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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQS);faqs.534 Price: $690. Volume discounts available. Other prices for various accessories, including custom wrist pads, foot pedals, etc. The layout has a large blank space in the middle, even though the keyboard is about the size of a normal PC keyboard -- slightly smaller. Each hand has its own set of keys, laid out to minimize finger travel. Thumb buttons handle many major functions (enter, backspace, etc.). You can remap the keyboard in firmware (very nice when software won't allow the reconfig). Foot pedals are also available, and can be mapped to any key on the keyboard (shift, control, whatever). Maltron (+44) 081 398 3265 (United Kingdom) PCD-Maltron Limited 15 Orchard Lane, Each Moseley Surrey KT8 OBN, United Kingdon Pamela and Stephen Hobday (contacts) U.S. Distributor: Jim Barrett Applied Learning Corp. 1376 Glen Hardie Road Wayne, PA 19087 Phone: 215-688-6866 (NOTE: I had a typo here, last time) Supports: PC's, Amstrad 1512/1640, BBC B, BBC Master, should have Mac by the end of the year Price: 375 pounds $735 shipped in the U.S.A. (basically, converted price + shipping) The cost is less for BBC computers, and they have a number of accessories, including carrying cases, switch boxes to use both your normal keyboard and the Maltron, an articulated arm that clamps on to your table, and training 'courses' to help you learn to type on your Maltron. You can also rent a keyboard for 10 pounds/week + taxes. U.S. price: $120/month, and then $60 off purchase if you want it. Shipping: Now (in your choice of colors: black or grey) Maltron has four main products -- a two-handed keyboard, two one-handed keyboards, and a keyboard designed for handicapped people to control with a mouth-stick. The layout allocates more buttons to the thumbs, and is curved to bring keys closer to the fingers. A separate keypad is in the middle. The Tony! Ergonomic KeySystem 415-969-8669 Tony Hodges The Tony! Corporation 2332 Thompson Court Mountain View, CA 94043, U.S.A. Supports: Mac, PC, IBM 3270, Sun, and DEC. Shipping: possibly by the end of the year. Price: $625 (you commit now, and then you're in line to buy the keyboard. When it ships, if it's cheaper, you pay the cheaper price. If it's more expensive, you still pay $625) The Tony! should allow separate positioning of every key, to allow the keyboard to be personally customized. A thumb-operated mouse will also be available. The MIKey 301-933-1111 Dr. Alan Grant 3208 Woodhollow Drive Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815, U.S.A. Shipping: As of July: "Should be Available in One Year." Supports: PC, Mac (maybe) Price: $200 (estimated) The keyboard is at a fixed angle, and incorporates a built-in mouse operated by the thumbs. Function keys are arranged in a circle at the keyboard's left. The Wave (was: 213-) 310-644-6100 FAX: 310-644-6068 Iocomm International Technology 12700 Yukon Avenue Hawthorne, California 90250, U.S.A. Robin Hunter (contact -- in sales) Cost: $99.95 + $15 for a set of cables Works with: PC only. Shipping: now. Iocomm also manufactures "ordinary" 101-key keyboard (PC/AT) and 84-key keyboard (PC/XT), so make sure you get the right one. The one-piece keyboard has a built-in wrist-rest. It looks *exactly* like a normal 101-key PC keyboard, with two inches of built-in wrist rest. The key switch feel is reported to be greatly improved. The Minimal Motion Computer Access System 508-263-6437 508-263-6537 (fax) Equal Access Computer Technology Dr. Michael Weinreigh 39 Oneida Rd. Acton, MA 01720, U.S.A. Price: InfoGrip-compatible: "a few hundred dollars" + a one-handed Bat For their own system: $300 (DOS software) + "a few hundred dollars" Shipping: these are custom-made, so an occupational therapist would make moulds/do whatever to make it for you. You can buy one now. Supports: PC only, although the InfoGrip-compatible version might work with a Mac. In a one-handed version, there is exactly one button per finger. In a two-handed version, you get four buttons per finger, and the thumbs don't do anything. You can also get one-handed versions with three thumb buttons -- compatible with the InfoGrip Bat. Basically, get it any way you want. They also have a software tutorial to help you learn the chording. Works on a PC under DOS, not Windows. Planning on Macintosh and PC/Windows support. No work has been done on a Unix version, yet. Twiddler 516-474-4405, or 800-638-2352 Handykey 141 