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Note: What follows is a slightly modified version of the "Contents" and "ReadMe" files posted at the Sunnyside Archives in the Spring of 1993. [Updates are in brackets.] That site was operated as an ftp site, as it preceded the widespread use of "the Web." It still exists at: http://snyside.sunnyside.com/pub/njohnson -- but the purpose of this site is to save you having to deal with an ftp files' index, as you'll see shortly, so it's best not to click on that link.

The Sunnyside site contained a small sampling of articles that were published prior to 1996. (Publications since that time are all available in full text from the "Recent Publications" link off of the main Web page.)

Indeed, Sunnyside is the still site to which most of these links will lead you. However, because some of the documents now appear in HTML (rather than ".txt") or have been revised in some way, the links now go to the best site wherever it may be.

The "ReadMe" file contained at the end of this page (also posted on the original site in 1993) contains a history of how this site came to be created and maintained.

Feel free to e-mail me with any questions or comments at njohnson@inav.net

-N.J., November 19, 1999 


CONTENTS -- SUB-DIRECTORIES

http://snyside.sunnyside.com/pub/njohnson
ftp cpsr.org/pub/njohnson
Original date:  May 27, 1993; Latest revision:  March 26,
1996 [Moved to this site, and put in HTML format, November 19, 1999.]

Note:  Individual files are listed below within the
sub-directory in which they will be found; within that
sub-directory they are listed alphabetically by filename,
followed by a rough indication of the size of the file.
[Obviously, this reference to sub-directories is no
longer relevant -- though the sub-directories still exist --
if you are using the links.]

They include:

biblio
columns
mass media
ntt
oped
personal
politics
pubhealth
telecomm
tpflbook
 
[Note: Although for some reason not included in this "contents" page originally, the site also contained the full text of How to Talk Back to Your Television Set as well.]
 

SUB-DIRECTORY:  \njohnson [the sub-directory in which
these sub-sub directories are found] Contents:  sub-directory
titles; contents.txt (this file) and readme.txt (introductory
material)
 
SUB-DIRECTORY:  biblio
Contents:  the current draft of a  lifetime bibliography of
writings, television, radio and speaking appearances, broken
into (currently five) files of manageable size

Note: These bibliography files are all out of date. Here is the
link for all the files in the current Nicholas Johnson Bibliography.

Filename:  biblio01.txt
Size: 92 K
Title:  none
Date:  June 10, 1995
Description:  1 of 5 files containing portions of a full
bibliography; contains contents, introduction, books and
articles

Filename:  biblio02.txt
Size:  85 K
Title:  none
Date:  June 10, 1995
Description:  2 of 5 files; "Communications Watch" columns,
FCC opinions

Filename:  biblio03.txt
Size:  55 K
Title:  none
Date:  June 10, 1995
Description:  3 of 5 files; speeches

Filename:  biblio04.txt
Size:  50 K
Title:  none
Date:  June 10, 1995
Description:  4 of 5 files; Congressional testimony, television
and radio

Filename:  biblio05.txt
Size:  41 K
Title:  none
Date:  June 10, 1995
Description:  5 of 5 files; appendices (this online contents.txt
file, Judge Brown and Justice Black opinions, personal bio)
 
SUB-DIRECTORY:  columns
Contents:  selections from the 1982-1986 nationally
syndicated column, "Communications Watch."
Note:  Users are encouraged to begin with the explanation
and overview contained in colintro.txt

Filename:  animals1.txt
Size:  4 K
Title:  Human Capacity
Date:  October 12, 1986
Description:  animals have capacities for which we can only
dream, and design

Filename: bankmath.txt
Size:  4 K
Title:  Making Change
Date:  March 24, 1986
Description:  calculators and computers may be eroding our
simple math abilities

Filename:  bigger01.txt
Size:  5 K
Title:  Bigger Isn't Always Better
Date:  July 4, 1983
Description:  reaching AT&T by phone illustrates the
advantages of small companies

