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Subject:      Re: info on including documents in opac's

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From: Beverly Norton <LIBBJN@VM.BYU.EDU>
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 <duncan@equinox.unr.edu>

At the end of Sept. the Govdoc section of MPLA will be sponsoring a
program in Cheyenne at the annual conference that will deal with the
majority of the questions you asked.  I know that Idaho is not usually
considered a MPLA state however, many of your fellow librarians from
your area are members and do attend conference.  I have a great 1/2
price membership for first time members.  Contact me for more information.

For anyone else out there in GovDoc land we will also be sponsoring
a program on NTDB at the same conference.  I hope to see a big turn-out.
Vicky York, from Montana has been working really hard on this program.
This is only the second year for a documents section in MPLA and we
welcome any of you who would like to become members of our section.

Bev Norton - BYU - Provo, Utah.  E-Mail LIBBJN@BYUVM
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Subject: OFFERS -- Index Medicus

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        I am offering to the "first-in-line" the following volumes of
Index Medicus:

                1961-1967  Monthlies
                1968-1986  Cumulative bound volumes

        Reimburse postage/shipping, please.  Respond directly to:

                        Lisa Pruitt
                        James B. Duke Library
                        Furman University
                        3300 Poinsett Hwy
                        Greenville, SC  29613
                        (803) 294-3200 or 294-3203
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Subject:      Re: Unaccounted for microfiche included in box shipments

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 <duncan@equinox.unr.edu>

Here at Brooklyn College Library we have had the same experience. We made
our own "shipping lists" before entering and filing the fiche. Please post
any response you get from GPO. The whole microfiche situation is so horrific
that this seemed almost a minor inconvenience compared to the boxes with lists
that seem to have been packed in random order.
Jane Cramer
Brooklyn College Library
Brooklyn NY 11210
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From:         Duncan Aldrich <duncan@equinox.unr.edu>
Subject:      Congressional Record

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Not being one of the privileged institutions that can select the bound
Congressional Record, we are reaching a crisis point in shelving the daily
issues.  I have been trying to find out where we can purchase microfiche or
film, but my ignorance is proving a hindrance.

LLMC has filmed through 1989 (we already have it through '89).  Apparently,
they film the bound edition, not the daily issues.  Thus, there is a long
enough delay that shelf space becomes critical.  Does anyone out there know
if someone films the daily issues so that we could acquire it on standing order
until the Joint Committee on Printing authorizes GPO to do something about
this problem?  (GPO blames the JCP for the problem and says they can't do
anything until the committee either authorizes them to go back to microfiche or
to try to produce a useable CD product).

Reply to the list, if you think appropriate.  Otherwise,

                                Lisa Pruitt
                                Furman University
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Subject:      StatMaster

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Subject: StatMaster

On behalf of my colleague, Peggy Garvin, Automation Specialist in the
Congressional Reference Division of CRS at the Library of Congress, I am
posting this query to the list:  Has anyone purchased, tested, or used the
new product StatMaster from Oryx Press -- a package with search software
and selected census data?  I would be interested in hearing comments from
anyone who has tried it.  Please any responses to me, not to the list.
Thanks.
Cheryl Graunke, CRS Automation Office, Library of Congress
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Subject:      Re: Congressional Record

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Speaking of the Congressional Record on CD-ROM, does anyone know if
there are to be editions of this CD-ROM?


James Vileta
Government Documents Librarian

RM 375 Library
University of Minnesota, Duluth
Duluth, MN   55812
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Subject:      Still getting _Alcohol Health and Research World_?

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Does anyone know if Alcohol Health and Research World (HE 20.8309:)
(Item 507-B-19) is still coming as a depository item?  It's still
listed in the latest List of Classes, but we haven't received one
since Volume 15, No. 2 about a year ago.  (It's supposed to be a
quarterly.)

                        Thanks in advance,
                           Jeff Coon

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Subject: Offers: For Sale: Major Studies of CRS

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We have a complete set of the Major Studies and Issue Briefs of
the Congressional Research Service, 1916-1990 (University
Publications of America), for sale.  All reasonable offers will be
considered.

Please contact:
Claire M. Germain
Associate Director
Duke University Law Library
Durham, NC  27705

Internet: CMG@FACULTY.LAW.DUKE.EDU
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(Forwarded information)

We received duplicate copies of the following:


T 1.5               Daily Treasury Statement
                    Wed., July 1, 1992

C 21.5:1139/2       Official Gazette patents

GP 3.24:992/2       List of Classes

E 1.54:15/2         DOE this month


          If you are interested in receiving any of
          these copies, please respond to me by
          e-mail.


