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Notes:
A critical file is the README file. It is here in three different formats:
WordPerfect, Word, and text. The files are identical but we added the word processing files,
since the text has lots of bold text for emphasis. This emphasis is,of course, lost in the text version.
Moving on to the data files (*.zip), the data in this test file, in the redistricting/unadjusted block
data, and in other Census 2000 summary files are segmented. This is done so that individual files do not have more than 255 fields,
facilitating exporting into spreadsheet software.
In short, to get the complete data set for the redistricting data/block counts files, users must FTP all three files in the state directory.
In the slide above we see that the Geographic Header file is named tfgeo.uPL.zip.
The next two files are tf0001.uPL.zip and tf0002.uPL.zip. The tf indicates test file.
