leff@smu.edu (Laurence Leff) (11/14/89)
The troff file (printed with no macros) is putting text at the very bottom
of page 2. It is supposed to print some text, and on the second page,
print "some text" at the top and then skip a page and continue with the
normal text of the document.
Instead it does not print "some text" and more importantly, it starts
printing text just at the very bottom (well below the bottom margin)
of page two. Many attempts to resolve this problem have proved unsuccessful.
This is a test of some troff code in which
I am trying to create a full page figure macro that will allow one to
write
.DF xu "Caption 1-3"
At the next convenient page break, it should skip a page, just numbering
it and putting a caption. The user will then paste his full page figure
in the appropriate spot. This is part of a rewrite of my thesis macros.
.nr A1 0
.wh -1i NP
.de NP
'bp
'tm in NP \\n(A1
some text
'if h\\n(A1h1h \{\
'tm NP here 1
'nr A1 0
'tm in if \\n(A1
'sp |11i+1v
\}
..
'If we had done the experiment and been unsuccessful for two or
three times, we would have abandoned it, no question,' he
added.
.nr A1 1
The TV news on channel 2 brought up a little more information. Pons
and Fleischmann have previously stated that they are not interested in
doing work at NCFI when they have basic research of their own to perform
in the lab over at Chemistry, but apparently they will start on a major
experiment at NCFI soon. I can see how this move might be intended to
encourage slightly dubious potential investors that NCFI is worth
spending money on... Fleischmann made a curious comment that looking
for traditional fusion products may be 'a blind alley' -- the excess
heat needs to be explained regardless of whether these fusion products
are found. Fleischmann did not suggest how fusion might account for
the heat if no fusion products are in fact found.
On to the next topic... U VP for Research James Brophy was on a local
TV call-in show on October 15. The show started with tape of a story
presented earlier about problems at NCFI. Hugo Rossi apparently had
remarked that NCFI might be closed down in February if no results were
obtained. Since then NCFI employees have been ordered not to speak to
the press, and all press relations must go through Brophy. The tape
also had bits of an interview with U physicist Michael Salamon, who was
fairly blunt about his feeling that cold fusion is dead. Salamon is
taking money from NCFI to look for radiation in their experiments; of
course Salamon also looked for radiation in Pons's lab earlier, finding
nothing.
Brophy's response to Salamon was to slough the issue off. It's okay
that no radiation was detected -- Brophy doesn't contest Salamon's
data, but he still maintains that the process is fusion. This really
qualifies as a non-response, I think. Brophy said 'that's a false
report' that NCFI has not detected fusion, but went on to say that the
observations are 'not statistically significant yet' although some
events have been seen. He didn't think that the effect could be said
to be duplicated because NCFI was 'really not able to reproduce it
every time.'
How will the upcoming changes in the telephone company affect you? Perhaps the
most noticeable effect will be that when you talk on the phone after Jan. 1,
1984, tiny, multi-legged radioactive worms will come slithering out of the
earpiece holes and crawl into your ear and eat your brain.
No, not really. That's just an attention-grabbing opening paragraph designed
to get you to read yet another article about the breakup of the telephone
company, which is a strong contender for the Year's Most Boring News Story
Award, threatening to edge out even George McGovern's decision to run for
president.
To understand this important story, you have to understand how the telephone
company works. Your telephone is connected to a local computer, which is in
turn connected to a regional computer, which is in turn connected to a
loudspeaker the size of a garbage truck on the lawn of Edna A. Bargewater of
Lawrence, Kan.
Whenever you talk on the phone, your local computer listens in. If it suspects
you're going to discuss an intimate topic, it notifies the computer above it,
which listens in and decides whether to alert the one above it, until finally,
if you really humiliate yourself, maybe break down in tears and tell your
closest friend about a sordid incident from your past involving a seedy motel,
a neighbor's spouse, an entire religious order, a garden hose and six quarts of
tapioca pudding, the top computer feeds your conversation into Edna's
loudspeaker, and she and her friends come out on the porch to listen and drink
gin and laugh themselves silly.
This system has served the country perfectly well for many years, so recently
the government decided to change it.
Specifically, the government decided that the telephone company is a huge,
impersonal monopoly and that it should be broken down into a great many
smaller, impersonal monopolies, each of which would be free to change its rates
around in so many complex ways that nobody would ever again have the vaguest
hope of understanding his or her telephone bill.
