Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Paul E Bennett Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Please rescue Julian Noble's book Scientific Forth from being lost Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:39:56 +0000 Organization: Hidecs Consultancy Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: individual.net cG2WM6tNRQFXCjGYmyb7ywoaovfYvRgJi1FLyCTczCeoGdjTtr Cancel-Lock: sha1:PC8t4tFKdVAOIQssrdLqatccwSA= User-Agent: KNode/4.10.5 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:28001 jg wrote: > I think Julian's wife has been found. I am waiting on a confirmation. > > I have received a test scan from the Paper Upgrade Project. The pdfs look > great. Google Docs does a decent job with OCR'ing the pdfs, which will > save time. This will be easier than transcribing "Thinking Forth." I will > have the rest of the book scanned. > > To wait or not to wait for the copyrights, that is the question. Thanks for the update. You should probably wait for the copyright confirmation a bit longer. I trust you have a record of efforts to contact the holder so that, if they are not found in a reasonable time period and you publish it, you have some defence to say you made reasonable efforts in trying to track down the copyright holder. -- ******************************************************************** Paul E. Bennett IEng MIET..... Forth based HIDECS Consultancy............. Mob: +44 (0)7811-639972 Tel: +44 (0)1235-510979 Going Forth Safely ..... EBA. www.electric-boat-association.org.uk.. ********************************************************************