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From: ddnebert@DSDNQVARSA.ER.USGS.GOV (Douglas D. Nebert x5691)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Subject: USGS stream gauging data
Date: 31 Aug 92 16:25:59 GMT
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>
> > >Does anyone out there know if USGS stream gauging
> > >data is available via anonymous ftp? I'm interested
> > >in data for the western US in particular.
> >
> > You might check the USGS ftp site, at glis.cr.usgs.gov  (192.41.204.54).
>                            ^^^^^^^^
> > GLIS is the global land information system, designed to let users come and
> > browse datasets.  They have some procedure for for searching their
> > inventory, and for ordering data.
>

Streamflow data are massive, depending on the frequency of observation.  The
USGS collects streamflow information with time-step intervals of from 15 minutes
to daily or more randomly-collected frequencies, depending on studies.  The
USGS publishes Data Reports summarizing daily flow at all gaging (yes, that's
how we spell it) stations every year -- the hydrologic year being October to
September.  Each state publishes these annual summaries of daily flows and a
number of them are being made available (recent years) in digital format on an
experimental basis.  A CD-ROM for the 1991 hydrologic year *should* be available
as an Open File Report.  Requests for retrievals at more than a daily frequency
can also be filled for a processing fee.

The National Water Information Clearinghouse was established this past year
within the USGS to handle requests about data and publications availability.
Within the U.S. one may call them directly at 1-800-H2O-9000 (that's H2-oh not
zero...).  For assistance and queries via the Internet contact the following
people with the clearinghouse and publications activities:

Don Bingham, Envtl Affairs (dlbingham@qvarsa.er.usgs.gov)
Trish Riley. Envtl Affairs (periley@qvarsa.er.usgs.gov)
Darwin Alt, Publications   (dfalt@qvarsa.er.usgs.gov)

A private firm called EarthInfo (formerly a USWest division) also sells annual
CD-ROMs of daily flow, peak flows, and other information along with PC software
to retrieve and format the data. (Used to be called HYDRODATA, also sell
temperature and precipitation products under the CLIMATEDATA name)

A note with respect to GLIS:  The Water Resources Division will be preparing
directory references for ordering available water data to put into the GLIS
server to assist in 'data discovery'.  I anticipate these references will be
entered in the fall.
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
From: bmw@ncc.uky.edu (Brian Whiting)
Subject: Advice needed:  Irregular survey (T&R) -->Lat Long
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
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Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:59:19 GMT
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I have some x,y info which is currently in paper form and I am 
thinking of ways to get it into lat-long.  The present xy format
is Township & Range, but irregularly surveyed.  To further
complicate the translation process, the notation regarding location
withing the section is not consistent.  One entry might read

NE 1/4 of NW 1/4 of S3, 1200 ft. from East line and 2000 ft. from N
line

while another may reference the S and W lines.

So, I want to take inconsistently described x,y info into nice
consistent lat long.  Having only a passing acquaintance with
GIS, I would like to hear from you experts whether this is trivial
and easily accomplished with e.g. GRASS or will I be required to
manually spot the locations on a map then digitize them.  Or would
this be doable with the USGS transformation routines (the FTP address
of which I have lost).

Any help with this would be appreciated.

Brian Whiting
Post_doc
Dept of Geological Sciences
U. of Kentucky
bmw@graphsun.cc.uky.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gis
Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 08:29:23 -0400
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From:         hoffmann@URZDFN.KARTOGRAPHIE.TU-DRESDEN.DBP.DE
Subject:      RE: Geologic profile software

Have a look onto RockWare Scientific Software Catalog. They should have
for what you are looking for...
Address: RockWare, 4251 Kipling Str., Suite 595, WHEAT RIDGE, CO-80033, USA

Frank Hoffmann, TUD
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From:         HEUVELMANS@ZEUS.LNV.AGRO.NL
Subject:      RE:COMPARING MAPS
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Bruce Wylie:

>What ways exit to compare two different map coverages?
>I've used r but was wondering what others have used when comparing two
>maps.

