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From:         M.E.Bennun@CEN.EX.AC.UK
Subject:      Re: real words
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              926:24 pm

Michael Dick wrote........
>
>
> Are we going to have a paternity suit about DEPROVEMENTS. I will, as the proud
> father, contribute any DNA needed to establish fatherhood beyond a doubt.
>         In the hopes that this child will be easier to raise than my
> teenager....felicitations.
>

I hereby renounce, disclaim, repudiate, reject, discard, abandon,
deny, yield, surrender, relinquish, cede, waive, surrender, resign,
forego, forswear, shed, slough, divest, discard, quit, vacate,
forsake, annul, deny and cancel any interest or claim in the paternity
of "deprovement", which somebody attibuted to me.

Honest, guv, it wasn't me. Michael Dick done it.

 ---------------
Mervyn E. Bennun, Law Department, University of Exeter
Phone: (+44) (0) 392 263 161
Postal Address: Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4RJ, Devon, U.K.
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From:         Rip Lhamon <wlhamon@GARNET.ACNS.FSU.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Display Off
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NB3's DX and DO (display off and on) still work in NB4.  There may be
overlays that also work.
Rip Lhamon
wlhamon@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
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From:         Allan Needell <NASSH100@SIVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Running XPL programs
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From: Allan Needell

J-P,

I may be missing something. I reported earlier that I have had no problem
running any of the xpl programs stored in the nb4/xpl subdirectory from
anywhere on the disk (or even with the network drive active). I simply use the
full drive and path in the run statement on the command line. (i.e. F-9 run
C:/nb4/xpl/filename.ext). I know its a few extra key stokes, but not the
barrier that some seem to indicate exists in nb4.

Allan Needell
National Air & Space Museum
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC 20560  (BITNET: NASSH100@SIVM)
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Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 92 21:21:54 IST
From:         "J. P. Earls, OSB" <JEARLS@TINY.COMPUTING.CSBSJU.EDU>
Subject:      Re:Notebook II
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     Notebook II, v4
        Commercial, $189-330
        Pro/Tem Software, Inc.                415/323-4083
        3790 El Camino Real, Suite 389          fax 415/323-0611
        Palo Alto, CA  94306
        Add-ons:  Bibliography v4, $80; Convert, $60; nbCitation, $99
        TSR:  No
        RAM:  512K
        Availability:  Only from the publisher unless you can find a college
          bookstore that will order for you at educational discount.
          University bookstore will not order since its distributor does
          not carry the item.
        Comments:  Number of records limited only by hard disk, 64K (about
          12 pages) and up to 50 variable length, user-defined fields
          each record.  Unlike ProCite and Reference Manager, has
          full-screen editor.  Block, cut/paste as well as word wrap
          features permit editing and re-organizing of notes or
          abstracts fields.  Customizable report formats, selective
          output, works with word processor fonts, formatting
          capabilities.  Bibliographer unit will merge in numerical or
          "See Jones, Smith, et al, 1988"-type citations and
          automatically create a bibliography at the end of your
          document following "%" markers you insert into word processor
          document.  Turabian, Chicago A and B, APA, and MLA or your own
          style formatting.  Optional unit, nbCitation, provides 700
          additional formats.  Convert unit or new linkNB, which it is
          claimed will "learn" and adapt to any on-line field structure,
          provides importation of commercially-searched bibliographic
          records.
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Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 92 17:10:07 IST
From:         GLDBRGJO@NYUACF.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Dorothy Day's NBCUSTOM.SETATE1L0M1Q0V1X4&C1&D2 S7=60 S11=55
              S0=0
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Tim,

I got the same message the first time I about an unacceptable character in
line 46 the first time I tried decoding Dorothy Day's NBCUSTOM material too,
I went back and edited out the lines which were added by the e-mail system,
"press return to continue" and such like, and then all was fine.

Thank Dorothy for a wonderfully helpful tool to help us better work with
this sometimes contankerous, but wonderful program!

