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From: dionf@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Dion Francois)
Newsgroups: mtl.general
Subject: Re: French Wordprocessors
Date: 3 Oct 92 21:48:17 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

In article <guauRB1w165w@argus.CAM.ORG> paul@argus.CAM.ORG (Paul Mainville) writes:
>As registered user of Word for Windows 2.0 (english version) I called 
>Microsoft and got (for free) the "Outils Linguistiques Canadien-Francais" 
>disks.
>
>I did & received two disks containing the French-Canadian Thesaurus, Speller 
>and Dictionnary.  The nice thing about it is that you can have both on your
>system and select the one you need.

Ce programme est vraiment tre`s faible. La majorite' des erreurs trouve'es sont
inexistantes et les vraies erreurs restent bien ancre'es dans votre texte sans
que Word ne puisse les trouver. De plus, beaucoup de mots viennent de re'fe'-
rences Europe'ennes, ce qui n'aide pas vraiment pour les synonymes, car vous
risquez de vous retrouver avec un mot qui n'existe meme pas dans un dictionnaire
Canadien.

En conclusion, pour le prix il est vrai que le logiciel a un bon rapport
qualite' prix, mais une chose est sure: je ne payerais jamais pour cette
version.

Ciao,
--
Francois Dion
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From: mikhail@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Mikhail Ossama)
Newsgroups: mtl.general,misc.foresale.computers
Subject: want to buy a portatif computer ..
Date: 3 Oct 92 17:09:26 GMT
Distribution: ca
Organization: Universite de Montreal


hi
a friend of mine is looking for a portatif computer to buy it.
used or new it doesn't matter as long it's in a good condition.

please reply to his e-mail:

abdel@ere.umontreal.ca


Thanks
From: beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Denis Beauregard)
Newsgroups: mtl.general
Subject: Re: C'est quoi un AS/400?
Date: 30 Sep 92 17:14:11 GMT
Organization: Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Quebec, Varennes, Canada

In article <1992Sep30.151712.14745@cc.umontreal.ca> dufortm@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Dufort Michel) writes:
>
>	Bonjour,
>		Quelqu'un pourrait-il me dire quesqu'un AS/400?
>	Ca et la dans les 'Offres d'emploi' des journeaux j'y vois
>	ce nom de machine inconnu. Merci.
>
>					Michel Dufort

C'est comme un PC ou un Macintosh, mais en plus gros, pour plus cher,
et surtout, ca vient sans ecran et sans clavier.

Bravo d'envoyer des articles en francais sur mtl.general.  Cela fait du
bien...

P.S.  Le AS-400 est un mini-ordinateur d'IBM et sert surtout a des fins
commerciales.  Un peu comme un VAX.

-- 
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From: casgrain@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Casgrain Philippe)
Newsgroups: mtl.general
Subject: Looking for SE/30
Summary: Used Mac SE/30 w/HD
Date: 29 Sep 92 13:12:24 GMT
Distribution: mtl
Organization: Universite de Montreal


	If you have an SE/30 for sale, or thought about selling it,
please contact me: it'll have a good home!

Specifically:
	Macintosh SE/30 (any amount of memory)
	Internal Hard Disk (40 MB and up)
	Any keyboard

	At first glance, I am not interested in an external monitor.
However, if there is a card installed, I will gladly take it.

	Philippe Casgrain		Casgrain@ERE.UMontreal.CA
	Universite de Montreal		(514) 343-6111 ext. 1233
From: david@donald.concordia.ca (David Gaudine)
Newsgroups: mtl.general
Subject: French Word Processors
Date: 29 Sep 92 21:40:01 GMT
Organization: ORGANIZATION!! HERE? You must be kidding

I got several helpful answers to my last posting, not bad considering that
I cancelled it after 10 minutes!

I've settled on Word for Windows.  A final couple of questions:

   The store says that if I want to use the English version with the
French dictionary, I have to buy the English version and copy the French
dictionary from the French version.  Anyone know if that's true?  I
did verify that the French dictionary does not come with the English
version, but it MUST be available separately.

  What about the keyboard?  French keyboards only have a very few of the
more popular accented characters.  Is it necessary to use macros for
all others?

