Re: Non-NB Research productivity

[szuchman@nospam.fiu.edu]

Dear John,
I can understand your concern for transferring a multitude of files from the 
DOS to the Windows version; I would only wonder why it has to be an 
all-or-nothing proposition. That is, why not convert those files you currently 
and/or most frequently work on, keep all others under the DOs version and 
thereby have the relative advantages of both systems.

I remark on this because the Palm software that resides on the computer itself 
is a Windows application. Thus, the process of transferring the contents of the 
Palm, including the texts within the "Memo" function, which would be the way to 
take the notes from the Palm to the word-processor, calls for a Windows-based 
word-processor. Although technically, this is not necessarily so, the 
cost-benefits in terms of time and labor make it uneconomical to use a 
DOS-based processor. 

I thus would consider the relative benefits of exploiting the capabilities of 
both systems -- DOS and Windows -- to your advantage. And, by the way, what 
does age have to do with all this anyway? research techniques have no time or 
age boundaries, no?

All the best,
Mark
> 
> From: John Wevers <jwevers@nospam.chass.utoronto.ca>
> Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 13:10:58 -0600 (CST)
> To: Multiple recipients of list NOTABENE <notabene@nospam.hamline.edu>
> Subject: Re: Non-NB Research productivity
> 
> Dear Mr. Szuchman,
>     I am intrigued with the possibilities of the Palm Keyboard which you
> described. I have
> no Palm Lipot, nor have I any need for such, but the notion that a small
> keyboard can
> be used for taking notes in the Univ. Library sounds like a wonderful aid.
>     My question, however, is this: I use Dos NB 4.5, and not NBW, mainly
> because at
> my age to transfer many files all full of Hebrew and Greek to the Windows
> version is
> just too daunting. But if I could simply take a small keyboard to the
> libary to take
> brief notes, and then copy them into my NBDos, my work would be lightened
> considerably. Is this possible without a lot of folderol? Cordially, JWW.
> 
>