HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: tomas@u30005.rsv.svskt.se (Tomas Ruden)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: ANSI/ISO standard for labeling tapes
Date: 12 Aug 92 12:13:51 GMT
Organization: Swedish Tax Administration


Hi!

Is there anyone who has the description for the ANSI/ISO standard for
tape-labels.  I would be grateful if someone could mail it to me.  It
is mainly the part describing the volume-label I'm interested in.

-- 
Tomas Ruden, tomas@rsv.svskt.se     !  Han talte med b|nder p} fortrans vis,
Opinions expressed above are my own !  med l{rde han talte prolog.
and are not necessarily shared by   !
the Swedish Tax Administration      !  For a nice date: call strftime(3C)
From: stryker@pencom.com
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Wanted : More chest hair
Date: 19 Aug 92 15:19:51 GMT
Reply-To: stryker@pencom.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: Pencom Software


Mine's too splotchy.
From: philg@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Philip Greenspun)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: mailing list for blind people wanted
Date: 12 Aug 92 21:10:11 GMT
Reply-To: philg@martigny.ai.mit.edu
Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab.


Does anyone know of a mailing list specifically for blind people
and/or engineers developing technology for the blind?

Thanks alot,

Philip Greenspun
MIT Department of Electrical Engineering
From: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: LINT FOR FORTRAN
Date: 14 Aug 92 22:48:57 GMT
Reply-To: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Department of Computer Science
NNTP-Posting-Host: cupid.cs.utk.edu

In article <1992Aug14.025229.6105@den.mmc.com>, kummer@possum.den.mmc.com (Jim Kummer) writes:
|> Any information offered regarding the following would be most 
|> appreciated:
|> 1.  Does a version of the UNIX utility 'lint' exist for processing 
|> FORTRAN (no flames, please) code?

I've seen a commercial version and a public domain one.
Here's a cutout from the man pages of ftnchek, the 
free product. (Heartily recommended by me; I use it a lot.)
Apparently it is available from netlib.

     Ftnchek was designed by Dr.   Robert  Moniot,  professor  at
     Fordham  University,  College at Lincoln Center.  During the
     academic year of 1988-1989, Michael Myers and Lucia  Spagnu-
     olo  developed  the  program  to  perform the variable usage
     checks.  During the following year it was augmented by  Lois
     Bigbie  to  check  subprogram  arguments  and  COMMON  block
     declarations.  Brian Downing assisted with  the  implementa-
     tion  of the INCLUDE statement.  Additional features will be
     added as time permits.
	[...]
     For further information, you may contact Dr.  Robert  Moniot
     at either of the following network addresses:

             MONIOT@FORDMULC.BITNET
             moniot@mary.fordham.edu

     This document is named ftnchek.man.  The Ftnchek program can
     be obtained by sending the message send ftnchek from fortran
     to the Internet  address:  netlib@ornl.gov  .   Installation
     requires a C compiler for your computer.

|> 3.  Is there a better newsgroup to post this inquiry?

Comp.lang.fortran?

|> -- Regards ----- Jim Kummer ----- Martin Marietta Corporation --

Victor.
From: john@engr.latech.edu (John Orr)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: 167 error in IBM PS/2 Mod 70
Date: 16 Aug 92 23:12:35 GMT
Organization: Louisiana Tech University

Anyone ever heard of a 167 error or have any idea what it is??

Let me know if you do either by post here or direct E-Mail. Thanks.


John Orr   ---->> 	orr@engr.latech.edu
From: olsen@eecs.nwu.edu (Jeff S. Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: tiff, eps, mw-word for mac formats?
Date: 20 Aug 92 14:08:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: eecs.1992Aug20.140815.1272
Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University

Where can I get documentation on  TIFF, eps, and MS-Word for Mac file formats?
Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: kummer@possum.den.mmc.com (Jim Kummer)
Subject: LINT FOR FORTRAN
Organization: Martin Marietta Astronautics Group, Denver
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 02:52:29 GMT

Any information offered regarding the following would be most 
appreciated:
1.  Does a version of the UNIX utility 'lint' exist for processing 
FORTRAN (no flames, please) code?
2.  Where can I get it?
3.  Is there a better newsgroup to post this inquiry?


