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Just from a quick google search - here's what it looks like :

Here's another link - maybe you could contact this guy directly ?

Check with an on line library.

I have a decent collection of dino related patterns, toys, a clock, and more. How do you want me to share? I am best reached at bloomdd at sbcglobal dot n**

It looks like they are available at

Get access to Usenet. Yes, it still exists. Access alt.binaries.e-book.magazines. Search headers for "wood" or "woodworker" (or whatever you want).

You can locate/download lots of woodworker magazines including the one you're looking for. There's usually in pdf format. I didn't check them all but it has Woodworker's Journal going back at least to the

It took me less than five minutes to find and download Woodworker's Journal September-October 1994. It's a 22MB file, too big for me to upload. It has the article "Dino Habitat" including templates.

Yikes almost 54 million headers ... .. lets see how long it takes .. John T.

Thanks for the tip on that group. What newsreader do you use ? that searches the headers ? I tried downloading the nearly 54 million headers but it was taking too long - after about 90 minutes I think I had about half of them. And sorting that many in Forte Agent was a bit slow .. I did see some Woodworkers Journal but they were from 2013 - 2016 ish ; nothing back to 1994. John T.

This is long but it provides all the basic information anyone should need to use Usenet binary newsgroups.

I use XNews,

It's pretty basic. It may be old, but it works fine for me on my 64 bit Windows 10 system. Getting started (for people unfamiliar with usenet):

1. Subscribe to a usenet server. I use Usennet News,
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   because it has binary newsgroups and long retention times. But use your favorite one. It will need to provide access to binary newsgroups, and the longer the retention time the better.
2. Download a news reader. Again, I use XNews but there are others.

1. Configure your news reader to access your usenet server.

2. Use your news reader to download the entire newsgroup list. There will be over 100,000 newsgroups but most of them are empty or "dead".

1. Subscribe to the newsgroups you want to use regularly. For me, that's a manageable 60 or so, mostly music and ebooks. (alt.binaries.sounds.mpe.whatever and alt.binaries.ebooks.whatever)

The following is for XNews readers, to download a binary file, other readers may work differently.

1. Double-click on the newgroup you want to work with.
2. From top menu click Group>Refresh Headers Special. This brings up a menu box. There are two slides to select how many messages you want to download. I don't download all the headers on any newsgroup with more than about 3.5 headers. XNews give me an Out of Memory error if I try.
3. If I want to search for a particular message without marking anything as read, which is how I found the Woodworker's Journal, 8(a) Select the action "Retrieve and Include Read Articles" 8(b) Choose "Select Filter", this opens another popup window. 8(c) Type your search term in Subject>Matches box, click "Apply Filter." This closes that popup. 8(d) Set the Header Retrieval sliders to include all headers, then click "Okay". If there are a whole bunch of headers, this may take awhile.
4. You can visually search the resulting header list, or if it's very long, select Filter>Custom Filter, type in a search term and Apply Filter.
5. Look for the subject header you want, single click to select it, click Article>Decode and click Decode button. The file will then download to the default "Download" location you have set in Windows. (You can download it elsewhere if you want).

Once you're set up, this is easier than it sounds. I did steps 6-8 to find the WoodWorker's Journal article in less than half a minute. It took the program about two minutes to download enough headers with "Woodworker" in the subject to find the one wanted, another half a minute for step 9, and another five seconds for step 10.

sorry, that's about 3.5 million headers.

If you're looking for headers using "wood" or "Woodwork" you'll only download a couple of thousand headers, not millions.

I thought that I would need to have the headers before I could search / filter the headers < ? >

John T.

Thanks for the tutorial. I always thought that Forte Agent was the cats ass but I might need to re-think and try X-news .. John T.

You're welcome. Usenet has largely been made obsolete by specialized websites and by social media. But I find it still shines for finding binary book, magazine, and music files.

On Sep 18, 2022, s wrote (in article <XnsAF167442AFEEs@185.151.13.165>):

This particular issue is now posted in:

alt.binaries.e-book.magazines

Joe

Who knew ! Thanks again for the heads-up. I discovered usenet ~ the early 1990s soon after buying my first home computer < Tandy with 386 processor >

but slow dial-up connections for the next 10+ years restricted / limited my use of the binary groups .. .. then the ISPs began to drop binary groups ; then they dropped usenet completely .. then I started to get better faster connection options .. now on fiber :-) .. I broke down and actually _paid_ for usenet about 5 years ago - that $ 15. Astraweb block of bandwidth is still going ! John T.

Oops... in the interest of not inserting my email address, I misspelled it. This is correct: bloomdds at sbcglobal dot ne*

Do be aware that you've provided sufficient information that a google search quickly returns your (five-star!) business address and phone number.

Be careful sharing copyrighted data; my former DDS spent time behind bars for insider trading (using information from a patient).

... just down the street from Hef's place ? :-) John T.

How so? Was he an employee of the assignee?