Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
I also believe that attachments are an open door for potential hazards, even if
sending simple .txt files. So I think that Margie's solution is the best
solution.
I have the impression that this self-organizing effort for creating the open
source DK is going to make this list one of the best I have ever been subscribed
to. (Yeah, lets keep on with the "I love Maptitude feast" ). :-)
Cheers,
Armando Scalise
Larry Manire wrote:
> Maptitude - http://research.umbc.edu/~roswell/maptitude.html
>
> Margie your a whiz at handling the web...way ahead of me.
>
> I didn't realize that attachments might be a problem for people. Your
> method is very easy and also avoids clogging peoples email archives and
> making people on dialups wait for something to download that they may not
> use.
>
> I have just used http://www.freebikemaps.org/mapt/upload.html to upload
> utilities.rsc 1.03. I'll use the same name every time, and people and look
> at the first line to see the version.
>
> For future releases I include:
>
> "I've uploaded a new utility file to: http://www.freebikemaps.org/mapt/
> Click on the URL (at left), then, after your browser opens the page you
> should see utilities.rsc in the list. Right click on it and choose "Save
> Target As" to download the file."
>
> Thanx for your great work.
>
> Larry Manire
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marjorie Roswell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 4:14 PM
> To: Maptitude
> Subject: RE: [Maptitude] Request to listserv for utilities.rsc project
>
> 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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