-- 
 
-- Regards ----- Jim Kummer ----- Martin Marietta Corporation --
----- kummer@pogo.den.mmc.com --- Astronautics Group ----------- 
(standard disclaimer applies) => "I speak for nobody but me"
From: nbc2543@dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil ( Jeffrey A Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,dod.test
Subject: thank you
Keywords: thank you
Date: 17 Aug 92 19:09:44 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center, Columbus

email

  Jeff Erickson       email - nbc2543@dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil
  DITSO-CO-B       --------------------------------------------
                  | Hobbes:"How come we play war and not peace"|
                  | Calvin:"Too few role models in peace."     | 
                  ----------------------------------------------
Disclaimer: The preceding comments are mine and in no way refelect the opinion
or policy of the U.S. Government, Military or any other Government agency.
They're controversial enough by themselves with out my help.  ;-)
From: camurphy@acsu.buffalo.edu (Cindy)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: thank you, got nixpub
Keywords: access, help, no more mail thanks
Date: 17 Aug 92 05:04:22 GMT
Organization: UB

sorry to waste bandwidth or whatnot:  i asked for help
finding out about not losing access to the internet,
and several people have sent me the nixpub file....thank
you very much, and i can't handle any more mail to
my account at this time so consider me rescued.  :)
same goes for no mail to the address of my friend,
who i'd mentioned as a contact for when my account
goes down.

again, thank you very much for helping a clueless
user in distress...

Cindy Murphy  camurphy@acsu.buffalo.edu
Xref: sparky comp.misc:3281 comp.periphs.printers:2434
From: osycs@giac1.oscs.montana.edu (Craig Spannring)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Calcomp COLORHCBS anyone?
Date: 18 Aug 92 02:31:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: coe.1992Aug18.023145.24442
Followup-To: comp.misc
Organization: Geographic Information & Analysis Center Montana State University

I need to know the specifications of the Calcomp colorhcbs format.  Can
somebody provide any info?

-- 
====================================================================
 Six of one, 110 (base 2) of       | Craig Spannring
 another.                          | osycs@giac1.oscs.montana.edu
 ----------------------------------+--------------------------------
From: nipun@skorpio.usask.ca (Nipun Basil)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Program in Network Management
Date: 12 Aug 92 22:46:23 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

I am interested in taking up a Master's program in Computer Networks Management.
I am basically looking towards a syllabi that has courses on networks, distributed
systems, design and maintenance of networks and their management. Is there any
University in the U.S that offers such a program? I would appreciate relevant
addresses and other sources of information.

Thanks in advance.

Nipun
nipun@skorpio.usask.ca
From: faubert@mdavcr.mda.ca (David M. Faubert)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: What is Occam's Razor
Date: 20 Aug 92 16:37:28 GMT
Organization: MacDonald Dettwiler, 13800 Commerce Parkway, Richmond, BC, Canada  V6V 2J3

In article <16s1ibINN1uj@early-bird.think.com> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>
>Occam's Razor is the rule that the simplest theory that accurately explains
>all the facts is the one that should be accepted.  For instance, when
>explaining the apparent motion of the planets in the night sky, there were
>two competing theories: Earth-centered and Sun-centered.  The latter was
>accepted because its elliptical orbits are much simpler than the former's
>complex arrangement of epicycles.
>-- 
>Barry Margolin
>System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
>
Not to mention that the latter theory actually worked. The sun-centered system
was accepted beacause the Ptolemaic system of epicycles never could quite 
explain retrograde motion. Copernicus realized that retrograde motion was
natural to a sun-centered system, and once Kepler added elliptical orbits there 
was no competetion between the two world views. 

Later,

Dave





Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: chrism@col.hp.com (Chris Magnuson)
Subject: BOOKS FOR SALE!!
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 16:54:24 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division


   What follows is a list of more books for sale.  Terms are the same as before,
shipping is $4 additional, books are hardcover (unless noted), etc.  Best
offer, etc.

   Topics include electronics, DSP (digital signal processing), software
engineering, computer languages and data structures, and realtime
programming.

Chris Magnuson
chrism@col.hp.com
Software Engineer
Hewlett-Packard


*************************
Digital Signal Processing
*************************

  Theory and Application of Digital Signal Processing, Rabiner and Gold, ISBN
0-13-914101-4, 762 pages, $20.


******************
Software/Languages
******************

  A Book on C, Kelley and Pohl, ISBN 0-8053-6860-4, 362 pages, $8 (softcover).
  "Good beginning-intermediate C programming text."

  Compiler Design in C, Holub, ISBN 0-13-155045-4, 924 pages, $30.
  "Good implementation book on compiler writing and theory."

  Data Structures Using Pascal, Tenenbaum and Augenstein, Second Edition, 
ISBN 0-13-196668-5, 774 pages, $20.
  "The most used book on dta structures at the university level."

