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This Week's Contents:
My Notes:
1) Format Clarification . . .
2) Help for the Tired Hands . . . Thanks! Another Request . . .
3) File Format Help!
4) ThinkPad Update . . .
5) FTP Sites for CompuNotes?
Columnists' Corner:
1) Bushman is Back!
News:
1) Father of Internet Honored!
2) Novell NetWare 4.1, GroupWise 4.1 Win PC Week IT Excellence Awards!
Reviews:
1) Bandits on the Information Superhighway Book
Reviewed by: Craig E. Bull (bull@opus.oca.udayton.edu)
2) Visual Basic 4.0 Reviewed By: Paul Ferrill (pferrill@fwb.gulf.net)
3) Whiplash by Interplay Reviewed By: Mike Gallo (gallomike@aol.com)
4) WordPro96 for Windows 3.1
Reviewed By: Doug Reed, Associate Editor (dreed@panda.uchc.edu)
Web Sites:
1) Indy 500 Live (http://www.theautochannel.com)
2) Create A Check (http://www.createacheck.com)
FTP File:
1) Internet Marauder!
Interview:
1) History of the Internet by Phillip Johnson!
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Date : May 20, 1996 |CompuNotes is a weekly publication available
Issue : 47 |through email and many fine on-line networks.
--------------------------|We cover the IBM computing world with
CompuNotes is published |software/hardware reviews, news, hot web
4Point, Inc., |sites, cool FTP files and interviews. We also
1315 Woodgate Drive |give away one software package a week to a
St. Louis, MO 63122 |lucky winner for just reading our fine
(314) 909-1662 voice |publication! Never dull, sometimes tardy, we
(314) 909-1662 fax |are here to bring you the way it is!
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The Backroom Workers: |We are always looking for
Patrick Grote, Managing Editor |people to write honest,
(pgrote@inlink.com) |concise reviews for us. Send
Doug Reed, Asst. Editor / Writer Liaison |a message to Doug Reed at
(dreed@panda.uchc.edu) |dreed@panda.uchc.edu with
Judy Litt, Graphics Editor/Web Master |your list of qualifications.
(jlitt@aol.com) |If Doug thinks we can count
------------------------------------------|on you to make things happen
I am looking for a collection of shareware|you'll receive free software
reviews I put out in the 87-88 timeframe |of your choice for review.
under my handle of NEVER BEFORE. I think |We like new writers!
they started as NB*.ZIP. Can you look |-----------------------------
on your local BBS? THANKS! | Go Chicago Bulls!
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Every issue of CompuNotes ever published can be found at the following
ftp site: ftp.uu.net:/published/compunotes. Thanks to UUNET!
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Our Web Site is at http://users.aol.com/CompNote/
Please Add Our Link to Your Homepage!
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To subscribe, send a message to notes@inlink.com with the command
subscribe compunotes in the subject.
To unsubscribe, send a message to notes@inlink.com with the command
unsubscribe compunotes in the subject.
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You Can Write for Us! See Masthead!
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SYSOPS READ HERE!
Wanting to make CompuNotes available on as many BBS as possible, we
can't afford to call everyone's BBS every week. What we would like to do
is send those interested sysops a UUENCODED version for posting on their
BBS. If you can volunteer to receive the UUENCODED version, turn it into
a ZIP and upload it to your BBS, we'll list you in our sysops directory.
If you are interested, fill out the following lines and send them
back to notes@inlink.com with SYSOPS.
We'll list your BBS in our SYSOPS LIST which will be included in
each version of CompuNotes we ship out. If you have a WWW link we'll
throw that up on our page.
BBS NAME:
BBS SYSOP:
BBS NUMBER:
URL:
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Patrick's News
Being The Publisher and Managing Editor Has Its Perks!
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FORMAT CLARIFICATION . . . |
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We've been publishing CompuNotes (even as CyberNews) for more than a
year. We have always tried to accommodate all points of view in the
computing world. It always seemed that when we tried to be as balanced
as possible we'd tick folks off. The last week I received a few more
flame mails about our lack of OS/2 coverage. My standard response is
when I can walk into a CompUSA and buy the *latest* software in OS/2
we'll start doing reviews. Oh, then again, CompUSA was thinking about
dropping OS/2 from the stores a few months back . . .
Seeing as this publication is a labor of love and is not designed to
please everyone, I've decided to scale back our coverage. After many
minutes of thought during the Simpson's here's the deal:
* We will primarily cover the Windows world. This includes 3.11, 95
and NT. Yes, this means we actually like Microsoft and the direction
they're taking. This also meshes well with my chosen career <grin>
* We will bring more of the helpful articles like the ThinkPad article
last week. I received such positive response to that article that I
know we need to do more.
* We'll cover the DOS world with a little more emphasis. I would like
to see more in the way of shareware or what to do with an under
achieving PC. I'm not sure. If you would like to help in this aspect
let me know.
* We'll have more hardware reviews. Not just things like modems, video
cards, etc. but helpful little items for your desk or cables.
If you are an OS/2 advocate, a MAC afficienado or, gulp, someone who uses
another type of computer, CompuNotes will still provide the same web
sites, news and interviews.
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HELP FOR TIRED HANDS II!|
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Thanks to all who responded with custom programs and advice. The folks
are inter1@pi.net, francesA-EP@worldnet.att.net and baechler@crl.com. I
settled on a nifty utility. Here is the info:
WriteLn ('FILTER v0.0 Written for Patrick Grote by Fred Schenk');
WriteLn;
WriteLn ('I hope this is what you ment in compunotes...');
WriteLn;
WriteLn ('And my own add: http://www.IAehv.nl/users/mbs/fred');
WriteLn (' The STEALTAG support-site');
WriteLn;
WriteLn ('Usage filter: FILTER INFILENAME OUTFILENAME');
WriteLn (' Infilename is the ascii-file with the names and addresses');
WriteLn ('Outfilename is the resulting ascii-file with only the addresses');
This baby works great! Unfortunately I misplaced the author's email
address :-( Can you resend your address!
What I need now is a utility that can take a text file with one address
on each line and delete that address from another text file that
contains the master subscription list. Any ideas?
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FILE FORMAT HELP!|
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OK, it's time for someone to pull my rear out of the fire :-) I'm trying
to automate the clean up of viruses off a NetWare network using the
Norton AntiVirus NLM. The sad part is that the log file that contains
the infected file information is in binary format of some sort. Symantec
won't give us the file format