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From: gotwols@warper.jhuapl.edu (Bruce Gotwols)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.idl-pvwave
Subject: Call for volunteer anomyous FTP site
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Date: 5 Aug 90 19:17:22 GMT
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	It is time to set up a remote FTP archive site in order to be able
to easily share user written code amongst ourselves.  I would happily
volunteer to host the site but am not in a position to do so.  Can anyone 
out there reading this volunteer to host a remote FTP site for a National
IDL-PVWAVE library? 

	Running the site itself is probably not too much effort -- but reviewing
the routines is.  I think we could probably automate the latter so that a
standard preamble had to be included but otherwise let it go at that.  From
the preamble we could have a program extract a short description which could
be included in a file containing a list of what programs are available.  I am
not in favor of reviewing the routines for robustness or accuracy.  That would
eventually lead to a bottleneck and would take a lot of someones time.  With
each routine containing the authors name and address it would be up to the
author to maintain his/her own quality control.

	The first step is to agree on documentation requirements.  That can 
be discussed here and I will summarize after a while.  Then if someone
volunteers to set up the FTP site we can start submitting programs.
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Bruce L. Gotwols
Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Lab., Laurel MD 20723
Internet:  gotwols@warper.jhuapl.edu   (128.244.176.48)