Filename:  colintro.txt
Size:  5 K
Title:  Sample Columns:  An Introduction
Date:  June 11, 1995 Description:  an explanation and
overview of the columns in this sub- directory

Filename:  elizapgm.txt
Size:  4 K
Title:  Eliza
Date:  August 11, 1986
Description:  the transcript of my "conversation" with a
computer program

Filename:  gadgets1.txt
Size:  8 K
Title:  Holiday Electronics; Summer Electronics
Date:  December 11, 1986; May 20, 1985
Description:  two columns having fun with the range of
useless electronic gadgets

Filename:  gramclok.txt
Size:  5 K
Title:  My Grandmother's Clock
Date:  February 28, 1983
Description:  a 100-year-old swinging pendulum clock
introduces the difference between analog and digital

Filename:  hamradio.txt
Size:  9 K
Title:  How to Become a Radio Ham; How Radio Amateurs
Help Us
Date:  August 16, 1982; August 23, 1982
Description:  descriptions of amateur radio as a way of
getting an understanding of the new electronics in our lives

Filename:  infoage1.txt
Size:  4 K
Title:  Information Age
Date:  January 1, 1987
Description:  the final column

Filename:  infopoor.txt
Size:  5 K
Title:  The Phone Bill's Going Up
Date:  December 20, 1982
Description:  a discussion of the gap between "information
rich" and "information poor"

Filename:  jesustv1.txt
Size:  4 K
Title:  Jesus' Publicist
Date:  December 23, 1985
Description:  could Jesus get a spot on "The Tonight Show"
today without a publicist?

Filename:  junkie01.txt
Size:  5 K
Title:  Are You an Electronics Junkie?
Date:  July 19, 1982
Description:  the addictive qualities of the electronics
experience

Filename:  kidselec.txt
Size:  4 K
Title:  December 30, 1985
Date:  Electronic Toddlers
Description:  youngsters seem to master the electronics world
their elders fear

Filename:  lawnchar.txt
Size:  5 K
Title:  Portable Communication is For All
Date:  July 26, 1982
Description:  you can take communications with you -- even
to 16,000 feet in a lawn chair

Filename:  losthist.txt
Size:  4 K
Title:  Lost History
Date:  September 16, 1985
Description:  the rapid evolution of electronic data storage
technology may mean that future generations will not have as
much access to today's data as we have to yesterday's print

Filename:  nowork01.txt
Size:  5 K
Title:  There's No More Work to Do
Date:  September 5, 1983
Description:  what do we do with the people, now that the
machines are doing all the work?

Filename:  politics.txt
Size:  9 K
Title:  How They Sell Us Back Our Air; Free Air Time for
Candidates
Date:  September 20, 1982; September 27, 1982
Description:  the role of electronic media in corrupting
government

Filename:  projcens.txt
Size:  5 K
Title:  TV's 10 Best Censored Stories
Date:  August 2, 1983
Description:  a glimpse of some of what you can't see on TV

Filename:  reality1.txt
Size:  5 K
Title:  Television and Reality
Date:  March 22, 1982
Description:  how mediated experience is eroding our ability
to distinguish fantasy from reality

Filename:  tornado1.txt
Size:  5 K
Title:  Telecommunications Tornado
Date:  March 15, 1982
Description:  the opening column

Filename:  zapping1.txt
Size:  4 K
Title:  Zapping Commercials
Date:  October 1, 1984
Description:  how the channel surfers are giving advertisers
headaches

See:  sub-directory:  oped, below
 

SUB-DIRECTORY:  massmedia
Contents:  broadcasting and other mass media policy

See also:  sub-directory:  telecomm, below

Filename:  aintinfo.txt
Size:  36 K
Title:  The Nature of Information
Date:  1993 [December]
Description:  the introduction to the Aspen Institute-Northern
Telecom Institute for Information Studies' 1993-1994 Annual
Review:  The Knowledge Economy:  The Nature of
Information in the 21st Century

Filename:  autonmed.txt
Size:  62 K
Title:  An Autonomous Media
Date:  May 4, 1994
Description:  This paper was prepared for the May 4-7, 1994,
session of The Aspen Institute Communications and Society
Program, in association with the Duke University and the
Carter Center of Emory University, Commission on Radio
and Television Policy Working Group on Radio and
Television Autonomy and the State.  It is, in effect, a basic
primer on the reasons for, and consequences of, the First
Amendment's principles in the operation of U.S. media, and
was prepared for, and addressed to, the Former Soviet Union
members of the Working Group.