  Structured Design, Yourdon and Constantine, ISBN 0-13-854421-9, 473 pages,
$15.
  "The classic software design text."

  An Implementation Guide to Real-Time Programming, Ripps, ISBN 0-13-451873-X,
262 pages, $15.
  "Just like it says...implementation-oriented realtime book."

  Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach, Second Edition, Pressman,
   ISBN 0-07-050783-X, 567 pages, $13.
  "I hate to part with this one...McCabe/Halstead/metrics, data flow and
   design...just about everything you can think of including object-oriented
   design."

***********
Electronics
***********

  Circuit Theory Fundamentals and Applications, Budak, ISBN 0-13-133975-3,
590 pages, $10.
  "The best book there is for learning circuit theory from."

  Illustrated Encyclopedic Dictionary of Electronics, Douglas-Young, ISBN
0-13-450791-6, 606 pages, $10.
  " Good reference."

  Basic Electronics, Grob, Third Edition, ISBN 07-024917-2, 763 pages, $5.
  "Has a variety of topics, including tubes!"

  Electronic Devices and Circuits: Discrete and Integrated, Ghausi, ISBN
0-03-062481-9, 808 pages, $10.
  "Hot book on designing electronic circuits, from diodes through
   op-amps."

  Micro-Electronic Circuits, Sedra and Smith, ISBN 0-03-056729-7, 927 pages,
$15.
  "Another hot book...diodes, op-amps, FETs, transistors, etc."
  
  Analog-Digital Conversion Handbook, Third Edition, Sheingold, Ed., ISBN
  0-13-032848-0, 670+ pages, $10.
  "Want to know how analog-digital and digital-analog conversion works?"

  Microprocessor Architecture, Programming, and Applications, Gaonkar,
ISBN 0675-201594-05, 655+ pages, $10.
  "Designing with microprocessors is very 90's-ish."

  Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits , Second Edition, Gray
   and Meyer, ISBN 0-471-87493-0, 771 pages, $15.
  "Transistors, diff amps, op-amp stages, FETs..."
From: dbell@cup.portal.com (David J Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: help! need public access system/internet
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 12:00:37 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: na

Cindy Murphy asks, as have many others:

>help!  i'm about to lose internet access when i graduate
>from SUNY buffalo.  i need any information about public
>access systems, for-pay accounts or free if there is
>such a thing - not local BBS's, but actual internet
>e-mail priveleges and so forth.  i know there's one in

For everyone's benefit - check out the files relating
to   nixpub list  recently posted to usenet/comp/misc.

This compilation comes out roughly monthly, and covers the
US, if not Canada, also. It contains information on many
systems exactly like you have asked for.

The following excerpt shows where the list is archived, and
the compiler's attribution:

===========================================================================
The nixpub listings are kept as current as possible.  However, you use this
data at your own risk and cost -- all standard disclaimers apply!!!
Any additions, deletions, or corrections should be sent to phil@BTS.COM.
------
      Lists are available via any of the following:
            o  anonymous uucp from jabber.
                    +1 215 348 9727 [Telebit access]
                    login: nuucp  NO PWD   [no rmail permitted]
                this list: /usr/spool/uucppublic/nixpub
               short list: /usr/spool/uucppublic/nixpub.short
            o  "*NIX Depot" BBS on jabber.
            o  USENET, regular posts to:
                    comp.misc
                    alt.bbs
            o  the nixpub electronic mailing list.
                    to be included or deleted from this distribution,
                    send mail to nixpub-list-request@BTS.COM.
	    o  anonymous ftp from GVL.Unisys.COM [128.126.220.104]
                    under ~/pub/nixpub/{long,short}
            o  archive server from cs.widener.edu.
	            mail to archive-server@cs.widener.edu
	            Subject: or body of
		            send nixpub long
	             or
		            send nixpub short
	             or
		            send nixpub long short
	             or even
		            index nixpub
===========================================================================
Phil Eschallier                                 Bux Technical Services
 Inet: phil@bts.com                             P.O. Box 110
 UUCP: ...!{dsinc|gvls1|widener}!jabber!phil    Doylestown, PA  18901
                                                +1 215 348 9721

===========================================================================

Got it?  Have fun!

