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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: Searching for a Russian word processor on NeXT
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Date: 3 May 91 15:43:05 GMT
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In article <1991May3.143903.25152@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> jmazo@casbah.acns.nwu.edu writes:

   I have several requests/questions.

   1).  Some time ago, I seem to recall there was a post informing us of the fact  
   that there exists something to make NeXT capable of using Russian.  I lost that  
   in a bad hard drive wipeout (lost 70 Mbytes of COMPRESSED files, none backed up  
   :--{ )  Anyone out there, please help me!  Also, if there are other word  
   processors available (hebrew, for example), please direct me to them.

I don't know about this, but this newsgroup is archived on
nova.cc.purdue.edu in pub/next.  You might look there.

   2).  Are there any chemistry programs for the NeXT besides Molecule (not to say  
   that it is bad; it is quite good!).  I am searching something along the lines  
   of Chemintosh or Chemdraw of Mac's.

   3).  I am searching for a good database.  It should be able to use text AND  
   graphics.  I plan to use it in the following way.  I would input important  
   parts of articles taken from chemical literature in my specialty (synthesis of  
   metal complexes), such as who wrote the article, when, essential information  
   from the article, where it was published, the name of compound synthesized, how  
   it was made, and a drawing of the molecule that was produced.  Currently, this  
   is done on little pieces of paper, and VERY inconveniently, as there are more  
   and more of these every day.  I would like to, for example, name a compound,  
   and get several records that tell me what was written about it, how to make it,  
   when it was first made, and so on.

You might look at DataPhile.  It's written by Stone Design( Create).
I have no idea what it does, but you can get a demo version from the
ftp site that I mentioned above.

Let me know how things turn out.

-Mike