CFOG's PIP, January 1987, Volume 5 No. 3, Whole No. 51, page 3

PIP is "On Time"!

by Benjamin H. Cohen

As I write these words on January 8th the December 1986 issue of PIP is at the printer, ready to be folded, collated, stapled, labelled, and mailed on Monday the 12th. The copy for the January 1987 issue of PIP is on my desk, awaiting the addition of a few final items. It is expected to go to the printer on Monday the 12th and to be in the mail by the 19th.

I hope to have the February issue in the mail about the same time of the month. I'm hitting a heavy briefing schedule in the very near future, and when it hits I'll be in effective hibernation for a couple of weeks.

A few submissions by the 'locals' would help this poor rag to have a more local air about it -- at present you folks have not been writing much.

As you can see from looking at this issue, I'm using the Magic Series of software more. The Magic text is easy to spot -- the text is denser than with StarJet. The more I use it the easier it seems to be. The big problem, aside from the need to do a bit of fine tuning that I just haven't the time or patience to do at present, is that I just have no idea of how long a file is going to be when it prints out. And if it does run to n columns and 6 lines, when I do go to edit I cannot tell when I have taken enough out to cut it down to size.