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1Department of Anesthesia, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 7-Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, 113, Tokyo, Japan.
Abstract:
The author has compiled a textbook of anesthesia on a floppy diskette and has made it available as free software. It is called "KSAP", which stands for "Knowledge Source for Anesthesia Practice". He aims to create a new form of textbook that is appropriate for current technology. This is proposal is intended as sample in trial form. The advantages of this format are easy storage and easy use on personal computers, excellent portability and search ability, facilitation of revisions, and easy distribution. The amount of information in this text is slightly more than one megabyte. The entire book consists of approximately 500 text files, all of which were written by this author. All that is required to use this textbook is an MS-DOS computer and software which reads ASCII text files. Individual files are all simple text files.
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