Ann Hamilton
kme0547@tamvenus.bitnet

Texas A&M University
Sterling C. Evans Library
College Station, TX.  77843-5000

(409) 764-6410

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From:         Dan Hale <DAN@SAFETY.NWSCC.SEA06.NAVY.MIL>
Subject:      Video drivers
X-To:         WIN3-L@uicvm.uic.edu

I am a network adminastrator on a Novell 3.11 network and we are
using Windows 3.1 on the network.  The way I have this setup is that
there is one main windows dir and each user has their own personal
win directory just what windows does by default with setup /n.  The
question I need help with is we have Super VGA Cards from CompuAdd in
all of our systems and I have been trying to install the ET4000
drivers so that we can run 256 colors.  Every time I try to install
it, I get a error message saying that I do not have rights to copy
that file to the network even though I am logged in as supervisor
with all rights to the dir and all rights to all files.  I have been
through this a number of times without ever getting any of it to
work.  If someone out there could PLEASE HELP me, I would be very
grateful.  Mail me direct.

Thanks


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>From: "Ian P. Mitchell <22016%UCDASVM1.BITNET@HKUVM1.HKU.HK>" <22016@UCDASVM1.A
   DMIN.UCALGARY.CA>
>Subject:PKZIP Trojans
>Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 08:51:01 MDT
>Message-ID:<1A1C5EA85C1F009C35@HKUJNT.BITNET>

>*** Resending note of 92-07-30 04:38
>From:         "Ian P. Mitchell" <22016@UCDASVM1.BITNET>
>
>>I'm sure I read somewhere recently that there was a disk-trasher doing
>>the rounds cunningly disguised as a new version of PKZIP.  Anyone
>>able to confirm this?
>
>I just got back from hols last night and a friend had sent me a virus alert
>dated July-8-92 concerning trojan versions of PKZIP.
>
>Apparently the programs to avoid are:
> PKZ201.ZIP
> PKZ201.EXE
> PKZIPV2.ZIP
> PKZIPV2.EXE
>
>The note also said that there would be no official version 2.01 or 2.2 due
>to this.
>
 I have got a copy of pkzip201.exe and tested a long time. But I found no
problem with the version. I found only that it is thebest and the fastest
compression program. It is better than arj ver2.30, lha ver2.13. Can anyone
tell me what is the problem with pkzip v2.01?
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>From: Jeffrey R Kell <JEFF%UTCVM.BITNET@HKUVM1.BITNET>
>Subject:RE: TCP/IP drivers for Windows
>Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 08:51:56 EDT
>Message-ID:<1AF5A7A1A55F007372@HKUJNT.BITNET>

>WinQVT/Net requires a packet driver (first) and its supplied protected mode
>interface PKTINT.  This works OK by itself, unless you have other goings-on
>with the network...
>
>Much to my chagrin and repeated efforts to achieve otherwise, you cannot have
>two duplicate protocol stacks at the same time, regardless.
>
>If you are using PC/NFS or IPX or other non-TCP/IP specific stack, you can
>use PKTMUX to run multiple protocols on one card.
>
>If your other protocols are running on an NDIS-compliant driver, you can
>use DIS_PKT to wedge a pseudo-packet-driver into the NDIS stack.
>
>Otherwise, I have not been able to get two similar stacks to run on a single
>adapter.  Period.  I would *love* to be proven wrong on that one though!
>
>/Jeff/  jeff@utcvm.utc.edu


I am now using PC-NFS and would like to run QVTNET with it. Where can I find
the driver PKTMUX
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Date:         Thu, 23 Jul 1992 23:34:20 EDT
From:         Joseph Malloy <jmalloy@ITSMAIL1.HAMILTON.EDU>
Subject:      Re: New Information On OS/2 Part 2
              Kalfaoglu" at Jul 23, 92 2:37 pm

[Turgut's dissertation deleted]

Turgut, I appreciate your excellent efforts on the OS/2 list, but I must
wonder where you get all this time to be an OS booster!  This may pain
you to read, but some of us tried OS/2 and found it wanting and we are
quite content with Windows 3.1 (all our floppies having been formatted
under OS/2 while trying to get WINOS2 to work!).

I mean, it's just an OS...it's not like it's something important (such
as Mozart's operas, for example)...

Cheers!

jmalloy@hamilton.edu

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Subject:      TCP/IP drivers for Windows

To Dierk Lucyga:

In response to qvt/net kicking you out of Windows and into a Dos propmt

Mine did the exact same thing....I updated my IPX and NETX files and
that was the fix........you also need the PKINT loaded.......

