UNIX? Micro-OCP? Kermit? (106)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA)
Fri, 3 Feb 89 23:03:50 EST


Humanist Mailing List, Vol. 2, No. 557. Friday, 3 Feb 1989.


(1) Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1989 10:11 EST (50 lines)
From: Peter Batke <L64A3779@JHUVM>
Subject: UNIX Query for HUMANIST Members

(2) Date: Fri, 03 Feb 89 07:40:53 -0800 (15 lines)
From: mbb@jessica.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Micro-OCP

(3) Date: Fri, 3 Feb 89 11:57:38 CST (19 lines)
From: Mark Olsen <mark@gide.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Kermit documentation

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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 1989 10:11 EST
From: Peter Batke <L64A3779@JHUVM>
Subject: UNIX Query for HUMANIST Members

Dear HUMANIST;

In several weeks I will be doing a presentation on UNIX
and the Humanities to an AT&T meeting. One of the themes
I will sound is: Humanist have good reason to be afraid of
UNIX. At Hopkins, a substantial user base was recently
wiped out by a hardware upgrade that killed the e-mail as
well as the Ibycus system. All energies of the systems
people were devoted to fixing the mail, and the Ibycus will
probably be reborn on the Macs, not on UNIX. This is just
a small anecdote of what happens to the humanist minority
of computer users.

For my presentations I would like to collect success stories
as well as reports of atrocities.

If you would like to help in this project, please
respond (a brief note will do) via e-mail to:

Peter Batke
Humanities Discipline Specialist
Academic Computing
Johns Hopkins University

e-mail: L64A3779@JHUVM (sorry about the random numbers and letters)

I will send a summary of my findings to HUMANIST.


Here is what I would like to know:

1. Some background on UNIX and the humanities at your institution.
2. Ongoing UNIX projects.
3. Harware being used. (mainframe, workstation, PC)
4. UNIX dialect (4.2, V, Ultrix, etc...
5. Any anecdotes you might want to pass on.


Thanks in advance. I am hoping to further the cause of
humanities computing by getting into a serious discussion
with the System V people on what humanists require for
computing.


Peter Batke
Johns Hopkins University
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Date: Fri, 03 Feb 89 07:40:53 -0800
From: mbb@jessica.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Micro-OCP


Speaking of Micro-OCP, has anyone on the US side of the
Atlantic been able to acquire the program? I sent an
inquiry to Oxford some time ago. I was told I would be
be contacted by a distributor in New York, but I've heard
nothing. Further inquiries to Oxford have as yet produced
no results.

thanks
Malcolm Brown
Stanford
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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 89 11:57:38 CST
From: Mark Olsen <mark@gide.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Kermit documentation


I am looking for good MSKERMIT documentation in machine
readable form for distribution. Most of the documentation
I have seen is difficult for novices to follow and use.
Any suggestions?

I would also appreciate the titles etc. of good books
regarding KERMIT that can be recommended to novice users.

Thanks in advance,

Mark Olsen