recipe cum grano salis
The information in the series of files that make up this cookbook
has been accumulated over many years.

The notes were made for my own use and a lot of them are specific
to my personal setup, or computers. Some entries refer to
machines and software that no longer exist. This "historic"
information is included for two reasons. One it may be useful for
legacy hardware or software — but more likely, I have not got
around to clearing it out.

The original "Cookbook" was maintained as a single StrongED text
file. Formatting was done with spaces and line breaks and the system
monospaced font.

To pursuade the Google spiders to visit the text I have converted the
text files to html. Apart from the addition of some html headers the
original formatting has been maintained  by using html <pre> tags.

If anyone finds factual errors and tells me about them  I will
endeavor to make amends.

email: John Rickman

© JR 2013