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- Full-Name: Geoffrey Wright
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 11:04:53 -0500
- Reply-To: Geoffrey Wright <jwright@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU>
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- From: Geoffrey Wright <jwright@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU>
- Subject: CIA World Map
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- I would like to use one of the CIA World Data Bank II map files that I
- have gotten from an FTP site. I am not sure if it can be imported into
- other GIS packages or if it can only be used with VPlot. The file
- appears in the following format:
-
- ^B^@w \212\313^C^@s^A^@^@\224(^@^@^Z
- ^@^@\374\377\377\377^C^@^@^@\326u^B^@g
- ^B^@\326u^B^@\261a^A^@
- \275^A^@\212\276>^@\336^C^@^@\375\364\365\357\366\360\3\
- 65\357\366\360\363\362\365\360\361\361\367\360\363\363\366\357\362\362\366\360\\
- 363\362\363\362\362\362\363\362\363\362\360\365\363\362\360\365\360\364\355\367\
- \355\367\352\372\350\374\350\374\347\371\360\367\352\371\355\375\356F\347\377\3\
- 60\367\362\362\364\357\372\356\366\360\365\357\371\356\365\357\366\360\365\360\\
-
- Does this mean that it is a compressed binary file? What do I have to do
- to use it?? Thank you for any assistance.
-
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- Jed Wright
- School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
- Yale University
- New Haven, CT
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