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Hi all,<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I read through Chapter 1, the Introduction. It makes for lively and entertaining reading, also, of course, enlightening. Also, it looks clean and complete to me. Comments below.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Comment: The 3rd paragraph of This Document says "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; ">Any deviation from the standards described in this document should be discussed with the project director and may God have mercy on your souls." I am happy with this except that it's not clear who of the three authors of this document you are referring to as the director. Do you want to just say "directors" and be equally ambiguous but more inclusive? Or do you want to specify a contact person for reporting deviations from the standards? I am OK with just adding an 's'.</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Comment: the 2nd paragraph of "Conventions used..." says "For example, PCSColor. SOMETABLE.Somecolumn is shorthand for “the Somecolumn column of the SOMETABLE table”, ..." It's not clear what role the PCSColor is playing, and it confuses, can it be removed?</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Comment: the section on System Design indicates that you still need to globally find and replace FoxPro with PostgreSQL: "The number of FoxPro** program development tools used in the construction of the software is kept to a minimum so that a new programmer need not spend a lot of time learning the FoxPro** development environment. At the present time, this means that the programs are limited to use of the FoxPro** language and the screen builder, no queries, reports, etc., are used. All data are kept in FoxPro** databases."</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Comment: in "Other resources" I found a typo:tuitorials should be tutorials.</span></font></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">Susan</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>-----------------------------------------------</div><div>Susan Alberts, Dept. Biology, Duke University, Durham NC 27708. Phone 919-660-7272, Fax 919-660-7293. <a href="mailto:alberts@duke.edu">alberts@duke.edu</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span> </div><br></div></body></html>