15 Apr
2004
15 Apr
'04
6:26 p.m.
On Thursday, April 15, 2004 6:40 AM, Warren Toomey <wkt(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
Hmmm, try Googling for /interests "unix history" australia latex/ :-)
You wouldn't know, off-hand, whether 'Leo' actually rekeyed the content ?
--
Roger
>I will give
you all three guesses as to who Leo was. Hint: he lives
>in Australia.
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 09:18:45AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
That would rule out John since he no longer lives
in Australia.
True. The person is alive and well and living on the Gold Coast in
Queensland where he works for a small private university. He is
also semi-active in the arena of Unix history. He has a beard. He
regrets never admitting to the copying of the commentary to John
Lions personally, because John would probably have commended the
act. 
16 Apr
16 Apr
3:46 a.m.
New subject: Fw: Re: Lions' book
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 01:26:10PM +0100, Roger Willcocks wrote:
No, I OCR'd it with Omnipage on a Mac, then edited the typos and added
the LaTeX markup. Slow and painful, and there was no way Omnipage was going
to cope with the dot-matrix source code.
[ Oooh, what a giveaway! ]
Warren
True. The
person is alive and well and living on the Gold Coast in
Queensland where he works for a small private university. He is
also semi-active in the arena of Unix history. He has a beard. He
regrets never admitting to the copying of the commentary to John
Lions personally, because John would probably have commended the
act.
You wouldn't know, off-hand, whether 'Leo' actually rekeyed the content ?
3:57 a.m.
New subject: Fw: Re: Lions' book
On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 07:46:35AM +1000, Warren Toomey wrote:
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 01:26:10PM +0100, Roger
Willcocks wrote:
No, I OCR'd it with Omnipage on a Mac, then edited the typos and added
the LaTeX markup. Slow and painful, and there was no way Omnipage was
going to cope with the dot-matrix source code.
Huh... Omnipage's handling of dot-matrix printouts is one of the
reasons I will only use it. Back around 94-95, I had a student come
into the lab at the university I was working at, her floppy she'd stored
her paper on was corrupt some how (don't recall exactly why) and the
only copy of her work she had was a draft-quality print off a 9 pin
dot-matrix, and pin 4 hadn't been firing.
~120 pages, scanned on the mac and run through OmniPage, very few
'typos' from the OCR. It impressed the heck out of me.
True. The
person is alive and well and living on the Gold Coast in
Queensland where he works for a small private university. He is
also semi-active in the arena of Unix history. He has a beard. He
regrets never admitting to the copying of the commentary to John
Lions personally, because John would probably have commended the
act.
You wouldn't know, off-hand, whether 'Leo' actually rekeyed the
content ? [ Oooh, what a giveaway! ]
I won't tell, I promise.
--
Michael Parson
mparson(a)bl.org
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