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Date:         Sun, 20 Dec 1992 22:39:36 -0500
From:         ERIC B PYLE <epyle@TITAN.UCC.UMASS.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Convert files from PC ARC/INFO to SUN ARC/INFO or vice versa

>
> Hi Gentleman :
>
> Is there any program or command in ARC/INFO to convert files of PC ARC/INFO
> to SUN ARC/INFO or from SUN to PC.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> A. Muqtadir
> Image Processing Center,
> Research Institute, KFUPM,
> Dhahran. K.S.A.
>
Yes. Simply export from one system (.e00 file) and import to the other.

Eric Pyle
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Date:         Mon, 14 Dec 1992 11:45:00 GMT+0200
From:         KUFONIYI@ITC.NL
Subject:      Re: voronoi tessellation

Hello Scott,

I would like to have an advanced copy of your paper please.

Jide Kufoniyi,
Dept of Geoinformatics,
ITC, P.O. Box 6,
7500 AA Enschede,
The Netherlands.
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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 09:25:57 EST
From:         Bill Hargrove <hnw@MTQGRASS.ESD.ORNL.GOV>
Subject:      RE: sun angle and azimuth

Charlie et. al:

     With some help from the net and EOSAT, I have been able to read the
correct sun angle and azimuth from the header file on the tape.  The sun
over Yellowstone on Aug. 2, 1989 at 17:40 GMT was at 54 degrees above the
local horizon, at an azimuth of 131 degrees east of north.  The approximate
center of the image is LAT N 44 19 43, and LON W 111 16 13.
     I think that 17:40 GMT is 11:40 daylight-savings mountain time - did I
do that right?
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From: hackenbe@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Rudi Hackenberg)
Subject: Automatic Map Generating
Originator: hackenbe@sunbode9.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 13:12:40 GMT



Hi there,

I am after Information concerning computer aided map
gerneration in the field of town/community maps, gas-
water pipe networks and such, with respect to utility
service companies. In particular I would like to know:
* current commercially applied computer support
  HW (PC,Mainframes, Workstations...)
  SW (Tools, Features,Packages, Handling Procedures...)
  SW-Compatibility/Standards (Combining different Files)
* Image Overlay Techniques, like mapping a (sub-) network
  of waterpipes onto a large grain (sub-) town map.
* Experiences in using such SW/HW
* Future Directions
* Pointers to places/people dealing with that kind of stuff and
  would like to talk to me
  (email, ftp-sites, phone#, Fax#...)

Towns in the order of approx. 100K people would be the
focus and it wouldn't matter if I get information from 
U.S. of Europe. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Bye,

R. Hackenberg


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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 13:21:36 PST
From:         Wenyao Li <esri!eclipse!wenyao@UUNET.UU.NET>
Subject:      RE: running INFO from menu interface

> For example, I want to select 100 points in a 1000-point coverage, and
> change their "code" item in the pat file to be half of what it was
> for each of the point; then select another 100 points, and change
> their "code" item into 1/10 of the old values.
>
> Such an operation can be done in INFO by [select] and [calc], but I won't
> be able to see the selected points graphically in the coverage.
> Yet if I do it from ARCEDIT, using [forms] or [cursor], I can only change
> the record of one point at a time, which is not feasible in this case
> for obvious reasons.
> Thank again for your attention and all the kind helps.

Try CALCULATE command in ARCEDIT.

Wenyao Li
wli@esri.com
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From:         Charles Hendricksen <veritas@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject:      RE: sun angle and azimuth

On Wed, 16 Dec 1992 norman@OCTOPUS.WR.USGS.GOV wrote:

> >  Hello Netters:
>
> >       If I have a TM image of Yellowstone Nat'l Park made at 17:40 Greenwich
> >  time on August 2, 1989, how can I calculate the sun's altitude and azimuth?
> >  I want to split the image into well-lighted and shaded areas in order to
> >  get a better image classification of burn severity.  I know the center of
> >  the image, and that it was made at 11:40 AM local time (I think).
> >       Can anyone point me in the right direction (grin)?
> >                                     Thanks,
>
>
> Bill,
>
> I have a shareware program called MacAstro that plots out the location of
> stars and planets in the sky as seen from a given location, day, and time.
> I plugged in a latitude of 44 30'N, a longitude of 110 30'W, a date of
> 8/2/89, and a time of 11:40.  The answer it spit out for the suns location
> was Azimuth = 269 19.02' and Altitude = 24 59.40'.  Does that sound about
> right?
>
> Norman Maher
> U.S. Geological Survey
> Branch of Pacific Marine Geology
> norman@octopus.wr.usgs.gov

