;.cR. Shlomo / Memo / to EW on EW renumbering of Witt collection
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TO:    EW
FROM:  Steve Amdur, Kibbutz Haon, Jordan Valley, 15170 Israel.
       Telephone:  972-6-757572; FAX:  972-6-757554
DATE:  2/2/95
RE:    Re-numbering of Witt collection of R. Shlomo transcripts by        EW   1/95
CC:    File
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It's appropriate that you've re-numbered your Collection of R.Shlomo material; my original numbering (in =inv0494a + =inv0494b)was to a large extent random -- arbitrary ID#'s that identifiedonly the holder, not the date nor topic of teaching; with holdingsnumbered in the order I bumped into them.

Please send me a xerox of your listing ASAP, including my originalnumbers, which I wrote on p1 of each document I inventoried.  Ican then input your catalogue, cross-referenced with my listing,and we can then switch over to using your listings.

The following details should be "as clear as mud", but it may someday be useful to have them on file:

I used my numbers for most of the documents I input fromtranscript and from HBG/CNS articles in Spring 1994; my typicalformat there was sh_JW## .  I won't change the input-docuementnames (although you could do this on subsequent edits)  but canadd your numbers to the header of each document. 

In the work I've done 10/94--1/95 I've used a different system,format is   shyymmdd  (year-month-date).  Where I have more than 1input document for a given date, I drop the last number of the dayand substitude a, b, ...; eg the 2 teachings of May 5, 1976 (whichwere previously transcripted, and which I listed as #A1), areinput as =sh76050a + =sh76050b .  The advantage of this system isthat it provides a unique name for every transcript/document,records date of teaching, and displays on computer as achronologic listing.  This disadvantage is that it does notidentify topic nor Collection.  When EinsteinWriter is used, thatinformation can and should be included in the Comment whichfollows the document heading.

DOS limits us to an 8-character name, and I take up the first 2characters with 'sh', to ensure that R. Shlomo material is easilyfound on a hard disc.  I don't use the 3 character suffix, sinceEinsteinWriter automatically gives its backup a .BAK suffix; so 2documents with the same prefix and different suffix would overwrite each other on backup.
