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This Week's Contents:
My Notes:
1) We've been gone again . . .
2) Doug Reed Items . . .
Columnists' Corner:
1) More Linux with Harry . . .
Authored by Harry Baecker (hbaecker@duncan.island.net)
News:
1) Lexis Nexis Redesigns Web Presence . . .
2) Windows NT 4.0 Debuts . . .
Reviews:
1) HTML: The Definitive Guide
Reviewed By: Bob Johnson
2) Windows95 Interactive Training
Reviewed By: Russell G. Johnston (gray@posh.internext.com)
3) Spycraft: The Great Game
Reviewed By: Steve Lozowski (slozowsk@locke.ccil.org)
4) The Web Page Design Cookbook by William Horton
Reviewed By: Dennis P. MacPherson (pctc@infi.net)
Web Sites:
1) NetBest Yearly Awards (www.ypn.com)
2) ZDNet Offers Personalized News (www.zdnet.com)
Interview:
1) None this Week
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Date : August 10, 1996 |CompuNotes is a weekly publication available
Issue : 49A |through email and many fine on-line networks.
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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!
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Patrick's News
Being The Publisher and Managing Editor Has Its Perks!
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OK, No More Delays . . . .|
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Yes, I know it has been one month since we last published a CompuNotes.
Please understand that this delay has been with me and not with Doug
Reed or Judy Litt. I was working on my old job and my new job the past
month and wasn't exactly successful with either.
This past week I have been focusing 100% on my new position and am
getting a handle on it. This means my weekends and evenings are now back
to being mine! CompuNotes will be weekly from here on out!
This is Issue #49A because I wanted Issue #50 to be very special! Issue
#50 will be out next week with a special interview and reviews.
Also, I need to let everyone know that if they have a special talent
with something related to computers, I'll offer you the space for a
column. Look at Harry's Linux column!
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Doug's Items . . .|
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Doug wanted me to let you know a couple of things . . .
1) We are OK on writers right now. The REVLIST has been discontinued. If
you feel like you have something to offer in the way of writing
reviews, please contact Doug directly.
2) Doug is now handling the news section. I was going to drop the news
section (notice the FTP section is gone), but Doug wanted to keep it,
so he is now running it. I suggest sending all press releases and
news items to him and myself.
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Columnists' Corner - We bring you a different person each week!
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Linux and Tcl/Tk
August 1996
Authored by Harry Baecker (hbaecker@duncan.island.net)
After the very pleasing welcome my first article on the above received
from you I only hope I can retain your interest with more on the same
topics.
First, though, a disclaimer. I am no universal guru, even as regards
Linux and Tcl/Tk. My expertise, such as it is, derives from my daily use
of these tools in the ongoing construction of a ⌠database÷ system for
use by fieldworkers such as archeologists and social workers and in
addition the experience gained in my employment from 1956 (yeah!) until
1991 as a systems programmer or consultant therein or teacher thereof,
much of that involved with Unix. Since 1991 my retired status has also
been that of programmer. In all that time my little mind has encompassed
very little of the whole field of computing.
In order to sample the wealth of stuff available you should subscribe to
the relevant Usenet newsgroups: the comp.os.linux* hierarchy (about 11
newsgroups) and comp.lang.tcl(.announce) Apart from books on Linux and
Tcl/Tk there is an interesting magazine, the Linux Journal,
subs@ssc.com, and there are rumors of another, Linux World, to be
published in Britain but I cannot trace it. There is also an echo on
Fidonet called Linux and dedicated to, guess what? Linux.
Often I see remarks to the effect that ⌠I would try Linux if it weren't╞t
so big÷ a comment no doubt prompted by the fact that Linux distributions
come on CD-ROM and give the impression that it is all Linux, and that
you need to install it all. Those CDs are more a measure of the sheer
volume of free software available for Unix/Linux, and even so you get
nowhere near ALL of it, only a small fraction of the most useful stuff
on the Internet imprinted on a CD, the rest you have to get for yourself
when you need it. So it is the case that t