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From: bernd.meyer@FERNUNI-HAGEN.DE ((Bernd Meyer))
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Date: 15 Oct 92 10:14:52 GMT
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              Chang" at Oct 14, 92 10:58 am

Harry,

if you send me your snail-mail address, i could send you an technical
report on a sketch-based interface to spatial IS. A related paper will
appear in the proceedings of the int. Workshon on Interfaces to Database
Systems held in Glasgow, 1992, but the proceedings will not appear before
end of this year / beginning of next year.

Bernd

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From: graves@ZEN.WES.ARMY.MIL ((Mark R. Graves))
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Subject: Position Announcement
Date: 14 Oct 92 20:43:37 GMT
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I am forwarding this position announcement as a service to those
in the GIS community who might be interested......


    A unique opportunity exists for a manager to develop a program
    and operate a Geographic Information System Laboratory for the
    Texas Parks and Wildlife Depeartment, a state agency in Austin,
    Texas.  The laboratory will function as an agency-wide facility
    to support mandates to protect and manage the State's fish,
    wildlife, habitats, and recreation resources.  The job requires
    a Master of Science (or better) in Ecological Sciences or
    Resource Management with formal training in GIS.  Applicants
    must have demonstrated ability to plan, organize and conduct
    GIS projects; possess good communication skills; and develop
    team work within a diverse group of technically trained
    individuals.  Salary $46,000.

    To obtain additional information and an application contact:

                  Ms. Jeane Acord
		  Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
		  Resource Protection Division
		  4200 Smith School Road
		  Austin, Texas  78744

                  (512)389-4725

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  Mark R. Graves
  Spatial Data Analysis Team
  Environmental Laboratory
  US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station

+----------------------------+---------------------------------------+
| USACE-WES-EN-C             | FAX:       (601) 634-3726             |
| ATTN: Mark R. Graves, EN-C | Voice:     (601) 634-2557             |
| 3909 Halls Ferry Rd.       | e-mail:    graves@zen.wes.army.mil    |
| Vicksburg, MS  39180       |                                       |
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From: navanax@U.WASHINGTON.EDU (Indiana Jones)
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Subject: Request
Date: 15 Oct 92 16:01:42 GMT
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   Greetings. I would like to receive information on the sketch-based
GIS interface as well. Please forward at earliest convenience to...
   Thomas Edwards
   Dept. of Geography DP-10
   Univ. of Washington
   Seattle, WA 98195

Thanks a lot!

   Tom Edwards
   navanax@milton.u.washington.edu
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From:         "(Bernd Meyer)" <bernd.meyer@FERNUNI-HAGEN.DE>
Subject:      Re: inquiry

Dear Mr. Kuo,

please contact me directly, if you are interested in sketch-based
interfaces to spatial/geographical information systems.

regards,

Bernd Meyer

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From: bernd.meyer@FERNUNI-HAGEN.DE ((Bernd Meyer))
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Subject: My last message to this list
Date: 15 Oct 92 10:42:31 GMT
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              Chang" at Oct 14, 92 10:58 am

Hi,

excuses for my last posting to this list which was private mail and was
only accidentally mailed to this list.

Bernd  (meyer@fernuni-hagen.de)

Bernd Meyer, FernUni Hagen, Germany
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Date:         Fri, 16 Oct 1992 08:00:02 MDT
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From:         roliver@NMSU.EDU

good morning. i would very much like information about the sketch-based
GIS. my email address is:

roliver@nmsu.edu

and my snail mail address is:

richard oliver
department of computer science
department 3cs                    (it really is 3cs)
new mexico state university
las cruces, new mexico
88003

thank you very much.

roliver
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Date:         Sun, 11 Oct 92 22:06:55 -0400
From:         JAMES K KINDAHL <kindahl@TITAN.UCC.UMASS.EDU>
Subject:      NB4 and soft fonts
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene

