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In a message dated 03/09/96 10:06:03, Pete Johnson writes: Re: Knuth, Communicating and Archiving DataA little food for thoughts >ike the idea of BREVIS in your .sig, not so sure about the LONGA. > >Pete ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS happens to be the motto of Sheffield University Medical School, from which I qualified. For those who have not come across it, it is a quotation from a very early medic (?greek) and means something along the lines of the art is long but life is short, i.e. you'll always learn something new. I considered adding it to the end of my dissertation on the positive side of G.P. but felt it might require too long winded an explanation. It shows that the job has been frustrating for a couple of thousand years at least ;-) Trefor Roscoe Email; [log in to unmask] Beighton Health Centre Tel 0114 - 269 5061 Queens Road, Beighon Fax 0114 - 269 7186 Sheffield S19 6BJ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%