09/26/2014

Info_concatenated_bib_files.txt

- The concatenated patent grant bibliographic files are simple
concatenations of the weekly files. 

- Files are concatenated in chronological order.

- A blank line has been added to the end of each file
before concatenating the next file. This was done
because some of the files don't have a blank
line as their last line.

- If the defined DTD associated with the weekly text files
(from which these files were obtained) changed
during a year, separate zip files have been
produced for each of the different DTD 
groupings.

- There are three concatenated files within each 
zip file that correspond to the three files contained in 
each weekly zip file.

- These concatenated files were created on
a Windows PC and, therefore, contain Windows-
style line terminations (0D 0A in hex). If
the unzipping utility on a device used to 
extract the files doesn't automatically 
convert these line terminations to correspond 
to the ones used on that device, then the 
user will need to make this conversion 
themselves.