Of the top of my head it looks like MacAstro needs to be reeducated.  The
time is almost noon so the azimuth should be almost due south, say 175d.
The date is before the equinox so the sun should be higher than 90-latitude
say 48d.  I guess local time means Mountain Daylight Time so that would
make the azimuth 15d further east (160d) and a bit lower (46d).  Who has
the right numbers?
                         Charlie Hendricksen  veritas@u.washington.edu
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Date:         Wed, 16 Dec 1992 08:59:20 LCL
From:         "C.Hobson" <TR1CAH@PRIMEA.SHEFFIELD.AC.UK>
Subject:      GIS video

You may be interested in the Regional Research Laboratories (RRL) video.
The RRLs are based at ten different UK universities and were commissioned
by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).  The objective was to
establish regional centres of excellence in the fields of data handling,
database management, spatial analysis, software development, training and
advice.  Although the main funding phase has now ended, the RRLs are very
much alive and kicking and continue to do excellent GIS work.

The video is free of charge, but I do not know the rates for postage and
packing, etc.  Please send an email to:

     esrc@a.prime.esrc.ac.uk

and mark it for the attention of Cally Haigh in the Information Division.
Alternatively you can fax her on

     +44 793 413001

The video is called 'Mapping the Future'.  It includes items on transport
planning, emergency planning, census data analysis, 3-D digital terrain
mapping, etc, etc.  The brochure says the "..video explains in clear and
simple terms the principles of GIS, gives detailed examples of four case
studies and visits three RRLs to show their facilities and their work.
Above all it shows how GIS can work for you".
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This is test message only in spite of MHS black-out... at my personal host.

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Date:         Fri, 11 Dec 1992 14:03:40 -0500
From:         Fuxiang Xia <ESRIXIA@UBVMS.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Voronoi Tessalation GIS

>
>p.s., I am in the process of writing a paper (destination unknown) that
>evaluates and compares several spherical spatial interpolation methods,
>so if anyone would like an advance copy, just let me know
>

Hi, Scott,

 I would like to have an advanced copy of your paper.

Thank you very much


Frank Xia
NCGIA-Buffalo
Department of Geography
SUNY at Buffalo
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Date:         Thu, 17 Dec 1992 14:16:21 EST
From:         Niall Johnson u <john7552@MACH1.WLU.CA>
Subject:      PD boundary files

Recently someone mentioned the EpiMap program from the Centers for Disease
Contol/WHO.

I contacted Andrew Dean there and he replied

        "EpiMap is coming out soon. USD will notify Epi Info users"

Furthermore he asked if I have "any public domain boundary files of Canada,
Asia or Europe that we could distribute with it?"

Well, I don't. But I thought that if anyone knows of any available files
they could let me (or Andrew) know.

The snail mail address for CDC is:
        Dr. Andrew G. Dean,
        EPO,
        MS G34,
        Centers for Disease Control,
        Atlanta, Ga.
        USA     30333.

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Ciao

Niall Johnson,
Dept. of Geography,
Wilfrid Laurier University.
     john7552@mach1.wlu.ca
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Date:         Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:31:23 GMT
From:         Michael.Blakemore@DURHAM.AC.UK
Subject:      Versatec Colour Fill

We are configuring a Versatec Electrostatic, and must be going
through the same process as many of you must have done already.

Given the standard 256 colours on the pallette (with all the caveats
that they are not guarranteed at all since variations in toner,
humidity, paper ... and presumably the plotter also is sensitive
to seasons, the coriolis effect, the position of the planet Zarg
in relation to the sanity level of the British government etc.), what
are the optimum groupings of 5 colours.

At this point I will probably cause a complex debate about a
multitude of different Versatec pallettes, and if really unlucky
will also stimulate a debate on the need for colour standards, not
to say the need to standardis(z)e on the spelling of color.

