file formats and file transfers, was: Re: PAUP 4.0 Beta Release: MANUAL

[Curtis Clark]

At 09:46 AM 7/2/99 -0300, Thomas Schlemmermeyer wrote:
>Meanwhile, I threw approximately one dollar in and downloaded acrobat
>reader
>4.0 at a velocity of 3,20 kb/s.

You must already have had Word, but I imagine that you, or somebody in your
institution, paid more than a dollar for it.

>Also: Universities often offer their users (students, scientists,
>tecnicians
>and so on) unlimited internet access:
>How much do they pay for it, normally, to the phone companies?

In the US, universities were ordinarily connected electronically before the
phone companies got into the act. Some even own their own pieces of the
network, and charge phone companies for use. The internet is a natural
competitor to phone companies, and it is understandable, and regrettable,
that they would want to take control of it.


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