Re: [TUHS] Floppy to modern files for Usenet maps

[Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>]

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Amazingly, I got `leroy` to build on a modern(ish) system. Mary Ann, are
you in Renton right now?

On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 7:23 PM Mary Ann Horton Gmail <mah@mhorton.net>
wrote:

> Thanks, Henry, you found my mistake.
>
> I've corrected the links to the Sept 1983 maps and verified that the date
> in the map is September.  Would you please rerun that one? :)
>
> The extra icons in the legend are nice!
>
> Yes, I agree doing this on a plotter would be better. I recall Brian Reid
> doing just that as a product demo of an HP plotter at one Usenix. I had
> such a poster, I was going to bring it this week but I can't find it. Now I
> know where he got his data...
>
> Thanks,
>
>     Mary Ann
> On 7/9/19 3:02 PM, Henry Bent wrote:
>
> On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 at 17:46, Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 at 17:39, Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 7/9/19 2:54 PM, Mary Ann Horton Gmail wrote:
>>> > Any chance you could do the same for this file? It looks smaller, but
>>> > it's a couple weeks newer so it's possible it's somehow better.
>>>
>>> While searching for the 2nd article for the May, I found the following
>>> articles:
>>>
>>> Link - Usenet graphic map of North America, part 1 of 2
>>>   -
>>>
>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=net.sources/ZoPcfdMPIzQ/pEPpCV6m77QJ
>>>
>>> Link - Usenet graphic map of North America, part 2 of 2
>>>   -
>>>
>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=net.sources/cE_tkMNKZ_U/JoR7KGTJ_3YJ
>>>
>>> The dates of these articles are September 21, 1983.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Grant. . . .
>>> unix || die
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks Grant, Mary Ann found what I needed and I'm working away.  Somehow
>> in going back over what I used to build a working setup I managed to break
>> my working setup, so I'm trying to fix that to get the next set of files
>> output.
>>
>> -Henry
>>
>>
> OK, here's the second set of Usenet maps, again in raw plot and SVG form.
> The only difference with the "g" maps, produced with the gmap.leroy script,
> seems to be the addition of a few graphical icons.
>
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y6PU1NJv8mdVr1SQsQUDnUjNlq6N2bvv/view?usp=sharing
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JpbMTzhmJD-amLCpYOWMPQCHyCsrC_ck/view?usp=sharing
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WRhiPTj1URUGNuxCh-8ERuK0FnQ_i1tk/view?usp=sharing
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1plhCfaP1Uyxu5wAgtQEyPEA88r8JLHIW/view?usp=sharing
>
> I'm pretty sure this is how they would have looked originally, cluttered
> as they are.  The nice thing about them being in a vector format, though,
> is that you could blow them up to poster size if you wanted to.
>
> -Henry
>
>

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