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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 11:34:51 LCL
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From:         Frank Norman <f-norman@NIMR.MRC.AC.UK>
Subject:      Current Contents on Diskette version 3

Not strictly a CDROMLAN query, but a related area (and I don't think there
is a FLOPPYDISQUELAN-L list :-))

I've just received ISI's new CCOD software, version 3.0 [network version]
and have been having a look at it.  I am networking CCOD over a PC-NFS
network.  The last time ISI upgraded the CCOD software I had terrible
problems because it disagreed with PC-NFS.  This upgrade looks much more
complex in terms of the network arrangements and I fear more of the same.
Has anyone successfully installed this new network version:

    a) at all?
    b) using a PC-NFS network


Frank Norman
Deputy Librarian

National Institute for Medical Research
The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AA, United Kingdom

tel + (44) 81 959 3666 ext 2380
fax + (44) 81 906 4477

Email (Janet): f-norman@uk.ac.mrc.nimr
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 08:55:46 EDT
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From:         MKSMS@CUNYVM.BITNET
Subject:      PC Anywhere and microsoft extensions

We recently brought up dial access to our CD-Rom network using a J & L
Chatterbox and PC Anywhere (The Network is Novell 3.11 and Optinet).  PC
Anywhere was working successfully and logging all calls until we added
the Microsoft extensions to fix other problems.  Now the software works fine
except that it will not log any calls.  Has anyone alse seen this problem?  Do
you have a fix?

Thanks for any help you can give!!

Merril Schindler
Assistant Director for Systems
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
MKSMS@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 13:47:47 FULL
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From:         NATHH@CITADEL.BITNET
Subject:      Re: passwords

What we do is to give each user an account.  He uses his last name and the first
   initial of his first name.  This is typed after the "user name" prompt.  The
computer will only recognize the names of the patrons having accounts.  The next
   prompt to appear on the screen is "password".  Each user makes his own passwo
   rd consisting of eight or more characters, e.g., "elephant".  Every three mon
   ths
computer sends a notice for each user to change his password.  The command is
"set password" and then the computer asks for verification to prevent any
typographical errors.  It appears to work perfectly.  We also have a general
account which anyone can access without a password, but it is limited in what it
   can access.

Herb Nath, The Citadel.
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From: alvin@netcom.com (Alvin H. White)
Subject: Re: Law Software on CD-ROM
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 92 18:23:06 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

"Gerald A. Smith" <gsmith@GUNTER-EMH.AF.MIL> writes:

>Does anyone know of any decent law data/text retrieval on CD-ROM?
>We're wanting to replace our law books, if possible, with the same.  Also, does
> it work on a LAN?  Appreciate knowing pricing and any other useful information.

About 10 or 15 years ago I heard of a thing called FLITE. I think it was
under the Air Force and located in Colorado. Federal Legal Information
Through Electronics (FLITE). Was thinking of it several months ago
and did some search of one of the on-line internet libraries in Colorado,
and if I remember right I got a couple of hits on some annual reports
about 1975-80. 

That was not CD-Rom in those days but it was digital. I think they had
the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and maybe parts of the United
States Code. I would look for precedential information in archives of
the United States Department of Justice and the Air Force Judge
Advocate General's Office and the committee reports of the U.S. Senate
and House of Representatives committees dealing with the Department 
of Defense Budget.

Good Luck. Sure hope someone finds something. Trying to maintain
public defense without ready access to the laws is sub-optimal.


alvin@netcom.com

Alvin H. White, Gen. Sect.
G.O.D.S.B.R.A.I.N.
1505 De Rose Way #66 
San Jose, CA 95126 USA

(408) 286-2794
(408) 286-4244

Government Online Database Systems
Bureau for Resource Allocations to Information Networks
[an idea waiting to happen]

120 West 38 North

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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:40:29 EDT
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From:         Steven Kriby <kirby@ATHENA.CS.UGA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Law Software on CD-ROM
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              Sep 1, 92 7:42 am

Kinda depends on what type of law materials you are talking about.  As
a lapsed law firm librarian, I recall there was some outfit in Nebraska
that was planning to put the regional reporters on CD-ROM.  I was never
sure how they were going to avoid a conflict with West Pub. Co., which
produces those reporters.  But that was several years ago and I have
since gone on to other things.  I know West has put some of their stuff
on CD.  If you have their books already, your West Publishing rep can
probably give you the details.  If not, you're most likely talking about
some other law books.  We have looked at a tax & estate law CD from
Research Institute of America (RIA), but elected to pass on it in favor
of providing public access Lexis terminals.  Again, your local rep can
get you the details.  We did have Matthew Bender's tax law CD, but
cancelled it a year or so back.  And back in the dark ages (1987 or 1988)
I got a fist-hand look at a prototype CD from Commerce Clearing House
(CCH).  Your best bet, if you just want electronic versions of materials
you already have, is to talk to the representative who sold you the
print versions.  In my experience, they can give the details about
CD-ROM versions.

