For anyone that is interested there is some Tektronix schematics posted in
the alt.binaries.e-book.technical group at the moment. I know some people
were asking for some and they may find it in there. I have downloaded some
myself if necessary if anyone needs them too.

"Only Just" ifixit2@hotmail(dot)com wrote in
:

For anyone that is interested there is some Tektronix schematics
posted in the alt.binaries.e-book.technical group at the moment. I
know some people were asking for some and they may find it in there. I
have downloaded some myself if necessary if anyone needs them too.




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

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net

Jim Yanik wrote:

"Only Just" ifixit2@hotmail(dot)com wrote in
:


For anyone that is interested there is some Tektronix schematics
posted in the alt.binaries.e-book.technical group at the moment. I
know some people were asking for some and they may find it in there. I
have downloaded some myself if necessary if anyone needs them too.





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

msg wrote:

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.


Supernews must not be that super these days, Giganews shows a bit over
2,373,000 articles in there.

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

msg wrote:

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).


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

--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

Bruce Esquibel wrote in
:

msg wrote:

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.


Supernews must not be that super these days, Giganews shows a bit over
2,373,000 articles in there.

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



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

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net

Bruce Esquibel wrote:

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.


http://bama.edebris.com/manuals/ has several free programs to view .djvu
files


--
My sig file can beat up your sig file!

"Bruce Esquibel" wrote in message
...
msg wrote:

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.


Supernews must not be that super these days, Giganews shows a bit over
2,373,000 articles in there.

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



There's a very good open source DjVu viewer at
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/win...2&big_mirror=0.
It's totally free, and it works.

--
Dave M
MasonDG44 at comcast dot net (Just substitute the appropriate characters in the
address)

"In theory, there isn't any difference between theory and practice. In
practice, there is." - Yogi Berra

DaveM wrote:

msg wrote:


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.


Supernews must not be that super these days, Giganews shows a bit over
2,373,000 articles in there.

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.

snip

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

"msg" wrote in message
...
DaveM wrote:

msg wrote:


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.


Supernews must not be that super these days, Giganews shows a bit over
2,373,000 articles in there.

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.

snip

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.

Only Just wrote:

"msg" wrote


Well, I grabbed all 900,000 some headers on Supernews for that N.G.

snip

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.

snip
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.

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. http://nget.sourceforge.net/
It is a no-nonsense command-line nntp fetch utility that groks multi-part
binaries and decodes popular encoding like yEnc and also does PAR/PAR2 recovery.

Michael

In article ,
msg wrote:

What newsreader will
understand the fragmentation (the segments are not threaded but merely
posted as separate messages) and reassemble them automatically?

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

[On Linux] There are command line applications (e.g. uudeview) that can be
pointed at the news spool directly and just told to unpack everything in
sight. No reading, no saving needed. It will skip over stuff it can't
understand, reassemble multi-parters from out of order fragments etc.

There must be similar for Windows, even with an unnecessary GUI added on.
--
--------------------------------------+------------------------------------
Mike Brown: mjb[at]pootle.demon.co.uk | http://www.pootle.demon.co.uk/

On 11 Feb., 21:26, Jim Yanik wrote:
Bruce Esquibel wrote :





msg wrote:

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.

Supernews must not be that super these days, Giganews shows a bit over
2,373,000 articles in there.

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


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

--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
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Well, www.ebaman.com has a nice collection of freely downlaodble
manuals for Tektronix, HP, etc. too.

I found a lot useful there.


hth,
Andreas