NB4 arrived here in Western Massachusetts last week.
Installing it went smoothly, except for installing my soft
fonts.  In NB 3.0, I use bitmapped soft fonts downloaded to an
HP II laser printer.  I load from within NB by issuing the
command "DO DL CENT110L" (CENT110L is the name of the font
catalog, and DL is a command from Lodestar Utilities for
downloading.)  This downloads the fonts to the printer and
returns me to NB when the downloading is done.  Loading a .PRN
printer file for these fonts (created by Lodestar Utilities)
is sufficient to make make NB3 recognize the fonts and send
printer instructions accordingly, and also to give correct
line counts in page-line mode.   I have tried to do this in
NB4; it doesn't work.  The command LDPRN CENT110L.PRN seems to
work - at least no error message is received.  But it has no
effect.  The page-line mode does not provide anything like the
proper printed layout should be.  When I print, after having
downloaded, I get the default font of the printer, which is
12-point Courier monospaced.  Clearly the printer file
approach doesn't work in NB4.

Perhaps, I thought, NB4 will install my soft fonts even though
it has no printer table or equivalent for them on the
distribution disks.  Lodestar Utilities creates a printer file
by reading the font description file; so it would be possible
to have something like that built into NB4.  I tried several
times to install my soft fonts into NB4, but had no success.
The installation program reports "no uninstalled fonts found",
whether I put the fonts in NB4\FONTS, in C:\FONT, or on a
floppy disk (giving the appropriate path when requested, of
course.)   It appears that it can load only those fonts for
which it already has a printer table (or its equivalent) on
one of the printer disks supplied.  I can find no way to use
my soft fonts.

I would be grateful for any help.

James K. Kindahl     kindahl@titan.ucc.umass.edu
Economics            University of Massachusetts/Amherst
From: pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Paul J. Bodin)
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Subject: Re: misc
Date: 16 Oct 92 18:19:27 GMT
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Itamar Even-Zohar writes re: NB 4.0 vs. NBLingua:

> ... It takes less memory than
> NBLINGUA, and its display is less shaky and more pleasant.
> It does not save accented characters as 3-bytes combinations,
> etc.

On my screen the Lingua display is stable, pleasant, and completely
free from any quiver, shake or flicker.  I am using an ATI VGA
Basic-16 card and a relatively inexpensive Princeton VGA monitor.
Perhaps the flicker/shake comes from your hardware, Itamar?

Also you can prevent the conversion of accented characters to 3-byte
combinations either by saving the file with a switch or through the
menu.  Even if you accidentally save a file in this way and want to
switch it back there is a conversion utility available from the files
menu that will remove the extended Lingua sequences.  I might note
that there is also a utility that converts NB 4.0 files to NB 3.0
files available from the Files menu (although I don't think it works
with SLS files...).

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Paul J. Bodin                         Internet: pjb3@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
Union Theological Seminary               smail: 435-52nd Street
(718) 439-3549                                  Brooklyn, NY 11220
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Date:         Fri, 16 Oct 92 10:12:13 EDT
From:         Tom Schlesinger <tos@OZ.PLYMOUTH.EDU>
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>
> PS. I would like to prepare a short report of NB 4.0 with
> 'innovations and imrovements', 'bugs and problems', and
> 'missing features', as main headings. If you are willing
> to contribute, please send me items (short, please; bewtween
> 3-7 lines), and I'll integrate them in this doc. I will
> then post the report for everybody's inspection.
>
Not having the correct Internet address, I'm posting this to the list:  NBI
touts the separation of font and pitch as a simplification.  Reasonable people,
mainly users in different situations with different equipment and needs can
disagree on that in the first place.  But it turns out that one may need not
only the two deltas, i.e. FF and PT to print a certain way, but two more
deltas, one for height of the letter, and for enhanced, i.e. letter quality v.
normal, and I find that absolutely ridiculous.  I use NEC dot matrix P2200 and
P3200 printers (home/office), and just typing one single delta used to take
care of what now needs FOUR!

The above seems to be the permanent, long range situations.  In the short term
they still haven't got the printer drivers for those printers sufficiently
finished to all or even most that those printers support.