Steven Kirby
University of Georgia
kirby@athena.cs.uga.edu
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Date:         Mon, 24 Aug 1992 09:01:20 +0930
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From:         Stephen Stone <CCSWS@LEVELS.UNISA.EDU.AU>
Subject:      Re: Amdek LD-1 & NIC's
X-To:         CDROMLAN%IDBSU.BITNET@pucc.Princeton.EDU

>I have an old Amdek Laserdrive 1 (I believe that it was actually
>manufactured by Hitachi) with an interface card marked CD-ROM Interface CD-
>IFI4, and no documentation worth mentioning. I have found that when I try to
>install this in a system with a 3C503 NIC, it interferes badly with the NIC.
>
>I have tried various diagnostics, and I cannot find out exactly where the
>boards conflict. The most likely areas are interrupts and DMA channels. I
>have not been able to find a combination for the NIC that the CD-ROM
>interface doesn't kill somehow.

The 3C503 Etherlink II card also has a memory jumper to enable memory-mapped
I/O.  If this is set to an address (like C800), then it may be conflicting
with any BIOS which might be on the IFI4 CD-ROM controller.

If you have drivers loaded for the 3C503, check which interrupt they
are using.  Another area for possible conflict is the Base Address which
is 300 (hex) by default, on the 3C503.  This is changed via a reasonably well
documented jumper on the card (and by telling the network driver somehow).

It may help to know what LAN software is driving the 3C503.

Stephen (Rocky) Stone,  Levels Team Leader

Postal mail:                          |  Tel:  +61 8 302 3242
    Information Technology            |  Fax:  +61 8 302 3385
    University of South Australia     |  Email: Rocky.Stone@UniSA.Edu.au
    The Levels, S.A.  5095            |
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Date:         Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:23:55 EDT
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From:         Steven Kriby <kirby@ATHENA.CS.UGA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Law Software on CD-ROM
X-To:         CDROMLAN%IDBSU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
              Sep 1, 92 6:23 pm

If I'm not mistaken, FLITE was the basis for West Publishing's
Westlaw Computer Assisted Legal Research Service.  Anybody from a
law library know for sure?

--Steve

Steven Kirby
University of Georgia
kirby@athena.cs.uga.edu
>
> "Gerald A. Smith" <gsmith@GUNTER-EMH.AF.MIL> writes:
>
> >Does anyone know of any decent law data/text retrieval on CD-ROM?
> >We're wanting to replace our law books, if possible, with the same.  Also,
> does
> > it work on a LAN?  Appreciate knowing pricing and any other useful
> information.
>
> About 10 or 15 years ago I heard of a thing called FLITE. I think it was
> under the Air Force and located in Colorado. Federal Legal Information
> Through Electronics (FLITE). Was thinking of it several months ago
> and did some search of one of the on-line internet libraries in Colorado,
> and if I remember right I got a couple of hits on some annual reports
> about 1975-80.
>
> That was not CD-Rom in those days but it was digital. I think they had
> the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and maybe parts of the United
> States Code. I would look for precedential information in archives of
> the United States Department of Justice and the Air Force Judge
> Advocate General's Office and the committee reports of the U.S. Senate
> and House of Representatives committees dealing with the Department
> of Defense Budget.
>
> Good Luck. Sure hope someone finds something. Trying to maintain
> public defense without ready access to the laws is sub-optimal.
>
>
> alvin@netcom.com
>
> Alvin H. White, Gen. Sect.
> G.O.D.S.B.R.A.I.N.
> 1505 De Rose Way #66
> San Jose, CA 95126 USA
>
> (408) 286-2794
> (408) 286-4244
>
> Government Online Database Systems
> Bureau for Resource Allocations to Information Networks
> [an idea waiting to happen]
>
> 120 West 38 North
>
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From:         Nick G Carter <ng_carter@CCMAIL.PNL.GOV>
Subject:      NEC CD drives on PS/2
X-To:         cdromlan%idbsu.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU

     Greetings!  Is anyone out there running NEC-73 CD drives off an IBM
     SCSI port on a PS/2?  The problem we are having is being able to
     access the drive BEFORE the drive that has the terminating resistor.
     It doesn't matter whether we have 2, 3, 4, or 5 (the most we've
     connected) drives daisy chained, the drive prior to the last cannot be
     accessed.  Before we noticed this pattern, we checked and changed
     drive to drive cables, bus to drive cable, the unresponsive drive
     itself, and even the power cables!!!

