The Project Gutenberg Etexts for September, 1996 (fwd)
Michael S. Hart
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 17:48:53 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Michael S. Hart" <ha...@prairienet.org>
To: Michael Hart <ha...@pobox.com>
Subject: The Project Gutenberg Etexts for September, 1996
***The Project Gutenberg Newsletter for October 1, 1996***
Not only have we survived, but have just posted a record #
of megabytes for you to download. Have fun with them, and
hopefully you will also help us survive the coming years.
Well, we have survived the summer, just barely in terms of
of finances and enough hardware to post our files. In the
last two days all three of our Etext sites, listing below,
have suffered various crashes that have prevented editing,
posting, or even getting to, some of our September Etexts,
but, as always [knock on wood] we managed not only to come
up with the promised number of files by midnight, last day
of the month, but we have managed to post more than ever.
Coming shortly is an HTML version of the dictionary below,
45 megabytes in a single file, and Plutarch's live, etc.
The September Etexts include a great book on computers, in
two formats, the Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, two more
Horatio Alger stories, and a baker's dozen donated by more
than a friend, David Price, of the UK.
There are two versions of the Secret Guide to Computers and
one in Plain Vanilla ASCII [pv] and one in WordPerfect [wp].
This WordPerfect version is in 5.1.
The Plain Vanilla ASCII version does NOT have our usual set
of marginations, and thus you will have to choose margins a
few times to see what fits your screen; we hope some of you
will volunteer to create a version which looks good on your
normal 65-75 character margins, this will take some work...
There are also two versions of the Webster's Unabridged, in
HTML as one LARGE 45 megabyte file meant for search engines
and one in a modified markup language in 11 files of a size
designed to fit on 1.44M floppies.
Mon Year Title and Author [# of PG books by the author][filename.ext] ###
A "C" following the Etext number indicates a copyrighted work.
Sep 1996 The Secret Guide to Computers, by Russ Walter WP51[sgcwpxxx.xxx] 672C
Sep 1996 The Secret Guide to Computers, by Russ Walter[txt][sgcpvxxx.xxx] 672C
Sep 1996 Phil, the Fiddler, by Horatio Alger, Jr.[Alger #8][phidlxxx.xxx] 671
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [XZ][pgwxzxxx.xxx] 670C
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [TW][pgwtwxxx.xxx] 669C
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [S] [pgwsxxxx.xxx] 668C
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [R] [pgwrxxxx.xxx] 667C
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [PQ][pgwpqxxx.xxx] 666C
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [MO][pgwmoxxx.xxx] 665C
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [IL][pgwilxxx.xxx] 664C
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [FH][pgwfhxxx.xxx] 663C
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [DE][pgwdexxx.xxx] 662C
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [C] [pgwcxxxx.xxx] 661C
Sep 1996 The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary [AB][pgwabxxx.xxx] 660C
Sep 1996 Paul The Peddler, by Horatio Alger, Jr. [Alger #7][ptpedxxx.xxx] 659
Sep 1996 The Fall of Troy, by Quintus Smyrnaeus [400 A.D.] [ftroyxxx.xxx] 658
Sep 1996 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Trans. by James Ingram [angsxxxx.xxx] 657
Sep 1996 Life of Robert Browning by William Sharp [shabrxxx.xxx] 656
Sep 1996 Life and Letters of Robert Browning, by Mrs. Orr [orrbrxxx.xxx] 655
Sep 1996 Grace Abounding to Chief of Sinners by John Bunyan[gacosxxx.xxx] 654
Sep 1996 The Chimes, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #8] [tchmsxxx.xxx] 653
Sep 1996 Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, by Samuel Johnson#2[rslasxxx.xxx] 652
Sep 1996 Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll #5[fntsmxxx.xxx] 651
Sep 1996 Pictures From Italy, by Charles Dickens[Dickens#7][picitxxx.xxx] 650
Sep 1996 Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of England [Bell][olengxxx.xxx] 649
Sep 1996 Wild Wales by George Borrow [George Borrow #5] [wwalsxxx.xxx] 648
Sep 1996 The Dynamiter by RL & Fanny VDG Stevenson [RLS#32][dynmtxxx.xxx] 647
Sep 1996 The Coral Island, R. M. Ballantyne [Pacific Ocean][corilxxx.xxx] 646
Sep 1996 The Figure in the Carpet, by Henry James[James#12][fgcptxxx.xxx] 645
Sep 1996 Haunted Man/Ghost's Bargain by Charles Dickens[#6][hntmnxxx.xxx] 644
Sep 1996 The Death of the Lion, by Henry James [James #11] [dlionxxx.xxx] 643
Sep 1996 The Altar of the Dead, by Henry James [James #10] [altddxxx.xxx] 642
Sep 1996 The Violet Fairy Book [Edited by Andrew Lang][#4][vifryxxx.xxx] 641
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