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Re: A Modest Proposal - Please use my site

From: Zvi Har'El <rl~at~math.technion.ac.il>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 10:55:54 +0200 (IST)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>

Dear Norm, Vernian Friends,

On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Norm Wolcott wrote:

> The correspondence between A. Evans and S. Kravitz highlights the problem
> of obtaining "good "texts in English and moving them around. In order for
> this exchange to take place lots of xeroxing mailing costs etc were
> incurred, and that is only one exchange.And of course technically one
> should send xeroxes as parcel post or 1st Class mail making it even more
> costly. The following statistics apply if one were to scan the pages
> instead using Tiff4 format:
>
> 1 page scanned at 200 dpi. . . . . . .. . . . . .30kb
> 1 page scanned at 300 dpi . . . . . . . . . . . 50kb
>
> Thus we see that 100 pages = 5 megabytes. A 300 page Vernian is therefore
> 15 megabytes at a resoloution suitable for OCR. For a reading copy 200 dpi
> (Fax fine) is adequate and a book would be 10 Meg. Transmitting 10 meg
> files is routine on the internet and no pain at all if you are on a
> network.While attachments of such size can be emailed, it would be more
> convenient if the files wre available in a central location. If those in
> possession of the "best" public domain xlation could scan it and post it,
> then anyone could download it. There are numerous "free" sites where 15 or
> 20 meg are dispensed. Anyone can get 15 meg at Geocities.com, and I am sure
> there are others. If necessary files could be rotated in for a week or two
> according to a schedule which could be posted on JVF.

I propose to use my site for the work. I have enough storage. You can upload
files to my site using the upload script in the jvf private directory,
http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/JulesVerne/forum/private/ This directory is
accessible only by the forum members. The upload script is currently checking
file names for reasonable names (First character alphabetic, numeric,
underscore or dollar sign, other letters the same or plus, minus, comma, or
period), reasonable size (at most 10 Mega Bytes in one upload), and it will not
overwrite existing files. All these features are programmable, and I can easily
change the file name-space or increase the maximal file size. I'll manage the
file rotation, either manually or by a script, the way we decide. I myself have
no scanner/OCR software, by I wish to help to the project as much as I can.

Best,

Zvi.


PS> The private directory makes it possible to make the work public only when
we want it to be public!

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Dr. Zvi Har'El     mailto:rl~at~math.technion.ac.il     Department of Mathematics
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                             Thursday, 4 AdarI 5760, 10 February 2000, 10:39AM

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