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[Olly Betts]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 11:48:45AM +0100, Jerome Alet wrote:
> when I launch cavern on any .svx file included in the sample.tar.gz
> archive, there are too much errors (often on dates AFAICT ) and the
> processing stops. 

Survex 0.98 had a *date command, but the arguments were entirely ignored (it
was a placeholder to allow people to enter the date of a survey for use in
future).  In 0.99 the arguments to *date are checked.  The *date commands in
the sample data were auto-converted from comments, so weren't intended to be
machine readable when entered and so are in a variety of formats, many of
which *date now doesn't understand.

I have already fixed the master copy of the dataset used to produce the
sample data, but failed to upload a replacement.  Thanks for bringing this
to my attention - I'll upload a fixed version of the sample data later
today.

> I wanted to try survex to see how it would fit for archaeological datas.
> Is anyone using survex in archaeology ?

Not that I'm aware of, though that doesn't mean there isn't.

> Are there some searchable mailing list archives somewhere ?

Not at present.  The list isn't high traffic, so don't be afraid to raise
issues which may already have been covered.

Cheers,
Olly