If any of y'all can answer these questions, I'd appreciate it.  This message
is forwarded from the calligraphy list.  Thanks - Anne

>1. Please contact me privately if you have experience of
>using gas chromatography or spectrographic techniques to
>examine trace elements in gessos or other painting grounds.
>
>2. Please contact me privately if you have used Metaphase
>in a UNIX environment.
>We already use it to catalogue large libraries, but now we
>wish to set up an object-oriented database for a large
>(private) collection of scribal colophons. In particular,
>is a mach shell an advantage in speeding searches?
>
>Apologies if you have received this twice, or if you have
>seen it on other lists....
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Anne Lane
Curatorial Assistant
Museum of York County
4621 Mt. Gallant Road
Rock Hill, SC  29732-9905
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