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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 11:44:03 CDT
From:         TIF@NIHCU.BITNET
Subject:      Center for Electronic Records

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January 28, 1993

Dear PACS-Lers:

This is an introductory message from the Center for Electronic
Records of the National Archives to subscribers of PACS-L.  Some
of you may be interested in information about our holdings and
program.  For your information, we do not currently make any of
our holdings or finding aids available via remote access (we DO
NOT maintain a bulletin board or Internet accessible account).
However, we do provide reference services via electronic mail by
answering questions about our holdings.

There are two main sources of information about the Center for
Electronic Records of the National Archives and Records
Administration.  The first is General Information Leaflet 37,
"Information About Electronic Records in the National Archives
for Prospective Researchers."  Included in GIL 37 are brief
descriptions of the National Archives and the Center for
Electronic Records, how we obtain and maintain the records in our
custody, reference and access, and eight kinds of records in our
custody (Attitudinal Data, Demographic Data, Economic and
Financial Statistics, Education Data, Health and Social Services
Data, International Data, Military Data, and Scientific and
Technological Data).

Another source of information about our holdings is the "Center
for Electronic Records Title List (A Partial and Preliminary List
of the Datasets in the Custody of the National Archives)."   The
Title List is organized by the archival Record Group in which
each data file is accessioned.  Information contained in the list
is maintained and updated in a computerized database by staff in
the Center for Electronic Records.  Approximately 4,500 data
files of over 14,000 in the custody of the Center for Electronic
Records are currently included in the database.  Because this is
only a subset of all data files in the custody of the National
Archives, the current version of the Title List is considered
partial and preliminary.

If you are interested in receiving copies of GIL 37 or the Title
List, please respond to us at TIF@NIHCU or tif@cu.nih.gov with
your mailing address or write to the Center for Electronic
Records (NSX), ATTN: Reference Services, National Archives,
Washington, DC 20408.  The telephone number is (202) 501-5579.

Sincerely,

THEODORE J. HULL
Center for Electronic Records
National Archives
(202) 501-5579

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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:05:41 CDT
From:         "Ernest Perez,
              Oregon State Library" <opac!perez%OPAC.osl.or.gov@CS.ORST.EDU>
Subject:      Reference expert system on LIBSOFT

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I have uploaded an interesting and rather neat little reference expert system
to the LIBSOFT ftp archive.


It's BRA (Biographical Reference Advisor), produced at Goucher College in
Maryland ca. 1987.  (Forgot exact date)  I ran across it when I was doing an
independent project during doctoral studies back in 1990.

Yeah, it's several years old, ages ago by our hightechie clock.  But it's an
interesting and well-done little system, and deserves more exposure.  In many
ways, it's an interesting comparison to the more well-known Univ. of Houston's
expert system.   The Goucher College product was produced using "1st Class," a
powerful expert system generator.

The 1st Class expert system generator uses a software approach to
automatically construct an expert system.  It works by taking a good
representative set of problem examples and correct solutions.  The algorithm
basically iteratively constructs a decision tree until it can correctly answer
every one of the examples presented.  You can print or display to inspect the
decision tree logic.  If you find a logical flaw, you can just create another
example to cover that case.

Can be from a .WKS spreadsheet file, a DBase or Paradox file, a comma-
delimited file, etc.  This means you can use record of past data, transaction
records, or just a buncha examples you and a couple of bored friends make up
to pass the time of day.  :-)

But, hey, this means heuristic expert systems, AI constructed from experience,
the triumph of empiricism!

For sure, it's less labor-intensive than many other expert system approaches.

If you'd like to look at this, you can ftp it from

  hydra.uwo.ca         in directory LIBSOFT

The files are BIOGREF.ZIP and .DOC.  Be sure to use binary mode ftp to get the
..ZIP file.  Please check with local ftp experts for help if you have problems.
The files ARE okay; Gordon Nickerson has checked them at that end.

cheers,

- ernest


Ernest Perez, Ph.D./Oregon State Library/perez@osl.or.gov/503-378-8618
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:34:54 CDT
From:         MICHAEL STRANGELOVE <441495@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA>
Subject:      Online Access

----------------------------Original message----------------------------

The following issue of the print magazine ONLINE ACCESS (Spring 1993)
may be of interest:

