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Date:         Thu, 31 Dec 1992 13:44:13 CST
From:         Larry Holder <##09@UTMARTN.BITNET>
Subject:      Strange CEMT INQ TAS status

> Can anyone explain or speculate the meaning of status 'Hel' in the following
> screen?
> CEMT INQ TAS ALL
>     Tas(09931) Tra(0CTL) Fac(I206) Hel Ter
>     Tas(09961) Tra(TDSL) Fac(I41D) Act Ter
>     Tas(09958) Tra(BCTL) Fac(I013) Act Ter

My best guess is "held".  If you are able to locate the proper control
blocks, look in the TCA User Area at field TCATCDC (Task Control
Dispatch Control Indicator) which I think is +X'18' into the TCAUA.
(Check your Data Areas manual).
Maybe the indicator byte will give more details...

Larry Holder,  Senior Programmer/Analyst         Bitnet: ##09@UTMARTN
The University of Tennessee at Martin            Phone:  901-587-7890
Martin, Tennessee  38238  U.S.A.                 Fax:           -7841

VM/ESA 1.0, VSE/ESA 1.1, CICS/VSE 2.1, COBOL-II, DL/I, SQL/DS, QMF
PSW (Personal Status Words): "Saved By Grace" (Romans 1:16 & 8:38)
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Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:32:45 -0500
From:         BCJ@PSUVM.BITNET
Subject:      claymores

A long time ago somebody asked about the claymore, but there has been no answer
so I thought I'd offer something.  There's nothing in Johnson's dictionary s.v.
claymore, but in his Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland there is this
passage concerning the Hebrideans:
     Their arms were anciently the *Glaymore*, or great two-handed sword, and
     afterwards the two-edged sword and target, or buckler, which was sustained
     on the left arm.  In the midst of the target, which was made of wood,
     covered with leather, and studded with nails, a slender lance about two
     feet long, was sometimes fixed; it was heavy and cumberous, and according-
     ly has for some time past been gradually laid aside.  Very few targets
     were at Culloden.  The dirk, or broad dagger, I am afraid, was of more use
     in private quarrels than in battles.  The Lochaber-ax is only a slight
     alteration of the old English *bill*.
          After all that has been said of the force and terrour of the
     Highland sword, I could not find that the art of defence was any part
     of common education.  The gentlemen were perhaps sometimes skilful
     gladiators, but the common men had no other powers than those of
     violence and courage.  Yet it is well known, that the onset of the
     Highlanders was very formidable...
[Oxford University Press, 1970, pp. 104-5]

p.s. -- nothing s.v. "glaymore", either

-- Kevin Berland
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Date:         Tue, 29 Dec 1992 00:25:28 EST
From:         Heyward Ehrlich <ehrlich@ANDROMEDA.RUTGERS.EDU>
Subject:      NEACH 13 Jan: Jan Werner/HYPERTEXT

      NEACH: The Northeast Association for Computers and the Humanities
                         invites you to hear

                 JAN WERNER on HYPERTEXT IN PRACTICE
            on Wednesday, January 13, 1993, at 1:30 p.m.

in Room 26A of the IBM Building, 590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street, New York
City.  He will discuss issues, decisions, and strategies in preparing and
using hypertext, including comparing hypertext to information retrieval, when
not to use hypertext, and how to select among types of hypertext software,
and he will demonstrate different hypertext structures and how to get data
into hypertext form.  Don't miss it!

Jan Werner is chair of the New York Consultant's Forum and has held several
offices in NYAC.   He is an independent consultant and head of Jan Werner
Data Processing, a firm specializing in survey research and opinion polling.

Please put these NEACH dates in your calendar: (future dates to be confirmed)
=============================================================================
Wednesday, Jan. 13:  Jan Werner,  Hypertext in Practice
=============================================================================
Tuesday, Feb. 23:    Michael Sperberg-McQueen,  The Text Encoding Initiative
Thursday, Mar. 11:   John E. Thiesmeyer,  "Editor" and Style Checker Software

Best wishes for the New Year.  And please forgive any multiple postings.
--Heyward Ehrlich, NEACH President (ehrlich@andromeda.rutgers.edu)

..............................................................................

