Author: Vincent Lejeune
Date: 15:58:50 11/08/00
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On November 08, 2000 at 17:29:58, Lonnie Cook wrote: >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 :.) I've experimenting this limitation too, i thought it was lower (5000 to 10000) , but to be sure you've to ask Microsoft :>
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