By the way, my news reader is on a 3 day delay, so if anyone posted
followups to my last posting I'll see them in a couple of days.
Not a great system.

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From: tourf00@DMI.USherb.CA (Francis Tourillon <Tourfman>)
Newsgroups: mtl.general
Subject: Re: C'est quoi un AS/400?
Date: 30 Sep 92 16:12:09 GMT
Distribution: can
Organization: U de Sherbrooke -- LIIT adicts - ANS - Ascot Boyz -

In article <1992Sep30.151712.14745@cc.umontreal.ca> dufortm@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Dufort Michel) writes:
>
>	Bonjour,
>		Quelqu'un pourrait-il me dire quesqu'un AS/400?
>	Ca et la dans les 'Offres d'emploi' des journeaux j'y vois
>	ce nom de machine inconnu. Merci.
>
>					Michel Dufort


	C'est un modele de mini-ordinateur de IBM assez populaire.  A part de
ca, je ne veux pas en savoir plus pcq c'est les micros qui m'interessent.

	Si tu as offert tes services pour une job sur As/400, tu devrais te
grouiller pour t'informer!

Salut, Tourf"helper!"man
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*       Appuyez Alt.ordinateur.sucks    La vraie base des informaticiens      *
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From: grenade@ozrout.uucp (Kate McDonnell)
Newsgroups: mtl.general
Subject: Enumeration
Date: 26 Sep 92 18:36:26 GMT
Distribution: mtl
Organization: Andre P. Ozrout

I don't watch much TV or listen to the radio a lot, so if this
question has an obvious answer please bear with me.

I didn't get enumerated for the referendum. I was out when they
came, and they left a slip of paper saying they'd be back the
next evening. They didn't come back, and the "phone for
information" space on the paper has been left blank.

I've looked in the newspapers, but have seen no ads saying where
to go to sign onto the list.

Any pointers would be much appreciated.

Kate


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From: paul@argus.CAM.ORG (Paul Mainville)
Newsgroups: mtl.general
Subject: re:French Wordprocessors
Date: 29 Sep 92 01:47:51 GMT

As registered user of Word for Windows 2.0 (english version) I called 
Microsoft and got (for free) the "Outils Linguistiques Canadien-Francais" 
disks.

I did & received two disks containing the French-Canadian Thesaurus, Speller 
and Dictionnary.  The nice thing about it is that you can have both on your
system and select the one you need.

Paul.

============================================================================
Paul Mainville                         email: paul@argus.cam.org 
Boisbriand, Quebec, Canada
============================================================================
From: emru@CAM.ORG (Emru Townsend)
Newsgroups: mtl.general
Subject: Re: Internet Access
Date: 5 Oct 92 22:22:28 GMT
Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada

In article <BvFA0y.D1I@CAM.ORG> laramee@CAM.ORG (Francois-Dominic Laramee) writes:
>The site I am posting from will soon (in a few hours, actually) start
>  charging 25$ a month for access. I would like to know if there are any
>  less expensive sites with full Usenet and Internet mail around
>  Montreal.

Likewise, though you can e-mail me here.

===========================================================================
Emru Townsend             | Lucy: Do you think anybody ever really changes?
Fido: 1:167/133           | Linus: I've changed a lot in the last year.
emru@cam.org  BIX: switch | Lucy: I meant for the better.
===========================================================================
From: jerry@cs.mcgill.ca (Gerald (Jerry) KUCH)
Newsgroups: mtl.general
Subject: Software For Sale... MS Office, MS Word
Date: 30 Sep 92 19:55:15 GMT
Organization: McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Here's the deal.  I have unopened, still shrink-wrapped, unused copies
of the following software... latest versions:

		Microsoft Office:
		  - includes MS Word for Windows, MS Excel,
		    MS PowerPoint, and MS-Mail

		Microsoft Word for Windows:

		Microsoft Visual BASIC

		Microsoft Professional Toolkit for Visual BASIC

The catches are that I do all of my text work with TeX, that I have no use for
a spreadsheet right now, and that I never make presentations.  Thus, the above
stuff will likely go essentially unused.  I'd like:

		$425 for MS Office

		$100 for MS Word

		 $95 for Visual BASIC

		 $95 for the VB Professional Toolkit

	        ($160 if you take VB and the Toolkit as a package)

EMail me and make me an offer.