Tom Schlesinger                 INTERNET: TOMS@PSC.PLYMOUTH.EDU
Social Science Department       UUCP(USENET): tos@oz.plymouth.edu
Plymouth State College          Tel: (603) 535-2498
Plymouth, NH 03264  USA         FAX: (603) 535-2654


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Date:         Fri, 16 Oct 92 17:26:30 IST
From:         "Itamar Even-Zohar,
              Porter Chair of Semiotics" <B10@TAUNIVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: misc
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              16 Oct 92 09:54:14 -0500 from <ksalzber@HAMLINE.EDU>

Re: switching back and forth NB 4.0 <--> NBLINGUA

I work with HGC+ card. As I reported before, I can easily
switch to ASCII mode; but when I try to return to NBLINGUA,
the pgm requires re-installation, looking for the relevant
files on the floppy disk.

Has anybody with HGC+ been able to go back and forth?

Itamar
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Date:         Fri, 16 Oct 92 10:48:28 EDT
From:         "Paul J. Bodin" <pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject:      Huddle at SF?
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Mateen Elass and I have noted that many members of the NB list are
also members of AAR and/or SBL.  How many of us will be attending the
San Francisco meeting next month?  Should we organize an informal
huddle so that we can meet and speak face to face?

For both Mateen and me this will be our first meeting, so we don't
feel up to organizing such an affair, but we'd like to see it happen.

___________________________________________________________________________
Paul J. Bodin                         Internet: pjb3@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
Union Theological Seminary               smail: 435-52nd Street
(718) 439-3549                                  Brooklyn, NY 11220
From: B10@TAUNIVM.BITNET (Itamar Even-Zohar,
              Porter Chair of Semiotics)
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Subject: Re: misc
Date: 16 Oct 92 17:47:14 GMT
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Jerry,

I am puzzled by your report that switching is so easy.
Why should HGC+ be different in this respect? After all,
they used HGC+ as default. Perhaps there is no need to
switch back via Symbolset?

Why can't you load an NB 4.0 printer when in NB 4.0,
and a LINGUA printer when in lingua? Such commands can
probably be inserted into NBSTART.INT?

Itamar
From: M.E.Bennun@CEN.EX.AC.UK
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Subject: V. 3.1 speller/memory matters.
Date: 14 Oct 92 08:40:01 GMT
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While you folks Out There are gurgling away (or is it gasping and
strangling sounds I hear?!) over v. 4, I wonder whether I might
disturb you for a moment....

I have recently had my v. 3.0 upgraded to 3.1. Now I find that,
firstly, the help screens when the speller runs are corrupted ("Leave
word exactly as is?" is corrupted, and the "double occurrence" screen
is repaced by some of the text in a frame); and secondly, that the
speller runs agonisingly slowly - this is something really
pathological, for it used to be fast and it is now so slow as to make
the speller virtually pointless: it is quicker to proof-read. I have
the advantage of English English and it also notices when two words
are run together, but the combination of the corrupt help screens and
slow operation suggest that there is something awry.

I have a dim recollection of someone saying something about 3.1's
speller being able to use higher memory above 640K, and that this
would speed up operation. I hasten to add that I am getting my head
around the difference between expanded and extended memory, and that I
am not referring to these; and in any event my problems do not relate
to them as they occur on both a 1M and a 5M RAM'ed machine.

Is this correct; and if it is, how is the magic wrought? The two
matters be be inter-related.

Good luck to all you v. 4'ers - may the Great Dragonfly hover over you
and all your works!

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Mervyn E. Bennun, Law Department, University of Exeter
Phone: (+44) (0) 392 263 161
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Date:         Sat, 10 Oct 92 20:40:35 EDT
From:         "Paul J. Bodin" <pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Lingua and Trident VGA
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Roy Harris writes:

> ... I got nothing but a screen full of garbage (mainly lines
> of a single character, one of the box corner characters, as I
> recall). Remembering that someone had said that Lingua was
> reported not to be compatible with the Trident VGA chip, I erased
> all files in my NB4 directory and reinstalled NB4 without Lingua
> (and also without Orbis and Ibid). ...
> ... To use
> Lingua, it appears that I will have to junk my Trident card. But
> that presents a problem. When the system board in my Gateway 2000
> 386SX went kaput, I replaced it a DTK board and my ATI WonderCard
> no longer worked. That is why I'm using a Trident VGA display. If
> not an ATI card, what video card would be a good choice?

Hmmm... why won't the ATI card work with your DTK board?  Can you get
a BIOS upgrade from DTK?  The Wonder is register compatible with IBM's
VGA specification...

