Re: [ProgSoc] Re: your mail

[Piers Johnson <piers@nospam.mighty.com.au>]

>On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Gabriela Marcionetti wrote:
>
>> i think he was referring to discounts on my life history, not the mugs :)
>
>It was worth pointing out, even if that was the case.  We probably won't
>sell anything to non-members from now on -- just ask for $10 membership
>(flat rate ... NB a constitutional difficulty to tackle first).  TFMs are
>pretty much free to all members now ... we even found a stash of the
>original(?) blue-cover copies in a corner of the room, beneath the manilla
>1996 ones.

The blue ones with the Russian cover was the Third Edition, from 
memory. My first redesign.

The cover is a 1920s Soviet information poster, equating illiteracy 
with blindness, encouraging the peasantry to educate themselves and 
become their own masters.

There were two red ones before it, plus of course the original Sun 
User Guide, which ended up an ITD thing. That's why the main tex file 
of TFM is still called sug.tex

I still have one copy of each edition I edited, plus the one before 
it, in one of the many boxes I never unpacked when I last moved, 
about three years ago - I saw them all about a month ago when I 
wanted something from that box. Maybe we should finally get around to 
doing the history of TFM on the web.

Speaking of which, I'm *still* the owner [kaleid] of the TFM & WebTFM 
files sitting in /data (or wherever...) - could some admin chown it 
to root? Ta.

Piers
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