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                            THE BLIND NEWS DIGEST

                                 Issue # 1130

                           Tuesday, March 07, 1995

Today's Topics:


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                                 catalog.htm
                                 catalog.htm
                              Re: talking time
                     bookport - source of on-line books
                                  recorder
                              My son needs help
                    copying address from computer screen


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Subject: catalog.htm
From: senkmj@ptbma.usbm.gov (Mark J. Senk WB3CAI)

Happy reading, Mark


Information, like love, is worth little until you share it with someone.
Mark Senk(412) 892-6513 senkmj@ptbma.usbm.gov
U.S. Bureau of Mines Pittsburgh, PA  15236

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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 08:20:31 -0500
From: SENK <senkmj@ptbma.usbm.gov>
To: senkmj@ptbma.usbm.gov
Subject: catalog.htm


  THE ONLINE BOOKSTORE (OBS) CATALOG

   We appreciate hearing from you and welcome your email to:
   OBS@marketplace.com The Online BookStore (OBS) offers to the
   Internet public electronic versions of current books. Since 1992, we
   have established working business models for publishing on the
   Internet, and paying royalties to authors and electronic rights
   holders for the titles we make available online. Readers can freely
   browse catalogs and sample presentations--texts, pictures, and
   videos--then decide what to buy. We offer electronic books, and
   disk-based and paper books as well. The OBS can clear credit cards
   online, or take the orders by conventional means such as phone and
   fax. The OBS respects the privacy of our readers; we treat ordering
   information with the strictest confidence and will not sell or
   otherwise share this confidential information. In turn, we ask our
   readers to respect the copyright notices on OBS titles and refrain
   from unlawful copying and redistribution of OBS files.

  WHAT'S NEW AT THE OBS:

    Online publications featured in November 1994

   The Osiris Project,
   by Colin Haynes and Dr. M.A. Gillman (Nomad Press International,
   1994).
   An interactive, hypertext project concerning that most ancient of
   mortal concerns: Death. Author of a number of computer titles and,
   most recently, Paperless Publishing (McGraw-Hill, 1994), Haynes has
   set an extraordinary goal with the Osiris Project-- to gather enough
   Near Death Experiences (NDEs) from online readers to enable him to
   develop software previewing Death. Freely-browsable full-text
   publication presented in Mosaic. Purchase this project on diskette for
   $4.95 including shipping and handling.

   McGraw-Hill Professional Book Group Home Page
   Continually at the forefront of new technology, McGraw-Hill has been
   expanding its publishing program into interactive online areas. A
   kintetic publication itself, this new Home Page is a starting point
   for browsing the customized McGraw-Hill titles at the OBS, as well as
   a base for exploring McGraw-Hill's offerings elsewhere on the
   Internet. McGraw-Hill publications currently presented at the OBS
   include:
   Publishing by Colin Haynes
   Internet for Everyone by Richard W. Wiggins
   Job Hotline Directory by Marcia P. Williams and Sue A.Cubbage.

  MOSAIC

   Current anonymous ftp site for Mosaic application software is NCSA
   Mosaic Home Page

   Mosaic is both a browser and a distributed publishing program
   developed by NCSA at the University of Illinois in Champagne/Urbana
   and is available for free on the Net. The OBS Mosaic versions of books
   effectively point to resources outside of themselves on the
   WorldWideWeb (a globally hyperlinked environment). The printed book, a
   familiar two-dimensional document contained within the borders of its
   covers, herewith becomes a multi- dimensional experience.

   Mosaic files are coded in HTML (HyperText Markup Language), and the
   internal links allow the user to access the book in a nonlinear way,
   linking from the front- and backmatter of the book (the table of
   contents or the index) to the text of the book itself. These internal
   links are supplemented by external links, pointing outside of the book
   to relevant text, graphics, video, and other kinetic links. Kinetic
   links include gopher, telnet, and email links to people and places
   around the Net.

   If you have a Net connection which allows you to run Mosaic on the
   WorldWideWeb, you can purchase and use OBS Mosaic books. The Internet
   is an everchanging environment, and distributed publishing is by
   definition kinetic publishing, meaning the links may change over time.
   Purchasers of the Mosaic versions of OBS books should contact us
   periodically for updated links.

   Publication of books in Mosaic at the OBS is a first step into a new
   realm of publishing -- kinetic, online publishing. It utilizes
   publicly available publishing tools (which are evolving) as well as
   the distributed worldwide network of networks, the Internet, which
   itself is evolving. In purchasing these HTML files, you become a
   participant in distributed publishing worldwide, and we welcome your
   responses and suggestions for new links.

