Computerised Library Data

A thread of 2 messages, 3 November 1993 to 4 November 1993, in the order they were sent.

#6301 Computerised Library Data

[unnamed sender] · 3 November 1993

                  I N T E R O F F I C E   M E M O R A N D U M

                                        Date Sent:04-Nov-1993 10:51am
                                        From:     Alistair Langsford
                                                  LANGSFORD ALISTAIR
                                        Dept:     Information Services
                                        Tel No:   289 7870

TO:  Remote Addressee                     ( _traveller@engrg.uwo.ca )


Subject: Computerised Library Data


I am thinking of typing up 'Classic Traveller' Lib data on computer for my
own campaign. I was thinking of using the Windows 'Card File' application
for this as a simple way of doing keyword searches. Before I do this though
has something like this already been done? I'd hate to go to a lot of
effort and then find out that it was already available from somewhere.

Alistair,
[email removed]

#6305 Re: Computerised Library Data

Joe Heck · 4 November 1993 · reply to #6301

Before you start plugging away, I have an "unofficial" copy of the Library
data in text form. Originally, it developed off OCR'd data, but recently I
received an entire text from the HIWG which is available for people to
peruse at their leisure. At some point, I would like to organize it into an
RTF format (a project the CAT group was sort of working on for a while) and
a basic database format for easier access by those traveller's that use
their handy hand-comps while gaming.

Anyway, the data is available in a seperate FTP site from sunbane. When it's
official (i.e. done with copyrights included), I'll most likely port it to
sunbane and recover that space. God knows when we'll get that far though...

ftp to ghost.cc.missouri.edu /PUB/Traveller/HIWG/a.txt b.txt c.txt ... z.txt

enjoy!

 joe                          University of Missouri - Columbia
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