Just copying the new files over was all that it took!!!!!!

Sarah Bush
Consultant, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
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From:         Michael Gordon <GORDONM@DENISON.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Printing to FILE:

>
>What I did for her was to define just one printer in the Control Panel,
>the LaserJet III, and I connected it to FILE:.  Then I went into an
>Excel sheet which uses an Arial font (TrueType).  When I print the
>document in Excel, it comes up with the dialog box asking me for a file
>name to print to, which I supply.  Everything works fine, and the print
>ends OK.  I copy the print file to a floppy and take it over to the
>department machine, then I COPY the print file to PRN (they're hooked
>up through the standard PRN port).  And every time, only the first few
>rows of the spreadsheet print, and then it goes to the next page
>without finishing the previous one.
>

Try COPY/B (for binary) and it should work fine. I do the same thing often.

Michael D. Gordon
gordonM@cc.denison.edu
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:18:45 MET
From:         "Verheulpen W." <waverheu@VUB.AC.BE>
Subject: Re: TCP/IP drivers for Windows
              30

In a posting Wile E. Coyote writes :
>
> >Most PC-NFS applications use an NDIS driver/lower stack.  There is a driver
> >called DIS_PKT which acts like a packet driver but links (ie, NETBIND) into
> >the NDIS stack.  You might want check into it.
> >
> >/Jeff/
>
> Where might this be found?  I'd like to be able to use Reflection 2 for
> Windows which uses an NDIS stack, and WinQVT/net's FTP simultaneously, and
> maybe this would help.
>
> .......
> :  o/ : Bruce Hulsey
> : <|  : Univ. of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
> : / > : internet: bbhulsey@life.uams.edu
> :.....: bitnet:   bbhulsey@uams
>
>

I found DIS_PKT at vax.ftp.com in the subdir /pub/packet.driver/pubdom/
ndis. files readme protman.sys & dis_pkt.xxx
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From:         HeringerMR
              <WFCB/WFCB1/HeringerMR%Western_Farm_Credit_Bank@MCIMAIL.COM>
Subject:      MS DOCUMENT ON WINDOWS 3.1 VS OS/2
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the posting 'NEW INFORMATION ON OS/2 PART 2' included a reference to a
microsoft(?) document comparing os/2 and windows 3.1:

 >  RESPONSE TO MS DOCUMENT ON WINDOWS 3.1 VS OS/2
 >
 >           There is so much misleading information in this document
 >  that it is hard to know where to start.  Following are some brief
 >  responses to individual items.

where is this available?

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Date:         Tue, 21 Jul 1992 12:49:00 EDT
From:         LINDA@NUHUB.BITNET
Subject:      Lotus Organizer

While I was in London recently I picked up a couple of PC magazines to view
the state of the art in the UK. I was impressed by reviews of a PIM called
The Organizer which I understand Lotus now has rights to. Can some of our
colleagues in the UK who utilize this software tell us something about the
features available and does anyone know if there is a demo available somewhere.
I'd like to try it out. Has Lotus talked about a ship date for the Organizer
yet? Thanks for the information.

Douglas B. Hanson
linda@nuhub
linda@nuhub.acs.northeastern.edu
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From:         "Verheulpen W." <waverheu@VUB.AC.BE>
Subject:      Re: 3 com ports
              22,

In a posting Chuck Reeves writes :
>
> The reason Windows will not utilize COM 4 is because the IRQ values stored
> in most PC's are inaccurate.  Windows is one of the few programs that will
> actually look at that bios location to determine the IRQ settings for the
> COM ports.  Normally this table only display's the IRQ values for COM 1-2
> leaving the values for COM 3-4 blank (0000).  When windows goes to fetch
> the machines IRQ settings it finds COM 3 and 4 blank and simply takes
>  the last non-zero value as the IRQ for that port.  You can use debug to
> see these values in your bios.  Type:  1. debug    2. d 0040:0000
> The entries to the left correspond to the COM ports starting with 1,2,3,4.
> There is a program out called comports.com which will update this table.
> I'm currently using to run Procomm, Procomm Plus, and Procomm Plus/Windows
> to run on com 4.      I know for sure that it is available from Datastorm.
>
>
There is a small program on cica.indiana that does exactly the same thing
ie generating DOS entries for com3 & com4 at bootup. You can put it in
yr autoexec.bat & specifie port number & port address (if different fr
"standard"). File is w3setcom.zip
There is even an other one called setc1234.zip
Hope this helps.

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