This area is an EXPERIMENTAL demonstration project. Its aim is to assess the viability of making small segments of news broadcasts from RTE, the Irish National Radio service, available on the internet via anonymous ftp and the world wide web. There are currently two programs recorded: RTE Radio 1 "Morning Ireland" 8AM News (7 minutes weekdays, 5 minutes weekends) and RTE Radio 1 Nuacht (news in the Irish language, 3 minutes). The latter will be available from July 28 on, barring technical problems, and will have filenames prefixed with "nuacht_". *** Users in the RTE listening area are asked to please use their radios; the primary aim of this experiment is to make a little bit of RTE broadcasting available to those of us who are out of range and cannot pick up RTE directly. Your cooperation in keeping the bandwidth on this server down is appreciated. *** Australian users please note! The latest .au file can be obtained from pell.anu.edu.au (150.203.33.4) in /pub/obrien/latest.au. It is copied starting at 1845 Australian EST Monday-Friday and usually takes 30 minutes to copy. Earlier files are *not* maintained there, and the service is "as is"; please don't complain to Eamonn O'Brien (who was kind enough to set this mirroring up) if the file has problems. *** There is a mirror of most of the files here on sunsite.unc.edu in the /pub/academic/languages/gaelic/Rte/ directory (capital R in Rte!). As sunsite has more oomph than orangutan, it may be easier to access. The format of most of the files is Sun u-law with the date in the name, e.g. "19940322.au" for the March 22, 1994 rte file, "nuacht_19940728.au" for the July 28, 1994 nuacht (as gaeilge) file. Also, you can get: latest.au always points at the latest audio file latest.au.shn Compressed version of latest.au (see ../shorten/*) latest.wav RIFF .WAV format, copy of latest.au latestwv.zip ZIPped (PKzip compatible) version of latest.wav. (Prefix with "nuacht_" for the nuacht version, e.g. nuacht_latest.wav). Generally, there will be about a weeks' worth of files here, and each one will be BIG (about 0.5 megabytes per minute). Please exercise restraint with these large files! The ZIPped WAV file is usually quite a bit smaller, as is the "shortened" AU file. Please use them if you can (see 0_PLAYERS.txt for info about players, and the ../shorten/* files). The rte files are placed in this area at about 4:30am EST/EDT while the nuacht files are placed here at about 4:30pm EST/EDT (both uploaded to sunsite almost immediately). If demand for these files is too great (i.e. interferes with my ability to get work done and bring home a paycheck), this area may only be accessible during non-office hours (i.e. outside about 8am-4pm EST/EDT). On the same topic, if anyone in the following locations (or elsewhere!) would care to set up a mirror ftp site, I'd be *most* grateful: North America west coast, UK (out of RTE1 reception range), Continental Europe, Japan. I'll help with the details. If interested, email me at . This experiment was made possible by Liam Relihan (relihanl@ul.ie, Univ. of Limerick), Aengus Lawlor (rbyalm@rohmv1.rohmhaas.com, Rohm & Haas, formerly Dublin Institute of Technology), Mark Riordan (Mark.Riordan@cs.tcd.ie, Trinity College Dublin), and Pat Murphy (pmurphy@nrao.edu, Nat'l Radio Astronomy Observatory, formerly University College Dublin). Thanks also to Eamonn O'Brien for the mirror site down under, and to Shawn Mehan for the Sunsite mirror.