Re: Tom's Big File Online

[Ron Wickersham <rjw@alembic.com>]

hi Mike,

i was just about to write to Tom and report that i hadn't received the
CD for this month.  now it's clear that he expected your system to be
ready to serve the need.

this is really neat.

couple of suggestions:

the download file was GetData and would be more convenient if it were
GetData.gz.  at least on my machine i had to rename the download before
i could uncompress the file.  (of course i can force it to let me put
my file name on the download rather than automatically taking the default).

it might be useful to put the search paramaeters as a comment on the first
line of the download file as it's easy to forget what you entered or you
may have made a typo and not notice otherwise. 

a minor gripe is that if there is no data, it opens a new browser window
with the default coordinates.  what might be more convenient is a pop-up
which some people _really_ hate or return the error message in the same
window with the values the user submitted.   

great work!!!

-ron

On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Michael Sallman wrote:

> This is to announce version 0.0.1 of the online access to Tom's
> extracted data, a.k.a. "The Big File".
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> http://sallman.tass-survey.org:8080/markiv/servlet/markiv/
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> It may be a little slow. It's running on my desktop PC while I wait for 
> the new machine to arrive.
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> I'd appreciate it if some of you could take a look and let me know what
> you think.
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