Author: Aaron Tay
Date: 07:45:49 03/07/02
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On March 07, 2002 at 09:14:01, Roy Eassa wrote: >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? My impressions Andrei's ultimate CCC browser is much faster and a extremly powerful searcher, unfortunately the docummentation is little sparse, I can't figure out how to use it :) Aaron
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