  INFORMATION THAT WANTS TO BE FREE

   ABC's of the Publishing URLs,
   Created by OBS, suggestions welcome.
   Format: Mosaic

   Best Sellers--The New York Times Book Review
   Updated weekly.
   Formats: Mosaic and ASCII

   FAQS for K-12 Educators
   Format: ASCII

   Laura Fillmore,
   Online Publishing: Threat or Menace?
   Internet Publishing: How We Must Think
   Distributed Publishing: The Ingenuity of Multilinear Thought
   Slaves of a New Machine: Exploring the For Free/For Pay Conundrum
   Internet Publishing in a Borderless Environment:Bookworms to
   Butterflies
   Formats: Mosaic and ASCII

   Christine Maxwell and Czeslaw Jan Grycz,
   A Whimsical Tour of the Internet A hotlinked freely-browsable
   presentation, excerpted from The New Riders' Official Internet Yellow
   Pages
   (New Riders Publishing, 1994).
   Format: Mosaic

   Ted Nelson,
   World Enough: The Manuscript Edition (Mindful Press, 1993)
   Sample pages from the autobiography of the widely-known interactive
   media pioneer who coined the terms "hypertext," "hypermedia," and
   "dildonics," and who is also the founder of the Project Xanadu.
   Formats: Mosaic and ASCII

   Gregory J. E. Rawlins,
   The New Publishing: Technology's Impact on the Publishing Industry
   Over the Next Decade
   Format: Postscript, 171K

   Charles Spurgeon,
   Guide to Ethernet
   Format: Postscript, 108K
   Guide to Ethernet Configuration
   Format: Postscript, 81K

  PUBLISHERS' CATALOGS

   The OBS has introduced an interactive catalog feature that enables
   reader to browse the latest catalogs from OBS publishers and
   booksellers, select titles, and place orders for bound books with
   immediate credit card verification. For information about getting your
   catalog online, contact the OBS.

   Current Catalogs:

   Globe Pequot Press Catalog
   Browse descriptions and order from this extensive selection of over
   340(!) books on domestic and international travel, outdoor recreation,
   personal business, and gardening.
   Format: gopher interactive catalog.
   For sale: paperbound versions of all titles, including multi-pack
   options for retail booksellers.

   Henry Holt & Co. Home Page, offering:

   Miguel Algarin and Bob Holman, ed.,
   Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe (1994)
   Free online serial releases from this award-winning collection of
   poetry.
   Format: Mosaic
   For sale: hardcover, $34.50 includes s/h; paperback, $19.45 includes
   s/h.

   Christopher Manson,
   Maze (1985)
   An interactive nonsequential puzzle book. Freely-browsable complete
   text and graphics.
   Format: Mosaic
   For sale: paperback, $12.45 includes s/h.

   Bryan Pfaffenberger,
   Mosaic User's Guide (MIS: Press, 1994)
   Free sample of one of the first trade computer titles about the
   popular WorldWideWeb browser.
   Format: Mosaic
   For sale: paperback, $31.45 includes s/h.

   Pondaray Enterprises,
   Global Rarities Notecards Catalog.
   A graphic presentation of writing cards and gift stationery featuring
   rare images from environments worldwide.
   Format: Mosaic and gopher.
   For sale: 10-card units, $17.40; assorted gift sets $18.90, including
   shippping and handling.

  FICTION TITLES

   (alpha by author) John Ashbery,
   Flow Chart, a poem (Alfred A. Knopf, 1992)
   Format: ASCII, 370K
   For sale: e-text, $5.00
   Lyrics from Selected Poems and Hotel Lautremont (Penguin Books, 1986
   and Alfred A. Knopf, 1992)
   Format: ASCII
   For sale: e-text, $5.00

   Paulina Borsook,
   Virtual Romance
   Format: ASCII
   For sale: e-text $5.00

   Lewis Carroll,
   The Complete Annotated Alice
   Introduction and Notes by Martin Gardner.
   Format: Voyager Expanded Book, Mac only, 1.3MB
   For sale: e-text, $19.95

   Robert Coover,
   Pricksongs & Descants, stories (Plume 1970)
   Format: ASCII, 442K
   For sale: e-text, $5.00
   Selected short fiction (Various publishers)
   Format: ASCII
   For sale: e-text, $5.00

   Richard Dooling,
   White Man's Grave (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1994)
   Free excerpt available for downloading.
   Format: ASCII
   For sale: hardcover, $26.50 includes s/h.

