From: chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (chris williams)
Subject: FTP site for object files (was: Re: Enterprise DXF file....?)
Organization: FCIA Univ. of Chicago
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 09:59:00 GMT

>MCNAMARAD@VSCNET.BITNET writes:
>
>>         Does anyone know where this file can be put so that everyone can
>> have access to it (rather than me mailing it to everyone)?
>> 
>> Dennis
>> (mcnamarad@vscnet.bitnet)


     There is a site for 3D object files, DXF included: 

   Here is the post that announced it. 

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From: dejesus@archimedes.nwc.navy.mil (Francisco X DeJesus)
Subject: FTP Site for 3D objects now OPEN!
Organization: Science Applications International Corp.
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 23:21:15 GMT

Ok... it's set up and ready to go! The address to go to is:

avalon.chinalake.navy.mil   (129.131.31.11)

There won't be much on it to start with (we've put all our local stuff
plus what I was able to find thru the usual ftp/archie searches).
Anything
you have to offer, please upload. I'm sure everyone will appreciate it!

Below is the README file from the archive:
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This is the README file for the anonymous ftp server
avalon.chinalake.navy.mil
We are running the experimental ftp server software developed by Chris
Myers.

This ftp site was created to be a 3D object "repository" for the net. We
archive 3D object files in various formats, utilities to convert between
the different formats (among other things), and documents explaining the
file formats for those daring enough to write their own converters
(which
we hope they will share with everyone else by uploading them here). This
site was created because there was a need and demand for a centralized
place to get objects. We do not carry PD renderers because those are
already archived elsewhere. See the file
pub/FAQs/graphics-resource-listing
for more information on where to find them.

We are running this server on an overworked Sun SparcStation. People
need
to use this machine M-F from about 7am to 6pm (PST), so if you can,
please
limit big transfers to times outside this schedule. 

Everything is in /pub. Directories there include:

        pub/FAQs          FAQ documents from the comp.graphics
newsgroups
        pub/format_specs  Documents that explain the different 3D object
                         file formats available.
        pub/incoming      Directory for incoming stuff. See below.
        pub/misc          Anything that doesn't belong anyplace else.
        pub/objects       3D object files. Subdirectories exist for
                          different formats.
        pub/utils         Any utilities that help manipulate, view or
                          convert between the different object formats.

The pub/incoming directory is where you can put any new stuff you wish
to
add to the archive. We check this directory for new files, sort them
out,
and put them away in the other directories on a regular basis. This
archive
is what only as good as what people upload, so if you know of something
you
think we should have here, go ahead and upload it!

The file pub/INDEX is a listing of the archive directories. For now it
will
just be in "ls -lR" format, but we hope to include descriptions in there
sometime in the near future.

Please refer all questions/problems/suggestions and comments regarding
this
archive via email to: ftpadmin@avalon.chinalake.navy.mil. Thanks.
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    ...sorry about the formatting. Well, anyway it's there, and the best
way to make sure that the object you want is there when you want it is
to follow the Golden Rule. Scatter your DXFs on the FTP site, and they
will return to you a thousandfold...(...or something like that...)

                             Chris Williams
                                chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu

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