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As a followup to my post let me add that:
I'm not really a Windows or Windows NT user, so please excuse my ignorance.
However, I'm a developer at SAS Institute, and one component of the
application that I support is the ability to submit a (SAS) batch job from
within an interactive SAS session. The user site can enter their
site-specific "batch profile" into a dataset within our product, specifying
the pathname to the SAS executable, specifying site specific SAS options,
etc. At run time certain variables are resolved, and the resolved file is
written to an external ascii file. Then I exit to the operating system and
run the job asynchronously, returning to the interactive session as soon as
the job is submitted. The batch job then runs concurrently with the
interactive session.
As currently designed, the internal dataset has a record length of 80
characters. But, to run the batch job, the command to reinvoke SAS in
batch mode requires more than 80 characters. Up til NT this has not been a
problem, since every job control/shell language up til NT (eg.
MVS/CMS/VMS/UNIX/OS2) had a way to escape the CR/LF and enter a single
command across multiple lines (OS/2 via their REXX language, which is
*STANDARD* with OS/2).
The gist of all this is, since this application is for end-users, not
within my company, I have to try to develop this process using native NT.
Since my first posting I've learned that there are several third party
companies that provide alternative script languages for Windows/Windows NT.
And I'm sure a company that licenses our product would use that alternative
script language if they had it, but I can't develop under the assumption
that they have anything other than what comes with NT.
I saw another post on this list (the subject was something like "Is vi
available for Windows?") in which someone said that vi, make, awk, and
***ksh*** was available with Microsoft TOOLKIT. What is that product? Is
it a separate product or part of Windows? ksh would do what I need if I
could count on it at all NT sites.
One last question: I've heard that NT has remote processing capabilities,
i.e. I could shove this batch job off to a server machine and have it run
there. If these are native NT commands rather than network specific
commands, this would also help me improve this process. If you can comment
on these commands, I would appreciate it.
Thanks again for the help,
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He appears to have believed that. He had a view which was condemned by conciliar
action, which is often taken to be condemnation of the idea of reincarnation.
What was actually condemned was the doctrine of the pre-existence of the soul
before birth. Similar, but not exactly the same thing.
Larry Overacker (ll@shell.com)
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I'd try it on the VFR, but goddamn Competition Accessories hasn't mailed my
order yet. Hell, it's only been two weeks and I was ordering some pretty
bizzare stuff. Like a clear RF-200 face sheild, and a can of Chain Wax...
Bastards.
Dean
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I am planning on buying a repair manual for my ford taurus. (92).
Is the $53 Ford shop manual comprehensive enough , covering repairs
in all aspects of the car ?
how about the haynes manual for tarus ?
please email replies if possible.
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I have used a product called "Goof-off" it comes in a little yellow
can (about the size of a deck of playing cards).
It has worked well for removing all kinds of sticker and tape residues.
NOTE: always test a small area in an inconspicuous place before using.
Good luck,
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I think there is another formula for ERA. I heard something about it last
year. Im not sure what it is, but im gonna give it a stab. It allows for
a pitcher to pitch more than 9 innings at a time and not benefit, cuz it
uses outs recorded instead of innings pitched...
ERA = (ER*27)/outs recorded
Like i said, im not sure this is exactly it, but im pretty sure they changed
it to something of the sort.
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I have a group of GIF images that each contain 6 small images in
the same place on all the images. I need a program to crop out the
small images to a new GIF file. All the programs I can find make me
use the mouse or keyboard to define the cropping coordinates. Is there
a program out there for a PC that can take the crop coordinates on
the command line?
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I hope David isn't going to be too upset with me for sticking my nose
in here again, but here goes......:-)
It isn't the average temperature that is the key factor here, but rather
which is better at transferring the heat out of the (presumably warmer
than ground temperature) battery. Call it a question of thermal
conductivity, or of insulating ability, or "thermal mass" - whatever you
like. Question - why does a concrete floor feel cooler than the
surrounding dirt when you place your hand on it?
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Hahahahahaha. *gasp* *pant* Hm, I'm not sure whether the above
was just a silly remark or a serious remark. But in case there are
some misconceptions, I think Henry Robertson hasn't updated his data
file on Korea since...mid 1970s. Owning a car in Korea is no longer
a luxury. Most middle class people in Korea can afford a car and do
have at least one car. The problem in Korea, especially in Seoul, is
that there are just so many privately-owned cars, as well as taxis and
buses, the rush-hour has become a 24 hour phenomenon and that there is
no place to park. Last time I heard, back in January, the Kim Administration
wanted to legislate a law requireing a potential car owner to provide
his or her own parking area, just like they do in Japan.
Also, Henry would be glad to know that Hyundai isn't the only
car manufacturer in Korea. Daewoo has always manufactured cars and
I believe Kia is back in business as well. Imported cars, such as
Mercury Sable are becoming quite popular as well, though they are still
quite expensive.
Finally, please ignore Henry's posting about Korean politics
and bureaucracy. He's quite uninformed.
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You are forced everyday to associate with people that you do not
wish to, and there isn't even a law that makes you do it. But
you do, becuase you want to go shopping, or go to work, or go to
a public park, or go to a baseball game, etc.
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Usually, you apply
[R] [ 1 0 1.402 ][Y]
[G] = [ 1 -0.34414 -0.71414 ][U]
[B] [ 1 1.772 0 ][V]
after unlevelshifting U and V (subtracting 128 from them).
This matrix multiplication may give results out of RGB space, so you
have to clamp the resulting bytes to [0..255].
The conversion should be done with arbitrary big integers, not floats :)
This applies to YUV data whereas NTSC may have YIQ where a 33 degree
rotation to U/V is buid in.
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marshall@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Kevin Marshall) <1r2eba$hsq@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
Faith and dogma are dangerous because they cause people to act on
faith alone, which by its nature is without justification. That
is what I mean by the word ``faith'': belief without justification, or
belief with arbitrary justification, or with emotional (irrational)
justification.
For example, when someone says that God exists, that they don't know
why they believe God exists, they can just feel it, that's faith.
Dogma is bad because it precludes positive change in belief based
on new information, or increased mental faculty.
Faith and dogma are irrational. The faith and dogma part of any religion
are responsible for the irrationality of the individuals. I claim that
faith and dogma are the quintessential part of any religion. If that
makes (the much overused in this context) Buddism a philosophy rather
than a religion, I can live with that. Science is not a religion,
because there is no faith nor dogma.
Have you noticed that philosophers tend to be atheists? If a philosopher
is not an atheist, s/he tends to be called a theologian.
A Christian tends to consider Christianity sacred. Christianity is
a special set of beliefs, sanctioned by God himself, and therefore,
to conceive of changing those beliefs is to question the existence
of That Being Who Makes No Mistakes. Faith comes into play. Dogma
comes into play. ``The lord works in mysterious ways'' is an example
of faith being used to reconcile evidence that the beliefs are flawed.
Sure, interpretations of what ``God said'' are changed to satisfy the
needs of society, but when God says something, that's it. It was said,
and that's that. Since God said it, it is unflawed, even if the
interpretations are flawed.
Science, (as would be practiced by atheists) in contrast, has a
BUILT IN defence against faith and dogma.
A scientist holds sacred the idea that beliefs should change to
suit whatever is the best information available at the time, AND,
*AND*, ****AND***, a scientist understands that any current beliefs
are deficient in some way. The goal is to keep improving
the beliefs. The goal is to keep changing the beliefs to reflect
the best information currently available. That's the only rational
thing to do. That's good philosophy.
Can you see the difference? Science views beliefs as being flawed,
and new information can be obtained to improve them. (How many
scientists would claim to have complete and perfect understanding
of everything? None---it would put them out of a job!) Religion
views its beliefs as being perfect, and the interpretations of
those beliefs must be changed as new information is acquired which
conflicts with them.
It's easier for someone to kill a person when s/he doesn't require
a good rational justification of the killing. I don't consider
``he's Jewish'', or ``he was born of Jewish parents'', or
``this document says he's Jewish'' to be good rational justification.
Clinton and the FBI would love for you to convince them of this.
It would save the US taxpayer a lot of money if you could.
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It is all so changed by now. but in case any of you is
interested in what I actually said, I never compared the
Israeli treatment of the palestinians with the Holocaust.
Anyway that is the truth if it matters. I was about to forget
about it myself since everyone started calling me anti-semitic
for making the comparison that I never made. What I did say was
that the Nazis didn't start with the Holocaust and their
initial actions were similar to what the Israelis are doing now.
