Re: Tom's Big File Online

[Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

Ron and all,

Actually, the CD of the month is in the mail.  It went out in this 
morning's mail.  I figure at least one more should be up until it is 
possible to do real searches on Michael's machine.  Those who download the 
complete monthly file can do different kinds of searches than can be done 
(presently - I think) on Michael's big file.

Later Michael can allow you to say run Welch-Stetson on the full data base 
and output specific ranges or some such.  It is not clear that it is fair 
to ask Michael to provide this kind of computation heavy service.  Or that 
it is even possible.

All I really asked Michael for was to save me sending out specific star 
data.  So if one can say "send all the measurements on the star at RA, 
Dec." then he has done what I asked.  I think the data base can now do 
this.  Sorry Ron, I had intended to tell you when I put the disk in the 
mail.  We have been working hard to try to get all the modifications made 
on TOM1,2,3 before it gets too cold.

Tom Droege

At 09:02 PM 11/16/02 -0800, you wrote:
>hi Mike,
>
>i was just about to write to Tom and report that i hadn't received the
>CD for this month.  now it's clear that he expected your system to be
>ready to serve the need.
>
>this is really neat.
>
>couple of suggestions:
>
>the download file was GetData and would be more convenient if it were
>GetData.gz.  at least on my machine i had to rename the download before
>i could uncompress the file.  (of course i can force it to let me put
>my file name on the download rather than automatically taking the default).
>
>it might be useful to put the search paramaeters as a comment on the first
>line of the download file as it's easy to forget what you entered or you
>may have made a typo and not notice otherwise.
>
>a minor gripe is that if there is no data, it opens a new browser window
>with the default coordinates.  what might be more convenient is a pop-up
>which some people _really_ hate or return the error message in the same
>window with the values the user submitted.
>
>great work!!!
>
>-ron
>
>On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Michael Sallman wrote:
>
> > This is to announce version 0.0.1 of the online access to Tom's
> > extracted data, a.k.a. "The Big File".
> >
> > http://sallman.tass-survey.org:8080/markiv/servlet/markiv/
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> > It may be a little slow. It's running on my desktop PC while I wait for
> > the new machine to arrive.
> >
> > I'd appreciate it if some of you could take a look and let me know what
> > you think.
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> > Mike
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