Dave
dbell@cup.portal.com
From: mauricio@beethoven.aero.ufl.EDU (Mauricio Tavares)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: ZX SPectrum stuff wanted!
Keywords: Sinclair ZX SPectrum 48k
Date: 21 Aug 92 22:40:57 GMT
Reply-To: mauricio@beethoven.aero.ufl.EDU (Mauricio Tavares)

In article <1992Aug21.001100.6560@mits.mdata.fi>, count@mits.mdata.fi (Bror Heinola) writes:
|> Hello fellow Sinclair fans! (Are there any?)
|> 
|> 	I re-acquired myself a Spectrum a while ago and I'd like to get 
|> 	some stuff for it, like books about Spectrum, misc. hardware, 
|> 	circuit diagrams, programs, magazines etc. 
|> 
|> 	So, if you happen to own some, or you know someone who has and 
|> 	is willing to give them away, sell or trade, I'd be delighted to 
|> 	hear from you.
|> 
|> 	I'm mainly interested in hardware, b/c I used to have a Spectrum
|> 	with extra memory and faster clock but I can't remember anymore
|> 	how it was done... 
|> 
|> 	Replies to address below, please.
|> -- 
|> Bror 'Count' Heinola	# Count in IRC		# 
|> Mannerheimintie 47 B 25	# count@mits.mdata.fi	# "I've got a bad feeling
|> 00250  HELSINKI		# count@fline.pp.fi	# about this."
|> Tel: +358-0-477-2662	# Colombo in MUDs	# 

	Me too!
Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: count@mits.mdata.fi (Bror Heinola)
Subject: ZX SPectrum stuff wanted!
Keywords: Sinclair ZX SPectrum 48k
Organization: ImproVision Entertainment UnLtd.
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 00:11:00 GMT

Hello fellow Sinclair fans! (Are there any?)

	I re-acquired myself a Spectrum a while ago and I'd like to get 
	some stuff for it, like books about Spectrum, misc. hardware, 
	circuit diagrams, programs, magazines etc. 

	So, if you happen to own some, or you know someone who has and 
	is willing to give them away, sell or trade, I'd be delighted to 
	hear from you.

	I'm mainly interested in hardware, b/c I used to have a Spectrum
	with extra memory and faster clock but I can't remember anymore
	how it was done... 

	Replies to address below, please.
-- 
Bror 'Count' Heinola	# Count in IRC		# 
Mannerheimintie 47 B 25	# count@mits.mdata.fi	# "I've got a bad feeling
00250  HELSINKI		# count@fline.pp.fi	# about this."
Tel: +358-0-477-2662	# Colombo in MUDs	#
From: gonzalod@amex-trs.com (Gonzalo Diethelm)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Generic sorting functions
Date: 21 Aug 92 21:51:31 GMT



Distribution: world

Hello everyone,

A very generic question. Given a set S of n strings (the `|' characters
are used as delimiters):

  s1   |dunno|
  s2   |I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy|
  s3   |eschew clever rules|
  ... ...
  sn   |bzzzzt!|

and an ordering sequence O:

  {s4, s1, s6, s2, sn, s3, ... s7}

is there any way to determine a fixed, hopefully cheap function

  f(): SxS -> integers

with the property that

  if si comes before sj in O, f(si, sj) < 0
  if si comes after  sj in O, f(si, sj) > 0

that is, could be used to sort the strings in the given sequence?
For example, if the desired sequence happens to be the alphabetical
descending ordering of the strings, f() could just be

  f = -1 * strcmp(si, sj);

My intuiton tells me this is possible, but I don't really know how
to approach the problem. Any help is welcome. Please send answers
and flames via e-mail. Thanks in advance and kindest regards.

gonzalod@amexphx.amex-trs.com
Gonzalo A. Diethelm                 (602)375-8410  home
16220 N 7th St Ap 1314              (602)492-3536  office
Phoenix, AZ 85022                   (602)492-4248  FAX
Newsgroups: comp.misc,alt.personals
From: root@ontinpo.altai.su (Nefedov Igor)
Subject: Who knows the E-mail address of MicroProse Software, Inc., or "The Humble Guys!" from Nashville, USA? Sorry... (All is here).
Reply-To: root@ontinpo.altai.su
Organization:  -  
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 15:38:33 +0700
From: bcc@lanai.Eyring.COM (Brian Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: What is Occam's Razor
Date: 21 Aug 92 16:20:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: fcom.1992Aug21.162058.17682
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center

In article <1992Aug21.140215.6154@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> crpresto@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Charlie Preston) writes:
>I've been waiting for someone to post the story about Mr Occam (don't have my
>reference handy and forgot his first name) and his razor.
>
>The way I remember the story is:
>Occam was an enlisted man in the Union army during the Civil War and was in
>charge of supply.  There were shortages of blankets, uniforms, boots, etc.  At
>night when the soldiers were sleeping he used his straight razor to cut the
>throats of some soldiers (in the same camp) to acquire more blankets, boots,
>etc.
>
>Chas

Gak!  I would like to know how THAT one got started!  Anyway, I DO have a
reference handy (New York Public Library Desk Reference) and it says:

Ockham's razor  A principle attributed to the fourteenth-century English
philosopher William of Ockham.  It states that entities should not be
multiplied beyond necessity, or that one should choose the simplest 
explanation, the one requiring the fewest assumptions and principles.