The Jews that were stranded on the polish border since
no country accepted them are like the arabs stranded on the
lebenese border. No trials, no hearing, just expulsion based on
guilt due to race.
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How about tell everyone what the hell they were doing there in the first place?
If we knew that, we'd be in a much better position to judge their actions.
Until then, we can only speculate and develop nice conspiracy and/or police
state stories.
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(sci.space readers can skip the first paragraph)
Yesterday, in response to Henry Spencer's question about the
temperature of a blackbody in interstellar space, I said "Dust grains
acts as blackbodies, and they're at 40-150 K." Well, I was dead
wrong. Our local interstellar dust expert, Bruce Draine, has
informed me that dust grains _aren't_ good radiators in the far IR,
which is why they are so warm; actually, the ambient radiation field
from distant stars can bring a true blackbody to only 3 or 4 Kelvin.
Sorry, Henry, and anyone else I misled. Obviously, time for me to
take another ISM class :-(
In other news, Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute gave
a talk on the Pluto-Charon binary system yesterday. He gave a brief
overview of the currently-accepted system parameters (volume ratio of
about 8:1, mass ratio about 15:1 or so, plus lots more...) and then
gave his thoughts on the formation of Pluto-Charon. His idea is
that there were lots and lots of small planetesimals in the outer
solar system, with masses distributed as a power law of some kind;
over time, the planetesimals accreted into larger bodies. Most got
scattered out of the solar system by close encounters with Jupiter
and Saturn, but many accreted into the gas giants, especially
Uranus and Neptune. A large planetesimal was captured by Neptune -
we call it Triton [captured how? Perhaps by a collision with a smaller,
already-existing Neptunian moon, perhaps by a very close passage through
Neptune's atmosphere - mondo aerobraking!].
He notes that the two recently discovered "Kuiper Belt" objects,
1992 QB1 and 1993 FW, plus Chiron and Pholus, are all about the same
mass, and he identifies this group as one-accretion-down from the
larger bodies of Triton and Pluto/Charon. Pluto/Charon, he thinks,
formed when an impacting body hit proto-Pluto, knocking some material
into a ring around Pluto which later accreted in Charon; similar to
ideas about the formation of Earth's moon. There is good evidence
from spectra that the surfaces of Pluto and Charon are very different
(Pluto has methane frost, Charon doesn't), which can be used as evidence
for the impact theory.
He believes that there may be around 1000 Pluto-to-Chiron-sized objects
remaining in a relatively stable dynamical zone just outside Neptune's
orbit, beyond 35 AU or so. 1992 QB1 and 1993 FW are the first members
of this population to be found, in his model. Note that such bodies
will be very dark, since if their surfaces are covered with methane
frost, it will have photolyzed into very dark, long-chain hydrocarbons
by now. The reason that Pluto has such a high albedo (around 0.5, I think)
is that its surface warms up JUST enough around perihelion to sublimate,
and when the atmosphere freezes out again, thirty years later, it forms
bright, new frost. So any bodies much farther away than 30 AU are going
to be very hard to see.
I hope I haven't made any errors in the transcription; if you see
a howling mistake, it's undoubtedly mine, not his.
By the way, he's one of the top guns behind the Pluto Fast Flyby
mission (I think), and said that the current plans are to use a
Titan 4 to send the probe on "just about a rectilinear trajectory"
to Pluto (we were speaking loosely at the time...). He'd like
to use a Proton, which gives a slightly smaller velocity but costs
MUCH less. His figures: $500 Million for 2 Titan 4 launches (there
will be two separate probes, launched separately), or $120 Million
for 2 Proton launches. He told a story about how the Soviets originally
offered to sell Proton launches for $30 Million each, but were forced
to increase their prices in the US in order to be allowed in the
marketplace.
I'm just telling you what he said.
Michael
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If he says he knows for a fact, what more do you have to gain if he gives
his word? Do you think he's lying right now?
Anyway, how about this: I give you my word, without naming sources, that IBM
paid companies to write applications for OS/2. Satisfied?
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Sorry if this is late for the thread, but...
I thought God was supposed to be constant and never-changing. How do
you reconcile this common Christian view with the paragraph above?
Also, while we're at it:
1. How do you reconcile "A KIND and LOVING God!!" with the
Judeo-Christian view that sin was at one time "immediately punishable
by death"? Was killing people for sinning God's way of showing
KINDness and LOVE?
2. Is the fact the He no longer does this an admission on His part of
having made a mistake?
3. Now that we are "living in the age of grace", does this mean that
for our sins, God now damns us to eternal hell after we die, rather
than killing us immediately? If so, is this eternal damnation an
example of "A KIND and LOVING God!!"?
Just curious.
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Black ones look better. None are truely indiginous to America,
although some of the finest are produced here. Gear is expensive, and
you never seem have enough of it. Volvos hit them. Only idiots
intentionally rear up the front half off the ground just to look cool.
Posers don't ride them in the rain. They are dangerous on ice. Loud
ones are annoying, and too much chrome looks dumb.
Yep, sounds familiar!
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-=> Quoting Greg Rogers to All <=-
GR> Hi all,
GR> Due to living in the Bay Area, I as unable to see Vancouver's victory
GR> over the Jets last night. I know the score, but that rarely describes
GR> the game. Could someone please post a brief sonapsis (sp?) of waht
GR> happened. How well did each team play? Were the cannucks deserving of
GR> the victory?
GR> Also, could some kind soul please email me the end of season,
GR> individual player stats?
GR> Greg
GR> -- Vancouver for the cup (in a virtual reality)--
I am sorry to tell you this Greg, but in all
reality, we cannot see Vancouver winning the
cup. They have a rrally good chance to come
out of the Smythe Division, and a chance to make
it to the finals, but no one is capable this year
of beating the Penguins, they have too many
scoring threats. I would love to be proven wrong, but
I must conclude that the Pens will win cup 3 this year.
Steve
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I've never ridden pillion very much but recently had an excellent
experience passengering with Dave Edmondson at pilot while in London.
I found that it upset the bike much less if I rode with the pilot, that
is, if I looked over his shoulder and anticipated when I should hold on
hard for braking or acceleration. I tried to always look over the
inside shoulder on corners and move as little as possible, leaving
Dave to manage me and the bike as he normally would the bike and
luggage.
Hard acceleration can be quite unnerving as the feeling of being spit
off the back is hard to fight. Similarly, I held on to the grab handles
tightly when Dave needed to brake so as not to mash him to a pulp (I'm
a lot bigger than he is...). Reaching around him and pushing off the
tank seemed like it would be very awkward and make it even harder for
him to manage.
On the rare occasions when I carry a passenger myself, I absolutely
refuse to carry anyone who is not properly accoutered for riding. That's
helmet, jacket, gloves, stout pants and shoes/boots as a minimum. It's
not my responsibility to provide this gear, but it's my responsibility
to require it if they want to ride.
And I agree with an earlier poster: if you've not had much experience
carrying a particular passenger and especially if you've not carried
many passengers before, take a few gentler rides of some duration before
you head off to a difficult road like Mines/Mt. Hamilton. That's a
nasty place to find yourself in trouble.
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HPGL does not support raster primitives, so a formatter would have to
punt on most popular image formats. This probably explains the lack of
translators out there. What do you need to plot ?
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The first thing I would do would be to disband Medicare and Medicade! They
are a primary reason why health care costs are going up. To cover the people
that are currently on these programs, I would sell their coverage in blocks
to insurance companies. The private companies would bid to get these large
blocks of people, and prices would go down.
To get away from strong federal control on health care, I would pass off
more control to the states. Everyone is always spewing forth about how
wonderful Hawaii is doing. Well, how about giving some other STATES incentive
to try their own plans
What I would NOT do is try to implement some far reaching federal program
program to cover all Americans, because this is the surest way to fail!
One sure way to stop throwing money away is to stop giving so much to the
federal government. Our FEDERAL taxes should be slashed, and our STATE taxes
increased. A strong central government always fails. Give power back to the
states/counties/cities, where it belongs.
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For those of you who read TV Guide, there's an article in next week's
SPORTSVIEW concerning the NHL and major network broadcasting. Pretty
interesting.
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Now I have a couple raytracing questions.
Just so you know I'm using PovRay 1.0 (both MS-dos and Unix) and I'm generating Targa files of varying size.
