ROADEF'2005
: FAQ
 
 History
of the modifications of this FAQ
 History
of the modifications of this FAQ
- 
28/07/03 : creation
- 
10/10/03 : several questions have been asked by some candidates, you can
find here a list
of answers up to this date.
- 
12/10/03 : list
of answers updated.
- 
16/11/03 : list
of answers updated (more answers)
- 
27/11/03 : list
of answers updated (more informations on the checkers and on the data
set A)
- 
17/02/04 : list
of answers updated (more details on the submission procedure and on
the evaluation of the
   qualification stage, more answers to various questions)
- 
18/02/04 : list
of answers updated (detail on the computing time)
- 
15/07/04 : list
of answers updated (max. number of vehicles at the denominator of the
ratios)

 Common problems
concerning the challenge
 Common problems
concerning the challenge
- 
How to subscribe to the ROADEF'2005 challenge?
Send a message with your complete affiliations to Van-Dat
CUNG (Van-Dat.Cung@gilco.inpg.fr)

 File access
problems
 File access
problems
- 
How to download the files from Netscape ?
Use the right bottom from Netscape, then click on "Save link as...".
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Your WEB page is not yet up-to-date !!
Since these pages are often modified : please, remember to "Reload"
from Netscape for updating your pages !
- 
And after, what to do with the foo.tar.gz or foo.tgz or foo.zip 
files ?
To uncompress .tar.gz or .tgz files :
    zcat toto.tgz | tar xvf -
To uncompress .zip files:
    unzip toto.zip
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And if I want to compress the foo directory ?
Get yourself into the parent directory of foo , then
    tar cvf - toto | gzip > toto.tgz or if
your want to include the date in the name of the archive file :
    tar cvf - toto | gzip > toto-`date +%y%m%d_%Hh%M`.tgz