6/ Games
    - Len Strazewski

12/ Going Mobile
    - Mike Meresman
      (the first of a two part series about taking modems on the road)

20/ No New Modem Taxes
    - Patric Hedlund

28/ Explore the Electronic Global Village
    - Jerry Olsen

33/ Fortune 500 Online
    - Kathryn McCabe
      (USA Today's new strategy)

36/ Nexis
    - Mick O'Leary

40/ Communication Software
    - Mike Morrison
      (DOS and Windows versions reviewed)

44/ Aquila BBS
    - Dan Kening

46/ Free-Nets: Community Computing Systems and the Rise of the
    Electronic Citizen
    - Michael Strangelove

48/ Toot Your Own Horn
    - Helen Burwell
    (Creating electronic publicity for your own business)

54/ Editor's Chioce: The Almost Everything Guide
    - Kathryn McCabe

For further information contact: 70324.343@compuserve.com


Michael Strangelove
Department of Religious Studies
University of Ottawa

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From:         "Peter Graham, Rutgers U., (908) 932-2741" <GRAHAM@ZODIAC.BITNET>
Subject:      Vatican Library of Congress Exhibit

----------------------------Original message----------------------------

Responding to a query:  at the Library of Congress server, seq1.loc.gov,
the Vatican exhibit materials may be found in the directory "Vatican".  The
full text of the catalog is there, along with what appears to be well over
a hundred images.

They are compressed using a JPEG format, and five (5) different JPEG
extractors are also provided.  All are for a DOS environment.  I am a Mac
user and haven't yet been able to translate them, but an acquaintance has
and says they're really there.

It is an impressive display of what our future will in part be.  To view the
documents, one uses anonymous FTP to seq1.loc.gov in the usual way.

From:  Peter Graham, Rutgers University Libraries
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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 11:27:54 CDT
From:         Brian Nielsen <bnielsen@merle.acns.nwu.edu>
Subject:      Re: College catalogs
              Jan 26, 93 11:04 am

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
I think you're right, no one place.  Our catalog is in our CWIS
(nuinfo.nwu.edu, a gopher).  Someone could, I guess, use a gopher to collect
all the ones like ours into a menu -- maybe not a humongous task anymore, with
veronica as a finding aid for doing the grunt work.

Brian Nielsen
Instructional Technology Group
Academic Computing & Network Services
Northwestern University
phone: 708 491-2170      fax: 708 491-3824
internet:b-nielsen@nwu.edu
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>
> Does anyone know where on the Internet one might find
> college catalogs or college bulletins?  I suspect
> they are not collected in one location, such as the
> microfiche set.  If anyone knows of any such resource,
> please contact me.  Thanks!
>
> Chris Le Beau
> Reinert/Alumni Library
> Creighton University
> 2500 California Plaza
> Omaha, NE 68178
> 402-280-1757
> Internet: clbeau@parrot.creighton.edu
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From: KESSELMAN@ZODIAC.BITNET (Marty Kesselman)
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Subject: Re: Other Internet Bibliographies
Date: 26 Jan 93 16:09:46 GMT
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Several Internet bibliographies and directories are archived on BUBL,
the Bulletin Board for Librarians based at Glasgow University and
University of Strathclyde in the U.K.  To access BUBL, telnet to
128.86.8.7 (the Internet/JANET gateway), type in janet in lowercase at
the login: prompt.  Then at hostname: type uk.ac.glasgow.bubl

BUBL is completely menu-driven and very easy to use.

Cheers, Marty Kesselman


Marty Kesselman
Head of Reference and Instructional Services
Rutgers University Library of Science and Medicine
P.O. Box 1029
Piscataway, New Jersey 08855

908-932-3850 office
908-932-3208 fax
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:42:37 CDT
From:         KA-NENG AU <AU@ZODIAC.BITNET>
Subject:      LITA Optical Info Sys Mtg at ALA

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Library and Information Technology Association
Optical Information Systems Interest Group

Chair: Lorre Smith / Program Chair: Ka-Neng Au

ALA Midwinter Meeting:
        Sunday, Jan. 24, 1993
        2-4 pm
        Colorado Convention Center A 107

Agenda:
        1.  Discussion of the reliability and integrity of optical media,
especially CD-ROMs in harsh environments.
        2.  Plans for Annual Conference program in New Orleans.