1) ok, so I can view these wonderful pictures on my screen. What's the best way to get them on to paper? Would it be possible to take it to Kinko's and have them make an actual picture on paper from it?
2) I was thinking about making a small animation bit with different raytraced
frames. Is this a bad idea? Any tricks to it?
3
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I don't think the question is:
"will OS/2 X.X run Windows Y.Y apps now?"
A more important question is:
"will subsequent OS/2 versions continue to run apps
from subsequent Windows versions in the future?"
Can it keep up? Will a future OS/2 3.0 run Windows 4 apps?
OLE2 is very complex and is the sign of things to come.
After this fall, I believe IBM no longer has any rights to
view Microsoft code. After that, the only way to maintain
some sort of compatibility is to reverse-engineer. Would
you want to reverse-engineer an OLE2 application?
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But you already can go at the speed limit at 4000 rpm. All you need
to do is to find a road with a 35 mph speed limit.
This isn't quite as silly as it sounds. If you take a nice day trip
over back roads (*not* highways full of people trying seriously to get
from here to there) then you might be able to hold 35 mph comfortably.
You could easily do 500 miles over three different weekends. You
might even get to enjoy some of the scenery. Yes, I know this is
probably not why you bought a 250 called "Ninja."
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I heard that MAGIC has been transported to the Macintosh environment. Does
anybody know where I can get a hold of this? Thanks in advance for any
responses.
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Well, I agree that if you're going to stand in front of the net,
that you should expect to get hit and hacked at. In general, you
should expect to finish the game with some bruises. However,
there is a fine line between hacking at a guy (causing some pain
and discomfort) and blatantly attempting to injure another
player. Felix Potvin, IMO, crossed that line on Wednesday. That
two hander on Ciccarelli was way out of line. I lost a lot of
respect for Potvin because of that. It showed an immaturity. He
did not slash at Ciccarelli to simply try to remove him from the
slot area (a legal position for Dino to be in). Instead, he
slashed in an attempt to injure. It was out of shear frustration. As a
Leaf supporter (just a supporter, I'm not a Leaf fan really), I
was very disappointed.
You're right in mentioning Billy Smith and Ron Hextall (at least
in his Philly days). They both crossed that same line at times and
for that reason, many fans (and players) disliked them (that's
why their names always comes up as examples when we talk about
these issues). Let's hope that Felix doesn't do that again. I'd
hate to see anyone (even Dino --- although I admit I don't like
him very much) get seriously hurt from such careless (but
intentional) use of the stick.
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Have I mailed this to the correct newsgroup(s)? Are there other newsgroup(s)
which cover the following topic?
--------
Has anyone with myopia (short-sightedness) ever done the Bates eye-exercises?
If so, could you please e-mail me the following information:
- age and state of sight before exercises were commenced;
- type, frequency, and length of time spent on exercises performed;
- improvements noticed immediately after performing exercises;
- length of period before any improved sight deteriorates;
Thanks in advance for any replies. I'll summarise and post results if there's
enough interest.
- Jonathan Goldstein
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What's this? Another idiot from McRCIM.McGill.EDU? Or are these all
the same dope using different accounts?
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Please explain how the removal of Israel from the eqation is going to
ease the situation in Iran, Iran/Iraq, Iraq, Iraq/Kuwait, Syria,
Lebanon, Libya, Algeria, Egypt, Sudan ... Human rights, freedom of
press and religion, slavery, government oppression in authoritarian
societies -- how are these going to be solved by removing Israel
from the Middle East?
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The compressed image format used for the Voyager disks is not (yet)
supported by any Macintosh display software that I know of. However,
there does exist a program that can convert the images to a format that
is recognized by recent versions of both Pixel Pusher and NIH/Image. It
is called "PDS Decompress" and is available via anonymous ftp from the
"pub" directory on "delcano.mit.edu" [18.75.0.80]. This is a Binhex/
Stuffit archive and contains the application itself, Think-C source,
and a very brief description.
The most recent version of NIH/Image (1.48) may be down-loaded from
"starhawk.jpl.nasa.gov", where it is located in "image148.hqx" in the
"pub" directory. This archive also contains source code, but not the
documentation, which is located in the "image1455.hqx" archive in the
same directory.
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In the last two weeks I have the following problem on two 160's
1 has a 8Mb Simm and the other a 6 Mb simm
Both are about 2 -3 months old, bought from different vendors and installed
by different people.
Both computers begin crashing frequently, locking up and ultimately the
Memory Chimes. Crashes would almost always occur if you moved the screen
and sometimes would occur when you weren't even touching the computer. In
both cases, taking the machine apart, taking the memory out and putting it
back in solved the problem for awhile but then it would comeback, my
marginally educated guess as to what's happening is that larger SIMMS are
"lopsided" in that the insertion point is sort of a pivot point and after
time they begin to move about - possible because of pressure on the
keyboard or something?
Anyway, has anyone else had such a problem or solution - If somehow you
could support the other end of the simm to prevent it from moving.
I've had no problem for the past 3 weeks by replacing my 8Mb simm with a
2Mbsimm -although this is NOT desireble solution.
Please email any resp - and/or post if usefull to the rest of the world.
Ted
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That's the current rumor that was started by MacWEEK last month.
How else would you accomplish this kind of an upgrade?
Of course. This is Apple we are talking about here.
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BUT... Suppose they had waited. The WORST outcome would have been the
one that actually did. But with the FBI/ATF just standing there watching
instead of being a part of the problem. It then would have been very clear
exactly who was at fault then, rather than the way it turned out.
AND, that would have been the WORST case. The best would have been, they
finally get hungry and come out. Possible/likely? Well, the alternative was
worse...
But what does it matter? Why say "I don't remember...." when it doesn't
make any difference? Altho the clintonettes have been pretty good at lying
when it wasn't necessary, they didn't do it this time. But it wasn't
necessary - claiming full responsibility is a totall meaningless gesture.
Symbolism over substance - again!
I've offered to take full responsibility. When do they pay me the big
bucks the AG is making...???? ;^)
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I'm looking for a printer driver for the Apple Imagewriter II. (This printer
is actually the same as a Citoh 8510.
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In Article: 106628 of rec.sport.baseball,
<HEALEY@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> (Roger Healey) wrote >>
Yes, the stance is new. Don Baylor was his batting coach at St. Louis last
year, and now, as his manager, is continuing to work with him. Maybe Andres
has a "weak" left eye and the open stance gives him a better look at the
ball. Or maybe it is simply improving his mechanics - I dunno. But the
change seems to have enabled him to hit the ball as well as 5 years ago. His
selectivity has not changed.
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I can certainly see opposing the "Amen" -- but that doesn't require
opposing a moment of silence.
Does anybody else besides me see a vicious circle here? I guarantee
you the people who want school prayer aren't going to back off when
they can't even manage to get a quiet moment for their kids to pray
silently.
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I would expect the EISA board to be more than twice as fast as the ISA
board. Not only are you moving data on a path twice as wide (at
least), but there is a difference in the number of clocks required for
bus transactions between the two busses. Most ISA boards require
multiple clocks per bus transaction -- typically this is around 3-4.
EISA boards are suppose to be able to 'burst' at a 1:1 rate, so I
would expect performance to be 6x-8x that of an ISA card.
So I guess, for me, the question is unanswered still. I would expect
him to be able to see a 6x speed difference, and he apparently does
not.
--
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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I'm afraid I was not able to find the GIFs... is the list
updated weekly, perhaps, or am I just missing something?
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If you are planning on using this on a regular basis, conncting the printer
to file can become bothersome because Windows then asks you for the filename
that you want to create. I've found that putting a line in system.ini in the
ports section with just a path and filename works. The only problem is that
if you send more than one job, the second one deletes the first.
Chris
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Hi! This is my first time to post on this news group. Now a days , I have stucked at a certain problem. I have '88 mazda mx-6, non turbo fuel injection.
There is a engine warning signal on the dash board. While driving, this signal turns on, but not always. What does this mean? In the manual, they say "Go to authorized mazda dealer.". It is really good idea. Don't you think so?
I wanna know how the engine warning signal comes. Is anybody out there who can give me same advice as "authorized mazda dealer" can give ?
Youjip Won
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The best reason to abolishing the ATF is that they don't have enough
to do. If the organization were disbanded and its duties assigned to
the FBI (firearms) and IRS (tobacco and alcohol). Both of these
organizations have enough to do. The FBI is probably not going to try
to get a criminal charge of illegal machine gun for having a broken
gun.