        An Invitation to Support NEACH through Membership for 1993:

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Date:         Sat, 2 Jan 1993 15:25:12 -0800
From:         rhahn@VIOLET.BERKELEY.EDU
Subject:      Re: Mourning fashion(s)

Most of the individual volumes of the Encyclopedie Methodique are catalogued
under the name of the editor of the volume.  So, they are accessible and
available if you know it, or the title of the volume.  There is a list of
all of the Encyclopedie Methodique volumes, with author in a bibliographic
work in French whose exact title I cannot recall, but it is a standard one
in any good reference room.  I could put my hands on it at the Berkeley
library because I know where it is shelved, but the library is closed for
the intersession!
If you want to experiment with an online example, try under Naigeon for the
volume concerning Philosophie.
The moral is that this work is not always catalogued as part of a series
entitled "Encyclopedie Methodique".
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Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:12:10 CST
From:         Kyle Grimes <ARHU018@UABDPO.BITNET>
Subject:      "fire a train"?

The following paragraph comes from William Hone's autobiography,
written in the 1830s-40s but describing an event of c. 1790.  Could
someone enlighten me as to the meaning of "firing a train"?

      As a youngster I was not exempt from the perils of boyish
    adventure; all through my life I have felt the splinters of a
    glass bottle, which shattered in my hand while firing a train,
    and inspired me with a wholesome distaste for gunpowder.

Many thanks,

Kyle Grimes             Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham
                        arhu018@uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu  /  ARHU018@UABDPO.BITNET
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From:         Jane Merritt <jmerritt@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Disguised Rioting

On Fri, 18 Dec 1992, Peter Davis wrote:

>  CARNIVAL is an interesting point.  But I was thinking more along the lines of
>  political riots.  For example, the "Gaspee" affair of 1772 indicates that the
>  participants may have been disguised as native Americans -- it is a disputed
>  case, of course.  Nonetheless, they were at least masked in blacking. During
>  the Boston Market Riot of 1727 (?) the "actors" may have been disguised as
>  clergy.  (I can't recall the source at the moment).
>
>  But there must be other examples from the 18th century (or earlier) of
>  "political" rioters disguising themselves.
>
>  Peter Davis
>  U. of Illinois
>  AXTHEPD@UICVMC.BITNET

I know that some gangs of white men on the frontier [Penn. and New York]
during the French and Indian War [1750s and 1760s] disguised themselves as
Indians when they attacked Indian settlements in retaliation for native
violence against whites.  I assume they disguised themselves because these
raids against _peaceful_ [sometimes Christianized] natives were considered
illegal by the British.  I would put these in the political category since
their actions were attempts to take control of the settlement of land west
of the Alleghenies, which had been put off limits by the British and
Provincial governments.

Jane Merritt
University of Washington
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Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:19:19 CST
From:         Renato Barahona <U17801@UICVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: "fire a train"?

On Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:33:20 -0500 <BCJ@PSUVM> said:
>If we are on the right track [sorry!], then the phrase probably means the
>lad was laying a continuous trail of gunpowder from the target (perhaps some
>kind of a rocket or other firework), dispensing it from a glass container.
>A spark must have touched this "train" or particulate fuse, and moved back
>to his hand.  Alternatively, firecrackers or squibs sometimes come with their
>wicks or fuses braided, and setting off the whole batch (rather than undoing
>them and setting them off in single bursts) could be firing a train, in the
>sense of firing a sequence or succession...  but what of the glass?  Hmm.
>
>Speculatively yours,
>Kevin Berland

Kevin,
       Every time I read the header to this recent thread, and knowing about
your musical interests, I can't help but think about the Grateful Dead's
"Casey Jones" and the immortal lines about driving the train.  Or could we
paraphrase it into firing that train?
                                       Seasons greetings,

                                         -Renato
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Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:33:20 -0500
From:         BCJ@PSUVM.BITNET
Subject:      Re: "fire a train"?

If we are on the right track [sorry!], then the phrase probably means the
lad was laying a continuous trail of gunpowder from the target (perhaps some
kind of a rocket or other firework), dispensing it from a glass container.
A spark must have touched this "train" or particulate fuse, and moved back
to his hand.  Alternatively, firecrackers or squibs sometimes come with their
wicks or fuses braided, and setting off the whole batch (rather than undoing
them and setting them off in single bursts) could be firing a train, in the
sense of firing a sequence or succession...  but what of the glass?  Hmm.