-- 
 Jerry Kuch (jerry@cs.mcgill.ca) ----- SOMETHING NEAT SHOULD GO HERE.
 "I was wrong to play God.  Life is precious, not a thing to be toyed with.
  Now take out that brain and flush it down the toilet."
                  --- M. Burns  "Treehouse of Horror II"
From: jeanf00@DMI.USherb.CA (FREDERIC JEAN)
Newsgroups: mtl.general
Subject: Prix pour PC dans les Coops informatique universitaire demandes!
Date: 4 Oct 92 14:35:18 GMT
Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke -- departement de Mathematiques et d'Informatique


	Je suis presentement a la recherche d'un Pc 486dx-33 ou 50 dans

une Coop universitaire de Montreal (Dans le cadre du programme de pret
    -----------------------------
gouvernemental). Serait-il possible de m'informer laquelle pourrait

m'offrir les meilleurs prix ou plus simplement quelle sont ceux de votre

Coop etudiante? 


	Tout renseignements serait grandement apprecie, je promet de

publier les resultats de la Coop gagnante!


	Voici ceux de Sherbrooke:

	486dx-33
	------
	Cache		: 64 k
	Ram	  	: 4 Mg
	Floppy		: 1.2 et 1.4 Mg
	Disque dur	: 120 Mg
	Ecran		: SVGA, 1024 x 768, .39 dp
	Carte		: 16 bits, 512k
	+ clavier 101 + souris + dos 5.0

	Prix regulier	: $2936.00
	Prix special	: $2229.00
		

	466dx-50
	------
	Aucune vente de 486dx-50 (A savoir pourquoi!)
	
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Subject: no subject (file transmission)
Originator: paien00@roselin
Organization: -ddmi
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 19:08:44 GMT

This is a test - How original.
#2



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Organization: -ddmi
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 18:23:41 GMT

>From darvs00@dmi.usherb.ca Thu Oct  1 02:33:40 1992
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Subject: This is a test - please ignore
To: darvs00@dmi.usherb.ca (DARVS)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 2:33:37 EDT
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
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This is a test, please ignore.
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Newsgroups: pdx.online
From: root@techbook.com
Subject: French Restaurants
Followup-To: sender
Reply-To: restrant@techbook.com 
Organization: Portland's Unofficial Restaurant Guide
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 17:00:07 GMT

French Restaurants

(Instructions on how to vote are given below)

Brasserie Montmartre               [    ]  0 votes
626 SW Park                                                                
Portland, OR
(503) 224-5552

Cafe Des Amis                      [    ]  0 votes
1987 NW Kearney                                                            
Portland, OR
(503) 295-6487

Cafe du Berry                      [    ]  0 votes
6439 SW Macadam Avenue             7AM-3PM wkdys; 9AM-6PM S-S; 6-9 W-Sun   
Portland, OR
(503) 244-5551

L'Auberge Restaurant               [    ]  0 votes
2601 NW Vaughn                                                             
Portland, OR
(503) 223-3302

Ratings

[    ] --- Not rated
[zero] --- Horrible.  Maybe starving wouldn't be so bad.
[*   ] --- Beats starving.  Barely.  Lousy food and/or service.
[**  ] --- Adequate.  Slow service and/or average food.
[*** ] --- Very good.  Good food and service.
[****] --- Near-perfect.  Attentive service.  Excellent, authentic food.

Restaurants have smoking and non-smoking sections unless the restaurant
is specifically noted as being a non-smoking restaurant.  Restaurants
will be listed in multiple categories; if you think a restaurant is not
listed properly, let us know.  

***************************************************************************
How to vote:  Do a (R)eply from nn or rn, using the capital "R" to quote
the message.  The address should be "restrant@techbook.com". For each 
restaurant you want to rate, put a number between 0 and 4 (0,1,2,3,4) 
inside the bracket next to the restaurant's name.  The number followed 
followed by the colon is the restaurant's number in our database.  If you 
don't want to vote for a restaurant, leave it blank or delete the lines 
that refer to that restaurant.  The program looks for the START_BALLOT and 
END_BALLOT lines, so don't delete these lines.  

