Over on alt.binaries.e-book.technical newsgroup, here on usenet, someone
has posted two books in pdf format cruisers may find interesting. I
haven't seen anything of them but the title, so can't form an opinion of
their usefulness.

They were posted yesterday so just look at the last files. The subject
line starts with Where so they should be easy to find in the huge list of
books.

The two books are "Where There Is No Doctor" and "Where There Is No
Dentist", the implications of which are obvious to a cruiser who got a
toothache 280 miles from land.

Just a heads up to let you know they're there. I felt bad not posting to
this group when the book posters were in "diesel mode", even though I
didn't see any boat-specific diesel books in the lists. Keep an eye on
this e-book newsgroup. There's an amazing array of most interesting
books, manuals and other technical literature I don't think you'd ever
see in one place elsewhere. I must have a million dollars in electronic
service manuals from there, alone, even if you don't count my nuclear or
weapons library...(c;

If you like guns, they've been posting the manuals for nearly ever gun
ever produced on the planet for the last few months....look back and find
all yours. Back there a while someone went crazy posting wood shop
manuals, too. Oh, and I have the maintenance, operations and flight
manuals for your big jet airliners, in case you broke yours. Worry your
flight attendant to death. Sit there reading the flight manual for the
jet you're riding in on your laptop. Ask the captain if he used "this"
checklist before takeoff when he comes back through.

alt.binaries.e-book has all the novels for your next around-the-world
cruise, too. And you thought the boat's notebook was only for
navigation....

I can't find the NG you mentioned on Google groups... maybe they just
don't have it??

Larry wrote:
Over on alt.binaries.e-book.technical newsgroup, here on usenet, someone
has posted two books in pdf format cruisers may find interesting. I
haven't seen anything of them but the title, so can't form an opinion of
their usefulness.

"Keith" wrote in
oups.com:

I can't find the NG you mentioned on Google groups... maybe they just
don't have it??



Google doesn't do binaries. Download Xnews from http://xnews.newsguy.com
for free. Go to http://www.usenetserver.com and BUY real usenet service
for $15/month or $39/quarter. Tell Xnews your server is
news.usenetserver.com and enter your username and password in the wizard
the first time you boot it. There's around 70,000 newsgroups on
Terabytes of amazing disk drives in downtown Atlanta you can access from
anywhere on the planet....10 ports simultaneously, no GB limits, as fast
as your internet service lets you go.

Also, check your own ISP website to see what usenet server you're already
paying for in your monthly access bill. Comcrap Cable limits theirs to
2GB/month, a travesty tryin to sell more and trying to block ports so you
can't use something more reasonable, but UNS has multiple ports to access
bypassing this denial of service. I'm lucky, Knology Cable INCLUDES
direct access to UNS' server stack with no limits...(c;

Yahoo and Google aren't usenet services....more like tiny windows into
our world....no binaries.

Cable internet downloads more in a day than you can play with in a
month....

Oh, another carrot? The same newsgroup also has several hundred
magazines posted on it every month, including sailing, boating, cruising
mags!...(c;

Try not to block my view standing in line....(c;

Sailaway wrote in :

I am sure there is something I should know about to read these, but I
haven't a clue... Any suggestions? Thanks


Your new client doesn't decode Yenc encoding. Usenet only uses 7 bits, not
8, so encoding schemes were invented to convert 8 bit binary data into 7
bit text which could be posted. Yenc is the latest, most popular code
being used.

Go get Xnews from http://xnews.newsguy.com
It's free. The instructions are on the website.

It downloads the message list (limit that to around 200,000 messages which
is almost too many files to look through). Then, click the Q column to
mark the files you want to download. (Xnews groups all the messages in a
file into a single line on the message list for you.)

You can click more while it's downloading others.

You just have the wrong client.....like Outlook Express which sucks.

Larry writes:

I haven't seen anything of them but the title, so can't form an opinion
of their usefulness.

These books are not what you think. They are written by liberals for high
school dropouts in the Peace Corps working to help third world countries.
They contain little information on diagnosis and treatment, especially in
regard to what a boater at sea might encounter. The emphasis is on things
like malnutrition, child immunizations, AIDS, jungle childbirth, etc.

If you have any brains, you'd be much better off with the Merck Manual, and
a suture kit from eBay, and a Dent-Temp kit for the drugstore.

Larry writes:

The pdf Merck manual floats a LOT easier and takes up a lot LESS cabin
space than the printed version, I'd guess.

Except it's not a PDF file, it's a clumsy application of its own. Bah.

Richard J Kinch wrote in
:

Except it's not a PDF file, it's a clumsy application of its own. Bah.



I believe it's an ISO file, a disk image of the original setup disk, like
my Physician's Desk Reference, which also came as a bunch of WinRAR files
off that newsgroup. Boot your disk burner, like Nero, and pick "disk image
file" and let Nero burn the image file to the CDR in the drive. It
installs just like the original disk, giving you full access to its
important data and a fantastic engine to search it with....

Try reading the post flameboy: "I haven't seen anything of them but the
title, so can't form an opinion of
their usefulness."


"Richard J Kinch" wrote in message
. ..
Larry writes:

I haven't seen anything of them but the title, so can't form an opinion
of their usefulness.

These books are not what you think. They are written by liberals for high
school dropouts in the Peace Corps working to help third world countries.
They contain little information on diagnosis and treatment, especially in
regard to what a boater at sea might encounter. The emphasis is on things
like malnutrition, child immunizations, AIDS, jungle childbirth, etc.

If you have any brains, you'd be much better off with the Merck Manual,
and
a suture kit from eBay, and a Dent-Temp kit for the drugstore.

Larry writes:

It installs just like the original disk, giving you full access to its
important data and a fantastic engine to search it with....

Right, a bloated poorly-written application you have to study carefully to
search what would be much easier with a PDF file with index and Acrobat.

_Machinery's Handbook_ used to be like that, and happily they have now gone
to PDF.

I don't like that Adobe owns the document format and reader, but any
standard is better than the awkward stuff unique to each book.

Richard J Kinch wrote in
:

Right, a bloated poorly-written application you have to study
carefully to search what would be much easier with a PDF file with
index and Acrobat.



Whoa! Hang on! Now you're talkin about my operating system, Windoze XP
Pro...(c;

Acrobat is bloatware for the bloatware.....with the on-screen adware at the
top.