Tektronix manuals

"Only Just" wrote in news:47aee0d2$ snipped-for-privacy@dnews.tpgi.com.au:

FWIW,having the circuit description along with the schematic is invaluable.

Why the heck do you suppose someone posted to a binary newsgroup rather than uploading to BAMA? Reassembling hundreds of segments of a fragmented document is not for the squeamish (and those of us with newsreaders that don't grok that sort of thing).

BTW, what newsreader can accommodate more than 888,000 headers (the current retention on Supernews for that newsgroup)? Netscape 7.2 crashed after downloading about 350,000 headers. I expect that it will be necessary to get all of the headers to determine the completeness of some of the books.

Michael

Supernews must not be that super these days, Giganews shows a bit over

Just about any real newsreader (not a web browser with a nntp hack in it) can handle that with ease. A few groups I use with Unison contain over 50 million and they work about as well as ones with 10K of posts in them.

Anyway, don't get your undies in a bunch over it, I looked and most of the ones posted are ancient history, likely already on BAMA or other resources, many plug in modules but most appear to be from the 60's and 70's.

The newest appears to be a datasheet and op manual for a 2213.

Plus a lot of them are .djvu type, which I don't know what you use to look at.

Really doubt you are missing anything.

-bruce snipped-for-privacy@ripco.com

Probably because BAMA isn't accepting any more test equipment manuals.

Bruce Esquibel wrote in news:fopr6e$fo2$ snipped-for-privacy@e250.ripco.com:

Then you probably have to buy the viewer for them..... there's always a catch;TANSTAAFL.

There's a very good open source DjVu viewer at

Well, I grabbed all 900,000 some headers on Supernews for that N.G. using an old version of 'xnews' and it there are some great old military TMs and a lot of manuals which may be quite hard to locate elsewhere. The poster says he will post about 17 GB total.

I don't have the bandwidth to deal with that much material, but I may recruit some associates with fatter pipes. What newsreader will understand the fragmentation (the segments are not threaded but merely posted as separate messages) and reassemble them automatically? I manually downloaded all of the parts of a small manual and reassembled and decoded them offline; the scans were very well done. I don't relish the thought of doing that job on thousands of segments manually though.

Michael

There are a few specialty newsreaders out there, most require payment tho, eg: Agent, xnews or newsleecher to name a few but there could be a few freebies out there too. Justy.

I found an ideal solution for myself; 'nget' (for *nix, Win32, others) worked flawlessly for me in a test regex download of a manual name from that newsgroup. I highly recommend it.

Michael

Or skip the idea of a "newsreader" doing that job. They are for reading news with :)

There must be similar for Windows, even with an unnecessary GUI added on.

.com:

Well,

I found a lot useful there.

hth, Andreas