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Thank you for your interest in Project Hermes and in receiving U. S.
Supreme Court opinions electronically.
The U.S. Supreme Court opinions are immediately available from Case
Western Reserve University via "anonymous" ftp over the Internet from
host "FTP.CWRU.Edu". The files relating to the opinions are located
in the directory "hermes".
This directory contains several readme files and three subdirectories:
ascii, atex, and xywrite. The "atex" subdirectory contains the files as
directly received from the U.S. Supreme Court in the Atex 8000
Document Processing and Typesetting system format. These files
contain 8-bit typesetting codes and are extremely difficult to read on
a typical display. Those wishing to copy the Atex files should make
sure that they set "image" mode in FTP. (those using the archive server
need not worry about this)
The xywrite directory contains the same files with the Atex codes striped
out or (where possible) converted into xywrite commands. Xywrite is a
PC based word processor simmilar to Atex. These files will display the
text (almost) as it was writen by the Supreme Court. These files should
also be copied in "image" mode in FTP.
The "ascii" subdirectory contains the same files as processed by a
locally developed filtering program designed to remove the typesetting
codes while retaining as much of the "look" of the document as
possible. These files are in plain ASCII text.
Each opinion consists of an optional syllabus, the opinion and
optionally concurring and dissenting opinions. Each is contained in a
separate file. A syllabus is associated with most of the opinions and
summarizes the ruling. The files are named as they are received from
the Court. Filtered files have the extension ".filt" appended to the
end of the name.
The filter program, which removes the typesetting codes, moves
footnotes to the end of the document separated with a dashed line.
Footnote references are enclosed in curly brackets "{ }". Users are
also warned that most of the features of the typeset document, such as
bolding, italicizing, use of fonts, and other similar characteristics
are lost in the translation to ASCII. The resulting filtered
documents, however, are quite readable on most displays.