Mt. Sinai Ave. Mt. Sinai, NY 11766 Chris George (President) Shipping: now. Price: $199. Supports: PC only. Mac and X Windows in the works. The Twiddler is both a keyboard and a mouse, and it fits in one hand. You type via finger chords. Shift, control, etc. are thumb buttons. When in "mouse" mode, tilting the Twiddler moves the mouse, and mouse buttons are on your fingers. The cabling leaves your normal keyboard available, also. Most applications work, and Windows works fine. DESQview has trouble. GEOWorks also has trouble -- mouse works, keyboard doesn't. Half-QWERTY (Canada) 416-749-3124 The Matias Corporation 178 Thistledown Boulevard Rexdale, Ontario, Canada M9V 1K1 E-mail: ematias@dgp.toronto.edu Supports: Mac and IBM (but, not Windows) Price: $84.95 (slightly higher in Canada) Shipping: Now. This thing is purely software. No hardware at all. The software will mirror the keyboard when you hold down the space bar, allowing you type one-handed. AccuKey 703-961-3576 Vatell Corp. P.O. Box 66 Christiansburg, VA 24073 (This info provided by Wes Hunter <Wesley.Hunter@AtlantaGA.NCR.com>) Price: ?? Shipping:: I believe that they are not shipping a product yet. Some arm twisting might get an evaluation unit. Specifications: 2" x 7" x 12"; 2 lbs.; 8 ternary keys; characters input by chording; emulates any conventional keyboard character set; plug compatible models for PC/AT, PC/XT, and all CRT terminals; no software mods needed Octima (Israel) 972-4-5322844 FAX: (+972) 3 5322970 Ergoplic Keyboards Ltd. P.O. Box 31 Kiryat Ono 55100, Israel (info from Mandy Jaffe-Katz <RXHFUN@HAIFAUVM.BITNET>) A one-handed keyboard. Microwriter AgendA (U.K.) (+44) 276 692 084 FAX: (+44) 276 691 826 Microwriter Systems plc M.S.A. House 2 Albany Court Albany Park Frimley Surrey GU15 2XA, United Kingdom (Info from Carroll Morgan <Carroll.Morgan@prg.oxford.ac.uk>) The AgendA is a personal desktop assistant (PDA) style machine. You can carry it along with you. It has chording input. You can also hook it up to your PC, or even program it. It costs just under 200 pounds, with 128K memory. Braille 'n Speak 301-879-4944 Blazie Engineering 3660 Mill Green Rd. Street, Md 21154, U.S.A. (information provided by Doug Martin <martin@nosc.mil>) The Braille N Speak uses any of several Braille codes for entering information: Grade I, Grade II, or computer Braille. Basically, letters a-j are combinations of dots 1, 2, 4, and 5. Letters k-t are the same combinations as a-j with dot 3 added. Letters u, v, x, y, and z are like a-e with dots 3 and 6 added. (w is unique because Louis Braille didn't have a w in the French alphabet.) =========== Thanks go to Chris Bekins <AS.CCB@forsythe.stanford.edu> for providing the basis for this information. Thanks to the numerous contributors: Doug Martin <martin@nosc.mil> Carroll Morgan <Carroll.Morgan@prg.oxford.ac.uk> Mandy Jaffe-Katz <RXHFUN@HAIFAUVM.BITNET> Wes Hunter <Wesley.Hunter@AtlantaGA.NCR.com> Paul Schwartz <pschwrtz@cs.washington.edu> H.J. Woltring <WOLTRING@NICI.KUN.NL> Dan Sorenson <viking@iastate.edu> Chris VanHaren <vanharen@MIT.EDU> Ravi Pandya <ravi@xanadu.com> Leonard H. Tower Jr. <tower@ai.mit.edu> Dan Jacobson <Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM> Jim Cheetham <jim@oasis.icl.co.uk> Cliff Lasser <cal@THINK.COM> Richard Donkin <richardd@hoskyns.co.uk> Paul Rubin <phr@napa.Telebit.COM> and everybody else who I've probably managed to forget. The opinions in here are my own, unless otherwise mentioned, and do not represent the opinions of any organization or vendor. -- Dan Wallach "One of the most attractive features of a Connection dwallach@cs.berkeley.edu Machine is the array of blinking lights on the faces Office#: 510-642-9585 of its cabinet." -- CM Paris Ref. Manual, v6.0, p48. Xref: bloom-picayune.mit.edu sci.med:51880 sci.med.occupational:177 news.answers:4668 Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!enterpoop.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!xn.ll.mit.edu!ames!agate!zonker.cs.berkeley.edu!dwallach From: Dan Wallach <dwallach@cs.berkeley.edu> Newsgroups: sci.med,sci.med.occupational,news.answers Subject: FAQ: Typing Injuries (3/3): Software Monitoring Tools [monthly posting] Supersedes: <typing-injury-faq/software_721370199@cs.berkeley.edu> Followup-To: sci.med.occupational Date: 16 Dec 1992 17:45:59 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 333 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Expires: 24 Jan 1993 17:45:51 GMT Message-ID: <typing-injury-faq/software_724527951@cs.