The changes in the telephone system are good news for you consumers, because
now you can own your own telephones. At one time, this was a violation of
telephone company law. Even as you read these words, thousands of people are
rotting away in slimy-walled telephone-company prisons, denied even dental
floss, because they owned their own phones. Now that the telephone company is
being broken up, President Reagan is considering a plan to pardon these people.
He may also decide to pardon the people who tore off those little pillow tags
that say: "DO NOT REMOVE UNDER PENALTY OF DEATH."
Clever Features
I highly recommend that you trot out and buy one of the fine new consumer
telephones, many of which have useful features such as being shaped like Mickey
Mouse. I recently bought a telephone that has a very modern feature, namely
that you can simply push a button and it dials a number for you automatically.
Isn't that clever? And it was quite inexpensive. My only complaint is that I
have no control over which number it dials, so I constantly find myself
chatting with people in Saigon. Perhaps this is why it was so inexpensive.
So that's a summary of how the telephone-company breakup is going to affect
you. You'll find additional information in those little printed consumer
explanations the phone company has been sticking in your phone bill for the
past several months, the ones you haven't bothered to read. You think you've
been getting away with something, don't you? Hahahahaha. Wait until Edna A.
Bargewater shows up at your door to administer the written test.
How will the upcoming changes in the telephone company affect you? Perhaps the
most noticeable effect will be that when you talk on the phone after Jan. 1,
1984, tiny, multi-legged radioactive worms will come slithering out of the
earpiece holes and crawl into your ear and eat your brain.
No, not really. That's just an attention-grabbing opening paragraph designed
to get you to read yet another article about the breakup of the telephone
company, which is a strong contender for the Year's Most Boring News Story
Award, threatening to edge out even George McGovern's decision to run for
president.
To understand this important story, you have to understand how the telephone
company works. Your telephone is connected to a local computer, which is in
turn connected to a regional computer, which is in turn connected to a
loudspeaker the size of a garbage truck on the lawn of Edna A. Bargewater of
Lawrence, Kan.
Whenever you talk on the phone, your local computer listens in. If it suspects
you're going to discuss an intimate topic, it notifies the computer above it,
which listens in and decides whether to alert the one above it, until finally,
if you really humiliate yourself, maybe break down in tears and tell your
closest friend about a sordid incident from your past involving a seedy motel,
a neighbor's spouse, an entire religious order, a garden hose and six quarts of
tapioca pudding, the top computer feeds your conversation into Edna's
loudspeaker, and she and her friends come out on the porch to listen and drink
gin and laugh themselves silly.
If we had done the experiment and been unsuccessful for two or
'If we had done the experiment and been unsuccessful for two or
three times, we would have abandoned it, no question,' he
added.
The TV news on channel 2 brought up a little more information. Pons
and Fleischmann have previously stated that they are not interested in
doing work at NCFI when they have basic research of their own to perform
in the lab over at Chemistry, but apparently they will start on a major
experiment at NCFI soon. I can see how this move might be intended to
encourage slightly dubious potential investors that NCFI is worth
spending money on... Fleischmann made a curious comment that looking
for traditional fusion products may be 'a blind alley' -- the excess
heat needs to be explained regardless of whether these fusion products
are found. Fleischmann did not suggest how fusion might account for
the heat if no fusion products are in fact found.
On to the next topic... U VP for Research James Brophy was on a local
TV call-in show on October 15. The show started with tape of a story
presented earlier about problems at NCFI. Hugo Rossi apparently had
remarked that NCFI might be closed down in February if no results were
obtained. Since then NCFI employees have been ordered not to speak to
the press, and all press relations must go through Brophy. The tape
also had bits of an interview with U physicist Michael Salamon, who was
fairly blunt about his feeling that cold fusion is dead. Salamon is
taking money from NCFI to look for radiation in their experiments; of
course Salamon also looked for radiation in Pons's lab earlier, finding
nothing.
Brophy's response to Salamon was to slough the issue off. It's okay
that no radiation was detected -- Brophy doesn't contest Salamon's
data, but he still maintains that the process is fusion. This really
qualifies as a non-response, I think. Brophy said 'that's a false
report' that NCFI has not detected fusion, but went on to say that the
observations are 'not statistically significant yet' although some
events have been seen. He didn't think that the effect could be said
to be duplicated because NCFI was 'really not able to reproduce it
every time.'