What is 'r' ?
What do you want to compare ? The geometric contents of a map coverage, the
thematic information or maybe the accuracy of the data ?

regards,

Jef Heuvelmans


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Cartography Section
Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries
Government Service for Land and Water Use
Po.box 20021, 3502 LA Utrecht
The Netherlands

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From: aistmain@vntic.msk.su (Dispatcher of AIST-EuroAIST-RELCOM Boris I. Tarakanov)
Subject: NEW CIPHER-SYSTEM
Summary: NEW CIPHER-SYSTEM
Keywords: NEW CIPHER-SYSTEM
Reply-To: aistmain@vntic.msk.su
Organization: AIST-VNTIC INFORMATION NETWORK
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 01:14:48 +0300

              New cipher-system

 1. When the original information is euciphered every bit is
    treaded and redundancy of this information is absent
 2. The amount of variants of eucipher may be so much great,
    for example n=10**91
 3. The quantity of encipher operations for 1 bit are <=22,
    but decipher operations are <= 9 for case n=10**91
 4. Ecodered file is deciphered in turn bit from the end  of
    the text.

    This new cipher-system may be  used  for  protection  of
    information  from   unauthorized  access  and  for  data
    communications by communication chanels.

    Relation by electronic mail.



Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: nash@biologysx.lan.nrc.ca (John Nash)
Subject: PCWAIS crashes sometimes.
Organization: National Research Council of Canada
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 14:51:36 GMT

G'day netfolk,

Recently, I picked up the executable version of PC-WAIS from "samba.oit.unc.
edu".  It seemed to install fine, and actually connects to some of the sites 
in the sample *.src files, but crashes with a "Fatal Error: Out of Memory" 
whenever I try to connect to any *.src originating from quake.think.com, 
which is the site I'd really like to connect to, instead of Telnetting to.

The memory on my PC isn't exactly short:  It's a 386-20DX (don't laugh,
there's a recession) with 4 megs, 1 meg configured as EMS (via EMM386.exe), 
the rest XMS.  My conventional memory after the IPX, NET5 and IPXPKT drivers 
etc are installed is 594 336 bytes, so RAM cram shouldn't be a real hassle - 
should it?

Any suggestions, tip, memory-reconfiguration ideas, etc would be most 
welcome.  I have Turbo C++ (and my wife has Borland C++) so hints which 
suggest adding something to the source and re-compiling wouldn't be much of 
a problem, unless MSC-only functions are called.

Thanks in advance.... Please mail or post as I _DO_ read this newsgroup <g>.

cheers, John

John Nash                            | Email: Nash@biologysx.lan.nrc.ca.
National Research Council of Canada  | Mail to "num208jn@mbds.nrc.ca"
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada              |    is forwarded automatically.

Disclaimer:  All opinions are mine, not NRC's!
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: Micky Verma
Subject: Problem with PICT files on MAC
Organization: Bell-Northern Research
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 20:08:25 GMT

Hi There,

I seem to have a problem with PICT files on the MAC side.

I have created a local source on my MACINTOSH which contain
pict files.  I can search for these files using the WAIS for
MAC and it brings back those files which satisfy my search 
criteria, but when I try to look at the file it tries to 
view them as any normal text document (eventhough I had
created the index as a type "pict") and gives the following
error "attempt ot retreive text for bad doc-id".

The files are created from MACDRAW and I would like it to be
viewed through MACDRAW once I open the file for viewing.

Do I have to change something in one of source files?

Any help would be appreciated.

Also would anyone know how to establish some sort of security
using wais.  I have several "SOURCES" on my HP Server, but
I don't want people to have access to all the "SOURCES" only 
those for which they have permission to. (I cannot limit the
SOURCES for which the individual users can and should see.If they try to access
a "SOURCE" for which they are not authorized,
I would like some sort of security to stop them from doing so.


Thanks for any help,
Micky Verma

You can respond via the newsgroup or email me at
riskit@x400gate.bnr.ca
From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: Re: Need Help With Waissearch
Date: 31 Aug 1992 05:22:04 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: gandalf.think.com

In article <95gndqa.westes@netcom.com> westes@netcom.com (Will Estes) writes:
>	waissearch -h think.quake.com -p 210 -d directory-of-servers "poetry"
>gets this error message:
>	Connect to socket did not work (1): Host is unreachable

This is a networking problem.  Can you "ping quake.think.com" or "telnet
quake.think.com"?

-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
From: row@bnr.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: Questions regarding the setting up of a WAIS system
Date: 4 Sep 92 12:58:51 GMT
Reply-To: row@bnr.co.uk ()
Organization: BNR Europe Limited, London Road, Harlow, Essex, GB

Hello,

I am in the process of trying to setup a experimental WAIS system
for evaluation purposes and have a number of questions that I hope
someone will be able to help me with. 

