wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes) (08/10/90)
Archive-name: galaxy-database/07-Aug-90
Original-posting-by: wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes)
Original-subject: ftp site found for galaxy database
Archive-site: fed.expres.cs.cmu.edu [128.2.209.58]
Archive-directory: /space/data
Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
Holy cow. I didn't think there'd be such a huge response. I got no
less than 8 offers for an ftp site, and nearly as many requests for
the source code to my galaxy "flight simulator". It shouldn't be
all that difficult to port to other systems really, as far as I remember
all the mouse and graphic plot stuff was confined to a relatively small
portion of one of the files (although opening the window and setting up
message queues was non-trivial...)
Anyway, here's the site: fed.expres.cs.cmu.edu, 128.2.209.58, in
the file space/data/galaxy[.Z]. I'll send in the source code to the flight
sim within 48 hours (Gotta find it first, and pretty it up with at least my
name!)
I should also mention that the program and data should only be used
for not-for-profit purposes. In other words, don't take the data and
sell it or use it in a commercial program without first contacting John
Huchra at harvard.
--
"The number of programs that can be done with the Hubble Space Telescope has
always greatly exceeded the time available for their execution, and this
remains true even with the telescope in its current state." -- HST Science
Working Group and User's Commitee Report, 1990 June 29.
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