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: Richard Donkin <richardd@hoskyns.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: zonker.cs.berkeley.edu Summary: software tools to help out injured typists Originator: dwallach@zonker.cs.berkeley.edu Archive-name: typing-injury-faq/software Version: 1.8, 7th December 1992 This FAQ is actually maintained by Richard Donkin <richardd@hoskyns.co.uk>. I post it, along with the other FAQ stuff. If you have questions, you want to send mail to Richard, not me. -- Dan Software Tools to help with RSI ------------------------------- This file describes tools, primarily software, to help prevent or manage RSI. This version now includes information on such diverse tools as calendar programs and digital watches... Please let me know if you know any other tools, or if you have information or opinions on these ones, and I will update this FAQ. I am especially interested in getting reviews of these products from people who have evaluated them or are using them. Richard Donkin Internet mail: richardd@hoskyns.co.uk Tel: +44 71 814 5708 (direct) Fax: +44 71 251 2853 Changes in this version: Added information on StressFree, another typing management tool for Windows. TYPING MANAGEMENT TOOLS: these aim to help you manage your keyboard use, by warning you to take a break every so often. The better ones also include advice on exercises, posture and workstation setup. Some use sound hardware to warn of a break, others use beeps or screen messages. Often, RSI appears only after many years of typing, and the pain has a delayed action in the short term too: frequently you can be typing all day with little problem and the pain gets worse in the evening. These tools act as an early warning system: by listening to their warnings and taking breaks with exercises, you don't have to wait for your body to give you a more serious and painful warning - that is, getting RSI. Tool: At Your Service (commercial software) Available from: Bright Star Tel: +1 (206) 451 3697 Platforms: Mac (System 6.0.4), Windows Description: Provides calendar, keyboard watch, email watch, and system info. Warns when to take a break (configurable). Has a few recommendations on posture, and exercises. Sound-oriented, will probably work best with sound card (PC) or with microphone (Mac). Should be possible to record your own messages to warn of break. Tool: AudioPort (sound card and software) Available from: Media Vision Tel: +1 (510) 226 2563 Platforms: PC Description: A sound card to plug into your PC parallel port. Includes 'At Your Service'. Tool: Computer Health Break (commercial software) Available from: Escape Ergonomics, Inc 1111 W. El Camino Real Suite 109 Mailstop 403 Sunnyvale, CA Tel: +1 (408) 730 8410 Platforms: DOS Description: Aimed at preventing RSI, this program warns you to take breaks after a configurable interval, based on clock time, or after a set number of keystrokes -- whichever is earlier. It gives you 3 exercises to do each time, randomly selected from a set of 70. Exercises are apparently tuned to the type of work you do - data entry, word processing, information processing. Exercises are illustrated and include quite a lot of text on how to do the exercise and on what exactly the exercise does. CHB includes hypertext information on RSI that you can use to learn more about RSI and how to prevent it. Other information on non-RSI topics can be plugged into this hypertext viewer. A full glossary of medical terms and jargon is included. CHB can be run in a DOS box under Windows, but does not then warn you when to take a break; it does not therefore appear useful when used with Windows. Cost: $79.95; quantity discounts, site licenses. Comments: The keystroke-counting approach looks good: it seems better to measure the activity that is causing you problems than to measure clock time or even typing time. The marketing stuff is very good and includes some summaries of research papers, as well as lots of arguments you can use to get your company to pay up for RSI management tools. Tool: EyerCise (commercial software) Available from: RAN Enterprises One Woodland Park Dr. Haverhill, MA 01830, US Tel: 800-451-4487 (US only) Platforms: Windows (3.0/3.1), OS/2 PM (1.3/2.0) [Not DOS] Description: Aimed at preventing RSI and eye strain, this program warns you to take breaks after a configurable interval (or at fixed times). Optionally displays descriptions and pictures of exercises - pictures are animated and program beeps you to help you