Filename:  etcfraud.txt
Size:  11 K
Title:  Frauds and Facts:  Broadcasters As Public Trustees
and Audience
Network
Date:  May 13, 1991
Description:  reprint in ETC.:  A Review of General
Semantics ("winter" 1991-92) of a handout used during
testimony before the House Subcommittee on
Telecommunications and Finance setting forth the
rationale for broadcast regulation

Filename:  fairdoct.txt
Size:  19 K
Title:  "With Due Regard for the Opinions of Others"
Date:  August 1, 1988
Description:  Article published in California Lawyer
explaining, and putting the case for, the FCC's "Fairness
Doctrine"

Filename:  nitelin1.txt
Size:  22 K
Title:  The Battle Over Home Shopping Stations
Date:  June 23, 1993
Description:  transcript of Ted Koppel's ABC Nightline
program; issue:  applicability of "must carry" cable rules for
all-commercial "home shopping" broadcasting stations;
including participation of Nicholas Johnson

Filename:  troystat.txt
Size:  12 K
Title:  Televised Violence:  A Road Map
Date:  April 28, 1994
Description:  This was prepared as a discussion guide for the
Troy [Alabama] State University Annual Spring Symposium
on "Violence on Television" in which Nicholas Johnson
participated.  The discussion guide is designed to help clarify
thinking and direct meaningful panel discussion by sketching
the full range of possible topics and issues that are sometimes
addressed under the general heading of "televised violence."
 

SUB-DIRECTORY:  ntt
Contents:  a single file, a sample script from The New Tech
Times television series

Filename:  nttscrpt.txt
Size:  27 K
Title:  Script of The New Tech Times Program Number 113
Date:  unknown; fall 1983/spring 1984; first uploaded to
sub-directory June 11, 1995
Description:  an illustration of the PBS 28-part series in
which I participated as "contributing editor and host" for the
two seasons 1983-84
 

SUB-DIRECTORY:  oped
Contents:  various opinion pieces, primarily newspaper
columns, appearing on "op ed" pages or elsewhere

Filename:  ipcvisac.txt
Size:  5 K
Title:  Interest builds in small print
Date:  June 5, 1992
Description:  Iowa City [Iowa] Press-Citizen business page
column explaining and characterizing Visa card calculation of
interest as fraud

See also:
/politics/crgbclin.txt
/politics/crgpbfin.txt
/pubhealth/crgchhea.txt
/pubhealth/dmrpbhea.txt
/pubhealth/pcsuetob.txt
/telecomm/copkillr.txt
/telecomm/dmrrdkil.txt
/telecomm/icpjunkp.txt
 

SUB-DIRECTORY:  personal
Contents:  biographical and other personal writings and
information

Filename:  hstruman.txt
Size:  4 K
Title:  Remarks to the Members of the National YMCA and
Government Assembly  [Public Papers of the Presidents.
Harry S. Truman, 1952, p. 448]
Date:  June 26, 1952
Description:  Transcript of remarks of President Truman to
the Hi-Y Youth and Government Assembly, 1952, with
introductory note of explanation for the inclusion of this item.

Filename/s:  njphoto1.jpg
Size:   59 K
Title:  none
Date:  June 12, 1995
Description:  a black-and-white, scanned photo of Nicholas
Johnson taken December 1994; it is not of terrific quality, but
one must, in fairness, consider what the photographer, Jon
Van Allen, and scanner, HP ScanJet Plus, had to work with.
For the user's convenience, although provided here in jpg
format it can also, upon request [1035393@mcimail.com], be
provided in bmp or gif as well.  Those formats have not been
used here simply as a concession to the storage space they
require, 316 K and 263 K respectively.

