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Subject: Re: CCC archives available for download

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 20:44:00 03/12/01

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On March 12, 2001 at 23:22:24, Andrei Fortuna wrote:

>On March 12, 2001 at 23:03:21, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On March 12, 2001 at 21:22:13, Andrei Fortuna wrote:
>>[snip]
>>>Have you tried my Ultimate Offline CCC Browser (as I like to call it) ? It can
>>>handle all the messages so far (tested with 130.000+ a couple of months ago)
>>>with instant searching on a 64 Mb machine. Fast updating of the archives,
>>>diagrams, you can filter messages to folders (automatically based on keywords)
>>>it also includes a game viewer where it identifies a PGN game included in the
>>>message, plus more.
>>>
>>>Somehow I think it never got the credits it deserved.
>>>
>>>URL : http://www.geocities.com/andreifortuna
>>
>>I downloaded it, but I don't have the text files anymore.  All the files are
>>concatenated into the ccc.db file (both of the other tools read that thing).
>
>Where can I get a format description for this ?
>I would be interested in writing a converter .db -> .dat that I use in my own
>browser.

There is basically nothing to the db format.  It is just the text files
literally concatenated one after the other.

You could make it yourself by
copy /b *.txt foo.db

The funny characters (tabs, page feeds, whatever) are removed by a filter so
that there are not any non-printable characters in the file.  So (if anything)
the format is even simpler.



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