
proper SLIP software to use with MacTCP. This includes Versaterm's SLIP
link (by Lonnie Abelbeck, sold thru Synergy Software), MacSLIP and perhaps
others later. I find that GopherApp is useable even at 2400 baud, though I
don't recommend that slow a speed for browsing lengthy documents. See the
Gopher Prefs dialog to set a long TCP timeout for SLIP."<

--pg
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Date: 19 Feb 93 22:01:15 EST
From: Malcolm.Brown@Dartmouth.EDU (Malcolm Brown)
Subject: OED on the Internet

In response to Phyllis Wright's question -- is the OED on the Internet -- the
answer is yes and no, depending on how you look at it.

You can license a version that comes on tapes from Oxford University Press
(the text source is a mere 580 megabytes in size), you can license PAT to
search it, and you can make it available at your site over the network. I
believe several universities have done so, and both Dartmouth and Stanford
have developed Mac-based front ends for this kind of arrangement. In this
respect, the OED is on the network.

Network access, however, is restricted to one's site. Not only does the OU
Press require this limitation, Open Text Systems (makers of PAT) does as
well. We recently discovered that Open Text considers it a violation of the
network license to use PAT to deliver text retrieval services to points
beyond one's site.


Malcolm Brown
Dartmouth
mbb@dartmouth.edu
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Date: Sat,20 Feb 93 12:08:12 GMT
From: K.C.Cameron@exeter.ac.uk
Subject: Re: 6.0540 French Women Writers 1500--> (1/44)

In response to Mark Olsen's recent
request for information about
French Women Writers, 1500-1980,
it may be of general interest to know about the
Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature,
edited by Claire Buck, Bloomsbury Publishing
Co, London, 1992. This publication has
general essays on French women writers in
the first section and then detailed bio/bibliographies
in the second.
Keith Cameron
University of Exeter, UK.
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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1993 21:07:39 -0500
From: harryfox@epas.utoronto.ca (Harry Fox)
Subject: Re: 6.0541 Qs: Bible; S/W; Lists; PC-Kimmo; Mac tools (6/95)


The playwrite who refers to the destruction of Gibeonites at Nob has
good bases. Rashi's commentary to The Babylonian Talmud Berachot 12b says
that is so-- however, they were not the Priests of Nob but the
attendants of them-- the hewers of wood and the drawers of water.
David had to deliver 7 descendants of Saul to the Gibeonites to atone
for Saul's infringement of Joshua's oath since he had 7 of them killed.

Rashi: It was said to David at the end of his life when there was a
famine for 3 years and David enquired of the Lord to know its cause--
and he was informed that God had told Saul and the house of blood --
"for you killed the Gibeonites." He had killed the Priests who had
nourished the Gibeonites since Joshua had made them the hewers of
wood and drawers of water for the altar....

The interpretation is based on 2 Sam 21 vs 6-9.

Herb Basser (harryfox@epas.utoronto.ca)

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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 93 15:56:09 -0800
From: ruben@garnet.berkeley.edu (Ruben Zelwer)
Subject: Re: UNIX newsgroups

Charles,

Re:
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I'm looking for newsgroups dealing with Latin America, and
I know that lots of them exist (e.g., for Peru, Chile, Colombia,
etc.), but I don't find them when I access NEWS through rn.

Is there something I'm missing?
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They are all in the soc.culture groups. There is
soc.culture.latin-america and others for some specific
countries. Try

% rn -q soc.culture

--Ruben