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Aihuxp.109 NET.blfp utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!ihnss!ihuxp!shqer Mon Jul 27 15:19:40 1981 BLFP 3.21 From: ihn5g!jdd Subject: BLFP 3.21 (This newsletter may contain proprietary information so it is not to be distributed outside Bell Labs.)

Bell Labs Free Press Monday, 27 July 1981 Volume 3 : Issue 21

Today's Topics: BLFP on Netnews, HP2621p Printer [Mal]function, Netnews, Nopr ----------------------------------------------------------------------

>From your moderator Subject: Distribution via Netnews

The newsgroup for the Bell Labs Free Press has been changed from NET.blfp to btl.blfp to restrict distribution to Bell Labs to prevent accidental disclosure of proprietary information. All non-BTL sites have also been removed from the mailing list. This, of course, eliminates any need for the Bell Labs Proprietary Press.

On another subject, I will try to have shorter and thus more frequent issues of the Free Press.

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>From jej Sun Jul 26 19:25:46 1981 remote from ihuxl Subject: hp2621p printer [mal]function

The folks I work with have recently gotten a fair number of hp2621p printing terminals. SOME of these terminals are subject to a problem with the log (btm|top) function (which means 'print the stuff as it comes to the terminal'). The printer seems to get behind and barf, sprinkling the ASCII graphic for 'delete' across the page and missing characters. Some of the hp2621p's, faithful and true, don't have this problem. Anyone out there know what the difference is between those that do and those that don't?

James Jones (ihuxl!jej)

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>From jej Sun Jul 26 19:54:32 1981 remote from ihuxl Subject: psychological research and BLFP

I don't know how many of you are familiar with the work of Philip Zimbardo. He is probably best known for his research into shyness, and it is by reading his book on shyness that I came across a descrip- tion of his previous work.

He previously did research on the mentality of prisoner and guard. The results were that even the average joe, when put in these roles, developed the standard characteristics of the roles--the 'guards' became sadistic, etc. The salient part thereof for this note is this: the guards prevented any group action on the part of the prisoners by granting minor privileges to a subset of the prisoners.

What does this have to do with BLFP, you ask? Before I subscribed, I was typically perturbed about Unix commands, about poor counseling, about the lack of various and sundry things. Now I subscribe, and one day it occured to me that now I no longer had so pressing a reason to complain; after all, I have access to copies of very nice underground tools not accessible to or not known, thanks to malignant silence, to the great unwashed. I had minor privileges.

Comments?

James Jones (ihuxl!jej)

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>From mark Mon Jul 27 00:25:22 1981 remote from cbosg Subject: netnews interface

Re: your comment in BLFP about the interface in netnews:

I couldn't tell from your comment what you don't like about the interface - do I gather you thought that save, reply, and so on are not available? (Try "?" and see what the options are.)

There is a new netnews about to come out - the major feature is much less load on the system, but there are changes to the interface, too. The articles will now come out grouped by newsgroup. There are provisions for reading articles out of order, much like those in Mail. (In fact, there is now a provision to use Mail as the interface while keeping track of what you read correctly - the old version will assume you read everything.) The new netnews is within a few days of beta release.

Do I gather that there are more ih sites running netnews now besides ihnss? What sites are they, so I can update the usenet map, and how did you get them installed in ihux machines?

Mark Horton (cbosg!mark)

[Warren Montgomery (ihnss!warren) has a version of netnews that can be installed in a private account, and has been installed on ihux[fgjklnp] that I know of. JLS]

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>From xerox Mon Jul 27 09:57:00 1981 remote from ihuxa Subject: nopr at IH

Re: note from veach in BLFP 3.20

Whoever suggested that last (pipe)line for getting the old x8by11-type output from nopr/4.0 opr is WRONG: the indentation, when going through a pipeline that includes the x9700 filter, must be specified BEFORE x9700, e.g., for npf. Because of the inflexible internal Xerox software, the opr indent causes the x9700-generated Xerox control line to be displaced from where the 9700 expects it, and it is not recognized. The last line would thus be ok as:

npf -s -i10 $* | x9700 -ib | nopr -txr -r

(The options to x9700 just specify that you want the roman (-t or -r), italic, and bold fonts. Since you get the roman whether you want it or not, you need only specify italic and bold, -ib.)

lyn cole (ihuxa!xerox)

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