kline@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Charley Kline) (02/22/91)
Archive-name: graphics/maps/wxmap/0-- Archive: uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:/pub/wxmap-1.10.tar.Z [128.174.5.50] Original-posting-by: kline@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Charley Kline) Original-subject: wxmap patch Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) I know this is probably not the appropriate newsgroup, but this is where it got announced (by someone else), so this is where I'll make this announcement. I guess the cat is out of the bag now; since Monday 102 sites have FTP'd wxmap from uxc, and I've gotten a considerable number of bug reports from people. Thank you all. I believe I've fixed the problems everyone has pointed out; the result is wxmap patchlevel 10; available again by anonymous FTP or by just applying the patch below. Please spread the word around so I don't have to hear about strncasecmp anymore. I should also point out that there are unanswered data licensing questions regarding in what forms I am allowed to distribute the incoming data from the supplier. I certainly don't want to get the University of Illinois in any legal trouble, so if I get told that I have to disable some (or all) of the information available to wxmap from the server, I of course will. In that case, I will make the server code available and tell people who to contact to buy their own downlinks. I'm also looking into creating a wxmap discussion list; if I do, I hope rec.aviation readers will bear with one more posting from me in the future announcing its existence; then I promise to shut up on the subject here. I kind of got caught with my pants down with this; I never intended this to be more than a toy for some folks here in my department to play with on their workstations. I'm pleased that it has been greeted so warmly by the net, but I will be scrambling for a bit to get it into "supported code" state. Thanks again for the kind words. Below is the patch. ________________________________________________________________________ Charley Kline, KB9FFK, PP-ASEL c-kline@uiuc.edu University of Illinois Computing Services Packet: kb9ffk@w9yh 1304 W. Springfield Ave, Urbana IL 61801 (217) 333-3339 [325 line patch deleted. --Ed]