Author: Andrei Fortuna
Date: 15:28:29 03/07/02
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On March 07, 2002 at 10:45:49, Aaron Tay wrote: >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 :) Download the .zip CCC archives, import them in the browser, define filters based on keywords and sort the messages, they will get moved to corresponding folders. Then you can do searches exactly like in my online CCC search engine. I think it's easy. I also think I included some documentation inside the browser. Andrei
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