new url and update for archive

[Jim Johnson]

Thanx for the update, Martin. However, you should check your links on that
page; some, such as the "PCB & Metalwork", "Music Software", and "Active
People" links are broken.

Jim Johnson 
Metaphoric Software
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Makers of Techno Toys
Software for Electronic Music
http://www.technotoys.com
info at technotoys.com


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On 10/22/98, at 9:29 AM, Martin Czech wrote: 

>New url:
>
>The synth-diy unofficial archive has (partly) a new home, for reasons of
>organization. I simply don't want to bother friendly people - who give
>me disk space - with frequent updates. OTOH without updates an archive
>is near to useless.
>
>I decided to call it now The Synth DIY Grey Pages, well it contains
>a lot of information like the yellow pages, but is is grey, not yellow
;->.
>
>The new url is at my homepage: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/4459/
>and then under DIY - DIY Grey Pages.
>
>For people who don't like frames it's simply 
>
>http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/4459/grey_pages/grypag_index.html
>
>Please update your bookmarks. Sorry for the inconveniance.
>
>That's the new url part.
>
>
>
>Update:
>
>The update contains the following:
>
>1. 
>All available information about the mail traffic is now online, ie.
>1995-Sep. 1998. I have further refined and debugged my software to
>compress the raw data into a more readable format. I've double checked
>that none of the available "real" data is lost by this process. (It
>took such a long time, because every mail tool on the world seems to
>add another type of garbage into the mail body, so I had to addapt
>the algorithm several times. Then I had to discover that my program
>could not deal with non-US-ascii characters, well I had to dig down
>into my c routines till I finally noticed that the c macro "tolower"
>was responsible for that...)
>
>2. 
>The mail messages appear in a regular format. First we have the "date:",
>"from:", "subject:" fields, then one or more "to:" fields.  Then comes
>the mail body, the message. Due to this regular structure it should be
>easy to postprocess the archive files (e.g. search tool).
>
>3. 
>Since the mail body is not touched, included mails are also displayed
>as is, witch all garbage. Included attachments are also not touched.
>
>4. 
>The mails are ordered by time, but no attempt was made to enshure a
>strict ordering.
>
>5.
>There is currently one known problem: Some mails had no "to:" field,
>if this is the case, the "cc:" information is also lost. Only a few
>strange mails suffer from this bug.
>
>6.
>It is recommended to reload the archive files.
>
>7.
>Last but not least: All mentioned links from 1995-1997 were visitied
>(about 600), those who are still active and usefull were sorted into
>some ordering scheme. The 1998 links will follow soon.
>
>
>At  the moment there is no tool for searching the archive files.
>Any volunteers  (C-code, please) ?
>
>Any other comments ?
>
>m.c.
>
>p.s.: 
>
>No, I'm not stupid. I'm interested in this work, because
>I would have done this anyway, cause I've lost the orientation in all
>this data.  It was not easy to find things before. I do all this work
>on my day job, I use all kind of breaks (morning, lunch etc.) and I 
>stay longer then usuall. The normal work goes on without any delay.
>
>
>Thank you.