5.0099 Responses: tn3270; vms/unix; uv/ir light (3/70)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 27 May 91 16:07:50 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0099. Monday, 27 May 1991.


(1) Date: Wed, 22 May 1991 16:20 EDT (15 lines)
From: Gordon Dohle <DOHLE@Vax2.Concordia.CA>
Subject: Re: 5.0094 Query: TN3270 for UNIX ?

(2) Date: Tue, 21 May 91 17:56:00 EDT (33 lines)
From: Ed Haupt <haupt@pilot.njin.net>
Subject: vms vs. unix

(3) Date: Thursday, 23 May 1991 21:01:41 EDT (22 lines)
From: "Stephen McCluskey" <SCMCC@WVNVM>
Subject: Re: 5.0079 Responses: Ultraviolet and Infrared Light

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Date: Wed, 22 May 1991 16:20 EDT
From: Gordon Dohle <DOHLE@Vax2.Concordia.CA>
Subject: Re: 5.0094 Query: TN3270 for UNIX ?

You could try the archie archive searcher.

ARCHIE ?
TELNET 132.206.2.3 (quiche.cs.mcgill.ca)

To login into ARCHIE, at the prompt for login (quiche) type archie
then prog your search target

Gordon
Dohle@Vax2.Concordia.ca
Dohle@Conu2.Bitnet
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Date: Tue, 21 May 91 17:56:00 EDT
From: Ed Haupt <haupt@pilot.njin.net>
Subject: vms vs. unix

I have had a chance to use both a vax and a unix machine. The vax is a
upgraded 780 running vms with a Wollagong (WINS) mail system. The vax
help files are generally hateful, and for a unix user, full of bizarre
codes or names, and the wollagong mailer makes absurd demands on your
patience.

The unix system is pilot, which is set up by the state of new Jersey for
communication among academic users. Anyone who works at a college in NJ,
public or private can get an account. The system people are generally
good, so my comparison is a little biased. I regard the unix help files
(man ....) as obscure to the uninitiated, but basically comprehensible.
mail is not the friendliest, but knowing it is much more portable than the
vax equivalent. I use mm, which is a columbia product, which still has
emacs as an incomprehensible sort of editor, since I haven't switched to
the generally useful, but difficult for first-timers, vi.

I keep my adress aliases in a .mailrc file, I can set forwards easily,
(don't even try to ask me how it's done in Wollagong), etc. etc.

A newly converted unix partisan.


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Date: Thursday, 23 May 1991 21:01:41 EDT
From: "Stephen McCluskey" <SCMCC@WVNVM>
Subject: Re: 5.0079 Responses: Ultraviolet and Infrared Light

. I'm new to HUMANIST and got in the middle of this discussion. I have
no expertese but have often thought that the remote sensing community
has a good approach using multi-spectral scanners with as many as 256
spectral bands rather than the three of the naked eye plus UV and IR
that we're limited to. That, plus some number crunching (factor
analysis I think) and they can identify various kinds of plants, etc.
from aircraft and satellite images.

Couldn't that be used to identify different inks, remnants in
palimpsests, etc. Besides reflectance bands, people working with mss
also would have an equal number of flourescence bands to play with that
the aerial photographers lack.

It's certainly not something I could follow up but those in the
field might find it possible -- although it may have been tried and
found wanting already.

-- Steve McCluskey