If you would like to make a comment about the restaurant, you have one line 
to describe the restaurant.  

If you would like to send suggestions or comments about the format of the 
listings, please put them at the start of your message.  The person quickly 
scans each message before turning it over to the program, so it's best to 
catch its attention as soon as possible.  

If everything works properly, you should get an automatic acknowledgement 
back from the program that reads the votes.  

Examples:

Jim's Home Cooking ABC: [0]
ABCO: [ Service was nasty, brutish, and took forever.  Food burnt black.]
TECHbooks Cafeteria XYZ: [2]
XYZO: [ Wonderful atmosphere, tasty books.                           ]

-- cut here --
START_BALLOT*
Brasserie Montmartre  159: [ ]
159O: [    ]
Cafe Des Amis  160: [ ]
160O: [    ]
Cafe du Berry  201: [ ]
201O: [    ]
L'Auberge Restaurant  161: [ ]
161O: [    ]
END_BALLOT
-- cut here --
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Newsgroups: pdx.online
From: root@techbook.com
Subject: German Restaurants
Followup-To: sender
Reply-To: restrant@techbook.com 
Organization: Portland's Unofficial Restaurant Guide
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 17:00:30 GMT

German Restaurants

(Instructions on how to vote are given below)

Rheinlander German Restaurant      [    ]  0 votes
5035 NE Sandy Boulevard                                                    
Portland, OR
(503) 288-5503

Ratings

[    ] --- Not rated
[zero] --- Horrible.  Maybe starving wouldn't be so bad.
[*   ] --- Beats starving.  Barely.  Lousy food and/or service.
[**  ] --- Adequate.  Slow service and/or average food.
[*** ] --- Very good.  Good food and service.
[****] --- Near-perfect.  Attentive service.  Excellent, authentic food.

Restaurants have smoking and non-smoking sections unless the restaurant
is specifically noted as being a non-smoking restaurant.  Restaurants
will be listed in multiple categories; if you think a restaurant is not
listed properly, let us know.  

***************************************************************************
How to vote:  Do a (R)eply from nn or rn, using the capital "R" to quote
the message.  The address should be "restrant@techbook.com". For each 
restaurant you want to rate, put a number between 0 and 4 (0,1,2,3,4) 
inside the bracket next to the restaurant's name.  The number followed 
followed by the colon is the restaurant's number in our database.  If you 
don't want to vote for a restaurant, leave it blank or delete the lines 
that refer to that restaurant.  The program looks for the START_BALLOT and 
END_BALLOT lines, so don't delete these lines.  

If you would like to make a comment about the restaurant, you have one line 
to describe the restaurant.  

If you would like to send suggestions or comments about the format of the 
listings, please put them at the start of your message.  The person quickly 
scans each message before turning it over to the program, so it's best to 
catch its attention as soon as possible.  

If everything works properly, you should get an automatic acknowledgement 
back from the program that reads the votes.  

Examples:

Jim's Home Cooking ABC: [0]
ABCO: [ Service was nasty, brutish, and took forever.  Food burnt black.]
TECHbooks Cafeteria XYZ: [2]
XYZO: [ Wonderful atmosphere, tasty books.                           ]

-- cut here --
START_BALLOT*
Rheinlander German Restaurant  242: [ ]
242O: [    ]
END_BALLOT
-- cut here --
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From: chaffee@reed.edu (Alex Chaffee)
Newsgroups: pdx.general
Subject: Honda Service
Date: 30 Sep 92 17:54:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: reed.1992Sep30.175407.25811
Distribution: pdx
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR

Does anyone have any recommendations for a Honda service station in
Portland, preferably close-in? I'm thinking of going to Speed's since I used
them once a long time ago, but if anyone has any other recommendations I'd
love to hear them.

By the way, is there any central archive for this newsgroup, or for this
sort of recommendation?

 - Alex

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From: briand@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Brian D Diehm)
Newsgroups: pdx.general
Subject: Re: United Way excuses
Date: 5 Oct 92 23:20:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: tekig7.7192
Reply-To: briand@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM
Distribution: pdx
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.

