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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 21:50:26 EDT
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- From: "Wayne A. Meeks" <WMEEKS@YALEVM>
- Subject: fear of the eschaton
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- After all these months of longing, now that some people (they SAY) have
- actually SEEN NB 4.0 cum Lingua, I am suddenly seized by a new dread: will I
- dare to install it when it comes?
- The problem is that the book manuscript (some 400 pp.) for which I so
- desperately wanted 4.0 has in the meantime been finished--in 3.1 with SLS.
- Now comes all the tinkering and editing--but will 4.0 and Lingua really be
- able to handle those files without some cumbersome translation? Will I be
- able to generate a table of contents and a bibliography (using IBID)? Or will
- I be best off (especially considering all the bugs that some users are
- reporting on this list) just leave the upgrades in the box, saving them for
- the next (if any) manuscript?
- I shall be grateful for comments from any who have actually used 4.0 to work
- on files made with 3.1 and SLS--especially if there is anyone out there who,
- like me, still uses an XT clone that's almost as slow as NBI.
-
- Wayne A. Meeks
- Department of Religious Studies
- Yale University
- wmeeks@yalevm.bitnet
-