Author: Lonnie Cook
Date: 14:29:58 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. > >>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? you wouldn't import the TXT files but MERGE them ... Vincent's program does this BUT when I tried to do it to say 40,000+ files it would crash the shell32.dll. I have been experimenting with a few merge programs lately :.)
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