How will the upcoming changes in the telephone company affect you? Perhaps the
most noticeable effect will be that when you talk on the phone after Jan. 1,
1984, tiny, multi-legged radioactive worms will come slithering out of the
earpiece holes and crawl into your ear and eat your brain.
No, not really. That's just an attention-grabbing opening paragraph designed
to get you to read yet another article about the breakup of the telephone
company, which is a strong contender for the Year's Most Boring News Story
Award, threatening to edge out even George McGovern's decision to run for
president.
To understand this important story, you have to understand how the telephone
company works. Your telephone is connected to a local computer, which is in
turn connected to a regional computer, which is in turn connected to a
loudspeaker the size of a garbage truck on the lawn of Edna A. Bargewater of
Lawrence, Kan.
Whenever you talk on the phone, your local computer listens in. If it suspects
you're going to discuss an intimate topic, it notifies the computer above it,
which listens in and decides whether to alert the one above it, until finally,
if you really humiliate yourself, maybe break down in tears and tell your
closest friend about a sordid incident from your past involving a seedy motel,
a neighbor's spouse, an entire religious order, a garden hose and six quarts of
tapioca pudding, the top computer feeds your conversation into Edna's
loudspeaker, and she and her friends come out on the porch to listen and drink
gin and laugh themselves silly.
This system has served the country perfectly well for many years, so recently
the government decided to change it.
Specifically, the government decided that the telephone company is a huge,
impersonal monopoly and that it should be broken down into a great many
smaller, impersonal monopolies, each of which would be free to change its rates
around in so many complex ways that nobody would ever again have the vaguest
hope of understanding his or her telephone bill.
The changes in the telephone system are good news for you consumers, because
now you can own your own telephones. At one time, this was a violation of
telephone company law. Even as you read these words, thousands of people are
rotting away in slimy-walled telephone-company prisons, denied even dental
floss, because they owned their own phones. Now that the telephone company is
being broken up, President Reagan is considering a plan to pardon these people.
He may also decide to pardon the people who tore off those little pillow tags
that say: "DO NOT REMOVE UNDER PENALTY OF DEATH."
Clever Features
I highly recommend that you trot out and buy one of the fine new consumer
telephones, many of which have useful features such as being shaped like Mickey
Mouse. I recently bought a telephone that has a very modern feature, namely
that you can simply push a button and it dials a number for you automatically.
Isn't that clever? And it was quite inexpensive. My only complaint is that I
have no control over which number it dials, so I constantly find myself
chatting with people in Saigon. Perhaps this is why it was so inexpensive.
So that's a summary of how the telephone-company breakup is going to affect
you. You'll find additional information in those little printed consumer
explanations the phone company has been sticking in your phone bill for the
past several months, the ones you haven't bothered to read. You think you've
been getting away with something, don't you? Hahahahaha. Wait until Edna A.
Bargewater shows up at your door to administer the written test.
How will the upcoming changes in the telephone company affect you? Perhaps the
most noticeable effect will be that when you talk on the phone after Jan. 1,
1984, tiny, multi-legged radioactive worms will come slithering out of the
earpiece holes and crawl into your ear and eat your brain.
No, not really. That's just an attention-grabbing opening paragraph designed
to get you to read yet another article about the breakup of the telephone
company, which is a strong contender for the Year's Most Boring News Story
Award, threatening to edge out even George McGovern's decision to run for
president.
To understand this important story, you have to understand how the telephone
company works. Your telephone is connected to a local computer, which is in
turn connected to a regional computer, which is in turn connected to a
loudspeaker the size of a garbage truck on the lawn of Edna A. Bargewater of
Lawrence, Kan.
Whenever you talk on the phone, your local computer listens in. If it suspects
you're going to discuss an intimate topic, it notifies the computer above it,
which listens in and decides whether to alert the one above it, until finally,
if you really humiliate yourself, maybe break down in tears and tell your
closest friend about a sordid incident from your past involving a seedy motel,
a neighbor's spouse, an entire religious order, a garden hose and six quarts of
tapioca pudding, the top computer feeds your conversation into Edna's
loudspeaker, and she and her friends come out on the porch to listen and drink
gin and laugh themselves silly.
three times, we would have abandoned it, no question,' he
added.
