Re: CONGRATULATIONS

[wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Bob Wier)]

>Congratulations to Photo-3D for reaching digest # 1200! Does that mean that
>there are actually that many digests on the archives? Would one of you old

deleted...

>
>Shab Levy, Portland, Oregon, USA

Thanks!

The answer is, well, yes and no...

There are files from day #1, but we added the "digest archive" format
about a year ago. So there are really three sets of data - the original
format consisted of periodic dumps of saved messages - as you can see
below, these are *big* files. Later on, there are monthly compilations
of messages in a more manageable size (continuing up until now). Starting
with digest #700 or so there are the individual digest issues available.
Note that the files ending with .Z are in compressed format, so you'll
have to have access to a UNIX style uncompress program in order to 
read them. The .Z files must be transferred in binary format, whereas
the others are ASCII text.

So you can take your choice. 

Here is what is available in the ftp area (note that this is not 
in the digest archives area...) 

pub/photo/photo-3d/archives

-rwxr--r--   1 server   system    501655 Oct 12 15:18 archive_930309.txt.Z
-rwxr--r--   1 server   system    768857 Oct 12 15:19 archive_930730.txt.Z
-rwxr--r--   1 server   system   1120837 Oct 12 15:19 archive_940121.txt.Z
-rwxr--r--   1 server   system   2423485 Oct 12 15:19 archive_941019.txt.Z
-rwxr--r--   1 server   system    632472 Feb 28 19:54 archive_9412
-rwxr--r--   1 server   system    409586 Feb 28 19:54 archive_9501
-rwxr--r--   1 server   system     35964 Feb 28 19:54 archive_9503
-rwxr--r--   1 server   system   1171857 Feb 28 19:54 archive_9504
-rwxr--r--   1 server   system   1541623 Feb 28 19:54 archive_9505
-rwxr--r--   1 server   system    675758 Feb 28 19:54 archive_9506
-rwxr--r--   1 server   system    818011 Feb 28 19:54 archive_9507
-rwxr--r--   1 server   system    824326 Feb 28 19:54 archive_9508
-rwxr--r--   1 server   system    938788 Feb 28 19:54 archive_9509
-rwxr--r--   1 server   system    897694 Feb 28 19:54 archive_9510
-rwxr--r--   1 server   system   1055338 Feb 28 19:54 archive_9511
-rwxr--r--   1 server   system    885028 Feb 28 19:54 archive_9512
-rwxr--r--   1 server   system   1477001 Feb 28 19:54 archive_9601
-rwxr--r--   1 server   system   1093091 Feb 28 19:54 archive_9602

Maybe some day we can break these up into a format more similar to what
is being used now (or find somebody to write a program to do it!).

THANKS

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