From rosso Fri Jul 17 21:11:45 1992 From: rosso@mythinc.UUCP (Ross Oliver) X-Mailer: SCO System V Mail (version 3.2) To: aviation Date: Fri, 17 Jul 92 21:11:43 PDT Message-ID: <9207172111.aa03496@mythinc.UUCP> Newsgroups: rec.aviation Path: mythinc!moon!pixar!uupsi!psinntp!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!eecs.nwu.edu!phil From: phil@eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre) Subject: New NAV data available from eecs.nwu.edu Message-ID: <1992Jul15.202219.26368@eecs.nwu.edu> Sender: usenet@eecs.nwu.edu (Mr. Usenet) Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1992 20:22:19 GMT Lines: 46 Thanks to David Neal, up-to-date navigation data is now available. A copy is available via anonymous FTP from eecs.nwu.edu in the directory pub/aviation. Here is a copy of the file "FILES" found in that directory. Note that there are more things in there than just fplan and the data: ----------------------------------------- This file describes the contents of the pub/aviation directory on eecs.nwu.edu. If you find this file elsewhere take the information contained herein with a grain of salt. UL232 - directory containing transcripts from the United flight 232 emergency, and from a talk that Capt. Al Haynes gave at Dryden xxx-mm-dd-yyyy.Z - Compressed raw datasets from the FAA. xxx is the dataset name. mm-dd-yyyy is the first day the data is usable. navconv.c - Program to read raw datasets, strip trailing blanks in each field and print the resulting information. See the manpage for more details. (Which is forthcoming) perlconv - Perl program to convert data output by navconv into format usable by fplan and nav. airports.rdb.Z - Source file in nav/fplan format of all airports. Use conversion program, paddb, supplied with nav/fplan to add null padding. vors.rdb.Z - Source file in nav/fplan format of all navaids on NAV tape. Requires same null padding conversion as airports.rdb. fplan.tar.Z - Compressed tar file containing sources for FPLAN, the flight planning program written in C. patch2.gif - GIF image of the Air Usenet patch. ------------------------------------------ William LeFebvre Computing Facilities Manager and Analyst Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Northwestern University