   Gardener Dozois (ed),
   The Year's Best Science Fiction
   Format: Voyager Expanded Book, Mac only
   For sale: e-text, $19.95

   William Gibson,
   Virtual Light
   Format: Voyager Expanded Book, Mac only
   For sale: e-text, $19.95

   Floyd Kemske
   Ongoing Fiction Editing Project--Floyd Kemske (Catbird Press, 1994)
   Underlining the notion that Internet publishing is about process, not
   product, Catbird Press shares with the Internet community the private
   creative work of editing a new vampire/business novel, and invites
   readers to join in this unique open project. Subsequent drafts and the
   editor's comments are posted simultaneously and interlinked in Mosaic.

   Format: Mosaic and ASCII

   Stephen King,
   Umney's Last Case, a story (Viking/Penguin 1993)
   Formats: Voyager Expanded Book, Mac or DOS, 425K; also in ASCII, 110K
   For sale: e-text, $5.00

   Madeleine L'Engle,
   Wrinkle in Time Trilogy
   (A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many
   Waters)
   Format: Voyager Expanded Book, Mac only
   For sale: e-text, $24.95

  NONFICTION TITLES

   (alpha by author)

   Ashton Applewhite, William Evans III, and Andrew Frothingham,
   And I Quote
   Format: Voyager Expanded Book, Mac only
   For sale: e-text, $19.95

   Dianne Brinson and Mark Radcliffe
   Multimedia Law Handbook (Ladera Press 1994)
   Formats: (Chapters 1-14) 121KB.tar.Z or 105KB.zip, ASCII
   For sale: e-text, Chapters 1-14, $30.00
   For sale: paperback, Chapers 1-19 & Appendices, $49.95, after
   purchasing e-text Chapters 1-14 .
   For sale: paperback, Chapers 1-19 & Appendices, $79.95, without
   purchasing e-text Chapters 1-14 .

   Adrian Butash,
   Bless This Food: Amazing Graces in Thanks for Food (Delacorte Press
   1993)
   Freely-browsable excerpt of this full-text distributed publication,
   featuring links to numerous Internet sites.
   Format: Mosaic
   For sale: e-text (full) $25.00.

   Bernice Chesler,
   Bernice Chesler's Bed & Breakfast in the Mid-Atlantic States (third
   edition) (Globe Pequot Press 1993)
   Free excerpts available for downloading. Format: ASCII.
   For sale: paperbound book, through OBS's Globe Pequot Press Catalog
   Bernice Chesler's Bed & Breakfast in New England (fourth
   edition)(Globe Pequot Press 1994)
   Freely-browsable selection, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, featuring
   hot links to Internet sites.
   Formats: Mosaic and ASCII. For sale: paperbound book, through OBS's
   Globe Pequot Press Catalog

   FreeRange Media,
   Information Superhighway: Understanding and Using the Internet--A
   Step-by-step Guide Video (1994). A comprehensive multimedia approach
   to learning about the Internet. Free preview. Format: .mpg
   For sale: video, $16.95 , includes s/h (25% off list! Continental U.S.
   only)
   For sale: video *and* The Internet Companion (second edition), $25.00,
   includes s/h (25% off list! U.S. only)

   James Gleick,
   Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
   Format: Voyager Expanded Book, Mac only, 1.3MB
   For sale: e-text, $19.95

   Colin Haynes,
   Paperless Publishing (McGraw-Hill, 1994).
   The first and only complete guide to publishing straight from your
   computer for minimal cost. Freely-browsable complete text, with a
   distributed version in Mosaic highlighting specific niche markets.
   Formats: Mosaic and ASCII
   For sale: paperback with publishing software diskette included:
   $27.95, includes s/h.

   Joyce Lain Kennedy and Thomas J. Morrow,
   Electronic Job Search Revolution (John Wiley & Sons 1994)
   Electronic Resume Revolution (John Wiley & Sons 1994)
   Free excerpts available for downloading.
   Formats: in Mosaic and ASCII
   For sale: paperbacks, $16.45 each, includes s/h.

