Info-3b2 Digest, Number 18

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                           Info-3b2 Digest, Number 18
 
                          Friday, September 23rd 1988
 
Today's Topics:
 
               The power of this newsletter is truly amazing.....
                        Re: The power of this newsletter
                                    Re: mailx
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Date: Thu, 22 Sep 88 18:49:29 BST
Subject: The power of this newsletter is truly amazing.....
From: hoptoad!quaduk!graham (Graham Glen)

Wow, I am impressed by the power of this newsletter, I put in a request for
information regarding the National Instruments GPIB-3B2 card, and the next
day received a reply direct from National Instruments (and I'm in another
continent remember). For those interested, here is what I received:

> To: graham at quaduk.uucp
> Subject: GPIB for 3b2
> 
> Mr. Graham Glen
> Technical Manager
> Quadratron Systems Ltd.
> 
> Dear Mr. Glen:
> 
> I recently received an E-mail message in which you indicated a 
> problem in acquiring information on the low-level software interface 
> to the National Instruments GPIB-3B2 interface board.  If you would 
> tell me exactly what type of information you need, I will see that you 
> get it.
> 
> If you received a User's manual with your interface card, it should 
> contain sufficient information to create a device driver.  If it does 
> not, please contact me.  You might also contact:
> 	
> 			Digital Automation Associates, Inc.
> 			310 Gypsy Lane Road
> 			Bowling Green, OH 43402
> 			(419) 352-7526
> 
> They sell a number of our GPIB interface boards, including the GPIB-
> 3B2 as tape drive controllers.
> 
> If there is any way I or my staff can be of help, please do not 
> hesitate to ask.
> 
> 			Sincerely,
> 
> 			Larry Anglin
> 			Applications Engineering Manager
> 

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From: len at netsys.COM (Len Rose)
Subject: Re: The power of this newsletter
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 88 23:37:56 EDT

Yes.. It was about time that it came into existence.

There still is an information problem though.. AT&T is 
very sensitive about disseminating certain types of info.

Meanwhile the list grows. There are probably enough votes
within the mailing list subscribers to get a 3B2 specific
newsgroup created on the net. I am still interested in this,
and will periodically stir things up. Some people in Europe
are unable to send mail freely but can post within Usenet
itself.

Have a nice weekend.

--
Len Rose - Netsys,Inc. 
len at ames.arc.nasa.gov  or len at netsys.com

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Subject: Re: mailx
From: netsys!vsi!friedl

More mailx info...

There is a global .mailrc file in /usr/lib/mailx/mailx.rc that
you can stick various options in.  We usually change the mailx
prompt, set the pager, etc. so everybody gets these by default
(the user's personal .mailrc overrides any conflicts).

A handy option we use with net.mail is `ignore'.  It specifies
header lines that should not be normally displayed, and with
AT&T mail having *so* much cruft at the top of the message, it
cuts down on reading time.  This is ours:

	ignore In-Reply-To
	ignore Message-Version
	ignore MTS-Message-ID
	ignore Ua-Content-ID
	ignore Transport-Options
	ignore End-of-Header
	ignore Email-Version
	ignore Phone
	ignore End-of-Protocol
	ignore Content-Type
	ignore Content-Length
	ignore Status

Of course, you can salt to taste.

     Steve

--- 
Steve Friedl    V-Systems, Inc.  +1 714 545 6442    3B2-kind-of-guy
friedl at vsi.com     {backbones}!vsi.com!friedl    attmail!vsi!friedl
------[I'm on vacation in Ohio from 26-Sep to 10-Oct 1988]----------

 
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