🚀 go-pugleaf

I find my Zip drive pretty handy.  --Longevity I know nothing about;
I have a vague suspicion that optical disks might be more durable than
magnetic media, but I don't really know.  Anyway, your disks of whatever
sort are hard for the rest of us to read, Dr. M. The best thing would be
to
send your material to a book publisher,*  preferably one located neither
too close to New Haven (lest all the copies of the egg in progress be in
the same geographical basket) nor yet too far away (for quick shipping).


        :-)

* ["book publisher" being an example of a figure of speech described in
a
recent Safire column, but I can't remember it's name...]

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Ph.D. cand., Boston College
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>From:  Wayne Meeks[SMTP:wayne.meeks@YALE.EDU]
>Sent:  Saturday, March 28, 1998 12:11 PM
>To:    Multiple recipients of list NOTABENE
>Subject:       Re: Lingua characters lost
>
>Thanks, Dorothy.  Funny, I use the Export function all the time, but I had
>forgotten to look at Import; it never occurred to me that SLS would be
>among the formats included.
>
>Good warning about upkeep of data.  I wonder if others would welcome as I
>would a discussion on list about the bewildering (to me) variety of
>options now available for storing and back-up.  My Colorado tape-cartridge
>drive having apparently died recently, I'm trying to find the ideal medium
>(ideal in this instance means actuarily it might be expected to last as
>long as I will).
>
>Wayne A. Meeks, Department of Religious Studies, Yale University
>Internet: wayne.meeks@yale.edu           Telephone: 203-432-0747
>      s-mail: PO Box 208287, New Haven, CT 06520-8287, USA
>