There have been postings stating that law enforcement should be
divided and and weak. But there is nothing more dangerous to
liberties than a law enforcement agency without enough criminals to
chase. The ATF is one and look at the trouble it started in
Waco.
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Indeed, the immediate context [NASB] is:
26 Otherwise, He would have needed to suffer often
since the foundation of the world; but now once at
the consummation He has been manifested to put away
sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
27 And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die
once, and after this comes judgement;
28 so Christ also, having been offered once to bear
the sins of many, shall appear a second time, not to
bear sin, tro those who eagerly await him.
The first point is that this verse is part of an even larger
context, the subject of which is not the destiny of the
individual human soul but rather the singular nature of Christ's
sacrifice, "once", and the fulfillment of the law for all of fallen
mankind. Rudolf Frieling elaborates this in detail in his
"Christianity and Reincarnation". The thrust of the passage
in its context is to liken the one time incarnation and
sacrifice of Christ for all mankind to the individual
experience of the human being after death. The "once"
is repeated and emphasized, and it highlights the singularity
of Christ's deed. One thing for certain it does is to
refute the claims of some that Christ incarnates more than
once. But the comparison to the human experience - die
once, then judgement (note: not "the judgement", but just
"judgement". The word for judgement is "krisis".
Hebrews 9:27 is the one passage most often quoted in defense
of the doctrine that the Bible denies reincarnation. At this
point, I would just emphasize again that the passages
that (arguably) speak against it are few, and that invariably
they are talking about something eles, and the apparent denial
of reincarnation is either inferred, or, as in the case of
Hebrews, taken literally and deposited into an implied context,
namely a doctrine of the destiny of the human being after
death.
What should be considered seriously is that the Bible is essentially
silent about the fate of the individual human being between death
and the Last Day. If you take the few passages that could possibly
be interpreted to mean a single earth life, they are arguable. And
there are other passages that point, arguably, in the other direc-
tion. such as Matthew 11:14 and John 9:2.
We can continue to debate the individual scraps of scripture that
might have a bearinig on this, and indeed we should discuss them.
But what I wanted to introduce into the discussion was an approach
to the idea of repeated earth lives that, unlike Hindu, Buddhist
and "new age" teachings, takes full cognizance of the divinity, singular
incarnation, death, burial, resurrection, and second coming of Christ
as the savior of mankind; the accountability of each individual for
his deeds and the reality of the Fall and of sin and its consequences;
the redemption of man from sin through Christ; the resurrection of
the body, and the Last Judgement.
Taken in this larger sense, many serious questions take on an entirely
different perspective. E.g. the destiny of those who died in their
sins before Christ came. the relationship of faith and grace to
works, the meaning of "deathbed conversion", the meaning of the
sacraments, and many other things. Not that I propose to answer all
those questions by a simple doctrine of convenience, but only that
the discussion takes on a different dimension, and in my opinion
one that is truly worthy of both man, the earth, and their Creator and
Redeemer. There are many deep questions that continue to be deep, such
as the meaning of the second death, and how the whole of Christian
doctrine would apply to this larger perspective of human existence.
There are those who deeply believe that the things of which the Bible
does not speak are not things we should be concerned with. But Christ
also indicated that there were other things that we would come to know
in the future, including things that his disciples (and therefore others)
could not bear yet. This idea that the human capacity for growth in
knowledge, not only of the individual in one lifetime, but of the whole
of humanity, also takes on great meaning when we realize that our growth
in the spirit is a long term process. The Bible was not meant to codify
all spiritual knowledge in one place forever, but to proclaim the gospel
of the incarnation and redeeming deed of Christ - taking the gospel in the
greater context, from Genesis to Revelation. Now, salvation (healing) becomes,
not the end of man's sojourn but its beginning. And the Last Judgement and
the New Heaven and Earth that follow it become its fulfullment.
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Disclaimer -- This is for fun.
In my computerized baseball game, I keep track of a category called
"stolen hits", defined as a play made that "an average fielder would not
make with average effort." Using the 1992 Defensive Averages posted
by Sherri Nichols (Thanks Sherri!), I've figured out some defensive stats
for the leftfielders. Hits Stolen have been redefined as "Plays Kevin
Bass would not have made."
OK, I realize that's unfair. Kevin's probably the victim of pitching staff,
fluke shots, and a monster park factor. But let's put it this way: If we
replaced every leftfielder in the league with someone with Kevin's 49.4% out
making ability, how many extra hits would go by?
To try and correlate it to reality a little more, I've calculated Net
Hits Stolen, based on the number of outs made compared to what a league
average fielder would make. By the same method I've calculated Net Extra
Bases (doubles and triples let by).
Finally, I throw all this into a a formula I call Defensive Contribution, or
DCON :->. Basically, it represents the defensive contribution of a player.
I add this number to OPS to get DOPS (Defense + Onbase Plus Slug), which
should represent the player's total contribution to the team. So don't
take it too seriously. The formula for DCON appears at the end of this
article.
The short version -- definition of terms
HS -- Hits Stolen -- Extra outs compared to Kurt Stillwell
NHS -- Net Hits Stolen -- Extra outs compared to average fielder
NDP -- Net Double Plays -- Extra double plays turned compared to avg fielder
NEB -- Net Extra Bases -- Extra bases prevented compared to avg. fielder
DCON -- Defensive Contribution -- bases and hits prevented, as a rate.
DOPS -- DCON + OPS -- quick & dirty measure of player's total contribution.
National League
Name HS NHS NEB DCON DOPS
Gonzalez, L. 63 28 20 .192 .866
Gilkey, B. 52 23 14 .150 .941
Clark, G. 46 11 11 .065 .726
Alou, M. 20 3 12 .052 .835
Bonds, B. 54 9 -7 .019 1.099
May, D. 21 0 -7 -.020 .659
Gant, R. 31 -5 -2 -.021 .715
Bass, K. 0 -24 -4 -.126 .600
Ordered by DOPS
1.099 Bonds
.941 Gilkey
.866 Gonzalez
.835 Alou
.726 Clark
.718 *NL Average*
.715 Gant
.659 May
.600 Bass
American League
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Name HS NHS NEB DCON DOPS
Raines, T. 53 22 20 .111 .896
Anderson, B. 65 30 8 .102 .924
Henderson, R. 43 20 4 .101 .984
Vaughn, G. 55 27 -3 .095 .817
Gladden, D. 25 4 8 .038 .699
Hall, M. 29 6 -2 .017 .756
Mack, S. 38 6 -8 .005 .866
Polonia, L. 10 -11 10 -.019 .647
McReynolds, K. 13 -8 -9 -.064 .711
Maldanado, C. 9 -21 -12 -.105 .714
Reimer, K. 5 -18 -16 -.102 .671
Order by DOPS
.984 Henderson
.924 Anderson
.896 Raines
.866 Mack
.817 Vaughn
.756 Hall
.733 *AL Average*
.714 Maldanado
.711 McReynolds
.699 Gladden
.671 Reimer
.647 Polonia
More discussion --
DCON formula: ((NHS + NDP)/PA) + ((NHS + NDP + NEB)/AB)
Why such a bizzare formula? Basically, it's designed to be added into the
OPS, with the idea that "a run prevented is as important as a run scored".
The extra outs are factored into OBP, while the extra bases removed are
factored into SLG. That's why I used PA and AB as the divisors.
For more discussion see the post on Hits Stolen -- First Base 1992
--
Dale J. Stephenson |*| (steph@cs.uiuc.edu) |*| Baseball fanatic
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Sci med people:
Can I sell my TENS unit or does it have to be sold by a physician or
other liscened person?
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No doubt the sci.med* folks are getting out their flamethrowers. I'm
rather certain that the information you got was not medical literature
in the accepted academic/scientific journals. So, the righteous among
them will no doubt jump on that.
Also, insofar as it doesn't conform to the accepted medical presumption
that it just doesn't matter what you eat, and that we can think of the
GI tract as a black box in which nothing ever goes wrong (except for
maybe cancer and ulcers), the righteous will no doubt jump on that too.
Then there'll be the ones who call your doctor a raving quack, even
though he, like Linus Pauling, is lucid and robust well into his
nineties--but nevermind about that. He shouldn't charge for his
equipment and supplies, since they're no doubt not approved by the
FDA. Of course, with FDA approval an MD or pharmaceutical company can
charge whatever they can get for such safe and effective treatments as
thalidomide. But nevermind about that either.