Felicitations to all,
Yechiel Goldberg
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Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 92 20:22:37 EST
From:         Dieter Christensen <dclists@WOOF.MUSIC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject:      decoding nbcustom.set
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I want to second Rip Lhamon's request for the moon - the decoding of
nbcustom.set lines.
	After having reset some defaults through the menu system I found
the additional changes wouldn't 'take'. For instance, changes in the number of
lines per page from the SET menu worked fine until reboot even though I
had made them the default (F2). Inspection of nbcustom.set showed that
the appropriate lines had been added to the end of the file, that they
were not contradicted by anything in previous lines, but that they did
not have had any effect on the (default) setting.
	My solution was to move the lines in question to the top of the
nbcustom.set file.
	Query: is there a limit on the length of nbcustom.set to be loaded?
	Also, are there possibly lots of useless - unused, non-functional
lines in nbcustom that perhaps only duplicate a factory default defined
elsewhere, that that therefore can be eliminated safely?
	Alternatively, is there a way to extend the memory space for
nbcustom?
	[I did not think I was memory starved, with DOS 5.0, all sorts of
things high like a buzzard, and 8 MB RAM - but perhaps I am not using
it optimally]
	IN any case, it would be nice to to share in the moon Rip requested.

Dieter Christensen
dclists@woof.music.columbia.edu
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From:         robert kelly F <rkelly3@MACH1.WLU.CA>
Subject:      Re: manuscript-linking
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I cannot answer all of Nicolai's questions re: link files, but I did learn
the hard way that cross references will only work backwards in NB 3 linked
files.  Thus, one must put the table of contents at the end (with page
numbers hard set in a delta at the beginning of the TOC).  In NB 3 I used
Itamar's virtual TOC, which is based on cross reference deltas, at the end
of linked files and it worked every time.  My guess would be (I have not
tested it yet) that NB4 manuscript files work the same way.  Cross
references to labels that the computer has already processed (and in the
current file, maybe) will work, cross references to labels that the computer
has not yet processed will produce only a space in the printout.

Which reminds me, Itamar, will the virtual TOC work on NB4?

In the glory days of NB 3, each September I printed a 15 chapter plus
bibliography (c. 300 pp.) syllabus using linked files and never had much
trouble as long as I followed the rules.  I, too, put a full set of style
deltas at the beginning of each file (chapter) and a set of empty header and
footer deltas at the end of each.  Is there any reason why NB4's manuscript
files will not work the same way?

--
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Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 92 12:11:35 GMT
From:         FP103@PHOENIX.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK
Subject:      Re: [decoding nbcustom.set]
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DIETER:
I have been told by NBI UK that notabene sometimes updates the NBCUSTOM.SET
file with the wrong syntax (in my own file this resulted in  a line reading
d ul=0) Notabene does not alert you to this error but terminates the execution
of NBCUSTOM.SET when it encounters the line with the erroneous syntax. there is
not much you can do about it except make sure you have a backed up working file
before you start changing the NBCUSTOM.SET file. As usual New York says that
this will be fixed in the January (1994 ?) update.


Sorry, I forgot to sign this message.

Frederik Pedersen, Cambridge group for the History of Population and Social
Structure
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From:         Dieter Christensen <dclists@WOOF.MUSIC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject:      NBI fax number
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Itamar ask about the NEW fax number for NBI.

I have used the OLD fax number, 212-334-0845, just two days ago, and
it seemed to be working fine, i.e. the fax seemed to go through.

I asked for a HP4 printer driver and don't really expect an answer
so soon....

Dieter Christensen
Columbia U.
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Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 92 19:38:33 CST
From:         dbowen@IASTATE.EDU
Subject:      Suspending mail
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I'm going on vacation for several days.  How do I suspend the Notabene
email without signing off the subscriber list?
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Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 92 00:01:00 EST
From:         INTENTBD@UTOROISE.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Dorothy Day's NBCUSTOM.SETATE1L0M1Q0V1X4&C1&D2 S7=60 S11=55
              S0=0
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On 22 Dec J. P. Earls sent a message suggesting that Dorothy Day act as
a clearing house for "discoveries." I was struck by a random thought (the only
kind I get) at the end of the message when J. P. wrote "Are you listening,
Dorothy?" When I was in the signal corps of the Canadian Army, on the radio
we used to ask "How do you read me?" (I think that radio hams use the same
jargon.) I find it interesting that when we were telecommunicating in auditory
mode we talked about "reading." Now here we are sending text and talking
about listening. Not a criticism. Just a random thought.