I am compiling and running under SunOS version 4.1.1 on an Sparcstation
IPX running OpenWindows version 3. I am also using a Machintosh SE/30
running System 7 (I think ?). The WAIS server is running on the SUN
and I am using a TCP/IP connection to accesses it remotely from another
Sun and a Machintosh (and it all seems to work).

1) Are there any updates for WAIS to enable it to support Frame Maker
   documents ? 

1a) What other document types are going to be supported in the 
    near future ?

2) Does WAIS support compressed files, ie. automatically uncompress them
   when building the indexes and when viewing them ? 

3) Is there a bug list ? I have found several, if any one wants a brief
   description of them then email me.

4) Are there any updates on the Machintosh WAIS station (0.6.2) to enable
   viewing of Gif files ?

5) If I try and view a postscript document on a Mac, it "downloads" the
   file and then does nothing, repeating this a few time causes an
   "OS Error" and the machine hangs, stopping the program and then
   trying to re-load it causes a 'Bus Error' and the system has to
   be restarted ! What am I doing wrong ?

6) Is there any kind of support for viewing PostScript files from
   Xwais using either GhostScript or PageView on a SUN ?


Thanks for your help,

Reuben O. Wells	- BNR Europe Ltd - (+44) 279 403704
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From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais,alt.wais
Subject: Anyone Ported Windows WAIS To Netmanage TCP?
Date: 28 Aug 92 05:43:46 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Mail Group

If anyone has ported the Windows WAIS client at ftp.oit.unc.edu to 
work with the Netmanage TCP/IP stack, please contact me by mail.

-- 
Will Estes		Internet: westes@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: savage@ransom.msc.cornell.edu (Daniel Svitavsky)
Subject: Which WAIS for RS/6000?
Followup-To: savage@msc.cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell Materials Science Center
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:54:37 GMT


   I would like to know whether anyone has wais-8-b5 working on an
RS/6000 under AIX 3.2, and if so, how was it built. I have found
several people who tried but failed to build or run this version. If
another version of the WAIS package is recommended, I would like to
hear that as well.


                                                   Thanks,
                                                   Daniel Svitavsky

     -----------------------------------------------------------
            Daniel E. Svitavsky          savage@msc.cornell.edu
      Cornell Materials Science Center   savage@crnlmsc2.bitnet
                Ithaca, NY                   (607) 255-2067
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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Re: Need Help With Waissearch
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 03:40:35 GMT
Organization: Mail Group

westes@netcom.com (Will Estes) writes:

>I compiled wais-8-b5 on one Sun system and moved it to another Sun
>system.  The first system has a firewall, so I couldn't test any remote
>connections.  On the second system, running this command:
>	waissearch -h think.quake.com -p 210 -d directory-of-servers "poetry"
>gets this error message:
>	Connect to socket did not work (1): Host is unreachable

>What is the source of that error message?  Is it possible that I need to
>recompile on the second system in order to access some library at
>run-time?

Sorry for the typo...I meant to type quake.think.com, not
think.quake.com. 

I get the same error message that I describe above when I type
quake.think.com.

Thanks,
Will Estes		Internet: westes@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: re: database files
From: Michel Davidoff
Date: 31 Aug 92 11:31:51 PDT


Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: warnock@Hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov (Archie Warnock)
Subject: swais mods (b5)
Keywords: swais, curses
Organization: Hughes STX
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 18:35:48 GMT

We've been playing with the WAIS clients (swais and xwais) in order to
try and put together a nice client distribution package for a group of
our users who need access to a couple of local databases.  In the
process, we noticed a couple of problems in swais when displaying
documents.

swais wants to pipe documents out to a pager (e.g., more) for display,
but this doesn't seem to work all that well, at least on our system.
For one thing, the last page of the document doesn't display because the
pipe to more doesn't pause at the end of the document before returning
to the calling program swais (which then pauses with an empty screen).
In addition, when you try to view more than a single document, the line
delimiters in the document seem to get lost and the text just wraps
around on the screen (apparently, spawning out from the
curses-controlled swais interface to a non-curses-based pager leaves the
terminal in some odd state).

What I've done added a routine to display a document to the screen under
the same curses control as the rest of swais.  The piping for saving and
mailing documents was left intact.  In order to accomplish this, I had
to make changes to three routines - screen-ui.c, wais-ui.c and waisq.c.

Now, the question is, what do I do with the changes?  Is anyone else
having the same sort of display problems?  If so, I can post the files
or associated diffs (with a disclaimer - see below).  Is this the sort
of fix that ought to be incorporated into the general distribution?  How
'bout some feedback here?

