<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Has anyone ever thought on transferring them to DVD's?<div>Or would this entail copyright problems?</div><div>Any ideas of the cost entailed?</div><div>Would this be something the PTG could sell and make a profit?</div><div>John Ross</div><div>Windsor, Nova Scotia<br><div><div>On 2013-02-25, at 6:03 PM, Jim Moy <<a href="mailto:jim@moypiano.com">jim@moypiano.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Dale Erwin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:erwinspiano@aol.com" target="_blank">erwinspiano@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Can we individually or collectively download the archive. They art too valuable to lose<br></blockquote> <div><br></div><div>I'll be helping transfer them over to <a href="http://my.ptg.org/">my.ptg.org</a> once the shutdown happens, so they won't be lost, and will still be searchable via Google.<br><br>If you'd like your own copy, the archives are here:<br> <br>  <a href="https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/">https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/</a><br><br></div><div>The links in the right column, "Downloadable version" are gzip files, which is a compressed version of the text file that holds all the messages for a given month. Making sense of those big text files is another matter. I have a Perl script I've done some work on that was originally authored by Andy Rudoff that knows how to break them into individual messages.<br> <br>Anyone can email me privately if they're interested in the script. You should be knowledgeable in MySQL, Perl on Linux, and Access.<br><br>Jim<br><br></div></div><br></div></div> </blockquote></div><br><div> </div> <br></div></body></html>