[wellylug] Re: Re. Scanning, storing, & publishing a 320 page document ..

[Adam Bogacki]

Brilliant .. problem solved. I apt-installed 'cmptools' and had
a pleasant time reading MicroBee Faq's and updates.

I once thought  had the last working model in Australasia ..

All I have to do is to dust off cases of floppies and start
copying chapters into an appropriate file.

What was your involvement with  MicroBee ?

Adam.
afb at paradise.ne.nz

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 08:10:35PM +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> On 25/06/07, Adam Bogacki <afb at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> >see M$'s GUI as a passing phase. Will Etch recognise text written using
> >the CP/M OS ?
> 
> The question is "will it read the disk?"; once you have the datafile
> I'm sure it's easier to work out the format than to scan the pages ...
> 
> http://www.moria.de/~michael/cpmtools/ will access the filesystems,
> apparently. It's in Debian ...
> http://packages.debian.org/stable/otherosfs/cpmtools
> 
> There also seems to be some useful info in 
> http://www.microbee-faq.in-tl.net/
> 
> >hear of copyright issues preventing publication. Copyright applies to
> >others appropriating
> >an authors ideas, not publication by the author ..
> 
> It's the definition of "author" that you have to look out for. If my
> company hires a writer to produce some documentation, then my company
> is the copyright owner automatically (work produced for hire); but if
> the writer produces the document first without being asked, then sells
> it to us, the copyright resides with the writer (copyright ownership
> can be transferred/sold if required)
> 
> Somewhere along the line the UK university I attended (and probably
> all of them) decided that *they* has commissioned my Thesis work,
> therefore copyright was theirs. This may not be legally defendable,
> especially as I was paying them for the pleasure of being educated ;-)
> 
> -jim