Speculatively yours,
Kevin Berland
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Subject: Re: French rentals
Date: 3 Jan 93 20:09:09 GMT
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This is very useful information for scholars on leave.  Could our
coordinator collect this data and put it on a file available to the
network?
Roger Hahn, U. of California, Berkeley
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Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:06:03 BDB
From:         "Prof. P. Junqueira" <DAFAFICH@BRUFMG.BITNET>
Subject:      Informations (asking)

Dear sirs, I'm a researcher in historical archaeology. My interests
include the process of colonization in the 18th. century in Minas
Gerais, Brazil.
I'd like very much change general informations with you, and have access
to some bibliographic items in your subjects. I acknowledge in advance
more data.
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Date:         Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:40:11 -0800
From:         Oliver Berghof <oberghof@ORION.OAC.UCI.EDU>
Subject:      Re: The Lyric Pastoral
              30 Dec 92 17:50:11 +0100."
              <199212301653.AA02710@orion.oac.uci.edu>

Johan,
      you might want to check if your library has a
copy of >England's Helicon<, specifically the 3rd edition,
for which I'll give you the following MELVYL entry:

Title:         England's Helicon. A collection of pastoral and lyric poems,
                 first published at the close of the reign of Q. Elizabeth. The
                 3d ed. To which is added a biographical and critical
                 introduction. London, Printed by T. Bensley, for Robert
                 Triphook, 1812.
Found in:      Brydges, Egerton, Sir, 1762-1837. The British bibliographer.
                 London, 1810-1814. v. 4 (1814) xxxvi, 248 p. 22 cm.
Description:   xxxvi, 248 p. 22 cm.

Notes:         Compilation ascribed to John Bodenham.
               Ed. by S.E. Brydges and Joseph Haslewood.
               Reprint of the ed. of 1614 preceded by reproduction of the
                 title-pages, dedications and prefatory notes of the 1st ed.
                 (1600) and the 1614 ed.

If the title page does indeed combine lyrical and pastoral
you might have what you are looking for. There are also
numerous 20th century editions of this anthology, some of
which may reproduce the title page.
--
Oliver Berghof
oberghof@orion.oac.uci.edu
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Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:08:00 EST
From:         "Luis Gamez, Fordham University,
              New York City" <GAMEZ@FORDMURH.BITNET>
Subject:      lighting trains

Dr. Johnson gives "train" as "the line of powder reaching to the mine,"
which seems to be the usage here.  He illustrates with L'Estrange, "Shall
he that gives fire to the train pretend to wash his hands of the hurt that's
done by the playing of the mine!"

Louie Gamez
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Subject: French rentals
Date: 1 Jan 93 18:13:00 GMT
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1. Apartment in Paris available for 1993-1994. Three bedrooms in
14e arrondissement (Montparnasse), 80 m2. Tenth floor, well lit;
fully furnished including washer-dryer, dishwasher, piano, cable
TV, VCR. Ideal for family of four. Available mid-July 1993 to
mid-August 1994. Rent 12K FFr (approx. $2200) includes basement
parking.
2. Three-story 300-year-old house in old Menton (on the Riviera),
completely renovated in rustic style, 100 m2. Fully furnished
including washer, dishwasher, piano, cable TV. Double bedroom
plus master bedroom with view over Mediterranean. Available from
January 1993 for one year or perhaps until October 1994. Rent 6K
FFr (approx. $1100).
--Nancy and Bernard BRAGARD, 20 rue du Ct. Mouchotte, 75014
Paris. Telephone: (1) 43.22.85.49. Fax: (1) 43.35.10.14.
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Date:         Thu, 24 Dec 1992 10:42:26 -0500
From:         BCJ@PSUVM.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Endorsement Requested, Thank You for your Help

Please, kind supporters of Kevin Cope's proposal, send your collegially
electronic endorsements directly to ENCOPE@LSUVM and not to C18-L, since
360+ subscribers don't need to know...  Don't use the REPLY function, okay?

Thanks -- Kevin Berland for c18-l
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Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:18:08 EST
From:         Irwin Primer <primer@ANDROMEDA.RUTGERS.EDU>
Subject:      RE: Mourning fashion(s)

For Bob Dawson and anyone else interested in 18c encyclopedias:
    I don't know how far you've been searching for a set of the
_Encyclope'die Methodique_ in U.S. libraries, but I am positive that I saw a
set--and handled a volume--in the stacks of one of our major N.E. libraries:
either Columbia (Butler) or Yale (Sterling) or Princeton (Firestone); if not
those, then possibly the U.T.S. library in Manhattan near Columbia, or at
Cornell's Olin Library.  It was many years ago, but the memory of those
gray folio volumes (not leather-covered) is very vivid.  I assume that we're
talking about the large encyclopedia that followed and expanded upon
Diderot's.
--Irwin Primer
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Date:         Thu, 24 Dec 1992 10:38:19 -0500
From:         BCJ@PSUVM.BITNET
Subject:      NEW LIST: WELSH-L Welsh language and culture

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Subject:      NEW LIST: WELSH-L Welsh language and culture
To:           Kevin Berland <BCJ@PSUVM.BITNET>

WELSH-L  on LISTSERV@IRLEARN
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   The WELSH-L bulletin board aims to foster the amicable discussion of
   questions of the Welsh language, Welsh culture, history, and
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   Users are encouraged to exchange their opinions in Welsh, if they
   can, and special consideration may be given to Welsh learners
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   The emphasis will be on Welsh as a living language, and Welsh culture
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   the CELTIC-L bulletin board at IRLEARN.UCD.IE.