Maybe the colurs are best defined in terms of hue/saturation etc. I
just wonder how many mapping systems are just calling colours 1-5
because that is the easiest.

And just to be peverse, the colours (5 or 6 please for boring
thematic maps) need to be considered in terms of message. Lowest
to highest values can be bad to good, or vice versa. PLEASE NOTE...
I am not interested in a side debate on class intervals. We have Ian
Evans in Durham and he can talk the hindquarters off a donkey about
class intervals.

Perhaps there is a classic reference on this which I have forgotten
to look at?

.. and, yes, we do need to be aware of classic traps of colour
blindness.

Thanks, Mike

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Date:         Fri, 11 Dec 1992 17:02:00 EST
From:         PLF@NCCIBM1.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Looking for Miss. River data

HI

> I'm looking for a source of digital data for the Mississippi River from
> its mouth to around Ohio or so.  I would like lat/long coordinates for
> the banks, islands and channels if possible.
>
> Does anyone know of a source (commercial or ftp'able) for this data set?
> I know about the USGS DLG files, but I'd like other sources if they exist. Doe
> the Army Corps of Engineers maintain data like this?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> - Bill Thoen
>   bthoen@csn.org
>
> --
> _   /|     Bill Thoen
> \'o.O'     bthoen@csn.org
> =(___)=
>    U

The river reach file 3  is completed for many areas.
If you need more info please contact me at PLF@NCCIBM1.

I do not know of theavailablitiy at this time but it is
another source.
From: rjm@vulcan.anu.edu.au (Robert J. McArthur)
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Subject: extract/guru/lexical relations
Date: 14 Dec 1992 00:07:51 GMT
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by Y.Maarek and F.Smadja
in SIGIR 89

Can anyone help with online references to the programs Guru and
Extract, or even better, the sources?

Robert McArthur


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From: jpowell@borg.lib.vt.edu (James Powell)
Subject: internet information maintainers - job descriptions
Keywords: internet resources, job descriptions
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 20:37:53 GMT

I wonder if anyone has done a survey of the job titles, descriptions and  
pay scales for people who install and maintain WAIS, gopher, WWW and other  
Internet network information services?  If so, I'd be greatful for a copy,  
if not I could summarize replies if there is interest.  Thanks.

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From: jonathan@philo.think.com (Jonathan Goldman)
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Subject: Re: getting .src documents
Date: 15 Dec 92 12:28:47
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In-reply-to: jcurran@nic.near.net's message of 6 Dec 1992 23:44:47 -0500

In article <1fukrvINNm78@nic.near.net> jcurran@nic.near.net (John Curran) writes:

   From: jcurran@nic.near.net (John Curran)
   Date: 6 Dec 1992 23:44:47 -0500

   In article <1992Dec3.212001.12267@pony.Ingres.COM> sid@Ingres.COM (Sid Shapiro) writes:
   >Hi folks,
   >
   > However, is there s convenient way of getting lots of
   >.src files without having to go through another wais server?  Like is
   >there an ftp archive of .src files?

   Unless the world has changed, there should be a tar file of all of the
   source files in the directory-of-servers available on quake.think.com in
   the wais subdirectory.  

The world hasn't changed:  the wais source archive is available on
quake.think.com, as well as on think.com (same directory, same file).
Please use think.com: it has a T1 line, and quake has but a 56Kb line.
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From: willem@sparc-1.law.columbia.edu (System Admin)
Subject: Re: MEDLINE via WAIS (questions)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 20:12:31 GMT

In article <dgaraffa-181292092635@bigmac.mskcc.org>, dgaraffa@bigmac.mskcc.org (Dave Garaffa) writes:
|> Hello all...
|> 
|> I work for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and would like to build a
|> WAIS database from MEDLINE and have a few questions:
|> 
|> 1] has anyone done this? (how well is the service liked/used?