Anyhow, I suspect you can also get the Lingua video to work with the
Trident card.  I know there are some glitches here, but I think if you
try starting NB with the /b command line switch it may work with the
Trident card.  That is essentially what the Lingua install program
does, and since your screen didn't get scrambled until you finished
installation and rebooted I bet it will eliminate the problem.  It's
worth a try, anyway.

___________________________________________________________________________
Paul J. Bodin                         Internet: pjb3@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
Union Theological Seminary               smail: 435-52nd Street
(718) 439-3549                                  Brooklyn, NY 11220
From: B10@TAUNIVM.BITNET (Itamar Even-Zohar,
              Porter Chair of Semiotics)
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Subject: Re: Arabic on NB
Date: 13 Oct 92 15:55:26 GMT
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              13 Oct 92 15:34:49 +0200 from <sokoloff@BIMACS.CS.BIU.AC.IL>

I would be grateful to have this lost child back... Thanks!

Itamar
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Date:         Mon, 12 Oct 92 11:35:31 EDT
From:         "Paul J. Bodin" <pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Lingua and Trident VGA
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Roy Harris writes:

> ... For
> the moment I need to see if I can install the /b switch
> permanently. In layman's terms, Paul, can you tell us what the /b
> switch is doing?

Yes, the /b switch can be installed permanently.  Just invoke NB
(once) with the /b+ switch.  Subsequently it will always start in that
mode, even if the /b switch is not explicitly invoked.  If you wish
later on to change back use the /b- switch and the program will return
to its default behavior.

The /b switch is really quite simple in its effects.  Nota Bene by
default uses direct video memory access for its screen management.
This can cause problems with video cards that manage their memory
hardware in a manner different than the standard IBM VGA hardware.
*All* VGA cards, though, should respond to the standard BIOS video
calls correctly (or they aren't VGA), so the NBI programmers have
added a switch to NB.COM to force it to use BIOS calls for video I/O
instead of direct video memory access.  The BIOS calls are not as fast
as direct video memory access, which is why programmers started using
the direct memory write method in the first place, but I don't notice
any perceptible slowdown using the BIOS method on today's faster
machines.

> Thanks a million for the help.

You are most welcome!  :-)

___________________________________________________________________________
Paul J. Bodin                         Internet: pjb3@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
Union Theological Seminary               smail: 435-52nd Street
(718) 439-3549                                  Brooklyn, NY 11220
From: MICHALO@NEWSCHOOL.EDU (Michael Obuchowski)
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Subject: Re: NB4.0 and Pc-Tools
Date: 16 Oct 92 15:16:44 GMT
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Peter MacDonald <PMACDON%UNC.bitnet> writes:

> After installing all of NB4, Lingua, and ORBIS, I found that
> I can no longer use the EDIT function on PC-TOOLS.  The computer
> locks up.  This happends also when I try to use MAP to map out
> the memory usage on the hard disk.  I have reinstalled PC-TOOLS
> but still have the problem.  These fail me when I try to use them
> on either of my hard disks.

Theoretically, just installing NB4 etc. should not affect the way
Pctools works.  In your autoexec.bat, the only reference to NB I
could find was in the PATH.  Have you changed anything else?  Have
you tried to go back to your before-installing-NB4 autoexec (and
config.sys) and run Pctools?  I use Pctools 7.1 on all my computers
and it still works (after installing NB4, Orbis, Ibid, Ibid +).

                                           Michael Obuchowski


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Date:         Mon, 12 Oct 92 16:32:58 EDT
From:         "Jean-Pierre Ruiz" <RUIZJ@SJUVM>
Subject:      NB 3.1 / NB4 + Lingua / Stacker
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In response to a couple of recent postings:
I have been running NB3.1 with SLS / NB4 Lingua (Beta) with the software-
only version of Stacker on my Everex Tempo LX 386SX 20 notebook with no
problem.  There is a barely noticeable slowdown in system performance,
for which the doubling of available hard disk space (from 40 to nearly 80 Mb)
more than amply compensates.

Jean-Pierre Ruiz
St. John's University, Jamaica NY
RUIZJ@SJUVM.Bitnet
RUIZJ@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU.Internet