4.0873 Queries: Voltaire; Mac: Spellchekers/WP; Jan. 15 (3/43)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 9 Jan 91 18:26:16 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0873. Wednesday, 9 Jan 1991.


(1) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 91 14:29 EDT (8 lines)
From: JHUBBARD@smith
Subject: Voltaire: History is a pack of lies

(2) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 91 09:07 EST (24 lines)
From: Matthew Wall <WALL@campus.swarthmore.edu>
Subject: Queries: Mac Language Spellcheckers and Chinese WP

(3) Date: 09 Jan 91 11:35:07 EST (11 lines)
From: James O'Donnell <JODONNEL@PENNSAS>
Subject: JAN15-L?

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Date: Tue, 8 Jan 91 14:29 EDT
From: JHUBBARD@smith
Subject: Voltaire: History is a pack of lies

Can anybody give me the source for a comment attributed to Voltaire to
the effect that "History is a pack of lies that we play on the dead."
Thanks in advance, Jamie Hubbard, Smith College.

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Date: Mon, 7 Jan 91 09:07 EST
From: Matthew Wall <WALL@campus.swarthmore.edu>
Subject: Queries: Mac Language Spellcheckers and Chinese WP

Hullo...in an effort to try to jump-start my modern languages faculty,
I'm currently looking into spellcheckers for French, Spanish, German,
and Russian. Please send me accounts of your experiences and/or rumours
you've heard about standalone spellcheckers or foreign language
dictionaries for MS Word and MacWrite II on the Macintosh. If there's
enough information to so warrant, I will summarize back to Humanist.

If anyone out there has any experience with Chinese word processors for
the Mac, I'd also be grateful for some advice.

Thanks in advance...

- Matt

Matthew Wall
wall@campus.swarthmore.edu
wall@swarthmr
Humanities Computing Coordinator
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, PA 19081
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Date: 09 Jan 91 11:35:07 EST
From: James O'Donnell <JODONNEL@PENNSAS>
Subject: JAN15-L?

Any suggestions/comments/preparations to employ the resources of e-mail
to facilitate communication in the event of hostilities? How far do the
nets reach? If the balloon goes up, we can expect a certain amount of
frenetic communication, requests for information, etc.: is there any
list in place or preparing that would serve to concentrate and channel
such communication, both to make that communication more effective and
to keep other lists from becoming swamped by news and rumors?