> Chuck McManis wrote:
>
> something up for me. Where exactly has the DFWCUG ever indicated
that scans
>sent to them will be made available to others? If you go to their
home page
><http://www.dfwcug.org> there is no mention of it, there are no
links to
>any scans in their "resources" section, there is nothing at all to
indicate
>such things will ever become available.
I'm guessing you never read John Wisniewski's
post in one (or more) DECnotes conferences
on the Easynet where he announced the
project - several years ago now!
I've sent them about 6 CDs worth of stuff
(like the uVAX 2K Tech manual and the
KA655 tech manual and the TU58 user guide that
appeared over the weekend) so it certainly
looks to me as though if you send them scans,
they'll make them available. A goodly
chunk of the stuff has never been through
my hands so either others are sending
ready made scans (which they have asked for)
or they have scanned manuals themselves
which others have sent to them (one of the
status messages indicated that they have
500lbs of docs waiting to be scanned).
AFAIK they had Digital's blessing to
do this (John was openly soliciting
information within Digital).
Don't take my word for it - scan that 11/730
docset and see if it appears or not - the
11/780 one seems to have made it!
>Actually a much better link is this one:
><http://208.190.133.201/decimages/moremanuals.htm>
OK - I see the problem now.
I pointed Bill at a bunch of places
when he announced decdocs.org -
it's a nice easy URL and I can remember
it without having to search (or organise!)
my bookmarks.
From there you hit the DFWCUG link
and end up at
http://montagar.com/~patj/dec/hcps.htm .
If you go via the DFWCUG site at
http://www.dfwcug.org/,
hit the Cheshire cat link near the bottom.
I cannot find their "mission statement" anywhere
there (I'm sure it used to be there!) but a
quick search turns up an update:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Patrick+Jankowiak&hl=en&safe=off&rnum=48&s
elm=3A6AA429.5241E8F5%40worldnet.att.net
>However, someone decided to scan some of the manuals as low
resolution 8
>bit grey scale (what a waste of someone's scanning time!)
Maybe, I usually resort to greyscale for pages with
photographs or fine detail that B&W seems to miss.
Greyscale is better than nothing !
Antonio
Received on Mon Sep 10 2001 - 15:41:40 BST