[seqfan] Re: Broken links to Encyclopedia of Combinatorial Structures

[Neil Sloane]

I have written to Bruno Salvy and Frederick Chyzak about the problem
with the broken links to ECS at INRIA.

I will post anything I find out here.


Best regards
Neil

Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation.
11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA.
Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.
Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com
Email: njasloane at gmail.com


On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 1:32 PM, P. Michael Hutchins <pmh232 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I don't see how we can access the desired pages without ECS's fixing their
> "
> http://ecs.inria.fr/services/structure?nbr=<n>" bug.  We can see a little
> info about each sequence, but not the body of its page.
>
>   http://ecs.inria.fr/?all=true gives the list you've already seen.
>
>   https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://ecs.inria.fr/* gives another list
> of
> them, but still we can't get to the body of any of them.
>
>   Google(site:ecs.inria.fr)
>   (
> https://www.google.com/search?ei=6ucKW7XzKqeG0wKIpozgDw&q=
> site%3Aecs.inria.fr&oq=site%3Aecs.inria.fr&gs_l=psy-ab.3..
> .0.0.0.447668.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1c..64.psy-ab..0.
> 0.0....0.DVvNq2rjsik
> )
>  yields a list with at least some text.
>
>
> On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Neil Sloane <njasloane at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Michael Hutchins:
> > Nice work!  I was going to look into this problem today,
> > but maybe you just solved it.
> >
> > OK, given that the data is still there at INRIA,
> > is there a global edit that I can do
> > that will make all the links work again?
> >
> >
> > Best regards
> > Neil
> >
> > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation.
> > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA.
> > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.
> > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com
> > Email: njasloane at gmail.com
> >
> >
> > On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 7:37 AM, P. Michael Hutchins <pmh232 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > It looks like the data is all still there:
> > http://ecs.inria.fr/?all=true
> > > .
> > >
> > > On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 6:31 AM, Olivier Gerard <
> > olivier.gerard at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > The Algo group at INRIA is now closed since 2012
> > > > and Philippe Flajolet is sadly missed.
> > > >
> > > > Our main contacts at INRIA  were Bruno Salvy (Team Leader) and
> Frédéric
> > > > Chyzak
> > > >
> > > > The content of the page was based on combinatorial structure
> > computation
> > > > tools
> > > > authored and developed by their team with Maple.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Olivier
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 2:02 AM, P. Michael Hutchins <
> pmh232 at gmail.com
> > >
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > No URL of the form "http://ecs.inria.fr/services/structure?nbr=
> <n>"
> > > > works.
> > > > >  They all get that error msg.
> > > > >
> > > > > I emailed inri.fr to that effect.
> > > > >
> > > > > On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 4:03 PM, Neil Sloane <njasloane at gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > The problem with broken links to the Encyclopedia of
> Combinatorial
> > > > > > Structures is not new - it came up last year, and I contacted
> > > > > > someone at INRIA, who (I thought) put all the web pages that we
> > > needed
> > > > back
> > > > > > on the INRIA server, and I edited all the OEIS links to point to
> > the
> > > > new
> > > > > > URLs. And at that point - sometime in the last year - all the
> links
> > > > were
> > > > > > working again.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Sometimes I think that we should insist on having our
> > > > > > cached copies before we accept any links.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Maybe someone on this list can recall who our contact at INRIA
> was?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The answer is in my emails somewhere, but with gmail it
> > > > > > is surprisingly difficult to search old emails.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Maybe someone could search the logs of the Seq Fans Mailing list
> > for
> > > > info
> > > > > > about this question?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Best regards
> > > > > > Neil
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation.
> > > > > > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA.
> > > > > > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University,
> > Piscataway,
> > > > NJ.
> > > > > > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com
> > > > > > Email: njasloane at gmail.com
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > >
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