Disney comics Database -- how to get?

[H.W. Fluks]

I said:
> Hah! Our Disney comics Database is *completer* than that!

and several people asked how to get a copy of it. Well: it is available
through anonymous ftp: ftp.lysator.liu.se . There is a subdirectory
pub/comics/disney containing all kinds of interesting files. The Database
is on the sub-subdir pub/comics/disney/index. Here is a short (and
incomplete) list of what can be found there:

Files in directory pub/comics/disney/index
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
creators.legend, heroes.legend
   A file with all creators, resp. heroes and their abbreviations.

indexed-issues.legend
   A list of the indexed issues you can find in the files in the subdirectories
   mentioned below.

Subdirectories of pub/comics/disney/index
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
western
   Files with information about the USA comics, published by
   Western, under the Dell, Gold Key, and Whitman label.

gladstone-disney
   Files with information about the USA comics published by
   Gladstone and Disney Comics (1986 - present).

netherlands
sweden
   Files with information about comics from the respective country.

creators
   Files with information grouped by creator: Carl Barks, Don Rosa,
   and others. Covers and stories are in separate files. For instance:
   Barks.story-index, Barks.cover-index.

stories
   Files with information grouped by "story code". For instance, all
   stories produced by Egmont in Denmark are in the two files
   "d-0-10166.stories" and "d-88-.stories".

   The file "cb-misc.stories" contains all kinds of unpublished and
   other material by Carl Barks, that didn't fit anywhere else.
   This way the database contains a complete Carl Barks index.

zip
   All files, in zipped format. Handy in case you want to download
   all files at once.

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Per was working on a WWW program to access the Database. I don't know the
status of that, so for the moment you'll have to do with the big ASCII files
with lines much wider than 80 characters...

--Harry.