Unfortunately, you dared to step into the sacred turf of Net.Medical.
Discussion without a credential and without understanding that the
righteous among them will make certain that you are suitably denounced
before dismissing you as a fool.
But maybe somebody without such a huge chip on their shoulder will
send you some reasonable responses by e-mail.
1/2 ;^)
1/2 ;^(
Oh yes, I did have a point. A few years ago an MD with a thriving
practice in a very wealthy part of Silicon Valley once recommended that
I take such treatments to clear up a skin condition. (Not through his
office, I might add.) Although I'm sure that's not conclusive, it was
sure an unusual prescription!
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element analysis, radiosity, distributed processing
Hi,
I'm looking for references to parallel algorithms on:
octrees
adaptive subdivision
adaptive meshing
finite element meshing/analysis
radiosity
Any help will be greatly appreciated. E-mail replies to
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I don't have any written data but I know what I have experienced. I use
S-50 in everything including my lawnmowers. In my car it smoothed the idle
and reduced the operating temp by 5 degrees. I havent used it long enough
to test for wear, but some people I know have.
A farmer that lives near by used to have to overhaul his big deisel tractors
at least every other year if not every year. Since he has been using S-50
he has went 5 years without an overhaul.
Also a friend at a machine shop has in the past rebuilt engines with 200K
miles on them because the coustomer thought it was time. These coustomers
had ran S-50 since almost new. It was found when measuring the internals
of the engine that they showed only about the amount of wear that would be
expected of 30K miles not 200K.
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And Dino Ciccarelli and Ray Sheppard and so on and so on.....
: )
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His name is Clint Malarchuk. I'm not sure what he does now but I've heard
he's an extra in slasher films.
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Wait a minute; I could swear that Varsho is white.
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FOR SALE OR TRADE!!!
BMW R60US frame and misc.,converted to Earles fork. The package includes:
Frame, swingarm and Earles fork
Final drive(27/8)
Rear fender, front fender, large tank
Steel wheels laced w/ ss spokes, one new rim, one EC used rim
All brackets, brake hdware, footrests etc.
The colour scheme used is the original BMW optional Bristol grey
Items not painted are: Earles rigid section(needs straightening,
this rigid section was bent when I received it, not from
being mounted to the R60US frame),Earles swingarm and the
headlight shell. I have the paintthat was used and can
finish the non-painted items if desired. The striping
was done by Holt Design.
Not included: engine, gearbox, electrics, seat.
This is a clean and tidy project. The project was terminated due to lack of
time and the R69(35hp) engine that was to be used was transferred
to another project. I would prefer to sell the package as whole.
I am negotiable as to what can be included in the package, I will
not separate any of the painted items. I am willing to take /2
spares in trade.
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From the description I've read, it's prob. only going to be
as bright as Jupiter. Anything else is probably hype from the
opponents or wishful thinking from the sponsors.
If we could do something as bright as the full moon that soon,
that cheap, the CIS would have done it already.
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CASIO/B.O.S.S. SF-8000 Organizer (64K) with CasioLink Hardware/Software
Nice personal organizer that is in excellent shape. It allows you to
store phone numbers/addresses (do searches, etc), business cards info,
schedules, and calender and also provides home/work time and calculator.
Also has password protection and alarms. Nice 6 line LCD screen and
mini QWERTY keyboard. Comes with CasioLink that lets you interface it with
your computer (Mac/IBM) and transmit/receive data (all forms). I have
the software for the macintosh that runs it. Nifty tool for people on the
go. If you are interested, please email an offer. Thanks. I have
necessary instruction manuals and all cables. Thanks.
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I recently corrected the resolution on my Sparcstation by changing
/usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers from:
:0 local /usr/bin/X11/X :0 -ar1 500 -dpi 100
to:
:0 local /usr/bin/X11/X :0 -ar1 500 -dpi 85
I determined that my 19" 1152x900 monitor was 85 dpi by measuring the
active screen area and dividing by resolution.
However, this has caused my application fonts to behave strangely.
After some research, I believe this is caused by my applications
requesting fonts by Family, Weight, Slant, and Pointsize. I believe
that X is grabbing the first font on the path with these characteristics
and displaying it. Since I have only 75dpi and 100dpi fonts on my
path, the results are inaccurate. I do have some Speedo fonts, but
not for the family I am using (Helvetica).
I think this is incorrect. The fonts should always be provided in the
resolution of the display. This never seems to happen unless you
explicitly request fonts by xres and yres! This is true of both the
scaleable and bitmapped fonts! For instance, the command
xfd -fn '-bitstream-charter-*-*-*-*-*-240-*-*-*-*-*-*'
Will invoke a 75dpi font (despite the fact that this is a Speedo font).
The command
xfd -fn '-adobe-courier-*-*-*-*-*-240-*-*-*-*-*-*'
Will invoke a 75dpi font or a 100dpi font (depending on my font path).
Despite the fact that X knows my display is 85 dpi, and that it can
generate an 85dpi font for me! Unless I my applications specifies a
resolution, X appears to pick a stupid default.
Is this a bug? Is it a feature? If so, why? Is there anything I can
do to get around this problem? People have suggested that I lie about
my resolution, and specify a single font path (75 or 100, not both).
This would at least make my app consistent, but I like being able to
look at rulers that appear in my paint application and say: "Yup, thats
an inch". Anyone have a set of 85dpi bitmapped fonts I can use?
System info:
Sun Sparc 10/41 w/32 MB, SunOS 4.1.3.
xdpyinfo:
version number: 11.0
vendor string: MIT X Consortium
vendor release number: 5000
screen #0:
dimensions: 1152x900 pixels (348x272 millimeters)
resolution: 85x85 dots per inch
xset q font path:
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/
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How can I find these files and graphics that people
are downloading from their Unix systems? Then, how
do I download them? I am a complete beginner in
this (obviously), so please baby-step me through
the process. First of all, I don't see amongst
these newsgroups where there is anything remotely
like a GIF, TIF, or compiled shareware program?
Thanks in advance for any information you can
give me. (I know there is a Unix command, "ftp,"
that will allow me to do this, but first I
need to know where to go to find the file
I want download via ftp, etc.
Thomas Helke
egret@wet.UUCP
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Hello networld!
I'm looking for documentation/books on parametric drafting.
Does anyone know of such material, electronic on a Gopher/ftp-site
or books/authors.
Im not looking for commercial software rather info on implementation
and theory of the subject. Im planning to make a parametric
generator for autocad and i would need some referance.
Everything you know is of interest!
Thanks in advace!!
//Lasse
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Of course, they then turn up the REverb, the Gain, add in the analog
delay line and the Fuzz box. I'd think they wouldn't notice the
distortion. Oh I forgot the phase shifters.
Ah, but how do they compare to Mechanical systems :-)
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I bought a StyleWriter II a couple months ago, and lately, when I print
something, I notice white lines or "gaps" running through the line being
printed. It's almost like the paper is advancing a smidge too far when
advancing lines.
I replaced the ink cartridge thinking it might be the problem, but the lines
are still there. Has anyone else noticed this problem? What's the best way to
get rid of it?
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From article <kOu2rAIJBh107h@axion.UUCP>, by wefiii@axion.UUCP (Warren E. Fridy III):
=====
Now isn't that just amazing?? :)
Seriously, add program manager to your startup group and define a
shortcut for it. Works.
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Dave - you might like to read a book by Florence Bulle "God
Wants You Rich & Other Enticing Doctrines", which discusses
OOBEs in one of her chapters.
In the Bible we have examples of men caught up in the Spirit (eg
Ezekiel, Paul). I believe that also this experience is
counterfeited by Satan - so that for example yoga and other
eastern medatitive techniques can be used to induce the soul to
leave the body and float off. Someone tried to sell me a book in
Los Angeles airport entitled "Easy Journeys to Other Planets"
which uses such techniques.
The occultic trance of a medium sometimes involves such body
departure - the book "The Challanging Counterfeit", about a
former medium who gets saved, tells how the author, on his last
trance, was attacked by evil spirits who tried to kill him
while returning to his body at the end of the seance
because of his interest in Christianity and how he was supernaturally
protected by the Lord.
There may be some similarities in mind-altering drugs and the
phenomena of 'tripping'.
