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Subject: Forth Taught at Schools/Universities
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Date: 4 May 90 03:40:34 GMT
Organization: Latest link in the ForthNet chain.  (Pgh, PA)
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 Date: 05-02-90 (20:00)              Number: 3191 (Echo)
   To: MICHAEL HAM                   Refer#: 3171
 From: JACK BROWN                      Read: NO
 Subj: F-PC TUTORIAL                 Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 >Jack, it wasn't a vote against your continuing; it was a comment on how
 >the tutorials might better be distributed.  Most people would not, I
 >think, read the messages at the computer while signed on.  If they are
 >going to download the messages for later perusal, it just seemed a
 >better approach would be to use a compressed file.  No suggestion that
 >you not continue.

 Sorry if you took my second comment seriously but I just found it 
 amusing that you comment to ZIP the tutorial was followed immediately by
 a message mentioning your book so couldn't resist making a comment! 

 The problem is with this medium is that you don't always know when 
 someone is making a comment "tounge in cheek".  

 The medium of presenting the tutorials via messages worked quite well 
 when we first started here over a year ago ( or was it 2) with the 
 tutorials in a separate TUTORIAL conference echoed only to Forth-NET.

 Jerry and I discussed putting them in FORTH which had wider distribution
 to see if we could get some participation from some of the non Forth 
 Boards.

 However...  I think that they may just disapear off the end of the
 message que at the end of the week and am now thinking that they might 
 be better posted back to a sort of semi permanent  TUTORIAL message
 base that could be read by new people as the join Forth Net.

 I would prefer that they appear in a form where interaction is possible 
 and would prefer that the messages stay around for longer than one week.

 During the last pass with the tutorial we did ZIP up all the messages, 
 tutorials, replies, problem solutions etc and post them in ZIP files for
 those that wanted to down load them as a bundle.   I plan to do that 
 again.

 Again....  please don't take my comment seriously...

 Best regards...  Jack.

 NET/Mail : British Columbia Forth Board - Burnaby BC - (604)434-5886   
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