Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:44:24 08/10/00
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On August 10, 2000 at 19:50:07, Chessfun wrote: >On August 10, 2000 at 19:28:43, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On August 10, 2000 at 19:10:25, Chessfun wrote: >>[snip] >>>Dann, >>> Sorry, but I use CCCNAV now.....can you please be really >>>specific as to how I use this. Do I cut and paste it...where? >>>do what with it? >> >>It's something for programmers -- C source code. If you are not a C programmer >>it won't be of much use to you. Some of the messages have funny characters in >>them that cause CCCDBNAV to croak. The program I pasted in (when compiled to >>form an executable image) is run against a concatenated file of CCC messages >>called ccc.db and it writes a filtered result to the console. The filtered >>result can be redirected to a file, which will be much more pleasing to CCCDBNAV >>than the raw text is. There is a tool to do something like that that comes with >>CCCDBNAV, but it leaves in a bunch of errors. > > >This is I assume retab? That's the one. > >>If you download a huge pile of >>messages, some of them will still cause problems when you try to import them. >>As you can see, the database I use is fairly large: >>12/03/99 08:26p 134,624,854 ccc.db >>12/03/99 08:28p 278,184 ccc.ndx >>01/15/99 12:17p 452,096 CCCDBNAV.EXE > > >The ccc.db file you show here is for what time frame. >I made one for 1999 the whole year which is in two sections >1-6 size of ccc.db = 36,892, 7-12 ccc.db size is 49,371 > >Also my version of cccdbnav is 442 Kb how do you get it to >read 6 digits? note my size is different, also my zip file >is dated 3/11/00 so I assume it is the same one?. That is every message ever posted to CCC from its founding up to 12/3/99. > >>and would be substantially larger, if I were up to date. Without the filtering, > > >I have been unable to get May 2000 to work, was you able to? >or did you just download all 1999 + 2000 to date and make one >big ddd.db? have not tried it. > >>it would not operate correctly on the data. Someone is working on an update, >>and I might put the whole shooting match on my ftp site when it is completed. >>It does take a long time to load and consume a lot of memory right now, so it >>might only be useful for large memory systems. > > >You paste it there....I'll download it. We'll see.
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