As regards the connection between body and soul, there is an
interesting verse in Ecclesiastes. In a passage talking about
old age, the preacher writes "Then man goes to his eternal home
and mourners go about the streets. Remember Him--before the
silver cord is severed." (12.5-6) My understanding of this
silver cord is that it is something that attaches body and soul
in a manner somewhat similar to an umbilical cord or an
astronaut's air-line to his spaceship.
When a person goes out of body this silver cord still attaches
the soul whereever it goes - and is vulnerable to being broken:
astral projection can be dangerous! Bulle, I think, reports a
case of a yogi off on an OOBE who was found dead in his
apartment, with no apparent external cause.
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That depends on how this verse is read. There are at least two
meanings of the word "once". 1) only one time, and 2) at some
other time (i.e. once upon a time). Note that in the previous
verse, the word "once" is used with the second meaning, and also
in the following verse, "once" is again used with the second meaning.
The Greek, I am sure, uses different words for each of the two meanings
for the English word "once". I am not a Greek scholar, but I'm sure
someone here can verify which Greek word is used here for this meaning.
If the second meaning is being used, that verse can be interpreted as:
- for it was once given for men to die (beginning with Adam), but
after this [gift of atonement offered by Jesus Christ] the judgement
[is made available], for now there is no longer death, but life
with Christ.
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This must be the standard strategy that is taught, cuz that's what they told
me to do in my Illinois MSF class. It works well, only you don't get the
satisfaction of kicking the shit out of some rabid hell-beast.
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Many (all?) XT drive controllers have their own BIOS on board to handle low-
level formatting. The BIOS also allows you to set up the drive properly
(# of cylinders/heads/etc).
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| > Mary at that time appeared to a girl named Bernadette at
| > Lourdes. She referred to herself as the Immaculate Conception.
| > Since a nine year old would have no way of knowing about the
| > doctrine, the apparition was deemed to be true and it sealed
| > the case for the doctrine.
|Bernadette was 14 years old when she had her visions, in 1858,
|four years after the dogma had been officially proclaimed by the
|Pope.
|
| Yours,
| James Kiefer
I forgot exactly what her age was but I remember clearly
that she was born in a family of poverty and she did not
have any education, whatsoever, at the age of the apparitions.
She suffered from asthma at that age and she and her family were
living in an abandoned prison cell of some sort.
She had to ask the 'Lady' several times in her apparitions about
what her name was since her confessor priest asked her to do so.
For several instances, the priest did not get an answer since
Bernadette did not receive any. One time, after several apparitions
passed, The Lady finally said, "I am the Immaculate Conception".
So, Bernadette, was so happy and repeated these words over and
over in her mind so as not to forget it before she told the
priest who was asking. So, when she told the priest, the
priest was shocked and asked Bernadette, "Do you know what
you are talking about?". Bernadette did not know what exactly
it meant but she was just too happy to have the answer for
the priest. The priest continued with, "How did you remember
this if you do not know?". Bernadette answered honestly that
she had to repeat it over and over in her mind while on her
way to the priest...
The priest knew about the dogma being four years old then.
But Bernadette did not know and yet she had the answer which
the priest finally observed and took as proof of an authentic
personal revelation of Our Lady to Bernadette.
(Note: This Lady of Lourdes shrine has a spring of water which
our lady requested Bernadette to dig up herself with her
bare hands in front of pilgrims. At the start little
water flowed but after several years there is more water
flowing.)
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An interesting note ... I have absolutely no recollection who was on my team.
I picked all my players about 2 weeks before the start of the season, and
then never touched the roster again. I got wrapped up in my own "money" pool
and decided not to get involved at all with the USENET pool (sorry Andrew
btw). The only thing I remember about my team is that I had Joe Sacco and
maybe John MacLean. Maybe Francis and Kevin Stevens as well. Out of
curiousity I checked the final standings today on r.s.h., only to find to my
amazement that with absolutely no input, the initial team still managed to
finsh 79th! I'm not sure what that implies for those who finished below me
:)
Ciao.
Brad Gibson
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#129-2219 Main Mall PHONE: (604)822-6722
University of British Columbia FAX: (604)822-6047
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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I'm trying to install WordPerfect 5.2 for windows on my computer. I'm
running a 386sx25 w/ 2meg ram and a 4meg virtual mem setting for windows. I
keep getting errors when I try to run WP52. It tells me that I don't have
enough memory or disk space (since I have 47megs free on the HD, I'm assuming
that I don't have enough memory). Can anyone tell me what it takes to run
this beast? Thanks.
___________________________
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/ ***** /____/ will deny any responsibility of its use. This
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Location: /pub/msdos/video.and.graphics
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[The only reason for the death penalty is revenge?? If you are going to
try to refute a position, try to refute the whole position or acknosledge
that you are only speaking to small piece of the problem. Broad sweeping
"the only reason, " etc on as tough nut to crack as the death penalty
reallly doesn't help much.
Every year the FBI releases crime stats showing an overwhelming amount of
crime is committed by repeat offenders. People are killed by folks who
have killed (who knows how many times) before. How aobut folks who are for
the death penalty, not for revenge, but to cut down on recidivism?]
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Better, I think, is our right peacably to assemble. I have a right to meet
you in a park and talk privately. I have a right to see if anyone is
nearby, listening.
In cyberspace, cryptography gives us a right to assemble with control over
who overhears us.
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5,775
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Matching the Makarov offer was the only real mistake Dave King has made this
year. I have to wonder about the intelligence of signing a 33-year old who
is obviously on the downside of his career to a 4-year $2 million contract.
Risebrough matched the offer on King's request and Makarov has spent the last
quarter of the season in the press box because his work ethic just plain
stinks. Not to mention that he's lost a step and can no longer get himself
into position to make the nifty passes.
I think Makarov will be available for free this offseason to anybody who agrees
to pay his contract. He's ineffective in Calgary, but he might be able to help
a team like San Jose, with their shortage of talent. If there's no takers, and
Makarov doesn't show improvement in training camp, I think the Flames will just
bite the bullet and buy out Makarov's contract and release him. With his
current attitude, he is a detriment to the team.
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I heard somewhere (can't name the source) that TEMPEST does not necessarily
pick-up just CRTs, but it can pick up emissions from almost any chip. If
that is true, the kind monitor would not make any difference becuase everything
on the screen can be picked-up from the video controller. Can anybody verify
or refute this?
| 3
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5,777
|
And not the only quality Mariner pitcher. I logged on expecting to see
at least ONE congratulatory note for Chris Bosio's NO HITTER, but nary
a peep.
So I'll take this opportunity to note that the red feet are now 11-5 and
slinking out of town without having scored a run in the last two games
or even a hit in last night's gem.
Not that we M's fans can compare our suffering to those of the followers
of New England's long-running tragedy, but only one winning season in
history is something of a burden to bear. So we'll take our joys when
we can get 'em.
The Mariners now have two no-hit pitchers on the staff and not
coincidentally those pitchers beat the Red Sox in back to back games.
jsh
| 11
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5,778
|
Can someone in this net post a Yankee Schedule?
I need this right away.
| 11
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5,779
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This was not stated nor implied. Try asking.
This is laughable. Licenses? Right. So then I would need a
license to possess chlorine gas? It is a weapons grade poison.
Would I be breaking the law then if I were to, say, pour Chlorox
on the spot where my cat pissed on the floor? The reaction of
ammonia and bleach liberates pure chlorine gas. Do I go to jail
for this? Why or why not?
Would I need a license to possess other chemical agents? What about
nicotine? Deadly poison, and rather fast acting. Must I now become
licensed to posess tobacco? And what about nicotine sulphate, an even
deadlier poison? Will I need a license to possess this type of
insecticide? What about Raid(tm)? Black Flag? Gasoline? Benzene?
Hydrazine (a violent poison)?
Will I go to jail for possessing a can of tomatoes that went bad with
botulinus?
What about my mom & pop QC lab where I use cyanogen bromide (mustard
gas) to do lot analysis on certain non-prescription pharmaceuticals?
What if I wish to use potassium cyanide to recover gold from aqua
regia? A license?
Would I need a license to possess Beryllium, perhaps the most poisonous
non-radioactive metal? How about Beryllium-Copper alloy?
Do I need a license for nitrate fertilizers which *could* be used to
make VERY powerful explosive devices such as the one that the IRA
recently detonated, killing 1 and injuring 45?
