crum@lipari.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) (11/02/88)
To: bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells), and users of map archive Subject: submission to comp.archives Please read my comments following the entry. The archive was formerly on tethys.usc.edu, and before that on wasatch.utah.edu. I bought a cute little 80M drive ($500) for things like the archive, so it will probably be stable for at least 4 years now. If my solid modeling lab gets a NeXT computer as I expect, space will not be a problem. I could keep the archive on 256M optical platters (not always available), and service requests on demand. For the price I paid for the 80M drive the archive could be (500/50)*(256M) = over 2.5G bytes in capacity, but offline (and much easier to maintain than magnetic tapes because of access time). @ADD SITE NM panarea.usc.edu EN crum@cse.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) Tue Nov 1 19:42:40 PST 1988 AD crum@cse.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) MA CS Dept SAL-200; University of Southern California; LA, CA 90089-0782 CO ftp;ftp;panarea.usc.edu;128.125.3.54;/pub/map DE DE Archive for "maps." DE DE Intended for geographic information, started with Digital Elevation Model DE (terrain) data from USGS. Maps in other formats and even remotely related DE models of geometrical objects are welcome. DE @END [I made one slight changes: I added a blank line after the add entry. The format has a blank line so that things like sed can terminate on that line instead of having to go through hoops to preserve the control line of the next entry. tww] To the comp.archives administrator: Please keep it simple -- at least allow a short (casual) form of archive registration for FTP sites. Host name, maintainer, one line description of contents, and approximate disk space available might be enough. I think that for an index of archives, the number of sites is more important that the detail of description. Here is the contents of the README file I put in the archive: --- Map Archive README file written Tue Nov 1 19:42:40 PST 1988 by crum@panarea.usc.edu An Internet archive for maps of geographic-scale maps has been set up, starting with data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) National Cartographic Information Center (NCIC), specifically a map of terrain in USGS Digital Elevation Model (DEM) format. The archive is on host panarea.usc.edu [128.125.3.54], in anonymous FTP directory pub/map. Gary Crum <crum@cse.usc.edu> is maintainer. The pub/map directory is writeable by anonymous ftp. Approximately 50M bytes are available for the map archive as of this writing. Send mail to the maintainer, crum@cse.usc.edu, to update the INDEX file. A convention is that formats be described in README-format files. --- Gary
bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells) (11/04/88)
In article <8811020443.AA07112@lipari.usc.edu> crum@lipari.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) writes:
: To the comp.archives administrator: Please keep it simple -- at least
: allow a short (casual) form of archive registration for FTP sites.
As far as I am concerned, only the site registration is necessary.
Your registration is just fine. Particularly when the site
specializes as you do. In that case, a description of what you
specialize in, in the DE lines, is all that is needed in order
to make your information useful.
However, I'd not like less than what you provided, as that would make
life more difficult for the person trying to see what you have and
how to get it.
: I think that for an index of archives,
: the number of sites is more important that the detail of description.
You are right, so long as there is enough information that the
database is useful.
: The pub/map directory is writeable by anonymous ftp.
Isn't that dangerous?
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Bill
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