do exercises at the correct rate. Includes 19 stretches and 4 visual training exercises, can configure which are included and how many repetitions you do - breaks last from 3 to 7 minutes. Also includes online help on workplace ergonomics. Quote from their literature: "EyerCise is a Windows program that breaks up your day with periodic sets of stretches and visual training exercises. The stretches work all parts of your body, relieving tension and helping to prevent Repetitive Strain Injury. The visual training exercises will improve your peripheral vision and help to relieve eye strain. Together these help you to become more relaxed and productive." "The package includes the book _Computers & Visual Stress_ by Edward C. Godnig, O.D. and John S. Hacunda, which describes the ergonomic setup for a computer workstation and provides procedures and exercises to promote healthy and efficient computer use. Cost: $69.95 including shipping and handling, quantity discounts for resellers. Free demo ($5 outside US). Comments: I have a copy of this, and it works as advertised: I would say it is better for RSI prevention than RSI management, because it does not allow breaks at periods less than 30 minutes. Also, it interrupts you based on clock time rather than typing time, which is not so helpful unless you use the keyboard all day. Worked OK on Windows 3.0 though it did occasionally crash with a UAE - not sure why. Also refused to work with the space bar on one PC, and has one window without window controls. Very usable though, and does not require any sound hardware. Tool: Lifeguard (commercial software) Available from: Visionary Software P.O. Box 69447 Portland, OR 97201, US Tel: +1 (503) 246-6200 Platforms: Mac, DOS (Windows version underway) Description: Aimed at preventing RSI. Warns you to take a break with dialog box and sound. Includes a list of exercises to do during breaks, and information on configuring your workstation in an ergonomic manner. Price: $59; quantity discounts and site licenses. The DOS product is bought in from another company, apparently; not sure how equivalent this is to the Mac version. The Mac version got a good review in Desktop Publisher Magazine (Feb 1991). Good marketing stuff with useful 2-page summaries of RSI problems and solutions, with references. Tool: StressFree (commercial software, free usable demo) Available from: LifeTime Software P.O. Box 87522 Houston Texas 77287-7522, US Tel: 800-947-2178 (US only) Fax: +1 (713) 474-2067 Mail: 70412.727@compuserve.com Demo (working program but reduced functions) available from: Compuserve: Windows Advanced Forum, New Uploads section, or Health and Fitness Forum, Issues At Work section. Anon FTP: ftp.cica.indiana.edu (and mirroring sites) Platforms: Windows (3.0/3.1) (Mac and DOS versions underway) Description: Aimed at preventing RSI, this program warns you to take breaks after a configurable interval (or at fixed times). Displays descriptions and pictures of exercises - pictures are animated and program paces you to help you do exercises at the correct rate. Quite a few exercises, can configure which ones are included to some extent. Online help. Version 2.0 is out soon, Mac and DOS versions will be based on this. Cost: $29.95 if support via CompuServe or Internet, otherwise $39.95. Site license for 3 or more copies is $20.00 each. (NOTE: prices may have gone up for V2.0). Comments: I have had a play with this, and it works OK. Its user interface design is much better in 2.0, though still a bit unusual. expensive tool around and it does the job. It is also the only tool with a redistributable demo, so if you do get the demo, post it on your local bulletin boards, FTP servers and Bitnet servers! Does not include general info on RSI and ergonomics, but it does have the ability to step backward in the exercise sequence, which is good for repeating the most helpful exercises. Tool: Typewatch (freeware), version 3.8 (October 1992) Available from: Email to richardd@hoskyns.co.uk Anonymous ftp: soda.berkeley.edu:pub/typing-injury/typewatch.shar Platforms: UNIX (tested on SCO, SunOS, Mach; character and X Window mode) Description: This is a shell script that runs in the background and warns you to stop typing, based on how long you have been continuously typing. It does not provide exercises, but it does check that you really do take a break, and tells you when you can start typing again. Typewatch now tells you how many minutes you have been typing today, each time it warns you, which is