Can I have vinegar without license? Hydrogen peroxide? Where is the
line drawn?
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5,780
|
I had ankle reconstruction (grafting the extensor digitorum
longus to the lateral side of the ankle, along with a video
arthroscopy of the ankle (interesting to watch, to say the
least). Since then, I have had periodic muscle spasms (not
cramping, but twitching that is very fast) in some of the
muscle groups along the lateral side, and along the top of
my foot.
TX with quinine sulfate produced ringing in my ears, but did
help with the spasms.
I am on flexeril now, but no discernable help with the spasms.
Any ideas?
One thing - I am in a short leg cast, so heat is not the answer.
| 9
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|
Is there a hot-key for the Windows 3.1 screen saver utility? If not, is
there an easy way to create one? The reason that I need one is that my
dad's company is anal retentive about leaving a computer while the
information can be accessed so the employees are not allowed to walk away
from the computer until the screen saver kicks in (as if that is terribly
secure). Also, the system manager won't let any software be added so
another program such as LOCK32.ZIP from cica or a different screen saver
is out.
Thanks for any and all help.
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Is there any judgement call on the part of the scorer for sac fly RBI's?
This is the situation that brought the question up:
The Red Sox were up in the bottom of the 9th by a score of 5-1. The Mariners
had the bases loaded with 1 out. The batter hits a fly to center, which the
fielder catches. The runner at third tags and scores without a throw.
Now, without a judgement call (and I don't think there is one), this is an RBI
for the batter. It seems to me that a better name for this would be "defensive
indifference", since it doesn't really matter whether the guy at third scores
at that point. (I know, I can think of several "If the Mariners stole third
and second, which opening the base would allow, and then the batter hit a
grounder which the third baseman gets deep in the hole between himself and
third, he wouldn't have a play at home, third, or second for the out, and
maybe he therefore can't make the throw to first to get the last out, etc...
scenarios, too. But does it _really_ matter if this guy scores this way when
you're down by 4? If the tying run is going to score, so is the guy on third.)
The point is that the batter (IMO) shouldn't get "credit" (an RBI) for utterly
failing to do his job - which at this point is to get a hit or a walk, not
trade an out for one run. What do you guys think?
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|
I am looking for a means to add FLI and FLC animation creation
to a Windows application. I was hoping for something along the lines
of AAWIN or AAPLAY by Autodesk but for the creation of these delta
compressed animations. I have FLILIB but this seems to be coded for
the Large memory model of DOS with Turbo C. Ideally I would
like a DLL or Medium model object library, but would settle
for anything, really. I've seen other Windows apps with
FLI/FLC creation, did they hack the FLILIB code into submission?
Any pointers would be appreciated, please send mail directly
to me and I will summarize the results if there is interest.
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|
EDTA(chelation therapy) has been used by some physicians to try to remove
calcium from calcified plaques in the arterial system(not approved for such
use). There is also the possibility that lung tissue in patients with lung
disease has become calcified(chest x-rays would show this). There are side
-effects to the use of EDTA because it is not specific for calcium(it also
binds other minerals). I think that there have been some deaths when
EDTA chelation therapy has been used because of mineral imbalances that
were not detected and corrected. In animal studies, the best way to remove
calcium from plaques in rabbits was to supplement the rabbits with vitamin C
and magnesium(rabbits already synthesize their own vitamin C, the extra
vitamin C was given in their diets to help the magnesium displace the calcium
from the plaques).
The calcification process that occurs in both plaques and the lung probably
can be prevented if magnesium is used in supplemental form. Most patietns
with calcium deposits are found to be deficient in calcium.
1. "Magnesium interrationships in ischemic heart disease: A review"
Am J Clin Nutr 27(1):59-79(1974). Supplementation with
magnesium will prevent clacification of blood vessels.
2. "The importance of magnesium deficiency in cardiovascular
disease" Am. Heart J 94:649-57(1977). The need to measure the
serum concentration in all patients with heat disease cannot be
overemphasized. This is a review article.
3. "Effect of dietary magnesium on development of atherosclerosis
in cholesterol-fed rabbits" Atherosclerosis 10:732-7(1990).
Magnesium supplementation greatly decreased the formation of
plaques in rabbits feed a diet that had 1% by weight cholesterrol
added to their normal food.
Since EDTA will also bind magnesium, I've never really liked it's use for
the reversal of athersclerosis or now apparently in emphesema patients.
| 9
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5,785
|
Hi. One of my coworkers is having a very odd problem. His mouse
works fine in DOS applications, if you load them from the C: prompt.
Under Windows, the mouse pointer is present, but does not move. Even
if you load a DOS app under Windows, the mouse doesn't work.
The computer is a Zeos 386SX-20 w/Diamond Speedstar VGA running MS
DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1. Mouse driver is Microsoft's 8.2. I've tried
switching the mouse from COM1 to COM2, I've tried a different mouse,
I've reinstalled MOUSE.DRV, and I can't get the blamed thing to work.
The only difference between his system and mine (where the mouse works
perfectly) is that he has an expansion card with an additional
parallel and serial port. Could that cause the problem?
Thanks in advance for any help.
| 17
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5,786
|
I think we should just let Bhagwans be Bhagwans.
| 8
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5,787
| 5
|
|
5,788
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What is this "Gaza"? Are you purposely separating it from the "West Bank"?
If so, why separate the people and territories? If not, why are you just
addressing "Gaza" here?
By all means, continue to list the "etc." The reason I particularly
bring this up here is that there are **many** from middle eastern
and west asian countries. That fact in itself **adds** an important
element to any consideration of "resolution" of the Arab-Israel
conflict.
You explained what "sea" meant with regard to the Israelis/jews,
please do so in this case.
"Just"? You better not ask for that because that would mean North
American tribes would be returned their lands, the pre-Islamic tribes
would take back their lands from the Islamic invaders, the Saxons get
to kick the Normans out of the UK, the central and south american
tribes get to kick the spanish descendents out of thier lands.....
And, once we have returned the land to those who last possessed it,
we have to find out from whom **they** stole it. At some point, *every*
culture stole the land they are on from previous occupants.
But wait! Now you refer to "Palestinians", so what happened to "Gaza"?
As we both know, most people would choose the third alternative. And,
since you have done so in the past, perhaps you would initiate things by
presenting your vision of "resolution". In doing so, however, the worries
(not paranioas, *worries*) and resonable expectations **of both**
parties should be considered.
| 2
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5,789
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quoted for future reference...
He believed one of two things: 1) Sabo was more likely than Samuel
to get a hit OR 2) that more good would be done in the long run
by leaving Sabo in regardless of the expectation of the actual outcome.
In fact you don't know what Perez had in mind when he left Sabo in.
In fact, I don't think anyone is claiming that they can predict
the future, or any particular future event. But we can believe
that certain trends are due to a cause (whether or not we have
identified the cause) and therefore will continue.
I think seeing insults in other people's opinions is kind of silly.
After all, Mark didn't call you a total idiot, or call your work
stupid, he simply stated that it didn't change his opinion on the
subject.
If player A hits better on Tuesdays and always has, and Mark believes
that it might be an indication that he will hit on Tuesday better next
season as well, would you respond the same way? At some point you
might admit that all variable might not be known to you (who knows
what this guy does every Monday night? Maybe he sees his sports
shrink on Tuesday mornings, or has his Vitamin B shots Monday nights?)
But this is something that's true of one guy only. It doesn't
mean that there will be a meaningful correlation for the entire
league by days of the week, nor that there should be. But it doesn't
mean we can't make predictions based on that for that particular
player.
I only see a prediction for one player here. I don't see anything
about ALL batters.
That's exactly what Mark is trying to do though. Find hitters
that have these correlation and ask whether we can make predictions
for these hitters based on their past performance.
Huh? What does gambler's fallacy have to do with anything?
Whether you can know the reason for correlation or not, you can't
deny that it has existent, you can only make an argument that
you don't think it is likely to continue to exist because you
can't see a reason for it to exist.
Someone posted recently on why negative clutch would correlate.
The argument along the lines of star player with L/R splits will
always see an adverse condition in late innings of a close game
(i.e. opposing manager will always bring in a AH pitcher to
face him, where his manager will not pull him for a PH)
What about you? If the shoe fits, will you wear it with an open mind?
| 11
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|
Being in the "visualization" stage of a circuit design right now,
I was wondering what the best way to "scale" an AC voltage using an 8-bit
digital word is. I am thinking of using the common method of sending the
word through an ADC and then comparing it with the AC voltage (converted
to a sawtooth wave) to get a duty cycle. However, I am leary of this
method because it a) requires a lot of parts, and, more importantly, b)
creates a lot of interference from the switching on the entire AC line. I
realize that correct filtering could cancel out most of this interference,
but that would require more parts and boost the price further.
