Well, Gordon, I'm Jealous. I'm getting ready to take my wife to the hospital to remove cancerous tumors. Expect to be there 5-7 days, then recovery at home...
Where am I? Well, as a matter of fact I'm sitting in a motel room in Fort Lauderdale, and in about 12 hours I'll probably be aboard the gigantic new Oasis of...
... I suppose you are right about news traffic coming in spurts for specialized groups. I was just surprised that *nothing* had been posted in over a month. --...
... On some newsgroups, especially for restricted topics such as SNOBOL, traffic tends to wax and wane. Let's be honest: SNOBOL is not the hottest topic in...
... Lurking here for someone to say anything while happily writing applications, many small and some humungous to do important jobs and have fun doing that. ...
What happened to the traffic on this Yahoo Group??? No one seems to have posted since late October. -- +----------------------------------------+ ... ...
There were programs that were modifications of the SNOBOL4 interpreter (I think) which had additions to allow viewing of the internal data structures created....
... <snip> I can't say anything about .djvu, because I've had no contact with it besides reading the conversations on this e-mail list in the past few days....
For what it's worth, here is my contribution. (1) I agree that the site hosting these books should give a link or a suggestion where to download a suitable...
Well stated. My mom died recently at age 92. I think even she knew that PDF was a "good thing". I think what some of us are saying is that while DjVu might be...
Folks While I would much rather reading about snobol then this argument, I guess I have been pulled in by the inability of folks to understand when something...
Please don't put words in my mouth, or misrepresent my position, as stated. ... -- Gordon Peterson II http://personal.terabites.com 1977-2007: Thirty year...
I still think this DjVu discussion should take place off-line, but I can't resist this one. Why should anyone even bother with 5 keystrokes? Microsoft will...
... As direct and easy as possible? No. That would be a link on the download page for .djvu files, offering suggestions on what viewers are good, and where...
... I disagree... PDF is VERY, very widely recognized and used. While strictly speaking you are correct, ("there ARE (a nonzero number of) people who don't ...
This is an example of the problem... a website that is going to use a less-well-known format ought to include a link to a page suggesting which software is...
After jumping thru hoops to get there, message from DjVuSolo... DjVu Decoder: Cannot decode DjVu files with version >= 25 Nice. What a waste of time....
Casting spells? Obviously you have no intent of being taken seriously. In any case this has nothing to with Snobol and should be taken off-line. ... From:...
2009/9/16 Jim Mehl <mehl@...> ... Had you spent a minute digging up about what djvu is, you would have learnt that it was created precisely with Internet ...
Agreed. It simply doesn't work. Folks that want to replace accepted Internet standards are at a major disadvantage. PDF works, DjVu doesn't. To change an...
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