   If there is an interest in expanding the range of topics to include
   discussion in and about the language and culture of Welsh's close
   sister languages, Breton and Cornish, WELSH-L will be able to serve
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   Archives of WELSH-L and related files are stored in the WELSH-L
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Date:         Sun, 3 Jan 1993 15:43:57 -0500
From:         BCJ@PSUVM.BITNET
Subject: Re: French rentals

Thanks to R. Hahn for the suggestion of maintaining a file about accommodations
as they occur.

C18-L now has a (2-entry) file available on the fileserver, in which we will
store any postings about sabbatical housing, housing exchanges, and houses
or flats available for scholars doing research in various locations.

To get a copy of the file, called HOME EXCH ---

BITNET USERS                             INTERNET USERS

send interactive message:                Send note to LISTSERV@psuvm.psu.edu
TELL LISTSERV@PSUVM GET HOME EXCH C18-L  Use no subject line; type this message
                                         GET HOME EXCH C18-L

The file will be updated as often as suitable listings become available.

Kevin Berland for C18-L
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Date:         Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:03:37 -0500
From:         Allen Michie <engak472@EMORYU1.CC.EMORY.EDU>
Subject:      Re: "fire a train"?

On Mon, 21 Dec 1992, Kyle Grimes wrote:

> The following paragraph comes from William Hone's autobiography,
> written in the 1830s-40s but describing an event of c. 1790.  Could
> someone enlighten me as to the meaning of "firing a train"?
>
>       As a youngster I was not exempt from the perils of boyish
>     adventure; all through my life I have felt the splinters of a
>     glass bottle, which shattered in my hand while firing a train,
>     and inspired me with a wholesome distaste for gunpowder.

        My best guess would be that "firing a train" means lighting a fire
to a trail of gunpowder leading to the aforementioned tempermental glass
bottle--similar to lighting a long fuse to a bomb.

                                        --Allen Michie
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Date:         Fri, 25 Dec 1992 09:09:54 CST
From:         ENCOPE@LSUVM.BITNET
Subject:      Father SCSECS Speaks

A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM FATHER SCSECS

Doubtless some of you have found under your tree, in your stocking, or in
some similar yuletide-season receptacle a gift in the form of what my dear
California mother, who could never decide what to buy for people, liked to
call "a cash remembrance."  Are you baffled about what to do with your
little solstice windfall?  Why not consider using your augmented fortune to
attend the SCSECS convention (March 11-14, 1993) here in Baton Rouge?  There
could be no better way to brighten your holiday than by planning for a happy
springtime event.  Basketball star Magic Johnson has recently commented that
"the greatest players at any given time are the greatest players of all time."
Under an analogous definition, SCSECS 1993 is certain to be the greatest
greatest convention of all the eons!  Printed programs and pre-registration
materials for the meeting will be available by mid-January.  67 sessions!

While you're thinking about SCSECS, think about using this extraordinary
event to advance your own commercial reputations.  The grand book exhibition
will be conducted by Scholars' Choice, which will have an unusually large
and attractive exhibit space in the hotel "Steamboat" room (featuring a
gargantuan ship's wheel).  If you'd like to have your book or other saleable
publication displayed, please give the Scholars' Choosers a call.  Ring
directory assistance for area code 716, then kindly request the telephone
number of Scholars' Choice (the elves forgot to leave me a telephone directory
this morning).  An "800" toll-free number may also be available.  Or check
one of your Scholars' Choice order forms.  Please note that Scholars' Choice
is a general retailer as well as a bookseller.  If you have something else that
you think SCSECSians would like to purchase, why not give Scholars' Choice
the franchise?  If you're having trouble getting a distributor for that
day-glo Dr. Johnson t-shirt that you've designed or that double compact
disk featuring your own readings of Augustan verse, why not make Scholars'
Choice your vendor?

Happy Holidays to All!

KEVIN L. COPE
SCSECS President
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