Re: MUDs and MOOs

[Gregory Keith <GKeith -at- DELRINA -dot- COM>]

MUDs are Multi-User Dungeons, MOOs are object-oriented MUDs. The Acronym Web
Page is a great place to look for acronyms, as it lists over 14,000 of them.
Its address (and a few other handy URLs) are listed below.

Greg

Gregory Keith
Documentation Specialist
Delrina Canada
gkeith -at- delrina -dot- com

"Our minds are porous and forgetfulness seeps in: I myself am distorting and
losing, under the wearing away of the years, the face of Beatriz."
Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph
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Web Sites for Technical Communicators

ACM SigCHI Home Page: Provides a collection of links to HCI resources on the
web. The Earl is: http://www.acm.org/sigchi/.

Acronym Web Page: www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/acro.html

Adobe TechNotes WWW Page: The full spec "TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) 6.0
Specification (121 pages / 374502 bytes" can be found at:
http://www.adobe.com/Support/TechNotes.html#tiff

Altura Software (WinHelp/MV to MAC programs):
http://www.altura.com/jordanz/home.html and  e-mail quickhelp -at- altura -dot- com or
altura -at- aol -dot- com

Cascadilla Press Web Page: There's information available on the WWW about
Help Browser (along with on-line order forms for ordering from Cascadilla
Press) at: http://www.shore.net/~cascadil/HelpBrowser.html

Computer Literacy Bookshop: http://www.clbooks.com/.

Copyright info: <http://www.openmarket.com/copyright/html/lawinfo.html>

Creating Copyright Solutions: <http://www.openmarket.com/copyright/> .The
Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) is a not-for-profit organization providing
collective copyright licensing services. We help organizations of all sizes
and across all business lines comply with the U.S. copyright law and we ease
permissions burdens and consolidate payments for rightsholders. CCC Online
is a brand new way to work with CCC!

HTML Development Sites: Excellent HTML development info exists on the web
itself. A couple startingpoints you might want to check out are:
http://home.mcom.com/home/how-to-create-web-services, tml
http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/World_Wide_Web,
 http://www.charm.net/~web/Vlib.html, and here's also the Usenet news groups
comp.infosystems.www.misc, comp.infosystems.www.providers and
comp.infosystems.www.users.

HTML Special Characters: This is an excellent reference for special
characters in html: http://www.primenet.com/~boo/iso-8859-1.html

HTML/Excel templates: For really cool templates, check out two templates
that export Excel data in table or calendar format to html:
http://rs712b.gsfc.nasa.gov/704/dgd/xl2html.html
Icon Source: http://white.nosc.mil/images.html#anchor11

Internet Resources for Technical Communicators:
http://www.rpi.edu/~perezc2/tc/

Internet World HTML Primer:
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html

KNOWware's Home Page:http://www.metainfo.com/knowware/

Lamaura Software (WinHelp Tools): We have finally got our web pages up and
running at:   http://www.lamaura.com/~lamaura. Finally there is a way of
obtaining some really useful free software!

Macmillan Information SuperLibrary: http://www.mcp.com/, then click or
choose Alpha.

Microsoft Developer Network News May/June 1995: Story on WinHelp 4.0;
http://www.microsoft.com/pages/developer/msdn/OFFRAMP/NEWS/FEATURES/WINHELP3
.HTTM

OAK Repository (WinHelp files):
http://www.acs.oakland.edu/oak/SimTel/win3/winhelp.html

Olson Software (WinHelp DLLs, etc):
http://www.actrix.gen.nz/commercial/olson/olson.html

Seamless WEBsite-Law and Legal Resources Page: <http://www.seamless.com/>

Stanford Web Forum (William Barr+s Home Page):
http://www-forum.stanford.edu/~wbarr/wbarr.html

STC Central Web Page: http://stc.org (STC WWW site in New York.)

Toronto Life Magazine: http://www.inforamp.net:80/tl/

WINHLP-L Mailing List Home Page : http://www.humberc.on.ca/~byrnes/winhelp.

Word for Windows Files (inc. WinHelp aids):
http://coyote.csusm.edu/cwis/winworld/word.html