7.0362 Rs: Mac Fonts; Transferring Files; Wired (5/83)

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 21 Dec 1993 16:15:27 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0362. Tuesday, 21 Dec 1993.


(1) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 93 2:04:40 EST (11 lines)
From: Heyward Ehrlich <ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Re: 7.0345 Qs: Mac Fonts

(2) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1993 17:33:51 -0500 (EST) (9 lines)
From: Michael Metzger <MLLMIKEM@UBVMS.BITNET>
Subject: large file transfers

(3) Date: Sun, 19 Dec 93 18:45:24 CST (21 lines)
From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: file transfer

(4) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1993 13:30:21 +0000 (GMT) (10 lines)
From: "Dr D.A. Postles" <pot@leicester.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 7.0356 Rs: Transferring Files (3/70)

(5) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1993 00:31:19 -0600 (32 lines)
From: danf_cm@wugcrc.wustl.edu
Subject: WIRED: a little too much speed...

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Date: Sat, 18 Dec 93 2:04:40 EST
From: Heyward Ehrlich <ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Re: 7.0345 Qs: Mac Fonts

John Rager asks about Egyptian hieroglyphic fonts for the Macintosh.

Ogden Goelet (goelet@acfcluster.nyu.edu) has an article on an MS Windows
program, Glyph, which mentions the Mac without details: "Computer Advances
in Egyptology..." in Academic Computing at NYU, Nov 93.

Heyward (ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu)
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Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1993 17:33:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Michael Metzger <MLLMIKEM@UBVMS.BITNET>
Subject: large file transfers

In response to Jim O'Donnell's Q: LapLink is the best bet; it comes with both
serial and parallel cables and you just connect the two machines at the proper
ports and, if instructed accordingly, the software will transfer all drives
with full contents fairly quickly, although 200MB might take a while, but, I
would think, well under an hour. Good luck, Michael Metzger
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Date: Sun, 19 Dec 93 18:45:24 CST
From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: file transfer

An answer to Jim O'Donnell's question as to how to transfer the contents of
one computer to another. The best method is through the use of a so!called
null!modem device attached to the parallel ports of the two computers. You
can buy a null!modem device and the (telephone type) cables needed from Radio
Shack, and there are shareware programs for transfer. It is probably best
(and certainly easiest) to buy one of the programs which come with cables,
such as LapLink (Traveling Software), The Brooklyn Bridge (Fifth Generation
Systems), or FastLynx (Rupp Corp.). Everybody seems to prefer LapLink.
There is a good book on all this, which even contains the pinouts for making
your own null!modem cable (lots of fun!): Bill Howard, PC Magazine Guide to
Notebook and Laptop Computers (Berkeley: Ziff Davis, 1991).
I just bought a new ThinkPad with a 250 meg hard disk which I stacked to
500, and I transferred the contents of my office machine to it in a short
period of time. I think that such managers as PC-Tools also have file
transfer programs. The point is to use the parallel and not the serial port
(slow, slow!).
Jim Marchand.
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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1993 13:30:21 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Dr D.A. Postles" <pot@leicester.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 7.0356 Rs: Transferring Files (3/70)

I invested in Laplink too, but when I upgraded to DOS 6, I thought that I
noticed that there was a file transfer facility in that too, similar to
Laplink. I haven't actually checked this out, and I suspect that, if there is
one, it may not be as fast as Laplink.
David Postles.

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Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1993 00:31:19 -0600
From: danf_cm@wugcrc.wustl.edu
Subject: WIRED: a little too much speed...

>is accompanied by the quote: "When a thing is current, it creates currency."
>I just bought my second issue and found it as visually striking and
>well written as the first. I wish textbooks exhibited equal measures
>of careful art work, illustrations and thought-provoking material. It
>has explained something to me: the world in the twilight of the
>enlightenment will be one in which education will no longer be the
>authoritative transmission of structures for understanding experience, but
>insight into how to construct "utterly personal experiences" (a very>

Whatever WIRED is, and I do read it occasionally (but I prefer to be
wired, if you know what I mean), but i don't consider it to be very skillful
at communication.
WIRED is hip. It is in-group subgroup grab-our-ball-and-run-and-the-rest
-of-you-try-to-follow-along-as-best-you-can.
It's layout, graphics and design are NOT, whatever they may claim, an
effective way to impart much of anything but someone who is trying to put
as many widgets, dingbats, font styles and gimmicks into the magazine as he/she
can.
Type fonts are abysmally tiny, the overlaid colored bars and underlying
pictures are distracting and sometimes, simply impossible to read. The first
issue it was sort of fun. After that, it got wearying and now i can't bear
to sturggle through one.
We have been through this before. Check out magazines and books published
from 1967 to 1973 or so. Wired, though it does publish some good writing on
occasion, is going to look just as dated as those old hippie rags do now.
Not a flame, just a plea for some legibility and thought behind magazine
style instead of 'why-not-the-kitchen-sink-too?'.
Dan f