Author: Graham Laight
Date: 11:32:26 11/08/00
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On November 08, 2000 at 14:17:00, Tim Mirabile wrote: >On November 07, 2000 at 06:51:28, Graham Laight wrote: > >>This is one of those things that's easier to suggest than to implement - but I >>really don't think it would be impossibly difficult to get the archives into an >>on-line, searchable format. > >At this time, we simply don't have enough space to store all of the CCC messages >on our website in an uncompressed format. We barely have enough space to store >the compressed archives, and that's one reason why I am looking into different >compression methods. I suspect that, with many databases, storage of plain text in database fields is significantly more space efficient than OS text files. >>If the archives really MUST be downloaded before being searched, how about using >>Adobe Acrobat? Everyone can download the reader freely, and I'm sure a way >>could be found to import the documents into it. > >I don't see the advantage to this. Did you think about what it would take to >import over 100,000 small text files into it? And why is it better than plain >text? I don't know how one would do the import programatically. But I think it ought to be possible (I could be wrong). If it can be, it might even be possible to retain the discussion format, using Acrobat's twisties to navigate the threads. This is one benefit. The really obvious benefits are that there are Unix and Mac PDF file readers, and Acrobat readers all have search facilities. -g
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