I wonder how "Mr. Occam" would feel about the multiplication of entities
concerning his principle.

Followups directed to alt.folklore.urban

-- 
Brian Cooper	bcc@Eyring.COM
Eyring Corp.	+1 801-375-2434 or 1 800 YES PDOS
From: m0102@tnc.UUCP (FRANK NEY)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Optical Scanner Needed (Borrow)
Date: 12 Aug 92 12:50:11 GMT
Reply-To: m0102@tnc.UUCP (FRANK NEY)
Distribution: dc,va,md
Organization: The Next Challenge, Fairfax, Va.


I have a slight problem.  A large amount of documentation that was
supposed to be on computer disks is not.  The only record I have of it
is a printout.

Rather than typing in over 100 pages of data, I'd *really* like to
find an optical scanner with OCR that I could use/borrow/even rent for
a day.

Any information would be appreciated.

Frank Ney
-- 
The Next Challenge - Public Access Unix in Northern Va. - Washington D.C.
703-803-0391 To log in for trial and account info.
Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov ( Scott Dorsey)
Subject: Re: What is Occam's Razor
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 00:51:35 GMT

It's sort of a double-edged sword.
--scott
From: davidc@montagar.com (David L. Cathey)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Does anyone buy used magtapes?
Date: 13 Aug 92 11:07:30 GMT
Followup-To: comp.misc
Organization: Montagar Software Concepts, Plano TX

In article <1992Aug12.205732.1120@terminator.cc.umich.edu>, baw@terminator.cc.umich.edu (Brian Wolfe) writes:
> 
> Does anyone know if there are any  companies that would be interested in
> buying used Magtapes? I have about 1500 or so tapes that I need to unload
> and I'd rather not throw them away. I tried calling a few of the DEC
> used equipment dealers but I couldn't find any takers.

	I wounldn't think so, since the margin per unit is so low (they are
so cheap to buy new, used aren't a big advantage).  I would take them to the
local DECUS user group and offer them there.  Probably won't get any money
for them, but they will have happy homes!

> Brian Wolfe                    
> Associate Director             			Internet: bwolfe@rad.rpslmc.edu
> Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine	Voice:    (312)-942-5781 
> Rush Medical Center, Chicago, IL USA		FAX:      (312)-942-2114  
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
David L. Cathey		                |INET: davidc@montagar.com
Montagar Software Concepts              |UUCP: ...!montagar!davidc
P. O. Box 260772, Plano TX  75026-0772  |Fone: (214)-618-2117
Newsgroups: comp.misc
From: dkwan@shade.UWaterloo.ca (Derek Kwan)
Subject: **WANTED!!** Undelete application for Unix/NeXT
Reply-To: dkwan@zeus.UWaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 19:30:18 GMT

I'm looking for any application can do UNDELETE on Unix/NeXT on a hard  
drive... Because my network operator just deleted my stuff!!  :-(
				Derek
-----
Internet Reply: dkwan@zeus.UWaterloo.ca
-----
From: judson@watnxt2.ucr.edu (Michael Judson)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: What is Occam's Razor
Date: 18 Aug 92 20:09:24 GMT



--
"I drank what?" -- Socrates

judson@watserv.ucr.edu
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
Subject: Re: SPECmarks and Multiprocessor Machines
Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 17:27:35 GMT

It should be pointed out that many of the original SPEC suite programs,
those floating point intensive things, were numeric codes which were
vectorizable (a form of parallelism).  That's not a clear cut advantage,
I know of some disadvantages, but you should be aware that parallelism
was inherent in the suite long before now.  The trick is in understanding
what parallelism can AND CAN'T do for you.

Go look for those non-linearities.

--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
  Resident Cynic, Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers
  {uunet,mailrus,other gateways}!ames!eugene
Second Favorite email message: Returned mail: Cannot send message for 3 days
A Ref: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, vol. 1, G. Polya
Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks