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From: nicolett@carson.u.washington.edu (Nicolette Roberge)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Re: Heirloom-Sewing
Date: 8 Jan 1993 15:58:58 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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Birgit: 

Can you, do you get SewNews there?  I saw a book advertised in the
advertisements about French Handsewing.  Of course, I don't recall the
exact title, but I think it was called something like classic Southern
fine stitching.  This type of sewing was also very popular in the southern
US around the turn of the century.  

I'll look all this up and post a bib sometime next week ( I hope). 

Nicolette
From: clematis <clematis@u.washington.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Re: 1993 projects:  Mine and Yours
Date: 6 Jan 1993 17:29:42 GMT
Organization: UW
Distribution: world
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X-XXDate: Wed, 6 Jan 93 09:34:41 GMT

Re: 1993 projects:  Mine and Yours
Well! Reading everybody's articles about 1993 projects has given me the
kick in the butt I needed to start planning some clothes for ME! I
finished all of my Xmas and New Year's presents, and now I'm ready for
some new clothes. 
I just lost 75 pounds in a short amount of time, and I really don't have
much to wear. All of my knee-length skirts are calf-length, and the 2
skirts I bought are too short for my slips! Not to mention that all of my
leggings are drooping down to the middle of my  thighs, crotch-wise.
Reading the article from the sewer who's smocking herself some flannel
nightgowns made a light bulb go off over my head (admittedly, a dim
one...) and I thought, "Hey, I deserve nightgowns! I DON'T have to wear
sweats and a t-shirt to bed anymore!" Duh. I deserved them when I weighed
240 pounds, but oh well. 
Fabricland is having a sale on kids' flannels, so I think I'll find some
disgustingly cute pattern to appall my husband with.
So, size twelve skirts, slip-hemming, new leggings and nightgowns are my
winter projects!
Re: 1993 projects:  Mine and Yours
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
From: csanoy@bcars689.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Cynthia Sanoy)
Subject: Re: Storing spools, cones and bobbins
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:16:56 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.142654.24919@newstand.syr.edu>, dbsander@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Diane B Sanderson) writes:
|> 
|> < stuff deleted >.
|> 
|> If anyone has any suggestions as to what to do with small remnants of 
|> real heavy wool, I'd appreciate them.  I've already thought of vests,
|> but already have enough vests to last a life time (well, almost).  Other
|> ideas would be appreciated.  
|> 
|> Happy New Year to all.  I do enjoy this group.
|> Diane Sanderson
|> sanderson@suhep.phy.syr.edu
|> 

How about trying to felt the wool?  You could sew all sorts of great tams, 
berets and mittens out of the smaller felted pieces, and if no-one you know needs
them, donate them to a Goodwill/Children's Aid/Salvation Army/Street Outreach
in a cooler climate... these organizations are always looking for warm clothing
for the disadvantaged.

Failing that, you could always make a REALLY warm quilt!
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From: cathe@beeblebrox.Sun.COM (Cathe A. Ray)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Re: The Pile-Up Begins :-)
Date: 5 Jan 1993 02:23:06 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: cathe@Eng.Sun.COM
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I use the white wire baskets (Elfa) for my fabric (sewing and cross-stitch).
I've got 2 frames which each have 1 - 3 'tier' basket, 3 - 2 'tier' baskets and
1 - 1 'tier' basket' (a tier is 1 of the rungs in the frame, 10 all together).
The advantage is you can see through the baskets and the fabric isn't burried
too deep.  The disadvantage is that since the widest basket Elfa makes is
only about 22" you can't lay fabric out very flat.  I'd like to switch to
wider shelves so that I can lay the fabric out better.

For notions I use the clear plastic Rubbermaid boxes, which stack quite well.
For thread I use thread racks that hang on the wall and for buttons and small
stuff I use clear spice jars or the divided plastic boxes (kind of like small
fly/tackle boxes) our local plastic store carries (Tap Plastics).

Since I not only sew but do a great deal of needlework I also have to store
my cross-stitch and needlepoint supplies.  I hang my needlepoint canvases on
skirt hangers or store the small ones in a lined box meant for photos.  My
cross-stitch fabric is stored the same as my sewing fabric and my floss
and needlepoint yarn are in DMC floss boxes found in needlework stores (a
friend let me buy them through her).

I'm pretty well organized but it's never quite enough for me.  I'm always
trying to make it better and will probably never find the 'final' 
organizational plan.

Cathe A. Ray                    | Love makes the world go `round
Sun Microsystems (415) 336-2239	| but Chocolate makes the trip worthwhile!
cathe@sun.com    sun!cathe	|
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
From: fran@Cadence.COM (Fran Peterson)
Subject: Re: Thanks!!
Organization: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 20:42:36 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.173238.26075@ux1.cts.eiu.edu> cfeem@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Eleanor Midkiff) writes:
>In article <1hvnbbINN7lb@life.ai.mit.edu> marie@ai.mit.edu writes:
>>
>Well, speaking as the original anal expulsive (i.e., slob), we need places
>to put things, too.  I just got a *big* Rubbermaid box with clear sides to
>store my yarn that I'm going to get around to knitting someday -- lets me
>see it, so I don't get too complacent, but protects it from any hungry
>moth-type things.  It fits nicely on the closet shelf, too ;-).
>
I have been using clear see-thru boxes of all sizes for several years and
they work great.  I did take it one step further.  For the boxes that 
always have the same things in them I made 3x5 cards and wrote on them what
was in the box.  It's quicker to read labels then try to see and guess
what's in the box.  If something is in the box temporarily I use office
post-its.  And to make sure they don't come off I write on the wrong
side of the post-it (non-sticky bottom part of course) and then stick
the post-it inside the box.  I have a black felt marking pen that I
use for this and it's easy to see thru the heavier plastic boxes that
are not see-thru but last longer than the cheaper clear plastic boxes.  
And you're right they fit and stack nicely in the closet or even on the
floor for neatness if you don't have extra closet space.  

I use the shoe size for jewerley making projects or small projects that
I can work on in the car while my husband drives us to water-skiing.
There is a size just up from the shoe size I believe they call them
sweater boxes that I use for larger and/or traveling projects.  They
also are great for magazine or article storage to read while traveling.
The magazines don't get messed up.  I can also carry scissors to clip,
penicl & paper to write, or post-its to mark pages for further reading
or investigation.  

I'm sure there are many other uses.  Let's hear from you.

F [:)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
From: csanoy@bcars689.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Cynthia Sanoy)
Subject: Re: The Pile-Up Begins :-)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:14:59 GMT

In article <1i3891INNdkr@falcon.natinst.com>, emilia@natinst.com (Emilia Hezari) writes:
|> My mother has a neat way of dealing with her stacks of fabric. She got a bunch
|> of cheap plastic clothes hangers and she neatly folds each piece of fabric
|> and hangs it on the clothes hanger. It provides easy access to each piece and
|> good visibility too. I hope this is useful to others too.
|> 
|> Emilia

Nice idea, but not very many people (me included!) have enough closet space to 
hold the contents of fourteen cardboard boxes (the kind that photocopy paper comes
in), three super-large Rubbermaid Keepers (tm), two underbed boxes, one chest of
dresser drawers and half a closet-ful of hangers worth of fabric (I hang velvet and
corduroy so that it doesn't crush.) on hangars.  I'd need to convert the spare bedroom 
(which already contains the quilting frame!) and most of the basement (which contains 
half of Bavaria and the Swiss Alps on four foot high platforms... my husband is into European 
N-scale model trains.) into closet space, just to store my fabric. Right now I have my 
entire sewing room (which is different from the quilting,... er... guest room) closet
chock full of boxes, bags and bins full of fabric, and am threatening to take over the 
closet in the quilting/guest room, too.

... And then there are the Keepers full of quilt batting, quilt tops waiting for the
frame to become available, stuffed animals and projects yet to be completed, and the
yarn from my last crafting obsession, crochetting afgans...


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From: motto@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (mary.rita.otto)
Newsgroups: alt.sewing
Subject: Financing Projects
Date: 6 Jan 93 06:27:01 GMT
Organization: AT&T



Reading what Karen and others had to say about the ongoing cost of
projects, I thought we should start a new thread on that.

A while back, someone posted that if you've had the fabric/materials
for over six months, then whatever you make from it is "free".  Not
a soul disagreed with that idea, so I assumed it could be used as
a defacto standard.  Actually, I was kinda thinking along those
same lines already.

Karen wrote how if you make something right away, it costs whatever you
just spent on the "ingredients".  I'll agree with that, too.

So, really, it is our sincere efforts to be frugal which causes the
"pile-up" to result.  We must have storage room so that our materials
can "age to perfection" and (those with a background in economics
can help us here) *depreciate* in value for maximum economy.

I find that I can get away with murder if I do the following:
1.  Take husband shopping, and admire a simple shell blouse with
    a hefty price tag, sigh, and say, "It's just too expensive
    for the small amount of work it would take to make it."
2.  Go home, go to existing pile of fabric and select a nice
    silky fabric that in some way resembles the one in the store.
3.  Cut and sew a simple shell (I may be a speed demon, but I can
    do this in about 2 hours, tops.)
4.  Model finished shell for husband.

Husband reacts to this as if I just pulled $50 out of a hat.  Husband
will at next opportunity "encourage" me by suggesting we stop at the
fabric store of my choice for some shopping -- usually on the order
of $50 or more in materials, patterns, whatever.

I made a simple unlined linen-blend suit a few years back and he "forced"
me into a new sewing machine.

I turned unused top sheets into curtains and extra pillowcases for the
kids' rooms, and he "forced" me into a serger.

Husbands like this type of economics.  It's like when they justify
buying a $150 power tool for a repair job that would have cost $50
for the handyman to do -- the tool "doesn't count" in the cost of
the repair, since it can be used over again for other jobs.

Mary Otto
Newsgroups: alt.gopher,comp.infosystems.gopher
From: walker@cae.wisc.edu (George Walker)
Subject: Re: PC GOPHER CLIENT
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
Distribution: na
Date: 11 Jan 93 17:39:27 CST

In article <C0pL06.2Hs@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> dsc3jwa@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Jim Allor) writes:
>We are currently using Michigan State University's version of gopher
>(it doesn't require packet drivers), however we need the capability to
>bring down binary files.  We are currently using the TRW3001 card with
>ftp software and cannot use the standard gopher from Minnesota.  Has any
>one set this up before? If not where can I get the source to gopher (I
>have MSU's src)?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Jim Allor      dsc3jwa@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil
>

How did you get this to work?  What version do you have?  I have been having 
problems getting mine to work.  This is the version that runs with LAN 
workplace right?  Anyone else ot\ut there know how to get it to work?

George Walker
Network Administrator
Computer Aided Engineering
University of Wisconsin - Madison

Email:  walker@cae.wisc.edu


Newsgroups: alt.gopher,comp.infosystems.gopher
From: Julian Humphries <jmh3@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: Novell/ODI & Memory For PC Gopher
X-Xxdate: Tue, 5 Jan 93 20: 46:15 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: jmh3@cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d7
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:35:12 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.092737.387@news.uwyo.edu> Rich Travsky,
rtravsky@news.uwyo.edu writes:
>The ideal long term solution might be for PC Gopher to swap itself to
disk
>(or something like that) so as to leave more memory free. Since Novell,
to
>my knowledge, is only supporting ODI, this is something that may come up
>more often for Novell sites.
>
>In the meantime, has anyone found a workaround? A tweak of some sort?
>I'd be much obliged for any tips! Thanks in advance,
>

Different versions of telnet take different amounts of memory.  The
Clarkson
CUTE:2.2/TC-D version uses about 50K less memory than NCSA telnet.  There
may be 
others as well.  That should handle any difference in memory usage
between 1.02 and
1.03r.  (Unless you are already using CUTE!!!)

Julian Humphries
Cornell University
jmh3@cornell.edu
From: atc@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: alt.gopher
Subject: Mac Gopher client software?
Date: 6 Jan 93 12:48:37 +1300
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

The University is looking at distributing gopher services to end users.
A lot of our users have Macintosh computers.
I have Turbo Gopher and it works very well, but before the University can
commit itself to a particular client software package it must be sure it has
chosen wisely.
My question then is simply, is there a better product than Turbo Gopher for Mac
users?