   Peter D. Kramer,
   Listening to Prozac,
   Format: Voyager Expanded Book, Mac only
   For sale: e-text, $19.95

   Tracy LaQuey
   The Internet Companion: A Beginner's Guide to Global Networking
   (second edition) (Addison-Wesley 1994)
   The new updated edition of the leading beginner's Internet title.
   Covers many new Internet topics. Simultaneous online serial release as
   a free, distributed publishing project. Format: Mosaic
   For sale: paperback, $10.95, includes s/h (a $5.00 savings!
   Continental U.S. only).
   For sale: paperback *Plus* edition, with InterNav connection software
   by Delphi, $16.95, includes s/h (a $5.00 savings! Continental U.S.
   only).

   Tracy LaQuey with Jeanne C. Ryer
   The Internet Companion: A Beginner's Guide to Global Networking (first
   edition) (Addison-Wesley 1992)
   Format: Voyager Expanded Book, Mac only, 1.7MB
   For sale: e-text, $29.95.

   Frederik Leboyer,
   Birth Without Violence (Editions du Seuil 1974)
   Format: ASCII
   For sale: e-text, $5.00

   Harry Maurer,
   Sex: An Oral History (Viking/Penguin 1994)
   Format: Voyager Expanded Book, Mac only, 1.6MB
   For sale: e-text, $19.95

   Christine Maxwell and Czeslaw Jan Grycz,
   The New Riders' Official Internet Yellow Pages (New Riders Publishing,
   1994)
   Freely-browsable excerpts, including the hotlinked Mosaic presentation
   of A Whimsical Tour of the Internet.
   Formats: Mosaic and ASCII
   For sale: paperback, $34.45 includes s/h.

   Middle East Magazine Limited Partnership,
   The New Middle East Magazine, October 1994 issue (demo), published by
   Hanna Siniora and Chaim Shur.
   The first collaborative publishing venture--in the form of a monthly
   magazine--between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Free full-text
   distributed publishing projected, featuring numerous interesting links
   to related Web sites.
   Format: Mosaic
   For sale: subscriptions to the paper version, 12 issues per year, $70.


   Richard W. Wiggins,
   The Internet for Everyone: A Guide for Users and Providers (McGraw
   Hill 1994)
   Freely browsable execerpts with numerous links to related Internet
   sites.
   Formats: Mosaic and Postscript
   For sale: paperback, $34.45 includes s/h; hardcover, $49.50 includes
   s/h.

   Marcia P. Williams and Sue A. Cubbage,
   The 1995 National Job Hotline Directory (McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1994)
   Freely-browsable excerpts
   Format: ASCII
   For sale: paperback, $17.45 includes s/h.

  BETABOOKS PROGRAM

   The OBS is happy to review book submissions for online publication at
   the OBS. At our electronic storefront on the Internet, shelf space is
   limitless, and many millions of readers worldwide can freely browse
   the OBS site. If people choose to read your thoughts, they can do so
   with privacy and ease, electronically. The OBS offers immediate credit
   card verification and billing services, so publishing your BetaBook
   with the OBS might mean a new source of income for you, which will
   enable you to write some more. For more information on BetaBooks, send
   your questions to OBS@marketplace.com

   Thanks for your interest in the OBS!


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   Updated November 11, 1994




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Subject: Re: talking time
From: Yves.RENAUD@cern.ch (Yves RENAUD)
Organization: CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research

In article <35623@handicap.news>, eggert@tsbbs02.tnet.com says...
>Index Number: 35623
>hi bill, i have enjoyed reading the blind news digest and commend you for
>your leadership efforts. i am very interested in locating a talking time
>alarm clock that i understand is no longer being manufactured by sharp. i
>had one for several years and one day about a year ago it mysteriously
>disappeared. if any of your readers have an extra talki time that they
>would be interestied in selling, i'd like to hear from them. they can
>reach me by e-mail - eggertC@tsbbs02.tnet.com - or by phone at
>518-459-6422 (daytime) or 518-438-7087 (evenings). thanks!
>
 Hi! (sorry for my english...) my wife is blind but she doesn't want a
talking clock (on her arm, but at this instant, I realize that
your question is not about a watch! in this case it's possible to want a
"wall clock", why not...): it's very funny (one time...) but it's too
often "indiscreet"; for she (or her?!) the best solution is already a
watch that she (or me, by night...) can open. A part of that, talking
watches are existing without problem...
        Sorry if I disturbed you with remarks without interest...