     Everything appears to go well when using the Reference disk to
     configure the system after adding the CD drives to the SCSI port, and
     all of the other drives work like champions.  We ARE running OS/2, but
     I don't think this is an operating system problem.

     ANY suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

     Nick Carter
     Auto. Systems Admin.
     Tech Information
     Battelle Pacific Northwest Lab.
     ng_carter@pnl.gov
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From: Greg_Kaisen@YCCATSMTP.YCC.YALE.EDU (Greg Kaisen)
Subject: Re: Menus vs Windows
Organization: Yale University
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 13:57:59 GMT

In article <CDROMLAN%92081701435391@IDBSU.BITNET> e.j.craft@ASTON.AC.UK writes:
>Date:         Mon, 17 Aug 1992 08:39:40 +0000
>From:         e.j.craft@ASTON.AC.UK
>Subject:      Menus vs Windows
>        Just to poke my oar in on this matter :-)...
>
>        One of the good things about access to CDs on a Lan is that ( in
>most cases ) the specification of the machine being used as a workstation
>is largely irrelevent. Granted, CDs that store complex searches onto disks
>aren't as fast and any graphics capabilities are lost. But on the whole,
>most of the services we have available are text-based and a user wih
>patience could use an old CGA XT to get access if they had to. This would
>be useful if a department were short on high-spec machines but wanted a PC
>dedicated for CD access.
>
>        Using a menu system ( Aston LIS has a BBS-style system of ansi and
>ascii pages that overlay ) scores over Windows in this respect. If we used
>windows as the interface it would stop the system being text-only ( which
>gives a possible upgrade path to a cross-platform BBS system ) .
>
>        Also : I posted a request for information from anyone who was using
>a BBS to give cross-platform access to CD systems. 99% of people who
>replied said they were thinking of the same thing and could I pass on any
>info. I'm talking to some Sysops here in England at the moment and I'll
>post something once I get it. This has taken a back-seat at the moment as
>were upgrading the CD system and installing Adonis before term starts.
>
>        Anyone with Adonis experience please let me know what to watch out
>for !
>
>
>
>        	       	       	       	+------------------------------------+
>        	       	       	       	!                                    !+
>        	       	       	       	!   Edward J Craft.                  !!
>        	       	       	       	!   Computer Officer,                !!
>        	       	       	       	!   Library and Information Services !!
>        	       	       	       	!   Aston University                 !!
>        	       	       	       	!   Aston Triangle                   !!
>        	       	       	       	!   Birmingham B4 7ET.               !!
>        	       	       	       	!                                    !!
>        	       	       	       	!   Tel : 021-359-3611  ext. 4446    !!
>        	       	       	       	!   E-mail : e.j.craft@aston.ac.uk   !!
>        	       	       	       	!                                    !!
>        	       	       	       	+------------------------------------+!
>        	       	       	       	 +------------------------------------+
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:49:06 EDT
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From:         "David Matthews-Morgan" <DMM@UGA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: CD-ROM Networking Workshops - Fall 1992
              27 Aug 1992 15:57:04 EDT from <71610.442@COMPUSERVE.COM>

On Thu, 27 Aug 1992 15:57:04 EDT Howard McQueen said:

>CD-ROM Networking Technologies Workshops: Fall, 1992
>Washington, DC Schedule
>
>
>September 15 8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
>September 16 8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
>
>December 2   8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
>December 3   8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

    Howard...I assume that the September 15,16 dates should read 16,17 since
    I just recently registered for Sept. 17 LAN & WAN classes and have
    purchased a NON-REFUNDABLE plane ticket that puts me in Washington in
    time for Sept. 17 seminars.

***********************************************************************
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*   Manager, Network Support       *   University of Georgia          *
*   Internet: dmm@uga.cc.uga.edu   *   Athens, GA 30602               *
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 11:25:19 EDT
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From:         Steven Kriby <kirby@ATHENA.CS.UGA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Windows vs Menus (2nd)
X-To:         CDROMLAN%IDBSU.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
              at Aug 24, 92 8:09 am

Emmanuel, Windows' problems with DOS apps have been well documented in the PC
press here in the states.  One of the major improvements Microsoft tried to
include in Windows 3.1 was "crash-proofing" DOS sessions running under
Windows.  The reports I have seen indicate that they were mostly successful,
but not completely.  Since I don't use Windows to run DOS apps, I can't say
what programs caused problems.

Having thought about the security issues for a little bit, I'm inclined to
back off a little from my original position.  There have to be ways to deal
with Windows security and I'm sure that people who use Windows in PC labs
have figured out a number of ways to make hacking through more difficult.