Filename:  njresume.txt
Size:  16 K
Title:  NICHOLAS JOHNSON
Date:  June 12, 1995
Description:  Nicholas Johnson's most current resume/bio/cv

Filename:  riteword.txt
Size:  25 K
Title:  Searching for the Right Word:  The Semantics of
Heterosexual Relationships
Date:  March 1979
Description:  Placed in this sub-directory for want of a better
place to put it, this article was prepared for ETC., the journal
of the International Society for General Semantics (the
national board of which includes Nicholas Johnson).  To put
it in simplistic brevity, general semantics deals with the
relationship between the language and the behavior of the
human species.  This article explores the reasons for, and
consequences of, the remarkably limited (and imprecise)
vocabulary we humans have for describing
other-than-marriage relationships between opposite-sex
individuals.
 

SUB-DIRECTORY:  politics
Contents:  political commentary, proposals

Filename:  crgbclin.txt
Size:  5 K
Title:  Bill Clinton is not sleeping on the job -- but are you?
Date:  January 30, 1994
Description:  Cedar Rapids [Iowa] Gazette op ed column
titled by author:  "Ask Not What You Can Do To Your
President," argues that media and public are too quick to
criticize president, too slow to play active role as citizens of
democracy

Filename:  crgpbfin.txt
Size:  5 K
Title:  Needed slogan:  "It's public financing of campaigns,
Stupid"
Date:  March 21, 1993
Description:  Cedar Rapids [Iowa] Gazette op ed column
advocating public financing of Senate and House campaigns
should be first priority
 

SUB-DIRECTORY:  pubhealth
Contents:  University of Iowa Institute for Health, Behavior
and Environmental Policy; public health; health enhancement
and disease prevention

Filename:  crgchhea.txt
Size:  5 K
Title:  Serve kids first, then get back to greed
Date:  August 22, 1994
Description:  Cedar Rapids [Iowa] Gazette op ed column
advocating that if overall health care reform cannot be agreed
upon Congress should at least pass health care protection for
children and pregnant women

Filename:  dmrpbhea.txt
Size:  7 K
Title:  The non-medical aspect of our health crisis
Date:  November 6, 1992
Description:  Des Moines [Iowa] Register op ed column
advocating "health care" reform needs more focus on
prevention and public health

Filename:  firearms.txt
Size:  27 K
Title:  A Public Health Response to Handgun Injuries:
Prescription -- Communications and Education Date:
May/June 1993 Description:  article in an American Journal
of Preventive Medicine [Am J Prev Med 1993;9(suppl
1):47-51] special supplement on firearm injuries from a
public health perspective; focuses on potential preventive role
of mass media and education

Filename:  pcsuetob.txt
Size:  2 K
Title:  Suing the tobacco industry is a solution
Date:  July 11, 1994
Description:  Iowa City [Iowa] Press-Citizen Letter to the
Editor debating assertion in earlier editorial ("Our View:
Suing tobacco companies is wrong course," Iowa City Press
Citizen, July 6, 1994, p. 11A), and arguing that Senator
Harkin's proposal that tobacco companies could be sued for
costs of illnesses related to smoking simply (and properly)
shifts the costs to those who profit from addictive,
illness-creating substance

SUB-DIRECTORY:  telecomm
Contents:  telecommunications policy commentary

See also:  /massmedia/aintinfo.txt

Filename:  ccbeltci.txt
Size:  12 K
Title:  Interview with Nicholas Johnson, Visiting Professor,
University of Iowa College of Law, Former Commissioner,
Federal Communications Commission
Date:  October 25, 1993
Description:  Corporate Crime Reporter interview regarding
views on Bell Atlantic-TCI proposed merger

