sac@apple.com (Steve Cisler) (06/29/90)
Archive-name: supreme-court/28-Jun-90
Original-posting-by: Steve Cisler <sac@apple.com>
Original-subject: Supreme Court docs online at Case Western Reserve U.
Archive-site: ftp.cwru.edu [129.22.8.43]
Archive-directory: hermes/ascii
Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
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Here is some information about Project Hermes. This, an index, and
the opinions are available for Internet members at FTP.CWRU.EDU.
Please report back how you make these files available to your
library users.
Steve Cisler, Apple Library
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Thank you for your interest in Project Hermes and in receiving U. S.
Supreme Court opinions electronically.
The U.S. Supreme Court opinions are immediately available from Case
Western Reserve University via "anonymous" ftp over the Internet from
host "FTP.CWRU.Edu". The files relating to the opinions are located
in the directory "hermes".
This directory contains several readme files and two subdirectories:
ascii and atex. The "atex" subdirectory contains the files as
directly received from the U.S. Supreme Court in the Atex 8000
Document Processing and Typesetting system format. These files
contain 8-bit typesetting codes and are extremely difficult to read on
a typical display. Those wishing to copy the Atex files should make
sure that they set "image" mode in FTP.
The "ascii" subdirectory contains the same files as processed by a
locally developed filtering program designed to remove the typesetting
codes while retaining as much of the "look" of the document as
possible. These files are in plain ASCII text.
Each opinion consists of an optional syllabus, the opinion and
optionally concurring and dissenting opinions. Each is contained in a
separate file. A syllabus is associated with most of the opinions and
summarizes the ruling. The files are named as they are received from
the Court. Filtered files have the extension ".filt" appended to the
end of the name.
The filter program, which removes the typesetting codes, moves
footnotes to the end of the document separated with a dashed line.
Footnote references are enclosed in curly brackets "{ }". Users are
also warned that most of the features of the typeset document, such as
bolding, italicizing, use of fonts, and other similar characteristics
are lost in the translation to ASCII. The resulting filtered
documents, however, are quite readable on most displays.
In the near future: we plan wider availability of opinions via BITNET,
UUNET plans on making available a Unix news group which will report
the U. S. Supreme Court opinions, and we plan to make available a
notification service which will notify users when new court opinions
have been released. Look for more information about these services
soon.
Please report any problems to the id "aa584@po.cwru.edu".