Any and all replies via email please

Thanks

-- 
Andrew Chambers
Computer Services
University of Waikato
New Zealand

ATC@WAIKATO.AC.NZ
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From: rtravsky@news.uwyo.edu (Rich Travsky)
Newsgroups: alt.gopher,comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: Novell/ODI & Memory For PC Gopher
Date: 5 Jan 93 09:27:37 MST
Distribution: world
Organization: Banzai Institute

I recently picked up the latest version of PC Gopher (version 1.05r3).
With some consternation, I discovered it'll no longer Telnet out 
properly. Why? Not enough memory.

Here's the deal. Our site (a university) maintains a Novell (3.11) lan for 
our faculty, staff and students. We use the ODI software. They use a lot
of memory. After all the network stuff and my tsrs (about 12K worth) are 
loaded (this includes putting as much as possible into high memory - on 
a Zenith 386 with 4 mb), I have about 555K of free base memory.

I had been using version 1.02 of PC Gopher (yes, I hadn't been paying 
attention to new releases). I got by with this amount of memory. Now, 
with version 1.05, it's not enough. The size of the executable has gone
up. The only way I can get the full functionality out of PC Gopher (that
is, by also being able to let it run Telnet) is to not load some of the
Netware software. This gives me about 597K, enough to let it run Telnet.
But, it means no lan access in the meantime.

Since we're intending to support PC Gopher at our site, I have to view
this situation from the perspective of our users. Many have older machines
without high memory (so things like QEMM are out - assuming we/they could
afford it in the first place). Many are not clever enough to play with the
software, loading and unloading stuff, to get all the pieces/parts working.
It needs to be transparent for them.

The ideal long term solution might be for PC Gopher to swap itself to disk
(or something like that) so as to leave more memory free. Since Novell, to
my knowledge, is only supporting ODI, this is something that may come up
more often for Novell sites.

In the meantime, has anyone found a workaround? A tweak of some sort?
I'd be much obliged for any tips! Thanks in advance,

+---------+    Richard Travsky   RTRAVSKY @ UWYO . EDU
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Newsgroups: alt.gopher,comp.infosystems.gopher
From: Julian Humphries <jmh3@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: Novell/ODI & Memory For PC Gopher
X-Xxdate: Tue, 5 Jan 93 20: 45:03 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: jmh3@cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d7
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:33:59 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.092737.387@news.uwyo.edu> Rich Travsky,
rtravsky@news.uwyo.edu writes:
>The ideal long term solution might be for PC Gopher to swap itself to
disk
>(or something like that) so as to leave more memory free. Since Novell,
to
>my knowledge, is only supporting ODI, this is something that may come up
>more often for Novell sites.
>
>In the meantime, has anyone found a workaround? A tweak of some sort?
>I'd be much obliged for any tips! Thanks in advance,
>

Different versions of telnet take different amounts of memory.  The
Clarkson
CUTE:2.2/TC-D version uses about 50K less memory than NCSA telnet.  There
may be 
others as well.  That should handle any difference in memory usage
between 1.02 and
1.03r.  (Unless you are already using CUTE!!!)

Julian Humphries
Cornell University
jmh3@cornell.edu
Newsgroups: alt.gopher,comp.infosystems.gopher
From: Julian Humphries <jmh3@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: Novell/ODI & Memory For PC Gopher
X-Xxdate: Tue, 5 Jan 93 20: 35:30 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: jmh3@cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d7
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:24:30 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.092737.387@news.uwyo.edu> Rich Travsky,
rtravsky@news.uwyo.edu writes:
>The ideal long term solution might be for PC Gopher to swap itself to
disk
>(or something like that) so as to leave more memory free. Since Novell,
to
>my knowledge, is only supporting ODI, this is something that may come up
>more often for Novell sites.
>
 There is a public domain exec/spawn that stores the current memory image
to EMS or disk and that is designed for both C and Pascal.  I use it from
C and it works like a charm.  It should take less than an hour to drop it
in in place of the current code.  The remaining shell only takes a few K.

If the PC Gopher developers would like a copy, please let me know.

Julian Humphries
Cornell University
jmh3@cornell.edu
From: gary@msu.edu (Gary J LaPointe)
Newsgroups: alt.gopher
Subject: Fastest/Cheapest/Best Sever Software?
Date: 6 Jan 93 07:07:46 GMT
Reply-To: gary@ah3.cal.msu.edu
Organization: Michigan State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: ah3.cal.msu.edu
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]


I need to set up Gopher server software.  We will proably buying a machine and
dedicating it's use to being a server (and mayber some mail stuff?).

Should I buy a UNIX box?  A PC? A Mac?  A Pc running Unix?? A NeXT?

We are just tring to do it the most efficent, easiest, and (most importantly)
the cheapest.  But if a little more money makes it a lot easier, we'll try it.
We just don't know enough to pick a machine, and if we have to buy one i
wanted to get some opinions.

Any suggestions????
Thanks!!!
--

Gary J LaPointe
gary@ah3.cal.msu.edu
Michigan State University
Center For Integrative Studies, Arts & Humanities
From: rethemeyer@literacy.upenn.edu (Karl Rethemeyer)
Newsgroups: alt.gopher
Subject: K-12 Gopher Clients
Date: 8 Jan 93 15:49:18 GMT
Followup-To: alt.gopher
Organization: Literacy Research Center, U of Penn

As part of an on-going project on applications of technology to problems of
literacy, our Center is looking for information on developers who are
currently adapting Gopher clients for use in the K-12 environment.  Please
send replies to this news group or to my mailbox: 
rethemeyer@literacy.upenn.edu.  Thanks for any information you might be
able to provide.

Karl Rethemeyer
Programmer/Analyst
Literacy Research Center
University of Pennsylvania
Newsgroups: alt.gopher,comp.infosystems.gopher
From: Julian Humphries <jmh3@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: Novell/ODI & Memory For PC Gopher
X-Xxdate: Tue, 5 Jan 93 21: 04:56 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: jmh3@cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d7
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:53:45 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.092737.387@news.uwyo.edu> Rich Travsky,
rtravsky@news.uwyo.edu writes:
>The ideal long term solution might be for PC Gopher to swap itself to
disk
>(or something like that) so as to leave more memory free. Since Novell,
to
>my knowledge, is only supporting ODI, this is something that may come up
>more often for Novell sites.
>
>In the meantime, has anyone found a workaround? A tweak of some sort?
>I'd be much obliged for any tips! Thanks in advance,
>

Different versions of telnet take different amounts of memory.  The
Clarkson
CUTE:2.2/TC-D version uses about 50K less memory than NCSA telnet.  There
may be 
others as well.  That should handle any difference in memory usage
between 1.02 and
1.03r.  (Unless you are already using CUTE!!!)

Julian Humphries
Cornell University
jmh3@cornell.edu
Newsgroups: alt.gopher
From: mkrause@mitre.org (Mark Krause)
Subject: Re: Help : Wais-Index in Gopher ?
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA, USA
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:36:03 GMT

In article <1993Jan10.222643.12930@rhrk.uni-kl.de>, nenno@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Mario Nenno [Biologie]) writes:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm new to instaling gophers and I want to integrate a Wais-Index
> to gopher. I tried the gopherd-man pages but in the menu I got only
> the Line for to ask the question. After that their is a error msg
> Server Error: ..', Cannot connect to Server.
> 
> Any help is appreciated ! Maybe a sample .Link file would be fine.
> 
> Thank you for your time.
> 
> Mario Nenno (nenno@rhrk.uni-kl.de)

To add WAIS sources to gopher, you need to run a WAIS server, and create
the WAIS Index with waisindex and the "-export" option to create a <Index>.src
file with the appropriate Host and Port to connect to the WAIS server.
Using the "-export" option on waisindex allows you to use a protocol link,
otherwise you only get a disk link, which does not work well with gopher.

-- 
Mark A. Krause			mkrause@mitre.org
The MITRE Corporation		Mail Stop W273
7525 Colshire Drive		(703)883-7642 (Voice)		
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