Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Larry Manire wrote:
> Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
>
> Hi Marjorie,
>
> The last version of utilities, 1.01 was sent as an attachment rather than in
> the body of a message. This is extremely convenient and all you have to do
> is right click and save as, and then compile it if you want to use it. It
Ah. I'm using pine on a unix system for email. Lots of good reasons.
Mostly because I can manage very large quantities of email better this
way (and I'm not at risk of launching windows viruses) but email
attachments in this circumstance are a _heckuva_ lot of trouble. I have to
press all sorts of buttons, load ftp software, etc. It's a real project to
download attachments.
Much easier to copy and paste
http://www.freebikemaps.org/mapt/
Your email could be a simple (low-fat) "I've uploaded a new utility file
to: http://www.freebikemaps.org/mapt/utility.rsc "
I think it's fairly common for listservs to have a "no attachments"
policy. I'm not really asking for a total no-attachments policy (though
it's my preference). Just asking for web-accessible files of our growing
collection of Maptitude utilities.
> presents no problem with line endings, etc. I'm most worried that it will
> be more timeconsuming for people to go and retrieve the new verions.
I wouldn't be "inflicting" this alternative if it wasn't a heckuva
lot faster than the directionsmag site, which has always been sluggish.
Also, it provides for instant overwriting of the most recent version.
There are a lot of points of access to this file.
- The file is also catalogued on directionsmag.com.
- Also, anyone can get to it by following links from
http://maptitude.listbot.com
I just noticed, to my suprise that our mail-archive.com archives
do actually retain attachments, so that's an argument for attachments...
Even so, my preference is for web-accessible files, and I provided
http://www.freebikemaps.org/mapt/upload.html as a way of facilitating that
for others (like me) who don't want to fiddle with ftp software to access
files.
Can you try it, and let me know if it works for you? Sorry about the
slightly awkward URL. If anyone can provide something "prettier" that
works as fast, let me know.
Margie
http://www.freebikemaps.org/mapt/upload.html
Once I figure out Apache HEADER files little better, this'll just be
http://www.freebikemaps.org/mapt/
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