Filename:  cfptrans.txt
Size:  59 K
Title:  Transcript of Freedom, Fun and Fundamentals:
Defining Digital Progress in a Democratic Society
Date:  March 10, 1993
Description:  transcript of address to The Third Conference
on Computers, Freedom and Privacy in San Francisco,
California

Filename:  copkillr.txt
Size:  7 K
Title:  "Cop Killer" Telcos
Date:  November 1, 1994
Description:  Educom Review, November/December 1994,
"Trends&Forecasts" section commentary, advocating that
telcos shareholders will be disadvantaged by phone
companies transmitting information services owned by telcos
over lines controlled by telcos.

Filename:  dmrrdkil.txt
Size:  5 K
Title:  Road kill along the information highway
Date:  February 1, 1994
Description:  Des Moines [Iowa] Register op ed column
raising concerns about "information superhighway" hype and
underemphasized public policy issues

Filename:  elecsupr.txt
Size:  26 K
Title:  Television in the Electronic Supermarket:  The
Confusion of Interests  An Introduction to the political
economics of the Superhighways
Date:  June 7, 1994
Description:  Text of remarks presented to "The Cologne
Conference" (Cinemathek, Internationales Fernsehfest Koln)
in response to an invitation to address the suggested title,
above, and three issues:  telecommunications goals of Clinton
Administration, goals of the global mega-firms in
telecommunications, and the public interest -- what are the
users going to get out of this?  A German language version
of this text was published as:  Nicholas Johnson, "Die
Verwirrung der Interessen:  Fernsehen im elektronischen
Supermarkt," agenda:  Zeitschrift fur Medien, Bildung,
Kultur, Juli-Oktober 1994, pp. 20-24.

Filename:  ipcjunkp.txt
Size:  4 K
Title:  Aggressive strategy needed to end junk phone calls
Date:  November 23, 1992
Description:  Iowa City [Iowa] Press-Citizen business page
column proposing strategies for dealing with telemarketing

Filename:  jefferso.txt
Size:  30 K
Title:  Jefferson on the Internet
Date:  December 1994
Description:  Federal Communications Law Journal article,
from an issue celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the
Communications Act of 1934, putting the case for the
separation of content and conduit in telecommunications
common carriers.  47 Fed.Com.L.J. 281-290 (December
1994).

Filename:  rnbeltci.txt
Size:  4 K
Title:  Letter to Assistant Attorney General Antitrust Anne K.
Bingaman from Ralph Nader, Nicholas Johnson, James Love,
Jeffrey Chester and Jon Motl
Date:  October 19, 1993
Description:  letter requesting Justice Department opposition
to proposed Bell Atlantic-TCI merger

Filename:  wired695.txt
Size:  6 K
Title:  Free Speech on the Internet
Date:  June 1995 issue, Wired magazine
Description:  expression of concern about the potential for
censorship on the Internet

Filename:  year2000.txt
Size:  28 K
Title:  Communications and the Year 2000
Date:  1970
Description:  A late-1960s/1970 effort to forecast the trends
in telecommunications, computers and mass media that would
still be applicable 30 years in the future

SUB-DIRECTORY:  tpflbook
Contents:  full text of 1972 Bantam paperback book, Test
Pattern for Living

Note: These Test Pattern for Living chapter files are all out of date. Here is the
link for all the files in the current site for Test Pattern for Living.

Filename:  ch00.txt
Size:  26 K
Title:  Various
Date:  1972
Description:  the entire text of Test Pattern for Living is
contained in these files, from front cover to back cover.  This
file contains all the material that comes before Chapter 1:
cover, opening leaf, title page, copyright information, table of
contents, Mason Williams' foreword, and the introduction.