This also gave me the excuse to drop a note onto to list and so I might as
well wish all of you a MErry Christmas and the best for 1993. You are a great
bunch of people to know (even virtually.)

Brian Durell
University of Toronto
intentbd@utoroise
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Date:         Thu, 24 Dec 1992 12:50:05 CST
From:         david fowler <dfowler@UNLINFO.UNL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: BEST WISHES !!!
              92 10:44 am

>
> Dear friends,
>
> I wish you all a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR
>
> Love Stergios
>
May the length of each day be greater than that of the preceding day
for the next six months...
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Date:         Sat, 2 Jan 1993 14:48:43 SST
From:         "X.C. Jin" <ENGP2225@NUSVM.BITNET>
Subject:      ask for fractal images

I am in research work of fractal presentation of images. Now I am lack of
images (512x512x256) with known fractal dimension for testing. Could any
person provide some? It will be better if source code is given. Thanks.


========================================================================
NAME: JIN XUE CHENG        ADDRESS: DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
TEL:  65-7722145 (OFFICE)           NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
      65-7742246 (HOME)             SINGAPORE 0511
FAX:  65-7791103 (OFFICE)           REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE
E-MAIL ADDRESS            INTERNET: ENGP2225@NUSUNIX1.NUS.SG
                                    JXC@MICKEY.EE.NUS.SG
                            BITNET: ENGP2225@NUSVM.BITNET
                              TALK: PATYHH@NUSCC.NUS.SG
========================================================================
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Date:         Sat, 19 Dec 1992 14:12:37 PST
From:         Michael Freeman <mfreeman@UNIXG.UBC.CA>
Subject:      3D Quaternion fractals for MSDOS

I have just uploaded the MSDOS archived file  quatf.lzh to
    directory:  /pub
    site:  ftp.wustl.edu
where it should be available via ftp.

Since this location is probably volatile, I'd appreciate hearing of a stable ftp
site.  The file is about 220K.

It is a set of programs based on the book "Fractal Programming and Ray Tracing
 with C++" by Stevens.  It enables you to produce .PCX pictures of 3D sections
of Quaternion Julia and Mandelbrot sets (these are 4D) up to 1024 X 768 with
256 colors.

Sorry, I'm unable to transfer this by means other than ftp.
                               - Mike Freeman -
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Date:         Thu, 24 Dec 1992 10:44:10 +0200
From:         Stergios Tziahanas <stergios@ESTIA.NRCPS.ARIADNE-T.GR>
Subject:      BEST WISHES !!!

Dear friends,

I wish you all a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR

Love Stergios
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Date:         Thu, 24 Dec 1992 14:12:55 CST
From:         Charles Evans <cee1@RA.MSSTATE.EDU>
Subject:      Re: BEST WISHES !!!
              24, 92 12:50 pm

      Charles E. Evans | This nation is in decay because we are more
   cee1@ra.msstate.edu |  concerned with RIGHTS and LAWS instead of
cevans@abe.msstate.edu |             RIGHTS and WRONGS.
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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 09:05:50 CST
From:         david fowler <dfowler@UNLINFO.UNL.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Contact Information++
              "C1876%UMSLVMA.bitnet@KSUVM.KSU.EDU" at Dec 17, 92 11:30 pm

To the caller requesting "contact information." I believe a recent
posting by Terry Koyne From: C1876%UMSLVMA.bitnet@KSUVM.KSU.EDU
suggests that he has some contact information he would share.

This seems to be a recurring theme: how to get in touch with someone
[I think that's what the post is asking for]. Maybe there should be
some FAQ for handling these requests.

