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Re: Paperwork for neXus
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- From: Howard Flack <[email protected]>
- Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 09:07:56 GMT
> Note also that the Netscape suite will occupy a significant portion
> of the ever-shrinking free space on the CD-ROM.
owner group 10768373 Dec 17 1997 cb32e404.exe
10MB on > 500MB = 2% only.
owner group 18047392 Dec 17 1997 cp32e404.exe
is twice the size but you do not need its functionality.
Of course,
ftp> ls -alF
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
---------- 1 owner group 1388 Jun 23 1997 00-index.txt
---------- 1 owner group 8590899 Sep 8 1997 cb32e403.exe
---------- 1 owner group 10768373 Dec 17 1997 cb32e404.exe
---------- 1 owner group 14270310 Sep 8 1997 cc32e403.exe
---------- 1 owner group 15937534 Dec 17 1997 cc32e404.exe
---------- 1 owner group 16368541 Sep 8 1997 cp32e403.exe
---------- 1 owner group 18047392 Dec 17 1997 cp32e404.exe
---------- 1 owner group 3554304 Aug 11 1997 g32e303.exe
---------- 1 owner group 5842432 Aug 11 1997 g32e303p.exe
---------- 1 owner group 4126208 May 15 1997 g32fr31.exe
---------- 1 owner group 6785536 May 15 1997 g32fr31p.exe
---------- 1 owner group 3512320 Aug 11 1997 n32e303.exe
---------- 1 owner group 5800448 Aug 11 1997 n32e303p.exe
---------- 1 owner group 8221605 Sep 8 1997 n32e403.exe
---------- 1 owner group 8448546 Dec 17 1997 n32e404.exe
---------- 1 owner group 4036096 May 15 1997 n32fr31.exe
---------- 1 owner group 6694912 May 15 1997 n32fr31p.exe
226 Transfer complete.
this restricted selection of some of the more recent versions of
netscape (W95/NT) in a restricted selection of languages (e and fr)
comes to about 150MB. For the market that the NeXus CD-ROM is attempting
to fill this seems to me to have a message =>
Personally I seriously doubt that you need to put general purpose (=
non crystallographic) software on the CD-ROM. The person who has managed
to obtain a pc with an operating system capable of running a browser
will also have found a browser as well. If you put browser software on
the CD-ROM expect to have to deal with questions concerning its
installation and running.
Unless the content of the CD-ROM is focussed on crystallographic
information and crystallographic software and crystallographic anything,
expect the frowns of the finance committee and the executive committee
to turn into furrows! For my taste, better have the CIFs with the
structure amplitudes on the CD-ROM rather than netscape.
Sorry to be an old bore!
>
> >Do we agree about the fact that the primary use of Nexus is to deliver
> >information which is not accessible on the net to scientists in less
> >developed countries?
>
> I agree that this should be the primary function of Nexus.
(a) For 'information' substitute 'crystallographic information'.
(b) I did not understand the 'primary use' of NeXus in the way Yves
chooses to describe it and with which Pete is in agreement. I would
rather rephrase the sentence:
"The primary objective of NeXus is to deliver to scientists in
developing countries lacking a reliable connection to the Internet, a
CD-ROM containing crystallographic information available on the
Internet."
NB As opposed to Yves' definition, the information on the CD-ROM is
exactly information that is available on the Internet but which the
scientists with poor Internet connection can not tap.
H.
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