Filename:  ch01.txt
Size:  17 K
Title:  Mass Communication and Mass Disintegration
Date:  1972
Description:  the relationship between mass media and society

Filename:  ch02.txt
Size:  23 K
Title:  The Corporate State
Date:  1972
Description:  the role of business in shaping individuals'
values

Filename:  ch03.txt
Size:  12 K
Title:  The Television Business
Date:  1972
Description:  "television" is about much more than
"programming"

Filename:  ch04.txt
Size:  19 K
Title:  Caution!  Television Watching May Be Hazardous to
Your Mental Health
Date:  1972
Description:  the process of creating "needs," to be filled by
advertised products, may create psychological problems that
would not otherwise exist

Filename:  ch05.txt
Size:  35 K
Title:  Life as an Alternative I
Date:  1972
Description:  the available alternatives to the conspicuous,
consumptive lifestyle promoted by TV

Filename:  ch06.txt
Size:  42 K
Title:  Life as an Alternative II
Date:  1972
Description: some specific suggestions on combatting the TV
lifestyle

Filename:  ch07.txt
Size:  12 K
Title:  Antidote to Automobiles
Date:  1972
Description:  the adverse consequences of a transportation
system based on internal combustion engines, and the
alternatives offered by bicycles

Filename:  ch08.txt
Size:  19 K
Title:  Working in a Corporate State
Date:  1972
Description:  corporations show little more respect for
workers on the job than for viewers in their homes

Filename:  ch09.txt
Size:  16 K
Title:  Voting in a Corporate State
Date:  1972
Description:  the search for alternative politics, as a part of an
alternative life

Filename:  ch10.txt
Size:  5 K
Title:  Conclusion
Date:  1972
Description:  a final couple of pages

Filename:  ch11.txt
Size:  30 K
Title:  Various
Date:  1972
Description: although this file seems to be a "Chapter 11," it
is, in fact, a catch all for all that follows the Conclusion:  a
bibliography, endnotes ("Acknowledgments"), credits, sources,
"about the author," and the back cover.

END OF FILE


INTRODUCTORY ("README") FILE FOR
     NICHOLAS JOHNSON DIRECTORY

[Note: Do not rely on any of this information. It is all dated. It is provided here only as an historic record of the origins of this site.]

     Date:  May 27, 1993;  Last revision:  March 26, 1996
 
     Site of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility /njohnson
     Directory
     Directory Address from WWW:  http://www.sunnyside.com
     As an anonymous ftp:  snyside.sunnyside.com/pub/njohnson
 
     Nicholas Johnson Internet address:  njohnson@inav.net
 
     INTRODUCTION.  If you are reading this, you know how to get
     here from your World Wide Web browser, or do an anonymous ftp
     on the Internet, know that you have reached the site of the
     Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, and (if using ftp)
     how to move around in a Unix directory tree.
 
     What you may not know is the purpose and contents of this
     particular directory.
 
     EXPERIMENTAL BEGINNINGS.  This directory was, frankly,
     begun as an experiment, made possible through the cooperation of
     the CPSR's Al Whaley and former FCC Commissioner Nicholas
     Johnson.  It was begun May 27, 1993.  It was the principals'
     intention to use this directory to make available online, for
     anonymous ftp (and later a Home Page on the World Wide Web),
     selected writings of Nicholas Johnson and to see how much use
     would be made of them.  The usage has been such that the project
     has been continued, and texts have been slowly added over time.
 
     SELECTION.  There are over 1000 items from which selection
     could be made (including books, chapters in others' books, articles,
     FCC opinions, Congressional testimony, speeches, and so forth).
     The choices of texts to be uploaded have been dictated largely by
     what is relatively current (and thus already in electronic form).  As
     time has permitted, a few older items have been scanned and
     entered.  (At the present time, in addition to this entry (readme.txt),
     the "contents" file (contents.txt), the current bio (njresume.txt), and
     the bibliography files (biblio[01-05].txt), there is 1 entry from 1995,
     9 from 1994, 7 from 1993, 3 from 1992, 1 from 1991, 1 from 1988,
     5 from 1986, 4 from 1985, 1 from 1984, 4 from 1983, 9 from 1982,
     and one each from 1979, 1970 and 1952.  In addition, the 1972 Bantam
     paperback book, Test Pattern for Living, is here in its entirety, in 11
     files.)
 
