Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 19:39:48 10/19/00
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On October 19, 2000 at 21:44:35, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>On October 19, 2000 at 21:15:06, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On October 19, 2000 at 19:37:21, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>>
>>>As there's more and more messages here and many readers use expensive dialup,
>>>and I found CCCnavigator not enough attracive, I decide to write an application
>>>to read messages of CCC off-line, for instance it use the same file format that
>>>CCCNavogator use.
>>>
>>>
>>>You can find the 0.1 version here : web.wanadoo.be/vincentlejeune/CccOffLine.zip
>>>223 Kbytes, Windows 9X,NT and 2000
>>>programming laguage : Delphi 3.0
>>>
>>>
>>>In version 0.2 (in about 3-4 days) :
>>>
>>>1)Automaticly adding new message of the day (when unziped)
>>>2)Search function (header, name ...)
>>>3)Starting to display the message just after header (now it start about 200
>>>character before string 'Message Number:' )
>>>4)Displaying the whole message (now 4000 character after string 'Message
>>>Number:')
>>>5)Dispaying the subject,name and date in the tree (only number of the message
>>>now)
>>>
>>>
>>>See you soon
>>>
>>>
>>>Encouraging word and constructive judgements are welcome !
>>
>>
>>
>>Before I download it and try it, can you tell more about what it does?
>
>It display the tree of messages from all 'root message' and when you click on
>the message number it display the text. Very like when you click in the
>hyperlink in your browser
>
>>
>>For example, I guess you can connect and download all the new messages, then
>>disconnect, then read the messages?
>
>It's not so simple :
>You've to
> 1) download the .zip file at http://www.icdchess.com/forums/1/archive.shtml
>each day, updated each 24h but with some hours of delay
> 2) decompact all message in a directory and merge them with the dos or windows
>command : "copy /b *.txt total.txt", you'll get a big text file (will be
>automaticly done in version 0.2)
> 3) the more technical : you've to remove EOF character (1Ah) in the text file
>(will be automaticly done in version 0.2)
So I think I am going to wait a little bit before I try your program. :)
But I keep a very interested eye on it!
>>Is it possible to write an answer, and to send it when you reconnect?
>
>No, sorry, but now you can write your answer in textpad or wordpad off-line and
>copy-past it in the reply windows when you are connected.
>
>>
>>
>>If it would be possible, it would save me a lot of money every month, you cannot
>>imagine!!!
>
>I imagine, i've big telephone bills too ;)
>
>>
>>
>>Your work is a courageous contribution to CCC, please go on!
>
>As long you'll improve Gambit-Tiger, i'll improve my Ccc-Off-Line reader ;)
Are you game? :)
Christophe
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