Downloading SignBank

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
September 14, 2005

Hello Tim, Charles and Geoffrey!
OK. First...Tim and Geoffrey are NOT talking about downloading  
SignBank, which is the title of this thread, so Charles, please know  
that all these problems Tim mentions has NOTHING to do with  
downloading SignBank!

It is important to me that Charles looks at the SignSpelling column  
in the SignBank Editor program, so I can show you how I establish  
SignSpellings in the relational database..that is all!

SignBank is a relational database for children, signers, linguists  
and researchers, and you do not have to download lots of symbols...

Geoffrey and Tim are talking about something in the programming  
world...it is rare that people want to download all the symbols of  
the IMWA. Other people on Windows XP have had no problems downloading  
the IMWA symbolset. I know some who have and there have been no  
problems. But Geoffrey and Tim have a problem that has repeated  
itself twice now, so I will try to look into it...

I look forward to talking to you, Charles, when you have the SignBank  
Runtime download ready to start...I want to walk you through how you  
use it, so we can do that over the telephone...so tell me when you  
are ready...

Tim and Geoffrey...may I write to you privately regarding this? And  
we can also telephone each other as well!

Val ;-)

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On Sep 14, 2005, at 3:32 AM, Tim Grove wrote:

> Hello folks!
>
> I wanted to share my own experience of unzipping sign writing files  
> in case it may help someone else.
>
> The file that I downloaded was named "imwa.zip" and contained  
> around 26,263 png images. I tried several different utilities for  
> unzipping this file and even wrote my own script in python to do  
> the job, but nothing seems to have been very successful. I could  
> unzip around 21,844 files and then things would stop. I am working  
> on Windows XP Pro. WHAT I DID DISCOVER was that I could extract  
> these initial 21,844 files into one directory and then extract the  
> remaining files into a second directory, and then I could write  
> them out to a CD to give me a complete set. Don't ask me why this  
> works!!! I don't know if this is a Windows problem or something  
> specific to my machine, but it almost appears that I have a limit  
> to file number or size that I can place into a single directory. If  
> anyone has an answer to this mystery, I would love to hear it, but  
> for now I appear to have a full set of images by splitting the  
> unzipping between two separate directories. (I also have a  
> splitting headache as well!)
>
> Best regards,
> Tim Grove
>
> Geoffrey Hunt wrote:
>
>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- 
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>> *From:* owner-sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu [mailto:owner-sw- 
>> l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu] *On Behalf Of *Valerie Sutton
>> *Sent:* 14 September 2005 10:06
>> *To:* sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>> *Subject:* Re: [sw-l] Downloading SignBank
>>
>> SignWriting List
>> September 14, 2005
>>
>> Geoffrey Hunt wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I think I we are talking about the same download. I downloaded it  
>>> and was unable to unzip it in Windows, it seemed to contain too  
>>> many individual graphics files, 20,000+. Would it be possible to  
>>> divide the zip file into several parts?
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello Geoffrey!
>> Thanks for telling me. Let us first be sure we are talking about  
>> the same download...there are so many on our sites...
>>
>> Recently Tim Grove (I believe) downloaded all the symbols of the  
>> IMWA in one large file, and that is over 26,000 tiny graphics  
>> files...are you referring to that kind of download? Or do you  
>> really mean SignBank, which is a different download. Charles and I  
>> were discussing downloading SignBank Runtime for Windows on this  
>> web page:
>>
>> http://www.SignBank.org/downloads
>>
>> Are you saying that you could not unzip SignBank Runtime? If so, I  
>> need to know...Was the file you tried to unzip named SignBank  
>> Runtime?
>>
>> Breaking up the IMWA download that Tim tried could be done, but  
>> breaking up the SignBank Runtime download is another story...I  
>> would have to hire a programmer to find out how to separate those  
>> files because it is a relational database...
>>
>> I look forward to hearing from you -
>>
>> Val ;-)
>>
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>