The TV news on channel 2 brought up a little more information. Pons
and Fleischmann have previously stated that they are not interested in
doing work at NCFI when they have basic research of their own to perform
in the lab over at Chemistry, but apparently they will start on a major
experiment at NCFI soon. I can see how this move might be intended to
encourage slightly dubious potential investors that NCFI is worth
spending money on... Fleischmann made a curious comment that looking
for traditional fusion products may be 'a blind alley' -- the excess
heat needs to be explained regardless of whether these fusion products
are found. Fleischmann did not suggest how fusion might account for
the heat if no fusion products are in fact found.
Article 3625 of misc.jobs.offered:
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From: avjewe@cvl.umd.edu (Andrew D. Jewell)
Newsgroups: misc.jobs.offered,dc.general
Subject: Experienced Macintosh C Programmers (MD or DC)
Message-ID: <4164@cvl.umd.edu>
Date: 4 Nov 89 13:31:49 GMT
Distribution: na
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If you love programming the Mac, can grasp the big picture and
envision the details quickly, and can handle the changes and rigors
of delivering real world software then we want to meet you.
We need programmers with expertise in the following: the full Mac
user interface via toolbox and OS, Appletalk networking, SCSI
device drivers, Imaging, Mac printing, and all the other things that
make the Mac a satisfying and challenging target development environment.
You'll work with high performance tools and talented professionals
in a fun environment. Your work will go through rigorous Quality
Assurance and be used by enthusiastic clients.
We've been certified Mac Developers since the beginning, and our
work environments include: Think C, MPW, and 68000 assembler.
We are four years old, located in Silver Spring, privately owned,
financially stable and growing quickly. If you love programming the
Mac while working on outstanding projects, come join us.
Send a resume to: Mac Programmer, P.O. Box #13525, Silver Spring,
MD 20911-3525. Or call John Bennison (301) 589-6300.
Security clearance not required. An equal opportunity M/F employer;
principles only please.
Article 3631 of misc.jobs.offered:
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From: ciemo@bananapc.wpd.sgi.com (Dave Ciemiewicz)
Newsgroups: misc.jobs.offered,sgi.jobs
Subject: Positions in SGI's CASE Group
Message-ID: <44056@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 6 Nov 89 17:22:54 GMT
Sender: ciemo@bananapc.wpd.sgi.com
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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The CASE (Computer Aided Software Engineering) Group at Silicon Graphics
is looking for software engineers who want to participate in the design
and implementation of the next-generation Software Development Environment.
Software Development Environments have not kept pace with the rapid
advances in hardware and graphics technologies. Today's software engineers
are not much ahead of the engineers of a decade ago in terms of the
way software is developed. We, at Silicon Graphics, feel that we have
the underlying graphics and hardware technology needed to provide an
extremely powerful, visual and friendly software development environment -
an environment which will make developing software fun again.
We are looking for creative individuals who share the goal/desire for
improving the development environment for their fellow software engineers.
Ideal candidates would -
- have completed at least one project from start to completion
- be familiar with C++ and object-oriented design concepts
- enjoy working in a team environment
- have a BS/MS (Computer Science) with at least 4 yrs experience
- should have project-level experience in at least one of the following areas -
- DEBUGGERS
- SOFTWARE PERFORMANCE ANALYSERS
- CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT TOOLS
- REPOSITORIES & INTEGRATION PLATFORMS
If you (or someone you know) fit the above description and would be interested
in joining our team, please send resume (or call or send email) to -
Pavan Nigam,
Silicon Graphics (M/S 9U-500),
2011 N. Shoreline Blvd.,
P.O. Box 7311,
Mountain View, CA-94039
(415) 335-1376
pavan@sgi.com
Article 3634 of misc.jobs.offered:
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From: guest@auspex.auspex.com (Vanila Guest Account)
Newsgroups: bionet.jobs,misc.jobs.misc,misc.jobs.offered,su.jobs
Subject: Borland Employment
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Date: 6 Nov 89 23:44:19 GMT
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Borland International, an industry leader in quality
microcomputer software is currently seeking topnotch engineers
to support Turbo C.
In this position, you will have an excellent opportunity to
sharpen your technical skills while gaining in-depth knowledge
of the entire PC industry. You will be responsible for
supporting our end-users and major accounts via the telephone,
electronic media, and direct mail. As a Technical Support
Engineer you will also work on in-house programming projects and
participate in product development and testing. This position
also involves the technical review of manuals and books regarding
Borland products. The engineer will have the opportunity to
represent Borland at industry shows and participate in product
demonstrations.
