Ftp archive and Mardi Gras.

Per Starback starback at Minsk.DoCS.UU.SE
Tue Apr 5 16:16:27 CEST 1994


A long long time ago Mattias wrote

> PER:
> I went into the ftp, and found that everything prior to 1993-10 in the
> archive-folder was gone. Have you removed'em, and if so -- are they still
> available at request?

Please, Mattias, if you want to ask *me* something, please drop me a
line about it instead of asking the whole list about it.  If for no
other reason because then I would have answered it sooner.

What happened was that just as I added some new files there the whole
ftp disk partition got full, which is the reason why I deleted some of
the older files.  Anyway, now the space for ftp files there has
doubled (!)  so I've added those files again, as well as the last
couple of months.

What we're talking about is the complete archive of all mail sent to
disney-comics since its inception.  Because of all the repetitions,
erroneous information corrected later, "news" which aren't news any
longer etc., I don't recommend them for reading for those newcomers
who want to know what we've said before here, but anyway... there it is!
What I'd like is more information in the "characters" subdirectory of
the Disney comics ftp archive.  The next time someone asks what
species of bird Gyro Gearloose is (just as an example) it would much
better to be able to refer to a file characters/gyro instead of going
"some say he's a chicken, but then maybe not; we've been through this
before anyway -- go look at some old mail files!" because it's not
particularly easy to extract the relevant information from that.  All
that is needed is really that someone collects the relevant
information gotten from the list on a small subject like that and
writes it up and I will gladly put it in the archives at a suitable
spot.  Such a text doesn't have to really answer the question at hand
(like "how much money does Scrooge McDuck have?") -- just collect the
relevant facts and views about it.

The other change I was doing right then was to add USA #25 and #26 to
gladstone-disney.index (from David).  An additional "team" was also
entered in "creators" because of it, namely H+A = Paul Halas and Donne
Avenell.

Mardi Gras Before the Thaw
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Wilmer answered my question (thanks!) on this Barks oil recently
released as a lithograph in Sweden (the American print of it is sold
out according to the ad for the Swedish one).  I don't plan on buying
it or any other lithograph, but it's nice to have those pictures in
some way, so I appreciate that the ads show the whole painting in full
colour.

Harry asked
> Do you have some more information, like the orientation of the painting
> (Portrait or Landscape) and the year in which Barks drew it?

Landscape (I've added an L to the oils file ... now!), but I don't
know the year.  The ad I have says it's done in the late 80's.
--       "
Per Starback, Uppsala, Sweden.  email: starback at minsk.docs.uu.se
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