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The Latest at the Library
By Greg Frye
Library Pardons Past Printing
After several months of trying to correct difficulties with our tracking software, we have finally worked out the problems. This means a few changes in the tracking method. Here are some details on the changes.
As of Tuesday, Feb. 9, all students were once again given a free printing limit of 500 sheets. All previous printing, even if it had been more than 500 sheets, was written off because of the problems with the software. Double-sided printing will count as only one sheet. This means that if students use double-sided printing, they can effectively get up to 1000 prints free.
The “wbalance” icon (the dollar sign) once again appears in the lower right corner of the screen. This had been removed for a period because of confusion over the tracking method. As of now, if a student holds the mouse over the icon momentarily, it shows the number of free sheets left for that student. It is still a declining balance. For example, immediately after the changes and before any print jobs were sent, a balance of 500 shows. After a 10-page single-sided print job is sent, the balance will be 490. If another 10-page print job is then sent, this time using double-sided printing, the balance will be 485.
After students use all 500 free sheets, the balance shows a negative amount. All printing over the 500-sheet level will be at a cost of $0.05 per sheet, again counting double-sided printing as a single sheet. Students will receive an e-mail notice that they have gone over the limit and need to pay for printing at the circulation desk in the library. Students may pre-pay if they wish, but only in even dollar amounts. No refunds will be given for remaining printing balances at the end of the school year. We are also working on a way to display the printing balance (whether positive or negative) to students each time they log in.
Have You Seen What’s on lc.law?
The law school community has available to it a newsgroup similar to the “notices” many people read. Unlike notices, however, the lc.law group cannot be read from the % prompt on the e-mail system. Below are some instructions to help you get subscribed to lc.law through pine. Once you have done so, you may use pine to read and post messages on the newsgroup. In following the instructions below, make sure you type the text exactly as you see it (including capital letters), but EXCLUDE the quotation marks. Here are the instructions:
1) Open pine. From the Main Menu, select (S)etup, then (C)onfig.
2) Use the down arrow key to select nntp-server and press Enter.
3) Type “news.lclark.edu” and press Enter.
4) Use the down arrow to select news-collections and press Enter.
5) Type “News *{news.lclark.edu/nntp}[lc.*]” and press Enter.
NOTE: This will show you only the newsgroups specific to Lewis & Clark. There are thousands of groups on all kinds of topics. If you want to be able to see a complete list of groups to which you could subscribe, enter the text as above, but exclude the lc.* from inside the brackets.
6) Use the space bar and the down arrow to select the expanded-view-of-folders line. If there is no X to the left of it, press X.
7) Press E to exit the configuration mode, then Y to save your changes.
8) Quit and then restart pine to initialize the changes you made.
9) From the Main Menu, press L to get a folder list and use the down arrows to get to the News-collection section.
10) Press A, then type “lc.law” and press Enter to subscribe.
NOTE: If you want to see what other newsgroups are available, you should press Ctrl and Y together after pressing A. This will show you a list of the Lewis & Clark newsgroups (if you typed lc.* above) or all newsgroups (if you left the brackets empty above) to choose from.
You may now open lc.law as if it were an e-mail folder. All messages posted to lc.law look like e-mail.
To post a message to the group, you need only compose an e-mail. After you press C for compose, pine asks: “Post to current newsgroup (lc.law)?” Press Y to confirm you want to do so, then write your message just like any other e-mail. When you press Ctrl-X to send the message, pine will ask you twice to confirm your send request. The first is pine’s standard “Send message?” and the second says, “Posted message may go to thousands of readers. Really post?” While this is not quite accurate, the message you send will be accessible to everyone at Lewis & Clark (law school, undergraduates, etc.). If you press Y, the message gets posted.
Netscape mail in the computer labs has been configured to view lc.law.
Please note that, unlike notices, you cannot post a message to lc.law just by sending e-mail to law or to lc.law. You must use newsgroup software (if you have pine configured correctly it will do this) to read and post messages to it.