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Scott Crom
May 4th, 2009, 06:07 PM
Paul - I didn't have to go to the attic, as Russ did, just to my
study closet and to an accumulation of items in my \TAPSTUFF
folder.

I did manage to find the rounds you said were still a gap, from
Round 980 to 1560. They're in .ZIP files, groups of ten rounds, so
that's a lot of files. I can send them to you if you'd like, but
I'm not sure how many such files I can send at once. Are you game
to try? (I did unzip and check one such file, and they do seem to
be complete, from first posting to final rolling scores.)

But I think I'd better first try sending one to myself, to see if
my email setup can handle a .ZIP file as attachment, so don't
hold your breath...

Scott

Paul Keating
May 22nd, 2010, 03:51 AM
Scott, I am definitely game to try.

Large emails may or may not go through, depending on the intervening
mailservers, which all have different policies.

The easiest way for me, and probably also for you, will be to use Dropbox.
It's a good way to do informal ad-hoc file sharing, when setting up a group
on Google or Yahoo would be overkill.

1. Go to this site https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTYxMjEyMzE5 and
install Dropbox. That will give you a virtual subfolder of My Documents (or
whatever you have called it) that lives in the cloud. It will hold around
250Mb and it's free. I will know when you have done this because Dropbox
will notify me.

2. I will then share a folder called Dixonary and send you an invite to use
it.

3. Once that is in place, you can just copy the files to the virtual folder,
in small or large bites as you find convenient, and I can process them,
ditto. Dropbox uploads and downloads in background, so it does not
monopolize your machine.

Thanks for taking the trouble over this.

--
Paul Keating
The Hague

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Crom" <croms (AT) beloit (DOT) edu>
To: <dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1:07 AM
Subject: [Dixonary] Re: OT: Game archives...


>
> Paul - I didn't have to go to the attic, as Russ did, just to my
> study closet and to an accumulation of items in my \TAPSTUFF
> folder.
>
> I did manage to find the rounds you said were still a gap, from
> Round 980 to 1560. They're in .ZIP files, groups of ten rounds, so
> that's a lot of files. I can send them to you if you'd like, but
> I'm not sure how many such files I can send at once. Are you game
> to try? (I did unzip and check one such file, and they do seem to
> be complete, from first posting to final rolling scores.)
>
> But I think I'd better first try sending one to myself, to see if
> my email setup can handle a .ZIP file as attachment, so don't
> hold your breath...
>
> Scott

Paul Keating
August 1st, 2010, 05:01 PM
Scott,

It's taken me over a year to get around to it, but I have now rendered the
files you sent me as XML so that the data will be usable by a new generation
of sofware.

http://dixonary.googlegroups.com/web/round-980-1569.zip.dat

Regards

--
Paul Keating
The Hague

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Crom" <croms (AT) beloit (DOT) edu>
To: <dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 1:07 AM
Subject: [Dixonary] Re: OT: Game archives...


>
> Paul - I didn't have to go to the attic, as Russ did, just to my
> study closet and to an accumulation of items in my \TAPSTUFF
> folder.
>
> I did manage to find the rounds you said were still a gap, from
> Round 980 to 1560. They're in .ZIP files, groups of ten rounds, so
> that's a lot of files. I can send them to you if you'd like, but
> I'm not sure how many such files I can send at once. Are you game
> to try? (I did unzip and check one such file, and they do seem to
> be complete, from first posting to final rolling scores.)
>
> But I think I'd better first try sending one to myself, to see if
> my email setup can handle a .ZIP file as attachment, so don't
> hold your breath...
>
> Scott