useful so you know how much you *really* type. It also logs information to a file that you can analyse or simply print out. The warning message appears on your screen (in character mode), in a pop-up window (for X Windows), or as a Zephyr message (for those with Athena stuff). Tim Freeman <tsf@cs.cmu.edu> has put in a lot of bug fixes, extra features and support for X, Zephyr and Mach. Not formally supported, but email richardd@hoskyns.co.uk (for SCO, SunOS, character mode) or tsf@cs.cmu.edu (for Mach, X Window mode, Zephyr) if you have problems or want to give feedback. Tool: Various calendar / batch queue programs Available from: Various sources Platforms: Various Description: Any calendar/reminder program that warns you of an upcoming appointment can be turned into an ad hoc RSI management tool. Or, any batch queue submission program that lets you submit a program to run at a specific time to display a message to the screen. Using Windows as an example: create a Calendar file, and include this filename in your WIN.INI's 'load=' line so you get it on every startup of Windows. Suppose you want to have breaks every 30 minutes, starting from 9 am. Press F7 (Special Time...) to enter an appointment, enter 9:30, hit Enter, and type some text in saying what the break is for. Then press F5 to set an alarm on this entry, and repeat for the next appointment. By using Windows Recorder, you can record the keystrokes that set up breaks throughout a day in a .REC file. Put this file on your 'run=' line, as above, and you will then, with a single keypress, be able to set up your daily appointments with RSI exercises. The above method should be adaptable to most calendar programs. An example using batch jobs would be to submit a simple job that runs at 9:30 am and warns you to take a break; this will depend a lot on your operating system. While these approaches are not ideal, they are a good way of forcing yourself to take a break if you can't get hold of a suitable RSI management tool. If you are techie enough you might want to write a version of Typewatch (see above) for your operating system, using batch jobs or whatever fits best. Tool: Digital watches with count-down timers Available from: Various sources, e.g. Casio BP-100. Description: Many digital watches have timers that count down from a settable number of minutes; they usually reset easily to that number, either manually or automatically. While these are a very basic tool, they are very useful if you are writing, reading, driving, or doing anything away from a computer which can still cause or aggravate RSI. The great advantage is that they remind you to break from whatever you are doing. Comments: My own experience was that cutting down a lot on my typing led to my writing a lot more, and still reading as much as ever, which actually aggravated the RSI in my right arm though the left arm improved. Getting a count-down timer watch has been very useful on some occasions where I write a lot in a day. I have tried an old fashioned hour-glass type egg timer, but these are not much good because they do not give an audible warning of the end of the time period! KEYBOARD REMAPPING TOOLS: these enable you to change your keyboard mapping so you can type one-handedly or with a different two-handed layout. One-handed typing tools may help, but be VERY careful about how you use them -- if you keep the same overall typing workload you are simply doubling your hand use for the hand that you use for typing, and may therefore make matters worse. Tool: hsh (public domain) Available from: Anonymous ftp: soda.berkeley.edu:pub/typing-injury/hsh.shar Platforms: UNIX (don't know which ones) Description: Allows one-handed typing and other general keyboard remappings. Only works through tty's (so, you can use it with a terminal or an xterm, but not most X programs). Tool: Dvorak keyboard tools (various) Available from: Anonymous ftp: soda.berkeley.edu:pub/typing-injury/xdvorak.c Also built into Windows 3.x. Description: The Dvorak keyboard apparently uses a more rational layout that involves more balanced hand use. It *may* help prevent RSI a bit, but you can also use it if you have RSI, since it will slow down your typing a *lot* :-) -- Dan Wallach "One of the most attractive features of a Connection dwallach@cs.berkeley.edu Machine is the array of blinking lights on the faces Office#: 510-642-9585 of its cabinet." -- CM Paris Ref. Manual, v6.0, p48. Xref: bloom-picayune.mit.edu comp.unix.wizards:8693 news.answers:4784 Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,news.answers Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!enterpoop.mit.edu!usc!rpi!fitzgb From: fitzgb@mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald) Subject: Intro to comp.unix.wizards - read before posting! (last change: Mon Nov 30 0:57:50 EST 1992) Message-ID: <cuw_725262183@mml0.meche.rpi.edu> Followup-To: poster Summary: This posting explains the purpose of the comp.unix.wizards newsgroup. It should be read by anyone who wishes to post here. Nntp-Posting-Host: mml0.meche.rpi.edu Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 05:43:14 GMT Approved: news-answers-request@mit.edu Expires: Tue, 23 Feb 1993 05:43:03 GMT Lines: 42 Archive-name: unix-faq/wizards-faq Last-modified: Mon Nov 30 0:57:50 EST 1992 Please take a moment to read this before posting to comp.unix.wizards for the first time. comp.unix.wizards is for in-depth discussion of advanced unix topics. Elementary questions do not belong in comp.unix.wizards. Although some socket questions (for example) are appropriate, "How do I program with sockets?" is not. Crossposting to comp.unix.wizards and comp.unix.questions is inappropriate. Plenty of wizards read comp.unix.questions and answer questions there. KILL file users can skip all crossposted articles with "/Newsgroups:.*,/h:j". A wizard is someone who can rewrite the entire system from scratch. If you are not a wizard, you are welcome to follow along the discussions anyway. You'll learn quite a bit about how UNIX works. Caution: post to wizards only if you are yourself a wizard. For a list of answers to frequently asked questions (FAQ), please refer to comp.unix.questions (or comp.lang.c, news.answers, etc...). "How do I delete a file whose name starts with a '-' ?" is an example of such a question. Please do not ask or answer FAQ's on the net. Write to Unix-Wizards-Request@BRL.MIL (Subject: subscribe. Any message.) if you want a daily digest of this newsgroup mailed to you. To unsubscribe from the unix-wizards mailing list, send mail to "info-unix-cancel@brl.mil", no text required. It is incorrect to post such requests to the list, or to mail them to me, though others may mistakenly do so. E-mail comments about this posting are welcome. From time to time I'll summarize them. Brian -- These opinions are mine, and do not necessarily reflect those of any academic department or computing service at Rensselaer. Xref: bloom-picayune.mit.edu comp.unix.questions:51329 comp.unix.shell:8335 news.answers:4770 Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!usenet From: tmatimar@empress.com (Ted M A Timar) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.shell,news.answers Subject: Unix - Frequently Asked Questions (Contents) [Frequent posting] Supersedes: <unix-faq/faq/contents_723967331@athena.mit.edu> Followup-To: comp.unix.questions Date: 24 Dec 1992 06:02:42 GMT Organization: Empress Software Lines: 144 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Distribution: world Expires: 21 Jan 1993 06:02:09 GMT Message-ID: <unix-faq/faq/contents_725176929@athena.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pit-manager.mit.edu X-Last-Updated: 1992/12/09 Archive-name: unix-faq/faq/contents Version: $Id: contents,v 2.1 92/12/04 07:43:28 tmatimar Exp $ The following seven articles contain the answers to some Frequently Asked Questions often seen in comp.unix.questions and comp.unix.shell. Please don't ask these questions again, they've been answered plenty of times already - and please don't flame someone just because they may not have read this particular posting. Thank you. These articles are divided approximately as follows: 1.*) General questions. 2.*) Relatively basic questions, likely to be asked by beginners. 3.*) Intermediate questions. 4.*) Advanced questions, likely to be asked by people who thought they already knew all of the answers. 5.*) Questions pertaining to the various shells, and the differences. 6.*) An overview of Unix variants. 7.*) An comparison of configuration management systems (RCS, SCCS). The following questions are answered: 1.1) Who helped you put this list together? 1.2) When someone refers to 'rn(1)' or 'ctime(3)', what does the number in parentheses mean? 1.3) What does {some strange unix command name} stand for? 1.4) How does the gateway between "comp.unix.questions" and the "info-unix" mailing list work? 1.5) What are some useful Unix or C books? 1.6) What happened to the pronunciation list that used to be part of this document?