 The magazine of the Melbourne PC User Group Editorial Ash Nallawalla ash@melbpc.org.au |
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This is going to be a brief editorial, because this issue had to be prepared in a hurry so as to reach you in time. This issue has been compiled in part by Ian Robinson who started it off. Please accept our apologies if the proof-reading is not perfect, or if your article or letter was accidentally omitted. In fact, I have quite a few disks that I am trying to sort out. If you have sent a disk and have not seen your item in print for some time, please write to me. I prefer letters to phone calls because I get far too many Melb PC phone calls at work and people have to search high and low for me. Would the SIG coordinators whose items were not used this month accept my apologies and kindly submit a combined submission for the next issue?
We are hoping to bring forward PC Update's production cycle by one week, so that readers can get more time to plan their attendance at the monthly meeting or at a training course. The appearance of the magazine will also change slowly. New blood at the editorial reins has its merits but change must not be for its own sake. Have you any suggestions? One I am tossing around for comments is at least one issue per annum on disk. At worst this would give you the option of using it as a blank disk if you did not like it, but more positively it would allow us to show you items from our Bulletin Board (and from other on-line services), perhaps throw in a sample from the public domain software library, or the entire public domain library catalogue! Perhaps such a disk could accompany a normal issue. Feel free to comment.
I am quite fussy about writing standards as that is a part of my job in the Technical writing/publishing wing of the RAAF. Feel free to point out my errors but you will have to live with my standards. They are largely as documented in the Government style manual, as I cannot afford to maintain two styles in my head. I have had to modify my own style, particularly as regards spelling suffixes such as 'ization', 'ize' etc which have to be spelt as 'isation' and 'ise' respectively. I prefer British English to the American, except for American computerese, which, interestingly enough, has the blessing of the British Computer Society. Nonetheless, I shall try to be more consistent than pedantic.
Reprinted from the July 1988 issue of PC Update, the magazine of Melbourne PC User Group, Australia
