From Miles.Ellis@etrc.ox.ac.uk Thu Nov 28 18:45:18 1996 Received: from oxmail4.ox.ac.uk (oxmail4.ox.ac.uk [163.1.2.33]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA03350 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 18:45:11 +0100 Received: from ermine.ox.ac.uk by oxmail4 with SMTP (PP) with ESMTP; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 17:44:30 +0000 Received: from [163.1.85.1] (com1.etrc.ox.ac.uk [163.1.85.1]) by ermine.ox.ac.uk (1.1/8.8.3) with ESMTP id RAA18255 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 17:44:48 GMT X-Sender: mellis@ermine.ox.ac.uk Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 17:46:40 +0000 To: sc22wg5 From: Miles Ellis Subject: Reorganisation of WG5 ftp document server When we originally decided to move to electronic distribution some 18 months ago the server was structures to reflect the historical paper distribution system. In particular, I placed the electronic papers in directories corresponding to the sets of papers that were distributed conventionally. Now that only three or four copies on paper are distributed it seems appropriate to reorganise the file server in a more efficient way. I have therefore reorganised it so that papers are kept in directories containing 50 papers (ending with Nxxoo or Nxx50), with the most recent (incomplete) set being accumulated in a directory called LATEST-DOCS. When we first started electronic distribution we adopted the (then) iSO recommendations and used RTF, WordPerfect and ASCII. However it rapidly became apparent that this did not work and was not popular, and so we changed to Acrobat, PostScript and ASCII (where available). It is interesting to note that ISO is following the same migration, but rather slower! In the re-organised electronic paper store I have therefore created Acrobat and PostScript versions for all papers, even those for which these versions were not available before. Documents are available in directories called N1101-N1150, etc, with the obvious meaning (;-), and within each such directory (and also within LATEST-DOCS) the are three sub-directories called Acrobat, PostScript and Text, together with a text file called Index.txt. All Acrobat and PostScript file are gzipped; text files are gzipped if more than 8K bytes in size - apart from Index.txt which is never gzipped. The Index.txt file for LATEST-DOCS contains a note at the end listing the dates on which the most recent papers were added (and the numbers of those papers). In future, documents ending in 00 or 50 will be Document Registers for the most recent 50 documents (i.e. those which will be stored in the same directory as that Document Register). This conforms with SC22 practice. In order to regularise matters, document N1236 is a complete document register (at least to the best of my knowledge - there are some gaps) of all previously issued WG5 documents. This, together with subsequent document registers will form Standing Document 1. There are also three other directories: CORRIGENDA_TO_IS1539_1991 contains the three published corrigenda to the Fortran 90 Standard in both Acrobat and PostScrip forms. STANDING_DOCUMENTS contains the WG5 Standing Documents. These will also appear elsewhere under their N numbers, but it is convenient to have these key documents kept together for ease of reference. They are only available in Acrobat and PostScript here. A text version may be available under the document's N number (which is given in the STANDING_DOCUMENTS index. ACROREAD contains versions of the Adobe Acrobat Reader for most platforms. You are recomended to obtain a copy of the latest version from Adobe's web site (http://www.adobe.com), but as the Reader is freely distributable, copies are included here for those who find it awkward to download software over the World Wide Web. If anyone has any comments on this re-organisation, please let me have them. Miles ------------------------------------------------------------ Dr Miles Ellis Director: Educational Technology Resources Centre University of Oxford, 37 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JF, ENGLAND Telephone: +44 1865 270528 Fax: +44 1865 270527 Email: Miles.Ellis@etrc.ox.ac.uk WWW: http://www.etrc.ox.ac.uk/Personal/Miles/Miles_Ellis.html