Re: NIST XAPIA archives

Andrew Waugh <A.Waugh@mel.dit.csiro.au> Thu, 08 February 1996 06:01 UTC

Message-Id: <199602080502.AA06085@shark.mel.dit.csiro.au>
To: Andrew Waugh <A.Waugh@mel.dit.csiro.au>
Cc: osi-ds@cs.ucl.ac.uk, ajw@mel.dit.csiro.au
Subject: Re: NIST XAPIA archives
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Feb 1996 16:50:38 +1100." <199602070550.AA20813@shark.mel.dit.csiro.au>
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 16:02:07 +1100
Sender: ietf-archive-request@IETF.CNRI.Reston.VA.US
From: Andrew Waugh <A.Waugh@mel.dit.csiro.au>

> I'm having trouble getting a readable copy of the final report of
> XAPIA work from the NIST archives.
> 
>     ftp://nemo.ncsl.nist.gov/pub/oiw/dssig/xapia/final012.*/
>
> I could retrieve the files, but they all seemed to be corrupted;
> the doc file wasn't in ascii, and my version of word wouldn't read
> either the rtf or ww2 files.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions (I'm probably doing something wrong :-)
> or has a readable copy of the file themselves?

I was, of course, doing something wrong. Although I did remember BIN,
I didn't realise that '.doc' was a PC file (oh the joys of being PC
ignorant :-) For some reason my MAC (which should read PC files, and
RTF and WW2) stuffed up the conversion. Oh well, using a PC produced
a readable file.

Thanks to Alexis Bor for pointing me in the right direction.

andrew

NIST XAPIA archives Andrew Waugh
RE: NIST XAPIA archives Alexis Bor
Re: NIST XAPIA archives Andrew Waugh