John and others,

There is a problem with the finger server or maybe it's just the http to finger
gateway. Sometimes when you access this link
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/finger?quake@................. using a browser
or WinQuake you get an error message instead of the event report. The error
returned is below.

The ftp link ftp://ghtftp.cr.usgs.gov/pub/cnss/cnss_14.fing does work more
reliably and is what I now use to add event report info in WinQuake. The
problem is the file name recently changed names. It was just cnss.fing. The
WinQuake file network.dat has the old name so it won't work unless you edit the
file and change the name.

I just released a new WinQuake beta release that has the updated network.dat
that corrects the file name problem. You can download the new beta release from
here http://www.seismicnet.com/wqdocs/wqbeta.html. After unzipping the file
copy the winqk32.exe, network.dat and report.dat files to the directory
containing WinQuake. Make sure you are not running WQ when you copy the files.

Regards,
Larry Cochrane
Redwood City, PSN

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) PHP/4.2.3 mod_perl/1.26
Last-Modified: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 20:02:09 GMT
ETag: "2e4296-33d-3d502b41"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 829
Content-Type: text/plain
Expires: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 21:29:14 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=0, no-cache, no-store
Pragma: no-cache
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 21:29:14 GMT
Connection: close

#!/bin/sh
# 2000/06/26 whp  Eliminated double quotes in call to $FINGER
#                 (They were causing problems when quake passed
#                  a redundant -l option, which it no longer does.)
#FINGER=/usr/ucb/finger
FINGER=/bin/finger
TLIMIT="/bin/ulimit -t 2 "
CLIMIT="/bin/ulimit -c 0 "

echo Content-type: text/html
echo
if [ -x $FINGER ]; then
 if [ $# = 0 ]; then
  cat << EOM

Finger Gateway

This is a gateway to "finger". Type a user@host combination in your browser's s
earch dialog.

EOM
# don't allow empty arguments
 elif [ -z "$*" ] ; then
  echo sorry, that is not allowed.
 else
  echo \
                $FINGER -l $*
  echo \
 fi
else
 echo Cannot find finger on this system.
fi
cat << EOM

EOM


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John or Jan Lahr" 
To: 
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 11:04 AM
Subject: RE: PSN - Downloading Event Files


> Hi Bob,
>
> I can see the file from a browser and from the DOS ftp client.  If WinQuake
is
> doing anything unusual, then USGS security rules may be blocking access.
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
> At 11:46 AM 6/22/2003, you wrote:
> >John -
> >
> >Larry gave me the revised FTP address for the ALL NEIC Events.  The problem
> >is that I can access it outside of WinQuake by using my web browser.
> >However, when I run WinQuake, I cannot access the file - it just hangs.
> >
> >This is the current address that I am using
> >
> >         ftp://ghtftp.cr.usgs.gov/pub/cnss/cnss_14.fing (All NEIC Events)
> >
> >Bob


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