Someone mentioned to me that they had seen an IC which input 8
bits of data and DIRECTLY scaled the AC voltage coming in all on-chip.
Unfortunately, he couldn't remember the chip number or the manufacturer;
if anyone else has heard of this chip, please e-mail me.
I am building this project as a "dimmer box" for a light
controller circuit and it is important that the cost of each box remains
very low because one dimmer is required for each light that the user
wishes to control (well, each channel, at least). Therefor, if each box
costs $150, I doubt that an end user will want to dish out ($150 x 16 =
$2400) for sixteen channels... This is something I have noticed about
today's dimmer boxes; they are so expensive!
Anyway, any help which someone could offer on either a method of
easily doing this or info about the chip which will do it for me (always
the preferred method... :) will be greatly appreciated!
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Don't be silly.
Using the Sound Manager on a Quadra is very well, but using SM on
any of the low-end machines doesn't simply work for a decent action
game since it just steals too much time from the CPU. This is
a fact. By writing directly to the hardware on an SE, it is
possible to have 4 simultaneous channels of sampled sound (11kHz) for
a cost of approx. 8000 cycles. Exactly how would you do that using
the SM, pray tell?
The correct thing to do is to use the SM on the machines that can
carry that extra load using the SM means, and to write directly
to the sound hardware on the machines that can't. It's not the
politically correct thing, but from the developers' point of
view it is.
| 10
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5,792
|
What are those other objects? UFOs????
| 12
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5,793
|
Unfortonately, that truly is about the best summation of the research
that there is. Advantages stated of circumcison included probably
prevention of penile cancer, (which, interestingly, occurs mostly in men
whose personal hygiene is exceptionally poor), simplicity of personal
hygiene, prevention of urinary tract infections, and prevention of
a unretractible foreskin, Disadvantages include infection from the
procedure, pain, etc. I apologize; I am trying to pull this off
the top of my head. I will post what I discovered in research; I did
a paper on the topic in my research class in Nursing school.
It really is a decision that is up to the parents. Some parents use
the reasoning that they will "look like Daddy" and like their friends
as justification. There is nothing wrong with this; just be sure it is
what you want to do, since it is rather difficult to uncircumcise
a male, although a major surgical procedure exists.
As long as your membranes have not broken and you have not had any
problems with your pregnancy, it should be OK to sit in a tub of water.
HOWEVER, I WOULD RECOMMEND USING YOUR OWN BATHTUB IN YOUR OWN HOME!
It is nearly impossible to guarantee the cleanliness and safety of "public"
hot tubs. A nice warm bath can be very relaxing, especially if your back
is killing you! And it would possibly be advisable to avoid bubble bath
soap , esp. if you are prone to yeast infection.
Hope these tips help you some.
| 9
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5,794
|
For Sale I have 4 (Four) 1 Meg SIMMS (100ns) for the Macintosh.
If you want to upgrade that Mac IIsi, IIci, or whatever.
Email your offer. Thanks.
| 1
|
5,795
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[discussion of pros and cons deleted]
Could someone give me the references to the LLNL proposal? I've been meaning
to track it down in conjuntion with something I'm working on. It's not
directly related to space stations, but I think many of the principles will
carry over.
| 12
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5,796
|
I need to know the jumper settings for master and/or slave operation on
a Maxtor 7080AT (80MB IDE) hard disk.
Thanks in advance.
| 5
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5,797
|
Oops, I didn't get the signal processing right (thats what I get from doing
the work on an ascii terminal). Here is the fixed patch:
*** 1.1 1993/04/28 06:05:03
--- Imakefile 1993/04/28 08:20:35
***************
*** 209,215 ****
OBJS4= xcmap.o
PROGRAMS= xv bggen vdcomp xcmap
!
#if defined(HaveJpeg) || defined(HaveTiff)
# ifdef HaveJpeg
--- 209,218 ----
OBJS4= xcmap.o
PROGRAMS= xv bggen vdcomp xcmap
! all::
! @echo ""
! @echo " Did you remember to 'make depend' first?"
! @echo ""
#if defined(HaveJpeg) || defined(HaveTiff)
# ifdef HaveJpeg
***************
*** 222,238 ****
SUBDIRS = tiff
# endif
# define PassCDebugFlags
MakeSubdirs($(SUBDIRS))
- DependSubdirs($(DUBDIRS))
#endif
all::
- @echo ""
- @echo " Did you remember to 'make depend' first?"
- @echo ""
-
- all::
@echo " building xv ..."
@echo ""
--- 225,236 ----
SUBDIRS = tiff
# endif
# define PassCDebugFlags
+ # define IHaveSubdirs
MakeSubdirs($(SUBDIRS))
#endif
all::
@echo " building xv ..."
@echo ""
***************
*** 259,267 ****
SRCS = $(SRCS1) $(SRCS2) $(SRCS3) $(SRCS4)
- DependTarget()
AllTarget($(PROGRAMS))
NormalProgramTarget(xv,$(OBJS1),$(DEPLIBS),$(LOCAL_LIBRARIES),)
NormalProgramTarget(bggen,$(OBJS2),$(DEPLIBS),$(LOCAL_LIBRARIES),)
--- 257,269 ----
SRCS = $(SRCS1) $(SRCS2) $(SRCS3) $(SRCS4)
+
AllTarget($(PROGRAMS))
+ DependTarget()
+ #ifdef IHaveSubdirs
+ DependSubdirs($(SUBDIRS))
+ #endif
NormalProgramTarget(xv,$(OBJS1),$(DEPLIBS),$(LOCAL_LIBRARIES),)
NormalProgramTarget(bggen,$(OBJS2),$(DEPLIBS),$(LOCAL_LIBRARIES),)
*** 1.1 1993/04/28 06:09:50
--- xcmap.c 1993/04/28 07:09:03
***************
*** 9,15 ****
--- 9,19 ----
/* include files */
#include <stdio.h>
+ #if defined(sun) && defined(SYSV)
+ #include <string.h>
+ #else
#include <strings.h>
+ #endif
#include <ctype.h>
#include <X11/Xos.h>
*** 1.1 1993/04/28 08:33:13
--- xv.h 1993/04/28 17:47:38
***************
*** 284,292 ****
--- 284,298 ----
/* signal macros */
+ #if defined(sun) && defined(SYSV)
+ #define HOLD_SIG sighold(SIGALRM)
+ #define RELEASE_SIG sigrelse(SIGALRM)
+ #define PAUSE_SIG sigpause(SIGALRM)
+ #else
#define HOLD_SIG sigblock(sigmask(SIGALRM))
#define RELEASE_SIG sigblock(0)
#define PAUSE_SIG sigpause(0)
+ #endif
/* default for most folks */
***************
*** 318,323 ****
--- 324,333 ----
#define random rand
#define srandom srand
#endif
+ #if defined(sun) && defined(SYSV)
+ #define random() rand()
+ #define srandom(x) srand(x)
+ #endif
*** 1.1 1993/04/28 06:17:41
--- tiff/Imakefile 1993/04/28 08:53:34
***************
*** 49,59 ****
--- 49,69 ----
tif_compress.o: Imakefile
+ #if HasGcc
g3states.h: mkg3states.c t4.h
-${RM} g3states.h
+ ${CC} -traditional -o mkg3states ${CFLAGS} mkg3states.c
+ ./mkg3states > g3states.h || rm g3states.h
+ #else
+ g3states.h: mkg3states.c t4.h
+ -${RM} g3states.h
${CC} -o mkg3states ${CFLAGS} mkg3states.c
./mkg3states > g3states.h || rm g3states.h
+ #endif
depend:: g3states.h
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5,798
|
I have been looking around some Ftp sites and cannot find one with any good
GIF files. Could someone please tell me of some Ftp sites which do posses
goods GIFS and a wide range.
Please EMAIL me at the address above.
Thanks
| 7
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5,799
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I opened the file with a text editor and it looks like:
^Vnetwork storyboardpictPICT8BIM^E^......
I have already tried BinHex which does not seem to work.
Any other ideas?
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