Mark, I've passed your message and Bill's. We appreciate such notes that help us fix errors and improve the Portal's operation.
George Sent from my mobile phone ******************** George Veni, Ph.D. Executive Director National Cave and Karst Research Institute 400-1 Cascades Avenue Carlsbad, New Mexico 88220-6215 USA Office: 575-887-5517 Mobile: 210-863-5919 Fax: 575-887-5523 gv...@nckri.org www.nckri.org -------- Original message -------- From: Mark Minton via Texascavers <texascavers@texascavers.com> Date: 2014/11/12 15:40 (GMT-07:00) To: texascavers@texascavers.com Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Texas Cavers magazine archive Bill, Many thanks for your careful perusal of the Texas Caver archive and fixing some errors. Was the missing issue you were looking for 1986 no. 2? It was not in the archive I downloaded, but it is in KIP, although in a strange fashion. Their issues for 1986 are not all in numerical order, and there is not one called no. 2. However there are two called no. 6, but the first one (April issue) is in fact no. 2. The confusion may stem from the fact that the issue itself says Vol. 31, No. 6; April, 1986, but it clearly isn't, and is different from the real no. 6 (December issue). George Veni - maybe you could call this to KIP's attention and have them fix the name of that file. Mark Minton mmin...@caver.net On Wed, November 12, 2014 2:43 pm, Mixon Bill via Texascavers wrote: > Many thanks to the people at the Karst Information Portal for making > image files of old Texas Cavers and to Mike what's-his-name for > assembling them into a manageable number of large ZIP files for us to > download. I have done that. > > My own collection of paper copies goes back to 1972. In the process of > looking there for an issue missing from the on-line set, I noticed > that two large, folded maps that had been included with 1986 number 4 > were not in the file for that issue. That led me to do additional > checks. Because the KIP scans (actually, photographs, I think) were > made from copies bound in thick volumes, there were quite a few cases > where large chunks of centerfold maps were missing because they got > lost in the binding. There were a few other anomalies, such as > foldouts that were incomplete or missing. The version of 1976 #12 I > downloaded was a defective file, and I fetched a new copy from KIP. I > scanned my own copies of a few missing issues. > > I have placed a very large (550MB) ZIP file of 28 issues at > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26580089/TC%20new.zip > They will stay there for a couple of weeks. > > If these are used to supplement or replace the ones in the KIP set, > they should add up to a complete set from 1972 on (assuming that there > really were only two issues in 2004). The resulting collection of > files are not, mostly, presentable enough to be put somewhere like the > TSA web site, but they are complete and adequate for archival > purposes. (Even the few issues I scanned are not the best I could have > done.) I urge anyone who has downloaded the KIP versions to update the > set from my ZIP file for his permanent collection. Maybe someone else > can do something similar for issues earlier than 1972. -- Bill Mixon > > PS Don't tell me I need to get a life. Hardcore armchair caving _is_ a > life. > ---------------------------------------- > Ack! Christmas decorations already. This might be a good time to spend > a couple of months in Saudi Arabia. > ---------------------------------------- > You may "reply" to the address this message > (unless it's a TexasCavers list post) > came from, but for long-term use, save: > Personal: bmi...@alumni.uchicago.edu > AMCS: a...@mexicancaves.org or sa...@mexicancaves.org > > _______________________________________________ > Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com > Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ > http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers > _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
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