>It can't be hard to find a reason to not contribute to just about any
>organization . . .

Roy makes a good point here - and we all need to be sure we're not UW
bashing just to avoid our responsibilities.

However, here's something else to consider about UW in particular -

>organizations which do real good (IMHO, and I guess that's where we differ)
>and many of which can't afford to raise their own cash. So I grit my teeth
>and turn in my pledge card with a goose egg, then quietly contribute to them
>on my own.

At least the way it used to be, this approach didn't do any good. United Way
determined how much budget each member organization "deserved," and then
adjusted their contribution to make that happen. If you, Roy, contributed
directly to an agency, they would have to report that in their budget, and UW
would REDUCE their contribution by that amount.

So that comes full circle, because the only way around that trap for an agency
was to raise funds in some other way, and since UW has a monopoly on corporate
giving, "other ways" were pretty much closed off.

I understand in the last few years that the direct contribution capability
within UW is no longer monitored to reduce other contributions. I don't know,
I don't really trust UW management. I would be happy to be proved wrong.

--
Brian Diehm
Tektronix, Inc.                (503) 627-3437         briand@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM
P.O. Box 500, M/S 19-286
Beaverton, OR   97077
From: stever@crosstalk.tv.tek.com (Steven E. Rice  P.E.)
Newsgroups: pdx.general
Subject: Re: unleaded vs. regular... why the diff in price?
Summary: Bait and Switch
Date: 28 Sep 92 20:14:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: tvnews.1992Sep28.201417.8226
Organization: Tektronix TV Products

In article <1855@shaman.wv.tek.com> andrew@frip.wv.tek.com writes:

>                                     . . .  I pull into a gas station to
> buy regular for my 14-year-old car.  If it's a loss leader, they're
> going to talk me into buying something else in addition to the regular
> gas.  "How about some unleaded to take home?"  I don't see it.

The idea is to pull people into the station by giving top billing to the
lowest possible price.  Since fewer and fewer people drive cars that
use regular, they don't have to pump very much of it, so it doesn't
hurt them to price it below unleaded.

In other lines of business, it's called "Bait and Switch."

					Steve Rice

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stever@tv.tv.Tek.com                                   [phone (503) 627-1320]
From: mikeq@freddy.CNA.TEK.COM (Mike Quigley)
Newsgroups: pdx.general
Subject: Halloween Masks
Date: 6 Oct 92 20:30:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: master.3716
Distribution: pdx
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Redmond,  OR.

Thanks to all who responded with the address of the used magazine store.

Now, is there anyplace in PDX that sells high-quality (i.e.,professional)
horror masks??  

Thanks,

Mike
From: li@polaris.cs.pdx.edu (Jingke Li)
Newsgroups: psu.msgs,pdx.general
Subject: PSU Computer Science Colloquium
Date: 2 Oct 92 00:13:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: pdxgate.6164
Reply-To: li@polaris.cs.pdx.edu (Jingke Li)
Distribution: pdx
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Portland State University, Portland, OR


		   PSU Computer Science Colloquium
                   ===============================


		    Monday, October 5, 1992, 4 PM
		   -------------------------------
		   SBA 290, SW 6th and SW Harrison
		  (For parking info, call 725-4036)


		Data-Parallel Programming on a Network
		    of Heterogeneous Workstations

			   Michael J. Quinn
		       Oregon State University

ABSTRACT:  
We are convinced that the data-parallel programming style has many
advantages over the more primitive programming paradigms embodied in
commercial MIMD languages.  Our past research has described the
implementation of data-parallel languages on multicomputers and
multiprocessors.  In this talk I will describe how we modified the
multicomputer-targeted Dataparallel C compiler and run-time system to
enable us to run programs on a heterogeneous collection of UNIX
workstations.

BIOGRAPHY:
Michael J. Quinn is an associate professor of computer science at
Oregon State University.  He received his Ph.D. in computer science
from Washington State University in 1983, and from 1983 to 1989 he was
an assistant professor at the University of New Hampshire.  He is this
the author of two books and numerous research papers in the area of
parallel computing.
Newsgroups: pdx.general