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Subject: bookport - source of on-line books
From: senkmj@ptbma.usbm.gov (Mark J. Senk WB3CAI)

Hi Bill,
This announcement will be of interest to those who appreciate access to
current books on-line.  The company has made efforts to ensure that the
material is accessible.
-- Mark
subject: Bookport launch; Albion Books to sell Netiquette book

Bookport is a new World Wide Web site dedicated to offering readers Internet
access to books. Bookport provides immediate access to online editions of
books plus book information in the form of catalog pages, sample chapters,
and publishers' marketing materials.

You can visit Bookport at
http://www.bookport.com/source/9539.html

Albion Books of San Francisco is the first publisher to use Bookport,
offering the popular trade title Netiquette by Virginia Shea in both a bound
edition and an online edition suitable for reading using a World Wide Web
browser such as Lynx.

Albion is also offering a sample chapter, or free text, from each of its book
titles. Browsers can consult "The Core Rules of Netiquette" from Virginia
Shea's book, which contains concise advice for new Internet users on the
important topic of network etiquette. Or check out the haunting Prologue from
The Millennium Shows, a novel by Philip Baruth which is set against the
tapestry of contemporary Grateful Dead subculture.

More books will be available from Bookport in the future. The sponsors of the
Bookport service and participating publishers are committed to making books
accessible to print-impaired readers. We welcome feedback that will help us
make the web site more accessible. And we welcome collaboration from
publishers or institutions that wish to make more books available on the
Internet for everyone.

Thank you,
Daniel Kehoe
for Bookport
415-488-9142
kehoe@fortuity.com


        Information, like love, is worth little until you share it with someone.
Mark Senk       (412) 892-6513  senkmj@ptbma.usbm.gov
U.S. Bureau of Mines    Pittsburgh, PA  15236




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Subject: recorder
From: 73732.2222@compuserve.com

"Does anyone out there know of a recorder that will make duplicate
copies of recordings that are recorded on four tracts?  both 15/16
and 1 7/8 similar to the APH recorder for the Blind   i.e. that
will record from one cassette to another on all four tracts.  Send
e-mail replies to Slydog at 73732.2222@compuserve.com.

Thank you,
Slydog




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Subject: My son needs help
From: aadam@aol.com (AAdam)
Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)

Ten years ago our son was born with a retina disorder resulting in
total blindness.  His personal development has been remarkable and
he has enriched our lives immensely.  At age five he learned to
read and write Braille and also began giving public poetry,
recitals in two languages, i= n which he is fluent.  Audience were
always moved, often to tears. His memory was incredible.  At age
six we found he was gifted with an extraordinary musical talent.
He began piano and rapidly progressed to giving public recitals
playing and singing, including one recital in public television.
He is now in third grade at a public school.  Over two years ago,
following a mysterious illness (high fever for a week= , no other
symptoms), our son has developed seizures. Short absence seizure= s
were detected first at school, then at home.  Over the last two
years dru= g therapy has yielded nothing positive but has produced
suffering from the many adverse side reactions.  At that time
behavioral differences (being out of character) were observed.

His seizures that we did noticed were about once every month or
two.  Recently, they significantly increased to almost every day.
A week ago, a 48 hour EEG video monitoring test at the hospital
revealed that our son has about 80% seizure activity.  I could see
on the monitor almost all the time many abnormal spikes, while he
was conscious and more or less responsive.  The attending
neurologist suggests research program, involving the experimental
drug Topiremete.  Then , if that fails brain surgery will be
considered.  Our son is the centerpiece of our lives. There are no
words to express our love and feelings for him.  We cannot chance
making the wrong decision with his life in the balance without a
second opinion.  We ask for any help in directing as to the best
neurologist available who may help our son.  We live in Central New
Jersey, but are willing to go anywhere for our son's sake.  We will
appreciate any suggestions in this matter.




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Subject: copying address from computer screen
From: dashiell@nadc.nadc.navy.mil (J. Dashiell)

You download a copy of snippr24.zip and load snipper.com
as a tsr in your autoexec.bat file.  That's if you do dos.
When you come to a screen where there's info you want to save,
you hit alt-w and then get the highlighting around the info
with cursor keys hitting return twice on upper left and lower right
corners of info then you have to decide if you want to
save it for writing into another document write it to a file
or write the info out on a printer.  The software allows for all of that
and it can be found at oak.oakland.edu /pub/msdos/screen.
There are other similar programs but snipper is the only one I found
that works with speech synthesizers.

jude <dashiell@nadc.nadc.navy.mil>




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