Sunbane archive update.

<bertil>
>   The Chrysantemum deckplans on sunbane seems to be incorrect and buggy. Since I
> know as much about postscript as a vilani engineer knows about drives
> (ie I know which buttons to press:) but lack all kinds of diagnostics programs,
> I'll simply try again and test it on our unix laser here.
>   The vargr trader plan is still ok, It checked out ok here.
>
>   To the person who discovered the problems with the Chrysantemum deckplans:
>   Sorry, but I lost your letter when the mailbox poked it's nose at me. Could
> you please mail me again so that I know where to sent the files to?
>
Problems with the deckplans? I usualy don't put things in the ftp area
unless I have tested them out first. I just printed out a copy of
deckplan.TypeEL15.1.ps and except for an acute angle in the middle of the
tolerances section, it prints just fine. (QMS PS810 Laser Printer on
Sun Network through transcript). I know that postscript is prone to
errors particularily when a large variety of printers are considered.

This brings me to another point. The sysgen4 program is available in the
software subdirectory on sunbane. There was some problems with lines over
79 characters being truncated, and all tabs converted to spaces. The
program now compiles fine (at least on my Suns), but the output doesn't
quite agreee with Jo's sample output files, particularly with temperatures.
Be warned that the program still has an error somewhere if you download it.


The sector data on the archive is the same that DGP posted to GeNIE, so I
would presume that it takes precidence over the paranoia press material.
As for discrepancies between it and some "offical" material? Some of it
can be explaned away as the data is pre-civil war, and some products
such as Vilani and Vargr are later (thus some changed allegiances).


Also on the topic of the archives. Note that come January all the current
bundles (73-160's) will be put in the articles.1990 directory (or 1990).


Lastly, Did I miss the results of the TML survey or what?  Wasn't that
supposed to be out in early December?

				-Merry Christmas

					-Dan

Dan Corrin, System Manager, Mechanical Engineering, UWO, London, Ontario
TML FTP site coordinator:  [email removed]    ...!watmath!julian!engrg!dan