My hedge about the diffs is that I've also incorporated a couple of the
patches posted here into screen-ui.c - in particular, the recent cursor
key patches to make the left and right arrow keys move by pages through
the list of sources or documents, so any diffs I generate from the basic
b5 release will incorporate those, too.  Any advice?

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Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Problems Connecting To WAIS Servers
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 23:16:22 GMT
Organization: Mail Group

I'm trying to run xwais from the b5 distribution and am always failing
to connect to the server.  My xclient is running on a UNIX machine that
sits behind a firewall.  Our firewall - a PPP daemon written by
Morningstar Technologies - allows us to ftp and telnet out, but no one
can initiate a TCP connection from the outside of the company coming in.

Given my description, is it the firewall that is responsible for the
WAIS connection problems I am having?  I can run xarchie on this same
system just fine.  Does xwais use UDP instead of TCP?  Maybe this is the
source of the failure, as the UDP packets from the outside are getting
filtered out.  Is there a way when building xwais to force it to use TCP
instead?  As long as xwais is initiating a TCP connection to the outside
I am probably okay.  Any help is greatly appreciated.  Thanks!

Will Estes		Internet: westes@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: warnock@Hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov (Archie Warnock)
Subject: Returning "standard" documents
Keywords: required documents, copyright
Reply-To: warnock@hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov
Organization: Hughes STX at Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:06:01 GMT

I notice that the weather server has some files that always seem to get
sent back in response to a query, but I don't know if that's just
because of the form of the question I send, or if there's some mechanism
for making sure they _always_ get sent back.

Is there some existing way within WAIS to force a server to always
return one (or more) mandatory documents in response to a search?  For
example, I might want to always return some sort of format documentation
with data files, or I might want to always return a message containing a
copyright notice along with the other documents.

What we have in mind for this is, in fact, a copyright notice.  We are
in the process of building a database out of a collection of text files.
The collection is going to be freely available, but is copyrighted and
we need to return the copyright statement as a separate document in
response to _every_ query (relax... it'll be short :-).  Is there some
mechanism already in the WAIS code for doing this, or is this something
that will require a bit of development?

If there's no such capability already present, we're willing to do it,
but I figured this was a pretty good place to initiate a discussion on
how it ought to be done before running off and playing "Lone
Programmer". 

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-- NASA/GSFC
From: riddle@is.rice.edu (Prentiss Riddle)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: Re: Sun's search-it
Date: 28 Aug 1992 20:43:41 GMT
Organization: Ministry of Information, William's Marsh

In article <BtpBrr.8yC@rivm.nl> ron@rivm.nl writes:
> Did you happen to see the announcement for SUN (tm)'s Search-it. Sounds like
> wais. Anyone who knows more details?

I thought it sounded like WAIS, too, until I noticed that it requires
access to a common NFS space to work.  It's really more or less a local
area info server, not a wide area info server.

It does have proximity searches, though.  I hope some Search-It users
will step forward and give a report.

-- Prentiss Riddle ("aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada") riddle@rice.edu
-- Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer.
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
From: warnock@Hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov (Archie Warnock)
Subject: Re: swais mods (b5)
Keywords: swais, curses
Reply-To: warnock@hypatia.gsfc.nasa.gov
Organization: Hughes STX at Goddard Space Flight Center
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 19:13:58 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.142211.29368@orbital.demon.co.uk>, steveh@orbital.demon.co.uk (Stephen Hebditch) writes:
|> The biggest is that it tries to initialise curses more than once in the
|> program, which results in the 'shell' state of the terminal being lost.
|> This causes the problem you mention about trying to view more than a
|> single document and means you have to reset the terminal with stty when
|> you quit the program.
|> 
|> It also makes the bad assumption that the screen contents will remain
|> once you quit the pager and re-enter the curses environment so it can
|> just display a message using curses asking you to press a key. This also
|> doesn't work as you mentioned - I ended up forcing less to be the pager
|> and axing all the waiting for a key code as the quickest solution.
|> There's also a few other 'oddities' in the code...

Exactly.  As I said, I have a corrected version, based on Curran's v1.11
(I think v1.8 is what comes with the B5 distribution).  So far, so good
with our testing.  I just replaced the call to the pager with a routine
to display under curses control - added the new routine to screen-ui.c
and made appropriate changes to the retrieval routine in wais-ui.c and
the menu routine in screen-ui.c.  I sent mail to Curran yesterday to see
if he might be interested in incorporating the fix.

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