Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!seismo!nbires!isis!udenva!pbrody From: pbrody@udenva.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Amiga News Message-ID: <3329@udenva.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Mar-87 16:33:00 EST Article-I.D.: udenva.3329 Posted: Mon Mar 30 16:33:00 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 1-Apr-87 04:24:24 EST Organization: U of Denver Lines: 48 Recently my Users group as well as one in Seattle have had to discontinue their newsletters because it was too expensive to continue to print them. So I have been trying to find a way for the Users to pass information among themselves. I think I have come up with a relatively good idea. It follows: 1) A monthly electronic magazine would be created. It would have the following a. General interest articles. (New product reviews.) b. Programming tutorials (C, Pascal, AmigaBASIC etc.) c. C source code for some programs "of the month." d. Do it yourself articles. e. IFF pictures to go along with the articles. 2) The articles would be text based with IFF pictures to complement them. All of the articles would be handled through a "Table of Contents" program that would string together the blocks of text with their IFF complements in the correct order for the reader. 3) There would also be a program to help the editors string things together in the appropriate fashion to make the disk ready for distribution. 4) People would write articles and send to me on disk with approriate information on how to put them together. If it was a C tutorial then it should also contain the name of the files which contain the C source code for the discussed programs. 5) The whole thing would be put together on one disk and copies would be sent out to BBS owners who would then put it up for D/L, and send to pre-paid subscribers, and also distr~irbuted through the various PD program librar- ies (Amicus, Fred Fish, etc., ad naseum!) Basically what I'm looking for is some good programmers who would be interested in working on this. What needs to be done is establish specific guidelines for writing and putting together articles and writing the two main programs required. 1: The "Table of Contents" program, and 2: The program for the editors to put the articles together. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Brody Phone (303) 795-5411 After 5:30 pm Pacific time 7:30 pm Mountain time 8:30 pm Central time 9:30 pm Eastern time 1553 E. Fremont Cir. Littleton, Co., 80122 =============================================================================