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v. to schedule, as to "set a case for trial."

SET, contracts. Foreign bills of exchange are generally drawn in parts; as, "pay this my first bill of exchange, second and third of the same tenor and date not paid;" the whole of these parts, which make but one bill, are called a set. Chit. Bills, 175, 6, (edition of 1836); 2 Pardess. n. 342.

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GSA's 47-node network more than doubled in size last year, so GSA increased network speed and reliability with 10-Mb/s fiber links; boosted uptime by retooling from bus to star topology; and added multi-user capabilities by swapping a Lotus-based application for a database in a DOS environment.

GSA uses fiber to speed costing

Now that OS/2 is turning out to be a hard product to sell, developers of oversized applications are taking a fresh look at ways to stretch the limits of the basic DOS environment.

Stretching DOS

Approximately half of the personal computer workstations were selected for public use, operating in a DOS environment using Saber menuing software.

Libraries of the future: Skokie Public Library expands electronic resources

West's Legal Directory Attorney Library is accessible through West's PREMISE Research Software for the DOS environment. This software provides researchers with familiar WESTLAW search syntax, sentence and paragraph connectors for word searches, automatic equivalencies and plurals, and field searching.

West's Legal Directory Profiles available on CD-ROM

* Operate in the DOS environment on IBM-compatible personal computers.

Automated space planning for large spaces

SyncMail, developed by Sync Data of Hyattsville, Md., is capable of running in any DOS environment, including that of "obsolete" IBM-XT-compatible systems (pre-286 machines), while still retaining all its capabilities.

Voice-mail system improves attendance, broadens communication in district

"So we're showing different windowing environments as well as the UNIX DOS environment, the VMS, all different kinds of environments within this particular configuration," she added.