K.Au
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:29:36 CDT
From:         Jack Kessler <kessler@well.sf.ca.us>
Subject:      Sympathy and praise for EFF

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Subject:  recent EFF announcement

I'd like to add a note of sympathy and encouragement to the EFF's
recent announcement of bloodletting, donning-of-neckties, and move-
to-within-the-Beltway. One of the great hopes which Clinton's
presidency carries for libraries and information networkers is the
influence that Vice President Al Gore and CEA chair Laura Tyson now
will have in hi-tech policy. EFF, and Mitch Kapor personally, have
an opportunity -- an obligation, I think -- to represent all of us
there now with their intelligent, articulate, and responsible views
on telecommunications policy and the National Public Network.

It is too bad that the legal end of EFF's previous concerns may get
neglected for a bit. Policy is more important, though: Clinton-
Gore-Tyson, and Kapor-EFF, have an opportunity now to write the
laws which will govern the rest of us in telecommunications and
networking for the next several decades. I personally welcome EFF's
decision to focus its primary attention on that formidable job.

Jack Kessler

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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:57:57 -0500
From:         JROBACK@CARLETON.EDU
Subject:      Writing Critical Editions

Hello,

     I'm writing on behalf of a collegue who is looking for
advice on how to write a Critical Edition.  In this
case the subject is from 18th century French literature.

     I would be glad for any personal advice or citations
to published guidelines.  Your help would be very much
appreciated. :)

Thank you,

Jean Roback
Carleton College Library
Internet: jroback@carleton.edu

P.S. Please REPLY DIRECTLY TO ME as I am not a subscriber
on this list.  Thanks!
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From: dschenke@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Dennis L Schenkel)
Subject: The Self, Rhetoric, 17th-20th C
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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:17:55 GMT

Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 17:06:23 EST

I am wanting to do my thesis in Rhet/Comp, I have a paper to write for my 19th
C Brit Seminar, I have a paper to write for my Renaissance course...and 
probably a couple of papers to write in the 20th C Amer course and the
Shakespeare course I will be taking next quarter.  The construction of the self
by different writers at different periods would seem to be a theme that I could
research thoroughly, and thereby generate material for various papers.

To get to my point, I am hoping that you can point me in the direction of some
useful volumes on this subject.  A general work on this subject, or one
specific to 17th, 18th or 19th C England would be very helpful.

I think Dickens _David_Copperfield_ would make splendid material for talking
about the self, don't you?  I mean, the autobiographical nature of it and
all...

Grateful for your assistance, I am

Ever your friend,
Dennis

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From:         steve foreman <C223468@MIZZOU1.BITNET>
Subject:      clipper 5.02

i would also be very interested in hearing about Clipper 5.02.
i also have written some code in Clipper to emulate the
dBase @m picture clause for Clipper programmers if any one is
is interested.
From: lapworth@mizar.usc.edu (Bill Lapworth)
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Subject: Clipper 5.2 upgrade price?
Date: 21 Jan 1993 14:25:30 -0800
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NNTP-Posting-Host: mizar.usc.edu

Anybody heard what CA is asking for the upgrade to Clipper 5.2?

Reason I ask is that _Programmer's Paradise_  has competitive upgrade
to 5.2 with choice of 1 of either 1: CA-dBFast, 2: CA-Clipper Tools or
3: Compiler kit for dBase IV for $149 (I recall that CA wanted 199 for
this offer), and I'm tempted to get the dumBase 4 kit.
(800-445-7899 in case you're interested)

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From:         "A. Kaniss" <dashiell@NADC.NADC.NAVY.MIL>
Subject: Re: dBIV ver. 1.5 PICTURE "@M"

If they kept dbase iii+ and iv consistent and it appears they haven't,
that @m isn't a picture at all but a function.  So it should read
function @m.

jude <dashiell@nadc.nadc.navy.mil>
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Date: 21 Jan 93 17:09:02 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

Hi to all clipper programmers,




Can anybody reccomend an anon FTP site for Clipper??????



Thanks in advance.



Gonzo.

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From: ddaye@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David C Daye)
Subject: dBase IV on VMS question
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:16:28 GMT

As the subject line says, I'm running dBase IV (1.1, I believe is the
version) on a VAX VMS system. 

