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Subject: Re: CCC Database Tool

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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