* Fw: [TUHS] Re: Lions' book
@ 2004-04-15 12:26 Roger Willcocks
2004-04-15 21:46 ` Warren Toomey
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From: Roger Willcocks @ 2004-04-15 12:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Thursday, April 15, 2004 6:40 AM, Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote:
> >>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.
Hmmm, try Googling for /interests "unix history" australia latex/ :-)
You wouldn't know, off-hand, whether 'Leo' actually rekeyed the content ?
--
Roger
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* Fw: [TUHS] Re: Lions' book
2004-04-15 12:26 Fw: [TUHS] Re: Lions' book Roger Willcocks
@ 2004-04-15 21:46 ` Warren Toomey
2004-04-15 21:57 ` Mike Parson
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From: Warren Toomey @ 2004-04-15 21:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 01:26:10PM +0100, Roger Willcocks wrote:
> > 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 ?
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
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* Fw: [TUHS] Re: Lions' book
2004-04-15 21:46 ` Warren Toomey
@ 2004-04-15 21:57 ` Mike Parson
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From: Mike Parson @ 2004-04-15 21:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
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:
>>> 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 ?
>
> 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.
> [ Oooh, what a giveaway! ]
I won't tell, I promise.
--
Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org
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