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Instructions
for
Downloading
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I. The naming convention
for base files, .ssf or .exe, is as follows:
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Mymmddhh.ssf or Mymmddhh.exe
"M" = The base station prefix.
y = One digit year.
mm = Two digit month.
dd = Two digit day.
hh = Two digit hour ("00"
to "23").
(For example, the file created
at 2pm on May 14, 1998, would be "M8051418.ssf".)
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II. Base files from
this station are available in four different ways.
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From the Web,
previous 12 months of data. |
Some
remote (not on campus) users may find they have trouble loading the page:
transfer
of data has stopped--e.g. the rate stops at 506K, but the page hasn't yet
loaded. If this is the case, hit the browser's "Stop" button to cease
loading the page. This is a problem that is particular to the type of connection
being used in accessing the page; It does not affect one's access to or
acquisition of the data.
Also,
the list of files seems to be ordered randomly by Internet Explorer, and
by the AOL browser. These problems will be addressed soon.
These files are self-extracting
zip files (.exe).
The data is organized into
subdirectories by month. The naming convention for the subdirectories is
as follows: |
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"M" = The basefile prefix;
yyyy = Four digit year;
mm = Two digit month
(For example, files from
January of this year would be in "M199801")
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| To begin downloading base
files, click on the name of the file you want with the left mouse button;
then designate a destination for the file. |
| 2.
From FTP, current 30 days; |
FTP downloading is often
faster than web downloading. To FTP using WS-FTP, use the following parameters.
Host Name: GPS-Umaine.umenfa.maine.edu
Host type: Automatic
detect
User ID: anonymous
Password: your email
address
The Host Name is case
sensitive.
The files are ".ssf" format.
Do not worry about the
501
Permission denied and !DoDirList failed
0 error messages.
To download files using
"WS-FTP" click on the left arrow in the middle of the screen then type
in the full name of the file you wish to down load. Please see the file-naming
conventions detailed above.
To acquire WS-FTP,
please visit Top 50 Winsock Applications. |
| 3. From the
Bulletin Board, data from previous 30 days. |
| Contact Louis for information. |
| 4. Data older
than one year will be archived on CD, and will be available on request. |
Contact Person: |
Louis Morin, lmorin@umenfa.maine.edu
Nutting Hall
University of Maine,
Orono, ME 04469
(207)581-2854 |