[Freegis-list] FW: [ESRI-L] ARC - InfoLib availability?

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 01:02:26PM -0800, Matt.Wilkie wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Birch, Jason ELP:EX [mailto:Jason.Birch at GEMS5.GOV.BC.CA]
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 4:05 PM
> To: ESRI-L at ESRI.COM
> Subject: [ESRI-L] ARC - InfoLib availability?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've exhausted all of my avenues trying to find a copy of the source for
> InfoLib, which is apparently a method of accessing INFO tables from outside
> of Arc/Info.
> 
> If anyone has a copy of this, could they please let me know?  In case a lot
> of people have it, please don't send attachments right away.  If InfoLib is
> available under a public domain or open source license, I would be pleased
> to make it available on a personal ftp server for anyone who might come
> looking for it in the future.

It used to be at ftp://ftp.esri.com/pub/misc but it has gone.

I am pretty sure InfoLib is neither available as PD nor as Free Software.
Moreover, ESRI has AFAIK never published a specification for INFO.
I heard rumors that ESRI even made legal actions against reverse engineering
of the ArcInfo format...

Any hints, comments on the situation of the proprietary coverage format?

Jan

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