In order to qualify for this position, you must have a thorough
understanding of MS-DOS, the IBM-PC, C, C++, debuggers and other
programming language tools, 80/86 assembler and the architecture
of the 80/86 family of microprocessors.
A BS in computer science, mathematics, physics or other science
is preferred. As well as proven technical ability, the candidate
should have EXCELLENT VERBAL and WRITTEN communication skills,
problem solving ability, patience, and an outstanding customer
rapport.
Borland International offers a competitive compensation package.
Borland International
1800 Green Hills Road
Scotts Valley, CA 95066-0001
We are an equal opportunity employer
Article 3654 of misc.jobs.offered:
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From: lous@green.ctt.bellcore.com (Lou Smith(TSTPE))
Newsgroups: misc.jobs.offered
Subject: Development and Testing Positions at Bellcore in Piscataway NJ
Message-ID: <18155@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 8 Nov 89 20:04:08 GMT
Sender: news@bellcore.bellcore.com
Organization: Common Technology Laboratory at Bellcore
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Positions in software engineering, development, and system
testing are available on a new Application Services Project at
Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) in Piscataway, N.J. This
project is involved with the development of a standard set of
software tools and services that will be used by application
developers for their future development work.
Significant activities just underway on this project include the
exploration and development of operating system, communications,
presentation, and database technologies necessary to support the
development of large software systems in multi-vendor distributed
computing environments.
Included in these activities is also an independent system test
function that involves the development and execution of automated
tests of all the new technologies in their appropriate
environments. This function also involves the development of
testing methodologies and automated testing tools.
Qualifications: You should have a B.S., M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer
Science or a related field. You should also have experience
and/or a strong interest in one or more of the following:
- C Programming and Portability
- MVS, IMS, DB2, UNIX*
- SUN Workstations
- Data Communications
- Relational and Distributed Databases
- Software Engineering
- System Testing
If you are interested (and are a permanent resident or U.S. citizen),
please send a copy of your resume to:
U.S. Mail: Lou Smith Phone: (201) 699-2040
RRC 4D-700
Bell Communications Research Email: bellcore!rruxhh!lous
444 Hoes Lane
Piscataway, NJ 08854
Bellcore is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
__________
* UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T.
Article 3663 of misc.jobs.offered:
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From: bryan@iconsys.UUCP (Bryan Cardoza)
Newsgroups: misc.jobs.offered
Subject: DOS Programmer in Orem, Utah
Keywords: DOS, Utah
Message-ID: <421@iconsys.UUCP>
Date: 8 Nov 89 16:33:01 GMT
Reply-To: bryan@iconsys.UUCP (Bryan Cardoza)
Followup-To: sender
Distribution: usa
Organization: SANYO/ICON, Orem, Utah
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Position Announcement
Software Engineer
(C/80x86 Assembly/MS-DOS)
At last, a job that'll make you SMILE. SANYO/ICON has an immediate
opening for a full-time Software Engineer in the DOS Connectivity
Products group of the Software Research and Development department at
our Orem, Utah, headquarters.
SMILE is the name of SANYO/ICONs proprietary shared memory
interconnect between PC/XT, PC/AT and '386 systems and the ICON family
of disk subsystems and minicomputers. As a member of the DOS
Connectivity Products group, you will have the opportunity to work on
MS-DOS and LAN drivers for our high-speed caching disk subsystems as
well as software to connect PCs to UNIX and PICK environments through
the shared memory connection.
Qualified candidates will have three to five years experience
working in a commercial environment with C and 80x86 assembly language
under MS-DOS, including work with device drivers. An understanding of
PC hardware issues is expected. Knowledge of Novell NetWare, 3Com, or
Banyan driver internals and familiarity with UNIX is helpful.
Starting Date: Immediate
Salary Range: Negotiable, depending upon experience. Provide desired
salary range with resume.
Contact: Bryan Cardoza
Manager
Software Research and Development
SANYO/ICON
764 East Timpanogos Parkway
Orem, UT 84057
Principals only need apply. Icon International, Inc., d.b.a.
SANYO/ICON, is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Troff and PostScript resumes/cover letters accepted by email. Include
formatting instructions and obscure macro packages for troff.
--
Bryan Cardoza uunet!iconsys!bryan
Software R&D Manager
SANYO/ICON
Orem, Utah FAX: (801) 226-0651
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