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- Here's a pointer to some useful code for doing network-based queries
- of large numerical datasets. I would think this would be quite interesting
- to the general crowd.
-
- The license agreement, at least last time I read it, made it very difficult
- for me sitting at a .com site to play with this stuff. I will assume for
- the sake of argument that anyone anywhere can run a dumb ascii client
- against these things to see what they are without needing any licensing.
-
- There is a real gap in the gopher / wais / world wide web paradigm of
- network tools that none of them deal well at all with numbers. If you
- have an Oracle db full of stuff that you want to publish, this looks like
- quite a reasonable approach.
-
- --Ed
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- id AA11023; Tue, 3 Nov 92 09:50:44 EST
- Date: Tue, 3 Nov 92 09:50:44 EST
- From: menke@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (bill menke)
- Message-Id: <9211031450.AA11023@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu>
- To: emv@msen.com
- Subject: Re: current list of view servers, project overview, etc
- Status: RO
- X-Status:
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- The XGB manual is available by anonymous ftp to lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu
- files
- pub/gb_instv3.1.part1.ps.Z and pub/gb_instv3.1.part2.ps.Z
-
- The currect list of view servers is the view view_servers on chaos.ldgo.columbia.edu
- and also the file
- pub/view_servers.asc.Z
-
- The XGB system itself is also available by anonymous ftp, as described by
- the EOS article.
-
- No mailing lists are available.
-
- View servers are now available for sybase, unify, db_vista and oracle
- commercial database managers, plus two binary DBM's that I wrote, plus
- ascii files.
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- The new version of XGB also supports raster servers, that is 'image'
- as contrasted to 'parametric' data. Three raster servers are available,
- supporting three different image formats.
-
- Columbia U. is willing to discuss licensing of XGB for commercial purposes.
-
- Good Luck. Menke.
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