7.0110 E-Qs: Research Credit; LHA problem; CD-ROMs; Film; The

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 17 Aug 1993 16:22:48 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0110. Tuesday, 17 Aug 1993.


(1) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1993 11:04:10 -0500 (20 lines)
From: simionat@unive.it
Subject: historical atlases available on CD-ROM?

(2) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 93 15:48:42 EST (24 lines)
From: Helen Schwartz <HSCHWART@INDYCMS>
Subject: E-Research Credit

(3) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1993 09:50:43 -0500 (EDT) (21 lines)
From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty)
Subject: LHA technical problem

(4) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1993 15:44:14 +0100 (21 lines)
From: Stuart Lee <stuart@vax.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: Film Studies

(5) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 93 10:27-0100 (23 lines)
From: Hobohm@IZ-Bonn.GESIS.D400.DE (49-228-2281-139)
Subject: Arts-database: "The Thing"?

(6) Date: 21 Jul 93 20:07:00 EDT (16 lines)
From: Ray Siemens <70353.3470@CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Collation Software

(7) Date: 21 Jul 1993 11:33:53 -0600 (CST) (15 lines)
From: JDHEG@jazz.ucc.uno.edu
Subject: American Modems in Italy

(8) Date: 22 Jul 1993 19:49:27 -0400 (EDT) (10 lines)
From: "David J. Bookbinder" <DB0965@ALBNYVMS.BITNET>
Subject: Japanese font for HP Laserjet

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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1993 11:04:10 -0500
From: simionat@unive.it
Subject: historical atlases available on CD-ROM?

I would like to know if there's a CD-ROM containing atlases referring to
different stages in world history - prehistory, classical world, Middle
Ages and Modern Era. I know there are CD-ROM's with up-to-date atlases,
with info on different countries as well.
Please reply DIRECTLY to me, thanks.



_____________________________________________________________________

Marco Simionato tel : 39 - (0)41 5225570
University of Venice Computing Centre fax : 39 - (0)41 5225570
Dorsoduro 2408/B email: simionat@unive.it
30123 Venezia, ITALY
_____________________________________________________________________

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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 93 15:48:42 EST
From: Helen Schwartz <HSCHWART@INDYCMS>
Subject: please post on humanist


The Modern Language Association (MLA) has recently adopted a
policy that endorses giving credit toward reappointment, tenure
and promotion for computer-related work (in research, teaching or
service), with the usual external review of such work. To
encourage adoption of this recommendation, the MLA's Committee on
Computers and Emerging Technologies (CET) is surveying current
policies and practice in the humanities.

Please send information from your department, college and
institution about your policies and practice giving (or NOT
giving) credit toward reappointment, tenure and promotion for
work with computers. Send to: HSchwart@indycms
[For documents, please send copies with relevant sections
highlighted to Helen Schwartz, English Department, Indiana U-
Purdue U at Indianapolis (IUPUI), 425 University Blvd.,
Indianapolis, IN 46202]

PLEASE POST THIS NOTICE ON OTHER RELEVANT ELECTRONIC BULLETIN
BOARDS. Thank you.
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Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1993 09:50:43 -0500 (EDT)
From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty)
Subject: LHA technical problem

The advice of my more technically competent colleagues would be very
welcome on the matter of a LHZ "broken archive".

I have recently been working on a large MS-Word document (12Mb),
containing many graphics. As you can easily imagine, it has been
convenient, if not necessary, to compact this document before
transferring it from my notebook computer to my desktop machine.
Because of the preponderance of graphics, this 12Mb compresses under
LHA into a 800K LHZ archive. The last time I attempted to uncompress
it, LHA reported, after a short time, "Broken archive". Nothing I have
been able to do seems to change the situation. All of my copies of the
file are LHZ archives with the same problem.

Zu Hilfe, zu Hilfe, da bin ich verloren!

Willard McCarty

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Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1993 15:44:14 +0100
From: Stuart Lee <stuart@vax.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: Film Studies

I've had a request recently concerning cinematographic research. Does anyone
know of a centre where scripts, articles, etc. relating to Film Studies are
stored in electronic form?

Thanks in advance,

Stuart Lee
Research Officer
CTI Centre for Textual Studies
Oxford University Computing Services
13 Banbury Road
Oxford
OX2 6NN
Tel:0865-273221/283282
Fax:0865-273221
E-mail: STUART@UK.AC.OX.VAX

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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 93 10:27-0100
From: Hobohm@IZ-Bonn.GESIS.D400.DE (49-228-2281-139)
Subject: Arts-database: "The Thing"?

Dear Humanists,

One of our patrons asks us about an american database called "The
Thing" which is supposed to deal with arts. We never heard of it.

Does anyone of you know it and can give us some hints on how to
connect to it? I just searched with Veronica the gopherspace but had
no results. Is it a WAIS-database? Or a commercial one? Cuadra says
nothing about it neither.

Thank you.

Hans-Christoph Hobohm

Social Science Informations Centre
Lennestr. 30
D 53113 Bonn

email: Hobohm at IZ-Bonn.GESIS.d400.de
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Date: 21 Jul 93 20:07:00 EDT
From: Ray Siemens <70353.3470@CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Collation Software

I am preparing to conflate several editions of a text which I have entered
into my computer. Having already read reviews of some shareware/freeware
collation packages currently on the academic market and looked at some
myself, I am interested in hearing what people on Humanist are using and,
especially, would recommend. Maybe if I had a Mac, my choice would be
easier, but I use an IBM PC. Any comments and suggestions would be greatly
appreciated.

Ray Siemens
rsiemens@epas.utoronto.ca
rsiemen@ccu.umanitoba.ca
70353.3470@compuserve.com
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Date: 21 Jul 1993 11:33:53 -0600 (CST)
From: JDHEG@jazz.ucc.uno.edu
Subject: American Modems in Italy

An Italian colleague of mine is here doing research and would like to
purchase a fax/modem to take back to Italy with her. Question: Do American
modems work on Italian phone lines, which use different plugs/jacks from those
used in the U.S.? How can they be adapted? Does anyone have experience and/or
knowledge of e-mail or internet addresses in Italy that might be able to
provide us with information?

John Hazlett
University of New Orleans

e-mail address: JDHEG@UNO.EDU
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Date: 22 Jul 1993 19:49:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David J. Bookbinder" <DB0965@ALBNYVMS.BITNET>
Subject: Japanese font for HP Laserjet

Does anyone know if there is a font cartridge or soft font of a reasonable
subset of the Japanese character set available for the HP LaserJet III? I'm
looking for something that includes the Chinese characters or some easy way of
constructing them.
-David Bookbinder