I have a few questions pertaining to the creation of files on the VAX
which are destined for PC DOS use, but they're very specific to the VMS
environment.

Please e-mail me if you're running dBase IV VMS and are willing to try
your hand at a few questions. 

Thanks.
David Daye
DAYE.1@OSU.EDU
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From:         Rich=Gautier%SETA%DRC@S1.DRC.COM
Subject:      re: dBIV ver. 1.5 PICTURE "@M"

It's possible that your GET screen window is large enough to hold the variable
you are GETting.  In this case, @M won't have any effect.

                                                Rich
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              26 Jan 1993 23:47:48 -0500 from <mistarr@THEO.JTSA .EDU>

Does anyone know of a Norton Guide file for FOXPRO 2.0?
I think that this would be of great interest...

Jeff
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From:         Chee-Ming CHEW <C034CCM@UTARLG.UTA.EDU>
Subject:      Question on using BROWSE on FOXPRO

Hi there,

        Suppost in my database file contain the following structure,

                NAME            Type            Width
                STUDENT ID      Character       9
                PASS            Logical         1

        all the values in field PASS are default to  .T.
        Now, I am using BROWSE to display all the students id with the
        PASS field is .T. only.

        My question is : Is there anyway that I can move the highlighted
                         bar between the records within the BROWSE window
                         and press a defined key (F10) to change the
                         logical field PASS to .F. ,then remove that record
                         from the BROWSE window (not from the database) and
                         finally store the value .F. to the database file ?

        Any suggestion will greatly appreciate, thanks in advance.

C.M. CHEW
IN%"C034CCM@UTARLG.UTA.EDU"
The University of Texas at Arlington
Academic Computing Services
From: mcsdc1sjt@dct.ac.uk (Gonzo)
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Date: 21 Jan 93 17:08:04 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

> Have any of you gotten the beta release of CA-Clipper Objects for Windows?
> I'm interested in hearing from people who have evaluated this product to
> get answers to the following questions:
> - Does CA-Clipper for Windows generate true Windows code? or is it just a
>   DOS program with the look and feel of Windows?
> - How good does it convert Clipper 5.01 code to Windows?
> - Is the product good enough to develop complex database applications for
>   a Windows environment?
> I'd appreciate very much your opinion. We're currently on the waiting list
> to get the beta release for this product and are considering developing a
> database application which is fairly complex with it. Thanks for your help!
> 
> Alberto.

I would also be intrested in this if anyone has any info??



Thanks Gonzo.


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Subject:      C++ Library for DBase files using Windows???

I will be interested in any comments too!  I have to do a research
paper on Smalltalk or C+++ for my Object Oriented Programmming class.
So any information will be helpful.

Thanks!
From: mcsdc1sjt@dct.ac.uk (Gonzo)
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Subject: Re: C++ Library for DBase files using Windows???
Date: 25 Jan 93 09:22:51 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

> Hi -
> 
> We need a library which can be linked into Windows/C++ (functions
> called from c++ using WINDOWS) which will perform
> Dbase file I/O.  We want as many of the 4 GL operations
> still intact.  For example,  Indices should be automatically
> updated upon appends/replaces/etc.  Routines like "Browse"
> should be be available too.
> 
> If anyone has any experience or comments on the products out there -
> please let me know!!
> 
> (DB/Lib, SoftC, ....others???)
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> John Mead
> reply to:   mead@bigboy.epri.com

If anyone has this info then please send it too me also. Thanks.


Gonzo.

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From: pmsc02av@UMASSD.EDU
Subject: Rotating a browse in Clipper 5.01
Reply-To: pmsc02av@UMASSD.EDU
Organization: UMASS DARTMOUTH, NO. DARTMOUTH, MA.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:50:28 GMT

    Does anybody know of a way to rotate a Tbrowse in Clipper?  Browses usually
have each row as a record and then each collumn as a field within the record.
What I need to do is to have each column as a record, and each row as a field.
I figure with a messy enough code block (with heavy doses of FIELDPOS and
BROWSE:ROWPOS) I could probably figure out a way to do it.  I was just wondering
i anybody knew of an easier way?  Shareware LIB maybe.....?
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