In fact, how do you get to FAQ?
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Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:03:49 -0500
From:         Jim Gerland - Network Consultant <GERLAND@UBVMS.BITNET>
Subject:      mailedit.com

I developed a mailedit.com file that:

   1.  Prompts you as to whether you'd like chevrons ('>') added to
       the front of each line of the original message when you REPLY
       /EXTRACT or FORWARD /EXTRACT a piece of mail.
   2.  Places you into the TPU editor (easily changed to your favorite
       editor).
   3.  Prompts you as to whether you would like your outgoing mail spell
       checked (easily modified for your favorite spell checker).
   4.  Prompt you as to whether you'd like to add you signature file
       to the outgoing mail message (uses sys$login:.signature - easily
       modified).

This is not totally an original work.  I admit to picking up the basics
of it on the net and added some features.

Well, I wrote an article for our newsletter, Interface, about it and a
number of schools around the country have asked me to send them a copy.

So, instead of answering each of your requests or mailing it out to this
list (perhaps a waste of network bandwidth), I've made it available from
the following sources:

   a)  LISTSERV
       To retrieve a copy, send e-mail to either listserv@ubvm.bitnet or
       listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu and in the body of the mail message,
       not the Subject: line, put the following command:

       get mailedit com vms

       To see what else is out there, send the command: index vms
       and LISTSERV will send you back a file called VMS FILELIST.

   b)  VMSSERV
       To retrieve a copy, send e-mail to either vmsserv@ubvms.bitnet or
       vmsserv@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu and in the body of the mail message,
       not the Subject: line, put the following command:

       get mailedit.com

       To see what else is out there, send the command: index vms
       and VMSSERV will send you back a file called VMS.FILELIST.

   c)  Anonymous FTP
       On ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu in the VMS directory.
       On ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu in the [.VMSSERV.VAX.MAILEDIT] directory.

If you have a 'neat' utility you think others may benefit from and
would like to make it available, feel free to send it to me and I'll
make it available.  If we have enough, we might even consider making an
EDUSIG tape for the DECUS Tape Library Program.  Any ideas about this
should be sent to Alan Sutter, alan@fandm.bitnet, the EDUSIG Library
Representative.


Jim Gerland  - Consultant, Network User Support         University at Buffalo
Academic Services, Computing & Information Technology   Buffalo, NY 14260
716.645.3557 Work                                       716.645.3734 FAX
gerland@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu                            gerland@ubvms.bitnet
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From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
Subject: Re: Salvage Prog. Needed.
Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 05:28:55 GMT

In article <I-AMIGA%92122523320297@RUTVM1.RUTGERS.EDU> Slayer from hell <IQM109@URIACC.URI.EDU> writes:
>hey i'm still looking for some pornographic ftp's or anything for the amiga!!!!
>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>                       SLAYER FROM HELL

       They do not exist anywhere ! Here in the US, the 'backbone' is paid
for using tax dollars. So therefore, no such pictures will ever be
available. Never, never, never. If you are over 21, whats stopping you
from subscribing to any of several magazines ? { Rhetorical question }

-- 
         Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM 
             jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu  Disclaimer: Standard.
                   Video. Cher: Love and Understanding.
             'Rush Limbaugh is the 'Chia Pet' of TV shows !'
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Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:29:00 EDT
From:         "The Large Guy with Buckwheat's Hair." <LANDAS88@SNYPOTVA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Amiga ads ( Babylon V )

Date sent: 30-DEC-1992

><Maybe we'll see some ads in the middle of Babylon V or Star Trek Dep
><Space 9 since the Amiga is used heavily in the production of both these<
><shows (VERY heavily in Babylon V).  An ad pointing out that the Amiga
><was used to do the graphics and animations would be pretty good.  DS9 is
><syndicated while Babylon V will be on a major network (either ABC or NBC
><I think).
>
><Have to make sure I watch the credits for those shows.
><--
><_________
><Dan Roman  GEnie: D.ROMAN1  Internet: roman@tix.timeplex.com  //
><Ascom Timeplex (NJ)  Homebrew is better brew!  Only AMIGA!  \X/
>
>Speaking of Babylon V....
>
>I thought it was supposed to air end of Nov..?
>Did it air? If so, when and on what network?
>If it hasn't, when will it? Questions,questions.....Does any one know of
>its status?
>
>Ed :-{
>JAKOBERE@UWSTOUT.EDU

