[Isis-users] Ancient ISIS version

[spinaker]

Dear Peter

I would like to be able to take a look at the files and see what it is 
possible to do.
This is not a work commitment, but we could have an idea of whether it 
is worth giving the work to someone with experience
Send a copy of the .zip to my email account, please
We would also like to know which institution you work in and in which 
country

Regards
Ernesto Spinak



El 31/07/2017 a las 17:04, Peter Danes escribió:




> I have been asked to dig data out of an old version of an ISIS 
> database. The .ZIP file has over 400 files in more than a dozen 
> folders and subfolders, ranging in age from 2008 back to the 1980s. I 
> have never used ISIS, and the last person in this institution known to 
> have done so has died. I unzipped everything and managed to get the 
> ISIS.exe file to run, but it either does (apparently) nothing, or 
> tosses an error message about being unable to find a file in ISISUC.TAB
>
> I have no idea what the application is supposed to do, how it is 
> supposed to respond, what it expects, or really anything. Can anyone 
> point me to some information, or a knowledgeable person? The data is 
> supposedly a fair amount of documentary library work by the last 
> person to use it. Why it has sat for so long before anyone showed an 
> interest is an obvious question, but not one that is likely to recieve 
> a satisfactory answer. This is a museum, and not all the fossils are 
> in exhibition cases.
>
> I can send the entire package, if that would help anyone who would 
> like to take a look at it. It's 32.6 MB zipped, and contains no 
> proprietary information.
>
> Pete
>
>
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