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- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 92 17:51:49 EDT
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- From: Jerry Walsh <WALSHJ@SJUVM>
- Subject: Re: arrival
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- 4 Sep 92 16:42:31 EST from <JODONNEL@PENNSAS.UPENN.EDU>
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- NB4, Orbis, and Lingua have also arrived in New York (at least the de-
- partmental copy has; personal copy not yet). For comparative purposes,
- I list here disks (5.25 inch), files, and dates. NOTE THE COMPLETION
- DATES of some of these files. They are later than some of the arrivals
- announced on this list. (Dates are in month/day/year format.)
- DISK: NOTA BENE 1
- NB_MAIN .NB 8/30/92
- NB_USER .NB 8/30/92
- INSTALL .EXE 7/28/92
- INSTALL .OVR 5/31/92
- NBXTRACT .EXE 8/10/92
-
- DISK: NOTA BENE 2
- NB_HELP .NB 9/01/92
- NB_OPTS .NB 8/28/92
- NB_SP .NB 9/01/92
- NB_NS .NB 8/08/92
-
- DISK: NOTA BENE OPTIONS
- NB_IF2 .NB 8/04/92
- NB_IF3 .NB 8/05/92
- NB_KEY .NB 8/10/92
-
- DISK: NB PRINTER 1
- NBPRINT1 .CFG 8/12/92
- NBPRINT2 .CFG 8/04/92
- NBPRINT3 .CFG 8/24/92
- NBPRINT6 .CFG 8/04/92
- NBPRINT7 .CFG 8/12/92
-
- DISK: NB PRINTER 2
- NB_DJ .NB 8/13/92
- NB_HP .NB 8/13/92
- NB_IF1 .NB 8/04/92
- NBPRINT4 .CFG 8/13/92
- NBPRINT5 .CFG 8/13/92
- NB_BUILD .NB 8/20/92
-
- DISK: NB ORBIS
- NBO_MAIN .NB 8/19/92
-
- DISK: NB LINGUA 1
- NBL_MAIN .NB 8/30/92
- NBL_DM .NB 8/28/92
- NBL_DJ1 .NB 8/27/92
-
- DISK: NB LINGUA 2-FR
- NBL_HP1 .NB 8/27/92
-
- The documentation, as has been mentioned before, was very sparse.
- The "Quick Reference Guide" is especially disappointing because
- it looks like it is intended to be a finished product, but as
- others have mentioned the print is so small as to be illegible to
- those of us in the bifocal crowd. An "enclosed limited-edition
- NB Lingua Reference Guide" wasn't enclosed. Installation
- directions are limited to less than half a page, and consist es-
- sentially in "type install, press enter, and follow the directions."
- Apparently the subsequent directions are less than crystalline,
- since my colleague (a NB4 beta tester, no less) did not find that
- the installation went smoothly.
-