Reply> We are in the process of doing so.  We have no experience yet how well
       it will be liked.

|> 2] what is the best way to obtain the data (cost of data)
|>    and how often is it updated (from NLM/MEDLARS)
 
|> 3] what 'box' are you holding the indexes/data on (storage required?)
Reply>>
	Data is located on the law schools CM2-32K connection machine and two
        sun Sparc-2 front ends and disk farm.
|> 
|> 4] what other data are you providing to your researchers?
|> 
Reply>> 
         Library catalog, full text library data in textual and some image
         format.

|> please respond via comp.infosystems.wais or via mail
|> dgaraffa@bigmac.mskcc.org
|> 
|> thank you for your time!
|> 
|> Dave Garaffa
|> Manager Macintosh Information Center
|> Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
|> 1-212-639-3738

This particular Medline project is a joined effort between Columbia Univ Law 
School and the Columbia University Medical School library system group.
It is only a small part of the overall Law School virtual Library Project
which is called 'Janus'.  The law school is attempting to build a virtual
law library based on some of the WAIS technology.

If you want to know more, please contact me off-line vi E-mail.

-Willem.
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From: davis@cs.cornell.edu (Jim Davis)
Subject: WAIS client or server in perl
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:52:01 GMT


Has anyone written, or take steps towards writing, a WAIS
server or client in perl?  I have a student who may take
this on as a task.  I want this so I can easily add new 
kinds of services to WAIS, and so I can separate the WAIS
server from the WAIS IR engine itself.  I would like to
have WAIS servers for other types of IR systems.

I would be grateful for email on this concept.
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From: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Subject: Problems connecting to WAIS servers today?
Reply-To: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Organization: Nedriv Software and Shoe Shiners, Uninc.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:11:49 GMT

I don't seem to be able to search the wais databases on gopher.stolaf.edu or
lambada.oit.unc.edu - in particular, the Omni Cultural database , rec.cook
and user-contrib-cookbook.  Anyone know what's going on?  I had some problems
with other database on think.com I think...
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From: Lauger@ssdgwy.mdc.com (John Lauger)
Subject: Is there a compiled Mac Client?
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 17:45:23 GMT
Organization: McDonnell Douglas Aerospace
Followup-To: comp.infosystems.wais

After reading the FAQ, I downloaded WaisStation from quake.think.com.  It
apparently needs to be compiled before it can be used.  Is there a compiled
version on the net somewhere?
Thanks
JL

Opinions are mine or others but definately not MDA's!
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From: ccoprmm@phantom.gatech.edu (Michael Mealing)
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Subject: Re: waisindex -t dash: why does the header pick up 2-3 lines?
Date: 15 Dec 1992 11:16:45 -0500
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In article <1gjh55INNg6d@phantom.gatech.edu> ccoprmm@phantom.gatech.edu (Michael Mealing) writes:
>
>  When indexing type dash files my titles end up being not only the first
>line after the dashes but each succeding line. 

Nevermind....This was a gopher1.03 problem...gopher1.1 solves it by fixing
the wais gateway. It was ignoring CRLF.

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From: dgaraffa@bigmac.mskcc.org (Dave Garaffa)
Subject: MEDLINE via WAIS (questions)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 09:33:17 EST
Organization: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Followup-To: comp.infosystems.wais

Hello all...

I work for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and would like to build a
WAIS database from MEDLINE and have a few questions:

1] has anyone done this? (how well is the service liked/used?)

2] what is the best way to obtain the data (cost of data)
   and how often is it updated (from NLM/MEDLARS)

3] what 'box' are you holding the indexes/data on (storage required?)

4] what other data are you providing to your researchers?

please respond via comp.infosystems.wais or via mail
dgaraffa@bigmac.mskcc.org

thank you for your time!

Dave Garaffa
Manager Macintosh Information Center
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
1-212-639-3738
From: ccoprmm@phantom.gatech.edu (Michael Mealing)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.wais
Subject: waisindex -t dash: why does the header pick up 2-3 lines?
Date: 14 Dec 1992 21:50:13 -0500
Organization: Office of Information Technoloy, Georgia Tech
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  When indexing type dash files my titles end up being not only the first
line after the dashes but each succeding line. It's kind of like it is
ignoring the <CR> at the end of each line. I looked at the code in ircfiles.c
and it does a s_strncat(dash_header,line,maxlen,maxlen). Why?
  Shouldn't it just s_strncat(dash_header,line,strlen(line),maxlen) instead?
Or am I reading that code wrong? To get around it I'm having to append
all of these spaces at the end of my first line so that the next line
after that isn't hanging off the right side of my gopher clients screen.

Comments?
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