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Article #119Totality on the distant planet Zok
From: Mark W. Snitily
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1991 08:36
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1991 08:36
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Due to the total solar eclipse, zok was in auto pilot mode for most
of the month. :-) The UUCP X11 archive here has just been updated
with all of the latest & greatest from export.lcs.mit.edu. So, if
you've recently obtained a /usrX/ls-lR.Z you might want to pick up
a new one.
See the comp.windows.x FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) for info
on how to set up a UUCP connection to zok.
As an aside, for those of you who have not seen a total solar eclipse,
do it! My wife & I were on the S.S. Constitution about a hundred miles
off the coast of Kailua Kona, Hawaii for the 11-July-91 eclipse. Words
can not adequately describe it. Stunning. One can watch videos, look
at pictures, read books, but it's *not even close* to the real thing.
Here's a list of the total solar eclipses for the rest of the millennium:
Date Location Duration of Totality
--------- --------------------------------------- --------------------
30-Jun-92 South Atlantic Ocean 5:20
03-Nov-94 South America (Peru, Bolivia, Argentia, 4:23
Brazil) and South Atlantic Ocean
24-Oct-95 Iran, India, Thailand, Philippines and 2:09
Pacific Ocean
09-Mar-97 Mongolia, China, Siberia 2:50
26-Feb-98 Pacific Ocean, Panama, Columbia, and 4:08
Atlantic Ocean
11-Aug-99 Europe (England, France, Germany, 2:22
Austria, Hungary), Turkey and India
The next one over the USA is:
21-Aug-2017 Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, 2:40
Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennesse,
and North & South Carolina
Plan ahead. Be sure to see at least one during your brief sojourn
on this planet.
-- Mark
Mark W. Snitily Consulting Services:
894 Brookgrove Lane Graphics, Operating Systems, Compilers
Cupertino, CA 95014 (408) 252-0456
mark@zok.uucp West Coast UUCP X11 archive site
If your mailer doesn't like the .uucp domain, these also work:
...!{mips,sgi}!zok!mark, mark%zok@mips.com, mark%zok@sgi.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103734,34c68612c4e02f82,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103734,public X-Google-Thread: 10e286,34c68612c4e02f82,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10e286,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-07-15 02:18:30 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!sgi!zok!mark From: mark@zok.UUCP (Mark W. Snitily) Newsgroups: ba.windows.x,comp.windows.x Subject: Totality on the distant planet Zok Message-ID: <523@zok.UUCP> Date: 15 Jul 91 08:36:05 GMT Followup-To: ba.windows.x Organization: The distant planet Zok Lines: 48