The air date has been moved as previsously posted, but I still see ads for it
so it hasn't been canceled.  Yet anyways. :>

-Nyle

__________________________________________________________________________
|  Nyle F. Landas      |   LANDAS88@SNYPOTVA      |   SPOTVB::LANDAS88   |
|________________________________________________________________________|
|  C= Amiga creative power.  If the A4000 drops to $2200 let me know.    |
|________________________________________________________________________|
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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 23:49:41 -0700
From:         Stephen Vermeulen <SVermeulen@RAGNAROK.CUC.AB.CA>
Subject:      Re: BTNTape, tar, reading sun tar format tapes.

:  Does anyone know how to setup BTNTape on a Amiga to read and write tapes
:  to a exabyte tape drive in tar format,  I have tar on the amiga and
:  I can read and write tapes written using tar on the amiga.
:  But if I write tapes on a sun using tar I cannot read them on the amiga.
:
:  Thanks in advance.
:Darren Carpenter.
:

I've been doing this for a while, this is the mount list entry I use
when reading (or creating) a UNIX TAR tape...

EXB:      Handler = L:btn-handler
           Priority = 5
           Mount = 1
           Stacksize = 4000
           GlobVec = -1
           StartUp = "gvpscsi.device/UN-4/BS-10240/NB-1/BT-0/VB-1"
#

Note that my Exabyte is an 8200 made for IBM to use in their PS/2
servers, for some wierd reason (must be internal dip switch settings)
it only wants to work if I use it in variable block mode (the VB-1
setting), although this does not seem to cause any problems in
data exchange.

Regards,
    ----------------------------------------------------------------
    Stephen Vermeulen                  svermeulen@ragnarok.cuc.ab.ca
    1206-3500 Varsity Dr. N.W.      uunet.uu.net!ragnarok!svermeulen
    Calgary, Alta. Canada                      Voice: (403) 282-7990
    BIX: svermeulen            VBBS: (403) 284-2048 + (403) 284-5625
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Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1992 09:41:46 UCR
From:         ISERRANO@UCRVM2.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Amibase Pro II problem

Hi,

Have you tried ASSIGN diskname:path?  Maybe the program expects itself to be
inside diskname: ...

Mario Serrano.  ISERRANO@UCRVM2.BITNET  COSTA RICA   CENTRAL AMERICA
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Date:         Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:04:00 PST
From:         "26637::BRZWICKY" <BRZWICKY%26637.decnet@CONSRT.ROCKWELL.COM>
Subject:      AmiDos ate my hard drive!

Awright, I just lost faith in AmigaDOS.  I was running PKAZIP, which
proceeded to lock up while writing to the hard drive.  On rebooting,
I found a bad block on my disk.  It looks for all the world like the
hardware stopped writing the block in the MIDDLE of the write!  This
happened twice, with the second time destroying the block header.  This
apparantly points to an error on Commodore's part for allowing whatever
it was that's destroying the FORMAT of the disk, rather than just the
data. (snarl, snarl)

Obviously I'm going to delete that program, once my hard disk is back
in order, but in the mean time, the disk-validator won't, diskdoctor
just moves the error, and FixDisk refuses to see the problem even when
I tell it which block is bad.

Is there any way to fix it?  How can anyone be expected to take Amiga
seriously if it requires a backup and reformat every few weeks?

(In spite of the ranting, there is a genuine plea
 for help in there.  Somewhere.)

|\      / Bill Zwicky                       / I multitask!
|<      / Insight Industries, Inc.          / So does my Amiga!
|/itman / BRZWICKY%26637.decnet@consrt.rockwell.com
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