Still, I'm not convinced that Windows would make an effective substitute
for a good network menu program such as Direct Access or Saber Menu.  For
starters, Windows is notorious for flaky behavior on networks.  Personally,
I can do without the headaches right now.  Second, I'm completely unconvinced
that the processor on the workstation is irrelevant to workstation performance,
which is what I understand a recent posting suggested.  The simple truth of
the matter is that Windows makes some pretty heavy resource demands that
render it uneconomical as far as we are concerned.  If you can afford to have
all 386 (SX or DX) workstations, this may be less of a concern.  But we have
two 20mhz 286 public workstations that I *might* consider running Windows on.
All the rest are 12-16 mhz 286 machines that I wouldn't even consider as
Windows stations.  And we're in better shape than a lot of places that are
still running 8086/8088 machines.  So, IMHO, the best argument against using
Windows as a DOS shell really isn't technical, but economic.  If you can
afford the hardware to use Windows this way, I am most happy for you.  I am
also insanely jealous.  :-(

--Steve

Steven Kirby
University of Georgia
kirby@athena.cs.uga.edu
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Date:         Tue, 25 Aug 1992 12:56:27 CDT
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From:         zhengt@UWWVAX.UWW.EDU
Subject:      NAS for remote dialing

Subject : NAS remote dialing
Netware Access Server for remote dialing
into our CDROM Network.
The vendor we are considering is Microdyne (800-255-3967)
who is selling a NAS hardware and software.
Anyone hear about this company ? Or any other suggestion
========================================
Ting Zheng, L&LR                       *
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater     *
(414) 472-5519                         *
ZHENGT@UWWVAX.UWW.EDU                  *
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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 07:42:01 CDT
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From:         "Gerald A. Smith" <gsmith@GUNTER-EMH.AF.MIL>
Subject:      Re: Law Software on CD-ROM
X-To:         CDROMLAN%IDBSU.BITNET@pucc.princeton.edu
              31, 92 8:49 pm

Does anyone know of any decent law data/text retrieval on CD-ROM?
We're wanting to replace our law books, if possible, with the same.  Also, does
 it work on a LAN?  Appreciate knowing pricing and any other useful information.
 Thanks,
Gary Smith
gsmith@ssblan.ssc.af.mil
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 15:57:04 EDT
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From:         Howard McQueen <71610.442@COMPUSERVE.COM>
Subject:      CD-ROM Networking Workshops - Fall 1992
X-To:         cdromlan@idbsu.edu

CD-ROM Networking Technologies Workshops: Fall, 1992
Washington, DC Schedule


September 15 8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
September 16 8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

December 2   8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
December 3   8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Individual, full-day workshops which cover LAN and WAN technologies
File server-based solutions, menuing, software metering, negotiating
licenses, dial-access technologies and connecting CD-ROM to Netware,
Vines, Unix and TCP/IP connectivity throughout campus and Internet
users.

For more information, please contact CD Consultants, Inc.

Please include your fax number or mailing address to
receive a registation form.

71610.442@Compuserve.com
Fax (410) 243-9419
Voice (410) 243-2755
Snail mail:  CD Consultants, Inc.
             4404 Keswick Road
             Baltimore, MD  21210
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From:         Anne Pemberton <apembert@VDOE386.VAK12ED.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Anne's plans
X-To:         AUTISM%SJUVM.BitNet@pucc.princeton.edu
              Sep 1, 92 8:53 pm

Dan, Yep, it rhymed!!!

Study and practice, practice and study is what any *teacher*
will advise ... Absolutely, you are right ... your focus should
be on making Lauren happy. Ask her whether it would make her
happy for you to give trying to learn "ettiquette" would make
her happy. Whatever she says, you ought to do it ....

     :-)

        Anne
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From:         Speed Bump <DNWIEBE@OWUCOMCN.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Whoops!

Carolyn writes:
>It just occurred to me that by relating MY bad matrimonial experience, you
>might get the impression that I am 'anti-marriage', which would make a lie
>of the congratulations that I offered to you and Lauren.

        Not at all.  I don't want to get into a moral argument with you here,
but it seems reasonably obvious that for you the concept of marriage has
significantly different purposes and implications than it does for me.
Given that, it seems to follow that your experiences with marriage can't
reliably be used to predict mine; so I have no problem accepting your
congratulations, with gratitude.

Shalom,
Dan
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From:         "V70A::DOMINGUERR" <DOMINGUERR%V70A.decnet@NPT.NUSC.NAVY.MIL>
Subject:      RE: RE:F/C (Can he read?)
X-To:         AUTISM <AUTISM%SJUVM.BITNET@pucc.princeton.edu>

BOB

  Sory I haven't responded sooner but I have been on vacation and just
came back to my office today. In response to your question YES we are
now consistent in the discription of the boy I previously mentioned. I
want to thank you for your response and will pass your message on to his
parents. I will keep you posted as this progresses.

Bob D.
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