INQUA Sub-Commission on Data-Handling Methods

Newsletter 17: February 1998

Note from the Co-ordinator

This issue contains articles by Phillip Leduc, John Williams, and Tom Webb on their PATools programs, and details of a new utility that Lou Maher has produced for moving data between programs, John Birks has provided a list of recent books, and Dr Triage is back. I have added short notes on some recently identified problems with some common ordination packages (including CANOCO), a new version of psimpoll, the North American Plant Macrofossil Database, notes on the Computer Oriented Geological Society, and details of a new version of SPECTRUM (described in the previous issue).

I have received numerous notifications of e-mail addresses, and I hope that the list is now more complete and accurate. Again, I would greatly appreciate co-operation with using the WWW version of the newsletter wherever possible, to avoid the cost of paper distribution. However, I have not been inundated with suggestions for `subscribers' in the less well-developed parts of the world: please keep these names coming. Paper copies can and will be sent to those without full (or any) internet access.

As ever, I would be grateful for suggestions for future issues. I hope to put together the July 1998 issue in June 1998, so contributions by mid-June would be especially welcome.

Keith Bennett

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