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Subject: Re: TWL: RE: Coast Pilot Now Online - FREE
Youngjs@XXX.XXX
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 14:41:54 EDT
three points:
1. The guy that wrote the the introduction and included his address, plainly stated that this was a first attempt and asked to know what was wrong with it and needed to be improved.
2. The first entry in the list is the whole thing. If you need the smaller files then you can get just the ones that you need.
3. The intro also said that this was not the final version.
If this is not good enough then you can continue buying and lugging the original paper product.
j.y.
In a message dated Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:25:37 AM Eastern Standard Time, keithp@XXX.XXX writes:
>
> >>...the Coast Pilots are now online. Here is the URL:
> http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/nsd/coastpilot.htm
>
> This sounds like a great idea, but their implementation is virtually
> useless. Their approach was (for Coast Pilot 7) to hack the book into 20
> separate PDF files. What this means is, you:
> 1. First look something up in the "Index" file
> 2. Load the "Front" file to determine which section it's in (you have to
> guess, because there's no cross-reference between page #s and sections).
> 3. Load the section file and scroll to the right page (they didn't
> implement paging within the file, and if they did the page #s would be
> off anyway).
>
> For the things I was interested in, this section file itself is 41MB and
> takes perhaps a half-minute to load.
>
> Full text searching of the Coast Pilot? Fuggedaboutit.
> Remember, it's 20
> separate files.
>
> Keith
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