A Wealth of Knowledge

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

	Why MS-Word?  Why not plain ASCII text?  The only MS product I use is
DOS and Windows; my Word processor is Lotus AmiPro.

Edward G Skuchas wrote:

> 2. How about a typing group?
> If you type 5 to 10 to 20 pages each into say Microsoft Word
> using a specified format, you get a copy of the completed
> "word processed" text for free.
> Not meant to be a lot of typing,
> rather a quick type of the text so that
> it can be put into a more workable format.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Edward H. Lybarger [mailto:twg at pulsenet.com]
> Sent:   Friday, April 21, 2000 12:33 PM
> To:     pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject:        RE: A Wealth of Knowledge

> The original consists of 315 pages produced on a spirit duplicator, which of
> course has resulted in inconsistent print density.  It was a bear getting
> the copies we have.  I think if I were going to offer copies they would have
> to come from the copies already made rather than from the original, and some
> pages will therefore be somewhat dark.  We have the capability of producing
> them in-house, but will likely be looking at a price of about $50 each, plus
> shipping.  I'm willing to prepare copies to order if I can print them all at
> one time, which implies an absolute deadline.  The other stipulation would
> be that the information be for personal use only, not commercial.  This
> would include a prohibition against further copying for any purpose,
> including for anyone who may be claiming to be working on a book project.
> Perhaps a signed agreement to this effect will need to accompany each order.
> 
> Think it over and let me know.  I'm going to Ireland for 10 days on May 15
> and this will not happen before then in any event.  We'd need that deadline
> I mentioned, with checks in hand here (payable to PTM for $55, for the sake
> of argument, postpaid) by that date.

> Ed

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> [mailto:owner-pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org]On Behalf Of
> HRBran99 at aol.com
> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 12:28 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: Re: A Wealth of Knowledge

> In a message dated 04/20/2000 10:50:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> twg at pulsenet.com writes:

> << Fred and I both have working copies and will be reading them as time
>  permits; we'll share some of the more interesting stuff. >>

> Is there any possibility that the book could be copied and sold?

James B. Holland
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