     CATEGORIES OF MATERIAL.  The categories (contained in
     sub-directories of this directory) are currently:
 
     biblio (portions of the current version of what ultimately will
     become a comprehensive lifetime bibliography, broken into
     (currently five) files of manageable size),
 
     columns (selections from the 1982-1986 nationally syndicated
     column, "Communications Watch"),
 
     massmedia (broadcasting and other mass media policy),
 
     ntt ("The New Tech Times" television series; one sample script),
 
     oped (various opinion pieces appearing on newspaper "op ed"
     pages),
 
     personal (biographical, photo and related information),
 
     politics (political commentary, proposals),
 
     pubhealth (University of Iowa Institute for Health, Behavior and
     Environmental Policy; public health; health enhancement and
     disease prevention),
 
     telecomm (telecommunications policy commentary), and
 
     tpflbook (the 11 files containing the entirety of the Bantam
     paperback book, Test Pattern for Living).
 
     CONTENTS.  A "table of contents" (with the filename contents.txt)
     contains a list of sub-directories, filenames, the titles of the
     documents each contains, date of writing or publication, and a brief
     description.  Within the categories listed there (that is, within the
     sub-directory listings) the files are listed alphabetically by filename.
     Obviously, you will probably find it a time saver to start with the
     contents.txt file -- although you are perfectly free to browse through
     the texts directly if you wish.
 
     FORMAT.
 
     (a) ASCII format.  Most of the files in this directory have been
     stored as ASCII DOS text files.  If you are getting to them from the
     Web that is the way they will appear on your screen, or be stored
     on computer if you download them.  They are designated with the
     ".txt" extension. (When and if text files are formatted in ways that
     require it they will be stored as binary files and have the extension
     ".bin".)  If you are getting to them with an ftp transfer, as you no
     doubt know, prior to entering the Unix ftp "get [filename]"
     command, you can choose to receive a file either as an ASCII text
     file (the default if you do nothing), or enter the command for
     "binary" transmission.
 
     (b) Eight-character file names.  As a convenience for those
     transferring files into DOS machines limited to filenames of eight
     characters (followed by three-character extensions), the limits of
     that convention have been followed here (even though not imposed
     by Unix, and even though filenames can be changed easily during
     transfers).
 
     (c) Italics.  The convention of _underscoring_ (with one
     underscoring character at the beginning and end of the affected
     material) has been used to indicate italics or underscoring in the
     original.  (In some texts, the italics and underlining have simply
     been removed.)
 
     (d)  Printing and screen appearance.  [1] No page numbers have
     been indicated.  [2] Hard returns in text can be removed with most
     word processors' search/replace command.  (First replace all double
     hard returns (paragraph indicators) with a place holder (such as ##);
     then replace all hard returns with a space; then replace all place
     holders with two hard returns.)  This is designed to ease your
     process of preparing documents for printing in your own favorite
     word processor and format should you wish to do so.  [3] Of
     course, you may well also have the option of bringing the files into
     your word processor with the hard returns automatically removed
     (as in WordPerfect:  "ASCII Text CR/LF to SRt (DOS)").  [4] The
     columns' paragraphs did begin with a tab; in ASCII that becomes
     five spaces.  Thus, a simple replace command can change them
     back into either tabs or double spaces between paragraphs with no
     indentation.  [5] Texts were prepared in WordPerfect for Windows
     5.2, True Type font Times New Roman, point size 14, with
     one-inch left and right (sometimes 1.5-inch right) margins.  If that
     is available to you, and inserted at the beginning of the ASCII text
     files, they should appear with full lines on the screen.
 
     (e) End of file.  To insure that you have received the full text, the
     last line in every file is END OF FILE (except for the Test Pattern
     for Living files, which end with # # #)..
 
     COPYRIGHT AND CONDITIONS.  These files are provided as a
     courtesy and convenience to students, researchers, journalists and
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