Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 06:14:01 03/07/02
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On March 06, 2002 at 22:44:11, Andrei Fortuna wrote: >Hi Roy ! > >On March 06, 2002 at 15:44:40, Roy Eassa wrote: >...[Snip]... >>I wonder how many messages CCC has had in the 14+ months since 1/1/2001. Still >>might be enough to choke a poorly-written app. > >There are over 200,000 messages posted since the begining of CCC (late 1997). >I wrote my offline CCC browser (aka the Ultimate CCC Browser) especially with >memory constraints and number of messages in mind (and of course instant >searches !) - last time I tested it was with about 140,000 messages. After that >I wrote the online search engine using almost the same code ported to linux. My >biggest problem with the offline browser was that too many messages were added >to the unsorted folder - I tried to ease this problem by using filters (based on >keywords messages were moved to different folders automatically) and it >partially helped. Later I started re-writing the offline browser with two >improvements in mind : a basic compressed file system (so messages could also be >deleted from the archive and also take less space) and folders organized on >pages (i.e. maximum 100 or so messages per page). I was halfway through >rewriting (I had the file system code written from scratch and tested and it was >fun doing it) when I ported the online search engine - and I realized then that >this offline search engine (basically the search engine running locally on a >windows machine) was all that I needed for my chess programming searches, if I >could find an interesting thread I could bookmark it in my browser and so forth. > >>Wasn't there a third tool for reading archived CCC messages off-line, or am I >>just remembering incorrectly? > >There are 4 offline CCC browsers I could find, see > http://www.it.ro/~storm/ccc/index.cfm > >Cheers, >Andrei Andrei, thanks for the info and for confirming that there were at least 3 different apps that could read CCC messages offline (four, wow!). I think it _may_ have been an earlier version of your app that I had some crashing problems with a year or two ago. I'm sure current versions are fine, plus I was using Win98 back then and now I have XP so I think my system is a lot more resistant to serious crashes. When I get a bit of time I'll try it again. If I registered 2 years ago, would I still be registered now?
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