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- Thank you for your interest in Project Hermes and in receiving U. S.
- Supreme Court opinions electronically.
-
- The U.S. Supreme Court opinions are immediately available from Case
- Western Reserve University via "anonymous" ftp over the Internet from
- host "FTP.CWRU.Edu". The files relating to the opinions are located
- in the directory "hermes".
-
- This directory contains several readme files and three subdirectories:
- ascii, atex, and xywrite. The "atex" subdirectory contains the files as
- directly received from the U.S. Supreme Court in the Atex 8000
- Document Processing and Typesetting system format. These files
- contain 8-bit typesetting codes and are extremely difficult to read on
- a typical display. Those wishing to copy the Atex files should make
- sure that they set "image" mode in FTP. (those using the archive server
- need not worry about this)
-
- The xywrite directory contains the same files with the Atex codes striped
- out or (where possible) converted into xywrite commands. Xywrite is a
- PC based word processor simmilar to Atex. These files will display the
- text (almost) as it was writen by the Supreme Court. These files should
- also be copied in "image" mode in FTP.
-
- The "ascii" subdirectory contains the same files as processed by a
- locally developed filtering program designed to remove the typesetting
- codes while retaining as much of the "look" of the document as
- possible. These files are in plain ASCII text.
-
- Each opinion consists of an optional syllabus, the opinion and
- optionally concurring and dissenting opinions. Each is contained in a
- separate file. A syllabus is associated with most of the opinions and
- summarizes the ruling. The files are named as they are received from
- the Court. Filtered files have the extension ".filt" appended to the
- end of the name.
-
- The filter program, which removes the typesetting codes, moves
- footnotes to the end of the document separated with a dashed line.
- Footnote references are enclosed in curly brackets "{ }". Users are
- also warned that most of the features of the typeset document, such as
- bolding, italicizing, use of fonts, and other similar characteristics
- are lost in the translation to ASCII. The resulting filtered
- documents, however, are quite readable on most displays.
-